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Memoirs of Moshe Kaplan, born in Woronow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army, the Tannenberg POW camp, the Woronow Ghetto, in hiding in the forest, as a partisan in the Naliboki forests and more Life in Woronow after World War I; death of his father Avraham Kaplan in 1922; attendance at the Tarbut elementary school; displays of antisemitism; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; underground activities and imprisonment of his brother as a member of the Communist Party; death of his mother, 1932; life in an aliya training kibbutz in Bialystok; meeting his future wife, Chaya; release of his...

File Number : 8643

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Feldshtein, born in Przeworsk, Poland, in 1934, regarding his hiding with a Polish farmer in Grzeska between 1942-1944

Testimony

-Childhood before the war; relations with the local population; outbreak of the war; life until 1942; "Aktion"; escape of the family to the forest following a warning they got from a farmer; hiding with the farmer for 2 years 1942-1944; leaving the hiding place with the approach of the Russians; leaving Poland; reconstruction of life after the war; emigration to Israel; exile to Cyprus; Aliya back to Israel

File Number : 13758

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yisrael Klein, born in Radomysl, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Radomysl, in hiding in the forest and being hidden by farmers, in Paleniec, in a commune of Jews hiding in the forests, as Red Army soldier and more Life before the war including the ultra-Orthodox way of life of his family. German occupation, 08 September 1939; hiding with his father in the attic during the concentration of the Jewish men in the municipal market; confinement of the Jews in the church without food or water for several days; murder of many Jews by shooting; transfer of the wounded to German military...

File Number : 8636

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yocheved Yehudit Hamburger Boxbaum, born in Brzesko, Poland, 1928, regarding the Bochnia ghetto and deportation to the Auschwitz II - Birkenau camp

Testimony

Testimony of Yocheved Yehudit Hamburger Boxbaum, born in Brzesko, Poland, 1928, regarding the Bochnia ghetto and deportation to the Auschwitz II - Birkenau camp Family background, religious family; studies in a Polish school; life before the war. The outbreak of the war; dropping out of school; great fear of the Germans; deportation to the ghetto; aktions; deportation of the first intelligence personnel; whistleblowing by Jewish policemen on Jews; rumors of camps; construction of bunkers; hiding in hideout during an aktion; exposing the witness' family during the aktion and killing them; the escape of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Melech Yehuda, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1919, regarding enlistment into the Red Army and service in the labor battalions of the USSR

Testimony

Testimony of Melech Yehuda, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1919, regarding enlistment into the Red Army and service in the labor battalions of the USSR Family background; life before the war; studies in Talmud Torah and later in a Hebrew school.German occupation for a week; prohibitions and restrictions; Soviet occupation; good attitude from the Russians; enlistment into the Red Army, May 1941; German occupation, June 1941; removal of eastern Poland soldiers and their transfer to labor battalions; work in the Volga River area; work in filling weapon bags; ignorance of what was happening in Bialystok; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka Patznik Burstein, born in Warszawa, Poland, 1933, regarding her escape to the USSR and exile to Siberia

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka Patznik Burstein, born in Warszawa, Poland, 1933, regarding her escape to the USSR and exile to Siberia Family background. The outbreak of war; bombings on the city, fire; escape to her grandmother's house; shearing of Jewish elders; back to Warszawa; establishment of the Warszawa ghetto; whistleblowing; sleeve strap; her parents' escape from the ghetto; escape with her mother through sewers with the help of a Pole for a fee; travel by train to Lodz; arrival in Bialystok and Brisk; finding shelter in the rabbi's home; meeting with parents, 1942; transfer by train by the Red Army to the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Binyamin Mordechai Karinski, born in Ostryna, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Ostryna, Mogilev, Stalingrad, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Binyamin Mordechai Karinski, born in Ostryna, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Ostryna, Mogilev, Stalingrad, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and other places His childhood in a traditional family, including attending a Tarbut school and a Polish school; learns metalworking in an ORT school in Grodno. Outbreak of the war; Red Army occupation of Ostryna; deportation of wealthy people to Siberia; German Army occupation of Ostryna, 1941; escape to the Soviet Union; his parents remain in Poland; murder of his parents; march of refugees; arrival to Mogilev; move to Stalingrad; move to Uzbekistan;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Jews who were murdered in the Kielce pogrom, 04/07/1946

List of Jews who were murdered in the Kielce pogrom, 04/07/1946 The list was prepared based on death notices published in newspapers, 25/07/1946.

File Number : 1194

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the Kielce pogrom, 04/07/1946 and the history of the Jewish community in Kielce

Documentation regarding the Kielce pogrom, 04/07/1946 and the history of the Jewish community in Kielce - List of Jews murdered during the Kielce pogrom, 07/1946; - List prepared based on obituary notices published in newspapers, 25/07/1946; - Research paper by Efraim Weichselfisch regarding the Kielce riots and an article concerning the history of the Jewish community in Kielce.

File Number : 1194

Type of Material : Study, List of Murdered Jews, Article

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sonia (Binstok) Elster, born in Chelm, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Chelm, Luboml, Siberia, Kazakhstan and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Sonia (Binstok) Elster, born in Chelm, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Chelm, Luboml, Siberia, Kazakhstan and other places Her childhood in a traditional family; attends a Jewish elementary school; studies sewing. Outbreak of the war; air-raids; arrival of refugees; escape to the Soviet Union on the initiative of the Soviets; escape to the Soviet Union with a girl friend, at the request of her parents; move to Luboml; help to refugees; receives knowledge regarding the murder of Chelm Jews; move to Kowel, approximately one year later; refusal to receive Soviet citizenship; exile of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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