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Testimony of Aron Lach, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Bialystok and as a partisan

Testimony of Aron Lach, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Bialystok and as a partisan Extermination of the Jews in the outlying area of Bialystok, 02 November 1942; extensive participation by Hashomer Hatzair members in the uprising movement in Bialystok; names of members of the movement including their assignments; "Aktion" in Bialystok; reinforcement of the transfers of fighters to the forests and the partisans; establishment of a Jewish fighting organization by members of the parties; names of the members of the organization including Mordechai Tenenbam and Haike Grosman, the...

File Number : 360

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Rozen regarding the life of Edek Boraks and his activities in the Jewish underground in the Warsaw, Vilna and Bialystok Ghettos during the German occupation of Poland, dated 20 February 1945 Activities of Edek Boraks in the underground organizations in Vilna before 1941; attempts to establish an underground after the occupation of Vilna by the Germans; help to the Jews in the ghetto; rescue attempts and smuggling of people to the Aryan side; work as a courier between the ghetto and the Aryan side; cooperation with Haike Grossman and Abba Kovner; attempts to establish a resistance movement in the...

File Number : 332

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Avraham Lipcher, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and life in a forest as a partisan

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Lipcher, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and life in a forest as a partisan Life before the war. Establishment of the Bialystok Ghetto; ghetto life; getting organized including obtaining weapons; departs to a forest outside Bialystok; life in the forest; combat; contact with Soviet partisans.

File Number : 10306

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Liza Chapnik, born in Grodno, 1922, regarding her experiences in Grodno, Bialystok, in hiding and with the underground

Testimony

Testimony of Liza Chapnik, born in Grodno, 1922, regarding her experiences in Grodno, Bialystok, in hiding and with the underground Escape from Grodno, June 1941; caught by the Germans in Stolpce; transfer to Baranowicze and Dereczyn; in Bialystok using forged documents, November 1942; makes contact with the underground in the ghetto; return to the Grodno Ghetto, February 1943; takes her niece out from the ghetto; return to Bialystok; makes contact with a non-Jewish underground group; supplies essential goods to the Jewish partisan unit "Forojs" (Forward); "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, August 1943;...

File Number : 9924

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of David Gor, born in Okany, 1926, regarding his experiences in Budapest and his underground activities

Testimony

Testimony of David Gor, born in Okany, 1926, regarding his experiences in Budapest and his underground activities From an assimilated family; his grandparents are traditional; father is a merchant; move with the family to Veszto at the age of 10; anti-Jewish legislation, 1938; restrictions on earning a livelihood; his father is unemployed; completion of his high school studies and travel to Budapest to find work; joins a Zionist movement within the framework of the Jewish National Fund, JNF; joins Hashomer Hatzair, which operates clandestinely, 1943; learns the construction trade; displays of antisemitism....

File Number : 9608

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haika Grosman, born in Bialystok, 1919, regarding her experiences in the underground in the Bialystok Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Haika Grosman, born in Bialystok, 1919, regarding her experiences in the underground in the Bialystok Ghetto A traditional home; studying in a Hebrew high school; member of Hashomer Hatzair youth movement; Zionist activities; life in Kaunas and Vilna, 1939-1941; information on Hashomer Hatzair B's underground leadership during the Soviet occupation; living on the Aryan side in Vilna, 1941-1942; active in the Hashomer Hatzair underground and later in the FPO; move to the Bialystok Ghetto as a base, January 1942; traveling and visiting the Warsaw, Grodno, Wolkowysk, Lublin, Czestochowa and Vilna...

File Number : 8650

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Henrik Grabovski, born in Warsaw, Poland, regarding his experiences as a liaison person and his activities in the Warsaw underground

Testimony

Testimony of Henrik Grabovski, born in Warsaw, Poland, regarding his experiences as a liaison person and his activities in the Warsaw underground Activities in the Scouts. Life in the Warsaw Ghetto; meets Antek - Yitzhak Zuckerman; travel to Grodno; travel to Vilna as a liaison person; cooperation between Jews and Poles; murder of Jews of Troki; travel to Sokolki; travel to Warsaw; meets Antek Zuckerman again and transfer of a report concerning the areas he had visited; contacts with Haika Grosman, Arie Wilner, Mordecai Anielewicz and others; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

File Number : 8355

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony

Testimony of Zalman Fein, born in Suprasl, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army, Soviet captivity in Pavlovsk, the Bialystok Ghetto, the Jewish underground, the Jewish partisans in the Bialystok forests, the Red Army in Berlin and in other places Outbreak of the war, September 1939; participation in battles in the framework of the Polish Army; defeat of the Polish Army; desertion; taken captive by the Soviets; transfer to a POW camp in Pavlovsk; camp life including separation of the Polish officers from the POWs who are army privates; murder of the officers in the Katyn forest by the...

File Number : 5848

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mina Dorn, born in Poland, 1916, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and with the partisans in the forests

Testimony

Testimony of Mina Dorn, born in Poland, 1916, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and with the partisans Life in Bialystok Ghetto, August 1941-August 1943; in hiding until summer 1944; leaves Bialystok, summer 1944, and joins the partisans in the forests with help from Haika Grossman and Maryla Rozycka; wanderings north with the patisans until reaching the Naliboki forests; liberation in Suwalki, August 1944. Connections with Artur Schade, who helped her hide; successful effort to have him recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations.

File Number : 6205

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Zelda (Nisanilevich) Treger, born in Vilna, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, on the Aryan side, in Zagorze, using a false identity, with the FPO and with partisans under the command of Abba Kovner in the Rudniki forests Establishment of the Vilna Ghetto; escape to the Aryan side; labor on a farm belonging to Wersockienie in Zagorze; hospitalization in the Vilna hospital as a Polish woman named Zofia Wersockienie for three months; help from the Polish nurse, Nowakowska, in the hospital; move to the ghetto with a group of Jews, April 1942; meets Adek Buracks, one of the...

File Number : 3670

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Testimony, Memoirs

Language : Yiddish

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