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Testimony of Jozef Jakubowicz regarding escapes of Jews from the Pawiak prison in Warsaw, 1943-1944

Testimony of Jozef Jakubowicz regarding escapes of Jews from the Pawiak prison in Warsaw, 1943-1944 Life in hiding on the Aryan side of Warsaw; fear of Polish collaborators with the Nazis; outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943; attempts to assist the Jews in the ghetto; arrest by the Polish police following betrayal by a Polish acquaintance, Zenobia Rogulska; torture at the police station on Aleje Ujazdowskie Street; transfer to the Gestapo offices on Szucha Street, and meeting Karl Georg Brandt, the head of the Gestapo in Warsaw; detention in the Pawiak prison; labor in the prison; unsuccessful...

File Number : 663

Type of Material : List of Names, List of Jews, List of Inmates, Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Jozef Gotthard regarding Adam Czerniakow before the start of the Grossaktion (Large deportation) from the Warsaw Ghetto and Czerniakow's decision to commit suicide

Testimony of Jozef Gotthard regarding Adam Czerniakow before the start of the Grossaktion (Large deportation) from the Warsaw Ghetto and Czerniakow's decision to commit suicide Biographical details regarding Adam Czerniakow, the Warsaw Ghetto Judenrat Chairman, and a character description: the Judenrat Chairman in the days preceding his being forced to publish the deportation order for the Jews of the ghetto; Czerniakow's insistence that he would not sign the deportation order which the Judenrat was forced to publish; Czerniakow's suicide.

File Number : 783

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters, Hebrew

Testimony of Israel Wladimir Blumenfeldt, born in 1915, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto

Testimony of Israel Wladimir Blumenfeldt, born in 1915, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto Warsaw Ghetto life; large "Aktion", 22 July-13 September 1942; activities by war criminal Brand (evidently SS officer Karl Brand); resistance cells of the Jewish youth; assassinations by the Jewish underground of Jewish collaborators: Shrinsky, Leikin and Firstenberg; combat by the Jewish underground, January 1943; activities by members of the Beitar movement on Nalewki Street during the "Jewish revolt" (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising), April 1943.

File Number : 23

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German