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People
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Locations
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Events
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Type: Biographical narrative / memoir excerpt (congressional evidence)
File Size: 2.55 MB
Summary

This document appears to be page 19 of a memoir or biography (likely that of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, whose mother was Esther Godin of Mishmar Hasharon), submitted as evidence in a House Oversight investigation. The text details the early life of Esther Godin, her family's history in Poland and Russia, her involvement in the Zionist youth group Gordonia, and her emigration to the Mishmar Hasharon kibbutz in the summer of 1935. The document bears the Bates stamp HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027867.

People (5)

Name Role Context
Esther Godin Subject/Mother
The narrator's mother, born in 1913 in Warsaw, pioneer at Mishmar Hasharon.
Samuel Godin Grandfather
Father of Esther, bookbinder.
Rachel Godin Grandmother
Mother of Esther.
Josef Pilsudski Historical Figure
Nationalist general leading independent Poland.
Lenin Historical Figure
Referenced regarding the choice between Poland and Communist Russia.

Organizations (3)

Name Type Context
Gordonia
Zionist youth group joined by Esther Godin.
Mishmar Hasharon
Kibbutz where Esther settled.
House Oversight Committee
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027867'.

Timeline (2 events)

1913
Birth of Esther Godin in Warsaw.
Warsaw, Poland
Summer 1935
Esther Godin travels to Mishmar Hasharon with 60 Gordonia pioneers.
Poland to Mishmar Hasharon
Esther Godin Gordonia pioneers

Locations (8)

Location Context
Kibbutz in Israel (then Palestine).
Poland, where Esther grew up.
Russia, origin of the Godin parents.
Warsaw, location of the family home (later Warsaw Ghetto).
Location of summer camps.
Poland, town near Auschwitz.
Transit country.
Transit country.

Relationships (2)

Narrator Parent/Child Esther Godin
Refers to Esther as 'my mother'.
Samuel Godin Parent/Child Esther Godin
Esther was the oldest of the six children of Samuel...

Key Quotes (2)

"They lived in what would become the Warsaw Ghetto, on Nalewski Street, where Samuel Godin eked out a living as a bookbinder."
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"She had just turned 22 when she set off for Mishmar Hasharon with 60 other Gordonia pioneers in the summer of 1935."
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