Mark Webber - December 13, 2004
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Mark Webber was born in Pułtusk, Poland on March 29, 1928. In 1939, Mark and his family were forced by the Germans out of Pułtusk and marched to Białystok. From there, the Russians took the family to a town in Northern Russia where they performed forced labor. Eventually the Russians moved the family to Uzbekistan where they stayed for the remainder of the war. After the war the family moved back to Poland with the intent to move to Palestine. However, after losing his parents, Mark decided to move to the United States.
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- Introduction
- Life Before the War
- Religious Life
- Politics
- Childhood
- Start of War
- Life Under German Occupation
- Being Forced Out of Home
- Forced March into Russia
- Life Under the Russians
- Deportation to Russia
- Life in Russia
- Being Allowed to Leave
- Discussion of Predicament
- Uzbekistan
- News of the War
- Life in Uzbekistan
- Working on a Kolkhoz
- Candy Making in Russia
- End of War
- Returning to Poland
- Life in the Kibbutzim
- Fate of Parents
- Feelings about Parent's Deaths
- Moving to the United States
- Conclusion
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