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Letter sent to Malka Krechenemberg in Argentina by Berl in Domaczewo, the Soviet Union, 19 August 1940

Letter sent to Malka Krechenemberg in Argentina by Berl in Domaczewo, the Soviet Union, 19 August 1940 - Names of relatives and friends; reference to Berl's work; impossibility of leaving the Soviet Union. Note: - Apparently Berl was the life's partner of Malka Krechenemberg; - Berl's last name is unclear.

File Number : 2193

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Yitzhak Hartzberg, born in 1929 in Gliniany, Poland, about his experiences during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Hartzberg, born in 1929 in Gliniany, Poland, about his experiences during the war Childhood in Gliniany; father: grain merchant; mother: saleswoman in grocery store; Jewish community life; witness attends a Czech school; language spoken at home: Yiddish; participated in Zionist youth movements; Soviet Union annexes the area in 1939; life continues until 1941; German-Soviet war breaks out in 1941; family deported to the Przemyslany ghetto; Aktion in the ghetto in December 1941; family hides in a cellar; remaining in the ghetto; put to roadbuilding work as a forced laborer; living...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Experiences of Mrs. Jospe, born in Pinsk, Poland in 1922, regarding her family's experiences before the war, during the Holocaust, and until 1948

File Number : 7248

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Testimony of David Chachkes, born in 1923 in Lwów, Poland, about his experiences during the war

Testimony

Testimony of David Chachkes, born in 1923 in Lwów, Poland, about his experiences during the war Childhood in a traditional family in Lwów; life before the war; Soviet Union annexes the area in 1939; war breaks out in June 1941; Jewish population ghettoized; Aktionen in the ghetto; witness escapes from the ghetto; obtains forged documents for family members; contacts the resistance in 1943; undertakes various tasks for the underground, including traveling to Warsaw and coming back with forged "Aryan" documents; war ends, witness immigrates to Israel and adjusts to life in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Fani Lotz, born in Pinsk, Poland, about her experiences during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Fani Lotz, born in Pinsk, Poland, about her experiences during the war Childhood in a well-off family in Warsaw; vacations at the family's summer home in Pinsk; moves to Pinsk in 1939; Soviet Union annexes the area; witness hired as a teacher at Tarbut school; teaches gymnastics and ice skating; living conditions worsen in 1940; barter trade; tends a vegetable patch near the house; war breaks out in 1941; German forces invade Pinsk; Poles' and Belorussians' attitude toward Jews changes for the worse; some 8,000 members of Jewish intelligentsia rounded up and murdered; ghetto established in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 30 August 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 30 August 1949 Polish Charges, continued (pp. 4-81) Exhibit 68: MAR 1501: Special regulations for the supply of the 8th Army regarding Police forces in some districts; In conjunction with Exhibit 64; Army has court martial jurisdiction over the Gestapo and the Special Police. (pp, 4-5) Exhibit 69: MAR 1523: General matters over Police formations (including SS Toten Kopf [SS Death-Head formations] Division); Police formations, including the Gestapo. (p. 5) Exhibit...

File Number : 6

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Indictment, Names of Perpetrators

Language : English

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 05 October 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 05 October 1949 Erich von Manstein is called to the stand. (p. 3) Opening speech by the Defense: (pp. 4-27) Opening of the Defense of von Manstein (p. 5); Discussion regarding International Law, The Hague Convention, Law of Nations, and the Statute of Nuremberg (pp. 6-12); Field Marshal Montgomery at Glasgow, 28/10/1946: No legal limit to the duty of a general officer to obey (p. 12); Adolf Hitler had the sovereign authority (p. 15); Regarding the judgment in the Von...

File Number : 22

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Indictment, Names of Perpetrators

Language : English

Testimony of Motl Kuricki, born in Anyksciai, Lithuania, 1918, regarding his experiences in the Daugavpils Ghetto, the Anyksciai Ghetto, the Siauliai Ghetto, Stutthof and Mueldorf

Testimony of Motl Kuricki, born in Anyksciai, Lithuania, 1918, regarding his experiences in the Daugavpils Ghetto, the Anyksciai Ghetto, the Siauliai Ghetto, Stutthof and Mueldorf Life before the war. Soviet occupation, 1940; Jewish youths join the Communist youth; German occupation; unsuccessful attempt to escape to Rokiskis; restrictions on the Jews; arrest of Jews, 28-29 June 1941; transfer of the Jews to a prison and synagogue; murder of Jews by Lithuanian perpetrators; rape of women; yellow badge; abuse of Jews; murder of men, 05 July 1941; escape from the killing pit and hidden in a Lithuanian...

File Number : 116

Type of Material : Testimony, List of Murdered Persons

Language : Yiddish

Memoirs of Miriam (Wiedman) Shtrasberg, about her experiences in ghettos and camps in Transnistria and in children's homes in Romania, 1941–1945, and her immigration to Eretz Israel in 1945

Memoirs of Miriam (Wiedman) Shtrasberg, about her experiences in ghettos and camps in Transnistria and in children's homes in Romania, 1941–1945, and her immigration to Eretz Israel in 1945 - testimony of Miriam (Wiedman) Shtrasberg, born in Borăuti in 1931, about her childhood in Bukovina, her family's deportation to Transnistria, and her internment in ghettos and camps in Transnistria during the Holocaust; - "And She Stationed Herself from Afar" (cf. Exodus 2:4), memoirs of Miriam (Wiedman) Shtrasberg, born in Borăuti in 1931, about her experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust; the book was...

File Number : 12573

Type of Material : Speech, Memoirs, Poems/songs, Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the Berman and Palaria families in Romania and the USSR in the 1990s and 1990s

- Personal documents of Fanya Feiga Palaria, born in Telenești, 1921, from 1926-1990. Among other things, there is a certificate regarding her work at the kolkhoz in the Yakkabag district in 1941-1943; Palarya Family Tree; - Roots project by Dina Rosenblit with documentation related to the Rosenblit and Berman families;

File Number : 1060

Type of Material : School Project, Certification, Genealogy, Birth Certificate, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Romanian, Russian

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