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Letters sent by Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union to Moshe Ischai in Jerusalem, 14 September 1944-01 March 1945; overview of the antisemitism in the Polish Army in the Soviet Union, and the situation of Jewish refugees in the Soviet Union - Letters from people in the Soviet Union to Moshe Ischai in Jerusalem containing information regarding the situation of the Jews in the Soviet Union and the assistance they need in order to leave the Soviet Union; - Overview of the enlistment process of Jews into the Polish Army being established within the area of the Soviet Union, February 1942, and the...

File Number : 17

Type of Material : Letter, Survey Report, Reports

Language : Hebrew, Polish

"Ukrainians and the Jews", an article by Leo Heiman regarding antisemitism in Ukraine, published in New York, 1961

"Ukrainians and the Jews", an article by Leo Heiman regarding antisemitism in Ukraine, published in New York, 1961 Antisemitism in the Soviet Union in general, and in Ukraine specifically; the Communist regime unofficially supports antisemitism in its various expressions. Discrimination against Jews in employment and in schools is widespread throughout the central cities of the Soviet Union; propaganda against the State of Israel as a Zionist occupier is especially scathing at meetings with delegations from Israel. The research examines the disappearance of traces of the Holocaust in Ukraine, including...

File Number : 104

Type of Material : Article

Language : English

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

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Testimony

העדה- בת למשפחה יהודית משכילה ב-Kiev; מוצא האם ממשפחת אצולה יהודית ב-Kiev; לימודים בגן ובבית הספר; פרוץ המלחמה ביוני 1941; הפצצות ליליות על Kiev; מסתור במקלטים; גיוס האב לצבא האדום; נסיגת הצבא האדום; הגעת האב לבית בימים הראשונים של יולי 1941; עזרת האב בפינוי המשפחה; עלייה על הרכבת; הישארות קרובי המשפחה ב-Kiev; הנסיעה ברכבות; נדודים; ניסיונות למצוא מזון ומים; הפצצות בדרך; הגעה ל-Buzuluk; עבודת האם כמנהלת מתקן ייצור של מגפי לבד; קבלת מנות אוכל בחדר אוכל; מגורים עם 11 קרובי משפחה נוספים בחדר אחד; תנאי החיים; לימודים בבית הספר; מעבר המשפחה לרומניה לאחר המלחמה; מגורים ב-Iasi עד 1949; שיבה ל-Kiev ב-1949; החיים ב-Kiev...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Documentation from the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan, 1941-1945

Documentation from the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan, 1941-1945 - Reports of the regional committees, regarding the strengthening of the [Communist] Party's political work among the local population and steps for the struggle against displays of antisemitism; - Mention of cases of antisemitism related to refugees from the Republics of the Soviet Union, and Poland; - Report of the regional health branch, regarding the situation in the Alma-Ata region during 1941-1945: participation of the evacuated Jewish physicians in the struggle against epidemiological diseases and...

Type of Material : Names of Evacuees, List of Evacuated Persons, Survey Report

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Pola Dikhter (maiden name: Melamed) regarding her experiences in Wolnianka, in the Rożyszcze Ghetto and wanderings in the Wolyn district during the Holocaust

Memoirs of Pola Dikhter (maiden name: Melamed) regarding her experiences in Wolnianka, in the Rożyszcze Ghetto and wanderings in the Wolyn district during the Holocaust Life in Wolnianka; air-raids on the area during the first days of the war; news regarding murders of Jews in Rożyszcze; robbery of Jewish property by Ukrainians; German occupation of Wolnianka; murders of Jews; transfer to forced labor; abuse of Jews; expulsion of Wolnianka Jews to the Rożyszcze Ghetto in March 1942; the murder of her father; her escape from the ghetto in August 1942 to work for a Polish family in Walerjanowka; liquidation of...

File Number : 12001

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Yiddish

Diary kept by engineer Moisey Feigin in Leningrad under siege in 1942

Diary kept by engineer Moisey Feigin in Leningrad under siege in 1942 The diary records his experiences in Leningrad before the war and how he misses those times; his labor digging graves and burying the dead alongside his employment as an engineer; antisemitism in Leningrad during the siege; he also criticizes the Soviet authorities in the diary; Included in the file: - recording and transcript of a radio program about the diary. Comments from the submitter of the material: (Dan Feigin) Moisey Feigin was born in Klintsy in 1914. In 1942 he was rescued from Leningrad and conscripted into the Red...

File Number : 12000

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Zinaida Sorinzon (maiden name: Feygin), born in Gomel in 1934, regarding her family's experiences during the war

Memoirs of Zinaida Sorinzon (maiden name: Feygin), born in Gomel in 1934, regarding her family's experiences during the war - memoirs of Zinaida Sorinzon, with additions by her brother Mark Feygin, born in Gomel in 1929: Childhood in Gomel; air-raids at the outbreak of war; evacuation and arrival in Krasnaya Sloboda; her father's conscription into the Red Army in August 1941; life with her brother Mark and family in Krasnaya Sloboda and Chistopol from autumn 1942; information regarding her father's experiences in the Red Army (stay at the front in winter 1942; wounded and captured by the Germans in February...

File Number : 11984

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Eliyahu Berman, born in Skole in 1916, regarding his experiences in forced labor, in bunkers in the forests and in the Red Army

Memoirs of Eliyahu Berman, born in Skole in 1916, regarding his experiences in forced labor, in bunkers in the forests and in the Red Army - Memoirs of Eliyahu Berman regarding his experiences before, during and after the Holocaust (partial translation into English is attached): Death of his father in 1931; the stay of the witness, a member of Hashomer Hatzair, in various aliya training camps in Poland; work in Lwow; the murder of Samuel, one of his brothers, by Ukrainians; drafted into the Red Army with the outbreak of war in 1941; deaths of most of the soldiers from his unit during the retreat; his...

File Number : 11431

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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