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Letter of testimony by Khaim Povroznik, regarding resistance and the escape from Sobibor camp in October 1943

Letter of testimony by Khaim Povroznik, regarding resistance and the escape from Sobibor camp in October 1943 Khaim Povroznik tells that he was born in Lyubomi in 1911; he was taken to German captivity in 1939 and imprisoned in a camp for Jews in Kholm; start of the implementation of the "Aktions" against Jews by the Germans in 1942, and the murder of most of the Jews of Kholm; transfer of Jews from the camp to Sobibor extermination camp during February-March 1943; selection in Sobi...
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item Id
9438314
Type of material
Letter of testimony
Testimony
File Number
160
Language
Russian
Record Group
P.21 - Ilya Ehrenburg Collection
Sub-Record Group
P.21.1 - Documentation used for publication the "Black Book"
Date of Creation - earliest
10/08/1944
Date of Creation - latest
10/08/1944
Name of Submitter
Irina Erenburg
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
6
Archival Signature
אלבום 2, עמ' 250-252
Connected to Item
P.21.1 - Ilya Ehrenburg Collection - Original documentation of the Soviet writer on the subject of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union