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Documentation of the labor police and the prison administration in the Vilna Ghetto including detention orders and lists of detainees

File Number : 466

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Polish, German, Yiddish

Documentation regarding sterilization and the termination of pregnancy in cases of hereditary illnesses and "Race Defilement", and Police orders for the arrest or release of asocial people, 1935-1942

Documentation regarding sterilization and the termination of pregnancy in cases of hereditary illnesses and "Race Defilement", and Police orders for the arrest or release of asocial people, 1935-1942 - Directive regarding the implementation of the Gesetz zur Verhuetung Erbkranken Nachwuschses (Law for Sterilization due to Hereditary Illnesses), including establishing the obligation for silence imposed on the physicians, as well as the clerks, who receive information regarding these surgeries in the context of their position, 28/06/1935 (page 1); - Directive by the Bavarian Office of the Interior,...

File Number : 284

Type of Material : Laws and Decrees, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony

Testimony of Jadwiga Neuhaus, born in Vienna, Austria, 1911, regarding her experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, prison, deportation to Auschwitz, the medical experiments block in Birkenau, death march to Ravensbrueck via Wodzislaw and liberation in Malchow camp Education in Krakow; marriage to a Christian Pole, 1932; life in Katowice. Outbreak of the war and move to Krakow; manager of a store using a false identity; interrogation by the German police after being informed on; life in Krakow without documents; random arrest and transfer to prison within the ghetto after her Jewish identity is discovered,...

File Number : 1249

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Ela (Jedwab) Blejwais, born in Warsaw in 1923, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Łuków, in Warsaw and in the Warsaw area during the Holocaust

Memoirs of Ela (Jedwab) Blejwais, born in Warsaw in 1923, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Łuków, in Warsaw and in the Warsaw area during the Holocaust Warsaw air-raids after the outbreak of war; death of her sister from typhus; family life in Warsaw Ghetto; escape of one of her sisters from Warsaw Ghetto to Łuków; escape from Warsaw Ghetto to Łuków in 1941, during the deportation of Łuków Jews to the ghetto; living separately from her sister with non-Jewish families in Łuków; Aktions in Łuków Ghetto and hunting for Jews outside the ghetto after the Aktions; her sister's capture and...

File Number : 11521

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

To be translated

File Number : 14387

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Joint testimony of Dora (Kanes) [Zeeman Minde], born in Amsterdam, 1918, and her sister-in-law Gertha Zeeman, born in 1917, regarding their experiences in Amsterdam and the Vught, Auschwitz and Ravensbrück camps Dora Kanes' life in Amsterdam before the war; meeting Albert Zeeman; the story of their love; outbreak of the war, 1940; marriage of Albert and Dora; persecution of the Jews in Amsterdam by the Germans and Dutch Nazis, 1941; arrests; deportation of local Jews to forced labor; deportation of some of the family to camps in Germany; arrest of Albert and Dora, May 1943; deportation of Albert and Dora to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimonies of people originally from Prešov regarding their experiences during the Holocaust, and testimony regarding the history of the Jews of Prešov and their fate during 1942-1945

Testimonies of people originally from Prešov regarding their experiences during the Holocaust, and testimony regarding the history of the Jews of Prešov and their fate during 1942-1945 - Memoirs of Etel Shapira, born in Humenne, regarding her experiences in Prešov, Hungary and in the Tatra mountains during 1938-1945, written in July 1983; - Memoirs of Karl Kalman Rubin, born in Dubowa in 1911, regarding his experiences in Prešov, on the Aryan side in Bratislava, in Sered and Theresienstadt, written in 1973 (in German, and a translation to Hebrew); - Memoirs of Efre Zvi, born in Prešov in 1924,...

File Number : 9586

Type of Material : Telegram, Yizkor Book, List of Deportees, Letter, Booklet(s), List of Jews, Article, Personal Documents, Order, List of Jewish Residents, Testimony

Language : Slovak, Hebrew, Czech, German, Hungarian