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Aaron Yermus and his classmate Moshe Kristol. The two attended a Russian, Polish school in Kzyl-Orda, Khazakstan during the war.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 89334
Aaron Yermus and his classmate Moshe Kristol. The two attended a Russian, Polish school in Kzyl-Orda, Khazakstan during the war. The student body was 60% Jewish and 40% non-Jewish. Its students were mostly Polish refugees seeking haven in the Soviet Union.

Aaron Yermus and his classmate Moshe Kristol. The two attended a Russian, Polish school in Kzyl-Orda, Khazakstan during the war.

The student body was 60% Jewish and 40% non-Jewish. Its students were mostly Polish refugees seeking haven in the Soviet Union.

Date
1945
Locale
Kzyl-Orda, [Kazakhstan] USSR
Photo Designation
JEWISH REFUGEES: SEARCH FOR SAFE HAVENS (1933-1945) -- Emigration/Refugee Assistance -- In USSR
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Aaron Yermus

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Biography
Aaron Yermus is the son of Doba [Cymerman] Yermus, Moshe Yermus. He had a brother Sam. He was born in Chelm Poland in , his parents and brothers fled Chelm for Rovno. The were deported to Siberia and then were held in open arrest in the Ural mountains and in Kazakstan in the towns of Szierdlovsk and Kzylorda After the war, the family returned to Poland and then moved to the Steyr DP camp in Austria. Aaron, who had contacts with the Betar Zionist movement, was given work as a phone operator by the camp administration. While in DP camp he met his future wife, Helen Verblunsky. The two settled in Canada and married in 1952.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Aaron Yermus
 
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