Testimony of Gershon Volkovitz, born in 1930 in Kalisz, Poland, about his experiences as a boy in Kalisz, escape to Rowne, evacuation to the Ural region, and wandering through the Soviet Union with his mother and alone during the war
Testimony of Gershon Volkovitz, born in 1930 in Kalisz, Poland, about his experiences as a boy in Kalisz, escape to Rowne, evacuation to the Ural region, and wandering through the Soviet Union with his mother and alone during the war
Life before the war; offspring of an affluent traditional Zionist family; attends a Hebrew gymnasium; war breaks out in 1939 and father escapes; witness escapes with his mother by motor vehicle toward Warsaw and thence to the Soviet frontier; escape to Rowne; reuniting with father; evacuation to the Soviet interior in early 1941; leaving Rostov in summer 1941; wandering; hunger en route to the Ural region; living in the Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan; hunger; mother dies in 1943; placed with aunt; placed in a Polish orphanage in Andizhan; escaping from the orphanage; wandering across Russia; unsuccessful attempt to join the Polish Army; returns to the Polish orphanage in Andizhan; back to Poland; moves to Germany; lives in a displaced persons camp; ; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Exodus in 1947; re-immigration to Israel in 1948; rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Israel
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9564088
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Gershon
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Volkovitz
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26/02/1930
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Kalisz, Poland
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Testimony
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13644
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives