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Claire Boren
Five-year-old Claire Boren and her mother escaped Mizoch
Ghetto the day before its final destruction. Claire and her
mother were warned of the ghetto's destruction by a man her
father had paid to hide them. They survived the war hiding
in the forest and were sheltered by Christian families.
Claire is shown in this picture with her sister Bina, who
was born after the war in Displaced Persons camp. Claire
lives in New Jersey. Her story can be read on the Holocaust Survivors Project
website.
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Rachel Mizutch Gewing
Rachel Mizutch was seven years old when the Jewish
population was driven from the Mizocz Ghetto and murdered.
Her father enjoined Rachel and her siblings -- if any
survived -- to tell their story to the world. Moving bewteen
Czech villages and the forest, Rachel and two sisters Pearl
and Paula did survive the war, eventually emigrating to
Israel. Rachel married and had four daughters. She passed
away in 2014. In accordence with her father's wishes and
with her husband's permission, Rachel Gewing's Autobiography
is presented here.
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Yosef Mednik and Feiga Geldi Mednik
Josef Mednik was born in Mizoch in 1912. He served for two
years in the Polish Air Force and returned home to marry
Feiga Geldi from nearby Shumsk. Five members of the Mednick
family perished in the Mizocz massacre in 1942. Josef and
Feiga fled from Shumsk to Tashkent, where she worked on a
farm collective and he joined the Polish Corps of the Soviet
Army. After the war, the fmaily emigrated to Brooklyn. Their
story is told in the book Flight
to Tashkent: The Desperate Journey of Holocaust Survivors
Yosef Mednik and Feiga Geldi Mednik.
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Sarah Spanover Cotel and Zelig Cotel
Sarah and Zelig Cotel and one of Zelig's brothers had
emigrated to Chicago by 1910, while their siblings remained
behind in Mizocz. Upon learning five siblings and their
families were murdered in the Mizocz massacre, the pain was
so great they never again speak of their lost family or the
shetl where they were born. The history of their family was
reconstucted from a series of letters written in Yiddish
written by their lost siblings from 1920 to 1939 and
published in Echos
From Mizocz: A Shtetl Lost, which can be viewed from
the publisher's website or PDF.
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