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Testimony of Tamar Henya Mukhtar née Wisniewska, born in 1940/1942 in Poland, about being placed with a Polish foster family during the war and her experiences in orphanages in Lodz and Kraków

Year of birth not known (placed by mother with the Polish Czuprynski family in 1943, with a note on which only her name appears); adoptive mother dies from a German stray bullet as the Germans retreated in February 1945; the family moves to Grabica; witness is handed over to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; placed in an orphanage in Lodz in 1948; lives there for several months; placed in an orphanage in Kraków; life in the orphanage; attends Jewish schools; feels different from other pupils; immigrates to Israel as part of a Youth Aliyah group via Warsaw and Rome in March 1957; adjusts to life...

File Number : 13526

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haviva Luba (Propkovitz) Stern, born in Stoczek, Poland, 1931

Testimony

Testimony of Haviva Luba (Propkovitz) Stern, born in Stoczek, Poland, 1931 Testimony regarding her parental home; residence in Warsaw; antisemitism at school; Drafting of men, September 1939; her father’s being taken captive by the Germans; bombings; looting; hunger; German occupation, 1939; trucks distributing food; anti-Jewish legislation; abuse of Jews; her father’s return from German captivity; forced labor by her father and brother; escape from the city with her father and two siblings; bribing the border patrol; crossing the Bug River; living in a synagogue; her father’s return to Warsaw; capture of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Testimony of Leopold Neumann, born in Lvov, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences during the Soviet occupation, military service in the Red Army and Polish Army

Testimony

Testimony of Leopold Neumann, born in Lvov, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences during the Soviet occupation, military service in the Red Army and Polish Army Life before the war and studies in an export academy. Employment in food economics during the Soviet occupation; work in a newspaper and drafted to the Red Army, 1941; move to Tarnopol and labor building airfields; move to Kharkov and release from the Red Army, winter 1941; move as a civilian to Tbilisi and work in food quality control in the Ministry of Health; drafted to the Polish Army, serving in the lost property and war spoils control unit...

File Number : 11006

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Postwar documentation related to the Polish Zionist activist Aleksander Wajselfisz, born in 1922

Postwar documentation related to the Polish Zionist activist Aleksander Wajselfisz, born in 1922 - participant’s card for the first conference of Zionist academics in Poland, held in Łódź on April 26, 1946; - student card of Aleksander Wajselfisz, the University of Paris medical school, for the 1949/50 academic year; - letter from the Federation of Democratic Zionist Academics in Poland to member Wajselfisz, 1949; - certification from Member of Knesset Hillel Seidler, 1976, of the Zionist activity of Aleksander Wajselfisz, born in 1922, in 1936–1940 and 1944–1948 in Poland and in 1948–1951 in...

File Number : 1729

Type of Material : Letter, Certification, Personal Documents, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French