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File Number : 2355

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Documentation from the Archiwum Akt Nowych w Warszawie (Archive for New Documentation in Warsaw - AAN), Poland, 1920-1950

Official documentation from the Archiwum Akt Nowych w Warszawie (Archive for New Documentation in Warsaw - AAN), including documentation from government offices, Foreign Ministry diplomatic representatives, central organizations and state institutions. List of record groups: 02-103 Files of Florian Efraim Sokolow 1900-1939 02-111 Government of the General Government in Krakow, 1939-1945 02-125 Central Welfare Council. Headquarters Office in Krakow, 1940-1945 02-128 Collection of underground and anti-Nazi prints, 1939-1944 02-130 Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR 02-138 Polish Committee for Aid to...

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish

Documentation from the State Archive of the Ternopil Region, Ukraine, 1920-1958

The Ternopil Oblast State Archive began operating on 01 November 1939, following the annexation of Western Ukraine to the Soviet Union. The Dominican monastery was adapted as an archival repository. After the establishment of the Ternopil Oblast in the Soviet Union on 04 December 1939, the Ternopil Oblast State Archive was renamed the Ternopil Oblast Historic Archive. From 1941 it was known as the State Archive of the Ternopil Oblast. The most important documents of the State Archive of the Ternopil Oblast were evacuated during World War II, and the main part was left on site, leading to irreversible losses. In...

Language : Polish, Russian, German, Greek, Ukrainian

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File Number : 2406 [?]

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of Velvel Zeev Yehuda Lach, born in Ostrow, Poland, regarding [his experiences during] 1939-1944

Memoirs of Velvel Zeev Yehuda Lach, born in Ostrow, Poland, regarding [his experiences during] 1939-1944 The memoirs were written after the war, in four sections: Part one: Established, ultra-orthodox family in the Jewish community in Ostrow; German Army occupation of Ostrow on 01/09/1939; life during the German occupation; his family escapes to Zembrow; they hope to arrive to Vilna; arrival to Bistrick; attempt by his father to escape to Soviet territory with help from a non-Jewish border smuggler; detention and imprisonment in Oszmene; release; reunion with his mother and sister; return to Bistrich;...

File Number : 9493

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Yiddish