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Memoirs of Yshai Tartakovski, born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier in Dnepropetrovsk, the Mogilev area, in hiding in Igren, in captivity in Traidersdorf and more Life in Dnepropetrovsk including being drafted into the Red Army, 1940; transfer to Moscow, October 1940; transfer to a military village in the Kalinin area; transfer to Vyshny Volochyok; transfer to Pukhovichi; outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union and Germany and transfer with the headquarters staff to a forest; transfer in the direction of the front on foot; execution of a captured German...

File Number : 8565

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Bela Arshavski, born in Gadyach, Ukraine, 1921, regarding her experiences in Gadyach, as a Red Army soldier in Alekseyevka, a captive of the German Army and using a false identity in the villages of Ukraine Life in Gadyach at the outbreak of the war; drafted to the Red Army as a medical nurse; retreat after the Red Army [?]; correspondence with her family which had been evacuated to Uzbekistan; transfer to Alekseyevka with her battalion; air-raids; encounter with the German Army; killing of all the soldiers in the battalion except her and another physician; hiding of their personal documents and...

File Number : 8550

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Two letters written by the Goldberg brothers; letter from Aleksandr Shapiro regarding German captivity, his escape and return to the Red Army

Two letters written by the Goldberg brothers; letter from Aleksandr Shapiro regarding German captivity, his escape and return to the Red Army Letters from the political officer, M. Goldberg and his brother B. Goldberg who has enlisted in the Red Army and requests to be sent to the front. Letter from Aleksandr Shapiro from Dnepropetrovsk regarding his escape from German captivity; Aleksandr Shapiro fought and advanced at the front until 21 September 1941 when his unit was surrounded and he was taken captive; a group of Jewish soldiers was separated from the other captives immediately and ordered to dig a...

File Number : 185

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Mordechai Markel Tabakman, born in Zabcze, Poland, 1907, regarding his experiences in Miedzyrzecz, Bydgoszcz, the Polish Army, Brzesc, Stalingrad and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Markel Tabakman, born in Zabcze, Poland, 1907, regarding his experiences in Miedzyrzecz, Bydgoszcz, the Polish Army, Brzesc, Stalingrad and other places His childhood in a traditional family; death of his mother; move of his family to Miedzyrzecz; learns in a Talmud Torah; Zionist activities; draft into the Polish Army; death of his father, 1933; release from the military; move to Bydgoszcz, 1936; antisemitism before the war; draft into the Polish Army Reserves. German Army occupation of Bydgoszcz, 1939; escape from captivity; move back to Bydgoszcz; escape to Brzesc; life in Brzesc...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Mikhelashvili, born in Kulashi, Georgia, 1919, regarding his experiences in labor camps, using a false identity in Ukraine, with the partisans, as a Red Army soldier in Warsaw and Berlin Life before the war; attends public school and learns to be a shoemaker; enlists in the Red Army; army life including transfer to Vladimir Volynskiy. Outbreak of the war; capture by the German Army; transfer to four labor camps and escape; life using a false identity in Ukraine; joins the partisans; escape to the Red Army; army life including officers' training course; active combat in Warsaw, near the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Henri Klein, born in Mulhouse, France, 1914: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Henri Klein, born in Mulhouse, France, 1914: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in Paris before the war; learns in the Talmud Torah rabbinical school; move to Strasbourg with his family; move to Vichy with his family; completes his military service. Outbreak of the war; taken captive; escape from Germany; joins the Maquis with his cousin, Rabbi Sammy Klein and Andre Elbogen, 1940; handed over to the Gestapo at the Saint Etienne railroad station by an underground contact person; executed by shooting, 07 July 1944. End of the war; re-interment at...

File Number : 78

Type of Material : Photograph, Personal Documents, Letter of Testimony

Language : French

Testimony of Semion Krivosheev, born in Gomel, Belorussia, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Red Army in the Soviet Air Force and as a POW in German captivity

Testimony

Testimony of Semion Krivosheev, born in Gomel, Belorussia, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Red Army in the Soviet Air Force and as a POW in German captivity Draft into the Red Army with the outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 22 June 1941; training in a short pilot's course in the Red Army Air Force school in Gomel and Novokhopersk; combat in battalion 810 of the 225 aircraft bomber brigade as a machine gunner in IL-2 fighter aircraft; bombs the German forward positions and German airfields; shoots down seven German fighter aircraft; witness is shot down, parachutes to the enemy's...

File Number : 6583

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Fiodor Babitz, born in Peschanka, Ukraine, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, as a POW in German captivity and as a forced laborer in Altenburg

Testimony

Testimony of Fiodor Babitz, born in Peschanka, Ukraine, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, as a POW in German captivity and as a forced laborer in Altenburg Merchant family with four children; attends a "heder" and a Jewish school; completion of a technical school in Kharkov. Drafted into the Red Army; military service on the Polish border; taken into German captivity, October 1940; escape from the POW camp to Lubny; forced labor in agriculture; capture and transfer to forced labor in Altenburg, autumn 1942; liberation, March 1945.

File Number : 5458

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of David Kushnir, born in Rybnitsa, Ukraine, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Red Army in Donbass, a Romanian POW, in hiding and in the Caucas region

Testimony

Testimony of David Kushnir, born in Rybnitsa, Ukraine, 1920, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier in Donbass, a Romanian POW, in hiding and in the Caucasus region Drafted into the Red Army, 1940; Red Army life including retreat, June 1941; army life in Donbass included being wounded and taken captive by the Romanian Army; life in a POW camp; escape and hidden by farmers in the area; escape to the Caucasus region, 1942.

File Number : 4408

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Shmul Brovtman, born in Slavuta, Ukraine, 1919, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier, a German POW and in Heddernheim

Testimony

Testimony of Shmul Brovtman, born in Slavuta, Ukraine, 1919, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier, a German POW and in Heddernheim Life before the war. Drafted into the Red Army, 1939; life as a Red Army soldier including combat against the German Army; wounded and taken captive by the German Army; transfer to a POW camp; escape to a village in the area; deportation to Heddernheim, autumn 1942; camp life; liberation by the US Army, April 1945. Move to the Soviet Union, May 1945.

File Number : 4390

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

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