ghettos
"And then we were being marched down the streets where there was the small ghetto."
"Fifteen thousand of our people were massacred in that particular day."
"Empty streets, open windows, flowing curtains blowing with the wind. No people."
"The entire sky of Warsaw was red. Completely red."
"The hunger in the ghetto was so great, was so bad, that people were laying on the streets and dying."
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Channa Morgensztern
Born ca. 1896
Kaluszyn, Poland -
Nanny Gottschalk Lewin
Born March 13, 1888
Schlawe, Germany -
Charlene Schiff
Born 1929
Horochow, PolandDescribes conditions in the Horochow ghetto
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Henny Fletcher Aronsen
Born 1924
Kovno, LithuaniaDescribes living conditions in the Kovno ghetto
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Abraham Lewent
Born 1924
Warsaw, PolandDescribes conditions in the Warsaw ghetto
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Beno Helmer
Born 1923
Teplice-Sanov, CzechoslovakiaDescribes conditions in the Lodz ghetto
Oral History
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"And then we were being marched down the streets where there was the small ghetto."
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Emanuel Tanay
Born 1928
Wilno, PolandDescribes the establishment of the Miechow ghetto
Oral History -
Nina Kaleska
Born 1929
Grodno, PolandDescribes formation of the ghettos in Grodno
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Rochelle Blackman Slivka
Born 1922
Vilna, PolandDescribes the formation of the Vilna ghetto
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Nesse Galperin Godin
Born 1928
Siauliai, LithuaniaDescribes the formation of the Siauliai ghetto
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Madeline Deutsch
Born 1930
Berehovo (Beregszasz), CzechoslovakiaDescribes ghettoization in Hungary
Oral History
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"Fifteen thousand of our people were massacred in that particular day."
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Else Rosenberg
Born February 21, 1891
Hamburg, Germany -
Moishe Menyuk
Born 1896
Komarovo, Poland -
Chaia Gurvitz
Born ca. 1876
Lithuania -
Pola Nussbaum
Born September 1922
Raczki, Poland -
Steven Springfield
Born 1923
Riga, LatviaDescribes massacre in the Rumbula forest near Riga, Latvia
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Abraham Malnik
Born 1927
Kovno, LithuaniaDescribes massacre in Kovno's Ninth Fort, near the Kovno ghetto
Oral History -
Frima L.
Born 1936
Volochisk, Soviet UnionDescribes roundup of Jews for mobile killing unit (Einsatzgruppen) massacre
Oral History
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"Empty streets, open windows, flowing curtains blowing with the wind. No people."
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Chaia Gurvitz
Born ca. 1876
Lithuania -
Kathe Ert Reichstein
Born June 7, 1882
Hanover, Germany -
Cecilie Klein-Pollack
Born 1925
Korosmezo, CzechoslovakiaDescribes deportation from Huszt
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Blanka Rothschild
Born 1922
Lodz, PolandDescribes deportations from the Lodz ghetto
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Fritz Alexander Rosenberg
Born February 18, 1881
Goettingen, Germany
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"The entire sky of Warsaw was red. Completely red."
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Leah Hammerstein Silverstein
Born 1924
Praga, PolandDescribes bombings in Praga and Warsaw after the outbreak of World War II
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Benjamin (Ben) Meed
Born Warsaw, Poland
Describes Warsaw shortly after the German occupation in 1939, and his first experience of antisemitism
Oral History -
Abraham Lewent
Born 1924
Warsaw, PolandDescribes food shortages after the invasion of Warsaw
Oral History -
Norbert I. Swislocki
Born 1936
Warsaw, PolandDescribes fleeing from Warsaw with his mother
Oral History -
Leah Hammerstein Silverstein
Born 1924
Praga, PolandDescribes starvation in the Warsaw ghetto
Oral History -
Vladka (Fagele) Peltel Meed
Born 1921
Warsaw, PolandDescribes smuggling activities in the Warsaw ghetto
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Vladka (Fagele) Peltel Meed
Born 1921
Warsaw, PolandDescribes her reaction to the burning of the Warsaw ghetto as she watched from a building outside the ghetto
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Benjamin (Ben) Meed
Born Warsaw, Poland
Describes the burning of the Warsaw ghetto during the 1943 ghetto uprising
Oral History -
Vladka (Fagele) Peltel Meed
Born 1921
Warsaw, PolandDescribes reactions after the Warsaw ghetto uprising
Oral History
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