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Testimony of Iszaj Mazin, born in Nieswiez, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Nieswiez Ghetto, a forest and with partisans under the command of the Polish commander, Marchwinski

Testimony of Iszaj Mazin, born in Nieswiez, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Nieswiez Ghetto, a forest and with partisans under the command of the Polish commander, Marchwinski German occupation; attitude towards the Jews including burning Torah scrolls and religious articles; murder of Jews; concentration of approximately 800 men in the city square; selection of 50 hostages including Judenrat members; release of the hostages after payment of money, valuables and linens; murder of three Jews on the charge of buying food from a farmer; murder of Rabbi Aharon, a ritual circumciser, who was on his...

File Number : 4038

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Memoirs

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters, Yiddish

Testimony

Testimony of Jozef Marchwinski, a Righteous Among the Nations, born in Lodz, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences in Lida, Nieswiez, with the partisans in the Mir and Naliboki forests, servng with the 3rd Polish Division and other places Detention by the Polish Secret Police on the charge of Communist activities; sentenced to three years imprisonment. Outbreak of the war between Poland and Germany; escape with his Jewish wife, Sonia Sokolovska, to the Soviet Union; work in Lida; work in Nieswiez; outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union and Germany; murder of 400 Jews including his wife in an...

File Number : 3568

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Ester (Swierzenska) Marchwinska, born in Mir, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Mir Ghetto, with the Marchwinski partisans in the Pletiszcze forest and in Latki

Testimony

Testimony of Ester (Swierzenska) Marchwinska, born in Mir, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Mir Ghetto, with the Marchwinski partisans in the Pletiszcze forest and in Latki German occupation; concentration of the Jews in the market square; execution of 19 Jews; murder of her father and brother with approximately 800 other Jews in an "Aktion", 09 October 1941; establishment of the Mir Ghetto; escape to a forest with many Jews with help from Oswald Rufeisen, a disguised Jew who served as chief of the local police; joins a partisan battalion under the command of the Pole, Marchwinski, later...

File Number : 3567

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish