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Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943

Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943 The Jewish Self Aid organization (in Polish: Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna [ZSS]; in German: Juedische Soziale Selbshilfe) was set up in Krakow in 1940; it went by this name until July 1942. After that date, the organization's welfare activities were cut back by order of the German authorities, and they mainly consisted of the transferring of medicines to Jews in labor camps until this activity, too, was discontinued in mid-1944. ZSS documentation includes correspondence between the administration of the...

Type of Material : Lists, Administrative Documentation, Application, Balance Sheet, Report, Statistical Report, Reports, Survey Report, Correspondence, List of Names, Financial Accounts, List of Jews, Statistical Data

Memoirs of Yokhanan Dvir (formerly Jan Tempel), regarding his experiences in Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto and under a false identity as a forced laborer in Germany in 1939-1945

Memoirs of Yokhanan Dvir (formerly Jan Tempel), regarding his experiences in Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto and under a false identity as a forced laborer in Germany in 1939-1945 - Yokhanan Dvir's memoirs of his experiences during the Holocaust and his answers to questions asked by Yosef Rav and Israel Gutman, from 1963: Siege of Warsaw at the beginning of the war; life under German occupation; labor of the witness in the warehouse of the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna (Jewish Social Self-Help - ZSS); life in the agricultural aliya training of Beitar in the Lublin area in summer-autumn 1941; return to the Warsaw...

File Number : 11255

Type of Material : Interview(s), Memoirs

Language : Hebrew