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Documentation from Czorkow containing an order to establish a ghetto, signed by Hans Kujath

Documentation from Czorkow containing an order to establish a ghetto, signed by Hans Kujath - Street announcement from Czorkow regarding travel limitations for Jews, dated 13 September 1940; - Certificate from a Hebrew school in Czorkow, 1934; - Character reference certificate given to Majer Margulies, a Jew, [born] in 1897 in Czorkow; - Official letter: Order to establish the ghetto in Czorkow from September-October 1942, signed by Hans Kujath.

File Number : 1109

Type of Material : Manifesto, Official Documentation, Personal Documents, Poster

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Dorota Dorla (Baum) Landwer, born in Lwow, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Lwow Ghetto and in hiding in a village using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Dorota Dola (Baum) Landwer, born in Lwow, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Lwow Ghetto and in hiding in a village using a false identity From a traditional, Zionist family. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation; restrictions on the Jews and their businesses; nationalization of property; German occupation; deportation to the Lwow Ghetto, 1942; "Aktion" and deportation; murder of her parents; stealing of property and valuables; forced labor at a sawmill; information regarding the murder of Jews and their burial in a mass grave; life in hiding with help from her brother and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pesia (Witenberg) Cohen, born in Michaliszki, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Soski, Vaivara, Goldfilz, Kuremaa and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Pesia (Witenberg) Cohen, born in Michaliszki, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Soski, Vaivara, Goldfilz, Kuremaa and other places Studies in the Tarbut teachers seminary in Vilna. Teaches in a Jewish school during the Soviet occupation, 1939-1941; German occupation, June 1941; capture of men for forced labor; rumors regarding the murder of Jews in pits; takes advantage of her "Aryan" looks, and her move to a village; pretends to be a villager woman and smuggles food into the Michaliszki Ghetto on the market days; liquidization of the Michaliszki Ghetto; transfer to...

File Number : 12995

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Boleslaw Nowicki about Jews' fate in the Bialystok region and the eastern borderlands of Poland under the occupation of Nazi Germany

Testimony of Boleslaw Nowicki about Jews' fate in the Bialystok region and the eastern borderlands of Poland under the occupation of Nazi Germany Before the WWII there were about 75,000 Jews in Bialystok. After the outbreak of the war the number increased to about 100,000 due to influx of Jewish refugees from German occupied territories. Nowicki mentions several famous Jews from Bialystok, in particular Jozef Zeligman, former Senator in pre-war Polish government and director of the Gymnasium on Sienkiewicza 4 Street. He was arrested by NKVD under the Soviet regime but released due to widespread protests...

File Number : 235

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Interview with Edit Etel (Spieler) Gruschow, born in Bagienica in 1936, regarding her family's experiences in Podgórze, in the Drabowa Ghetto and in the forests

Her parents - Josef and Blima (Sehlwald) Spieler; her brothers and sisters - Chazkel-Barish, Aidel, Schulem, Duvid, Moische, Jizchak, Jankel; the family owns a grocery store; life in Podgórze before the war; antisemitism; the German occupation of Drabowa; anti-Jewish legislation: loss of livelihood; expulsion from school; wearing a yellow badge; imprisonment of her brother Schulem in Pustkow; loss of their home; escape from the Drabowa Ghetto and staying with their neighbors, the Forster family, for three years; death of her mother from an illness in 1941; murder of her sister Aidel and her sister's baby...

File Number : 12271

Type of Material : Interview(s), Testimony

Language : German

The experiences of Janina Schultz, born in Łódź in 1924, in the Łódź Ghetto and in the Auschwitz Birkenau and Bergen Belsen camps

The experiences of Janina Schultz, born in Łódź in 1924, in the Łódź Ghetto and in the Auschwitz Birkenau and Bergen Belsen camps - The experiences of Janina (Yanka) Pinkus, born on 06 September 1924, during the Holocaust. Her experiences were written down in the United States in 2018 by David J. Dresin, the husband of Janina’s granddaughter Dina (the memoir also includes historical information): Residence in Łódź; daughter of a wealthy secular family; her father was a notary; studies in a non-Jewish school and transfer to a Jewish school because of anti-Semitism; German occupation of Łódź in September...

File Number : 647

Type of Material : Biography

Language : English

Memoirs of Edward Gabriel Horowic, concerning his experiences in the Częstochowa ghetto, in hiding in and around Częstochowa, and in the Ainring displaced persons camp

Memoirs of Edward Gabriel Horowic, concerning his experiences in the Częstochowa ghetto, in hiding in and around Częstochowa, and in the Ainring displaced persons camp - memoirs of Edward Gabriel Horowic, born on September 21, 1934, in Częstochowa, about his family's experiences in the Holocaust (from a pamphlet titled "The Jews of Częstochowa—Co-existence, Holocaust and Memory—The Fate of Częstochowa Jews 1945–2009): Parents: Izaak Horowic, born in Warsaw, and Bala Horowic née Reingold (wedding held in 1933), life in Częstochowa; father's occupation: worked at a family-owned metalworking plant; moving to...

File Number : 11395

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Memoirs of Tzvi Milshtein, born in 1925 in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, about the Tomaszów Mazowiecki ghetto, a labor camp, and escape

Memoirs of Tzvi Milshtein, born in 1925 in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, about the Tomaszów Mazowiecki ghetto, a labor camp, and escape - memoirs of Tzvi Milshtein, born on May 14, 1925, in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, about his family's history in the Holocaust: - parents: Menashe Milshtein and Hinda Milshtein née Kursztajn; siblings: Razale, born in 1919, Esther, born in 1921; Anya, born in 1927, and Dawid, orn in 1932 (parents and all children born in Tomaszów Mazowiecki); grandmother: Tova Kursztajn; Menashe moves to Koluszki after divorcing his wife; Zvi is taken to Łódź and is placed in an orphanage in Helenówka in...

File Number : 11368

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

An article by Sam Silverman regarding the destruction of the Jewish community of Ostrów Lubelski during the Holocaust

An article by Sam Silverman regarding the destruction of the Jewish community of Ostrów Lubelski during the Holocaust Comments by the submitter of the material: (Sam Silverman) The parents of Sam Silverman, the submitter of the material, are from Ostrów Lubelski.

File Number : 584

Type of Material : Article

Language : English

Memoirs of Helen (Fajgenbaum) Golvan about her experiences in Warsaw and the Warsaw ghetto in 1939–1942, written in 1945–1946

Memoirs of Helen (Fajgenbaum) Golvan about her experiences in Warsaw and the Warsaw ghetto in 1939–1942, written in 1945–1946 Induction of son-in-law, Piotrek Golvan, into the Polish Army on August 23, 1939; war erupts on September 1, 1939; bombardment of Warsaw; German occupation of Warsaw ensues; Jews persecuted; reports that Piotrek is taken prisoner by the Germans; Piotrek returns to Warsaw in March 1940; Piotrek marries on July 7, 1940; sent to the ghetto with other Jews in autumn 1940; life in the ghetto; epidemics; murder of the Jewish intelligentsia; deportations; works with husband in a factory;...

File Number : 11047

Type of Material : Memoirs, Article

Language : Polish, English

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