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Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana Emilka (Kosover) Rozentzveig, born in Radzymin, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Radzymin Ghetto, using a false identity in Warsaw, the Polish underground and as a Polish forced laborer in Germany Life before the war; Jewish community; school. German occupation; decrees; plucking of her father's beard; deportation to the Radzymin Ghetto; ghetto life; her mother's illness; her father's death; deportation of her mother and family members to Treblinka; obtains a Polish identity card from a priest; move to Warsaw; joins the Polish underground; activities in the underground;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Overview of the activities of the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee) on the Aryan side of Warsaw

Overview of the activities of the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee) on the Aryan side of Warsaw Contacts and cooperation of the members of the underground in the ghetto with underground organizations on the Aryan side; establishment of Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) and the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee); activities of Dr. A. Berman, the ZKN representative and member of Zegota on the Aryan side; support of the ZKN for the Resistance fighters in the ghetto; provision of weapons to the fighters; rescue of people from the ghetto after the defeat of the...

File Number : 194

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Polish

Letters and various news items regarding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Jewish underground in Poland, 1943-1944

Letters and various news items regarding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Jewish underground in Poland, 1943-1944 - List of 223 Jewish Resistance fighters who died in battle in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; - Open letter from the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee), dated 24 May 1944: In the beginning of the letter it is noted that it is the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the writers describe the tragic fate of the Jews of Poland during the war, including annihilation of the Jews in the Warsaw, Lodz and Lublin Ghettos and liquidation of thousands of Jews in extermination...

File Number : 196

Type of Material : Letter, Lists, Announcement

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Yiddish

Letters and reports from Jewish underground members in Poland that reached Ignacy Schwarzbart and Anzelm Reiss in London, 1944

Letters and reports from Jewish underground members in Poland that reached Ignacy Schwarzbart and Anzelm Reiss in London, 1944 - Letter dated 24 May 1944, signed (with first names) by Adolf, Zivia, Ichak and Josef, leaders of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) who remained alive to the Histadrut HaOvdim (Workers' Union) in Eretz Israel declaring a feeling of camaraderie with all the fighters against the German enemy and faith in a shared future in a socialist Jewish Palestine; - Letter to A. Dobkin, Y. Tabenkin, M. Yaari and V. Beretz in Eretz Israel from members of the Hechalutz Central Committee in...

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : English

Testimony of Miriam Marianska Hochberg, regarding her experiences in Krakow using a false identity, in the forest with the underground and in Warsaw

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Marianska Hochberg, regarding her experiences in Krakow using a false identity, in the forest with the underground and in Warsaw German occupation; life in Krakow using a false identity, 1940; obtains forged documents from the Polish Socialist Party - PPS; help to Jews outside the ghetto; work as a clerk for the RPZ organization, including helping to obtain forged documents; help smuggling Jews from camps; activities with members of the PPS; help smuggling the writer Michal Borwicz from Janow to the Miechow forests; joins the partisans as a courier; sent to Warsaw; life in Warsaw...

File Number : 468

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Shoshana Kosover, born in 1922 in Poland, about her experiences in the ghetto and on the "Aryan" side of Radzymin—resistance activity as a liaison in Warsaw and the Lublin area and in a POW camp in Germany Escaping from the Radzymin ghetto to the "Aryan" side in October 1942; life under a false identity; contacting the Armia Krajowa (Homeland Army) Polish resistance organization and the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto; Jews including Rachel Auerbach removed from the ghetto to the "Aryan" side; multiple journeys to the Lublin area and helping contact prisoners in the Poniatowa and Trawniki...

File Number : 50

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Documentation pertaining to the Holocaust of the Jews of Poland, including letters, articles and reports, 1939-1944

Documentation pertaining to the Holocaust of the Jews of Poland, including letters, articles and reports, 1939-1944 Collection of documents pertaining to the Holocaust of the Jews of Poland and the activities of Jewish and Polish organizations, 1942-1944, including: - Two anonymous articles regarding the situation of the Jews in Poland: "Sprawa żydowska w Polsce" (The Matter of the Jews in Poland), written in Warsaw, 1939, and "Rozwiazanie sprawy zidowskiej na forum miedzynarodovym" (Solving the Jewish Problem in the International Forum), undated; - Collection of documents, such as letters, reports and...

File Number : 1479

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Excerpt(s), Survey Report, Documentary, Article, List of Murdered Jews, Document(s), Letter, Letter(s)

Language : Hebrew, Polish