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Memoirs of Leon Grynblat, born in Stary Orzechow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in hiding in the forest near Stary Orzechow, as a partisan and as a Polish Army soldier

Memoirs of Leon Grynblat, born in Stary Orzechow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in hiding in the forest near Stary Orzechow, as a partisan and as a Polish Army soldier Transfer to the village of Komarowka, 1943; life in the home of a non-Jewish neighbor with connections to the partisans; transfer of letters to the partisans; escape to the forest, May 1942; information regarding the imminent "Aktion" in Stary Orzechow; finding a hiding place for the members of his family; joining the partisan camp with his brother Laibish and his sister Sheindel; hiding the family in the forest until Pesach (April)...

File Number : 8644

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian

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File Number : 13366

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Cwi Siedlecki, born in Wolomin, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Wolomin Ghetto, Warsaw, Biala Podlaska, in the Polish Army and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Cwi Siedlecki, born in Wolomin, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Wolomin Ghetto, Warsaw, Biala Podlaska, in the Polish Army and in other places Life before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; draft into the Polish Army; wounded; taken to German captivity; deportation to Koenigsberg; transfer to Hammerstein; transfer to Biala Podlaska; escape to Wolomin; Wolomin Ghetto life; escape to Warsaw; life in hiding with help from a Pole; joins the Armia Krajowa (AK); Warsaw Polish Uprising, 1944; liberation. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.

File Number : 2152

Type of Material : Testimony, Memoirs

Language : Yiddish

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yosef Eintov, born in Przemysl, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Przemysl Ghetto and Lwow

Testimony

Testimony of Yosef Eintov, born in Przemysl, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Przemysl Ghetto and Lwow Survival in the Przemysl Ghetto, July 1942-September 1943; deportation of his parents and their murder in Auschwitz, September 1943; deportation and murder of his brother, Yehuda, in Janowska; in hiding in the Przemysl Ghetto, September-October 1943; escape and in hiding in Lwow; liberation, June 1944. Aliya to Eretz Israel, December 1945.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hana Anya (Kaliger) Mekel, born in Luck, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a young child in Dubno, Ural, Andizhan, Szczucin and more

Testimony

Testimony of Hana Anya (Kaliger) Mekel, born in Luck, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Dubno, Ural, Andizhan, Szczucin and more Life before the war; activities of her father in the Bund organization; move to Dubno with her family, 1936. Soviet occupation, 1939; assistance to Polish refugees; the Red Army flees, June 1941; escape with a convoy of Red Army tanks; escape on refugee trains in the Soviet Union; volunteering to labor laying train tracks in Ural; camp life; escape on foot; life in Uzbekhistan in a kolkhoz; life in Andizhan; hunger; receiving information regarding Poland from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 49; Trial against Dr. Ludwig Hahn, held in the Hamburg Regional Court: Testimonies by perpetrators (including soldiers from Police Battalion 61) and survivors regarding the Warsaw Ghetto, August 1960 - July 1961

Documentation from trials conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin: Documentation of the trial, Volume 49; Documentation of the trial against Dr. Ludwig Hahn, held in the Hamburg Regional Court: Testimonies by perpetrators (including soldiers from Police Battalion 61) and survivors regarding the Warsaw Ghetto, August 1960 - July...

File Number : 49

Type of Material : Testimony, Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons, Investigation Report, Letter(s), Legal Documentation, Record of Survivors

Language : German

Testimony of Ada Rakocz, born in Gabin, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Gabin Ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding, using a false identity and in the Polish underground

Testimony

Testimony of Ada Rakocz, born in Gabin, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Gabin Ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding, using a false identity and in the Polish underground Life before the war; well-to-do family; her father was a member of the city council; witness receives a Hebrew and Zionist education; music studies; attempts to make aliya to Eretz Israel; meets Jewish refugees from Germany, 1938; receives knowledge regarding attacks against Jews and their property. Outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; robbery of Jewish property; escape of her father and her older...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Blanka (Kuenreich) Ickowicz, born in Krakow, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child using a false identity in a village, in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, Skarzysko Kamienna, Leipzig and a death march Life before the war. German occupation, 1939; confiscation of the family's property; restrictions on the Jews including wearing an armband; eviction from the family's home; life in a village in the home of a Polish family; life using a false identity as a non-Jew; escape of her father to Lwow; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; ghetto life including walks to Krakow and bringing objects...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Zvi Yitzhak Rozenbaum Goldman, born in Falenica, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in the Warsaw Ghetto, Miedzyrzec Podlaski Ghetto, Lukow Ghetto, Radzyn Podlaski and other places Life before the war; well-to-do family; his father's work as a bank manager and editor of a fashion journal; death of the witness' mother; his father's remarriage; move to Warsaw, 1937; life in Warsaw including his father's activities as a representative of the JDC organization in Warsaw. Warsaw Ghetto life including involvement in mutual help between Jews; death of Jews due to hunger; his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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