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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

Letter to Ilya Ehrenburg by Rena Guz, regarding the activities of the partisans detachment under the command of Yuzef Sobesyak

Letter to Ilya Ehrenburg by Rena Guz, regarding the activities of the partisans detachment under the command of Yuzef Sobesyak Her service as a nurse and a fighter in the partisans detachment under the command of Yuzef Maks Sobesyak; help given to the Jewish population by the commander of the partisans detachment; service in the detachment including the explosion of four trains during her service in 1942-1944; her work in Lyublin during the writing of the letter; The partisans "Gyunvald" detachment was established as a group of underground members in Manevichi during late summer 1941; it became a...

File Number : 82

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Testimony of Yaakov Aviram, born in Kock, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Lukow Ghetto, in hiding and the underground

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Aviram, born in Kock, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Lukow Ghetto, in hiding and the underground From a well-to-do traditional family; learns in a "heder" and a Polish school; Hashomer Hatzair activities. Outbreak of the war; escape to a village; return home; death of his sister; deportation to the Lukow Ghetto with his father; escape; finds a place to hide in a bunker; death of his father, March 1943; joins the Armia Ludova (AL) underground organization; liberation, July 1944. Draft into the Polish police in Lublin; move to Berlin; arrest by the Soviets, release;...

File Number : 12825

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana Emilka (Kosover) Rozentzveig, born in Radzymin, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Radzymin Ghetto, using a false identity in Warsaw, the Polish underground and as a Polish forced laborer in Germany Life before the war; Jewish community; school. German occupation; decrees; plucking of her father's beard; deportation to the Radzymin Ghetto; ghetto life; her mother's illness; her father's death; deportation of her mother and family members to Treblinka; obtains a Polish identity card from a priest; move to Warsaw; joins the Polish underground; activities in the underground;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Abraham Frydental, born in Ostrowiec, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Kielce Ghetto, forced labor, escape to the forests using a false identity, and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Abraham Frydental, born in Ostrowiec, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Kielce Ghetto, forced labor, escape to the forests using a false identity, and with the partisans Revisionist household, his father is the Revisionist representative for the Kielce district. Start of the German occupation; forced labor in an iron factory in Ostrowiec; deportation to a labor camp in Ostrowiec after the liquidation of the Kielce Ghetto, October 1942; escape to the forests with a friend, 1943; assumes a false Polish identity using the name Wladyslaw Dombrowski; joins a group of Armia Ludova partisans in...

File Number : 11863

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara Pesel (Hollander) Studnicki, born in Pustkow, 1916, regarding her experiences in Sedziszow, and living under a false identity in Lancut

Testimony

Testimony of Sara Pesel (Hollander) Studnicki, born in Pustkow, 1916, regarding her experiences in Sedziszow, and living under a false identity in Lancut From a religious family; rural agriculture; nine Jewish families; the start of the occupation; being kidnapped to forced labor; contact with refugees from Lvov; deportation of the women to the Sedziszow Ghetto; deportation of the men to the Debica Ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; mass executions; escape to Lvov; obtains Aryan documents under the name of Studnicki; rescue of her sister from the Zabichow Ghetto next to Lublin; her sister's daughter is...

File Number : 11187

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jechiel Sztokfisz, born in Lublin, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences as a Polish Army soldier, a Soviet POW and with Anders Army

Testimony

Testimony of Jechiel Sztokfisz, born in Lublin, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences as a Polish Army soldier, a Soviet POW and with Anders Army Life before the war. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; drafted into the Polish Army; taken captive by the Soviets; joins Anders Army using a false identity, 1942; escape; joins the People's Polish Army, 1943; liberation of Lublin; liberation of Majdanek; end of the war. Serves as an officer in the standing Army until 1953; aliya to Israel, 1957.

File Number : 2125

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of a Jewish fighter regarding the Warsaw Polish Uprising including participation by Jews in the uprising and the hiding of their Jewish identity due to displays of antisemitism by [other] uprisers, August-October 1944; testimony written, August 1945 Outbreak of the Warsaw Polish Uprising; attitude of the local population; killing of a German policeman by two Jews, 01 August 1944; waving of a Polish flag by the Jews who killed the policeman; strengthening of antisemitism among the Poles; participation of Jews in the Warsaw Polish Uprising; hiding of many Jews on the Aryan side of Warsaw during the...

File Number : 519

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Bruno Skuteli, born in 1919 in Leczyca, Poland, about his experiences in Lwów and with the Polish Battalion (in the Red Army) in the vicinity of Radomsko, Częstochowa, and Podhale; etc. Parents, Henryk and Leokadia Gotman née Moszkowicz, move to Łódź in 1921; attending the Jewish high school in Częstochowa; joining the Communist youth movement in 1935; illegal residency; activity in the Zukunft Jewish youth movement; war breaks out and the witness escapes to Lwów; life in Ukraine under Soviet rule until October 1941; sattempt to volunteer for Anders’ army but fails on account of his Jewishness;...

File Number : 3685

Language : Polish

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File Number : 2716

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish

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