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Transit pass issued to Arie Prushynowski, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1939, in Salzuflen, to enable his journey to Eretz Israel, 16 July 1947

Transit pass issued to Arie Prushynowski, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1939, in Salzuflen, to enable his journey to Eretz Israel, 16 July 1947 Notes from Arie Shachar-Prushynowski who submitted the material: Arie Prushynowski was born in Baranowicze, Poland in 1939 (according to the pass: 17 February). When the Germans occupied Baranowicze, his father Mordechai was murdered by the German invaders. Sonia, Arie's mother, decided to escape and, together with Arie and two of his paternal aunts, she escaped to Uzbekistan where they remained until 1946. At the time of the repatriation Sonia and her [female]...

File Number : 699

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : French, English, German

יומן וזיכרונות של Lejb Koryski יליד Wilno 1913, התכתבותו עם בני משפחה וחברים ותיעוד הנוגע לפעילותו למען הנצחת יהודי Wilno

File Number : 12364

Type of Material : Certification, Newspaper, Poems/songs, Newspaper Clippings, Diary, Speech, Envelope, Postcard, Memoirs, Personal Documents, Article, Letter, Correspondence, Album

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, Russian, Yiddish

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter sent by Sofia Zusha Szyszko.in Warsaw to her relative Tova (Mebel) Vendrov in Israel, 1964

Letter sent by Sofia Zusha Szyszko.in Warsaw to her relative Tova (Mebel) Vendrov in Israel, 1964 Letter written by Sofia Zusha Szyszko,.including her memoirs regarding the rescue of her family members (including Golda Mebel) by her future husband Michal Szyszko; Comments by the submitter of the material (Tova Vendrov): The submitter of the material Tova Golda (Mebel) Vendrov was born in Warsaw in 1939. Her parents were Hillel Mebel and Mina (Apel) Mebel. Hillel and Mina resided in Warsaw. During the Holocaust period they were deported to the Warsaw Ghetto. Hillel's relative Sofia was married to Micha...

File Number : 4557

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Testimony of Alina (Peliard) Koren, born in 1941 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in hiding on the "Aryan" side, etc.

Testimony of Alina (Peliard) Koren, born in 1941 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in hiding on the "Aryan" side, etc. Early childhood; exfiltrated from the Warsaw ghetto to hiding with a non-Jewish family on the "Aryan" side; life under poor conditions; placed with a different family; lives with second family until after the war; reclaimed from family by the Koordinacja; placed in a children's home in Łódź; immigrates to Israel in 1948; adjusts to life in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Blumenkranz, born in 1938 in Ostrów Mazowiecka, Poland, about his deportation to Siberia in summer 1940

Testimony of Dov Blumenkranz, born in 1938 in Ostrów Mazowiecka, Poland, about his deportation to Siberia in summer 1940 Life in a well-off family of Amshinov Hasidim that owned a flour mill; uncle immigrates to Eretz Israel and returns to Poland; war breaks out in September 1939; Germans live in the family's courtyard for two weeks; Jews rounded up in the square and sent home; family hides during the roundup and escapes with the help of non-Jews; esaping to uncle in Zambrów; escaping to Białystok; rejection of Soviet citizenship and deportation to Siberia in summer 1940; life in a small town for approx....

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Nortman Yassur, born in 1932 in Sarnaki, Poland, about his escape as a boy to the Soviet Union, his deportation to Siberia, and his experiences in the Caucasus, Uzbekistan, etc. Offspring of an Orthodox religious family; Zionist activity before the war; German occupation ensues; Poland partitioned; witness escapes to the Soviet Union via Brest Litovsk; deported to Siberia; grandfather dies in Siberia; witness escapes to the Caucasus pursuant to agreement between the Soviet Union and the Polish Government-in-Exile; reaches Derbent; works on a Jewish kolkhoz (Soviet collective farm);...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Halina Chana (Kuperman) Siboni, born in 1938 in Zambrów, Poland, about her experiences in early childhood in hideouts in the Białystok area

Testimony of Halina Chana (Kuperman) Siboni, born in 1938 in Zambrów, Poland, about her experiences in early childhood in hideouts in the Białystok area Faint memories of parents; escapes in the snow; captured by peasasnts and saved by string of pearls that her mother handed over; father disappears; witness, four years old, surrendered by mother to the Polish Leszczynski family in a town near Zambrow; family's children abuse the witness; labor from morning to evening; witness placed with another family; witness left at the entrance to a Polish orphanage in Łomza in November 1942; admitted to the orphanage as...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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