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Testimony of Shlomo Livne, born in Plavecky Svaty Mikulas, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences being hidden in a convent after his conversion, and his return to Judaism after the war

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Livne, born in Plavecky Svaty Mikulas, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences being hidden in a convent after his conversion, and his return to Judaism after the war Family life; Aryanization of the family business, 1940; separation from his family; being hidden in a convent after his conversion and baptism in Tranava; life in an orphanage run by nuns; survival; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Reunion with his family; return to daily routine after the war; aliya to Israel with Youth Aliyah via Bari, Italy on the ship "Caserta", 1949; absorption in a kibbutz and a moshav.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Paul Watarescu, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Paul Watarescu, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Bucharest Family background; way of life; cultural life. Outbreak of war; life under antisemitic laws; travel restrictions; attitude of the population in Bucharest; attitude of the church and the clergy in Bucharest; liberation as result of a popular uprising, 1944. Life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1971.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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. 13, 05 July 1941 Part 1 - Political events; Part 2 - Reports from the Einsatzgruppen: Dissemination of Communist placards in Berlin; typhus in Gross-Rosen, Auschwitz and Mauthausen; Ehrenhaft (honorable detention) of nationalist Ukrainians in Poland; transfer of Stepan Bandera (founder of the UPA-Ukrainian Uprising Army) to Berlin for interrogation; Activity of the Einsatzgruppen and the...

File Number : 163.13

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Antisemitic booklet which was published in Poland and distributed among Polish priests, 1938-1939

File Number : 870

Type of Material : Brochure

Language : Polish

Letter of testimony by Jan Rebisz, a Polish priest from Miedzyrzec Podlaski, regarding his help to a Jewish girl in finding work and housing during the Nazi occupation

Letter of testimony by Jan Rebisz, a Polish priest from Miedzyrzec Podlaski, regarding his help to a Jewish girl in finding work and housing during the Nazi occupation Arrival of a Jewish girl, who was 16 years old, to his home and her request to find a place of work; during a conversation with him, she discloses her Jewish identity and her life story, including the loss of all her family members; he refers her to a place of work; he keeps in contact with the girl as she reveals a desire to convert to Christianity; he teaches her the principles of the Catholic religion; The name of the girl in not...

File Number : 478

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Szymon Kahane, regarding his experiences in Lwow, in Dornfeld camp and in hiding in the village of Siemianowka with his family while using a false identity

Testimony of Szymon Kahane, regarding his experiences in Lwow, in Dornfeld camp and in hiding in the village of Siemianowka with his family while using a false identity Labor for "Ostbahn", following the German occupation of Lwow, 1941; in hiding in an attic during the "Aktion" of August 1942; deportation to Dornfeld camp with his wife and daughter; labor by Jews on a farm, in a bakery, a dairy and in storerooms; attitude of the camp commander; they receive food and reside in the village, without travel restrictions; supportive attitude by a group of German Communists who worked as supervisors in the...

File Number : 438

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of a Pole, Jan Tomaszkiewicz, regarding the experiences of Alicja Salzberg, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1922, while in hiding places in a village near Rzeszow and in Krakow

Testimony of a Pole, Jan Tomaszkiewicz, regarding the experiences of Alicja Salzberg, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1922, while in hiding places in a village near Rzeszow and in Krakow Liquidation of the Czestochowa Ghetto; immediate application by Alfred and Eugenia Salzberg to their Polish acquaintances, with a request to take care of their daughter Alicja, September 1942; removal of Alicja from the ghetto by Maria Dziubinska, a Polish dentist, several hours before the liquidation of the ghetto; transfer of Alicja to the dentist's sister-in-law, in a village near Rzeszow; Alicja's facial looks revealed her...

File Number : 348

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Autobiographical article by Father Grzegorz Pawlowski (birth name: Hersz Griner), born in 1931 in Zamość, Poland, published in the journal Tygodnik Powszechny, no. 15/16, in 1966

Autobiographical article by Father Grzegorz Pawlowski (birth name: Hersz Griner), born in 1931 in Zamość, Poland, published in the journal Tygodnik Powszechny, no. 15/16, in 1966 Life before the war; youngest of four brothers, war breaks out; eldest brother escapes to the Soviet Union; deportation to the Izbica ghetto with the rest of the family; escaping to the “Aryan” side in one of the Aktionen; fleeing from village to village; receiving a forged birth certificate in the name of Grzegorz Pawlowski from a Jewish boy; living under the alias with Polish peasants, mostly as a shepherd; war ends; life in...

File Number : 4058

Type of Material : Biography, Journal

Language : Polish

BBC Polish Department broadcasts in Polish and English, 08 December 1942-04 August 1944

BBC Polish Department broadcasts in Polish and English, 08 December 1942-04 August 1944 Among the broadcasts during this period: Statements by Stanislaw Kot, a minister in the Polish Government-in-Exile in London regarding the resistance of the Poles to the Germans; meetings with Sikorski, the Prime Minister of the Polish Government-in-Exile and Supreme Commander of the Polish Army, in which political subjects concerning Poland were discussed; the efforts of the clergy to extend help to the Jews; information from a Swedish newspaper regarding the general liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto; the meeting of...

File Number : 41

Type of Material : Radio Broadcasts

Language : Polish, English

Letter of testimony written by Natalia Weisselberg to Father Wikarniss, dated 15 December 1985, regarding her experiences in Trembowla, and her rescue with her family by a Ukrainian physician and a Polish farmer; letter from her son regarding his mother's courage during the war, dated 09 May 1990 - Letter of testimony: Arrival of the family in Trembowla, autumn 1939; Natalia Weisselberg and her husband were given work in the laboratory of the municipal hospital in Trembowla under the management of the Ukrainian physician, Dr. Worobec. After almost two years under the Soviet regime, Trembowla was occupied...

File Number : 474

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Polish

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