Filed Under: Object Theme: Ghettos

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

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Ilya Meyerson

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

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Khana Stolyar

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

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Matus Stolov (center) with his mother, Fanya, and brother, Boris, Minsk, Belarus, 1940.

Stolov family

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).

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Matus Stolov

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

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Valentina Margolina

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

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Nata Andinysh

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,

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Lev Pikus

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

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Mikhail Zemlyak

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

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Ghettos

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

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