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Report written by Hans Koch, the representative of the Office for the Occupied Territories in the East, to the Heeresgruppe Sued (Army Groups South) regarding the political and cultural-religious situation in Ukraine, 1941 The political situation on the right bank of the Dnieper River: Quiet area: support by the population of the Wehrmacht force that captured the area, as liberators; establishment of a system of administration (Feldkommandaturen and Ortskommandaturen), and a parallel system of economic administration; arguments between the Wehrmacht and the population regarding the economic and personal...

File Number : 197

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Correspondence concerning the burial of Tekla Andrusishin, a Jewish woman from Augustowka, Poland, who converted to Christianity, October–November 1942, and press clippings about the Ukrainian war criminal Iwan Stebelski, aka "Winter." - Letter from the Lwów branch of the Ukrainian Central Committee, sent on November 5, 1942, turning down a request from the bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church concerning the burial of Tekla Andrusishin of Augustowka, who converted and married a Ukrainian in 1890. Kost Pankiwskyi, writing for the Committee, states that the Committee is not allowed to deal with...

File Number : 381

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Correspondence

Language : Ukrainian

Testimony of Anna Podoszyn, born in 1937 in Busk, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in a convent in Busk and in the home of her Polish adoptive parents (future Righteous among the Nations)

Testimony of Anna Podoszyn, born in 1937 in Busk, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in a convent in Busk and in the home of her Polish adoptive parents (future Righteous among the Nations) Diary kept by Anna Podoszyn at age nine from 1946 on, with supplemental text and conclusion in 1966, with information about: Life during the war (vague memories), placement in a convent in Busk by her aunt; learning the prayers; being removed from the convent by her aunt, Anna Gruber, and placed in hiding with a Polish peasant woman; several weeks later removed from the home by the peasant and another woman; an...

File Number : 638

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Polish