Given name: Jaari Bela Family name: Chazan

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  • Female
  • Jaari Bela
  • Chazan
  • Rożyszcz

  • Born in Rozyszcz in Wolyn. An underground Dror activist on territories taken by the Red Army, subsequently occupied by Germans. A messenger in Grodno and Bialystok. Caught by the Gestapo while crossing the border to the General Government in spring 1942. Deported to Oswiecim. Lives in Israel.

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  • Zivia (Cywia) Lubetkin's memoirs. Record of the testimony from the occupation period of one of the most outstanding figures of Jewish resistance movement and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After coming to Palestine after the war, she wanted to preserve the memory of the events she took part in; she told people in kibbutzim how the Holocaust looked like, what people from her circle did, with no chance to succeed, to prevent it. The description of the Uprising is the main and the most shocking part of the memoirs. They are generally considered one of the most important sources of the uprising's history.

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