Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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File Number : 2022

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Memoirs of Israel Gutman, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1923, regarding the deportation “Aktion” in the Warsaw Ghetto in July 1942 and the establishment of the Jewish Fighting Organization and its activities in July-September 1942 Life in the ghetto; information regarding the activities of youth movements and especially of Hashomer Hatzair and Dror; institutions for mutual help; deportation at the end of July 1942; description of the fate of his sister (appears under the name Esther) and her deportation for extermination with the Korczak Orphanage; life with friends in different hiding places in the ghetto;...

File Number : 11156

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

A student paper by Limor (Peretz) Horvitz with the memoirs of Shlomo Horvitz and his sister Halina Horvitz regarding their experiences during the Holocaust, and personal documentation of Shlomo Horvitz from 1949-2013 The paper by Limor (Peretz) Horvitz, a student at the Shechter Institute of Jewish Studies and the Holocaust in Israeli Education and Society, was written in 2013, and includes the memoirs of Shlomo Horvitz and his sister Halina Horvitz regarding their experiences during the Holocaust: - the outbreak of the war; the air-raids on Ostroleka and the killing of their father; escape to Lomza (where...

File Number : 543

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Certification, Diploma, Birth Certificate, Memoirs, Project

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Nestenfover Nes, born in Pultusk, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Pultusk, the Soviet Union, Bialystok, Belorussia and in Kazan

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Nestenfover Nes, born in Pultusk, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Pultusk, the Soviet Union, Bialystok, Belorussia and in Kazan Life in a traditional family; displays of antisemitism before the war; Hashomer Hatzair activities; The German occupation; deportation of Jews, October 1939; escape to the Soviet Union; life as refugees in Bialystok; move to Belorussia; wanderings; occupation by the German Army, 1941; escape to Kazan with his grandfather; escape of his parents and siblings to Ural; draft of his father to the army; his grandfather's work as a tailor; reunification...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

זכרונותיו של יצחק גרינשטיין יליד Krymno 1919 על ילדותו ב-Krymno ועל קורותיו בצבא אדום ובפולין בזמן המלחמה ואחריה, סיפור על קורותיה של אשתו פנינה גרינשטיין לבית מורגנשטרן ב-1939-1948 וכתובתם של יצחק גרינשטיין ופעשי לבית מורגנשטרן שנערכה ב-Reichenbach ב-1945

Documentation including the memoirs of Icchak Grinsztejn (b. 1919 in Krymno, Poland) about his history in Krymno and in the ranks of the Red Army, history of his wife Penina Grinsztejn née Morgensztern in 1939–1948, and the ketuba (Jewish marriage contract) of Yitzhak and Peszi Grinsztejn - Pamphlet containing the memoirs of Icchak Grinsztejn (b. 1919 in Krymno, Poland) about his history in Krymno and in the ranks of the Red Army (original): Childhood in Krymno—the memoirist's father is murdered in a pogrom, evidently in 1920; neighbors help the family; the memoirist's mother dies in 1937; unsuccessful...

File Number : 9784

Type of Material : Biography, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Personal Documents, Memoirs, כתובה

Language : Hebrew, German

Documentation pertaining to the Holocaust of the Jews of Poland, including letters, articles and reports, 1939-1944

Documentation pertaining to the Holocaust of the Jews of Poland, including letters, articles and reports, 1939-1944 Collection of documents pertaining to the Holocaust of the Jews of Poland and the activities of Jewish and Polish organizations, 1942-1944, including: - Two anonymous articles regarding the situation of the Jews in Poland: "Sprawa żydowska w Polsce" (The Matter of the Jews in Poland), written in Warsaw, 1939, and "Rozwiazanie sprawy zidowskiej na forum miedzynarodovym" (Solving the Jewish Problem in the International Forum), undated; - Collection of documents, such as letters, reports and...

File Number : 1479

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Excerpt(s), Survey Report, Documentary, Article, List of Murdered Jews, Document(s), Letter, Letter(s)

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Testimony of Chaia (Ringer) Zis, born in 1934 in Janów Lubelski, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in the Soviet Union, Arkhangelsk, and other locations

Testimony

Testimony of Chaia (Ringer) Zis, born in 1934 in Janów Lubelski, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in the Soviet Union, Arkhangelsk, and other locations Childhood before the war; moves to Tarnoogorod; war erupts in September 1939; Jews imprisoned in a synagogue on Yom Kippur 1939; witness escapes to Lwów; joins others aboard an eastbound passenger train and reaches Georgia; back to Lwów in 1940; deported to Arkhangelsk; cold and hunger; transferred to Tashkent in June 1941; on to Leninbad, Tadjikistan; relations with the local population and with local Jews; trade; father apprehended for theft and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Baruch Maringer regarding the experiences of his family in Warsaw and Wolomin, their escape to Magnitogorsk, being drafted to the Red Army and aliya to Israel

Memoirs of Baruch Maringer regarding the experiences of his family in Warsaw and Wolomin, their escape to Magnitogorsk, being drafted to the Red Army and aliya to Israel Memoirs of Baruch Maringer, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1924, regarding the experiences of his family during the Holocaust, written in 1994: - Move of his family from Warsaw to Wolomin due to difficulties in finding places to rent; childhood; joining Zukunft, the Bund (General Jewish Labor Union) Youth Movement; employment by a metalworker in Warsaw; German occupation of Wolomin, 1939; the walk towards the east by Baruch; arrival in Malkinia,...

File Number : 9067

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Joint video testimony of the brothers Avraham Schachter Ben Zeev and Yitzchak Schachter Ben-Zeev regarding the experiences of their family in Zawiercie, Kraków, deportation to Siberia, time in Uzbekistan, drafted to Anders Army and aliya to Eretz Israel Joint video testimony of two brothers, Avraham Schachter Ben Zeev, born in Zawiercie, Poland, September 1911, and Yitzchak Schachter Ben-Zeev, born in Zawiercie, Poland, November 1919, regarding the experiences of their family during the Holocaust; the testimony given in November 2009: - Schachter family tree; childhood in Zawiercie; their father was a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew