… to Łódź. Alexander, 51, died in July 1937 of cancer. Edward graduated from high school in May 1938, and deferred his military service to enroll at the…

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… in Łódź and Warsaw, his imprisonment in a Russian gulag following the German and Russian partition of Poland, his military service with the Polish…

… International Tracing Centre, Izac never learned what became of his family. In 1945 Izac moved to the Military Command Area in Łódź where he worked as a…

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… documents Izac’s biographical data and military service and includes his Armed Forces passport, identification testimonies, and his declaration of intent to…

… (a field of gold in the Bible); going to a military academy and becoming an officer in the paratroopers; going to the United States in 1960 and…

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… went to the military academy, which 134 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:51,870 I finished. 135 00:07:51,870 --> 00:07:58,440 And I became an officer in the army…

… officer with the Polish Air Force based in Cupar, Fife.…

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…- officers or ex-soldiers. And they were all aimed at military training. In fact, we were training at least twice a week. But were they affiliated to the Home…

… mother’s visit from Poland in 1939 and her inability to return; his military service in the United States Army, where he received intelligence training at…

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… registered for the US military draft, and received military intelligence training at Camp Ritchie, Maryland. He served in Europe during the war. Towards the…

… Soviet Army; escaping a German attack and seeking refuge at Soviet military headquarters; being sent to a labor camp in Stalingrad (Volgograd), Russia and…

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… independent in 1918 and my father knowing Polish got a job as the mana...office manager in the Polish uh county county seat. That way he worked for a couple of…

… move to England in 1945; his education in British schools and universities; moving to New York in 1952; his military service in Korea; his move to…

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…); being given soup surreptitiously by one of the SS officers; having to evacuate to the ghetto on various occasions; the shooting of 80 Jews in the ghetto…

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…, World War I, there were a lot of Jewish people that served in the German army, even as high ranking officers. But when Germany was defeated in World War I…

… rations; her father and 19 year old brother Sholem dying of starvation after two years; working in a factory making German uniforms and in an office; seeing…

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… worked in a kitchen with there was not bread. And I worked there. I was actually for a time I worked physically and then they took me to work in the office…

… Bergen-Belsen; being freed by the British; being taken in an ambulance on a stretcher to a military hospital; being taken to Sweden to recuperate; meeting…

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… accuracy. But you have to have some authority. Because the Jewish police and the post office people did help my cousin who died on starvation in the ghetto…

… divorce of his parents when he was young; living with his father; brought up Protestant; attending high school in Liepzig; being drafted into the military…

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… by the Allied military, we were safer in France than we would be in Germany. Because nobody bombed very much of Western France. In Germany, almost a…

… went into hiding, but perished sometime in 1943. Benjamin and about eighty Jewish officers were held in Woldenberg POW camp for officers. The camp was…

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…, liberation, return to Łódź, and meeting her husband. Photographs depict Benjamin Herson in the Polish military and in prisoner of war camps, his aunt and…

… in Danzig (Gdansk, Poland); his memories of being whipped by an officer; the help that he received from a foreman; his transport to Palemonas…

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… military. 379 00:17:43,325 --> 00:17:44,980 Mm-hmm, I see. 380 00:17:44,980 --> 00:17:47,170 In other words, these were civilians 381 00:17:47,170 --> 00:17…

… and seeing antisemitic incidents; writing poetry; belonging to a literary society and meeting the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber; working in a military…

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…, at a military hospital in Alexandrov. It took 30 minutes by train to get there and he made $12 a week. It was dangerous to travel at night. Someone…

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…'s office was there on the, on the other side and I, I saw him quite often and the corners of my eyes I saw. I would never turn around. A lady didn't turn…

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…,990 some information. 278 00:13:54,990 --> 00:13:57,820 My father was working the office, 279 00:13:57,820 --> 00:14:03,320 and some workers from the mill…

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… German officers came and saw my grandmother and started laughing, started laughing like mad, you see. And showing with this, looking at her. Well, if I…

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… policeman. He was a colonel. Abraham Kippel, he was arrested, and I took him out the same day. This is what I did. An official office of the military…

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…, and of course my father’s livelihood ceased to exist, because he couldn’t do what he did at home. And at home my father had a factory of military…

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…:38,680 saw an armored car rolling in with the horses-drawn vehicles. 179 00:11:38,680 --> 00:11:43,150 And there was a lot of like pomp and military…