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Testimony of Irit Irena (Shmaltzbach) Ben Zvi, born in Pawlosiow, Poland, 1940, regarding her experiences as a toddler in Pawlosiow, in hiding in a monastery and in Krakow

Testimony

Testimony of Irit Irena (Shmaltzbach) Ben Zvi, born in Pawlosiow, Poland, 1940, regarding her experiences as a toddler in Pawlosiow, in hiding in a monastery and in Krakow Well-to-do secular family; her family owns a farm. Outbreak of the war; establishment of a German Army headquarters in the yard of the farm; good attitude of German officers toward her family; offer by an Austrian officer to move her to Austria; appointment of her father as the person responsible for the labor of the Jews in villages in the area; murder of her father; finds a hiding place in the granary of a Polish farmer; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Antisemitic booklet which was published in Poland and distributed among Polish priests, 1938-1939

File Number : 870

Type of Material : Brochure

Language : Polish

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies regarding rescue attempts, caring for refugees and obtaining visas in Spain and Portugal, 1944

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies regarding rescue attempts, caring for refugees and obtaining visas in Spain and Portugal, 1944 Pages 1-3: Telegram from the War Refugee Board (WRB) to the US Embassy in Bern regarding Jews with Portuguese citizenship presently in Greece and in danger of deportation, 06 May 1944; Pages 4-6: Telegram from the WRB to the US Embassy in Lisbon regarding US efforts to influence the Spanish and Portuguese Governments to permit the transfer of refugees from Greece and the Balkans to Spain and Portugal, 25 April...

File Number : 105

Type of Material : Telegram, Official Documentation

Language : English

Telegrams from the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding requests for help from the Vatican, 1944-1945

Telegrams from the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding requests for help from the Vatican, 1944-1945 Page 1: Telegram from the WRB to McClelland in the US Embassy in Bern regarding involvement of the Vatican in the struggle against the deportation of the Jews from Hungary, 31 July 1944; Page 2: Telegram from the US Embassy in London to the State Department in Washington announcing that the Vatican is not involved with the problem of the refugees from northern Italy. It is the problem of the Fascist government and the Pope is taking a neutral stand on this matter, 18 September 1944; Pages...

File Number : 103

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram

Language : English

Hearsay testimony of Shabtai Keshev regarding the proposal of the heads of the Polish [Catholic] Church to rescue the last three rabbis in the Warsaw Ghetto

Hearsay testimony of Shabtai Keshev regarding the proposal of the heads of the Polish [Catholic] Church to rescue the last three rabbis in the Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs of Shabtai Keshev from his meetings with Rabbi David Shapiro at the Fuerth DP camp, late 1945. At one of their meetings, Rabbi Shapiro told Shabtai of the proposal of the heads of the Polish [Catholic] Church to rescue him along with Rabbi Menachem Ziemba and Rabbi Samson Stockhammer during the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. The three rabbis refused to be taken out to a safe place outside the ghetto with their families. Also in the...

File Number : 152

Type of Material : Letter, Article, Research Article

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English

Correspondence concerning the burial of Tekla Andrusishin, a Jewish woman from Augustowka, Poland, who converted to Christianity, October–November 1942, and press clippings about the Ukrainian war criminal Iwan Stebelski, aka "Winter." - Letter from the Lwów branch of the Ukrainian Central Committee, sent on November 5, 1942, turning down a request from the bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church concerning the burial of Tekla Andrusishin of Augustowka, who converted and married a Ukrainian in 1890. Kost Pankiwskyi, writing for the Committee, states that the Committee is not allowed to deal with...

File Number : 381

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Correspondence

Language : Ukrainian

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

Documentation of the Sicherheitspolizei und S.D. (Sipo and SD), including reports and orders of the Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet territories, 1941-1942

Documentation of the Sicherheitspolizei und S.D. (Sipo and SD), including reports and orders of the Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet territories, 1941-1942 Included in the file: Pages 2-3: Letter from the commander of the Sipo and SD in Vilna to the Gestapo in Tilsit, 30 August 1941, reporting that the couple Emil and Anna Mecklenburger, a man named Jagomastas, his wife and his two sons have all been “dealt with as was advised in your letter of July 24.” He also proposed arresting the relatives of these families who are residing in Tilsit, and the son Emil Jagomastas, born, 04 August 1910, who is in Dresden at...

File Number : 3

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Memoirs of Jakob Jehoszua Herzig, regarding his experiences in Lwow and while using a false identity in Rabka and Loncko

Memoirs of Jakob Jehoszua Herzig, regarding his experiences in Lwow and while using a false identity in Rabka and Loncko Wanderings by his family from Jaslo to Lwow during the Soviet rule; German occupation; life as an "Aryan" [while using a false identity] in Rabka and Loncko; attitude of the priests toward the Jews; murder of Poles by Ukrainians; list of Righteous Among the Nations.

File Number : 193

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Anna Podoszyn, born in 1937 in Busk, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in a convent in Busk and in the home of her Polish adoptive parents (future Righteous among the Nations)

Testimony of Anna Podoszyn, born in 1937 in Busk, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in a convent in Busk and in the home of her Polish adoptive parents (future Righteous among the Nations) Diary kept by Anna Podoszyn at age nine from 1946 on, with supplemental text and conclusion in 1966, with information about: Life during the war (vague memories), placement in a convent in Busk by her aunt; learning the prayers; being removed from the convent by her aunt, Anna Gruber, and placed in hiding with a Polish peasant woman; several weeks later removed from the home by the peasant and another woman; an...

File Number : 638

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Polish

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