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Testimony of Aharon Feigenblum, born in 1919 in Włocławek, Poland, about his experiences as a member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Kalisz, in Warsaw, and in the movement underground in the Soviet Union

Receives a religious education; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; lives in a hakhshara (training center) in Kalisz in 1937; Kol Nidre eve in 1939; three Jews murdered; witness escapes to his parents in Warsaw in November 1939; escapes to Wilno and lives there until June 1940; escapes to Tashkent and Samarkand in 1941; membership in the Hashomer Hatzair underground in the Soviet Union in 1941–1944; involved in the affair surrounding Mordechai Rozman, a leader of the underground, who succumbed to NKVD interrogation and surrendered names of underground members; liberation and return to Poland in December 1945;...

File Number : 13553

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zipora Piza (Peletz) Huberman, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kamionka Ghetto and Peterswaldau

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Piza (Peletz) Huberman, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kamionka Ghetto and Peterswaldau Life before the war; Jewish community; attends a Beit Yaakov school; her father's activities in the Hamizrachi movement; youth movements; activities in Hashomer Hadati. German occupation, September 1939; burning of the synagogue; rescue of a Torah scroll by her grandfather; confiscation of property; armband; yellow badge; draft of Jews to labor in the construction of Auschwitz camp; activities in an aliya training "kibbutz"; establishment of a Judenrat; draft of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Goldlist, born in Chmielnik, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Kielce, Buchenwald, Dachau and Bisingen

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Goldlist, born in Chmielnik, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Kielce, Buchenwald, Dachau and Bisingen From a liberal religious family; witness' father is a tailor; learns in a "heder" and local Polish school. Expulsion from school, 1939; anti-Jewish decrees; joins Hashomer Hatzair, 1941; visit of Mordechai Anielewicz to his Hashomer Hatzair chapter; concentration of the Jews in the city square, 01 October 1942; deportation of his parents and three brothers to Treblinka; deportation to Skarzysko-Kamienna; camp life including labor filling shells with...

File Number : 12820

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters written by the Holocuast survivor A. Gutman, from Linz DP camp, to the Forverts editorial board in New York and to Henri Turk, director of the editorial branch in Baltimore, regarding his experiences during the Holocaust, 02 July 1947 Gutman's experiences as a youth from Brisk in a yeshiva and the Warsaw Ghetto including participation in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising together with Mordecai Anielewicz; combat with the Polish underground using an Aryan identity; promoted to Major; life in a DP camp in Linz.

File Number : 4.7

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Yaakov Freiman Michaeli, born in Warsaw, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, escape from the ghetto and using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Freiman Michaeli, born in Warsaw, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, escape from the ghetto and using a false identity Childhood and family background; education; community life. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; air-raids; labor clearing away rubble; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life; escape to a village; obtains forged documents; participates in the Warsaw Polish Uprising; taken captive; deportation to Muehlberg camp; camp life; relations with the Poles in the camp; injury and hospitalization in a field hospital; liberation. Return to Poland;...

File Number : 12557

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mendel Vansover, born in Pultusk, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Bialystok, Saratov, Kazakhstan and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Mendel Vansover, born in Pultusk, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Bialystok, Saratov, Kazakhstan and other places Family life before the war; learns in a "heder". German occupation; concentration of the Jews in the municipal park; confiscation of valuables; murder of Jews at the river; Soviet occupation; transfer to Bialystok; illegally crosses the border to White Russia; his father's labor; return to Bialystok; deportation to the northern Soviet Union; camp life, including his parents' labor at logging trees; his brother's disappearance; transfer to Saratov by ship;...

File Number : 12287

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Matys Minc, born in Lublin, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Lutsk and Vilna until his departure to Eretz Israel, 1941

Testimony

Testimony of Matys Minc, born in Lublin, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Lutsk and Vilna until his departure to Eretz Israel, 1941 From a family that became impoverished; attends a Tarbut school; move to Warsaw, 1932; joins Hashomer Hatzair under the leadership of Mordecai Anielewicz. Outbreak of the war, 1939; German occupation; his grandmother's death; escape to Lutsk, November 1939; attends a Polish high school; unsuccessful attempt to move to Lithuania; escape to Vilna, Christmas, 1939; life in Hashomer Hatzair under Lithuanian control; life under Soviet occupation; departure from...

File Number : 12375

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Poem inspired by Mordechai Anielewicz written by Jacob Apelberg

File Number : 170

Type of Material : Poem/song

Language : English

Testimony of Golda Stacowsky, born in Warsaw, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in the Warsaw ghetto; escape from the ghetto and joining the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Golda Stacowsky, born in Warsaw, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in the Warsaw ghetto; escape from the ghetto and joining the partisans She was from a religious family; five children; her father was dermatologist and sexologist; very wealthy; servants. The bombing on 1 September 1939; the establishment of the ghetto; the crowding; lice; typhus; being raped by SS men on a street in the ghetto at the age of 5; the murder of her father as he delivered a baby and he was shot along with the new mother; being informed on by a member of the Judenrat; joining Mordecai Anielewicz's group;...

File Number : 11563

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lidia Ludwika (Brettler Schrenzel) Szczepanik, born in Lwow, Poland, 1914, regarding her experiences in the Lwow Ghetto and Warsaw

Testimony

Testimony of Lidia Ludwika (Brettler Schrenzel) Szczepanik, born in Lwow, Poland, 1914, regarding her experiences in the Lwow Ghetto and Warsaw Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Lwow Ghetto; escape to Warsaw; liberation.

File Number : 1254

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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