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Testimony of Aharon Feigenblum, born in 1919 in Włocławek, Poland, about his experiences as a member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Kalisz, in Warsaw, and in the movement underground in the Soviet Union

Receives a religious education; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; lives in a hakhshara (training center) in Kalisz in 1937; Kol Nidre eve in 1939; three Jews murdered; witness escapes to his parents in Warsaw in November 1939; escapes to Wilno and lives there until June 1940; escapes to Tashkent and Samarkand in 1941; membership in the Hashomer Hatzair underground in the Soviet Union in 1941–1944; involved in the affair surrounding Mordechai Rozman, a leader of the underground, who succumbed to NKVD interrogation and surrendered names of underground members; liberation and return to Poland in December 1945;...

File Number : 13553

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs, testimonies and documentation regarding activities of members of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Poland

Memoirs, testimonies and documentation regarding activities of members of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Poland The file includes: - photographs of members of aliya training kibbutzim "Maanit" in Grodno and "Bamivchan" in Slonim; - testimonies, memoirs and documentation regarding Edek Boraks, Moitek (Mordechai) Zilberberg and Arie (Yurak) Wilner.

File Number : 1324

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Testimony, Memoirs, List of Murdered Jews, Photograph, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Memoirs of Maria Jiruska regarding Jurek Wilner, one of the Resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Memoirs of Maria Jiruska regarding Jurek Wilner, one of the Resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising The personality and activities of Jurek Wilner as a Hashomer Hatzair instructor; his connections with the Poles on the Aryan side; discovery of weapons and the underground archives in his apartment and his arrest by the Gestapo; interrogation under torture until he was smuggled out to a hiding place outside the ghetto by his comrades after a few weeks; his return to the ghetto and his fighting in the Uprising until his suicide in a bunker with his comrades. [Note: In 1995 Maria Jiruska was...

File Number : 131

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Testimony of Sarah (Celinker) Lichtman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Sarah (Celinker) Lichtman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding Life in the Warsaw Ghetto; her father, who is active in the Jewish underground, smuggles her out of the ghetto; in hiding in various places on the Aryan side, among others, inside the desk of the manager of a German factory and in the kitchen cupboard of an elderly Polish woman; rescue several times during searches; wanderings in the Warsaw vicinity with her father towards the end of the war. Legal immigration to Eretz Israel with her father via Italy, 1945;...

File Number : 9665

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jakow Putermilch, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Lomianki forest and with the partisans in the Wyszkow forest

Testimony

Testimony of Jakow Putermilch, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Lomianki Forest and with the partisans in the Wyszkow Forest Life in the Warsaw Ghetto; activities in the Jewish Fightingt Organization (ZOB) including attacks on Jewish collaborators; burning of a workshop by ZOB fighters; murder of two fighters by the German Army; escape of one fighter from the Pawiak prison; combat with the Germans; escape to the Lomianki Forest; escape to the Wyszkow forest; forest life including setting themselves up as a partisan unit. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.

File Number : 2725

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Jakow Wilner, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1884, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the death of his son, Arie Wilner, in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in hiding on the Aryan side and in the Polish underground Life before the war. German occupation, September 1939; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life including his son's underground activities; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943; his son's activities as a commander in the uprising; his son's death; escape to the Aryan side; joins the Polish underground; life in hiding with help from Polish women; liberation. Aliya to Eretz Israel,...

File Number : 2665

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Memoirs of Israel Gutman, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1923, regarding the deportation “Aktion” in the Warsaw Ghetto in July 1942 and the establishment of the Jewish Fighting Organization and its activities in July-September 1942 Life in the ghetto; information regarding the activities of youth movements and especially of Hashomer Hatzair and Dror; institutions for mutual help; deportation at the end of July 1942; description of the fate of his sister (appears under the name Esther) and her deportation for extermination with the Korczak Orphanage; life with friends in different hiding places in the ghetto;...

File Number : 11156

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Documentation of the experiences of Arje Wilner and Tosia Altman, Jewish Fighting Organization (EYAL-Irgun Yehudi Lochem) activists who fought in the Warsaw Ghetto, and newspaper clippings in Polish and Hebrew regarding the activities of Arje Wilner and his fate Experiences of Arje (Jurek) Wilner, one of the founders of EYAL in Warsaw, and the contact person between the organization and the Polish underground: Arrival in Vilna in 1939; return to Warsaw in early 1942 with Izrael Nagel and Jehoszua Wyszynski from Hashomer Hatzair; arrival in Czestochowa to help set up the underground, summer 1942; return...

File Number : 311

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Documentary

Language : Hebrew, Polish

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