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List of partisans from the brigade under Kovpak's command who were active in Ukraine, compiled on 04/12/1944

File Number : 396

Type of Material : List of Partisans

Language : Russian

List of partisans from Kovpak division no. 1 who were active in Ukraine and were candidates for medals and decorations, 1941-1944

File Number : 92

Type of Material : List of Partisans

Language : Russian

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File Number : 81

Type of Material : List of Partisans

Language : Russian

Testimony of Kopel Kolpanitzki, born in Lachwa, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Lachwa, with the Kovpack partisans unit and in the Red Army

Testimony

Testimony of Kopel Kolpanitzki, born in Lachwa, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Lachwa, with the Kovpack partisans unit and in the Red Army His childhood and youth in Lachwa; attends a Jewish school, Yavne; life at home; activities in the Beitar movement. Soviet occupation and rule, 1939; arrest and exile of his father to Siberia; German occupation of Lachwa, 1941; forced labor paving roads; smuggles food into the Lachwa Ghetto; observance of religion commandments and keeping; liquidation of the ghetto, 1942; escape to a forest; survival in the forest; joins the "Kovpack" partisan unit and...

File Number : 11668

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter of testimony of Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy, born in Dmitrovka, Ukraine, 1910, regarding his experiences in Dmitrovka, as a Red Army soldier and as a partisan

Letter of testimony of Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy, born in Dmitrovka, Ukraine, 1910, regarding his experiences in Dmitrovka, as a Red Army soldier and as a partisan Childhood in Dmitrovka, including attending a Tarbut school and work; military service before the war. Military service on the south-west front in Brigade 201 from June 1941; wounded; taken captive near the village of Baryshevka, November 1941; establishment of an underground in the POW camp; escape from the camp; joining the partisans, November 1942; service in the partisan brigade under the command of Kovpak.

File Number : 3974

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Letter of testimony written by Virozub regarding his experiences in Kiev, Chernigov, Sumy, Glybochek, as a partisan and as a Red Army soldier, 1941-1945

Letter of testimony written by Virozub regarding his experiences in Kiev, Chernigov, Sumy, Glybochek, as a partisan and as a Red Army soldier, 1941-1945 Medical studies in Kiev, including the final examination to earn his degree, 20 June 1941; air-raid on Kiev, 22 June 1941; drafted to the Red Army, 27 June 1941; transfer of his family to Kiev; surrounding of the military unit in which the witness served; wanderings in Ukraine; obtaining forged documents using a false identity by the witness' wife; wanderings in the Chernigov region, autumn 1941; life in a village in the Sumy region including betrayal to the...

File Number : 3210

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Mordekhai Weissman, born in Skalat, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Skalat, a ghetto, forced labor in the area and in hiding in surrounding forests

Testimony

Testimony of Mordekhai Weissman, born in Skalat, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Skalat, a ghetto, forced labor in the area and in hiding in surrounding forests Childhood in an ultra-Orthodox family; attends "heder" and a Polish school; community life. Soviet rule, 1939-1941; arrest of wealthy Jews and their exile to Siberia; ban of Zionist activities and learning in the "heder"; German occupation, 05 July 1941; murder of hundreds of Jews; establishment of a ghetto and activation of the Judenrat; deportations to extermination in Belzec; "Aktions" and the murder of Jews in killing pits; witness'...

File Number : 10140

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Baruch Eizenstark Amitz, born in Skalat, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Skalat and in Borki Wielkie and Kamionka camps, with the partisans and in the Red Army

Testimony

Testimony of Baruch Eizenstark Amitz, born in Skalat, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Skalat and in Borki Wielkie and Kamionka camps, with the partisans and in the Red Army His family background; membership in Bnei Akiva; attempts to make aliya to Eretz Israel; antisemitism. Annexation to the Soviet Union, 1939; deportation of well-to-do people to Siberia; German occupation, 1941; murder of Jews by the Einsatzgruppen; deportation to a labor camp in Borki Wielkie; establishment of a ghetto, 1942; forced labor; labor in Kamionka camp; escape to a forest with the help of a Pole; joins a group of...

File Number : 9974

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mark Mashuk, born in Ocheretyanka, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Novograd Ghetto, the Krasnoarmeysk Ghetto and combat in a partisan unit

Testimony

Testimony of Mark Mashuk, born in Ocheretyanka, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Novograd Ghetto, the Krasnoarmeysk Ghetto and combat in a partisan unit German air-raids on Novograd; wanderings in the Zhitomir region after the Red Army retreat; the Novograd Ghetto; murder of Novograd’s Jews next to open killing pits in Yagodinka, September 1941; rescued by a Volksdeutsche; the Krasnoarmeysk Ghetto; “Aktion”; murder of the Krasnoarmeysk Jews, December 1941; detention in Krasnoarmeysk prison until September 1943; removal from the prison by a Soviet POW who serves as the driver of a Ukrainian police...

File Number : 7634

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony

Testimony of Piotr Shaposhnikov, born in Kiev, Ukraine, 1923, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier at the Ukrainian front and with Soviet partisans in the Bilgoraj Forests as part of the Kovpak unification Drafted into the Red Army, 1942; military studies; transfer to the front; wounded; hospital life; recovery; transfer to the Ukrainian front; surrounded by the German Army; escape; joins a partisan unit in the Bilgoraj Forests as part of the partisan unification by Kovpak; life in hiding in the forests with Jews who had survived the ghettos; surrounded by the Germans; deaths of many partisans;...

File Number : 4033

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

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