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Memoirs of Gary Keins, titled "a journey through the valley of perdition", an eyewitness testimony on Jewish life in Poland during Nazi occupation, 1939-1945.

Memoirs of Gary Keins, titled "a journey through the valley of perdition", an eyewitness testimony on Jewish life in Poland during Nazi occupation, 1939-1945. This file contains: 07/1995 Foreword to the memoirs of Gary Keins, (page 2), Memoirs of Gary Keins, titled "a journey through the valley of perdition"; inter alia describing his prewar life in Upper Silesia and Poland; the German occupation of Poland; going underground and life in hiding under false identity; the living conditions in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation; his experiences in Zamosc, Cracow, Otwock and Lemberg (Lwow); about the...

File Number : 3211

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Personal Records, Memoirs, Testimony

Language : Polish, English

Report regarding the activities of the Jewish community in Krakow, September 1939-September 1940

Report regarding the activities of the Jewish community in Krakow, September 1939-September 1940 In the report there are details of the activities of the community in various areas.

File Number : 312

Type of Material : Reports

Language : German

Documentation by the German Security Authorities in the Lublin district, in particular by the German police authorities and the administrative authorities in the Generalgouvernement, 1940-1944

Documentation by the German Security Authorities in the Lublin district, in particular by the German police authorities and the administrative authorities in the Generalgouvernement, 1940-1944 Included in the file: 01/1943 Brief message addressed to a (most likely, police) major on vacation, including: "... no news from the squad. After carrying out some missions, the number of robberies receded, especially north of Chełm. More than 25 Jews and three bandits (two of them in Polish police uniforms) have been shot. Some rifles, hand grenades and a lot of ammunition could have been bagged..." (page 2),...

File Number : 82

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Protocol, Statistical Data, Photo(s), Chart(s), Drawing(s), Document(s), Correspondence

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Arthur Tenenbaum born in 1918 Działoszyce regarding his experiences in the Miechów ghetto, the Płaszów and Mauthausen camps and camps in Germany

Life in Działoszyce; from an orthodox family that owned a clothing store; antisemitism before the war; German occupation, 1939; Construction of a bunker under the family home; wearing of the yellow badge; single men taken for forced labor, his brother taken for forced labor in Koszyce; marriage to Mania Moor, 1940, in order to avoid forced labor and his stay in the nearby small town of Skalbmierz; birth of Saul, 1941; concentration of Jews in the city square, 1942; selection and murder of Jews in the area of the cemetery; transfer with his wife, son and the rest of the Jews who survived the Aktion to the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Letters of Szlomo Lerner in Będzin from 1943, letters of Israel Lerner in Israel after the war, and memoirs of the Lerner family and their experiences

- Letters and postcards of Szlomo Lerner in Będzin-Bendsburg, 1943: -- To Nathan Schwalb in Geneva; -- To Aaron Gafner in an internment camp for foreign nationals; - Postcard of Richard Fichte in Steinheidel, April 1945; - Correspondence between Israel Lerner in Kibbutz Afikim and Richard Fichte in Steinheidel from 1946; Israel hid in the home of Richard Fichte in Steinheidel after escaping the death marches; - Letters from 1965 related to Richard Fichte, including a letter from Richard Fichte in Berlin to members of the Bundestag in Bonn; - Memoirs of Israel Lerner, born in Szczekociny, 1925, on...

File Number : 5946

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Envelope, Biography, Memoirs, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : Hebrew, German

Memoirs of Nurit Nina (Tibeger) Kharit, born in 1931 in Kraków, about her experiences in the Kraków ghetto, the Płaszów, Skarżysko-Kamienna, and Leipzig camps, and death marches

Memoirs of Nurit Nina (Tibeger) Kharit, born in 1931 in Kraków, about her experiences in the Kraków ghetto, the Płaszów, Skarżysko-Kamienna, and Leipzig camps, and death marches Parents: Izak Azio and Helene Tiberger; residents of Kraków; life before the war; family owns a hat factory; Helene works at the hat shop of her sister, Jadwiga; Izak, his brother Emil, and uncle Jozek escape to the east, reach Przemyśl, and return to Kraków approx. three weeks later; German forces enter Kraków; wearing a badge of shame; Jewish men mobilized to clear snow as forced laborers; deportation to ghetto in city; forced...

File Number : 12400

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Certificates issued in Germany after the war to Lea (Palasz) Frankfurt born in Tarnów, Poland, and transcript of her testimony

-- Certificate issued to victims of fascism from Stendal, dated 15 April 1946; -- Part of a document used as a passport for travel; (Lea's birth year indicated in the documents is 1925) - Transcript of the testimony of Lea (Palasz) Frankfurt (Palasz), born in Tarnów, Poland, 1916, about her experiences during the Holocaust. The testimony was taken in 1989 and 1990: Assistance to Polish refugees deported from Germany to Poland, 1938; German occupation of Tarnów and the murder of Jews, 1939; anti-Jewish legislation; worsening conditions for Jews; badge of shame; her brother Chaim's escape to Russia...

File Number : 1865

Type of Material : Testimony, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

The experiences of Janina Schultz, born in Łódź in 1924, in the Łódź Ghetto and in the Auschwitz Birkenau and Bergen Belsen camps

The experiences of Janina Schultz, born in Łódź in 1924, in the Łódź Ghetto and in the Auschwitz Birkenau and Bergen Belsen camps - The experiences of Janina (Yanka) Pinkus, born on 06 September 1924, during the Holocaust. Her experiences were written down in the United States in 2018 by David J. Dresin, the husband of Janina’s granddaughter Dina (the memoir also includes historical information): Residence in Łódź; daughter of a wealthy secular family; her father was a notary; studies in a non-Jewish school and transfer to a Jewish school because of anti-Semitism; German occupation of Łódź in September...

File Number : 647

Type of Material : Biography

Language : English

Letters of Chaim Alter Gross in Lwów, in the Soviet Union, and during his service in the Red Army, 1940 – 1944; documentation related to the Gross and Geneslaw families from Poland

Letters of Chaim Alter Gross in Lwów, in the Soviet Union, and during his service in the Red Army, 1940 – 1944; documentation related to the Gross and Geneslaw families from Poland - Postcard sent by M. Stein in Ufa to Yakob Klyaksbald in Meteli, 1941; - Postcards sent to Chaim Alter Gross in Yosshkar Ola, 1940 – 1941; -- From Józef Gross in Neu Sandez (in Polish: Nowy Sącz); -- From Jakub Gross in Kressendorf (in Polish: Krzeszowice); -- From Alojza Löwenbraun in Myślenice; -- From M. Wolf and Germina Stern in Lwów; - Letters sent by Chaim Alter Gross in Lwów, Meteli and Ufa and during his...

File Number : 5037

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Certification, Postcard, Passport, Memoirs, Memoirs Literature, Letter

Language : Polish, French, English, Russian, German

Memoirs of Frieda (Lipshitz) Weinstock, regarding her experiences in Stopnica, in the Stopnica Ghetto, in Skarżysko-Kamienna and Częstochowa camps, liberation and aliya to Eretz Israel

Memoirs of Frieda (Lipshitz) Weinstock, regarding her experiences in Stopnica, in the Stopnica Ghetto, in Skarżysko-Kamienna and Częstochowa camps, liberation and aliya to Eretz Israel - Memoirs of Frieda (Lipshitz) Weinstock, born in Stopnica, Poland in 1922; in Hebrew and a translation to English by her daughter Sara Kleiman: German occupation of Stopnica, 1939; anti-Jewish decrees [legislation], wearing a yellow badge, and murder of Jews in Stopnica in 1940; Freida's brother Menachem moves to Stopnica with his wife and five children, with the thought that it is safer in small cities and due to the...

File Number : 10083

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English

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