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Baranovichi

(in Polish, Baranowicze), city in Belorussia and site of a Ghetto and labor camps. Before World War II, Baranovichi was part of Poland. The Germans invaded Poland in September 1939, and divided the country into three parts.The easternmost third, including Baranovichi, was given to the Soviet Union.However, the Germans then invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 and took control of Soviet territories. They entered Baranovichi on June 27. At that time, there were 10,000 Jews living there. Just a few days after the invasion, the Germans killed 73 Jews who they said were...

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File Number : 4076.18

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Zelik Levenbuk, born in Baranovichi, Poland in 1909, regarding his experiences in the Baranovichi Ghetto and in Koldychevo camp

Memoirs of Zelik Levenbuk, born in Baranovichi, Poland in 1909, regarding his experiences in the Baranovichi Ghetto and in Koldychevo camp Life before the war; air-raids with the outbreak of the war; outbreak of fire in their house on 24 June 1941; German occupation on 27 June 1941; transfer to forced labor; abuse of Jews; arrest and murder of local residents; hearing rumors regarding penal battalions and mass murders of Jews; information regarding a woman who escaped from a killing pit in Slonim; anti-Jewish legislation; establishment of the ghetto on 12 July 1941; life in the ghetto; imposition of forced...

File Number : 2681

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

List of the religious leaders from Baranovichi, 1941

File Number : 2583

Type of Material : List of Religious Leaders, List of Jews

Language : Russian

List of the religious leaders from Baranovichi, 1941

File Number : 2583

Type of Material : List of Religious Leaders, List of Jews

Language : Russian

Testimony of Rachel Berkovitz, born in Baranovichi, Poland, 1910, regarding her experiences in the Baranovichi Ghetto and with partisans in the forest

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel Berkovitz, born in Baranovichi, Poland, 1910, regarding her experiences in the Baranovichi Ghetto and with partisans in the forest Life before the war; marriage, 1926; birth of two children. German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Baranovichi Ghetto; ghetto life, including labor in a sawmill; capture of her son in an "Aktion"; escape to the forest; fosters a girl on her own in the forest; death of her second son; life in the forest with the partisans; liberation. Escape to Bucharest; birth of a child in Constanta; aliya to Eretz Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew