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Excerpts from newspapers, articles and books regarding the mass murder of Polish officers in the Katyn forest by the Soviets

Excerpts from newspapers, articles and books regarding the mass murder of Polish officers in the Katyn forest by the Soviets Excerpts from newspapers published in Poland in 1943 regarding the execution of approximately 10,000 Polish officers, who were taken as prisoners of war by the Soviets, in the Katyn forest. The slaughter was presented by the Soviets as a German crime. Various publications, testimonies and documents collected by Polish Army personnel in the area of the Soviet Union strengthen the claim that approximately 10,000 Polish officers who were taken captive by the Soviets in September 1939,...

File Number : 47

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Polish, German

Letters and postcard from the Polish Army officer Isaak Distenfeld to his wife and daughter, during his term as a war prisoner of the Soviets at Starobelsk in February–April 1940

- letters from the Polish Army officer Isaak Distenfeld to his wife and daughter, during his term as a war prisoner of the Soviets at Starobelsk in February–April 1940 - postcard from Isaak Distenfeld in Starobelsk (the sender’s address is erased and a note that he has left appears) to his wife, Ida Distenfeld, in Lwów. According to the postmark, the card was sent from Starobelsk on June 17, 1940, and had been written on June 14, 1940. - postcard with a portrait of Isaak Distenfeld on the reverse, drawn by another POW who was with him. The date, February 20, 1940, and a signature appears on the reverse of the...

File Number : 4789

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Drawing

Language : Polish

Letters and postcards sent by Polish Army officer Isaak Distenfeld from captivity in Starobielsk to his wife and daughter in Lwow, February-April 1940

Letters and postcards sent by Polish Army officer Isaak Distenfeld from captivity in Starobielsk to his wife and daughter in Lwow, February-April 1940 - Letters and postcards sent by Polish Army officer Isaak Distenfeld from captivity in Starobielsk to his wife Ida and their daughter Zosia in Lwow, February-April 1940, in which he mentioned his brothers Ignatz, Leon, and Felix, Broncia Schlachter (who had stayed with the Distenfeld family during the time she attended high school), and other family members and friends. He wrote the last postcard 14 April 1940, a short time before the massacre in the Katyn...

File Number : 4571

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter

Language : Polish

Text of an interview held with Jack Yaakov Friedman, born in Biala Podlaska, Poland, regarding his experiences in Biala Podlaska, in Warsaw, in the Red Army, in Soviet captivity and in other places during 1939-1946 Life in Biala Podlaska before the war; displays of antisemitism in Poland; German propaganda in Biala Podlaska before the war; move to Warsaw in order to earn a livelihood; Draft into the Polish Army in September 1939; air-raids; he is taken captive by the Soviets; transfer to a POW camp in Smolevichi, Belorussia; POW camp life, for two months; exchange of POWs; decision to remain in the Soviet...

File Number : 9687

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : Hebrew

Letters, postcards and other documentation related to the experiences of Dr. Shalom Slowes, born in Grajewo in 1909, while in the Polish Army during 1939-1947, and his attempts to clarify the fate of his family members in Vilna - Red Cross letter sent by Edward Panasiewicz from Ankara to M. Slowes and his family in Vilna, 27/12/1941, including a message from Szola (apparently Shalom Slowes) from the Soviet Union, in Polish; on the reverse side is a message from Riga (dated, 25/08/1942), that it was not possible to send the letter to the addressees, in German (copy); - Postcard sent by Abraham Slowes from...

File Number : 3448

Type of Material : Certification, Personal Documents, Red Cross Letter, Letter, Diagram, Telegram

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Russian, German

Diaries of Uri Ernst Freund and his mother Tirza (Buksbaum) Freund, written in Boryslaw before the war, in the Soviet Union, in Siberia until 1942, in Austria and in France, 1947-1948, on board the ship, "Altelena" and in Israel until 1954 Diary of Uri Ernst Freund written 1947-1954 in Bad Gastein, Linz-Ebelsberg, Marseilles, on board the ship, "Altelena", in Eretz Israel after completion of an officers' course, and in Acre; translated into Hebrew by Yehoshua Feurer (scan). Also in the file: - Two letters sent to Uri Freund by relatives in Eretz Israel, 1948 and 1952 (original); - "The Story of the...

File Number : 9486

Type of Material : Letter, Diary, Documentary

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish