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Research by Ayala Hinda (Cytrynbaum) Gal-Or, regarding the experiences during 1939-1966, of her parents, Tzvi and Jehudit Idel (Milgrom) Cytrynbaum, who were born in Deblin Modrzyce, Poland, 1914

Research by Ayala Hinda (Cytrynbaum) Gal-Or, regarding the experiences during 1939-1966, of her parents, Tzvi and Jehudit Idel (Milgrom) Cytrynbaum, who were born in Deblin Modrzyce, Poland, 1914 Introduction, including her family's background; chapter titled: Historical survey regarding Poland and its Jewish residents; map describing a route used by Jews during their escape from occupied Poland, 1939, including a notation of significant dates; survey regarding the life of Jews in Deblin-Modrzyce before the Holocaust, including photographs; Jehudit's memories of her childhood; survey regarding the events in...

File Number : 1262

Type of Material : Document, Survey Report, Poems/songs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of an anonymous Jewish woman from the village of Rakow, Poland regarding her experiences in the Rakow Ghetto, escapes to the Aryan side using a false identity, hiding in the forest and in a Polish village and work in Germany using a false identity Life in Rakow at the time of the occupation including anti-Jewish legislation; life in the ghetto; capture of the witness; prevention of her deportation to Skarzysko-Kamienna due to the giving a bribe; escape of the family from the ghetto; hiding of the parents by farmers they had known before the war; trips taken to Czestochowa by train by the witness,...

File Number : 297.1

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Poem/Song by an unknown author, "Childless Mother", written in an unknown place at an unknown time, about a mother who remains alone in the forests after her family is murdered

Poem/Song by an unknown author, "Childless Mother", written in an unknown place at an unknown time, about a mother who remains alone in the forests after her family is murdered Lamentation of a Jewish mother who has been left childless after the murder of her family; the mother remains alone in the forests and calls for revenge on the murderers.

File Number : 329

Type of Material : Poem/song

Language : Yiddish

Joint testimony of Serka (Sharf) Sapir, born in Majdan, Poland, 1895, and Blima (Sapir) Vulf, born in Jasionow, Poland, 1930, regarding their experiences in Jasionow and in hiding in a forest

Testimony

Joint testimony of Serka (Sharf) Sapir, born in Majdan, Poland, 1895, and Blima (Sapir) Vulf, born in Jasionow, Poland, 1930, regarding their experiences in Jasionow and in hiding in a forest Life in Jasionow. German occupation; activities of a Ukrainian priest against Jews and objection of a German policeman; Judenrat help to forced laborers; escape to a forest; life in bunkers in the forest including murder of Jews by Poles; armed self-defense. Aliya to Israel, 1950.

File Number : 3237

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Donia Rozen, born in 1930 in Kosow Huculski, Poland, regarding her experience during the war, hiding in Kosow and in the village of Mykitince

Testimony of Donia Rozen, born in 1930 in Kosow Huculski, Poland, regarding her experiences during the war, hiding in Kosow and in the village of Mykitince Donia Rozen was born in 1930 in Kosow, district of Stanislawow ( Soviet territory from 1939). When the Germans invaded the USSR in the summer of 1941, the attacks on Jewish population, and soon the killings, began; the neighbors attacked the Rozen family and plundered their home, so they moved to uncle. During the October 16-17, 1941 massacre Donia and her grandmother managed to run away, one of the neighbors opened the door to them, and as they were...

File Number : 948

Type of Material : Testimony, Biography, Manuscript

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Joint testimony of Klára Berger, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925, and Zsuzsa Berger, born in Budapest in 1928, regarding their experiences in a Vatican protected house in Budapest, and in Ravensbrück, Burgau, Kaufering, Türkheim and other camps Escape from Arrow Cross Party men to a Vatican protected house in Budapest; Arrow Cross Party men raid the protected house on 03/12/1944; deportation to Zurndorf in freight cars; life en route, for eight days; arrival to Zurndorf, where they are handed over to the German authorities; receipt of food; transfer to Ravensbrück camp; arrival to Ravensbrück camp on...

File Number : 2602

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Articles written by Mordechai Tenenbaum in underground newspapers in the Warsaw Ghetto, 01 February 1941-17 July 1942

Articles written by Mordechai Tenenbaum in underground newspapers in the Warsaw Ghetto, 01 February 1941-17 July 1942 1. "The Call": A call to Jews, 15 May 1942; report regarding the situation of the fighting against the Germans on the fronts; mass murder of nations in Europe; murder of Jews in cities and forests in Vilna, Baranowicze, Slonim, Lwow, Lublin and other places; deaths of Jews in ghettos from starvation and disease; murder of Jews in gas chambers; a call to the residents of the ghettos and the inmates in extermination camps to rise up and join in the struggle against the Germans in every place...

File Number : 406

Type of Material : Article

Language : Yiddish