
Shika Kuperman
Shika Kuperman lived in the Ukrainian town of Dunayevtsy, which was established as a shtetl during the sixteenth century and later was a hub of

Shika Kuperman lived in the Ukrainian town of Dunayevtsy, which was established as a shtetl during the sixteenth century and later was a hub of

We were born Nelli and Rema Goldin on October 20, 1928, in Minsk, the capital of Byelorussia. Our parents were Semyon and Nekhama (Reer) Goldin,

I was born Alik Meyerson on July 17, 1938, in the town of Dzhurin, located in the Vinnitsa district of Ukraine. My parents were Shimon

In the life of any person there are certain chapters that are very difficult to remember, let alone even talk to others about it. When

Photograph of a house on Shornaya Street in the Minsk ghetto, Belarus. The large window on the house’s 1st floor was Matus Stolov’s small room.

Photograph of Matus Stolov’s family taken in Minsk, Belarus, 1940. From left to right; Fanya (Korngold) Stolov (mother), Matus Stolov, and Boris Stolov (older brother).

Photograph of Lena Pechenezhskaya (‘Big Lena’). She was declared a Righteous Person posthumously in 2001 by Yad Vashem. The photo was taken in Minsk, Belarus,

I lived in Minsk, the capital of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic of the former Soviet Union (now Belarus, an independent country), with my mother

Valentina Isaakovna Margolina was born in spring 1932 in Minsk at the home of her grandpa, a well-known redwood carpenter. Her fate unfolded in such

My mother, Dora Solomonovna Zuperman, was born in Minsk in 1916. Before the war, she worked as a teacher. When the war started in 1941,

Before the war my grandfather, Iosif Shmuel Pikus, his wife, and their three children (it was his second marriage) lived in the small town of

Before World War II our family lived in the small town (shtetl) of Lyubar, located just southwest of Zhitomir, Ukraine. I do not have any

Building in the Minsk ghetto where Matus Stolov and his mother lived from April until October 1942, Minsk, U.S.S.R., c. 1950s. IHMEC: courtesy of Matus