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Survey report of Itzhak Ribak regarding the fate of members of the Ribak family from Wierzbnik and from Opoczno, Poland

Survey report of Itzhak Ribak regarding the fate of members of the Ribak family from Wierzbnik and from Opoczno, Poland Death of his mother; survival of his brothers, Menachem Mendel and Shmuel Meir among the Polish partisans; murder of his brothers by Poles after the war; experiences of his nephew, Shmuel Meir's infant son; arrival of his brother Yehuda to Eretz Israel via Iran while in the service of the Anders Army; fate of his younger brother Avraham, who escaped to the Soviet Union and disappeared without a trace; Included in the file: - Aliya application forms from the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1239

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Survey Report, Form, Memoirs, Letter, Personal Documents

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, English

Testimony of Yisrael Veisvaser, born in 1922 in Krasnystaw, Poland, about the German occupation in September 1939 and his escape to the Soviet Union

Testimony of Yisrael Veisvaser, born in 1922 in Krasnystaw, Poland, about the German occupation in September 1939 and his escape to the Soviet Union Childhood in a traditional home; attends a cheder and a Polish elementary school; active in the Betar movement; German occupation ensues; Soviet invasion ensues in 1939; witness escapes to Brest and thence to Minsk; back to Brest; on to Ludman; arrested due to Zionist activity; deported to a labor camp in Rom, Soviet Union; transferred to a camp for craftspersons; released in June 1943; reaches Zhitomir and Chełm; discharged from the Polish Army in 1946; moves...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Yiddish

Testimony of Avigdor Rubinshtein, born in Sokolow, Poland in 1921, regarding his experiences in USSR, Siberia, and Bukhara, and his survival

Testimony of Avigdor Rubinshtein, born in Sokolow, Poland in 1921, regarding his experiences in USSR, Siberia, and Bukhara, and his survival Life in a wealthy Zionist family; German occupation for ten days in September 1939; Russian domination until June 1941; escape to Siberia and life there in 1941 and 1942; move to Bukhara and life there until 1944; use of family home as center for Zionist activity, especially for Hashomer HaTza’ir youth movement and other youth movements; participation in Bricha in 1945; attempt to reach Eretz Israel and exile to Cyprus in 1946; aliya to Israel in early 1949; absorption.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13763

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Transcripts of testimonies of Jews from Poland who fought in the Polish Army and in the Red Army during the war

Transcripts of testimonies of Jews from Poland who fought in the Polish Army and in the Red Army during the war - Testimony of Szymon Bilgoraj, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1916, regarding his experiences as a soldier in the Polish Army fighting in Ukraine, Germany and Poland; - Testimony of Wiktor Margulis, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences as a soldier in the Polish Army, the Soviet Union and the Red Army; - Testimony of Eugeniusz Gerszon Landsberg, born in Poland, 1911, regarding his experiences in the Zbaraz Ghetto, in hiding and as a soldier in the Polish Army in Oder Neisse...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8579

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Aharon Feigenblum, born in 1919 in Włocławek, Poland, about his experiences as a member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Kalisz, in Warsaw, and in the movement underground in the Soviet Union

Receives a religious education; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; lives in a hakhshara (training center) in Kalisz in 1937; Kol Nidre eve in 1939; three Jews murdered; witness escapes to his parents in Warsaw in November 1939; escapes to Wilno and lives there until June 1940; escapes to Tashkent and Samarkand in 1941; membership in the Hashomer Hatzair underground in the Soviet Union in 1941–1944; involved in the affair surrounding Mordechai Rozman, a leader of the underground, who succumbed to NKVD interrogation and surrendered names of underground members; liberation and return to Poland in December 1945;...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13553

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Letter and postcard sent by Nusen Jarzynek in Stolin to his sister Chana in Eretz Israel, 30 January and 20 April 1940, and personal documentation from when he served in Anders Army, 1940-1942;

Letter and postcard sent by Nusen Jarzynek in Stolin to his sister Chana in Eretz Israel, 30 January and 20 April 1940, and personal documentation from when he served in Anders Army, 1940-1942; - Military payment booklet from Anders Army, showing his induction date, issued 30 January 1942; - Military service booklet, issued 07 December 1942; - Military ID card from Anders Arm, issued in Kermine, 13 July 1942. Comments by the submitter of the material: - Natan Yarkoni (Nusen Jarzynek) born in Sochaczew, Poland, 1916; - Move of family to Lodz; - Military service in the Polish Army before the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1925

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Postcard, Letter, Personal Records

results.listIds.lang : Polish, English, Russian, Yiddish

Testimony of Paulina Keynan, nee Godin in Wilno, Poland in 1925, regarding her deportation to the Wilno ghetto and the Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps and the death march

Testimony of Paulina Keynan ,nee Godin, born in Wilno,Poland,in 1925 Childhood within a well-to-do traditional family, good neighbourly relations with the Polish population, increasing displays of anti-Semitism, boycotting Jewish businesses; outbreak of the war; Russian occupation; exile of wealthy people to siberia; confiscation of part of the family house for the purpose of housing Soviets; father's imprisonment for half a year; life in hiding for about two weeks in fear of exile to Siberia; German occupation in 1941; expulsion from the family house; father's arrest and disappearance; restrictions and...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13648

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Personal documentation belonging Julian Czerwonogora, born in Wiszkow, Poland, 1907, from the period of his military service in the British Army, 1943-1947

Personal documentation belonging Julian Czerwonogora, born in Wiszkow, Poland,1907, from the period of his military service in the British Army, 1943-1947 Manuscripts (typewritten) of Julian Czerwonogora: - The Decline of Western Culture; - The Prince and The Jew; - The Collapse Of The Red Empire. Also in the file: - Paratrooper's certificate belonging to Julian Czerwonogora (in Polish); - Identity card and medical card belonging to Dora Czerwonogora, the sister of Julian Czerwonogora, issued in England, 1947 and 1950. Note: Julian Czerwonogora was born in Wiszkow, Poland, 24 January...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 687

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Official Documentation, Literature, Personal Documents

results.listIds.lang : Polish, English

Letters sent by Kalman Wlodawer from Klodzko and Cyprus to his son Aron and friend Arje Salomon in Tel Aviv, 1945 - 1948

Letters sent by Kalman Wlodawer from Klodzko and Cyprus to his son Aron and friend Arje Salomon in Tel Aviv, 1945 - 1948 Aron Wlodawer, born in Sokolow Podlaski, Poland, 1937; Kalman Wlodawer and Rajca Frydman, parents of Aron Wlodawer; move to Eretz Israel with the Teheran children, 18 February 1943; life in Siberia and Uzbekistan with the family: move to an orphanage in Teheran; his sister Szejndla, born in 1933, died in Uzbekistan; his father was drafted to the Anders Army and made aliya to Israel in 1949; Note: The letters were translated to Hebrew by Pnina Mazlish; The file also includes: Arrival...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1821

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter, Personal Documents, Genealogy

results.listIds.lang : English, Yiddish

Personal documentation of Rivka (Klapholz) Siedlisker, Moshe Siedlisker and family members from Poland and Eretz Israel, 1935 - 1940

Personal documentation of Rivka (Klapholz) Siedlisker, Moshe Siedlisker and family members from Poland and Eretz Israel, 1935 - 1940 Letters recived by Moshe and Rivka Siedlisker in Eretz Israel from Chana Siedlisker in Debica, Chana Klapholz in Bochnia and additional family members in Poland, 1935 - 1940; correspondence of the Klapholz family in Poland, 1933 - 1934; letters sent by Moshe Siedlisker via the Red Cross to family in Debica and Bochnia, 1941; documentation of Rivka Klapholz Siedlisker of the family experiences in Bochnia before the war. Experiences of Moshe Siedlisker: son of Israel...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1808

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Telegram, Memoirs, Letter, Red Cross Letter, Personal Documents, Postcard

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Polish, German, Yiddish

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