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Testimony of Natan Frydman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and using a false identity in a monastery in Kielce

Testimony

Testimony of Natan Frydman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and using a false identity in a monastery in Kielce Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; burning of his father's shop; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life; his mother's death from typhus; hides during "Aktions"; forced labor in the Tebens workshop in the ghetto; deportation of his father to Treblinka; escape from the ghetto; in hiding on the Aryan side; the Warsaw Polish Uprising and his role as a courier; capture and escape from a deportation train to Auschwitz; move to Kielce;...

File Number : 12297

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pinkas Rosengarten, born in Nowy Sacz, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Nowy Sacz, prisons in the Soviet Union and service in Iran as a military chaplain in Anders Army

Testimony

Testimony of Pinkas Rosengarten, born in Nowy Sacz, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Nowy Sacz, prisons in the Soviet Union and service in Iran as a military chaplain in Anders Army Life before the war; education; ordination as a rabbi; move to Krakow; academic studies; return to Nowy Sacz; work as a teacher in a Tarbut high school; community life; establishment of a Hashomer Hadati chapter. German occupation; forced labor; escape to the Soviet Union; arrest on the charge of espionage; detention in various prisons; prison life including forced labor and illnesses; hospitalization; pardon after...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Lerer Eldar, born in Vijnita, 1931, regarding his experiences in different ghettos in Transnistria and forced labor

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Lerer Eldar, born in Vijnita, 1931, regarding his experiences in different ghettos in Transnistria and forced labor A close family; his parents' livelihood; learns in school and "heder"; visiting his grandparents in Poland; daily life; the religious holidays; rabbinical court; the Jewish community; life under Soviet occupation; expulsion of Jews to Siberia; plans to emigrate to the United States, which were not realized; deportation by train to Transnistria; conditions on the train; crossing the border to Mogilev Podolski; crossing the river on rafts; concentration of Jews in a synagogue;...

File Number : 11889

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gershon Spiewak, born in Brzesc Kujawski, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Vilna, Glebokie, Siberia, as a soldier in Anders Army and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Gershon Spiewak, born in Brzesc Kujawski, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Vilna, Glebokie, Siberia, as a soldier in Anders Army and other places From a large family; death of his father; livelihood of the family fell on his mother; Gordonia youth leader; drafted into the Polish Army, 1935; military service for two years. German occupation, 01 September 1939; expulsion from their home; draft of the men to forced labor; destruction of the synagaogue; escape with one brother to Warsaw with his mother's encouragement; escape via Vilna to Glebokie; capture after being informed...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Letter to Blajewski in Polish containing a request to send two people to Forli, Italy, immediately; in the letter it is pointed out that the request has been approved by the British, 28 February 1945

File Number : 118

Type of Material : Application, Letter

Language : Polish

Order issued by General Wladyslaw Anders in Buzuluk regarding Jewish soldiers serving in the Polish Army, 14 November 1941

Order issued by General Wladyslaw Anders in Buzuluk regarding Jewish soldiers serving in the Polish Army, 14 November 1941 In his order Anders emphasizes that Jews serving in the Polish Army in any framework and in any capacity must be treated without any kind of discrimination, [they should be treated] as Polish citizens with equal rights, and any expression of antisemitism should be expunged from the army.

File Number : 40

Type of Material : Placards, Announcement

Language : Polish

Documents regarding Jews from Poland in the Soviet Union, 1941-1943

Documents regarding Jews from Poland in the Soviet Union, 1941-1943 Reports and sources from the Polish Embassy in the Soviet Union regarding Polish Jews in the Soviet Union; in the documentation, among other items are documents concerning the distribution of aid to the Jews of Poland; correspondence between Kot, the Polish Ambassador, and Izchak Gruenbaum in Eretz Israel, from December 1942; a list of rabbis in the Soviet Union; lists of Jews deported to the Far East; the Erlich and Alter affair; Jews serving with Anders Army in Teheran.

Type of Material : Investigation Report, Lists, Correspondence, Reports

Critical letter from L. Blit from the city of Buzuluk to General W. Anders regarding the establishment of military units of Polish Jews in the area of the Soviet Union, 15 October 1941

Critical letter from L. Blit from the city of Buzuluk to General W. Anders regarding the establishment of military units of Polish Jews in the area of the Soviet Union, 15 October 1941 Due to the spread of antisemitism and the unwillingness to serve with Jewish soldiers in the Polish Army in the Soviet Union, a few officers raised the idea of establishing special units for Jews who wish to serve in the army. L. Blit is opposed to this idea and emphasizes that in his opinion, this separation could make the complicated relations between the Polish population and the Jewish population even harder.

File Number : 39

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Testimony of Shmuel Natansohn, born in Bielsko Biala, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Przemysl, labor camps in Siberia, Samarkand and travel to Eretz Israel with the "Teheran Children"

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Natansohn, born in Bielsko Biala, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Przemysl, labor camps in Siberia, Samarkand and travel to Eretz Israel with the "Teheran Children" His immediate family; religious holidays at home and family gatherings; Jewish community life; school studies; the 1938 riots; the youth movement in the village. Entry of the Germans into Przemysl; murder of his father by the Germans; search for his father together with his twin brother; execution of hundreds of Jews in Przemysl; living with relatives in Podhajce; deportation on trains to Siberia; labor in a...

File Number : 10894

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Kazimierz Rotenberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Rowne, Siberia, Asino and in the Polish Army in Sielce

Testimony

Testimony of Kazimierz Rotenberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Rowne, Siberia, Asino and in the Polish Army in Sielce Escape in the direction of the east with his mother; outbreak of the war, September 1939; move to Rowne; life under the Soviet occupation as a refugee; refusal to accept Soviet citizenship; exile to Siberia with his mother, June 1940; his mother's illness; stay in Asino in Novosibirsk; move to a forced labor camp with his mother; camp life including various forced labor assignments; receives a pardon, 1941; attempt to enlist in the Anders Army; refusal to accept...

File Number : 4241

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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