Testimony of Mordechai Cynamon, born in Lodz, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Koprzywnica, Skarzysko Kamienna and Czestochowa
Testimony of Mordechai Cynamon, born in Lodz, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Koprzywnica, Skarzysko Kamienna and Czestochowa
Testimony
Testimony of Mordechai Cynamon, born in Lodz, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Koprzywnica, Skarzysko Kamienna and Czestochowa
Religious family.
Outbreak of the war, 1939; move to Warsaw with his family, late 1940; deportation to forced labor; wanderings until Koprzywnica, 1941; labor in a quarry and digging drainage ditches; detention and transfer to Skarzysko Kamienna; camp life; transfer to Czestochowa on Yom Kippur (September), 1944; escape from a group intended for transfer to Germany; camp life while using a false name; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945.
Return to Lodz; departs with the Bericha organization, 1945; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1946; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, February 1947; participation in the War of Independence.
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7081048
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Mordechai
Mordekhai
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Cynamon
Tzinamon
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01/08/1919
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Lodz, Poland
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives