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Memoirs of Zinoviy Rodshtein, born in Kiev, Ukraine, regarding his experiences in prisons in Gorkiy, Kharkov, Kiev, in a Soviet forced labor camp in the Kirov region and more

Memoirs of Zinoviy Rodshtein, born in Kiev, Ukraine, regarding his experiences in prisons in Gorkiy, Kharkov, Kiev, in a Soviet forced labor camp in the Kirov region and more Life before the war; work as the Executive Secretary of the local Comsomol Movement (Union of Communist Youth) Committee, 1936; detention of his friend, Mitya Komardinov; Rodshtein's refusal to accept the accusations leveled against his friend; dismissal from work due to his friendship with a Trotsky-terrorist; expulsion from the Communist Party; arrest, 28 October 1937; interrogations; life in prison; crowding in the cells; abuse by...

File Number : 8546

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Tzila Cela Stocanski née Smalc, born in 1936 in Lokacze, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in the Lokacze ghetto and in hiding in the homes of Polish peasants in the vicinity

Life before the war; offspring of a traditional family; ghettoization in 1941; murder of young m en; wearing the yellow star; mother works outside the ghetto; smuggling food; liquidation of the ghetto and escape to mother's workplace in 1942; finding a hideout in a pigsty owned by a Polish peasant and staying there for approx. a year; members of a gang under Bandera (leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement) enter the courtyard and burn down the peasant's house; witness's mother raped; wandering from village to village in the area; falls ill; helped by a Polish doctor; attempt to enter the Włodzimierz...

File Number : 13534

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Moshkovitz, born in Danilovo, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Danilovo, Debrecen, Budapest, Bucharest and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Moshkovitz, born in Danilovo, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Danilovo, Debrecen, Budapest, Bucharest and other places His childhood in an ultra-Orthodox home; pogrom against the Jews, 1938; annexation of Danilovo to Hungary, March 1939; life under Hungarian rule including anti-Jewish legislation; dismissal of his father [from his work]; his father's move back to Danilovo, 1941; move to Debrecen. German occupation of Debrecen, March 1944; life under German occupation including the imposition of decrees and forced wearing of a yellow badge; draft to labor battalions in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 171

Type of Material : List of Collaborators

Language : Russian

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 55, 17/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Murder of Josef Hornitzky, of Volksdeutsche (German minority) origin, who served as mayor of the city of Eisnern in the Kaernten and Kraine area, Yugoslavia; carrying out the murder by Communists on account of the murdered man's ties with the Gestapo; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen: Einsatzgruppe C: Presence in Pervomaysk; propaganda of...

File Number : 163.55