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Memoirs of Emanuel Krauthamer Kruvi, born, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bobrka Ghetto and in Romanow, forests and Swirz

Memoirs of Emanuel Krauthamer Kruvi, born, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bobrka Ghetto and in Romanow, forests and Swirz Experiences of the Krauthamer family from the start of their wanderings from Krautheim, Germany until their settlement in Bobrka; German Army occupation [of Bobrka], 1941; establishment of the Bobrka Ghetto; Bobrka Ghetto life, including forced labor digging trenches and clearing snow; life in stables in groups of 50 young women and 50 young men; forced labor in sugar beet fields [on an agricultural farm in Romanow?] until October 1942; first "Aktion" in Bobrka; deportation of...

File Number : 8583

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony of Avraham Tavori Tureholz, born in Staszow, Poland, 1930, regarding deportation to Auschwitz, jumping off a train, joining partisans and assistance in the fighting against the German army

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Tavori Tureholz, born in Staszow, Poland, 1930, regarding deportation to Auschwitz, jumping off a train, joining partisans and assistance in the fighting against the German army Family background, religious family; relocation to Arad, Romania, 1932; a visit to Eretz Israel, 1933, where his mother's family lives; attempt to stay in Eretz Israel; buying a plot of land; stabbing of his father by an Arab in Jaffa; the British authorities' investigation of the father and the understanding that there are no certificates for the family to remain in Eretz Israel; deportation within four weeks...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding Nikolay Nikitin Shteingart, partisan battalion commander in Belorussia, including newspaper clippings mentioning his story, memoirs and letters of persons who fought under his command Escape from the city to Tashkent, at the age of 13, together with a friend, detention en route by policemen; transfer to a home for children; decision to take on the family name Nikitin so people would think that his friend is his brother and they would not separate between them. Included in the file: - History of fighters in his battalion; - Letters he sent from Magadan to his family, 1948,...

File Number : 362

Type of Material : Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Certification, Memoirs, Letter of Testimony, Documentary

Language : Belarusian, Russian

Memoirs, songs/poems and letters from Yaffa Szejndl (Falczuk) Plotnick, born in Lubieszow, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences and the experiences of the Jews in Lubieszow and the Polesie forests

Memoirs, songs/poems and letters from Yaffa Szejndl (Falczuk) Plotnick, born in Lubieszow, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences and the experiences of the Jews in Lubieszow and the Polesie forests - Life of the Jews before the war; - Riots perpetrated by the Ukrainians against the Jews; German occupation; decrees, forced labor; detention of Jews in prisons and their murder; "Aktions", establishment of the ghetto; mass murder; life in hiding; liquidation of the ghetto; escape of the witness to the Polesie forests, 29 December 1942; Jews organizing themselves in the forest; encircling of the forest by...

File Number : 1085

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Song by an unknown author, "Partisan Song", sung in the Vilna Ghetto, 1942, about a female partisan who succeeded in halting the Nazi ammunition supply

Song by an unknown author, "Partisan Song", sung in the Vilna Ghetto, 1942, about a female partisan who succeeded in halting the Nazi ammunition supply The song was translated from Russian by Opeskin in the Vilna Ghetto; the song was dedicated to the female partisan who performed a heroic act and returned safely to the base; with one shot, she halted an enemy truck transporting ammunition.

File Number : 339

Type of Material : Poem/song

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Fani Lotz, born in Pinsk, Poland, about her experiences during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Fani Lotz, born in Pinsk, Poland, about her experiences during the war Childhood in a well-off family in Warsaw; vacations at the family's summer home in Pinsk; moves to Pinsk in 1939; Soviet Union annexes the area; witness hired as a teacher at Tarbut school; teaches gymnastics and ice skating; living conditions worsen in 1940; barter trade; tends a vegetable patch near the house; war breaks out in 1941; German forces invade Pinsk; Poles' and Belorussians' attitude toward Jews changes for the worse; some 8,000 members of Jewish intelligentsia rounded up and murdered; ghetto established in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Halina (Raps) Ashkenazi regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Lublin, Pruszkow and Wilhelmshaven

Testimony of Halina (Raps) Ashkenazi regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Lublin, Pruszkow and Wilhelmshaven Life in the Warsaw Ghetto including learning in secret; deportation and in hiding, July 1942; draft to forced labor in a factory; activities in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 19 April 1943; deportation by train and escape to Lublin; escape to Warsaw; life in Warsaw including receiving help from a priest in obtaining false papers; in hiding in a safe house of the Caritas organization; escape to a home for women; work in a hospital; in hiding in a monastery with the help of a nun; life in the...

File Number : 442

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Memoirs

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Szlojme Katz regarding his experiences as a partisan fighting against Bandera's men in the Zytomierz province and near Rowne

Testimony of Szlojme Katz regarding his experiences as a partisan fighting against Bandera's men in the Zytomierz province and near Rowne Joins a unit of more that 1,000 partisans in the Zytomierz district, May 1943; battles against units of Bandera's men [Stepan Bandera's military faction, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)] en route to Rokitno, in villages near Rowne, with full coordination with the local Red Army headquarters; occupation of the town of Berezno by order of the Red Army, 09 January 1944; attitude towards the Jewish partisans; meetings with Jews who were in hiding in the forests and helping...

File Number : 67

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Usza Schonfeld Lubin [?], from Lublin, regarding a partisan unit and family camp lead by Anatoli Bielski in the Nowogrodek region and the Naliboki forests

Testimony of Usza Schonfeld Lubin [?], from Lublin, regarding a partisan unit and family camp lead by Anatoli Bielski in the Nowogrodek region and the Naliboki forests Organization of the Bielski brothers into a combat unit after being hidden in forests and villages; cooperation and joint combat with a unit of Soviet partisans; harsh winter in the hiding places dug in the ground, 1942-1943; increase in the number of Jews arriving from hiding places and those escaping "Aktions" during the liquidation of surrounding ghettos, to 800; combat by the partisans against German targets and local collaborators while,...

File Number : 65

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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