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Memoirs of Kalman Mnuskin, born in Zetel, Poland, and his cousin, Miriam (Mnuskin) Noi, born in Zetel, Poland, 1941, regarding their experiences in hiding in the Zetel Ghetto and the Puszcza Bialowieska forest - "About Zetel During World War II", memoirs of Kalman Mnuskin (cousin of Miriam [Mnuskin] Noi): Life in Zetel during the German occupation; preparation of hiding places in the Zetel Ghetto by the Mnuskin brothers, Shmuel (Mulka) and Shleimka; escape to his uncle's hiding place; escape to the Puszcza Bialowieska forest. - Memoirs of Miriam (Mnuskin) Noi: Life in hiding in the Zetel Ghetto;...

File Number : 8553

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Letter written by Matvey Perlin, an Intelligence soldier in the Red Army, to Ilya Ehrenburg regarding the murder of Jews in Belzec and concerning meetings [with Jews] in the family camps [in the forest] Matvey Perlin, the soldier, tells of Belzec: Jews were sent there as it were for forced labor, and they did not return; Perlin discovered that their clothing was found among the items brought to the camp in Lwow from the "Death Factory"; in May 1943 Belzec was bombed by the Red Army and the British Army, afterwards the Germans built a camp similar to Novy Dvor. Perlin met a group of Jews who had been...

File Number : 154

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Elisha Roshkin, born in 1936 in Zdzieciol, Poland, about his experiences as a boy in the Zdzieciol ghetto, in hiding in a bunker, and with the partisans in the forests until 1944

Life before the war; parents belong to the Hashomer Hatzair movement; German occupation ensues in June 1941; establishment of the ghetto; attempts to go into hiding with non-Jewish acquaintances; Aktion and murder of grandparents and sister in a killing trench; aunt escapes from the trench; building a bunker under the house for seventy people; father's relations with non-Jews and acquisition of weapons from them; father and uncles escape to the forests in March 1942; joining a Soviet partisan unit near the Niemen River; father murdered by a non-Jewsh villager; German manhunts in the forests; sustains a head...

File Number : 13521

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 Asher Yona Rutenshtein, born in 1937 in Ocsod, Hungary, about his experiences as a boy in the Szarvas and Szolnok ghettos, the Strasshof camp, and another camp during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; antisemitism; German occupation; wearing the yellow star; promulgation of anti-Jewish laws; valuables confiscated; deportation to the Szarvas ghetto; deportation to the Szolnok ghetto; life of terror and fear; deportation to the Strasshof camp; transfer to another camp; farm labor; taken back to Strasshof; surviving bombardments; liberated by Red Army forces in 1945; back to Hungary; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1956; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13641

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of partisans from the Za Sovetskuyu Belorus brigade, active in the Baranovichi region, 1942-1944

File Number : 3462.122

Type of Material : List of Partisans

Language : Russian

List of partisans from the Leninskaya brigade, active in the Baranovichi region, 1942-1944

File Number : 3462.106

Type of Material : List of Partisans

Language : Russian

List of partisans from the Leninskaya brigade, active in the Baranovichi region, 1942-1944

File Number : 3462.105

Type of Material : List of Partisans

Language : Russian

Testimony of Israel Srulik Shifron Piernikow, born in Mir, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Mir Ghetto, in the forests in the Mir area and in the camp of the Bielski brothers in the Naliboki forest

Testimony

Testimony of Israel Srulik Shifron Piernikow, born in Mir, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Mir Ghetto, in the forests in the Mir area and in the Bielski brothers' camp in the Naliboki forest Childhood in Mir; Hashomer Hatzair activities; rise in antisemitism, from 1937. Occupation of Mir by the Red Army, 1939; cessation of Zionist activity; arrival of refugees to Mir; German occupation of Mir, June 1941; burning of most of the homes in Mir; life together with other families in a wood storage shed; being informed on; murder of about 200 Jews accused of Communist activity; life under the...

File Number : 13274

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shachar Josef born in Beograd Yugoslavia 1938.

Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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