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Testimony of a Jewish fighter regarding the Warsaw Polish Uprising including participation by Jews in the uprising and the hiding of their Jewish identity due to displays of antisemitism by [other] uprisers, August-October 1944; testimony written, August 1945 Outbreak of the Warsaw Polish Uprising; attitude of the local population; killing of a German policeman by two Jews, 01 August 1944; waving of a Polish flag by the Jews who killed the policeman; strengthening of antisemitism among the Poles; participation of Jews in the Warsaw Polish Uprising; hiding of many Jews on the Aryan side of Warsaw during the...

File Number : 519

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

To be translated

File Number : 1672

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Testimony of Josef Pinker regarding the lives of Jews in Nowy Dwor and their fate during the Nazi occupation

Jewish life in Nowy Dwor before World War II; Polish anti-Jewish activity with Hitler's rise to power and Jewish counteractivity; riots by Poles and Volksdeutsche during the German invasion; looting of property from Jewish evacuees fleeing the bombs; escape of Jews to the Soviet Union; forced contributions imposed on the Jewish community and imprisonment of wealthy Jews and intellectuals as hostages; hangings; deportation of Jews from Rypin and Serpc through Nowy Dwor; attempts by Nowy Dwor Jews to save deportees; desecration and burning of Torah scrolls in the market square while humiliating elderly Jewish...

File Number : 563

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Documents from the years 1983-1991 pertaining to the Holocaust of the Jews of Opatow Kielecki, Poland, which were in the possession of Holocaust survivor Meir Lustman Lotan, born in Opatow Kielecki, 1924 - Circular from the Organization of Former Residents of Apt-Opatow in Israel sent to members of the organization regarding raising money for organization activities; among the activities: publishing a pamphlet containing the names of the Opatow community victims, and organizing a visit to Poland, including Opatow, for the younger generation; - Alphabetical list of 84 names of former members of Kibbutz...

File Number : 1274

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Play, Personal Records, Memoirs, Poems/songs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Yiddish

Memoirs of Emilia Dabrowska, born in Jagielnica, 1922, regarding her experiences in Jagielnica during the war and afterwards, and her help to Jews, 1941-1944, along with an introduction written by her nephew Ian Pienkowski - Memoirs of Emilia Dabrowska regarding her experiences in Jagielnica, 1939-1945,, and her help to Jews, 1941-1944 (written 1995-1998), along with an introduction written by her nephew Ian Pienkowski (written 2001-2007): Outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939; draft of her brother Stanislaw Dabrowski into the Polish Army; his capture by the German Army; his release from captivity, 18...

File Number : 9510

Type of Material : הקדמה, Memoirs

Language : Polish