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Testimony of Doba (Lichter) Furst, born in Krasniczyn, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Krasniczyn Ghetto, the Wojslawice Ghetto, with Soviet partisans in the forests and as a Red Army soldier

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Testimony of Doba (Lichter) Furst, born in Krasniczyn, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Krasniczyn Ghetto, the Wojslawice Ghetto, with Soviet partisans in the forests and as a Red Army soldier Marriage, 1937; births of two daughters. German occupation, 1939; abuse of Jews including burning the rabbi's beard and abduction to forced labor; establishment of the Krasniczyn Ghetto; escape of the family from an "Aktion"; in hiding in the attic of a non-Jew; arrival of Jews expelled from Germany to the ghetto; sneaking into the Wojslawice Ghetto; release of her handicapped father from labor camp by bribing a soldier; deportation of her father and her husband to build the Sobibor camp; leaving the ghetto to search for food for her daughters and smuggling it into the ghetto; murder of her daughters and her grandmother in an "Aktion", murder [of her daughters and her grandmother?] in a pit near Chelm; wanderings [of witness] in the forests; German hunt [after escaped Jews]; joining Soviet partisans; participating in caring for the wounded; murder of fleeing Jews by partisans; liberation from [by?] the Red Army. Marriage and establishing a new family; aliya to Israel to Moshav Balfuria, 1950.
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8172993
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Doba
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Furst
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1919
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Krasniczyn, Poland
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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01/10/09
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01/10/09
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Furst Doba
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YES
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ISRAEL
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection