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Memoirs of Schmerel Cynamon, born in Lodz, Poland in 1909, regarding his experiences in Lodz, in the Polish Army, in Bialystok after the division of Poland, and in the Lodz Ghetto following the return of Lodz to the German authorities; included is his testimony regarding Nazi collaborators among Jews and members of the Judenrat in the Lodz Ghetto

File Number : 7673

Type of Material : Memoirs, Letter

Language : English, Yiddish

Testimony of Gute (Rosenzweig) Feldman, born in Kielce, Poland, 1918, regarding the experiences of her brother Moshe Rosenzweig in the Belgian underground in Brussels

Testimony

Testimony of Gute (Rosenzweig) Feldman, born in Kielce, Poland, 1918, regarding the experiences of her brother Moshe Rosenzweig in the Belgian underground in Brussels Life before the war; education of her brother, Moshe, in a Jewish elementary school; family moves to Belgium, 1933; education of her brother in a Belgian school; attends high school; work of her brother in a Jewish factory. German occupation; activities against the Nazis with the United Socialist Youth Organizations; the Judenrat (Association of Belgian Jews, AJB); request of Rabbi Miller in synagogue for labor for the Germans; fur...

File Number : 1699

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Protocol of the interrogation of Prof. David Cohen and Abraham Asscher, Co-Chairmen of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) by Police Inspector C. J. Schoen, and the decision to arrest them at the end of the investigation, 1947 Protocol of the interrogation of David Cohen and Abraham Asscher: how they were chosen to serve as Co-Chairmen of the Joodse Raad and the selection of the other Council members; their attitude towards the Dutch Government-in-Exile (pp. 1-4); the 1941 "February Strike", the reaction of the Germans and the role of the Council in breaking the strike (pp. 4-6); the amount of knowledge they...

File Number : 64

Type of Material : Investigation Report, List of Jews

Language : Dutch

Translation of Dziomek Erlbaum's memoirs about his experiences in Borysław, the Borysław ghetto, the Borysław camp, and the forests in 1941–1944

Translation of Dziomek Erlbaum's memoirs about his experiences in Borysław, the Borysław ghetto, the Borysław camp, and the forests in 1941–1944 - English translation of memoirs written by Dziomek Erlbaum in the Bad Reichenhall displaced-persons camp in October 1947 for the CHC (Central Historical Commission), produced by Kelly DeMartini: Oppression of Jews as soon as the Germans enter Borysław on July1, 1941; Ukrainian pogroms against Jewish townspeople in early July 1941; forced labor; witness put to work in the petroleum industry; mass murder of Jews in the forest adjacent to Borysław in late November...

File Number : 12477

Type of Material : Memoirs

The documentary film "The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz" and an episode of the TV series "Heritage: Civilization and the Jews" about the Holocaust of European Jews

- the documentary "The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz": German occupation of Lodz; persecution and murder of Jews; the appointment of Chaim Rumkowski as head of the Judenrat in October 1939; burning down synagogues and murdering Jewish leaders in November 1939; deportation of Jews to the ghetto in February-March 1940; life in the ghetto; the closing of the ghetto in May 1940; obligation to use a special currency in the ghetto; changing the ghetto currency with Rumkowski in exchange for valuables and buying food and supplies from the Nazis; establishment of a Jewish police by Rumkowski; morbidity...

File Number : 779

Type of Material : Documentary

Language : English