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Testimony of Irit Irena Nitzan née Tug, born in 1939 in Kraków, about her experiences under a false identity with Polish families in villages near Kraków and in Kraków

Testimony
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German occupation; witness and parents escape from Kraków in 1939; deportation, apparently to Treblinka, in 1942; witness and parents leap from train and hide in the forest (so she is told); father captured and sent to a concentration and extermination camp; placed in hideouts with non-Jewish Polish families in the countryside and in Kraków (approx. ten places during the war) under the false identity of a Polish girl; placed by her mother with various families until the war in Kraków ends in 1944; father returns from the camps in 1945; life in Kraków after the war; attends a Tarbut school; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; life under communist rule; immigration to Israel with her family in 1957; adjustment to life in Israel.
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item Id
9457230
First Name
Irena
Irit
Last Name
Nitzan
Maiden Name
Tug
Date of Birth
14/08/1939
Place of Birth
Krakow, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
13503
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
06/07/2011
Date of Creation - latest
06/07/2011
Name of Submitter
ניצן אירית
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
44
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection