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List of children who survived by living in hiding with assistance from non-Jews in Poland, 1945-1947, from the book, "Survivors of the Holocaust in Poland, by Lucjan Dobroszycki

File Number : 1226

Type of Material : List of Children, List of Survivors

Language : English

Testimony of Dvora Doris Shner née Klatz, born in 1932 in Dortmund, Germany, about her experiences as a girl in Rożniatów, Bursztin, the Rohatyn ghetto, and in hiding with villagers during the war

Offspring of immigrant parents from Galicia, receiving a "certificate" (Mandate Palestine immigration visa); father deported to Zbąszyń in 1938; reunited with father in Rożniatów in 1939; Poland partititioned and life under Soviet occupation; escaping to Bursztin; German occupation ensues in June 1941; a German soldier warns the family about murder of Jews; establishment of Judenrat; father refuses to translate from German into Polish; receiving word about murder of people in pits in Rohatyn; receiving a postcard from a family member with information about sending of trains to Bełżec; deportation to the Rohatyn...

File Number : 13614

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Zofia Rashbaum Hass, born in Warsaw, Poland, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and while using a false identity on the Aryan side, including using a forged identity card with the name Bronisława Penkowska Her family's life in Warsaw; marriage of two of her sisters before the war; emigration of her sisters to Belgium. Deportation of her sisters from Belgium to Auschwitz, where they perished; deportation of her brother, mother, and maternal grandfather and grandmother to the Warsaw Ghetto; her mother's work with a Christian woman named Jadwiga Konazewska, 1940-1941, who introduced...

File Number : 8596

Type of Material : Identity Card, Memoirs

Memoirs of Mordechai Pshevorski Ravid, born in Krakow, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in the Krakow Ghetto and being hidden by his non-Jewish nanny (who was later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations) Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life; life in hiding with his cousin Rena; escape to his former nanny, a non-Jewish Polish woman named Helda/Carolina Maciag, 1943; going out to cleaning jobs with the nanny, including the headquarters of the Gestapo in Poland; life in his nanny's house until the end of the war;...

File Number : 8588

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of an anonymous Jewish woman from the village of Rakow, Poland regarding her experiences in the Rakow Ghetto, escapes to the Aryan side using a false identity, hiding in the forest and in a Polish village and work in Germany using a false identity Life in Rakow at the time of the occupation including anti-Jewish legislation; life in the ghetto; capture of the witness; prevention of her deportation to Skarzysko-Kamienna due to the giving a bribe; escape of the family from the ghetto; hiding of the parents by farmers they had known before the war; trips taken to Czestochowa by train by the witness,...

File Number : 297.1

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Letter written by the Polish woman Zotia Tworzewska in Czestocice to Bela Winer in Ramat Gan, 04 November 1955, regarding her mother, Mrs. Lachowicz, who rescued Bela's mother during an "Aktion" in the Ostrowice Ghetto

File Number : 1505

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Testimony of Zelda (Starobin) Shacham, born in Widze, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in the Widze Ghetto and in hiding in a village in the area and in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Zelda (Starobin) Shacham, born in Widze, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in the Widze Ghetto and in hiding in a village in the area and in a forest Life before the war; Soviet occupation; birth of her brother; outbreak of the Soviet-German war; German occupation, summer 1941; pogroms; establishment of the Widze Ghetto, November 1941; ghetto life next to the fence; labor of her father in producing rope; activity of her parents in the Jewish community; advice given by her father to the youth regarding escape from the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; January 1943; being...

File Number : 13210

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimonies of Szmul Maler and Kazimiera Korczak, regarding the hiding of a group of Jews by Stanislaw Sobczak in Frampol from 01/11/1942 until 27/07/1944

Testimonies of Szmul Maler and Kazimiera Korczak, regarding the hiding of a group of Jews by Stanislaw Sobczak in Frampol from 01/11/1942 until 27/07/1944 Testimony of Szmul Maler regarding his being hidden in a barn along with 11 other Jews by Stanislaw Sobczak, who took care of them and supplied them with food; escape of the Jews who were in hiding at the outbreak of the battles before the liberation, and the farm's buildings are set on fire on 27/07/1944; refusal by Sobczak to receive valuables before the Jews he was hiding left the hiding place; murder of five of the Jews by an Armia Krajowa (AK) unit;...

File Number : 6310

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Hela (Veisbrot) Rapaport, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in a village near Lublin and Gotha

Testimony

Testimony of Hela (Veisbrot) Rapaport, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in a village near Lublin and Gotha Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; finds a hiding place in a village near Lublin with help from Poles; deportation to Gotha; camp life including labor as a cook in an August Biander factory; liberation. Life in Eschwege while preparing for aliya; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; marriage; aliya to Israel, 1949; return visit to Warsaw and her attitude towards Poland.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Danielski Danieli, born in Pszczyna, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Rybnik using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of David Danielski Danieli, born in Pszczyna, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Rybnik using a false identity Family life in Rybnik. German occupation, 1939; smuggled to a village; deportation of his parents to Auschwitz; life with a German-Polish family; move to a village near Striegau in fear of capture; life in the village and work on the estate of a Polish family; return to the German-Polish family in Rybnik; baptism as a Christian by the local priest; attends a German school; life using a false identity; membership in Hitler-Jugend; Soviet occupation, 1945;...

File Number : 12263

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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