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Testimony of Baruch Eizenstark Amitz, born in Skalat, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Skalat and in Borki Wielkie and Kamionka camps, with the partisans and in the Red Army

Testimony

Testimony of Baruch Eizenstark Amitz, born in Skalat, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Skalat and in Borki Wielkie and Kamionka camps, with the partisans and in the Red Army His family background; membership in Bnei Akiva; attempts to make aliya to Eretz Israel; antisemitism. Annexation to the Soviet Union, 1939; deportation of well-to-do people to Siberia; German occupation, 1941; murder of Jews by the Einsatzgruppen; deportation to a labor camp in Borki Wielkie; establishment of a ghetto, 1942; forced labor; labor in Kamionka camp; escape to a forest with the help of a Pole; joins a group of...

File Number : 9974

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew