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Testimony of Joseph Viner, born in Gradki, Poland, in 1932, regarding his experiences in the ‎deportation to Sine Waly estate, escape and hiding among farmers and in the forest‎

Testimony of Joseph Viner, born in Gradki, Poland, in 1932, regarding his experiences in the ‎deportation to Sine Waly estate, escape and hiding among farmers and in the forest‎ His childhood in a rural community; annexation to the Soviet Union in 1939; the German ‎occupation in June 1941; his expulsion from school; deportation to Sine Waly estate; escape and ‎hiding in the forest and with farmers in summer 1942; meeting his father and moving to a families ‎camp in the forest in autumn 1942; attack by a gang of Ukrainians; his father murdered and Joseph ‎injured; move to Dubno under a borrowed identity in...

File Number : 13682

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Mudrik, born in 1932 in Dombrowice, Poland, about his experiences in the Dombrowice ghetto, in a family camp in the forests of Belorussia, and in the marsh area near Pinsk

Offspring of an Orthodox religious family in Dombrowice; attends a Hebrew-speaking Tarbut school; Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; commerce nationalized; Hebrew as language of instruction is replaced with Yiddish; German occupation ensues in June 1941; banished to Dombrowice ghetto; dispossession and shunning imposed by rabbis of Dombrowice against those refusing to surrender their property; Jews in the ghetto rounded up and sent toward a railroad station; witness and family escape from the deportation convoy into a nearby forest; a group of families forms; life in the family camp in Belorussia; witness's...

File Number : 13498

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Towa (Awruch) Feit, born in Maniewicze, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Maniewicze Ghetto, in hiding and under the protection of the partisans in the forest

Testimony

Testimony of Towa (Awruch) Feit, born in Maniewicze, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Maniewicze Ghetto, in hiding and under the protection of the partisans in the forest From a traditional family; her father owns a grocery store; her father's death. German occupation, September 1941; restrictions on the Jews including yellow badge; deportation to the Maniewicze ghetto; ghetto life including an "Aktion" and murder of men, August 1941; "Aktion" and escape with her mother, sister and another woman, September 1942; rumors about the murder of Jews; finds a hiding place in the home of...

File Number : 12961

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Cohen Gor, born in Wola Otalezka, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Wola Otalezka, Mielec, Pustkow, Majdanek, in hiding and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Cohen Gur, born in Wola Otalezka, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Wola Otalezka, Mielec, Pustkow, Majdanek, in hiding and with the partisans Life with his grandfather before the war; learns in a "heder" and a Polish school where he is the only Jew. Outbreak of the war; burning of the Jewish community leaders in the slaughterhouse; escape to Mielec; deportation to Pustkow, December 1939; camp life; labor as a Kapo; escape to the family home, December 1940; deportation to Majdanek; camp life including construction of the camp; escape; rescue by Polish friends of his...

File Number : 12856

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Katz, born in Dzwiniacz Gorny, 1922, regarding his experiences in Malynsk, the Berezne Ghetto, Kostopol camp and with the partisans in the area

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Katz, born in Dzwiniacz Gorny, 1922, regarding his experiences in Malynsk, the Berezne Ghetto, Kostopol camp and with the partisans in the area Childhood in Dzwiniacz Gorny; move to Turka, 1933; work as a teacher of Jewish children in the villages in the area until 1937. German occupation, 1939; escape to Tarnawa Nizna; evacuation of residents of the area by the Red Army, March 1940; move to Malynsk; German occupation, June 1941; labor repairing railroad lines; confiscation of property; deportation to the Berezne Ghetto, summer 1942; deportation of the men to Kostopol labor camp;...

File Number : 12596

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Raya (Kaplinski) Kalmanovitz, born in Nowogródek, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in Nowogródek, a ghetto and with the partisans in the area

Testimony

Testimony of Raya (Kaplinski) Kalmanovitz, born in Nowogródek, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in Nowogródek, a ghetto and with the partisans in the area Well-to-do Zionist family; annexation to the Soviet Union, 1939; nationalization of the family's business; work as a lab technician in Lida; deportation of the rest of the family to the interior of the Soviet Union; German occupation, June 1941; return home; decrees; the first "Aktion", winter 1941; deportation to a ghetto; labor cleaning the Germans houses; the second "Aktion", summer 1942; labor sewing; sneaking back into the ghetto; contact with...

File Number : 12605

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lova (Kaplinski) Rodnitzki, born in Nowogrodek, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in Nowogrodek, the Nowogrodek Ghetto, in hiding in a forest and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Lova (Kaplinski) Rodnitzki, born in Nowogrodek, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in Nowogrodek, the Nowogrodek Ghetto, in hiding in a forest and with the partisans Childhood in a Zionist family; attends a Tarbut school, a Polish high school and the Vilna University; marriage, 1939. Annexation to the Soviet Union; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Nowogrodek Ghetto; capture of her parents and sister during the large "Aktion"; ghetto life; labor as a dental assistant outside the ghetto; "Aktion", August 1942; in hiding outside the ghetto: capture; transfer to the ghetto for...

File Number : 12556

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Robert Rubenov on the Kailaka concentration camp and his partisan sister Mati Rubenova

Memoirs of Robert Rubenov on the Kailaka concentration camp and his partisan sister Mati Rubenova Memoirs of Rubenov on the deportation of family to Yambol and arrests, April 1944; deportation of family members to Kailaka camp and Tabakova Cheshma camp, 01 July 1944; life in Kailaka including instances of abuse by the manager Zimriev Liuben and the raging fire during the night of 01 July 1944; move to Pleven; memoirs of the life and death of his sister, 05 September 1944.

File Number : 266

Type of Material : Survey

Language : Bulgarian

Testimony of Yehuda Gesik, born in Turzec, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Turzec, Swierzen camp and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Gesik, born in Turzec, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Turzec, Swierzen camp and with the partisans Traditional family, owners of a grocery store; attends an elementary school and learns in the Mir Yeshiva; help to earn the family's livelihood. Unsuccessful attempt to escape to Lithuania with the outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union; life under Soviet occupation; German occupation; life in Turzec including forced labor and "Aktions"; transfer to a labor camp in Swierzen, November 1941; camp life including forced labor in a sawmill; escape to forests in the...

File Number : 8039

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lazar Bromberg, born in Swarycewicze, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in the partisans ranks in forests

Testimony of Lazar Bromberg, born in Swarycewicze, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in the partisans ranks in forests Escape from the Germans to Kiev, 1941; move to Rokitno with a weapon and using forged documents, two weeks later; work as an assistant forester, for two months; informed on regarding his Jewish origin; escape to forests in the Rowne district with six Soviet POWs who had escaped from German captivity; he stays in the forests until summer 1942; joined by his sister, brother and wife; escape of 180 Jews from the Sierniki Ghetto, to the forests; contact with Soviet paratroopers, late 1942,...

File Number : 439

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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