Tag: Poland
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Surviving the Holocaust: Before, During and After
The gates of memory opened for Pnina Goldsztern Shaufer (Perla) when I first spoke with her in October 2019, flooding her with memories and details of her young life in Poland. Based on conversations with her and her brother Shraga (Fayvel), I have pieced together this story of their family’s life in Poland before World […]
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The Goldsztern’s & Brisk (Brest) in World War II
Before the start of World War ll on September 1, 1939, Brest and Terespol were both part of Poland. Terespol is on the west side of the Bug River and Brest is on the east side, so members of the Goldsztern family moved easily between Terespol and Brest (Brisk); the two entities had been closely […]
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The Goldstein’s of Terespol
Because my family left New York when my mother was pregnant with me, in late summer 1951, I didn’t get to know my grandparents well. We made more-or-less annual treks back to Brooklyn, usually for Passover, sometimes in the summer. Those were twelve-hour car trips which we did in one day, stopping at a roadside […]