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Memoirs of Mikhail Munish Spivak, born in Zhmerinka, Ukraine in 1929, regarding his experiences in the Zhmerinka Ghetto

Memoirs of Mikhail Munish Spivak, born in Zhmerinka, Ukraine in 1929, regarding his experiences in the Zhmerinka Ghetto Life before the war; conscription of his father into the Red Army at the beginning of the war; the German occupation on 17 July 1941; expulsion of the Jews to the ghetto; betrayal of Anya, a Jewish woman, by her Ukrainian husband; beating of his mother by Gershman, the head of the Judenrat; smuggling from the ghetto; work outside the ghetto; the liberation of Zhmerinka on 18 March 1944; move to Mikhaylovka; antisemitism; establishment of the Zionist youth organization Einikeit in December...

File Number : 5304

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian