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Testimony of Boleslaw Nowicki about Jews' fate in the Bialystok region and the eastern borderlands of Poland under the occupation of Nazi Germany

Testimony of Boleslaw Nowicki about Jews' fate in the Bialystok region and the eastern borderlands of Poland under the occupation of Nazi Germany Before the WWII there were about 75,000 Jews in Bialystok. After the outbreak of the war the number increased to about 100,000 due to influx of Jewish refugees from German occupied territories. Nowicki mentions several famous Jews from Bialystok, in particular Jozef Zeligman, former Senator in pre-war Polish government and director of the Gymnasium on Sienkiewicza 4 Street. He was arrested by NKVD under the Soviet regime but released due to widespread protests...

File Number : 235

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Dov Berel Peled Puchnik, born in 1927 in Oszmiana, Poland, about his experiences in camps in Latvia, Germany, and Czechoslovakia

Testimony of Dov Berel Peled Puchnik, born in 1927 in Oszmiana, Poland, about his experiences in camps in Latvia, Germany, and Czechoslovakia Life in poverty as an affiliate of the Misnaggedim; active in the Democratic Party in the late 1930s; war breaks out in September 1939; Soviet occupation; German-Soviet war erupts in June 1941; attempts unsuccessfully to cross the border with brother; escapes back home with brother; Jews rounded up on a lot; people captured due to denunciation; father deported in an Aktion and murdered; establishment of the Oszmiana ghetto; mother sent away to forced labor in lieu of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Jehoash Alperovitch, born in Kornitz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Kornitz, Vileyka, in the partisans and in the Red Army

Memoirs of Jehoash Alperovitch, born in Kornitz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Kornitz, Vileyka, in the partisans and in the Red Army Historical background of Kornitz; Jewish community of Kornitz, including schools, youth movements and tradition; his family's history; his family's home; shop that was owned by his family; his family's economic situation; his younger brother Hillel; displays of antisemitism during the 1930s; displays of antisemitism by Polish youths from the National Democratic Party (NP); Soviet occupation, 1939; closure of synagogues by the Soviets; German Army occupation of...

File Number : 8833

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew