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Memoirs of Yaakov Katz, born in Belz, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Ural area, Tashkent, Poland and Eretz Israel

Memoirs of Yaakov Katz, born in Belz, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Ural area, Tashkent, Poland and Eretz Israel His family are Belz hasidim; Deportation to the Soviet Union by the Poles before the German occupation, 1939; his father's labor in Ural; transfer to Kazakhstan; arrival to Tashkent; life in Tashkent, including hunger and cold; hospitalization of his parents in a hospital, due to dysentery disease; eviction from their home; survival on his own; birth of his brother; death of his brother; death of his mother in the hospital; return to Poland at the end of the war; His stay in...

File Number : 8757

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew