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Gedalia Russak memoirs, Russak and Mittelmann family correspondence, 1945–1947 and additional documentation of the Russak family

Gedalia Russak memoirs, Russak and Mittelmann family correspondence, 1945–1947 and additional documentation of the Russak family - memoirs of Gedalia Russak, born in Sulmierzyce in 1914; attached are partial translations of the memoirs into Hebrew and English; childhood in Sulmierzyce; family moves to Częstochowa in 1924; learns a trade (baker and confectioner); service in the Polish Army 1936-1938; inducted into the army in 1939; war erupts; taken prisoner; sent to Germany for forced labor; works there for approx. a year, concealing his Jewish origins; released and reaches Częstochowa; life in the...

File Number : 12513

Type of Material : Memoirs, Committee Request, Letter, Correspondence, Personal Documents, כתובה, תעודת יושר, Certification, ייפוי כח

Language : Polish, English, Swedish, Yiddish