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Testimony of Haika Grosman, born in Bialystok, 1919, regarding her experiences in the underground in the Bialystok Ghetto

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Testimony of Haika Grosman, born in Bialystok, 1919, regarding her experiences in the underground in the Bialystok Ghetto A traditional home; studying in a Hebrew high school; member of Hashomer Hatzair youth movement; Zionist activities; life in Kaunas and Vilna, 1939-1941; information on Hashomer Hatzair B's underground leadership during the Soviet occupation; living on the Aryan side in Vilna, 1941-1942; active in the Hashomer Hatzair underground and later in the FPO; move to the Bialystok Ghetto as a base, January 1942; traveling and visiting the Warsaw, Grodno, Wolkowysk, Lublin, Czestochowa and Vilna...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8650

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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Collective testimony of Abba Kovner, born in Sevastopol, Russia, 1918, Vitka (Kempner) Kovner, born in Kalisz, Poland, and Ruzka Korczak, born in Bielsko, Poland, 1922, regarding their experiences in the FPO underground in Vilna Activities of the FPO underground in Vilna; consolidation of the idea for armed struggle and the ways to carry it out under ghetto conditions; Wittenberg affair; the approach of Jacob Gens, the Judenrat head to saving the ghetto Jews; contacts with the Bialystok Ghetto and members of the local Communist underground; relations within the FPO; escape to the forest during the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 3882

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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Testimony of Zelda (Nisanilevich) Treger, born in Vilna, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, on the Aryan side, in Zagorze, using a false identity, with the FPO and with partisans under the command of Abba Kovner in the Rudniki forests Establishment of the Vilna Ghetto; escape to the Aryan side; labor on a farm belonging to Wersockienie in Zagorze; hospitalization in the Vilna hospital as a Polish woman named Zofia Wersockienie for three months; help from the Polish nurse, Nowakowska, in the hospital; move to the ghetto with a group of Jews, April 1942; meets Adek Buracks, one of the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 3670

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony, Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Yiddish

Testimony of Dov Lewin, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and with the partisans in the Rudnicki Forest

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Testimony of Dov Lewin, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and with the partisans in the Rudnicki Forest From a well-to-do family with a feeling for tradition and modernity; witness's father owns a sewing notions agency; witness attends a Hebrew high school; membership in Hashomer Hatzair. Soviet occupation; change of Hebrew high school curriculum to Yiddish studies; deportation of Zionists and rich Jews; German occupation; cancellation of Jewish education; help in supporting the family; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; ghetto life including underground...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1321

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony, Newspaper Clippings

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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