Rita Ginenskaya
December 12, 2022
Sometimes I cannot believe that a child’s memory can preserve all these memories of what my family and I endured. I was thirteen years old
Sometimes I cannot believe that a child’s memory can preserve all these memories of what my family and I endured. I was thirteen years old
Lot of four diaries written in Yiddish by Irving Leavitt (Israel Jankelewicz) while in Poland, c. 1942. Translations of pages 1 through 100 available for
Photograph of Irving Leavitt wearing his partisan uniform in Chelm, Poland, March 15, 1945.
Photograph of four people in a partisan detachment dated February 1944. From left to right; commissar and commander of the detachment, Yeva Khmara, and Naum
Photograph of a group of Russian partisan resistance fighters from the Lenin Brigade. The image was taken, using a camera found during an ambush of
Esfir (Ester, Etia) Efimovna Morgenshtern (Morgenstern), nee Idel’chik, was born on April 8, 1923, in Minsk, Belorussia, U.S.S.R. to Inessa and Khamin Idel’chik. During the
Leon Figa was born on November 15, 1919, in Warsaw, Poland where his family owned a butcher shop. He had two older brothers, Shmuel and
Slava Fintel, nee Cymer, was born on June 2, 1932,in Szarkowszczyzna, in Eastern Poland. She was the youngest of seven children. The Cymer family had
Sofia (Sophia) Baranskaya lived in a small town near Minsk with her husband, David Baransky, and their children, Misha and Emma. When the war started,
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,
I served on a submarine depot ship when the war broke out. The passenger liner Volga was converted into a depot ship. The ship was
Before the war, our family lived in the small town of Baranovka in the Zhitomir Region. When the Great Patriotic War started, the Germans drove
Bielski family camp, Naliboki Forest, German-occupied Belorussia, 1943. Yad Vashem: Courtesy of Leslie Bell from the Yehuda and Lola Bell (Bielski) Family Collection. Jewish Partisans
