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Esfir Lupyan - December 17, 2007

Esfir Lupyan was born in Minsk, Belorussia in 1936. Prior to the war, her father was proclaimed a dissident and was sent northward while her mother was left to take care of Esfir and her brother Gresha. After the Germans occupied Minsk, the family was sent to the ghetto where they lived for two years. Gresha joined the partisans, was captured by the Germans, and sent to a death camp. Escaping the liquidation of the ghetto, Esfir and her mother allied themselves with a group of partisans living in a nearby forest until they were liberated in 1945. Shortly thereafter, they were reunited with her father. Esfir continued to live in Minsk until 1988 when she immigrated to the United States with her own children.

1. Family
2. Family 2
3. Father
4. Religion
5. Father 2
6. Father 3
7. Ghetto
8. German Occupation
9. Children in Ghetto
10. Resistance Movement
11. Resistance Movement 2
12. German Occupation 2
13. Mother's Forced Labor
14. Life in the Ghetto
15. Collaborators
16. Collaborators 2
17. Deportation of Brother
18. Survival
19. Jewish Cookbook
20. Liquidation of Ghetto
21. Liquidation of Ghetto 2
22. Russian Partisans
23. Living with the Partisans
24. Orphanage
25. Thoughts on Survival
26. Daily Occurrences
27. Religion 2
28. Thoughts on Survival 2
29. Living with the Partisans 2
30. Childhood
31. Malyy Trostenets
32. Minsk Survivors
33. Return to Belorussia
34. Speaking About Experiences
35. Remembering Experiences
36. Remembering Experiences 2
37. Raising Her Children
38. Raising Her Children 2
39. Grandchildren
40. Remembering Experiences 3
41. Holocaust Films
42. Sharing Photographs
43. Sharing Photographs 2
44. Mutual Acquaintances
45. Life in America
46. Survivors
47. Conclusion