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Testimony of Henryk Meller, born in Krakow, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences in Bochnia, while using a false identity in Krakow, Warsaw, Radzymin and in other places

Testimony of Henryk Meller, born in Krakow, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences in Bochnia, while using a false identity in Krakow, Warsaw, Radzymin and in other places Outbreak of the war; death of his father, one year later; receives an order for deportation from Krakow; move to Bochnia with his mother and sister; he makes visits, while using a false identity, on the Aryan side in Krakow to his father's sister who is married to a Pole; for two years, he smuggles bread which he receives from his aunt, in order to sell the bread; he receives news during travel to Krakow, regarding the detention of his...

File Number : 320

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Identity card of Stefania Nowotna, born 1913 in Warsaw, Poland, issued in Tucin, Poland on 23/01/1942

File Number : 727

Type of Material : Identity Card

Language : German, Ukrainian

Various certificates from Warsaw, Krakow, Auschwitz from the years 1940-1945

Various certificates from Warsaw, Krakow, Auschwitz from the years 1940-1945 - fake Aryan certificates in the name of Stefania Wodzinska, born 01/05/1910 Warsaw, Poland; the file contains an identity card and work certificate issued in Greiz, Germany in 1943-1945, a transit certificate intended for travel to Germany for forced labor issued on August 22, 1942 and a birth certificate; - Authorization of the Disbandment Committee of the Krajowa Underground Army (Armia Krajowa - Homeland Army) issued to Aleksander Hawlicki, born 03/27/1923 in Brody, Poland, who served in the Krajowa Underground Army and appeared...

File Number : 612

Type of Material : List of Names, Personal Documents

Language : Polish, German

Documents belonging to Edwarda Zielinska and Boleslaw Zielinski, 1939-1945

Documents belonging to Edwarda Zielinska and Boleslaw Zielinski, 1939-1945 - Membership card in the Association of Poles in the City and the Neustadt Holstein Region which served as proof of the stay of Stanislawa Dzicielska in the Stutthof camp, 1944-1945; the certificate was given in Holstein, 26 April 1945; - Aryan identity card in the name of Edwarda Janina Zielinska, issued in Siedlce, 30 March 1942; - Aryan identity card in the name of Boleslaw Zielinski, issued in Korzecko, 17 December 1943; - Identity card in the name of Boleslaw Zielinski, issued 10 January 1939; - Work certificate in...

File Number : 604

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Work Permit, Personal Documents, Photograph, Membership Cards, Identity Card

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Dina Adolf of Przeworsk, Poland, about Poles who saved her from deportation and helped her on the "Aryan" side until the end of the war, and confirmations and testimonies by Stefan Sendlak, Adam Kornecki, Irena Sendler, and Zdzisław Bronisz. Dina Adolf was tipped off about an Aktion in Przeworsk on August 1, 1942, and went into hiding in the countryside. Three days later, she returned to the town. Zofia Zawadzka concealed her, first in a convent and then with her friend, Stanisława Kotowska. The two women helped the witness and kept her fed for two weeks. Adela Szajna helped her to move to the...

File Number : 542

Type of Material : Testimony, Document

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Nathan Kornfeld, born in Somotor, Czechoslovakia, 1916, regarding his experiences in Budapest and Cegled

Testimony

Testimony of Nathan Kornfeld, born in Somotor, Czechoslovakia, 1916, regarding his experiences in Budapest and Cegled Life before the war. Annexation to Hungary; outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Budapest using a false identity; life in hiding in Cegled; liberation.

File Number : 976

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German, Hungarian

ראיון עם Luba Bat על קורותיה בגטו Lvov ובצד הארי ב- Lvov ו- Warszawa ב- 1941- 1943

File Number : 1290

Type of Material : Interview(s), Memoirs

Language : English

זיכרונותיה של Ruth Knyszynska Flakowicz על קורותיה בגטו Warszawa ובצד הארי בתקופת הכיבוש הגרמני

File Number : 1551

Language : English

Documentation from Russian State Military Archives (RGVA)

Documentation from Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi, RGVA), 1939-1944 years. Archive was established in 1920 as the Archive of the Red Army (from 1933 Central Archive of the Red Army, from 1941 Central State Archive of the Red Army, and from 1958 Central State Archive of the Soviet Army).In 1946 Institution had been supplied with separate subarchive, so called 'Separate Archive' that included documents collected by the Soviet Army during World War II in the other states and transferred here in 1946. In 1992, Special was renamed the Center for the Preservation of Historical and Documentary...

Type of Material : Photograph, Instruction, List of Collaborators, List of Deportees, List of Names, List of Perpetrators, Album, List of Detainees, List, List of Camp Inmates, List of Deportation From Berlin, Card File, List of Deportation From France, Names, Official Documentation, List of Inmates

Language : German

Collection of stories about Righteous among the Nations, assembled by Kay Sharpe

Collection of stories about Righteous among the Nations, assembled by Kay Sharpe - the British Consul Robert Smallbones and the Deputy Consul Arthur Dowden in Frankfurt—after Kristallnacht, he issued provisional visas to the UK in 1938–1939, thus rescuing approx. 48,000 Jews; - the Chinese Consul Feng Shan Ho in Vienna, who saved Jews after Austria was annexed in 1938 by issuing visas to Shanghai; information is available at the Yad Vashem site and on Wikipedia; - George Ferdinand Duckwitz (a German diplomat in Denmark): after he discovered plans to deport the Jews of Denmark to concentration camps in...

File Number : 414

Type of Material : Article

Language : English

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