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Testimony of Efraim Nachimowicz, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and Majdanek

Testimony of Efraim Nachimowicz, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and Majdanek Deportation of Jews from the small ghetto in Bialystok to Majdanek including members of the Judenrat and Jewish policemen; separation of the men from the women and children; labor of the men in their professions; labor of the women as housekeepers in German homes; labor of the Jewish policemen and Judenrat members, including Barash, the Judenrat chairman, under improved conditions; concentration of the actors and cultural and artistic people in a special block under improved...

File Number : 397

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Helena Najmark, born in Ostrowiec Mazowiecki, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Bialystok

Testimony of Helena Najmark, born in Ostrowiec Mazowiecki, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Bialystok Escape from Ostrowiec Mazowiecki to Bialystok, 1939; occupation of Bialystok by the German Army; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation and forced labor in the ghetto and outside the ghetto; deportation of Jews unfit for work to Pruzany, September-October 1941; forced labor together with 55 other Jews in the factory managed by Kurt Ringermut, the German, outside the ghetto; attitude of the factory manager towards the Jewish workers; hiding of the Jews during an "Aktion";...

File Number : 239

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Report by Pesach Kaplan regarding the Judenrat in the Bialystok Ghetto, 1941-1942

Report by Pesach Kaplan regarding the Judenrat in the Bialystok Ghetto, 1941-1942 Occupation of Bialystok by the Germans, 1941; appointment of a Judenrat under the leadership of Rabbi Gedalia Rosenman; Rosenman's resignation; appointment of Efraim Barash, the engineer, as Judenrat Chairman; appointment of 24 Judenrat members; relaying orders from the Germans to the ghetto population by the Judenrat; establishment of the Jewish police by the Judenrat; police activities; Judenrat activities including providing food to the ghetto population, drafting Jews for forced labor and giving social assistance to the...

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Moshe Yaakov Zalmanovitz, born in Kobylecka Polana, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Galicia and Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Yaakov Zalmanovitz, born in Kobylecka Polana, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Galicia and Budapest Family; learns in a "heder" and the local school. Annexation of the area to Hungary, 1939; life under Hungarian rule; deportation of those without Hungarian citizenship to Galicia, August 1941; cruelty of the Ukrainians; murder of family members in the killing pits; witness and his father are rescued from death and escape the pit; wanderings; arrival in Budapest, May 1942; life in an orphanage under Swiss protection; his father is drafted to the labor...

File Number : 9566

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haika Grosman, born in Bialystok, 1919, regarding her experiences in the underground in the Bialystok Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Haika Grosman, born in Bialystok, 1919, regarding her experiences in the underground in the Bialystok Ghetto A traditional home; studying in a Hebrew high school; member of Hashomer Hatzair youth movement; Zionist activities; life in Kaunas and Vilna, 1939-1941; information on Hashomer Hatzair B's underground leadership during the Soviet occupation; living on the Aryan side in Vilna, 1941-1942; active in the Hashomer Hatzair underground and later in the FPO; move to the Bialystok Ghetto as a base, January 1942; traveling and visiting the Warsaw, Grodno, Wolkowysk, Lublin, Czestochowa and Vilna...

File Number : 8650

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hadasa (Sprung) Lewkowicz, born in Sanok, Poland, 1901, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Rajsko and in hiding while using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Hadasa (Sprung) Lewkowicz, born in Sanok, Poland, 1901, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Rajsko and in hiding while using a false identity Work as a teacher in the Hebrew high school in Bialystokץ Bialystok Ghetto life including work as the secretary for the chairman of the Judenrat, Barash; cooperation between the Judenrat and the Jewish underground people; liquidation of the ghetto; escorts a transport of children from the ghetto to Theresienstadt; camp life including separation from the children; deportation to Auschwitz with the rest of the...

File Number : 3809

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Meir and Paula Shtein regarding their experiences in the Vilna, Warsaw and Białystok Ghettos, written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944

Memoirs of Meir and Paula Shtein regarding their experiences in the Vilna, Warsaw and Białystok Ghettos, written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944 - memoirs of Meir Shtein regarding the situation in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 (written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944); - memoirs of Paula Shtein (maiden name: Znamirovski) regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and in the Białystok Ghetto (written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944): life in Vilna with her husband Mark and son Izho (Israel), after their escape from Warsaw on 3 September 1939; air-raids on Vilna on 22 June 1941; the German...

File Number : 11253

Type of Material : Memoirs, Diary

Yaakov Shelhav: The Jewish self-administration (Judenrat) in the Bialystok ghetto

Yaakov Shelhav: The Jewish self-administration (Judenrat) in the Bialystok ghetto. Final paper at the Hebrew University.

File Number : 215

Type of Material : Research Article

Language : Hebrew

Transcripts of interviews with Hadassah Levkowitz, born in Wolkowicz, Poland, 1892, personal secretary of Ephraim Barash, head of the Bialystok Judenrat, conducted by Sarah Bender in Israel in the 1980s

Transcripts of interviews with Hadassah Levkowitz, born in Wolkowicz, Poland, 1892, personal secretary of Ephraim Barash, the head of the Bialystok Judenrat, conducted by Sarah Bender in Israel in the 1980s First interview: Burning of the synagogue, in which were some 2,000 Jews, in June 1941; imposition of restrictions on Jews, including wearing the yellow badge; deportation of Jews to the ghetto on 02 July 1941; cooperation of Ephraim Barsch, head of the Judenrat, with the authorities during an Aktion in 1941 and in preparing an evacuation list (Aussiedlung) to Prozany of Jews unfit for work; information...

File Number : 10147

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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