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26. Susan Bluman describes leaving her family in Warsaw after the outbreak of war
eastern Poland. Nathan sent a guide to Warsaw to bring Susan to the Soviet ... zone of occupied Poland. Her parents reluctantly agreed after Susan promised to return to Warsaw within
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27. Raszka (Roza) Galek Brunswic describes a roundup in the Warsaw ghetto and her escape from deportation
Roza's family moved to Warsaw in 1934. She had just begun college ... Warsaw ghetto, where her parents were shot during a roundup. Roza escaped and went into hiding. From her
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28. Leah Hammerstein Silverstein describes bombings in Praga and Warsaw after the outbreak of World War II
Leah grew up in Praga, a suburb of Warsaw, Poland. She was active in the Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa ... forced to live in the Warsaw ghetto, which the Germans sealed off in
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29. Benjamin (Ben) Meed describes Warsaw after the German occupation in 1939 and first experiencing antisemitism
Warsaw, Ben decided to escape to Soviet-occupied eastern Poland. However, he soon decided to return to ... his family, then in the Warsaw ghetto. Ben was assigned to a work detail outside the ghetto, and
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30. Abraham Lewent describes performing forced labor in Warsaw and increased Polish antisemitism
Like other Jews, the Lewents were confined to the Warsaw ghetto. In 1942, as
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31. Benjamin (Ben) Meed describes the burning of the Warsaw ghetto during the 1943 ghetto uprising
Warsaw, Ben decided to escape to Soviet-occupied eastern Poland. However, he soon decided to return to ... his family, then in the Warsaw ghetto. Ben was assigned to a work detail outside the ghetto, and
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32. Vladka (Fagele) Peltel Meed describes clandestine cultural activities in the Warsaw ghetto
active in the Warsaw ghetto underground as a member of the Jewish Fighting ... Organization (ZOB). In December 1942, she was smuggled out to the Aryan, Polish side of Warsaw to try to obtain
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33. Lucine Horn describes obtaining false papers to assume the identity of an "Aryan" outside the Warsaw ghetto
liquidated the ghetto. She eventually made her way to Warsaw where she first
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34. Abraham Lewent describes hiding during a raid in which his mother and sisters were seized for deportation from Warsaw to Treblinka
Like other Jews, the Lewents were confined to the Warsaw ghetto
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35. Vladka (Fagele) Peltel Meed describes smuggling a description of the Treblinka camp to underground leaders on the "Aryan" side of Warsaw
active in the Warsaw ghetto underground as a member of the Jewish Fighting ... Organization (ZOB). In December 1942, she was smuggled out to the Aryan, Polish side of Warsaw to try to obtain
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36. Vladka (Fagele) Peltel Meed describes waiting at a train station with false documents to be smuggled into the Warsaw ghetto
active in the Warsaw ghetto underground as a member of the Jewish Fighting ... Organization (ZOB). In December 1942, she was smuggled out to the Aryan, Polish side of Warsaw to try to obtain
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37. Leah Hammerstein Silverstein describes lack of burial of the corpses of people who died in the Warsaw ghetto
Leah grew up in Praga, a suburb of Warsaw, Poland. She was active in the Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa ... forced to live in the Warsaw ghetto, which the Germans sealed off in
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38. Vladka (Fagele) Peltel Meed describes the deportation of her mother and brother from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka
active in the Warsaw ghetto underground as a member of the Jewish Fighting ... Organization (ZOB). In December 1942, she was smuggled out to the Aryan, Polish side of Warsaw to try to obtain
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39. Vladka (Fagele) Peltel Meed describes watching the burning of the Warsaw ghetto from a building outside the ghetto
active in the Warsaw ghetto underground as a member of the Jewish Fighting ... Organization (ZOB). In December 1942, she was smuggled out to the Aryan, Polish side of Warsaw to try to obtain
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40. Leah Hammerstein Silverstein describes the aftermath of the Holocaust and the search for survivors
Leah grew up in Praga, a suburb of Warsaw, Poland. She was active in the Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa ... forced to live in the Warsaw ghetto, which the Germans sealed off in
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41. Siege
His ten-minute film Siege records the horror and confusion of Warsaw during the ... Warsaw and the occupation of Poland. During the early stages of the ... fortifications. As the Polish soldiers retreated to the east, German troops encircled and laid siege to Warsaw.
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42. Germany invades Poland
II. Quickly overrunning Polish border defenses, German forces advanced towards Warsaw, the Polish ... Poland. Warsaw surrendered on September 28, 1939.
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43. Soviet military advance in Vitebsk
Soviet offensive reached the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland.
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44. Mieczyslaw Madejski describes underground organization and activities
forced labor at a BMW plant in Warsaw. He escaped, and participated in ... the Warsaw Polish uprising in August 1944. After the uprising, he left ... Warsaw and went into hiding.
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45. Mieczyslaw Madejski describes underground work in the early 1940s
forced labor at a BMW plant in Warsaw. He escaped, and participated in ... the Warsaw Polish uprising in August 1944. After the uprising, he left ... Warsaw and went into hiding.
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46. Susan Bluman describes the German invasion of Poland
eastern Poland. Nathan sent a guide to Warsaw to bring Susan to the Soviet ... zone of occupied Poland. Her parents reluctantly agreed after Susan promised to return to Warsaw within
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47. Władysław Bartoszewski discusses Żegota
fall of 1940, Władysław was caught in an arbitrary arrest wave in Warsaw. The Nazi German authorities
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48. Abraham Lewent describes conditions in Skarzysko camp
Like other Jews, the Lewents were confined to the Warsaw ghetto. In 1942, as
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49. Edwarda Kleinfeld Rorat describes emotions upon liberation
Warsaw and moved to a small village near Lublin. Her parents were murdered by German soldiers in 1942
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50. Helen Dreksler Zimm describes obtaining a false birth certificate
Lodz to a town between Lodz and Warsaw. After two years, in 1942, Helen