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Testimony of Regina Rivka (Grodner) Lowicz, born in Biala-Podlaska, regarding her experiences in Biala-Podlaska, the Mierdzyrzec Ghetto and the Skarzysko, Majdanek, Czestochowa camps

Testimony

Testimony of Regina Rivka (Grodner) Lowicz, born in Biala-Podlaska, regarding her experiences in Biala-Podlaska, the Mierdzyrzec Ghetto and the Skarzysko, Majdanek, Czestochowa camps Secular home with seven children; her father was a lumber merchant; Polish school; Hashomer Hatzair membership. Deportation to the Biala-Podlaska Ghetto, 1940; her mother Sara Grobman, her father Shlomo Grodner and her brothers were murdered in the ghetto; deportation to the Miedzyrzec Ghetto; labor building roads; jumping from a train to the camp and return; deportation to Majdanel during another "Aktion"; forced labor...

File Number : 11248

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Gedalia Russak memoirs, Russak and Mittelmann family correspondence, 1945–1947 and additional documentation of the Russak family

Gedalia Russak memoirs, Russak and Mittelmann family correspondence, 1945–1947 and additional documentation of the Russak family - memoirs of Gedalia Russak, born in Sulmierzyce in 1914; attached are partial translations of the memoirs into Hebrew and English; childhood in Sulmierzyce; family moves to Częstochowa in 1924; learns a trade (baker and confectioner); service in the Polish Army 1936-1938; inducted into the army in 1939; war erupts; taken prisoner; sent to Germany for forced labor; works there for approx. a year, concealing his Jewish origins; released and reaches Częstochowa; life in the...

File Number : 12513

Type of Material : Memoirs, Committee Request, Letter, Correspondence, Personal Documents, כתובה, תעודת יושר, Certification, ייפוי כח

Language : Polish, English, Swedish, Yiddish

Memoirs of Bella (Hecht) Motolinski, regarding her family's experiences in Radomsko, in the Radomsko Ghetto, the Częstochowa Ghetto, in the HASAG Pelzery camp, liberation, and aliya to Israel

Memoirs of Bella (Hecht) Motolinski, regarding her family's experiences in Radomsko, in the Radomsko Ghetto, the Częstochowa Ghetto, in the HASAG Pelzery camp, liberation, and aliya to Israel Memoirs of Bella (Hecht) Motolinski, born in Radomsko in 1920, regarding her family's experiences during the Holocaust (Bella died on 10/02/2013): Place of residence: Radomsko; her parents were Fishel Efraim Hecht and Miriam (Reichman) Hecht; her brothers and sisters were Tuvia Tovish, born in 1916, Sara Sala, born in 1918, Pinchas Pink, born in 1922, and Esther, born in 1926; her father's work: he owned a lumber...

File Number : 10086

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 9063

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew