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Testimony of Genia (Nistenpover) Hermon, born in Pultusk, Poland, 1929 regarding the deportation of her family to Bialystok, USSR, and life in Berezniki, Ural

Testimony

German occupation, 1939; the family's escape to a nearby town and return after a short time; deportation on foot by the Germans to the Soviet border and transfer to a refugee camp in Bialystok; deportation by the Soviet authorities to Adamova Gora near Berezniki, Ural; her parents working in construction; liberation following the outbreak of the Soviet-German war; move to Orsha, Belorussia, 1941; approach of the front; air-raids; escape to Uzbekistan, 1941; move to a kolkhoz to work in cotton picking for several months; move to Kassansay; studies in a Soviet school; Her return with the family after the end...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tamara (Beilin) Berkovitz, born in Mstislavl, Belorussia in 1927, regarding her experiences in Mstislavl and in hiding in villages

Testimony of Tamara (Beilin) Berkovitz, born in Mstislavl, Belorussia in 1927, regarding her experiences in Mstislavl and in hiding in villages Her family escapes from Mstislavl, 22 June 1941; escape back to Mstislavl, a week later; abuse and rape of young and old women by the Germans; concentration of the Jews in the Technikum; murder of the Jews in killing pits; escape during the murder; wanderings; finding a hiding place in villages among soldiers and partisans, 1941-1945; Move to Moscow, May 1945; life in Moscow; return to Poland; aliya to Israel, 1956; move to Kibbutz Nir David, 1958; death in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nina Reznik Sterniak, born in 1931 in Kupel, Soviet Union, about the Proskurov and Zhmerinka ghettos

Testimony

Testimony of Nina Reznik Sterniak, born in 1931 in Kupel, Soviet Union, about the Proskurov and Zhmerinka ghettos Childhood before the war; German occupation ensues in July 1941; Romanian occupation ensues in autumn 1941; Proskurov ghetto established; life in the ghetto; family members die in pogroms in November 1941; witness escapes on eve of liquidation of ghetto in autumn 1942; hides with a local woman; sent on to the Zhmerinka ghetto with help of the woman who concealed her; liberated in 1944; reestablishes life after the war; immigrates to Israel in 1991.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Gershon Volkovitz, born in 1930 in Kalisz, Poland, about his experiences as a boy in Kalisz, escape to Rowne, evacuation to the Ural region, and wandering through the Soviet Union with his mother and alone during the war

Life before the war; offspring of an affluent traditional Zionist family; attends a Hebrew gymnasium; war breaks out in 1939 and father escapes; witness escapes with his mother by motor vehicle toward Warsaw and thence to the Soviet frontier; escape to Rowne; reuniting with father; evacuation to the Soviet interior in early 1941; leaving Rostov in summer 1941; wandering; hunger en route to the Ural region; living in the Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan; hunger; mother dies in 1943; placed with aunt; placed in a Polish orphanage in Andizhan; escaping from the orphanage; wandering across Russia; unsuccessful attempt to...

File Number : 13644

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chava (Komorovski) Weinstein, born in Cornesti, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Cornesti, the Bershad Ghetto, in the partisans, in Vinnitsa, Sverdlovsk and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Chava (Komorovski) Weinstein, born in Cornesti, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Cornesti, the Bershad Ghetto, in the partisans, in Vinnitsa, Sverdlovsk and other places Pogrom in Cornesti, 1938. Life under Soviet rule, 1940; escape to the Soviet Union before the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, June 1941; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Bershad Ghetto; escape from the ghetto; joins the Soviet partisans in the forests in the vicinity, 1941; life in the partisans; move to Vinnitsa, 1941; life in Vinnitsa including work; move to the Caucasus region; life in the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Feldman, born in 1932 in Rozan, Poland, about escaping to Russia and a labor camp in Siberia, 1940–1944

Childhood; antisemitism before the war; war breaks out in 1939; Germans arrive; Jewish townspeople evicted; physical abuse and murder of the town's ritual slaughterer; reaching Maków Mazowiecki; men inducted for forced labor and murdered; escaping from the city; hiding out during the day; walking at night toward the Soviet border; bribing the Polish border guards; reaching Białystok; lack of solidarity on the part of the Jewish townspeople; grandmother dies; unsuccessful attempts to trace father, who remained in Warsaw; refugees deported to Siberia: a month and a half of travel by rail; many die; cases of...

File Number : 13664

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Mera (Goltz) Deutch, born in Dolhinow, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in Dolhinow, the Dolhinow Ghetto, in hiding in forests, in Kazakhstan and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Mera (Goltz) Deutch, born in Dolhinow, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in Dolhinow, the Dolhinow Ghetto, in hiding in forests, in Kazakhstan and other places Life under Soviet occupation, 1939; German Army occupation of Dolhinow, 1941; murder of Jews; transfer of a letter to relatives in Oszmiana by a German soldier; rumors regarding the murder of Jews in nearby towns; kidnapping of her father, for labor; escape of her father; establishment of a Judenrat; construction of a hiding place in their cellar; her family hides in the hiding place during an "Aktion"; establishment of the...

File Number : 13441

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shalom Koldra Kol, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Siberia, Tashkent and Eretz Israel in the context of the "Teheran Children"

Testimony

Testimony of Shalom Koldra Kol, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Siberia, Tashkent and Eretz Israel in the context of the "Teheran Children" German Army occupation of Warsaw, 1939; draft of his father into the Polish Army; escape to the Soviet Union with his mother and siblings, 1940; life in various camps in Siberia; death of his mother from hunger and disease; wanderings with his four siblings in various cities in Siberia including begging for charity and food; move to Tashkent along with other refugees, 1942; receives food in a Polish Catholic monastery in exchange for...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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