The architect and Luftwaffe sergeant Karl Laabs was conscripted in 1941 in occupied Poland to work as head of the construction office in the Chrzanów district, near the small town of Oświęcim…
At the end of October 1942, all Jewish men in Norway were to be arrested. Four young men in Oslo narrowly evaded arrest. They asked the gardener Rolf Syversen for help. Syversen turned to his…
The former police officer Reidar Larsen was a department manager in a large transport company in Oslo. During the cold winter of 1941/42, he and his colleague Alf Pettersen stole large amounts of…
Klavdiya Gerasimchik lived with her parents Pavel and Lyubov in the village of Szubków (now Shubkiv, Ukraine). She had two siblings, Galina and Nikolay Gerasimchik. The family ran a small farm.
In…
After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Julian Grobelny moved to Warsaw, where he supported the banned Polish Socialist Party (PPS) under the code name of Trojan. Grobelny witnessed the…
Rivka Kabiljo lived with her husband Jozef and their children Benjamin and Tova in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Their apartment was damaged in German air raids in April 1941. The family of four was taken in by…
Tova Kabiljo was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1938. She lived there with her Jewish parents Jozef and Rivka Kabiljo and her older brother Benjamin.
In April 1941 the Kabiljo family’s apartment was…
Zejneba Hardaga lived with her husband Mustafa and their children Zarifa and Salih in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
After the German air raids on Sarajevo in April 1941, the Hardaga family took in the Jewish…
Jozef Kabiljo lived with his wife Rivka and their children Benjamin and Tova in Sarajevo, Bosnia. He ran a plumbing shop and lead pipe factory.
The Kabiljos’ apartment was damaged in German air…
Piotr Zysman lived in Warsaw with his parents Teodora and Józef Zysman, a lawyer. In the fall of 1940, the family had to move to the ghetto. When in the summer of 1942 ghetto residents were…
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