Announcements and regulations on subjects regarding the Jews issued by the General Governor of the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1942
- Announcement issued by the General Governor of the occupied sections of Poland in the Warsaw Region on the subject of Jewish businesses in the Warsaw Region, 17 November 1939;
- Regulations regarding the obligation to work, limitations on the movement of Poles and Jews and the prohibition on ritual slaughter issued by the General Governor, 26 October 1939;
- Regulations and directives related to the Jews in the Warsaw and Lublin Regions, dated 18 October 1942.
File Number : 121
Type of Material : Announcement, Official Documentation, Placards, Newspaper Clippings
Testimony of Esther Shpitzer née Gross, born in 1929 in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, about her experiences aboard the "Kaszner train" and in Bergen-Belsen
Family background; father is a butcher; witness attends a Jewish elementary school and a Hungarian high school; description of festivals; numerus clausus as witness continues her high-school studies; ritual slaughter prohibited; witness joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement in March 1944; Germans enter; witness receives false documents with help from Hashomer Hatzair; escapes to Budapest before deportation; life in Budapest; parents arrested and deported to...