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Oral history interview with Israel Beresritzki

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.210 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0210

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    Oral history interview with Israel Beresritzki

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Israel Beresritzki, born in Łódź, Poland, on May 15, 1925, discusses his childhood before the war; the German entrance into Łódź; anti-Jewish legislation; going to Malch (possibly Malech, Belarus) to live with his grandmother; the arrival of Germans in Malch in October 1941 and the shooting of Jews in the cemetery; escaping Malch; his family fleeing to Bereza (Byaroza); the ghetto in Bereza; traveling to Pruzany; life in the Pruzany ghetto; searching for and joining the partisans; his activities with the partisans; meeting up with the Russian army in July 1944; joining the Russian Army; arriving in Breslau, Germany in April 1945; arriving in Berlin, Germany on May 3, 1945; being captured by Smersh investigators and escaping; being in jail for two and a half years; his work in mining; traveling to Boronovichy; meeting his wife, Miriam; traveling to Vienna, Austria and Italy; and immigrating to Haifa, Israel in 1957.
    Interviewee
    Israel Beresritzki
    Date
    interview:  1995 March 31
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    14 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Corporate Name
    Red Army (Soviet Union)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Israel Beresritzki in Israel on March 31, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on January 1, 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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