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Testimony of Moshe Saar (Simigran), born in Radziwillow, Poland in 1935, regarding his ‎experiences in the Radziwillow and Brody ghettoes, escape from Brody ghetto, and hiding in ‎the forest

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Testimony of Moshe Saar (Simigran), born in Radziwillow, Poland in 1935, regarding his ‎experiences in the Radziwillow and Brody ghettoes, escape from Brody ghetto, and hiding in ‎the forest His family before the war; entry of the Russians in 1939; German conquest in June 1941; the ‎yellow badge; hiding valuables by his father; liquidation of the Radziwillow ghetto in April 1942; ‎the witness’s and his family’s experiences in the “productive” ghetto; starvation; his parents’ ‎forced labor; liquidation of the “unproductive” ghetto in May 1942; the Judenrat; the Jewish ‎police; escape from the ghetto before its liquidation in October 1942; hiding at a Ukrainian’s house ‎in the town’s outskirts; search by the Germans; escape to the Brody ghetto a few weeks later; ‎starvation; help from the Brody community; escape to the forests before liquidation of the Brody ‎ghetto in May 1943; living in a bunker in the forest; his father’s forages into Radziwillow to get ‎money from the hiding place; liberation by the Red Army in March 1944; return to Radziwillow; ‎antisemitism; escape from the area; joining Aliya Beit; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel in 1947; ‎exile to Cyprus; return aliya to Israel in 1948; absorption; service in the Israeli air force as a fighter ‎pilot.‎
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item Id
9710506
First Name
Moshe
Last Name
Saar
סימיגרן
Date of Birth
05/12/1935
Place of Birth
Radziwillow, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
13718
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
14/12/2011
Date of Creation - latest
14/12/2011
Name of Submitter
סער סימיגרן משה
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
87
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection