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1. Reminiscences of Albert Lapidus, from Baltimore, a former prisoner of the Minsk ghetto
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0320 | RG Number: RG-02.174
Date:
1994
…Consists of a Russian language memoir and an English language summary which describe author's childhood in Belarus, experiences of author and his…
2. Statement of Mariya Gilmovskaya
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0352.2 | RG Number: RG-02.198
…Describes the experiences of Mariya Gilmovskya, her memories of Nazi atrocities in Mir, Belarus; her internment in the Mir ghetto; death of family…
3. Statement of Leon Liberman
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0352.1 | RG Number: RG-02.197
…Valozhyn (Belarus)…
4. Martin Koplow testimony
Document | Accession Number: 2013.40.1
Date:
inclusive: 1978-1981
…Rakaŭ (Belarus)…
5. Fruma Gulkowitz-Berger papers
2017.262.5 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2017.262.5
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1990
undated: 
… one brother, Ben-Zion. When Fruma was a child her family moved to Korelitz (Korelichi, Belarus), Poland. Her brother Ben-Zion married a woman named…
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 … of Fruma Gulkowitz-Berger (pen name of Frances Berger) and Murray Berger, both of whom joined the Bielski partisans in Western Belorussia (Belarus…
6. Vladimir Lewin papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.361.2
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2018
…Vladimir Lewin was born on 29 April 1922 in Pinsk, Poland (Pinsk, Belarus) to Lazar (1891-1967) and Judyta (née Minkowicz, d. 1942). He had one…
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 … his family, originally from Pinsk, Poland (Pinsk, Belarus). Material related to Vladimir consists of identification cards including his Titolo di…
7. Jorek Blocher papers
1988.92.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 140
Document | Accession Number: 1988.92.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1945-1963
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Jorek Blocher (1913-1996) was born in Michaliszki, Poland (now Michališki, Belarus) to Casper and Esther (Kornetsky) Blocher. During the Holocaust…
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 …, Poland (now Michališki, Belarus) and being hidden by the Dąbrowski family in an isolated cottage near Vilna. The newspaper clipping is a 1963 article in…
8. Jonas Landau
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0574 | RG Number: RG-02.214
Date:
creation: 1993
Subtitle:
memoirs
…Contains Jonas Landau's memoir relating to his childhood in prewar "Stolpce" (Stolbce, Poland, now Stolbëisy, Belarus); the shooting of Jews by the…
9. Klara Salamon papers
2007.23 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2007.23
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Slonim (Belarus).…
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 …. Jewish ghettos‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw. Physicians‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw. Holocaust survivors. Warsaw (Poland). Białystok (Poland). Slonim (Belarus). CONTAINER…
10. Litman Turovsky papers
2003.153.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2003.153.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1941
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Litman Turovsky (1854-1941) lived in Rėchytsa, Belarus. Beginning in 1910, he kept a diary recording events in his daily life. Litman continued to…
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 … Rėchytsa, Belarus from 1854 until he was killed by Nazi soldiers in 1941. The collection includes a photograph of Litman, 4 photographic postcards with…
11. Sarra Gimelshtein collection
1995.A.0162 Box 1 Folder 1 Item 15
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0162
Date:
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Consists of a handwritten, bound memoir, written by Sarra Gimelshtein relating to her experience in the ghetto in Minsk, Belarus. In the memoir, she…
12. Maria Lichtsztejn and Sarah Montard collection
1994.A.0360 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0360
Date:
inclusive: 1951-1958
…Maria Lichtsztejn was born in 1904 to David and Brucha Korenbaum in Malorita, near Brest-Litovsk, Byelorussia (now Brest, Belarus). In 1927, Maria, a…
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 … Lichtsztejn was born in 1904 to David and Brucha Korenbaum in Malorita, near Brest‐Litovsk, Byelorussia (now Brest, Belarus). In 1927, Maria, a dressmaker…
13. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
…Rachel Mutterperl Goldfarb was born to Beryl and Dina Mutterperl on December 2, 1930 in Dokszyce, Poland (present day: Dokšycy, Belarus). Rachel…
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 … (present day: Dokšycy, Belarus). Rachel’s brother, Shlomo Mutterperl, was three years younger. Dokszyce was three miles from the Soviet Union border and had…
14. Torn between tyrants
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0195 | RG Number: RG-02.135
Date:
creation: 1952
Subtitle:
memories about the Holocaust that linger on
…Derechin (Belarus and Poland)…
15. Mikhail Lev collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.12 | RG Number: RG-68.118
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2008
… by the Germans, and survived for a year in a prisoner of war camp before escaping. After his escape, he joined the partisans in Belarus where he served…
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 … the Germans, and survived for a year in a prisoner of war camp before escaping. After his escape, he joined the partisans in Belarus where he served as…
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 …. After surviving one year in the POW camp, he managed to escape and joined partisans in Belarus, serving first as a commander of the intelligence unit and…
16. "Sara's Story"
2014.80.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.80.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 2013
… Belarus. After the German invasion in June 1941, Sara was separated from her family during a German bombing raid and found an orphanage. She eventually…
17. Nina Merrick papers
1988.70.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1988.70.3
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… forcibly relocated to a few Jewish houses surrounded by barbed wire in Berisov (Barysau, Belarus.) They had to wear yellow patches that said Jude on the…
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 … the Germans forcibly relocated them to the Borisov ghetto (Barysaŭ, Belarus). Their ghetto home was raided in August 1942, and Nina escaped. She…
18. Memories of a generation
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0225 | RG Number: RG-10.120
Date:
undated: 
…Pinsk (Belarus)…
19. Daniil Romanovsky collection
2014.219 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2014.219 | RG Number: RG-68.186
Date:
inclusive: 1980-1990
… Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.…
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 … Romanovsky in 1980-1990s in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. Languages: Russian Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored…
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 … Romanovsky in 1980-1990s in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. Languages: Russian Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored…
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20. Bernard Blustein memoir
1995.A.0690 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0690
Date:
inclusive: 1980
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Bernard (Beryl) Blustein (1905-1992) was born in Koscierzyna County, Poland. In 1941 he was living in Belarus and working as a railroad mechanic when…