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Memoirs of Moshe Kaplan, born in Woronow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army, the Tannenberg POW camp, the Woronow Ghetto, in hiding in the forest, as a partisan in the Naliboki forests and more Life in Woronow after World War I; death of his father Avraham Kaplan in 1922; attendance at the Tarbut elementary school; displays of antisemitism; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; underground activities and imprisonment of his brother as a member of the Communist Party; death of his mother, 1932; life in an aliya training kibbutz in Bialystok; meeting his future wife, Chaya; release of his...

File Number : 8643

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of Avraham Magid, born in Poland, 1911, regarding his experiences in the partisans in forests in the Vilna and Lida area, in Zionist activities in Italy, and in other places

Documentation of Avraham Magid, born in Poland, 1911, regarding his experiences in the partisans in forests in the Vilna and Lida area, in Zionist activities in Italy, and in other places Memoirs of Avraham Magid; his activities as a commander of a partisans unit in forests in the Vilna area, 1943; life in the partisans, including his participation in the liberation of Lida; life in Lida; meets Chaja Sawicka, his future wife; escape from the partisans camp with another 24 people due to fear of being murdered by non-Jewish partisans; escape to the families camp of Tuvia Bielski; order by General Vasily...

File Number : 8350

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Testimony of Isser Shmukler, born in 1924 in Iwje, Poland, about his experiences in the Lida ghetto, with the Bielski partisans, and with the Red Army in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Isser Shmukler, born in 1924 in Iwje, Poland, about his experiences in the Lida ghetto, with the Bielski partisans, and with the Red Army in Germany The German occupation begins in 1941; 200 leading members of the Jewish community murdered; establishment of the ghetto; rumors about murder of Jews in towns in the area; Judenrat is constituted; working in Lida in German arms warehouses; smuggling a rifle into the Lida ghetto; Aktion involving 1,000 Jews; observing the Aktion from the roof of his home; escaping to the partisans; joining the Bielski brothers' partisan group in 1942; receiving...

File Number : 13562

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Simcha Itzkovitz, born in Mir, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Mir Ghetto, in hiding in the forest and as a partisan

Memoirs of Simcha Itzkovitz, born in Mir, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Mir Ghetto, in hiding in the forest and as a partisan Life in the Mir Ghetto; deportation and murder of his mother in an "Aktion", 09 November 1941; escape with his three siblings with help from Oswald Rufeisen, a member of the ghetto underground, August 1942; life in hiding in the forest; joins the Lidski partisan battalion, May 1943; transfer to the Bielski partisan battalion; work in an explosives workshop; use of German bombs and shells; return to Mir, 1944; transfer by the Red Army to study vehicle mechanics in...

File Number : 8045

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Raya (Kaplinski) Kalmanovitz, born in Nowogródek, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in Nowogródek, a ghetto and with the partisans in the area

Testimony

Testimony of Raya (Kaplinski) Kalmanovitz, born in Nowogródek, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in Nowogródek, a ghetto and with the partisans in the area Well-to-do Zionist family; annexation to the Soviet Union, 1939; nationalization of the family's business; work as a lab technician in Lida; deportation of the rest of the family to the interior of the Soviet Union; German occupation, June 1941; return home; decrees; the first "Aktion", winter 1941; deportation to a ghetto; labor cleaning the Germans houses; the second "Aktion", summer 1942; labor sewing; sneaking back into the ghetto; contact with...

File Number : 12605

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Experiences of Abraham Kaplan, born in Woronow in 1942, during and after the Holocaust, written by Tami Rosenfeld on the basis of Moshe Kaplan's memoirs

Experiences of Abraham Kaplan, born in Woronow in 1942, during and after the Holocaust, written by Tami Rosenfeld on the basis of Moshe Kaplan's memoirs - biography of Abraham Kaplan, written on the basis of memoirs of this father, Moshe Kaplan: Moshe Kaplan and his future wife, Chaya, live in Woronow; wedding held in 1940; German occupation of Woronow upon eruption of German–Soviet war in June 1941; Jewish townspeople persecuted; Abraham born on January 1, 1942; most Jews in Woronow murdered on May 11, 1942; the others, including Moshe, Chaya, and their son Abraham, are sent to the Lida ghetto; family...

File Number : 934

Type of Material : כתובה, סיפור חיים, Abstract

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Shmuel Geler regarding his experiences in the Vilna and Lida Ghettos, in the partisan battalion of the Bielski brothers, and in Iwie in 1941-1945

Memoirs of Shmuel Geler regarding his experiences in the Vilna and Lida Ghettos, in the partisan battalion of the Bielski brothers, and in Iwie in 1941-1945 Life in Vilna at the outbreak of war in 1941; transfer to forced labor; life in the Vilna Ghetto; news regarding the murders of Jews, including his colleagues (teachers) in Iwie; "Aktions" in the Vilna Ghetto; escape from the Vilna Ghetto and stay in hiding in Iwie; escape to the Lida Ghetto in December 1941; mass murders in the Lida Ghetto; news regarding the murder of his son in Iwie in May 1942; his wife's escape to the Lida Ghetto; hiding with his...

File Number : 11244

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Yiddish

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File Number : 1778

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Medical Documentation

Language : English

An article about the escape of Yehuda Bielski from the Nowogródek Ghetto, and the escape of Lola (Hudes) Bielski from Łódź and the Stołpce Ghetto, to the forests and joining the Bielski partisans, aliya to Eretz Israel and emigration to the United States - a clipping from the American weekly "The Jewish Press", published on 21 April 2017, with an article by Leslie Bell about her father Yehuda Bielski: - the wounding of Lieutenant Yehuda Bielski, a soldier in Polish army, during battles against the Germans near Warsaw in 1939; receiving medical treatment at a hospital in Warsaw; escaping from the hospital to...

File Number : 517

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Article

Language : English

Memoirs of Pesach Brem and Chana Brem née Orlanski, about their experiences in Lida, Bielica, the Lida and Zdzięcioł ghettos, the forests with the partisans, and the Florence displaced persons camp - Memoirs of Anna (Chana) Brem née Orlanski, born in 1914 in Bielica, about her family's experiences in the Holocaust, part of a "roots" project written by her grandson, Yitzhak Gordon, son of Ellen Gordon née Brem, on May 27, 1989 - parents: Yitzhak Yaacov and Razel Orlanski; daughter of a family of ten children; life in Bielica; Germans occupy Bielica in 1941; family sent to the Lida ghetto and Germans murder...

File Number : 10845

Type of Material : Memoirs, Genealogy

Language : English

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