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Memoirs of Yisrael Avraham Bramzon, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and in hiding

Memoirs of Yisrael Avraham Bramzon, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and in hiding Life in the Bialystok Ghetto; participation in the Jewish uprising; escape and finding a hiding place in the home of a Polish family (the members of the family were later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations); life in the cellar; deaths of his wife and children; end of the war. Marriage to the cousin of his first wife, a survivor of the Majdanek, Treblinka and Blizin camps. The testimony was taken down in Polish, 1948, and kept in the Jewish Historical Institute in...

File Number : 8041

Type of Material : Documentary, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Diary written by Paulina Stein, regarding her experiences in Vilna following the German occupation, including in the Vilna Ghetto, her escape to Bialystok, and in the Bialystok Ghetto from 22/06/1941 until November 1943, and an excerpt of the testimony of Marta Klein, regarding her escape from deportation in the Bialystok Ghetto in September 1943 Personal experiences of the witness and her family, and the daily Vilna Ghetto and Bialystok Ghetto life, including the institutions, organizations, people and events: - Heavy air-raids on Vilna on 22/06/1941; German occupation of the city of Vilna, including the...

File Number : 5932

Type of Material : Diary, Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Rabbi Aviezer Burshtein regarding the heroism of a Jew named Melamed during the first Aktion in Bialystok Ghetto

Testimony about an act of heroism and martyrdom of a Jew named Melamed during the first Aktion in the Bialystok Ghetto, 1942; SS officer Kommandant Friedel, a war criminal.

File Number : 14

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Diaries and memoirs of the Stein family, relating to their experiences in the Warsaw, Vilna, and Białystok ghettos and in hiding in Białystok

Diaries and memoirs of the Stein family, relating to their experiences in the Warsaw, Vilna, and Białystok ghettos and in hiding in Białystok Book by Israel Stein, published in 2017, containing: - Israel Stein's memoirs about his family's experiences in the Holocaust. Parents: Meir and Paula Stein (an architect); life in Warsaw; escape to Vilna in 1939; placed in the Vilna ghetto in 1941; escape to the Białystok ghetto in 1`942; father Meir slips into the Warsaw ghetto, where his family and Paula's family are staying; Meir returns to the Białystok ghetto; Isarel is placed in hiding outside the ghetto, in...

File Number : 11409

Type of Material : Diary, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English

Memoirs of Shmuel Pikarevitz, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Tykocin, Bialystok, Magnitogorsk, Stutthof camp and in other places

Memoirs of Shmuel Pikarevitz, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Tykocin, Bialystok, Magnitogorsk, Stutthof camp and in other places His father's parents were from Tykocin; his mother's parents were from Sniadowo; move from Bialystok to Tykocin; attends a school and a heder; work with his father; studies [in Bialystok]; resides with his uncle in Bialystok; receives aliya certificates that were sent from Eretz Israel by his uncle Refael, 1928; his father's refusal to make aliya to Eretz Israel due to Shmuel's brother's service in the Polish Army; displays of antisemitism in Poland,...

File Number : 8781

Type of Material : Memoirs, Documentary

Language : Hebrew