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A teacher and his students: Child Holocaust Testimonies from Early post-war Polish Bytom

Author

Boaz Cohen & Beate Muller

Bibliography

Cohen, B. and Muller B. (2016). A teacher and his students: Child Holocaust Testimonies from Early post-war Polish Bytom, East European Jewish Affairs,Vol. 46 No. 1, 68-115

Abstract

The document presented here was created in 1945 in Bytom, Poland. It contains testimonies by Holocaust survivor children collected and put down in a notebook by their survivor teacher, Shlomo Tsam, in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust. The testimonies shed light on Jewish children’s experience in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust, describing oppression, flight, and survival