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Testimony of Yona (Pozniak) Shapira, born in Poland, 1942, regarding her experiences as a baby in Alma Ata

Testimony

Testimony of Yona (Pozniak) Shapira, born in Poland, 1942, regarding her experiences as a baby in Alma Ata The witness' father is a Communist with a senior position in the Soviet police. Receipt of information regarding her family's escape as part of the evacuation, June 1941; her birth (apparently en route); life in Alma Ata with her family; her mother's work in the fields and telling fortunes; murder of her father during his military service in the Red Army. Return to Poland as part of the repatriation, 1946; life in Kostopol including receiving threats from anti-Semites; escape to western Poland;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Arie Kestenbaum, born in Lwow, regarding his experiences and his family's experiences in Asia during the Holocaust, and aliya to Eretz Israel with his mother and sister with the Teheran Children in 1939-1943 - family life in Lvov; war between Poland and the Soviet Union; his father's conscription into the army (probably the Polish Army); the Soviet occupation; transfer at the age of six with his mother and sister to Kazakhstan by train; life in a village in the Semipolatinsk region; treatment by the Kazakhs; escape to Urdzhar and life in Urdzhar; escape and hardships on the way to Ayaguz; escape...

File Number : 10873

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the Polish Embassy in the Soviet Union regarding Jews holding Polish citizenship in the Soviet Union, criteria for their being drafted to the Polish Army and exit from the Soviet Union, and letters from Jews regarding the negative attitude of the Polish Legation, 1942-1943 - Memo from General Anders, the Commander of the Polish Army, regarding the policy of the military authorities towards Polish citizens of Jewish origin in the Soviet Union; in the memo it is emphasized that there should not be any discrimination of any kind whatsoever between the Jews and the Poles because the same rights...

File Number : 16.4

Type of Material : Lists, Reports

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English