Klara Galperina lived in Minsk with her stepmother Esfir and her three siblings Maya, Vladimir, and Nelli. The city was occupied by German troops in 1941 and the occupiers immediately began…
The diplomat Jan Karski was drafted into the Polish army after the German invasion of Poland, and was soon captured as a prisoner of war. He escaped in December 1939 and joined the Polish Underground…
René Babaz was a member of a resistance network run by the French government-in-exile in London. The network’s headquarters were in Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon.
Aided by his son Robert, René…
Svetlana Khachevskaya lived in Minsk with her parents Anna and Venyamin Khachevski. When their neighbor Esfir Galperina and her four children Maya, Vladimir, Nelli, and Klara had to move into the…
Moshe Beirach was raised in a Jewish family in Pabianice, Poland. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939 he had to perform forced labor for the occupiers. He fled to Belorussia.
In June 1941 German…
Đina Beritić lived in Dubrovnik (Yugoslavia, today Croatia). Her husband was a sea captain and often traveling, so Beritić moved to Zagreb to her son Tihomil, who was studying medicine there.
As of…
Tihomil Beritić was a medical student in Zagreb (Yugoslavia, today Croatia) when German troops invaded the country. Zagreb then became part of the “Independent State of Croatia,” which persecuted the…
Adolf Berman was a politician and Zionist. In the fall of 1940, he was forced to move into the Warsaw ghetto. There he ran the charitable organization Centos, which cared especially for Jewish…
Nikolay Gerasimchik was born in the village of Szubków (today Shubkiv) in 1929. He lived on the small family farm with his parents Pavel and Lyubov and his two older sisters Galina and Klavdiya.…
Dina Büchler was born in Zagreb in 1940. As of April 1941, Zagreb belonged to the “Independent State of Croatia.” The Croatian fascist organization Ustasha immediately began persecuting Jews. That…
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