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Testimony of Chagay Pesach Geri Gerges, born in Alexandrja, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in a kolkhoz and in Karaganda in the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Chagay Pesach Geri Gerges, born in Alexandrja, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in a kolkhoz and in Karaganda in the Soviet Union Childhood in a liberal, religious, Zionist home in a Zionist town; youth group and Keren Hayesod activities; relations with the local Ukrainian population. Soviet occupation, 17 September, 1939; pogrom by the Ukrainians; organized Jewish defense, 14 April 1940; deportation to eastern Soviet Union by the NKVD; labor in a kolkhoz in Pririchuno; keeping kosher and observing religious holidays; hard labor of his father in a coal mine in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sala (Langsam) Glass, born in Debow, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Debow, in hiding, Siberia, Kuibyshev and Dzhambul

Testimony

Testimony of Sala (Langsam) Glass, born in Debow, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Debow, in hiding, Siberia, Kuibyshev and Dzhambul Life in Debow before the war; traditional family; attends a state school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; receives a warning from a soldier regarding the Jews' future; illegally crosses the border including crossing the San River; life in closed structures; illegally crosses the border back to Poland; move by her sisters and a male cousin to a hiding place in the home of Wladyslaw and Maria Fjuzik; life in hiding in the home's attic; receives offer of Soviet...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Kuperschmidt) Verbner, born in Dzikow, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Dzikow, Siberia, Samarkand, her aliya to Eretz Israel with the Teheran Children, 1943 and more Life before the war; from a religious, Orthodox family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation to Siberia with her family; life in Siberia; her parents' work logging trees; contracting various illnesses; observing Jewish holidays; holding prayer services; life alongside Soviet criminals; move to Samarkand; life in Samarkand; gathering of children in order to send them on aliya to Eretz Israel as part of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Sanderovitz Zur, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Siauliai Ghetto and in hiding in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Sanderovitz Zur, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Siauliai Ghetto and in hiding in a forest Life in Siauliai before the war; from a Zionist family; attends a Jewish elementary school and a Jewish high school; Hashomer Hatzair activities; his sister’s aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936. Soviet occupation, 1940; closing of Jewish institutions; deportation of well-to-do people to Siberia; establishment of a Zionist underground; nationalization of Jewish enterprises; appointment as manager of a company; verbal antisemitism on the part of the Lithuanians; German...

File Number : 12831

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

2 גלויות שכתבה לובה שנפלד זנמירובסקה Luba Szenfeld Znamirowska מגטו Warsaw המשפחה חייה ברחוב Siena 18/18 ברחו מהגטו.

Postcards sent to Dorota Szenfeld by Luba (Szenfeld) Znamirowska from the Warsaw Ghetto The postcard is addressed to the deportees barracks [?] in the Veliko Ustiug district, the Vologda region; the family is staying at 18/18 Siena Street, and they escaped from the [Warsaw?] Ghetto.

File Number : 1188

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Polish

Testimony of Aba Mydlarz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army in Vilna, Bialystok, Siberia, Sambor and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Aba Mydlarz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army in Vilna, Bialystok, Siberia, Sambor and other places Family with many children; his father is a shoemaker and owns a shoe store; witness attends an elementary school and an ORT school; draft into the regular Polish Army in Vilna, February 1939. Surrender of the Polish Army, September 1939; escape home; escape to the East; move to Bialystok via Lwow; arrest by the NKVD, December 1939; deportation to Siberia; camp life including labor logging trees; release, September 1941; life in Sambor including work in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Shprung, born in Ulanow, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Siberia and Tobolsk

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Shprung, born in Ulanow, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Siberia and Tobolsk Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; move of his father to the Soviet occupied area, 1940; detention of his father on suspicion of being a spy for the Germans; illegally crosses the border with his mother; activities to release his father; release of his father; exile of the family to Siberia; life in Siberia and labor of his father logging trees in the forests; transfer to Tobolsk; detention of his parents, 1942; life in an orphanage until 1944; release of his parents; move of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sacher Gruenbaum, born in Dynow, Poland, 1926, regarding the experiences of the Dynow Jewish community and his own experiences in Dynow, in hiding in a village near Bircza and in Rzeszow camp Riots, and the murder of 170 Jews of Dynow including his father and Jewish refugees, on Rosh Hashana [14-15 September 1939], several days after the German occupation; deportation of the Jews of Dynow via the San River to the Soviet side, on Sukkot [28 September-04 October] 1939; in hiding with his brother in a village near Bircza; concentration in Bircza of all the Jews from the surrounding area, late July...

File Number : 415

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Regina Landau, born in Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Lancut and in hiding in Pelkinie

Testimony of Regina Landau, born in Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Lancut and in hiding in Pelkinie Publication of an order for the deportation of all the Jews of Lancut to the other side of the San River, September 1939; decision by the family to remain in Lancut; order by the Gestapo to immediately depart, under the threat of punishment by death, the next day; move to Husow; stay with a farmer in exchange of a payment, for one week; arrival of the Gestapo, by invitation of the local farmers; deportation of the Jews who were in hiding; return to Lancut, and permission from the Germans to remain...

File Number : 329

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Zalmen Bialostocki, born in Bialystok, regarding the fate of the Bialystok Jews in Pavlodar

Testimony of Zalmen Bialostocki, born in Bialystok, regarding the fate of the Bialystok Jews in Pavlodar Presence of approximately 100 Jews from Bialystok in Pavlodar during the war; deportation of the Jews by the Soviet authorities, 13 April 1940; names of the Jews who survived in Pavlodar; names of the Jews who perished.

File Number : 347

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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