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Part two of the memoirs of Folya Bonfeld, a Holocaust survivor from Uman

Part two of the memoirs of Folya Bonfeld, a Holocaust survivor from Uman In her memoirs, Folya Bonfeld tells about the death of her husband; loss of contact with her children who are [serving] in the Red Army; her life in hiding while hidden by neighbors and friends in Uman; she hides that she is of Jewish origin; her "cover story", that she is a Ukrainian woman and a refugee from Voronezh; she receives forged documents with the name of Olga Mirskaya-Boretskaya; her life and work while using a false name; her return to Uman, following the liberation of the city, 10 April 1944; renewal of contact with her...

File Number : 20

Type of Material : Names of Rescuers, Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Josef Giuseppe Gabai, born in Livorno, Italy, 1935, regarding his experiences in Livorno, Vinci, in hiding and in Florence

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Giuseppe Gabai, born in Livorno, Italy, 1935, regarding his experiences in Livorno, Vinci, in hiding and in Florence Emigration of his parents from Turkey; lack of earning a livelihood. Allied air-raids on Livorno, 1942; escape; they take shelter in the cemetery; escape to villages in a convoy of refugees; life as the only Jewish family in Vinci; detention by the fascist police force; detention in the Villa la Silva prison along with Italian partisans; release of the inmates by [other] partisans; in hiding while hidden by villagers; wanderings while using a Christian identity; retreat...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of David Frimer during the Holocaust

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of David Frimer during the Holocaust David Frimer, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1931: Occupation of Poland by the German Army; escape to Lublin without his family; in hiding in a Polish monastery in Bezwola, near Lublin, from December 1939 until the liberation. Return home; move to the Foehrenwald DP camp, November 1945; shooting deaths of his parents by Germans probably in Warsaw, 1939; death of one sister in Auschwitz; fate of one brother is unknown; survival of one sister and two brothers.

File Number : 207

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Record of Survivors, Record of Murdered Persons

Language : English

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Netka Goldberg during the Holocaust

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Netka Goldberg during the Holocaust Netka Goldberg, born in Czortkow, Poland, 1928: Deportation to Buczacz with her family, 1942; mass executions in Buczacz, including the shooting of her mother, three sisters and two brothers; survival of Netka Goldberg; move with her father to Zalesczik (?); murder of her father by Ukrainian police; return to Jazlowiecz (?); life with her cousins in Jazlowiecz (?); murder of her cousins by Ukrainian SS troopers; in hiding in the forest and later in Parchowo; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Jazlowiec (?) and Gleiwitz;...

File Number : 174

Type of Material : Record of Survivors, Questionnaire, Record of Murdered Persons

Language : English

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Jehuda Hanc during the Holocaust

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Jehuda Hanc during the Holocaust Jehuda Hanc, born in Komarniki, Poland, 1930: Deportation to the Turka Ghetto with his entire family, August 1941; deportation of the other members of his family to the Majdanek concentration camp; deaths of all the members of the family at Majdanek; escape from the ghetto; return to Komarniki; hidden by a Polish farmer; detention in Turka, 1942; escape; life with a Polish farmer in Zawadowka; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Turka; reunion with his cousin (Aaron Hanc); arrival at the Wolfratshausen-Foehrenwald DP camp,...

File Number : 94

Type of Material : Record of Deportees, Record of Survivors, Record of Murdered Persons, Questionnaire

Language : English

Memoirs of Yakov Polishchuk, born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1923, regarding his experiences in Kiev, in a POW camp in Brovary, in hiding in Zazimnye, under a false identity in Kunsdorf and more

Memoirs of Yakov Polishchuk, born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1923, regarding his experiences in Kiev, in a POW camp in Brovary, in hiding in Zazimnye, under a false identity in Kunsdorf and more Outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union in June 1941; the fate of his family members in the army and in the evacuation; participation in the defense of Kiev; the German occupation on 18 September 1941; capture by the Germans; life in a POW camp in Brovary; selection and murder of Jews and Communists; escape and finding a hiding place in the area; finding a hiding place in Zazimnye with a Ukrainian; escape in...

File Number : 5736

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Yakov Finkelberg regarding his experiences in the Red Army in Lvov and Kiev, in captivity in Smela camp, serving with the partisans and more

Memoirs of Yakov Finkelberg regarding his experiences in the Red Army in Lvov and Kiev, in captivity in Smela camp, serving with the partisans and more Life before the war; conscription into the Red Army on 21 May 1941; life in the army in Lvov; outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union in June 1941; wounded on 29 June 1941 and life in a hospital in Kiev; transfer to Novograd Volynskiy; wounded and captured on 23 September 1941; murder of Jewish and Communist prisoners; hiding his Jewish origin; life in Cherkassy; brutality of Ukrainian policemen towards the Jewish captives; transfer to Smela;...

File Number : 5231

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Galina (Yulin) Mamchich, born in Talnoye, Ukraine in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in Talnoye

Memoirs of Galina (Yulin) Mamchich, born in Talnoye, Ukraine in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in Talnoye Murder of Jews from Talnoye in Belashki at the beginning of the war; transfer with the Jews to the murder site and escape with the help of a Ukrainian friend on the way to the murder site; hidden by the Ukrainian socialite Tatiyana in the family home; interrogations and beatings of Tatiyana by the Germans; help of the neighbors in concealing the Jewish origin of the witness and her brother; liberation by the Red Army on 8 March 1944; commemorating the victims of the Holocaust in...

File Number : 5228

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Vladimir Shatzman, born in Daugavpils, Latvia in 1936, regarding his experiences while serving with the partisans in the Kobrin district, in the Bereznyaki region, in the Luninets district, in the Red Army in Gomel and more Life in the Red Army at the beginning of the war; taken captive on 29 July 1941; hiding his Jewish origin; escape from Byala Podlyaska POW camp on 14 September 1941; finding hiding places in Byala Podlyaska until August 1942; escape across the Bug River; capture by Ukrainian policemen; escape to various places; joining the partisans in the Kobrin district; activities of the...

File Number : 5020

Type of Material : Letter, Certification, Diary, Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs

Language : Russian

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