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Memoirs of a Jew born in Wieluń, Poland in 1916. Pp. 194-450 deal with the Holocaust. Describes the Nazi plunder and murder of Jews immediately after the occupation in Kalisz, where he lived in 1939. The Jews of Kalisz were deported to Koźminek. Describes life in the ghetto; the Judenrat and its head, Mordechai Knop, who saved many Jews through bribery; and forced labor in nearby villages. Eibeshitz fled to the ghetto of Młyny, but in spring 1942 was deported to the Scheveningen labor camp. In March 1943 he was sent to prison in the Łódź ghetto. Describes the ambivalence of Chaim Rumkowski in his dealings with the prisoners. Throughout the book, relates stories of Orthodox Jews who maintained their religious practices and their humanity. In March 1944 Eibeshitz was sent to the Częstochowa labor camp, where he was liberated in January 1945. His parents were deported and killed in fall 1942; Eibeshitz emigrated to Israel in 1948. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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בשער גם: ירושלים.

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גישה באמצעות האינטרנט.

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233195459

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