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Testimony of Yakov Tzikovski Melamed, born in Suwalki, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Borkovshchina, with the partisans in the Bobruysk region and in the Red Army

Testimony

Testimony of Yakov Tzikovski Melamed, born in Suwalki, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Borkovshchina, with the partisans in the Bobruysk region and in the Red Army Life in Wolomin before the war; aliya of his parents to Eretz Israel; move to Warsaw with his sisters, August 1939. German occupation, September 1939; escape to Bialystok; escape back to his sisters in Warsaw; illegally crosses the border and escape to Bialystok with his sisters; escape to a Soviet orphanage in Borkovshchina; German occupation of the area, June 1941; witness to the murder of a Jewish family; escape to a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Pinchas Pavel Mandelovitz, born in Medzilaborce, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in Medzilaborce, western Czechoslovakia, Banska Stiavnica, Bukovce, in the underground and other places Life before the war; from a liberal, religious family. Expulsion from the family home; deportation of Jews including exemption from deportation, May 1942; her father's report to the Jewish leadership about the deportation; concern over deportation due to their proximity to the border; finding a hiding place; escape to western Czechoslovakia; deportation to Banska Stiavnica;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Shaul Avraham, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Chust, a labor battalion in Kolomyja, with partisans in the Bryansk forest, as a Red Army soldier in Orel and other places Life before the war; from a traditional family; learns in a "heder" and at a local school; Bnei Akiva and Beitar activities. Re-annexation to Hungary; confiscation of property; deportation to forced labor; deportation to a labor battalion in Kolomyja; life in Horodenka including deportation of Jews to Horodenka; sorting the possessions of deported Jews; deportation of Jews to Kamenets...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Mina Mindla (Burstein) Zismilch, born in Aleksandrowka, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Krasnik using a false idenity, the Krasnik Ghetto, with the partisans and in the forests of Aleksandrowka and Janow Life before the war. German occupation, September 1939; escape to fields; decrees including the yellow badge; escape to Krasnik; life in Krasnik using a false identity including trade; deportation to the Krasnik Ghetto, 1942; escape back to Aleksandrowka, 1943; life in hiding in a forest with the partisans; escape to Janow; life in hiding in a forest including displays of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shimon Henig, born in Maly Lipnik, Czechoslovakia in 1924, regarding his experiences in detention in Presov, in Chminany, in a bunker in a forest, and with Polish and Soviet partisans

Testimony of Shimon Henig, born in Maly Lipnik, Czechoslovakia in 1924, regarding his experiences in detention in Presov, in Chminany, in a bunker in a forest, and with Polish and Soviet partisans Life before the war; attends school in Gnazda, 1936; expulsion from school; return home, 1939; Anti-Jewish decrees including the yellow badge; increase in antisemitism among the local population; one of his sisters hides inside the local police station; Slovakian policemen turn a blind eye; pretends to be sick; hospitalization along with his sister; return home; detention in Presov; escape; in hiding in his...

File Number : 12803

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lova (Kaplinski) Rodnitzki, born in Nowogrodek, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in Nowogrodek, the Nowogrodek Ghetto, in hiding in a forest and with the partisans

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Testimony of Lova (Kaplinski) Rodnitzki, born in Nowogrodek, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in Nowogrodek, the Nowogrodek Ghetto, in hiding in a forest and with the partisans Childhood in a Zionist family; attends a Tarbut school, a Polish high school and the Vilna University; marriage, 1939. Annexation to the Soviet Union; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Nowogrodek Ghetto; capture of her parents and sister during the large "Aktion"; ghetto life; labor as a dental assistant outside the ghetto; "Aktion", August 1942; in hiding outside the ghetto: capture; transfer to the ghetto for...

File Number : 12556

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yosef Gleiser, born in Karlow, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Karlow Ghetto, with the Jewish partisans and combat as a Red Army soldier

Testimony

Testimony of Yosef Gleiser, born in Karlow, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Karlow Ghetto, with the Jewish partisans and combat as a Red Army soldier Life before the war; membership in Beitar; displays of antisemitism. German occupation, 1939; deportation to the Karlow Ghetto; ghetto life; assumes a false identity, 1940; escape to forests; joins the Jewish partisans; illegally crosses the border into the Soviet Union, 1941; enlists in the Red Army; combat against the Germans; wounded, 1943; hospitalization; release as a disabled war veteran; work in goldmines in Donbass; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Dov Waisman, born in Kamien Koszyrski, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Kamien Korszyrski Ghetto, escape, in hiding in forests and joining the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Waisman, born in Kamien Koszyrski, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Kamien Korszyrski Ghetto, escape, in hiding in forests and joining the partisans Well-to-do family, his father was a lumber merchant. Soviet occupation, 1939-1941; daily routine as usual; school; Germans occupation, July 1942; the Jewish area was fenced off a few months later; concentration of the Jews in a small area and sealing of the ghetto; first "Aktion" and murder of 80 Jews, August 1942; in hiding with the family in a hiding spot in the yard; another "Aktion"; escape with his parents and brother to a nearby...

File Number : 11471

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Harry Fischer, born in Vienna, Austria, 1918, regarding his experiences in Vienna, in the Yugoslavian Army and in the partisans in Yugoslavia

Testimony

Testimony of Harry Fischer, born in Vienna, Austria, 1918, regarding his experiences in Vienna, in the Yugoslavian Army and in the partisans in Yugoslavia His childhood in Vienna including activities in a youth movement, participation in demonstrations against the regime and activity posting announcements; emigration to Yugoslavia due to his father's citizenship, 1938; work as a photographer; move of his mother and brother to his father in Yugoslavia. Draft into the Yugoslavian Army, 1938; taken captive by the Germans on the border of Albania; service as a medic in a hospital in Kosovo Prizren, 1940;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Gesik, born in Turzec, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Turzec, Swierzen camp and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Gesik, born in Turzec, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Turzec, Swierzen camp and with the partisans Traditional family, owners of a grocery store; attends an elementary school and learns in the Mir Yeshiva; help to earn the family's livelihood. Unsuccessful attempt to escape to Lithuania with the outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union; life under Soviet occupation; German occupation; life in Turzec including forced labor and "Aktions"; transfer to a labor camp in Swierzen, November 1941; camp life including forced labor in a sawmill; escape to forests in the...

File Number : 8039

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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