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Testimony of Shmuel Nutovits, born in Zdenovo, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Tacovo Ghetto and performing forced labor in camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Nutovits, born in Zdenovo, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Tacovo Ghetto and performing forced labor in camps From a religious family with many children; joins a cantorial choir and works to support himself at a young age; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of the war and move to Tacovo where his grandparents lived; deportation to the Tacovo Ghetto, March-April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz and from there to labor in IG Farben factories, May 1944; transfer to the Birkenau camp; death march towards Buchenwald, January 1945; forced labor in a coal mine; liberation from...

File Number : 10633

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

P.75 - Rachel Minc collection

P.75 - Rachel Minc collection Rachel Minc (born in Lodz, Poland, in 1899 and died in 1978) is a Polish-born French Jewish educator and writer who worked for the rescue of Jewish children during the Second World War. She studied educational psychology and pedagogy in Berlin, and then in the Scandinavian countries, where she met the anti-fascist pedagogue Minna Specht, founder, with Leonard Nelson, of the German resistance movement to Nazism, the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). This movement was banned by the Nazis in 1933 and after the war allied with the German Social Democratic...