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Joint testimony of Gerszon Kazdan, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1911, and Bracha Bronislava (Baum) Kazdan, born in Radom, Poland, 1911, regarding their experiences in Ostrow Mazowiecka, Bialystok, Lwow, Siberia, as a Polish Army soldier and in other places Both Gerszon Kazan and Bracha Kazdan work as dentists; escape from Zwolen to the Soviet side, November 1939; illegal border crossing. Burning of the synagogue in Ostrow Mazowiecka; life in Bialystok; life in Lwow; transfer to the Soviet Union, summer 1940; labor logging trees and as dentists in Siberia; liberation with Polish citizens from the closed camps;...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 3557

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Testimony of Adolf Wolfgang, born in Krakow, Poland, 1911, regarding his experiences in the Szebnie camp, with the Polish partisans and fighting in the areas of Jaslo, Krosno and Dukla

Testimony of Adolf Wolfgang, born in Krakow, Poland, 1911, regarding his experiences in the Szebnie camp, with the Polish partisans and fighting in the areas of Jaslo, Krosno and Dukla Escape after nine months in the Szebnie camp; encounter with a unit of the Armia Krajowa (AK, the Polish underground movement connected to the Polish government in exile), which engaged in hunting down Jews in hiding; his release after it was checked that he was not a Jew (due to Aryan documents); joining a partisan unit of the Polska Partia Socjalistyczna (PPS - Polish Socialist Party) and participation in attacks and...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 66

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Testimony of a Jewish fighter regarding the Warsaw Polish Uprising including participation by Jews in the uprising and the hiding of their Jewish identity due to displays of antisemitism by [other] uprisers, August-October 1944; testimony written, August 1945 Outbreak of the Warsaw Polish Uprising; attitude of the local population; killing of a German policeman by two Jews, 01 August 1944; waving of a Polish flag by the Jews who killed the policeman; strengthening of antisemitism among the Poles; participation of Jews in the Warsaw Polish Uprising; hiding of many Jews on the Aryan side of Warsaw during the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 519

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Yiddish

Testimony of Benjamin Taustein, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1896, regarding his experiences in POW camps in Hungary and Germany, 1939 until the liberation

Testimony of Benjamin Taustein, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1896, regarding his experiences in POW camps in Hungary and Germany, 1939 until the liberation Deportation to Hungary as a Polish Army soldier, 21 September 1939; POW camp life; escape from the POW camp to a civilian camp in Budapest designated for Polish Jews, 07 May 1940; return to the POW camp, July 1940; transfer of the Jewish soldiers and officers to the Vamosmikola camp, August 1941; equal attitude toward the Jewish and Polish soldiers, except for the travel restrictions imposed on the Jewish soldiers; deterioration in the attitude toward the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 105

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Letter by a Pole, Ryszard Jedryczek, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1910, including his memories of the life of the Jews in Bedzin until 1935, and regarding his stay in POW camps in Germany with Jewish officers who were POWs Part taken by the Jews in the economic, cultural and educational life in Bedzin before World War II; his draft into the Polish Army at the outbreak of the war; he is taken captive; his stay in POW camps for Polish POWs in Germany until the liberation; he makes favorable mention of the friendly relations between Polish Army officers and a group of 100 Jewish Polish Army officers in the POW...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 5632

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs, Financial Accounts, Letter

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Report prepared by the Ministry of National Defense of the Polish government-in-exile in London regarding a deliberation attended by Jewish officers and soldiers of the Polish Army concerning displays of antisemitism in the Polish Army in Great Britain, 16 May 1944 The meeting was convened following the defection of scores of Jewish soldiers and officers from the Polish Army in Great Britain and their request to transfer to units of the British Army; the meeting was attended by officers from the Ministry of National Defense of the Polish government-in-exile in London and also by 44 Jewish officers and...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 66.1

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Survey Report, Discussion, Protocol

results.listIds.lang : Polish

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...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 17

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter, Survey Report, Reports

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Polish

Letter from Feliks Brattbart, born in Czestochowa, to Yad Vashem regarding the pogrom against the Jews in Kielce in 1946, and displays of antisemitism in Poland after the war, 15 July 1990

Letter from Feliks Brattbart, born in Czestochowa, to Yad Vashem regarding the pogrom against the Jews in Kielce in 1946, and displays of antisemitism in Poland after the war, 15 July 1990 Feliks Brattbart writes of his return to Czestochowa after World War II and his residence there until 1969. He notes the assistance of the local Jewish community in the early days after his arrival in the city, and the antisemitic atmosphere and hatred towards the Jews in the city during the period that preceded the pogrom in Kielce, the wave of violence those days in Czestochowa as well, and cases of murder of Jews in...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 350

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Photograph, Letter

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Correspondence of the American Division of the Representation of Polish Jewry on various issues related to Polish Jewry, 1944

Correspondence of the American Division of the Representation of Polish Jewry on various issues related to Polish Jewry, 1944 Correspondence of the American Division of the Representation of Polish Jewry on various issues relating to Polish Jewry and in particular on the situation of Jews in Poland and the countries they immigrated to, 1944; discrimination methods by the Polish authorities and Polish organizations towards Jewish refugees from Poland; displays of antisemitism in the Polish Army; the Jewish underground in Poland and the relations between the American Division of the Representation of Polish...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 556

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Investigation Report, Letter

results.listIds.lang : Polish, English

Command of the Polish Army; correspondence, reports, announcements and orders on the situation of the Jews in the Polish Army, 04 January 1941 - 23 May 1945

Command of the Polish Army; correspondence, reports, announcements and orders on the situation of the Jews in the Polish Army, 04 January 1941 - 23 May 1945 Command of the Polish Army; correspondence, reports, announcements and orders on the situation of the Jews in the Polish Army including abuse, discrimination and antisemitic propaganda, 04 January 1941 - 23 May 1945.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 90

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Survey Report, Letter

results.listIds.lang : Polish

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