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Correspondence between the Jewish Social Self-Help ("Juedische Soziale Selbsthilfe", JSS) and the office of the Generalgouvernement, the "Bevoelkerungswesen und Fuersorge" (population and welfare) department and other authorities, regarding matters concerning welfare work, social help, and JSS activity reports, 1940-1942 Letters by the JSS organization, written in most cases by Dr. Michael Weichert, to the office of the Generalgouvernement, the "Bevoelkerungswesen und Fuersorge" (population and welfare) department, regarding: - Request for permission to buy goods for the manufacture of clothing,...

File Number : 14

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Correspondence, Letter(s), Newspaper Clippings, Copy

Language : Polish, German

Court ruling given in the trial against Jozef Buehler in Krakow, 10 July 1948

Court ruling given in the trial against Jozef Buehler in Krakow, 10 July 1948 Full version of the court ruling given in the trial against Jozef Buehler in the Supreme National Court of Law in Poland; Jozef Buehler served as the Secretary of State in the office of the Governor General of the Generalgouvernement during the German occupation; Buehler was the head of his office and the deputy of Hans Frank, the General Governor; Buehler was charged with war crimes and with crimes against humanity; court ruling given to Buehler: death by hanging, revocation of his civil rights and the confiscation of his...

File Number : 24

Type of Material : Sentence

Language : Polish

Correspondence between the Jewish Social Self-Help ("Juedische Soziale Selbsthilfe", JSS) organization in Krakow and the office of the Generalgouvernement, the "Bevoelkerungswesen und Fuersorge" (population and welfare) department in Krakow, and other institutions, regarding Jewish social welfare work in the Generalgouvernement, Poland, 1940-1942 Included in file no. 15 (I) are: - Letters of the Jewish Social Self-help (JSS), written in most part by Dr. Michael Weichert, chairman of the JSS, to the office of the Generalgouvernement, the "Bevoelkerungswesen und Fuersorge" department; - Request for an...

File Number : 15

Type of Material : Reports, Correspondence, Statistical Report, Circular, Lists, Protocol, Letter(s)

Language : Polish, German

Decrees, ordinances, regulations and announcements by the Generalgouvernement authorities, 1938-1945

Decrees, ordinances, regulations and announcements by the Generalgouvernement authorities, 1938-1945 Appeal by the Commander of the Army, Walther von Brauchitsch, regarding the invasion of German troops into Poland and his executive authority, 01/09/1939 (pp. 3 and 4); Decrees enacted by the Commander of the Army, Walther von Brauchitsch, regarding the introduction of German criminal law, special courts in the occupied Polish territory, and sentencing of crimes by adolescents, 05/09/1939-10/09/1939 (pp. 5-8); Decrees by the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor regarding the: - Administration of the...

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Correspondence, Announcement, Reports, Circular, Orders, Lists, Official Documentation, Questionnaire, Copy

Language : Polish, German

Poem/Song by Grachwesky, Nechama, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1925: "Memories from the Camps", written in Auschwitz, 1944, and in Landsberg after the liberation, about the deportation of the Jews from Bialystok to the extermination camps The poem describes the rejoicing of the local population, the murder of children, women, and the elderly; the suffocating conditions in the boxcars; the fainting and attempts to escape; the arrival at the Lublin camp and the brutal unloading of the boxcars; the transfer of the poet along with 150 women to the Blizyn camp; the camp and forced labor in the field and in the...

File Number : 79

Type of Material : Poems/songs

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Lea Nishri, born in Borsa, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Viseul de Sus Ghetto, Auschwitz and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Lea Nishri, born in Borsa, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Viseul de Sus Ghetto, Auschwitz and a death march Religious family with seven children; unified Jewish community; her father's work in a sawmill; financially secure; languages spoken at home are Yiddish, Hungarian and Romanian. Hungarian occupation, 1940; deterioration of the situation; increased hardship with the German occupation, 1944; deportation of the Jews from Borsa to the Viseul de Sus Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, June 1944; selection; separation from her sisters and rescue from the crematorium; transfer...

File Number : 8667

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew