Fruma Varfman (Meirovitz) 
Gender:
Female
Birth:
1903 
Kurenets, Minsk Province, Belarus
Death:
1942 (39) (Murdered by the Nazis)
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Ben Zion Meirovitz and Perla Meirovitch 
Wife of Zev (Velvl) Warfman 
Mother of Bashinka Warfman and Perla Warfman 
Sister of Aharon Meirovitz; Michael Meirovitch; Sara Meirovitch Eisen and Leika Meirovitch 
WARFMAN, CELIA    7-MRL    DOKSCHITZER    10/13/1914  Mount Zion Cemetery Maspeth, NY list of burials
WARFMAN, NATHAN    17-MRL    DOKSCHITZER    8/16/1921  Mount Zion Cemetery Maspeth, NY list of burial

David Warfman 
Gender:
Male
Birth:
circa 1849
Immediate Family:
Son of Shneyer Warfman 
Husband of Riva Warfman 
Father of Yisroel Dov Warfman 
Added by:
Mordechai Naftalis on March 4, 2008
Nachman Warfman 
Gender:
Male
Birth:
estimated between 1880 and 1940
Immediate Family:
Son of Yisroel Dov Warfman and <private> Warfman 
Husband of Rose Warfman 
Father of Yisroel Dov Mordechai Warfman and <private> Gruner (Warfman) 
Brother of David Warfman; Fania Warfman; Zalta Warfman and Shneior Warfman 

Added by:
Mordechai Naftalis on June 21, 2007
Managed by:
Mordechai Naftalis and Samuel Royde
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The Holocaust in Town

by Mordechai Warfman
June 1941. The Germans have arrived in our town. The ghetto was created and the Nazi conquerers appointed a "Judenrat" (a Jewish council) and a Jewish police whose job it was to implement the Nazi orders and to be responsible for the Jewish acts. They had to supply man power from among the Jews, according to a quota set beforehand. The overcrowding in the ghetto was unbearable. We lived three or four families in a small apartment. The first "Action" in our town took place in "Hol Hamoed" of Passover in 1942. Despite the fact that part of the ghetto residents were executed, life went on as usual, as if nothing had happened. Two of the townsmen, Arie Lifshitz and Pesach Velble, were found dead in the synagogue, as the Germans did not have time to take them. A day after Lag Baomer (33 of the Omer), the second "Action" took place. A considerable part of the town's Jews were exterminated in this "Action". The Germans demanded a hundred young healthy men for work from the Jewish police. I was among the hundred chosen. The Germans led us to the Polish school and ordered us to run and sing. The soldiers beat us with sticks until we bled. At noon we were sent back to work. The third "Action" occurred immediately after "Shavuot". This was the last "Action" which was supposed to completely exterminate the whole Jewish population of Dokschitz. Many Jews tried to escape this bitter end by hiding in sewers or bunkers. My uncle and I hid in a bunker during ten days. At night we would leave to search for food. A day before I escaped, I heard screaming from the house next door. It was the house of Nahman Zalkind and his daughter Masha Kosowsky. Nahman Zalkind, his daughter Masha Kosovsky and her children - the elder daughter, Riva Zlate and the son Jacob were taken brutaly by the Nazies. The son Leibel was in German captivity from 1939 and nothing is known of him to this day. The youngest daughter, Libe Lea survived and lives in Israel. That night, my uncle and I escaped and crossed, on our way, the Berezina river. Under German fire, we managed to escape and began looking for partisan units. We finally found a partisan unit and joined it, fighting between the years 1942 and 1944. I remember the attack we effectuated before the arrival of the Red-Army in June of 1944. The Germans ran for their lives. We set up an ambush their path and succeeded in killing 200 of them and also imprisoned many. When we were near Polotsk, Malnikov headed the partisan unit of which I was part. Later, Alchziov was appointed in his place.
On June 28, 1944 we succeeded in contacting the Red-Army. They let us join their ranks after letting us rest for a month. I was sent to the Minsk area where I was given an artillery course which lasted two months. After successfully passing the course, I was sent to the Visla area, about 30 km from Warsaw. Toward the middle of January 1945 we opened an all out attack. We advanced all the way to the Oder river and made camp in it's vicinity for two weeks until the bridges were built. We crossed it under the cover of darkness and arrived all the way in Berlin where we fought bitter battles in the streets. After the war I remained in the regular army for another year and then returned to Russia, from which I moved to Poland, where I stayed a few months and came to Israel.