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Testimony of Bracha (Sheinbin) Wisbert, born in 1938 in Malynsk, Poland - regarding her experiences as a child in Malynsk, in the Berezne Ghetto and while hiding in villages and forests in the area during the war. Life before the war; daughter of a family that owned land and property; German occupation in June 1941; wearing a yellow badge; moved to forced labor; deportation to the Berezne Ghetto in June 1942; the family's escape from the ghetto the day before the ghetto’s liquidation in August 1942; finding a hiding place with a Ukrainian farmer; escape to the forests in the region; the father’s...

File Number : 13901

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Shtirmer, born in Slawatyce, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Slawatycze, the Berezne Ghetto, Kostopil camp and with the partisans in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Shtirmer, born in Slawatyce, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Slawatycze, the Berezne Ghetto, Kostopil camp and with the partisans in a forest Life before the war; religious family with hardships; attends a "heder"; drafted to the Polish Army, 1930; Communist movement activities. Soviet occupation, September 1939; retreat of the Red Army beyond the Bug river; joins together with his family those who retreat; German occupation; escape of the family to Poland; remains with his wife in Berezne; German occupation, 1941; restrictions on the Jews including yellow badge;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sonia Orbach, born in Luboml, Poland, regarding her experiences in the Luboml Ghetto, in hiding, a forest and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Sonia Orbach, born in Luboml, Poland, regarding her experiences in the Luboml Ghetto, in hiding, a forest and with the partisans Her family before the war. Life under Soviet rule; German occupation; decrees; deportation to the Luboml Ghetto; ghetto life; in hiding in the ghetto; escape to a forest; wanderings; joins a group of Soviet partisans lead by Federov Chernigovski in the Pinsk area; forms of combat; liberation by the Red Army. Move to Germany via Poland; DP camp life in Frankfurt am Main; starts a family; emigration to the United States.

File Number : 5268

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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File Number : 2062

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

Testimony of Malke Cyrklewicz regarding her experiences in the Warszawa ghetto, Sadowne, the forest, Lochow, hospitalization in Warsaw under a false identity and on the Aryan side, and in Germany as a Polish woman

German occupation of Warsaw; decrees and pogroms against Jews, kidnappings of Jews for forced labor, taking and returning of their documents at the end of the work; forced labor of women and their abuse; looting of Jewish-owned shops; cooperation of the Polish population in handing over Jews; closing of schools; arrests and executions of Jewish intelligentsia in the spring of 1940; murder of 59 people, including Rabbi M. from Mińsk Mazowiecki, as punishment for the murder of a Polish policeman by a Jew; murder of a Jewish child for his reaction to the Poles' behavior towards Rabbi Zilbersztejn; building a wall...

File Number : 1778

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Latin, Yiddish

Testimony of Getzel Weissberg, born in Sarnaki, 1924, regarding the camp in Sarnaki, deportation to the Siedlce Ghetto, deportation to Treblinka, and escape from the transport

- His stay in the Sarnaki camp, November 1942; deportation from the Sarnaki camp to the Siedlce ghetto; deportation to the camp and his stay for several days in an open ghetto; young people with weapons planned to create a commotion to allow Jews to escape; the Jewish police prevented the execution of the plan; cancellation of the transport; their return to the camp into one barrack only, difficulty finding family members due to overcrowding; escape attempts from the camp; execution by shooting of the escapees near the camp; deportation by transport towards Treblinka; his jump from the train; other deportees...

File Number : 111

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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File Number : 3510

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian