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Testimony of Rivka Patznik Burstein, born in Warszawa, Poland, 1933, regarding her escape to the USSR and exile to Siberia

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka Patznik Burstein, born in Warszawa, Poland, 1933, regarding her escape to the USSR and exile to Siberia Family background. The outbreak of war; bombings on the city, fire; escape to her grandmother's house; shearing of Jewish elders; back to Warszawa; establishment of the Warszawa ghetto; whistleblowing; sleeve strap; her parents' escape from the ghetto; escape with her mother through sewers with the help of a Pole for a fee; travel by train to Lodz; arrival in Bialystok and Brisk; finding shelter in the rabbi's home; meeting with parents, 1942; transfer by train by the Red Army to the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gershon Plata, born in Lututow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Ukrainian villages and combat as a Polish soldier serving in the Wanda Wasilewska unit

Testimony

Testimony of Gershon Plata, born in Lututow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Ukrainian villages and combat as a Polish soldier serving in the Wanda Wasilewska unit From a family of Gur hasidim with hardships; learns in a "heder" and a yeshiva. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to the east; drafted to forced labor for the Soviets; release at Brzesc Nad Bugiem, 1941; German occupation; wanderings and hiding in various places; life in Ukrainian villages using a false identity; joins the Wanda Wasilewska unit of Polish soldiers; combat in various places including Berlin; end of the war. Escape...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nathan Lifshitz, born in Pinsk, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Kiev, Saratov and as a Polish Army soldier

Testimony

Testimony of Nathan Lifshitz, born in Pinsk, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Kiev, Saratov and as a Polish Army soldier From a family with limited means; divorce of his parents; placed in an orphanage; life in the orphanage including attendance at the Tarbut school; Zionist education; work in a metalwork workshop. Outbreak of the war, 1941; escape to Kiev; joins a group of orphaned children; sets sail on a ship on the Volga river to the Saratov area; life in various places including harsh physical labor; drafted into the Polish Army; release. Joins Kibbutz Dror; move to Bad Reichenhall DP...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Nehushtan Kiperstejn, born in Kowel, Poland, 1922, regarding his escape to the USSR and enlistment in the Polish army

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Nehushtan Kiperstejn, born in Kowel, Poland, 1922, regarding his escape to the USSR and enlistment in the Polish army Family background; studies in a Polish elementary school; carpentry work; joining the Hashomer Hatzair movement; departure for training in Bialystok,1939; about six months in training. The outbreak of war, September 1939; the help of the Joint in daily existence; the success of some of the training participants in obtaining certificates and making an aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940; the outbreak of war between Germany and the USSR, 1941; escape by train with training...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Cypora (Drewniak) Melamed, born in Lublin, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences while using a false identity, in Przemysl, on the Soviet side, in Lwow, Kokand and Moscow

Testimony

Testimony of Cypora (Drewniak) Melamed, born in Lublin, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences while using a false identity, in Przemysl, on the Soviet side, in Lwow, Kokand and Moscow Orphanage life in Rzeszow. Outbreak of the war; receives documents as a non-Jewish woman from Germans; transfer by the Germans to Przemysl along with her younger brother and three young women; concentration of Jews, Poles and Ukrainians in a monastery; execution of Jews in a forest near Przemysl, late 1939; escape from the monastery across the San River to the Soviet side along with a group of Jewish children, with help...

File Number : 3656

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 1908

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Documentation related to the service of Khaim Fund, born in Poland in 1911, in the Red Army construction brigades during 1941-1945

Documentation related to the service of Khaim Fund, born in Poland in 1911, in the Red Army construction brigades during 1941-1945 - Medical file of Khaim Fund, including documents from a field hospital in Yoshkar Ola, 02/1945 and from a hospital in Łódź, 04-05/1945; - Reports regarding the functioning of the Red Army construction brigades in which Polish citizens served; the reports were edited by military advisors at the Embassy of Poland in Kuybyshev during 02-03/1942; - Documentation regarding the recognition of Khaim Fund as a war disabled during the war against the Nazis, including announcements, an...

File Number : 1731

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Medical Documentation, החלטה, Diploma, Committee Request, Survey Report

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian, Dutch

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Testimony

Testimony of Alfred Aleksander Fogel, born in Ozorkow, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences escaping to the Soviet Union Family background; well established family; Outbreak of the war, September 1939; escape to Lwow; Operation Barbarossa and Soviet entry, June 1941; deportation East to Syktyvkar; life in the community with Polish refugees; his father's imprisonment as an anti-revolutionary, 1942; release of his father, following the Sikorski-Mayski agreement, for recruitment to Anders Army, 1943; transfer to Kherson, 1944; Return to Lodz, Poland, 1946; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946; absorption and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Moise Fingerhut, born in Krakow, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Krakow, during his escape to the Soviet Union, and serving in the Red Army in Poland and Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Moise Fingerhut, born in Krakow, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Krakow, during his escape to the Soviet Union, and serving in the Red Army in Poland and Germany From a secular family with five children in Krakow; death of his father when the witness was seven; attendance at a Polish vocational school; training as a welder; Hashomer Hazair activities; Outbreak of the war, 1939; receiving information from emissaries from Eretz Israel regarding the need to escape; escape to Lwow with his brother; escape deep into the Soviet Union; conscription of his older brother to the Red...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew