Interview with Regina Zielinski (Siedliczcze 2 September 1924). Zielinski was taken to Sobibor in a horse-drawn cart together with her fellow-villagers just before Christmas 1942. She was selected to knit socks and later had to sort ammunition. On arrival in the camp she heard her little brother say: Let's say farewell to the night, because we won't see the sun rise again.? She was born Riwka Feldman. ...

Interview with Alexander 'Sasja' Pechersky (Kremenchuk, 22 February 1909). Pechersky was a lieutenant in the Red Army, was taken prisoner in the autumn of 1941. When a medical examination revealed he was Jewish, he was transported to Sobibor on 22 September 1943. Over a period of three weeks he drew up a detailed plan to escape from the camp with all the prisoners. About his captivity and his part ...

Archief 804: Onderzoek - Vernietigingskamp Sobibor 3. Ooggetuigenverslagen 3.4. Videodocumentaire Sobibor

Thomas Blatt grew up in the Polish village of Izbica, which was used by the Geman Nazis as a transit ghetto for Jews on their way to the extermination camps in Eastern Poland. He was sixteen years old when he arrived at Sobibor with his parents and his brother. All three were immediately sent to the gas chambers, but Thomas himself was selected for forced labour. He had to cut women's hair before they ...

Alexsy Wajcen was born in the shtetl of Hodorov, a Jewish community not far from the town of Lvov in Ukraine. Horodov was part of Poland before the Second World War, but annexed by the Soviet Union after 1939. Alexsy was the oldest of five children. He served in the Soviet army from 1940 onwards and as a prisoner of war arrived in Sobibor, where he was selected for forced labour. With the exception ...

The Nazi Germans used Izbica, the Polish village where Philip Bialowitz was born, as a transitory ghetto for Jews on their way to the destruction camps in Eastern Poland. In Izbica Philip Bialowitz survived a fire squad as a young boy. He was deported to Sobibor in 1943 and selected for forced labour upon arrival. Philip's elder brother, Simkha, took care of him wherever possible. Philip was involved ...

Archief 804: Onderzoek - Vernietigingskamp Sobibor 3. Ooggetuigenverslagen 3.4. Videodocumentaire Sobibor 26-38 Interviews voor de videodocumentaire met overlevenden van de opstand in Sobibor, 1983-1984.

'The Long Shadow of Sobibor' is an interview project representing a unique historical document. The collection comprises open interviews taken by Professor Selma Leydesdorff with 9 survivors of the Sobibor revolt (1943) and 22 next of kin to persons murdered in Sobibor. These unique testimonials are far more than stories about camp life alone. --Stories of lives-- The interviews are the stories of ...

Semion Rozenfeld was born and grew up in Ternivka, a shtetl in Ukraine. He had two sisters, his father was a taylor. Semion graduates from secondary school before enlisting in the Soviet army at age eighteen. He was wounded during heavy fighting and was made POW by the German army. After a stay in a concentration camp in Minsk he was deported to Sobibor, where he was elected for forced labour. Semion ...

Arkady Wajspapir (Arkadii Weisspapier) was born in 1921 in the Ukrainian village of Bobrovyy Kut, then a Jewish community. He had an elder brother and a younger sister. The family lived together with the grandfather from his father's side - and his second wife plus a few relatives - in a house divided for the purpose. Arkady had had ten years of school when he enrolled in the Red Army in 1939. He was ...

Esther Raab was born in Chelm (Poland). Having grown up in a middle-class Jewish family, she remembers a "comfortable" childhood. Her father had many non-Jewish clients, with whom he could get on well. One of them helped Esther and her brother hide from the Nazis during the last year of the war. Esther had worked in a number of labour camps before she arrived in Sobibor in December 1942. In Sobibor, ...

Archief 804: Onderzoek - Vernietigingskamp Sobibor 3. Ooggetuigenverslagen 3.4. Videodocumentaire Sobibor 26-38 Interviews voor de videodocumentaire met overlevenden van de opstand in Sobibor, 1983-1984.

Archief 804: Onderzoek - Vernietigingskamp Sobibor 3. Ooggetuigenverslagen 3.4. Videodocumentaire Sobibor 26-38 Interviews voor de videodocumentaire met overlevenden van de opstand in Sobibor, 1983-1984.

In het Duits, voor de vertaling zie inv.nr. 13

Archief 804: Onderzoek - Vernietigingskamp Sobibor 3. Ooggetuigenverslagen 3.4. Videodocumentaire Sobibor 26-38 Interviews voor de videodocumentaire met overlevenden van de opstand in Sobibor, 1983-1984.

Archief 804: Onderzoek - Vernietigingskamp Sobibor 3. Ooggetuigenverslagen 3.4. Videodocumentaire Sobibor 26-38 Interviews voor de videodocumentaire met overlevenden van de opstand in Sobibor, 1983-1984.

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Archief 804: Onderzoek - Vernietigingskamp Sobibor 3. Ooggetuigenverslagen 3.4. Videodocumentaire Sobibor 26-38 Interviews voor de videodocumentaire met overlevenden van de opstand in Sobibor, 1983-1984.

Archief 804: Onderzoek - Vernietigingskamp Sobibor 3. Ooggetuigenverslagen 3.4. Videodocumentaire Sobibor 26-38 Interviews voor de videodocumentaire met overlevenden van de opstand in Sobibor, 1983-1984.

Archief 804: Onderzoek - Vernietigingskamp Sobibor 3. Ooggetuigenverslagen 3.4. Videodocumentaire Sobibor 26-38 Interviews voor de videodocumentaire met overlevenden van de opstand in Sobibor, 1983-1984.

In het Duits, voor de vertaling zie inv.nr. 25

Archief 804: Onderzoek - Vernietigingskamp Sobibor 3. Ooggetuigenverslagen 3.4. Videodocumentaire Sobibor 26-38 Interviews voor de videodocumentaire met overlevenden van de opstand in Sobibor, 1983-1984.

Regina Zielinski was born on 2 November 1925 in Siedliczcze (Poland). She has good memories of her father, mother, brothers and sister, and of life before the war. Before the German occupation, anti-Semitism seemed absent in her hometown; contacts between the family and their Polish neighbours and friends were good. After the German invasion the situation for the Polish Jews worsened dramatically. ...

Archief 804: Onderzoek - Vernietigingskamp Sobibor 3. Ooggetuigenverslagen 3.4. Videodocumentaire Sobibor 26-38 Interviews voor de videodocumentaire met overlevenden van de opstand in Sobibor, 1983-1984.