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Testimony of Yonah Freiman regarding the Jews of Czortkow before World War II, entry of the Soviets in 1939, German occupation, the ghetto, liquidation of the ghetto, work in the Czortkow camp, liquidation of the camp, deportation with his son to Swidowa, hiding by Aryans, and liberation

- The Soviet rule in Czortkow; German occupation; decrees against the Jews of Czortkow; kidnapping for forced labor to repair the Czortkow-Kopyczyńce road, July 1941; during the forced labor, a 15-year-old boy, Chaim Hoisner, perished; pogroms by Ukrainians; a pogrom by Ukrainians, during which about 500 people, including his 20 year old son, Yisrael Freiman, were arrested, 14 July 1941; the detainees were brutally tortured and murdered while imprisoned; the invasion of representatives from the municipal court (war criminals: Warobkiewicz, Kirzymow, Jiwasiw) into the home of Shimon Barghofer, July 1941, and the...

File Number : 1509

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish