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Memoirs written by Rivka Prilutzki from Berlin titled, "Mutti's Memoirs" regarding her experiences, 1941-1943

Memoirs written by Rivka Prilutzki from Berlin titled, "Mutti's Memoirs" regarding her experiences, 1941-1943 Life in Berlin before her husband's escape to Belgium; detention in Moabit prison in Berlin; transfer to the prison in Cologne; prison life for 5 months; release from prison; return home; smuggling of her sons to Yugoslavia; intention of the boys to make aliya from Yugoslavia to Eretz Israel; notification during the Pesach holiday by the Eretz Israel Office of the Jewish Agency, of the boys' arrival in Eretz Israel; escape to Brussels; transfer to Paris; illegal stay in Paris; meets her husband;...

File Number : 8665

Type of Material : Memoirs

Testimony of Yaakov Hofman Hauchmann, born in 1929 in Glebokie, Poland, about his experiences in the Glebokie ghetto, in hiding with villagers, with the partisans in 1942–1944, and in the Red Army

Offspring of a traditional family in Glebokie; Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; German occupation ensues in June 1941; hears rumors about murder in nearby forests; searching for food in villages at night; establishment of the ghetto; establishment of a Judenrat; hunger; volunteering for nighttime work in return for food; brother dies in the first Aktion; building hideouts; ghetto liquidated in August 1942; witness escapes during the Aktion; lives in hiding with villagers; handed over to Russian partisans; integration into a partisan unit; activity in 1942–1944; a decade of service in the Red Army; receiving...

File Number : 13637

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Witold Szymczukiewicz, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Gatchina, Soviet Union, 1910, regarding his experiences rescuing Jews in Vilna

Testimony

Testimony of Witold Szymczukiewicz, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Gatchina, Soviet Union, 1910, regarding his experiences rescuing Jews in Vilna Life before the war; move to Vina. German occupation, June 1941; rescue activities to Jews including obtaining false documents for those in hiding; liberation. Life after the war; recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.

File Number : 2864

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Booklet including the memoirs of Aleksander Plachta Peleg, born in Grudziadz, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Grudziadz, Brest Litowsk, Brody, Brzezany, Breslau, and other places, 1939-1946 His childhood in Grudziadz; his parents are Zvi Hirsh Henryk Plachta and Bronislawa (Rosenbaum) Plachta, who owned a large store; move of the family to Brest Litowsk at the outbreak of the war, 1939; move to Brody, summer 1940; move to Brzezany, December 1940; unsuccessful attempt to make aliya to Eretz Israel; detention of his father, and his deportation to the Archangelsk area, to forced labor; "Aktions" in...

File Number : 8702

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew