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Category: Translation - Hebrew
Approval Date: 5/27/2026 4:06 PM
Family Surname:
Country: Poland
Town: Minsk-Mazowiecki

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Dear All
This text is an extract from Minsk Mazowiecki's Yizkor book I would like a complete translation english or french doesn't matter.

Thank you very much

Response

5/27/2026 6:36 PM

FAYGE GUNTERCHIK-SHERMAN
(Lod)

Our house in the street of the church.

My parents come to Minsk from another city. We lived on Kushchelna Street 8. We were five girls in the house, we were all born in Minsk. My father was the owner of a shoe factory. I studied in the public school. We used to prepare our lessons together, at Hinda Friedman’s.

I finished school at the age of 14. From the age of 15, I would attend the “Poalei Zion” movement. The head of the branch was Slodzersh (?). The older members went to Hachsharah [training]. In the movement we read books, organized debates, and dreamt about the life in the Land of Israel.

In our city there was Mutual Aid. Also my father was a member of the Charity Fund and was a person who extended his help to others. He was also a conversationalist and always made sure to bring a guest for Shabbat.

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My grandmother, Shifra, was a midwife, and if she found that a difficult situation ruled in the home of the woman giving birth, she left her own money and did not asked to be paid for the birth. Even the small amount of money that her son sent her, she would distribute among the poor.

Until the year 1936, life was good and no-one feared to walk in the streets of the city, even in the late hours of the night. After the Pogrom, things changed. At the time of the Pogrom, we all fled to Warsaw, only my parents did not manage to flee and they hid at the Polish neighbor.

When the war broke out, we lived in a house built of stone, but it was destroyed during the bombing and we went to live in another place. When the Germans began to “kidnap” Jews for labor, I fled with Yisrael Kashonashkovsky [?], the two sisters Moses, and Moshe Rozhensky and his wife and also Moshe Butler, to Russia. I lived there during all the years of the war.

5/30/2026 9:12 AM

Dans notre maison, rue HaKnessiya
(Pania Gentshar‑Kishman, Lodz)
Les parents arrivèrent à Łódź depuis une autre ville. Nous habitions rue Kilińskiego n° 8, dans une maison de plusieurs étages. Toute la famille vivait au-dessus du magasin. Mon père travaillait comme enseignant au lycée. À l’âge de 14 ans, je terminais mes études secondaires. À 15 ans, j’étais déjà en formation dans un mouvement de jeunesse. Nous lisions des livres, écrivions, et rêvions de la vie en Terre d’Israël.
Lorsqu’en lieu surgissait un besoin d’aider, mon père intervenait beaucoup dans la communauté. Il accomplissait des actes de bienfaisance et aidait chaque personne qui avait besoin d’un soutien.
(Description de la photo) :
Une photographie en noir et blanc montre deux personnes posant côte à côte. À gauche, une personne porte une robe à motifs clairs. À droite, une personne porte un manteau et une casquette. L’arrière-plan semble être un extérieur, possiblement une cour ou un jardin.
Autour de nous, la situation semblait normale jusqu’à un certain moment. Il paraissait que les habitants de Pologne vivaient encore tranquillement et sans inquiétude pour l’avenir. Mais un sentiment étrange s’insinuait peu à peu.
En 1939, la guerre éclata. Les événements tombaient comme un coup de tonnerre. Aux premières heures de la guerre, les bombardements commencèrent à frapper la ville. Les routes se remplirent de réfugiés. Les gens fuyaient dans toutes les directions.
Dans notre maison aussi, tout changea en un instant. La peur s’installa. Les habitants se regroupaient, cherchaient à comprendre ce qui se passait, mais il était déjà clair que plus rien ne serait comme avant.

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Discover your ancestral town, explore geographic/regional based sections of the JewishGen site (Research Divisions), and explore what daily life was like for your ancestors - and what we can learn from them today.

Enhance your research with online classes and dozens of helpful articles. University students can apply for the Bennett & Robin Greenspan L'dor V'dor Legacy Program, and those "out of school" can help preserve Jewish Heritage in Poland with unique study & volunteer experiences.

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