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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

Testimony
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.
item Id
8172993
First Name
Doba
Last Name
Furst
Date of Birth
1919
Place of Birth
Krasniczyn, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
01/10/09
Date of Creation - latest
01/10/09
Name of Submitter
Furst Doba
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection