Testimony of Eliezer Lazar Freifeld, born in Krzywcza, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Krzywcza, the Przemyslany Ghetto, in hiding in Przemyslany and in hiding in a forest
Testimony of Eliezer Lazar Freifeld, born in Krzywcza, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Krzywcza, the Przemyslany Ghetto, in hiding in Przemyslany and in hiding in a forest
Testimony
Testimony of Eliezer Lazar Freifeld, born in Krzywcza, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Krzywcza, the Przemyslany Ghetto, in hiding in Przemyslany and in hiding in a forest
Life before the war; hasidic family.
German occupation, 1939; murder of his siblings; deportation to Przemyslany including transfer to the San River; life in Przemyslany; German occupation, June 1941; burning of people in the synagogue; deportation to the Przemyslany Ghetto, July 1942; Przemyslany Ghetto life including an "Aktion", July 1942; brings food to the ghetto as a worker for the Judenrat; "Aktion" and finds a hiding place in a bunker, November 1942; life in the bunker; escape from the ghetto with his younger brother; search for a hiding place in the home of acquaintances; finds a hiding place in a forest under the protection of the forest's watchman; discovery of the hiding place, and his escape; meets partisans, June-July 1943; liberation by the Red Army, summer 1944.
Return to Krzywcza; drafted into the Red Army; escape to Krakow; aliya to Israel, 1949.
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item Id
6857037
First Name
Eliezer
Lazar
Last Name
Freifeld
Date of Birth
10/05/1922
Place of Birth
Krzywcza, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives