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Memoirs of Yisrael Avraham Bramzon, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and in hiding

Memoirs of Yisrael Avraham Bramzon, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and in hiding Life in the Bialystok Ghetto; participation in the Jewish uprising; escape and finding a hiding place in the home of a Polish family (the members of the family were later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations); life in the cellar; deaths of his wife and children; end of the war. Marriage to the cousin of his first wife, a survivor of the Majdanek, Treblinka and Blizin camps. The testimony was taken down in Polish, 1948, and kept in the Jewish Historical Institute in...

File Number : 8041

Type of Material : Documentary, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the collaboration of Borys Szacman with the Germans during the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising, 1943

Documentation regarding the collaboration of Borys Szacman with the Germans during the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising, 1943 - Verdict handed down by the Supreme Court in Warsaw, dated 18 September 1958, on the matter of Borys Szacman who was charged with collaboration with the Nazis; by the power of the verdict, Szacman was declared innocent; the Supreme Court verdict invalidated the decision of the military court that sentenced the defendant to death; Borys Szacman had been found guilty of passing on information to the Gestapo and the German policemen, as a result of which betrayal 72 Jewish Resistance fighters...

File Number : 328

Type of Material : Reports, Legal Documentation

Language : Polish

Testimony of Rozen regarding the life of Edek Boraks and his activities in the Jewish underground in the Warsaw, Vilna and Bialystok Ghettos during the German occupation of Poland, dated 20 February 1945 Activities of Edek Boraks in the underground organizations in Vilna before 1941; attempts to establish an underground after the occupation of Vilna by the Germans; help to the Jews in the ghetto; rescue attempts and smuggling of people to the Aryan side; work as a courier between the ghetto and the Aryan side; cooperation with Haike Grossman and Abba Kovner; attempts to establish a resistance movement in the...

File Number : 332

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish