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Testimony of Elisheva (Lindenberg) Pat, born in Lwow, Poland, 1941, regarding her experiences as a baby using a false identity in Bochnia and with a Polish foster mother

Testimony

Testimony of Elisheva (Lindenberg) Pat, born in Lwow, Poland, 1941, regarding her experiences as a baby using a false identity in Bochnia and with a Polish foster mother Smuggled with her mother by a Polish train worker from the Lwow Ghetto to Bochnia; life using a false identity; hidden by the train worker in his house in exchange for money; her mother is turned in by the train worker and her murder; witness is fostered by Kielbasa Maria Dyrdal, a Polish woman merchant ; life in a village; liberation. Move to Bystrzyce; move to Tarnow, 1947; attends a Catholic school; arrest of her foster mother for...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Maria Kielbasa, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Poland, 1897, regarding her experiences as a Polish woman in Koczanow, wanderings in Kielce and Krakow

Testimony

Testimony of Maria Kielbasa, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Poland, 1897, regarding her experiences as a Polish woman in Koczanow, wanderings in Kielce and Krakow Life before the war. German occupation; adopting a child in Koczanow; wanderings as a peddler in Kielce; wanderings as a peddler in Krakow; liberation. Displays of antisemitism; transferring the child and two orphans to Israel; recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.

File Number : 2978

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Letters sent by Maria Drydal Kielbasa and Adelaide Hautval, two Righteous Among the Nations, to the Hollander Headquarters of the Tel Aviv branch of the Collection of Witness Testimony Department, 1966-1969 - Letter sent by Maria Dyrdal Kielbasa from Poland to the Hollander Headquarters of the Tel Aviv branch of the Collection of Witness Testimony Department after the Six Days War, expressing concern for the children whom she saved in Poland who had made aliya to Israel; - Letter sent by Adelaide Hautval from France expressing disgust at the embargo imposed by the French government on warships Israel...

File Number : 112

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, French