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Testimony of Maurycy Helinski (Koenigsgelb) born in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland, regarding his experience in the USSR during the Second World War

Testimony of Maurycy Helinski (Koenigsgelb) born in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland, regarding his experiences in the USSR during the Second World War In his letter to Attorney G. Hausner, Maurycy Helinski sends the manuscript of his autobiography for the Yad Vashem institute. Maurycy Helinski (Koenigsgelb) and his family - Helena Hadasa Koenigsgelb (nee Lando), father Dawid and brother Adolf (Abraham) - lived in Warsaw; parents ran a shop with women's coats; Maurycy studied medicine in France, then in Italy, and in 1938 he returned to Warsaw, where he worked in the Jewish hospital in Czyste and in an outpatient...

File Number : 1890

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Dioniza (Rzepkowicz ) Brunicka regarding her involvement in the escape of camp prisoners in Białystok in 1944, her son's testimony and her forged documents from the Holocaust

Memoirs of Dioniza (Rzepkowicz ) Brunicka regarding her involvement in the escape of camp prisoners in Białystok in 1944, her son's testimony and her forged documents from the Holocaust "Uwolnienie z obozu": Dioniza Brunicka's memoirs regarding her part in organizing the escape of the prisoners of Zielona camp in Białystok in summer 1944; her memoirs were published in the book "Białostoccy Żydzi" by Prof. Adam Dobroński (in 1993), and in the "Kurier Poranny" newspaper in 1999; a Hebrew translation is attached; letter from Rev. Julian Zawadzki of Supraśl, dated 28 December 1945; Article published in the...

File Number : 12382

Type of Material : Testimony, Letter, Personal Documents, Birth Certificate, Article, Work Permit, Memoirs, Identity Card

Language : Polish, German

Gedalia Russak memoirs, Russak and Mittelmann family correspondence, 1945–1947 and additional documentation of the Russak family

Gedalia Russak memoirs, Russak and Mittelmann family correspondence, 1945–1947 and additional documentation of the Russak family - memoirs of Gedalia Russak, born in Sulmierzyce in 1914; attached are partial translations of the memoirs into Hebrew and English; childhood in Sulmierzyce; family moves to Częstochowa in 1924; learns a trade (baker and confectioner); service in the Polish Army 1936-1938; inducted into the army in 1939; war erupts; taken prisoner; sent to Germany for forced labor; works there for approx. a year, concealing his Jewish origins; released and reaches Częstochowa; life in the...

File Number : 12513

Type of Material : Memoirs, Committee Request, Letter, Correspondence, Personal Documents, כתובה, תעודת יושר, Certification, ייפוי כח

Language : Polish, English, Swedish, Yiddish

Announcement sent to David Ekhaizjer in 2001, related to his combat against the Nazis during the Holocaust period

Announcement sent to David Ekhaizjer in 2001, related to his combat against the Nazis during the Holocaust period - Announcement sent to David Ekhaizjer by the Ministry of Security on 11/02/2001, related to his right to wear the Medal of a Combatant against the Nazis, and the Medal of the State's Fighters; Included in the file: - Page with data copied from the identity card of David Ekhaizjer, issued on 04/01/1988; - Genealogy of members of the Ekhaizjer family.

File Number : 1637

Type of Material : Personal Documents, הודעה, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew, English

Testimony of David Ekhaizjer, born in Siedlce, Poland in 1924, regarding his experiences in Poland, in the Soviet Union, and in service in the Polish Army in the Soviet Army during 1939-1945

Testimony of David Ekhaizjer, born in Siedlce, Poland in 1924, regarding his experiences in Poland, in the Soviet Union, and in service in the Polish Army in the Soviet Army during 1939-1945 His family's life in Warsaw; outbreak of the war; shelling of Warsaw; his family escapes to Kowel; move to Lwow; exile of the family to forced labor in Mariyskaya ASSR in June 1940; death of his father due to illness; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; release of the family members from forced labor; settlement of the family members in Yoshkar Ola; he studies mechanics; draft into the Polish Army...

File Number : 10782

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation related to the service of Khaim Fund, born in Poland in 1911, in the Red Army construction brigades during 1941-1945

Documentation related to the service of Khaim Fund, born in Poland in 1911, in the Red Army construction brigades during 1941-1945 - Medical file of Khaim Fund, including documents from a field hospital in Yoshkar Ola, 02/1945 and from a hospital in Łódź, 04-05/1945; - Reports regarding the functioning of the Red Army construction brigades in which Polish citizens served; the reports were edited by military advisors at the Embassy of Poland in Kuybyshev during 02-03/1942; - Documentation regarding the recognition of Khaim Fund as a war disabled during the war against the Nazis, including announcements, an...

File Number : 1731

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Medical Documentation, החלטה, Diploma, Committee Request, Survey Report

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian, Dutch

Memoirs of Leon Greenberg, born in Rożanka Niżna, Poland in 1922, regarding service and combat while in the Red Army and the Armia Berlinga in Poland, Ukraine and Germany, his emigration to the United States, and regarding the fate of his family members Memoirs booklet, titled, "The True Saga of a Survivor", written by Leon Greenberg, born in Rożanka Niżna, Poland in 1922, regarding his family's experiences during the Holocaust. The booklet was published in the United States in 1993: His parents were Yosel and Pearl Greenberg; his siblings were Samuel, born in 1921, and Miriam, born in 1924. (Yosel and...

File Number : 10047

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Memoirs of David Ekhaizer, born in 1924, regarding his experiences in Poland, in the Soviet Union and in the Polish Army in the Soviet Union during 1939-1945, and in Poland and Germany during 1945-1947 before his aliya to Eretz Israel; personal documentation related to David Ekhaizer and his family members - Memoirs of David Ekhaizer, including his family’s experiences during the war period and afterwards (written in Israel in 2008); His family’s life in Warsaw; outbreak of the war; shelling of Warsaw; his family’s escape to Kowel on 05/09/1939; Red Army invasion of areas of Poland on 17/09/1939 and the...

File Number : 10295

Type of Material : Memoirs, Passport, Birth Certificate, Identity Card, Marriage Certificate, Genealogy, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Russian, German

Diary kept by Ignacy Wurm, later Yigal Rom, during his service in the Polish Army in Exile and in hospitals in 1945, and documentation regarding his experiences in the Polish Army and in Poland during 1944-1950 - Diary kept by Ignacy Wurm, born in Lwow, Poland in 1925, and a notebook and separate pages, written during 09 March-30 September 1945: departure of the armored battalion in which he served from Stara Miłosna on 12 January 1945; participation in a battle near Virchow; he is wounded during a battle near Gdynia on 13 March 1945; his stay in military hospitals and afterwards in a hospital in Chojnica;...

File Number : 9788

Type of Material : תעודת בית הספר, Identity Card, Document, Medical Documentation, Birth Certificate, Personal Documents, Passport, Diary, Certification

Language : Polish, Russian