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Szumsk

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Szumsk

Poland

Jews began to settle in Szumsk in the first half of the 18th century. In 1897, under the rule of the Russian Empire, the Jewish population of the town numbered 1,962 and comprised approximately 87 percent of its total population. After World War I Szumsk was incorporated into the independent Polish state as part of the Volhyn Region. In 1921 the Jewish population of the town stood at 1,717 and comprised 73 percent of its total population. In the interwar period some Jews were grain or lumber merchants, while others were artisans. Zionist parties and youth movements (such as HeHalutz and Beitar) were active in...

Szumsk, Poland

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Szumsk

Krzemieniec

Wolyn

Poland

Michalowka Szumsk, Poland

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Michalowka Szumsk

Krzemieniec

Wolyn

Poland

List of witnesses from Szumsk, 1944

File Number : JM/19987

Type of Material : List of Survivors, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

Szumsk - Commemoration of Jewish Victims

Commemoration

According to one testimony, shortly after the war, the murder site of the Szumsk Jews on the bank of the Viliya River had been trampled upon by domestic animals. As a result, there was an attempt to turn to the local authorities in order to have the murder site fenced off, but it is unknown whether a fence was, in fact, constructed or not. In 1991 a memorial was erected at the murder site of the Szumsk Jews. It has a wall with a bas-relief with figures of Holocaust victims -- Jewish men, women, and children who had perished in Szumsk. The memorial has a black marble monument, topped with a Star...

Murder Story of Szumsk Jews on the Viliya River Bank in Szumsk

Murder Site

Viliya River Bank in Szumsk

Poland

Apparently during the night of August 8, 1942 Ukrainian auxiliary police surrounded the ghetto. Germans forces entered it and, after reading out an accusation before the Judenrat members, they told the Judenrat that the ghetto had been surrounded and that its inmates were prohibited from entering or leaving the ghetto. Apparently also, during the next three days when the Jews had been closed inside the ghetto, the Germans ordered the Judenrat to re-register all the ghetto inmates, with those considered able to work being issued work certificates. During this time several Jews who tried to escape from the ghetto...

Testimony of Malka Molly (Borstein) Friedman, born in Szumsk, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Szumsk Ghetto, in hiding and in Wolkowce

Testimony

Testimony of Malka Molly (Borstein) Friedman, born in Szumsk, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Szumsk Ghetto, in hiding and in Wolkowce German occupation; attitude toward the Jews; establishment of the Szumsk Ghetto, March 1942; Szumsk Ghetto life including rumors concerning the liquidation of Jews in the surrounding area; "Aktion", Elul (August), 1942; life in hiding in the ghetto with her mother, brother and a group of Jews, for eight days; murder of her father in the "Aktion"; joined to a group of Jews, to collect the clothing and belongings of the murdered people; concentration of...

File Number : 3581

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Ruth (Steinman) Halperin, born in Szumsk, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Szumsk Ghetto and in hiding with Soviet Ukrainians

Testimony

Testimony of Ruth (Steinman) Halperin, born in Szumsk, Poland,1921, regarding her experiences in the Szumsk Ghetto and in hiding with Soviet Ukrainians Life in Azumsk before the war; attends a Tarbut school and a teachers college in Lvov; activities in Hechalutz Hatzair youth movement. Escape to Trembowla with the Soviet occupation, 1939, return to Szumsk with the outbreak of the war, 1941; arrival of Jewish refugees from Katowice; Nazi invasion; decrees and looting of valuables; establishment of the Szumsl Ghetto; life in the ghetto from 1941 until the summer 1942; labor for a German officer; evades the...

File Number : 10344

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Luba (Schpak) Golob, born in Szumsk, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Szumsk Ghetto and being hidden by Evangelist Ukrainians

Testimony

Testimony of Luba (Schpak) Golob, born in Szumsk, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Szumsk Ghetto and being hidden by Evangelist Ukrainians German occupation, June 1941; deportation to the Szumsk Ghetto; hides in a shelter with her family during "Aktions" in the ghetto; escape with her seven year old sister, winter, 1942; life being hidden by the Ukrainian Karatshun family; life being hidden by Andrej Fedorenko; help given to the sisters by Krasicki, the head of the police; attitude of the Evangelist Ukrainian rescuers towards the sisters; liberation by the Red Army, spring 1944. Move to...

File Number : 3750

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jakow Geller, born in Szumsk, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Szumsk Ghetto, being hidden by an Evangelist friend and in hiding in a pit

Testimony

Testimony of Jakow Geller, born in Szumsk, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Szumsk Ghetto, being hidden by an Evangelist friend and in hiding in a pit Completes his studies at the Tarbut School, 1939. Soviet occupation; German occupation, 1941; kidnappings from the street for forced labor; establishment of the Szumsk Ghetto, February 1942; liquidation of the ghetto about six months later; murder of Jews by shooting them on the edge of burial pits near the city; hiding in his home with his family; discovery of the family by the Germans; concentration of the Jews in the police station; murder...

File Number : 3715

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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