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Testimony of Aharon Feigenblum, born in 1919 in Włocławek, Poland, about his experiences as a member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Kalisz, in Warsaw, and in the movement underground in the Soviet Union

Receives a religious education; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; lives in a hakhshara (training center) in Kalisz in 1937; Kol Nidre eve in 1939; three Jews murdered; witness escapes to his parents in Warsaw in November 1939; escapes to Wilno and lives there until June 1940; escapes to Tashkent and Samarkand in 1941; membership in the Hashomer Hatzair underground in the Soviet Union in 1941–1944; involved in the affair surrounding Mordechai Rozman, a leader of the underground, who succumbed to NKVD interrogation and surrendered names of underground members; liberation and return to Poland in December 1945;...

File Number : 13553

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Announcement regarding a gathering following the murder in the aliya camp in Austria by Beitar members, posted by the Poalei Zion (Left) Party Committee

File Number : 820

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Pinchas Lubling, born in Wolbrom, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in Czestochowa and in Flossenbuerg, Buchenwald and Mauthausen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Pinchas Lubling, born in Wolbrom, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in Czestochowa and in Flossenbuerg, Buchenwald and Mauthausen camps Family of merchants; his father Moshe Lubling was a member of the Poalei Zion Right movement; his father's detention due to demonstrations against the British following the riots in Eretz Israel, 1935; antisemitism in Sosnowiec before the war. Wanderings to Wolbrom, then back to Sosnowiec and then move to Czestochowa at the start of the war; forced labor; capture of his father in an "Aktion" and his deportation to Treblinka, October...

File Number : 8412

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Collective testimony of Mosze Huber, born in Mordy, Poland, 1914, and Mosze Sarnacki, born in Mordy, Poland, 1902, regarding Jewish life in Mordy before the war

Testimony

Collective testimony of Mosze Huber, born in Mordy, Poland, 1914, and Mosze Sarnacki, born in Mordy, Poland, 1902, regarding Jewish life in Mordy before the war Life before the war; livelihood of the residents; secular cultural activities; political organization during the German occupation during World War I; the war between Poland and the Soviet Union, 1920; life under Red Army control; detention and murders with the return of Polish rule; life in Poland including the development of political parties, youth movements and cultural institutions; religious life, the community and the religious leaders;...

File Number : 3544

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Notebook containing the journals of Yeshayahu Tobiasz, from 1932, and his father Eliyahu Tobiasz, 1940-1941, and memoirs of Yaakov Drori regarding the activities of Eliyahu Toiasz in the Łódź Ghetto - Notebook (scanned) containing the journals of Yeshayahu Tobiasz, from 1932, and his father Eliyahu Tobiasz, 1940-1941; the original of the notebook is located in the Jewish Historical Institute (ZIH) in Warsaw; the copy had already appeared in the Yad Vashem Archives (See Item M.49.P/15); - Journal, apparently from late 1932, kept by Yeshayahu Shaik Tobiasz, born in Łódź, Poland, 1913, containing stories and...

File Number : 10301

Type of Material : Memoirs, Diary

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Rafael Izraelovitz Pollak, born in Kolo, Poland in 1922, regarding his experiences in Kolo, Posen, the Lodz Ghetto, and Auschwitz, among other places

Testimony of Rafael Izraelovitz Pollak, born in Kolo, Poland in 1922, regarding his experiences in Kolo, Posen, the Lodz Ghetto, and Auschwitz, among other places Life in his parents’ home in Kolo; escape of refugees there in 1939; escape from home in September 1939; escape back home; transfer to forced labor; distribution of work cards; prayer in secret; impositions of restrictions on movement; escape to housing in the Yavne school; wearing an armband; wearing the yellow star; imposition of taxes on the Jews; transfer in trucks to Posen in June 1941; hunger; transfer to labor digging trenches; expulsion to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew