ʿAtse ha-livneh ha-zeḳufim : loḥem Yehudi ba-tsava ha-Polani, be-Geṭo Mezeritsʹ u-va-maḥanot

Biografie

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1917 in Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Poland, where he and his three brothers were raised by their grandmother. He was drafted into the Polish army in March 1939. He was captured by the Germans soon after the war began, but was released several months later and returned to Miedzyrzec. As an electrician, he was sent in 1942 to work at a nearby German army base. He witnessed the first deportation from Miedzyrzec in in August 1942, and then escaped from the base and entered the ghetto. In May 1943 he was deported with his brother Ze'ev to Majdanek his brother sawed open the door of the wagon, but was then killed. After several months in Majdanek, Brezniak was sent to Auschwitz, where he worked at IG-Farben as an electrician. In January 1945 he was sent on a death march, during which he escaped just before the liberation. Two of his brothers perished in the Holocaust the third had been sent to Australia earlier for communist activities. Brezniak emigrated to Eretz Israel after the war. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)

Object Details

• Alternative title: Birch trees stand tall : a Jewish fighter in the Polish army, the Miedzyrzec Ghetto, and in the concentration camps
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9789653081918 ; 9653081918
• Dimensions: 22 cm
• Extent: 227 Seiten
• Language: Hebräisch
• Notes: Illustrationen

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Yerushalayim
• (who): Yad ṿa-Shem
• (when): 764 [2003]
• Creator: Brezniak, Moshe ; Brezniak, Naphtali

Further information

• Table of contents: https://d-nb.info/971236267/04
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• Last update: 11.03.2025, 12:13 PM CET