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File Number : 3571

Type of Material : List of Underground Members, Legal Documentation, Names

Language : Russian

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 70, 01/09/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Collision between trains on the road between Minsk-Mazowiecki and Warsaw; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen: Einsatzgruppe A: Report regarding the situation in Smolensk: 1) Local authority: Repair of a bridge across the Dniepr River; construction of public bathrooms; installation of water and electricity systems; activating a windmill and a...

File Number : 164.70

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 67, 29/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Biographical information regarding Paul Collette, perpetrator of the terrorist attack against Pierre Laval and Marcel Déat, members of the Vichy Government; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen: Einsatzgruppe z.b.V: Presence in the former Soviet-Polish territory; acts of murder and detentions by the Einsatzgruppe; continuing underground activity...

File Number : 164.67

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

List of murdered people from Krasny Bereg and the surrounding villages, 1941-1943

In addition to the details on the main page the list contains information about the cause of death.

File Number : JM/20006

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons

Language : Russian

Testimony of Zeev Ardman, born in Serniki, 1909, regarding his experiences in Serniki and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Ardman, born in Serniki, 1909, regarding his experiences in Serniki and with the partisans Sovietization of Serniki, 1939-1941; entry of the Germans into Serniki several days after the outbreak of the war; kidnapping of Jews on the streets; humiliation and abuse; shearing of beards of elderly religious Jews; the bloody "Aktion" in Serniki, Tisha B'Av 1941; concentration of 130 Jews in a synagogue and their execution in a Jewish cemetery; establishment of a ghetto; concentration of the ghetto's Jews in the market square before Rosh Hashana and their transfer to mass graves where 1,500 Jews...

File Number : 6610

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Memoirs by Stanislaw Barancewicz, regarding the martyrdom of the Jews from Nieswiez ghetto

Memoirs by Stanislaw Barancewicz, regarding the martyrdom of the Jews from Nieswiez ghetto Stanislaw Barancewicz recalls the coexistence of Polish and Jewish population in Nieswiez, eastern Poland, in the interwar period; Soviet invasion on September 19, 1939; Nazi invasion in June 1941; regular executions by shooting from August 1941. In the fall of 1941 the Nieswiez ghetto was established; some of the Jews were crossing over the fence to obtain food in the Barancewicz family household that stood on the border with the ghetto. In November 1942 about 3,000 people were shot and buried in the mass graves in...

File Number : 3603

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Testimony, Memoirs

Language : Polish

Materials provided by Jerzy Holewinski regarding the activity of the Sipo-SD School (Schule der Sipo und SD) in Rabka in 1940-1944

Materials provided by Jerzy Holewinski regarding the activity of the Sipo-SD School (Schule der Sipo und SD) in Rabka in 1940-1944 Letter to the director of the Yad Vashem institute from Jerzy Holewinski, dated February 2, 1993, regarding the transmission of the previously mentioned materials. Jerzy Holewnicki comes from the town of Starachowice, where a forced labor camp was during the war; he was a member of the Home Army (AK); witnessed the liquidation of the ghettos in Olkusz, Starachowice and Wolbromin. According to. Holewinski, there are mass graves of Jews murdered during the occupation in the forest...

File Number : 3473

Type of Material : Letter, Article

Language : Polish

Testimony of Zecharia Yuten regarding his experiences in Lukiszki, the Vilna Ghetto and the Lida Ghetto

Testimony of Zecharia Yuten regarding his experiences in Lukiszki, the Vilna Ghetto and the Lida Ghetto Deportation of his family from Vilna to prison in Lukiszki; deportation of approximately 5,000 Jews to the prison in Lukiszki; registration of professionally skilled workers in the prison; transfer of professionally skilled workers to the Vilna Ghetto; the witness' term of office as a member of the Judenrat in the Vilna Ghetto; escape to Lida with other Jews, 01 November 1941; life in Lida including forced labor, abuse and murder of Jews; arrest of Judenrat members; arrest of Jewish policemen; "Aktion";...

File Number : 59

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Ephraim Aranowski regarding his experiences in Dereczyn

Testimony of Ephraim Aranowski regarding his experiences in Dereczyn "Aktion" in Dereczyn under the command of the Belorussian police; Jews in hiding in hiding places; murder of Jews in killing pits; throwing of bricks at Belorussian policemen by Jews hiding in an attic; wounding and killing of the policemen; escape of the Jews to the forests; combat as partisans; revenge by the partisans for the killing of the Jews in Dereczyn; arrival of the partisans in Dereczyn; execution of the Belorussian policemen who participated in the murder of the Jews by the partisans; execution of the mayor by the partisans;...

File Number : 40

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

"16 Days in Hiding": Report by an unknown author regarding his experiences in hiding in Grodno

"16 Days in Hiding": Report by an unknown author regarding his experiences in hiding in Grodno Liquidation of the Grodno Ghetto under the command of Kurt Wiese and Erich Schott, the Gestapo men, February-12 March 1943; life in hiding including a detailed description of the hiding place; collaboration of the Polish and Belorussian police with the Germans in discovering hiding places of Jews; capture of the Jews in hiding; escape of the author; the author's transfer to Bialystok.

File Number : 33

Type of Material : Survey

Language : Polish

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