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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 : Official Documentation, Poster, Personal Documents, Manifesto

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

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

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

Testimony of Arthur Tenenbaum born in 1918 Działoszyce regarding his experiences in the Miechów ghetto, the Płaszów and Mauthausen camps and camps in Germany

Life in Działoszyce; from an orthodox family that owned a clothing store; antisemitism before the war; German occupation, 1939; Construction of a bunker under the family home; wearing of the yellow badge; single men taken for forced labor, his brother taken for forced labor in Koszyce; marriage to Mania Moor, 1940, in order to avoid forced labor and his stay in the nearby small town of Skalbmierz; birth of Saul, 1941; concentration of Jews in the city square, 1942; selection and murder of Jews in the area of the cemetery; transfer with his wife, son and the rest of the Jews who survived the Aktion to the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Letters of Leon Najberg in Warsaw to the Szczypiorski family in Warsaw, 1945, letters and documentation of the Halborn family from Łódź

- Thank you letters written by Leon Najberg in Warsaw to the Szczypiorski family in Warsaw, September 1945; Leon hid with the Szczypiorski family in Warsaw from September 1943 until October 1944 and survived. - Correspondence between Dr. Samuel Halborn and his daughter Alina in Łódź and Israel, 1956-1946; - Confirmation from Łódź, November 1939, regarding the dismissal of Dr. Samuel Halborn, a physician by profession, due to regime laws; - Documentation from Lutsk and Uzbekistan, 1945-1940, and in Łódź, Wrocław, Głuszyca, Paris, Montevideo, Eretz Israel and the State of Israel during 1952-1946,...

File Number : 5978

Type of Material : Declaration, Personal Documents, Passport, Diploma, Certification, Letter, Genealogy, Birth Certificate

Language : Latin, Spanish, Hebrew, Polish, French, Russian, German, Yiddish

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 : Testimony, Interview(s)

Language : German

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File Number : 1865

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

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