Miriam Biegun - August 10, 1983
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Miriam Biegun was born in White Russia. She and her family fled the ghetto for the Lipiczanska forest, joining the Lipiczanska Puszcza resistance when she was just four years old. In 1944, after living in the forest for three years, she and her siblings returned to Zhetl to find it in ruins. After a few months, they moved to Łódź, where her siblings went to a kibbutz and Miriam went on to Berlin by 1947. While in Germany, she was also with her aunts and uncles in Ziegenhain and Jäger-Kaserne before ultimately travelling to Israel with an aunt, uncle, and cousin and meeting her husband on the ship. The two were married in Israel before moving to Winnipeg and Windsor before finally settling down in Oak Park around 1970.
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- Introduction
- Family Before the War
- Life in the Ghetto
- Preparing for Resistance
- Running Away to the Woods
- Experience as a Child Partisan I
- Experience as a Child Partisan II
- Judenrat Assistance in the Ghetto
- Meeting Basic Needs in the Woods
- Description of Partisan Group
- Remembering German Soldiers
- Returning to Zhetl
- Returning to Zhetl II
- Ziegenhain
- Looking for Family and Friends in Zhetl
- Moving Around the World
- Life in Łódź
- Life in Berlin
- Life in Israel
- Memories of Family
- Sharing Experiences with Children
- Lasting Mental Effects
- Early Marriage and Settling Down with Husband
- Conclusion
- Conclusion II
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