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Testimony of Chasia Bielicka Bornstein, born in Grodno, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Grodno Ghetto, the underground and living with a false identity in Bialystok

Testimony

Testimony of Chasia Bielicka Bornstein, born in Grodno, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Grodno Ghetto, the underground and living with a false identity in Bialystok The family and the economic situation; Zionism; study and activities in Hashomer Hatzair youth movement in the den; winter and summer camps; aliya training; antisemitism and riots during Shavuot 1935; deterioration of their economic situation and travel of her father to Argentina; the Jewish community; Soviet occupation of Grodno, September 1939 which prevented a riot by the Poles; changes in education and economy; work in Hashomer...

File Number : 7373

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Liza Chapnik, born in Grodno, 1922, regarding her experiences in Grodno, Bialystok, in hiding and with the underground

Testimony

Testimony of Liza Chapnik, born in Grodno, 1922, regarding her experiences in Grodno, Bialystok, in hiding and with the underground Escape from Grodno, June 1941; caught by the Germans in Stolpce; transfer to Baranowicze and Dereczyn; in Bialystok using forged documents, November 1942; makes contact with the underground in the ghetto; return to the Grodno Ghetto, February 1943; takes her niece out from the ghetto; return to Bialystok; makes contact with a non-Jewish underground group; supplies essential goods to the Jewish partisan unit "Forojs" (Forward); "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, August 1943;...

File Number : 9924

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Liza Chapnik, born in Grodno, 1922, regarding her experiences in Grodno using a false identity, in the underground and as a partisan

Testimony

Testimony of Liza Chapnik, born in Grodno, 1922, regarding her experiences in Grodno using a false identity, in the underground and as a partisan Komsomolskoye in the Ukraine during the Soviet period, 1939-1941; leaves city at start of war, June 1941; Germans attack refugees in Stolpce; returns to Baranowicze, from there to relatives in Dereczyn; mass murder of Jews on the way from Deresczyna to Slonim; returns to Grodno, late 1941; life in hiding, wanted by the Germans; underground activities; lack of trust among the Jews; leaves Grodno for Bialystok using forged documents under the name of Maria Mrozovka,...

File Number : 7309

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Mina Dorn, born in Poland, 1916, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and with the partisans in the forests

Testimony

Testimony of Mina Dorn, born in Poland, 1916, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and with the partisans Life in Bialystok Ghetto, August 1941-August 1943; in hiding until summer 1944; leaves Bialystok, summer 1944, and joins the partisans in the forests with help from Haika Grossman and Maryla Rozycka; wanderings north with the patisans until reaching the Naliboki forests; liberation in Suwalki, August 1944. Connections with Artur Schade, who helped her hide; successful effort to have him recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations.

File Number : 6205

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ania Rud, born in Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in Grodno and using a false identity in Bialystok

Testimony

Testimony of Ania Rud, born in Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in Grodno and using a false identity in Bialystok Life in Grodno under Polish rule. Life under Soviet rule; entry of the Germans; life in the Grodno Ghetto; visit in Grodno by the courier Yocheved Weinstein from Warsaw and information on an "Aktion" in Warsaw; decision by the girlfriends, among them Liza Chapnik, to move to Bialystok; receives the identity of Agata Kisly with the help of the Polish woman Janina Peach; leaves Bialystok, late December 1942 / early January 1943; short entry into the ghetto to arrange a Belorussian...

File Number : 6424

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English