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"Jewish Street Song": Poem written by Jakow Opaczynski, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 1920

"Jewish Street Song": Poem written by Jakow Opaczynski, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 1920 Return of a Jewish soldier who fought bravely against the Nazis to an empty city which has been destroyed; life in the Jewish street before the war including preparations for the Sabbath, debates between Revisionists and Zionists and relations between Jews and non-Jews; outbreak of the war; life in the ghetto including hunger, cold, mortality, abuse, beatings, arrest and murder of Jews; transporting of Jews by the Gestapo; destruction of the Jewish street; atmosphere of silence in the cemetery; desecration of...

File Number : 223

Type of Material : Poem/song

Language : Yiddish

"Jewish Street": Poem written by Yakov Apatshinski, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Piotrkow Trybunalski and as a Red Army soldier

"Jewish Street": Poem written by Yakov Apatshinski, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Piotrkow Trybunalski and as a Red Army soldier Escape from Piotrkow Trybunalski to the Soviet Union, 1939; enlistment in the Red Army, 1941; combat as part of the Polish Kosciusko Division, 1943. Return to Bialystok after the war; return to the Jewish street that once was but is no more; demand for revenge.

File Number : 123

Type of Material : Poem/song

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Bezalel Chaykovich, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1912, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army

Testimony

Testimony of Bezalel Chaykovich, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1912, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army Studies in a high school and joins the Beitar movement; draft into the Polish Army. Return to Kalisz at the outbreak of the war; move to Lvov; marriage; move to the Soviet Union; enlists in the Polish People's Army; deserts the Polish Army. Travel to Italy; activities to establish the Beitar movement; his wife joins him; aliya attempt; deportation to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel 1947; activities in the Irgun; participation in the battle for Jaffa in Israel's War of Independence; leaves Israel...

File Number : 6859

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Wiktor Margulis, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences as a Polish Army soldier, in the Soviet Union and as a Red Army soldier

Testimony

Testimony of Wiktor Margulis, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences as a Polish Army soldier, in the Soviet Union and as a Red Army soldier Life before the war. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; drafted into the Polish Army; combat; escape to the Soviet Union; joins a Polish division in the Red Army; liberation. Aliya to Israel, 1957.

File Number : 2183

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Henryk Papierbuch Kosmider, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Lomza, Ural and Majdanek

Testimony

Testimony of Henryk Papierbuch Kosmider, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Lomza, Ural and Majdanek Life before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Lomza; Soviet occupation; arrest; deportation to Ural; drafted into Anders Army; liberation in Majdanek; end of the war. Aliya to Israel, 1957.

File Number : 1643

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of David Ekhaizjer, born in Siedlce, Poland in 1924, regarding his experiences in Poland, in the Soviet Union, and in service in the Polish Army in the Soviet Army during 1939-1945

Testimony of David Ekhaizjer, born in Siedlce, Poland in 1924, regarding his experiences in Poland, in the Soviet Union, and in service in the Polish Army in the Soviet Army during 1939-1945 His family's life in Warsaw; outbreak of the war; shelling of Warsaw; his family escapes to Kowel; move to Lwow; exile of the family to forced labor in Mariyskaya ASSR in June 1940; death of his father due to illness; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; release of the family members from forced labor; settlement of the family members in Yoshkar Ola; he studies mechanics; draft into the Polish Army...

File Number : 10782

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter from the draft office in Gorkiy, with an announcement that Mojsze Mordehaj Cymryng, born in Warsaw in 1908, died in battle; documentation regarding the Cymryng and Frydman families from Warsaw

Letter from the draft office in Gorkiy, with an announcement that Mojsze Mordehaj Cymryng, born in Warsaw in 1908, died in battle; documentation regarding the Cymryng and Frydman families from Warsaw Documentation regarding the fate of Mojsze Mordehaj Cymryng: - Letter from the draft office in Gorkiy, sent to Gitla Tzishring on 18/11/1944, with an announcement that her husband Mojsze Mordehaj Cymryng died in battle in Warsaw on 19/09/1944; Documentation regarding the Cymryng and Frydman families: - Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate) of Mojsze Mordehaj Cymryng and Gitla Frydman, signed in Warsaw...

File Number : 1962

Type of Material : Marriage Certificate, Birth Certificate, Letter, כתובה, Declaration, Personal Documents

Language : Polish, Russian

Memoirs of David Ekhaizer, born in 1924, regarding his experiences in Poland, in the Soviet Union and in the Polish Army in the Soviet Union during 1939-1945, and in Poland and Germany during 1945-1947 before his aliya to Eretz Israel; personal documentation related to David Ekhaizer and his family members - Memoirs of David Ekhaizer, including his family’s experiences during the war period and afterwards (written in Israel in 2008); His family’s life in Warsaw; outbreak of the war; shelling of Warsaw; his family’s escape to Kowel on 05/09/1939; Red Army invasion of areas of Poland on 17/09/1939 and the...

File Number : 10295

Type of Material : Memoirs, Passport, Birth Certificate, Identity Card, Marriage Certificate, Genealogy, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Russian, German

Letters by Moshe Tzimring, a soldier in the Polish forces in the Red Army, written at the front and sent to his wife Gita Tzimring and his daughter Malka in Gorkiy, Russia during 1943-1944

Letters by Moshe Tzimring, a soldier in the Polish forces in the Red Army, written at the front and sent to his wife Gita Tzimring and his daughter Malka in Gorkiy, Russia during 1943-1944 Comments by the submitter of the material: Malka (Cymryng) Porochownik was born in Warsaw on 07/02/1937. Her parents were Mojsze Mordehaj Cymryng and Gitla Frydman. Malka had a brother named Lev Arieh, who apparently died when he was 18 months old. Moshe escaped from Warsaw in 1939 and reached Bialystok. Gitla and Malka escaped from Warsaw in November 1939 and were reunited with Moshe in Bialystok. The family members...

File Number : 3808

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish, Russian