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Memoirs of Moshe Kaplan, born in Woronow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army, the Tannenberg POW camp, the Woronow Ghetto, in hiding in the forest, as a partisan in the Naliboki forests and more Life in Woronow after World War I; death of his father Avraham Kaplan in 1922; attendance at the Tarbut elementary school; displays of antisemitism; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; underground activities and imprisonment of his brother as a member of the Communist Party; death of his mother, 1932; life in an aliya training kibbutz in Bialystok; meeting his future wife, Chaya; release of his...

File Number : 8643

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation belonging to members of the Mussel family from Zarasai and letters written by Masha Mussel in the Dagestanskaya area, in Italy and Eretz Israel, 1923-1948

Personal documentation belonging to members of the Mussel family from Zarasai and letters written by Masha Mussel in the Dagestanskaya area, in Italy and Eretz Israel, 1923-1948 Documentation including: - Birth certificates of Masha Mussel, born in 1912, and Avraham Mussel, born in 1913, issued by the Jewish Community Committee in Zarasai, 14 January 1923; - Application submitted by Yaakov Mussel to the principal of the High School in Zarasai to accept his daughter Masha in Grade 2, 30 December 1925; - Additional application submitted by Yaakov Mussel to the principal of the High School in Zarasai to...

File Number : 114

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter

Language : Lithuanian, Hebrew, Yiddish

Postcards sent to Doba Goyer in Eretz Israel by her sister Rakhila Goyer in Horochow, 1940-1941

Postcards sent to Doba Goyer in Eretz Israel by her sister Rakhila Goyer in Horochow, 1940-1941 Notes by Techiya Eilat, the submitter of the material: Doba (Goyer) Dagan was born in Horochow in 1912. After completing her studies at the Tarbut School, she moved to a training center and made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1939. Her whole family who remained in Horochow perished during the Holocaust.

File Number : 2210

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of David Mudrik, born in 1932 in Dombrowice, Poland, about his experiences in the Dombrowice ghetto, in a family camp in the forests of Belorussia, and in the marsh area near Pinsk

Offspring of an Orthodox religious family in Dombrowice; attends a Hebrew-speaking Tarbut school; Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; commerce nationalized; Hebrew as language of instruction is replaced with Yiddish; German occupation ensues in June 1941; banished to Dombrowice ghetto; dispossession and shunning imposed by rabbis of Dombrowice against those refusing to surrender their property; Jews in the ghetto rounded up and sent toward a railroad station; witness and family escape from the deportation convoy into a nearby forest; a group of families forms; life in the family camp in Belorussia; witness's...

File Number : 13498

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 2409

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Letters written by Sima and Mordechai Frydman from Zambrowa, Poland to Hershel Zvi Frydman in Eretz Israel, 1940-1941

Letters written by Sima and Mordechai Frydman from Zambrowa, Poland to Hershel Zvi Frydman in Eretz Israel, 1940-1941 - Family's life in Zambrowa before the outbreak of the war; Included in the file: - Letter written to her cousin Hershel by Batsheva Winik, a pupil in the Tarbut school.

File Number : 1443

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Testimony of Arie Leibel Stotzki, born in Bielica, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Bielica, the Zetel Ghetto and with the partisans in a forest in the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Leibel Stotzki, born in Bielica, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Bielica, the Zetel Ghetto and with the partisans in a forest in the Soviet Union Life before the war; family owns a workshop; attends a Tarbut school. Soviet occupation; ban on Jewish religious observance; drafted to the Red Army; German occupation, 1941; abuse of Jews; "Aktions"; murder of Jews; informed on by Poles; burning of the place due to the nearby air field; escape and in hiding in a forest; escape to the Zetel Ghetto; ghetto life; dismantling of Soviet equipment; murder of Jews; mass grave in a forest;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana (Krumholtz) Izhar, born in Kuty, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Kuty and Tashkent

Testimony

Testimony of Chana (Krumholtz) Izhar, born in Kuty, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Kuty and Tashkent Life before the war; traditional family; witness attends a Tarbut school. Soviet occupation, 1939; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 1941; evacuation with Russian families in the direction of the east; life during the evacuation; air-raids; move to Tashkent; life in Tashkent; young people receive help from the authorities; work in a military factory; typhus illness; payment of bribery; end of the war, 1945. Move to Bucharest; life in Bucharest; joins aliya...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dvora (Josefsberg) Buch, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in various hiding places

Testimony

Testimony of Dvora (Josefsberg) Buch, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in various hiding places German occupation; move of the family to in hiding with a Ukrainian family; eviction from the hiding place out of fear of being informed on; hiding of the witness in a sack on her father's back; her family joining the hiding place of her uncle and grandmother in the cellar of the Polish Borek family [later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations]; loneliness; muteness; the Borek family taking care of all the needs of the nine people in the cellar; the family leaves the hiding...

File Number : 13993

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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