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Memoirs of Aizik Birger from Lachowice, Poland, regarding his experiences in Lachowice, the Lachowice Ghetto and in the forest

Memoirs of Aizik Birger from Lachowice, Poland, regarding his experiences in Lachowice, the Lachowice Ghetto and in the forest The German occupation; transporting of 56 men out of the city and their subsequent murder; confiscation of gold and jewelry from the Jews; murder of approximately 3,000 Jews from Lachowice, some of whom were buried alive; establishment of the Lachowice Ghetto; murder of the remnants of the Jewish population in Lachowice a few months later; hiding of the witness in the ghetto with 70 other people; escape to the forest with Nechama Proshchitzki from Krzywoszyn, Aharon Berezin and...

File Number : 8469

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Yiddish

Memoirs of Yaakov Galer regarding his family’s experiences in the Kleck Ghetto, his escape and stay in the Baranowice Ghetto, joining the partisans, serving in the Red Army and aliya to Eretz Israel Memoirs of Yaakov Galer (Haler), born in Kleck on 5 May 1924, regarding his family's experiences in the Holocaust: His family history; Yaakov’s childhood in Kleck; outbreak of war in 1939; entry of the Germans into Kleck on 25 June 1941; the establishment of the ghetto in Kleck; the Judenrat; wearing a yellow badge; murder of Jews from Kleck on 24 October 1941; mandatory registration of all Jews with the labor...

File Number : 8937

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Transcript of an interview with Mordechai Bushlin regarding his family’s experiences in the Zdzieciol and Nowogrodek Ghettos, escaping to the forests, joining the partisans and aliya to Israel

Transcript of an interview with Mordechai Bushlin regarding his family’s experiences in the Zdzieciol and Nowogrodek Ghettos, escaping to the forests, joining the partisans and aliya to Israel The article "Testament to Life" (“Tzav’a LeChaim”) with a transcript of an interview with Mordechai Bushlin, born in Zdzieciol on 1 May 1917, regarding his family's experiences in the Holocaust (the article was printed in the "Gefen Moshavah" newspaper published in Zichron Yaakov on 16 April 2004): Yeshiva studies in Slonim until the age of 16; Mordechai's work in a blacksmith workshop; the ghetto in Zdzieciol;...

File Number : 8894

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew