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Memoirs of Moshe Kaplan, born in Woronow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army, the Tannenberg POW camp, the Woronow Ghetto, in hiding in the forest, as a partisan in the Naliboki forests and more Life in Woronow after World War I; death of his father Avraham Kaplan in 1922; attendance at the Tarbut elementary school; displays of antisemitism; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; underground activities and imprisonment of his brother as a member of the Communist Party; death of his mother, 1932; life in an aliya training kibbutz in Bialystok; meeting his future wife, Chaya; release of his...

File Number : 8643

Type of Material : Genealogy, Memoirs, Poems/songs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yocheved Yehudit Hamburger Boxbaum, born in Brzesko, Poland, 1928, regarding the Bochnia ghetto and deportation to the Auschwitz II - Birkenau camp

Testimony

Testimony of Yocheved Yehudit Hamburger Boxbaum, born in Brzesko, Poland, 1928, regarding the Bochnia ghetto and deportation to the Auschwitz II - Birkenau camp Family background, religious family; studies in a Polish school; life before the war. The outbreak of the war; dropping out of school; great fear of the Germans; deportation to the ghetto; aktions; deportation of the first intelligence personnel; whistleblowing by Jewish policemen on Jews; rumors of camps; construction of bunkers; hiding in hideout during an aktion; exposing the witness' family during the aktion and killing them; the escape of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents, including correspondence between Joel Rybak and his family, and a Red Cross letter sent by Mirjam and Rachel Grosfeld in Eretz Israel to their mother Nuta Grosfeld in Bedzin; documents dated, 1932-1941 Included in the file: - Letters sent by Joel Rybak from Rowne to his sister Mirjam in Eretz Israel, 1932-1935; - Letters sent by Joel Rybak from the "Owadja" (Ovadia) aliya training "kibbutz" in Slawkow to his sister Mirjam and her husband Avraham Kreizer, 1936-1937; - Postcard sent by Joel Rybak from Slawkow to his father Aron in Rowne; - Letters and postcards sent by Aron and...

File Number : 2019

Type of Material : Postcard, Red Cross Letter, Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Polish, English, Yiddish

Testimony of Vita Henig Kozlowski, born in Przytyk, Poland, 1911, regarding her aliya to Israel in 1936

Testimony

Testimony of Vita Henig Kozlowski, born in Przytyk, Poland, 1911, regarding her aliya to Israel in 1936 Family background, religious family; great anti-Semitism on the part of the Poles; studies in a Polish school; community life; memories of the First World War; marriage, 1935; her husband's desire to make an aliya to Eretz Israel; obtaining a certificate of aliya; anger on the part of her father over the witness to make aliya to Eretz Yisrael; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936; a pogrom in Przytyk by Poles and the murder of two Jews, 1936; receiving letters from her mother; the difficult situation in Poland;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzvi Hershel Danik Ginka Rothstein, born in 1933 in Brody, Poland, about his deportation to Kazakhstan in 1940 and his immigration to Eretz Israel via the Dror movement in 1947

Testimony

Testimony of Tzvi Hershel Danik Ginka Rothstein, born in 1933 in Brody, Poland, about his deportation to Kazakhstan in 1940 and his immigration to Eretz Israel via the Dror movement in 1947 Father active in the Bund; father arrested and disappears during era of Soviet rule in 1940; witness deported with mother and sister to Kazakhstan in 1940; sent to the Marinovka kolkhoz (Soviet collective farm); corresponds with family in Brody; lives with Kazakh families; receives parcels from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; back to Langenbielau, Silesia, in 1946; joins a children's home of the Dror...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Schmerel Cynamon, born in Lodz, Poland in 1909, regarding his experiences in Lodz, in the Polish Army, in Bialystok after the division of Poland, and in the Lodz Ghetto following the return of Lodz to the German authorities; included is his testimony regarding Nazi collaborators among Jews and members of the Judenrat in the Lodz Ghetto

File Number : 7673

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs

Language : English, Yiddish

Memoirs of Gary Keins, titled "a journey through the valley of perdition", an eyewitness testimony on Jewish life in Poland during Nazi occupation, 1939-1945.

Memoirs of Gary Keins, titled "a journey through the valley of perdition", an eyewitness testimony on Jewish life in Poland during Nazi occupation, 1939-1945. This file contains: 07/1995 Foreword to the memoirs of Gary Keins, (page 2), Memoirs of Gary Keins, titled "a journey through the valley of perdition"; inter alia describing his prewar life in Upper Silesia and Poland; the German occupation of Poland; going underground and life in hiding under false identity; the living conditions in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation; his experiences in Zamosc, Cracow, Otwock and Lemberg (Lwow); about the...

File Number : 3211

Type of Material : Personal Records, Memoirs, Testimony, Personal Documents

Language : Polish, English

Article by Mieczyslaw Zajac regarding Jewish refugees from Poland in Hungary 1939-1945, published in Krakow, 1985

Article by Mieczyslaw Zajac regarding Jewish refugees from Poland in Hungary 1939-1945, published in Krakow, 1985 Arrival of Jewish and Polish refugees [in Hungary] from Poland, autumn 1939; sympathetic attitude of the Hungarian authorities towards the refugees, unrelated to their origins; separation of Polish Army men and Jews due to the antisemitic attitude of the Polish officers; additional wave of Jewish refugees from Poland in 1942; sending out of a secret circular by the Hungarian Interior Minister according to which all the refugees should be received and transferred to camps in the interior of...

File Number : 10

Type of Material : Research Article, Article

Language : Polish

Letter sent by the Jewish community in Bydgoszcz, 10 March 1937, to the Police Commander requesting security for the Jewish neighborhoods in the city during the speech to be delivered by Father Trzeciak In the letter it is emphasized that many times speeches and lectures by Father Trzeciak have aroused waves of antisemitism and violent acts against the Jewish population in various cities in Poland; as an example, murder of Jews in Lodz, whose perpetrators claimed they had acted under the inspiration of a speech by the priest and under its influence, is mentioned.

File Number : 338

Type of Material : Letter, Application

Language : Polish

Testimony of Avraham Zorman, born in Warsaw, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Budzyn, Litomerice and Mauthausen concentration camp

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Zorman, born in Warsaw, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Budzyn, Litomerice and Mauthausen camps The family; education in a Tarbut school; member of Zionist youth movements; antisemitism until 1939; concentration of the Jews in the ghetto, 1940; various labor assignments; building bunkers; obtaining weapons from the Poles at every opportunity; deportation to Budzyn camp, May 1943-May 1944; transfer to Plaszow camp; after two weeks transfer to Litomerice; labor in an aircraft parts factory; transfer to Mauthausen, January 1945; liberation by the US Army, May...

File Number : 9018

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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