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1. Germany invades Poland
Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, beginning World War ... Poland. Warsaw surrendered on September 28, 1939.
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2. Fred Bachner describes flight to eastern Poland upon the German invasion of Poland in September 1939
in November 1938, Fred's father and brother were deported to Poland. It was not until June 1939, when ... Poland allowed Fred and his mother to enter the country, that the family was reunited in Krakow. Fred and
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3. German and Soviet forces partition Poland
Soviet Union promised not to attack one another for 10 years. Germany was thus able to invade Poland on ... Poland was partitioned between Germany and the Soviet Union. Soviet forces occupied eastern Poland. In
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4. Susan Bluman describes the German invasion of Poland
Susan was 19 years old when Germany invaded Poland in September ... eastern Poland. Nathan sent a guide to Warsaw to bring Susan to the Soviet
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5. Blanka Rothschild describes antisemitic regulations in occupied Lodz, Poland
Blanka was an only child in a close-knit family in Lodz, Poland. Her father died in 1937. After ... the German invasion of Poland, Blanka and her mother remained in Lodz
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6. Wallace Witkowski describes harsh living conditions for non-Jews in Poland
acting as a courier between partisan groups. In 1946, in liberated Poland, Wallace witnessed the ... followed. The Communist regime in Poland, however, denied his only sister permission to emigrate for nearly
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7. Yonia Fain describes leaving Warsaw after the German invasion of Poland
invaded Poland in September 1939, Yonia was living with his wife in ... Warsaw. They fled to Brest-Litovsk in eastern Poland, occupied by Soviet forces in mid-September 1939
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8. Susan Bluman describes fleeing to Vilna after the occupation of Poland
Susan was 19 years old when Germany invaded Poland in September ... eastern Poland. Nathan sent a guide to Warsaw to bring Susan to the Soviet
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9. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky describes living conditions while in hiding in Poland
city of Lvov, two years before Germany invaded Poland. Daniel was a
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10. Morris Kornberg describes forced labor beginning after the German invasion of Poland
in a Zionist sports league. When the Germans invaded Poland in
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11. Wilek (William) Loew describes refugees from western Poland after their arrival in Soviet-occupied Lvov
invasion of Poland. Lvov was in the part of eastern Poland annexed by the Soviet Union. Although the
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12. William (Welek) Luksenburg describes the first night of the German invasion of Poland
Shortly after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939
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13. Aron (Dereczynski) Derman describes events that took place upon the German invasion of Slonim, Poland
Poland between the two world wars. His parents owned a clothing store. After studying in a technical
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14. Frank Bleichman describes conditions in and dangers facing a partisan camp in the forests of Poland
district of Poland. Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. When
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15. Ruth Berkowicz Segal describes finding her father in Vilna after he fled Soviet-occupied eastern Poland
When German forces invaded Poland in September 1939, Ruth's father ... fled to eastern Poland. Upon the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland, he fled to
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16. Morton Goldberg describes fleeing from Soviet-occupied Poland to Vilna in 1939
When the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland in September 1939 ... Martin fled from the Soviet zone of occupied Poland to Vilna. He stayed
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17. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky describes her years in Poland living under a false identity
city of Lvov, two years before Germany invaded Poland. Daniel was a
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18. Blanka Rothschild describes the beginning of the German invasion of Poland when she and her family were in Lodz
Blanka was an only child in a close-knit family in Lodz, Poland. Her father died in 1937. After ... the German invasion of Poland, Blanka and her mother remained in Lodz
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19. Alisa (Lisa) Nussbaum Derman describes a dangerous journey to reach partisan territory in the Naroch Forest, Poland
then to Slonim (in Soviet-occupied eastern Poland). German troops captured Slonim in June 1941, during
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20. German victory parade in Warsaw
Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. The Blitzkrieg ("lightning war") campaign in Poland ... was short and decisive. Warsaw, the capital of Poland, surrendered on September 27. In early October
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21. Moses Zupnik describes facilities for the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai
1933. He attended the Mir Yeshiva, a Jewish religious school based in Mir, Poland. German forces ... invaded Poland in September 1939. The Soviet Union occupied eastern ... Poland less than three weeks later. Mir was in Soviet-occupied Poland. Moses and the entire Mir Yeshiva
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22. Aftermath of pogrom in Kielce
pogrom took place in Kielce, Poland, in July 1946. Forty-two Jews were massacred and about 50 ... more were wounded. The event touched off a mass migration of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Poland ... pogrom, waiting to leave Poland and crossing into Czechoslovakia.
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23. Leah Hammerstein Silverstein describes working under a false non-Jewish identity in a German hospital in Krakow
Leah grew up in Praga, a suburb of Warsaw, Poland. She was active in the Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa ... 'ir Zionist youth movement. Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. Jews were ... Zarki, near Czestochowa, Poland. In May 1942, Leah became a courier for the underground, using false ... liberated by Soviet forces. After the war she helped people emigrate from Poland, then moved to Israel
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24. Leah Hammerstein Silverstein describes starvation in the Warsaw ghetto
Leah grew up in Praga, a suburb of Warsaw, Poland. She was active in the Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa ... 'ir Zionist youth movement. Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. Jews were ... Zarki, near Czestochowa, Poland. In May 1942, Leah became a courier for the underground, using false ... liberated by Soviet forces. After the war she helped people emigrate from Poland, then moved to Israel
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25. 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 ... 'ir Zionist youth movement. Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. Jews were ... Zarki, near Czestochowa, Poland. In May 1942, Leah became a courier for the underground, using false ... liberated by Soviet forces. After the war she helped people emigrate from Poland, then moved to Israel