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Righteous among the Nations

The Uprising at Auschwitz

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The members of the SonderKommando were responsible for removing the bodies from the gas chambers and burning them. The following story describes the extraordinary uprising of the members of the team of Crematorium Number 4 three and a half months before the camp was liberated.

The Junior Officer who became a General – the Sobibor Uprising

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Alexander (Sasha) Peczersky was a Lieutenant (a junior officer) in the Red Army, who was sent to the Sobibor Extermination Camp in September 1943. Within three weeks of his arrival, he headed the largest uprising in any of the Extermination Camps, in which 300 inmates ultimately managed to escape from the Camp.

A Jew in the labor camps of Tunisia

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During six months, from November of 1943 until the Allied victory in North Africa in May 1943, Tunisia was under direct Nazi rule. The Jews there were forced to serve the Nazi war machine. Before you is a version of the testimony from the labor camps in Tunisia that arrived in a letter, sent to one of the leaders of the Jewish community in Algeria. The courage of the community members can be seen as they did not break in the face of Nazi attempts. This testimony was signed by S. Barda.

The Treblinka Death Camp

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Here is the story of the revolt that outbusted in Treblinka death camp

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Shaul Sagiv was born as Paul Werner in Cologne on November 28th 1924. In 1933 his family moved to Osterwick, Holland, which was conquered by the Germans in May 1940. When he received his draft order for slave labor, Shaul decided to escape. He escaped to a town named Haal, where he was arrested and handed over to the Gestapo. Shaul was sent to the Westerbork Concentration Camp. This is Shaul’s story – from his escape from the camp until his arrival in Israel.

Israel Millgrom

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Israel Millgrom lived in Lodz (Poland) before WWII broke out. On July 27th 1942, he escaped Warsaw for Krakow with forged papers; from Krakow he ran to Wisnicz and Czestochowa, where he was arrested by the Polish police. After a month in prison, he was sent by transport to the Treblinka death camp. This is his story of escape from the death camp.

David Isaiah Bart

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David Isaiah Bart was born in Zabrze, Poland in 1914. David was the oldest of eight children.

Rudolph Rader – a prisoner in the Belzec Death Camp

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Rudolph Rader was born in 1881. Before the war he lived in Lvov and remained there until his deportation to the Belzec death camp in August 1942. Rader was the only Jewish prisoner who succeeded in escaping from Belzec, in November 1942. The following is Rader’s hair-raising testimony, given in 1946.

The Polish watchmaker – Haim Shtatler

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This is the story of the son of a line of Jewish watchmakers, who, thanks to his profession and skill, managed to survive the Holocaust. Haim Shtatler was born in the town of Sosnowitz, Poland, and when war broke out he was deported to forced labor camps, where he worked for the Nazis as a watchmaker. When he made aliya he opened a watchmaker’s shop, and to this day his sons continue the family tradition. The story is told by his youngest son, Adir Shtatler.

Saving seven children in a forced labor camp

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The book Lohmat Nashim-(Fighting Women) tells the stories of female survivors of the AEG Company’s forced labor camp, which manufactured macnine parts for the German Army. One of the stories describes a woman by the name of Inga, whose amazing heroic acts succeeded in saving seven Hungarian children and one adult prisoner.

Nothing could break her – Minda Yulevitz

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Minda Yulevitz was born in 1928 in the city of Tarnow, Poland. Throughout the war Minda suffered many hardships, but against all odds she did not give up and remained alive. Her story illustrates the power of thought and spirit, which helped her to overcome the difficult realities of the war and to build a new life afterwards.

Counterfeiting in order to live

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This is the wonderful story of some tens of Jews who survived the terror of the Holocaust by participating in an ambitious Nazi project to destabilize the British economy and afterwards, that of the United States. The Jews worked cleverly forging banknotes, and in exchange they were saved from death and received good living conditions. The story was commemorated in the 2007 Oscar-winning Austrian film “The Counterfeiters”.

Three moments of initiative – Shelley Lagin

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Shelley Lagin spent most of her life under the Nazi regime in the Shavilly Ghetto in Lithuania. Together with the Jews of the ghetto she was transported to the Stutthof concentration camp and from there to other forced labor camps in Poland. When the Red Army approached Poland, the Germans decided to march the forced laborers back to the Stutthof camp, on an appalling march rife with murder. Our story will focus on three separate incidents during the Holocaust all of which center on one point –

Zvi Bachrach – A German boy in Auschwitz

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Zvi Bachrach was born in Hanau, Germany in 1928. After the pogroms against the Jews his family immigrated to Holland and later were sent to Auschwitz. Zvi arrived at the death camp as a young boy and managed to survive. Before you is the story of a survivor who became a Professor of the History of the Holocaust.

Chana Kugler Weiss

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Chana Kugler Weiss from Fioma, Italy, was called Hanni before the war, and afterwards No.5377A. She survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. She made aliya and today lives in Nazereth Illit, full of vitality and the joy of living. She never gave in, even in the most inhuman circumstances in the death factory.

Israel Perlberg

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The heroic story of Israel Perlberg reflects spiritual and physical strength, great resourcefulness and also a large measure of good luck. All these attributes helped him during moments of difficult crisis when he thought that his life was coming to an end. The story of what happenend to him during the Holocaust, is taken from a diary which came to light a few years ago, and is in fact testimony given by Israel to his wife, just before his death. His wife Edna, who did not witness the terrible

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