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List of partisans who served in the field hospital of the Kirov brigade in the Pinsk region, 1942-1943

File Number : 3526

Type of Material : List of Partisans

Language : Russian

Testimony of Chagay Pesach Geri Gerges, born in Alexandrja, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in a kolkhoz and in Karaganda in the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Chagay Pesach Geri Gerges, born in Alexandrja, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in a kolkhoz and in Karaganda in the Soviet Union Childhood in a liberal, religious, Zionist home in a Zionist town; youth group and Keren Hayesod activities; relations with the local Ukrainian population. Soviet occupation, 17 September, 1939; pogrom by the Ukrainians; organized Jewish defense, 14 April 1940; deportation to eastern Soviet Union by the NKVD; labor in a kolkhoz in Pririchuno; keeping kosher and observing religious holidays; hard labor of his father in a coal mine in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sonia (Binstok) Elster, born in Chelm, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Chelm, Luboml, Siberia, Kazakhstan and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Sonia (Binstok) Elster, born in Chelm, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Chelm, Luboml, Siberia, Kazakhstan and other places Her childhood in a traditional family; attends a Jewish elementary school; studies sewing. Outbreak of the war; air-raids; arrival of refugees; escape to the Soviet Union on the initiative of the Soviets; escape to the Soviet Union with a girl friend, at the request of her parents; move to Luboml; help to refugees; receives knowledge regarding the murder of Chelm Jews; move to Kowel, approximately one year later; refusal to receive Soviet citizenship; exile of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leon Herman Borer, born in Rudki, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Rudki Ghetto and in hiding in Rudki, Janovska, in the forest and in hiding in a village

Testimony

Testimony of Leon Herman Borer, born in Rudki, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Rudki Ghetto and in hiding in Rudki, Janovska, in the forest and in hiding in a village Life before the war; from a traditional family; attends a local school. German occupation, 1939; murder of Jews; Soviet occupation; danger of deportation to Siberia; termination of employment; draft of his brother into the Red Army; German occupation, 1941; restrictions on the Jews including white armband and Jewish star; travel restrictions; abuse of Jews; deportation to forced labor; "Aktion"; finds a hiding place with his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Agi Ilana (Iozef) Hershkovitz, born in Sighet, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz and Rechlin

Testimony

Testimony of Agi Ilana (Iozef) Hershkovitz, born in Sighet, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz and Rechlin From a large religious family; witness' family owns a butcher shop; Jewish studies. Annexation to Hungary; German occupation; establishment of the Sighet ghetto; concentration of the Jews in the Great Synagogue; drafting of her brothers into the Hungarian Army; deportation on a freight train to Auschwitz; selection and separation from her family; camp life including help with food from a female relative assigned to the Canada camp; labor digging pits; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Multiple Languages

Testimony of Malka Magda (Polak) Liberman, born in Szilagy, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Simleul Silvaniei Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kaiserwald, Kurbe and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Malka Magda (Polak) Liberman, born in Szilagy, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Simleul Silvaniei Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kaiserwald, Kurbe and other places Displays of antisemitism with the outbreak of the war, 1939; re-annexation to Hungary, 1942; restrictions on Jews; deportation to the Simleul Silvaniei Ghetto, Pesach, 1942; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Kaiserwald, June 1942; camp life including labor sorting lumber; transfer to Kurbe; camp life including labor logging trees; transfer to Dundanga; transfer to Stutthof; Allied air-raids; selection and transfer to Gloewen,...

File Number : 12842

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Benjamin Vinder, born in Dratow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in hiding in Chelm, labor camps in the Soviet Union and with the Anders Army

Testimony

Testimony of Benjamin Vinder, born in Dratow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in hiding in Chelm, labor camps in the Soviet Union and with the Anders Army Merchant family; attends a Polish school; member of Gordonia youth movement and activities in Chelm, 1938; work in an oil factory. Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation; life in hiding; escape to the Soviet Union; capture by the Red Army; escape to Brisk D Lita; life in Brisk D Lita including selling cigarettes and alcohol; escape to Poland; capture and detention by the Red Army; deportation to Kotlas; transfer to Kanash; camp life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof Life before the war; attends a high school. Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; ghetto life; labor for an estate owner in exchange for food; liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; disappearance of her parents after a selection; deportation to Kaiserwald; transfer to Strassenhof; camp life including forced labor digging trenches and in a carpet factory; deportation to Stutthof; camp life including forced labor digging...

File Number : 12447

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents of Avraam Kuperman, born in 1903, and Esfir Lekhtman, born in 1905, Red Army officers, prepared, 1942-1961

File Number : 224

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Sofiya Anvayer, born in Moscow, Russia, regarding her experiences in Vyazma POW camp, Smolensk camp, in Elbing, Stutthof camps and more

Memoirs of Sofiya Anvayer, born in Moscow, Russia, regarding her experiences in Vyazma POW camp, Smolensk camp, in Elbing, Stutthof camps and more Life in Vyazma POW camp in October-November 1941; selection; hiding her Jewish origin; work in a camp hospital; outbreak of a typhus epidemic; contracting typhus and life in a hospital; transfer to Smolensk in March 1942; life in the camp; work in a hospital; transfer to forced labor in Germany; life at Elbing camp; working in a factory; helping the underground; sabotage at a factory; missions for the underground in Neuteich; work in a camp hospital; arrest by the...

File Number : 4339

Type of Material : Memoirs, Article

Language : Russian

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