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A list and description of the chapters of this book
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Life in Israel: I was born in Tel-Aviv on October 25, 1944, to Cypora Besser Olej and Leon (Aryei) Olej (I later changed the spelling from Olej to Olay). When I was born, Israel was not yet a country, the land was called Palestine, and it was ruled by Britain. Therefore, my birth certificate is…
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Please contribute The horrors of the Holocaust should never be forgotten. At the same time, we should remember our relative who, fortunately for us, left Poland and started a life in a new land. In my opinion the best way to do so is for their descendants to share their stories. I will start this…
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I was born on April 4, 1908, in Pabianice Poland. I had three brothers and three sisters. The oldest brother, Michael, was born in 1893, the second was Abe born in 1896, and Ben born in 1899. My sister Bela was born in 1905, then myself in 1908, and Sara in 1911, and Ester in…
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I was born December 31, 1915, in Warsaw the capital of Poland. I had four sisters and two brothers. The oldest was Sonia, later Yichiel, Pola, myself, Shraga, and Rose. My father was born in Warsaw and his family lived there. My paternal grandfather Abram-Zamvel died when I was a baby. My grandmother Menucha used…
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THE PABIANICE GHETTO Zisa Rajzla Levin • Abram Mordka Edelshtein • Estera Nacha Heliszkowski Nacha Edelshtein • Masha Edelshtein • Jakob Edelshtein • Chaia Edelshtein Wolf Edelshtein • Dewora Edelshtein • Lajb Levin • Jacob Besu Levin Kalman Heliszkowski • Hersz Heliszkowski • Mordichi Leon Heliszkowski Benyaman Levin • Chaja Sura Heliszkowska • Hershel Levin…
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Liquidation of the Pabianice Ghetto In February 1942, the Gestapo entered the Pabiaince Ghetto and conducted a health examination on all prisoners. After the examination everyone was given a tattoo of an A or a B. On the 16th of May all inhabitants were ordered to wait in front of their residence by 4pm. Failure…
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Early Occupation Life for Jews in Warsaw and Otwock, immediately became difficult. On the first day of 1940, Emanuel Ringelblum observed that “the mortality among the Jews in Warsaw is dreadful. There are fifty to seventy deaths daily.” Prior to the war, it was 10 per day. All foreign contact had been broken and the…
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We propose, at this time, to present evidence disclosing what the conspirators intended to do with conquered territories, called by them “Lebensraum”, after they had succeeded in overpower[ing] the victims of their aggressions.[i] Transcript of the Nuremberg Trials Occupation “Lebensraum,” translates roughly to “living space,” which the Nazi’s intended to gain through exploitation then Germanisation.…
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