Overview
- Description
- Photocopy of a May 1, 1944, letter written by Israel (Ezia) Weiner to his brother Moshe and sister Frieda, describing what he learned upon his return to his hometown, Vinnitsa, USSR, (Soviet Union) shortly after its liberation from the Germans. The letter contains information about the death of their mother during a pogrom in Sep. 1941 in Vinnitsa; the deaths of other family members in 1941 and 1942; and the destruction of the Weiner family home and neighborhood in Vinnitsa.
- Date
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creation:
1944 May 01
- Collection Creator
- Moshe Weiner
- Biography
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Moishe Weiner was born in a shtetl near Vinnytsya, Ukraine where there were about 45,000 Jews
before the war. The family consisted of three brothers and two sisters, another brother having
died around the time Moishe was born. Although the family was poor, they valued education as a
way out of poverty. Moishe attended the Ukrainian school, the path to study for the professions,
instead of the Jewish school. After the German invasion his older sister urged the family to get away, but they had no money. Because his ister was engaged to an Army officer, she was given one of the train passes issued for her fiancé’s family. Moishe’s parents threw him on the train with his sister, though he had no pass; thus saving his life. They never made it to their destination because the Germans attacked the train. They managed to escape, and made their way to Orsk in the Urals. He worked at different
jobs until he was called into the army in 1945 after the war.
Physical Details
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Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Israel (Ezia) Weiner, brother of Moshe Weiner, wrote the original letter in 1944. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. received the photocopy of the letter in early 1992 and passed it on to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in July 1992.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:00:33
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