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Testimony of Jadwiga (Jaszunska) Koenigstein, born in Lodz, Poland, 1906, regarding her experiences under a false identity on the Aryan side in Warsaw

Testimony of Jadwiga (Jaszunska) Koenigstein, born in Lodz, Poland, 1906, regarding her experiences under a false identity on the Aryan side in Warsaw Life before the war; her parents Jozef and Eliza; life with her family in Warsaw during the war; life of her older sisters in Moscow; murder of her husband in January 1940; death of her mother in September 1942; life under a false identity on the Aryan side with her daughter Alina, born in 1934; deportation of the Jews of the ghetto to Treblinka; survival with the help of Catholic nuns in a convent in Robertsin; transfer of her younger sister Maria, born 1909,...

File Number : 1650

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Forged certificate of baptism to Christianity in the name of Aleksandria Klubinska issued in Skalat, 20 September 1939

Forged certificate of baptism to Christianity in the name of Aleksandria Klubinska issued in Skalat, 20 September 1939 According to the certificate, Aleksandria Klubinska, the daughter of Jan Klubinski and Wiktoria Radlicka, was baptized in the church in Skalat, 27 April 1938. Her real name was Theophilia Glatter, born in Lwow, Poland, 1936.

File Number : 573

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Latin

Hearsay testimony of Shabtai Keshev regarding the proposal of the heads of the Polish [Catholic] Church to rescue the last three rabbis in the Warsaw Ghetto

Hearsay testimony of Shabtai Keshev regarding the proposal of the heads of the Polish [Catholic] Church to rescue the last three rabbis in the Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs of Shabtai Keshev from his meetings with Rabbi David Shapiro at the Fuerth DP camp, late 1945. At one of their meetings, Rabbi Shapiro told Shabtai of the proposal of the heads of the Polish [Catholic] Church to rescue him along with Rabbi Menachem Ziemba and Rabbi Samson Stockhammer during the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. The three rabbis refused to be taken out to a safe place outside the ghetto with their families. Also in the...

File Number : 152

Type of Material : Research Article, Article, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English

Pamphlet published as a fundraiser for the establishment of a church in Rozwadow in 1897

Pamphlet published as a fundraiser for the establishment of a church in Rozwadow in 1897 Description of the church in Rozwadow that was destroyed and its property stolen, as were, by Jews. A history of the village over the 100 years following the destruction of the church while highlighting the negative influence of Jewish residents of Rozwadow on the Christian community from an economic and moral point of view. The pamphlet was published in order to collect donations for the building of a church in Rozwadow.

File Number : 441

Type of Material : Booklet(s)

Language : Polish

"Assistance to the Jews by the Starowiejskie Order of Sisters, 1939-1945", an essay written by the nuns, Jolanta Kolata and Maria Lewicka, published in Lodz, 1983

"Assistance to the Jews by the Starowiejskie Order of Sisters, 1939-1945", an essay written by the nuns, Jolanta Kolata and Maria Lewicka, published in Lodz, 1983 Overview of the activities of the nuns of this order in hiding Jewish children in various places in Poland under the German occupation; the children were hidden in orphanages run by the nuns of the order and in hospitals in which they worked; in many cases the nuns provided food to hungry Jews; nuns from the order were particularly active in assisting Jewish children in Chotomow, Turkowice, Czestochowa and Miechow; this assistance undertaking was...

File Number : 1674

Type of Material : Names, Letter, List of Jewish Children, List of Survivors, Names of Rescuers, List of Jewish Survivors, Research Article

Language : Polish

Ewa Kurek-Lesik: The participation of nuns in the rescue of Jewish children in Poland in the years 1939 - 1945. Research study, Lublin 1988. Part I and II

File Number : 1821

Type of Material : Letter(s), Research Literature

Language : Hebrew, Polish

David E. Reibscheid: Outline for a book: "Hide and seek", memoirs of his hiding and survival in Nazi occupied Poland

David E. Reibscheid: Outline for a book: "Hide and seek", memoirs of his hiding and survival in Nazi occupied Poland. Mentioned is among others Jadwiga Goetel, a Righteous Among the Nations, who accommodated Roza and Marianowi Reibscheid with their son Edzio in Warsaw, after being contacted by the Polish Underground State's Council of Aid for Jews (Zegota). English newspaper clipping with a report about David Reibscheid planning to publish his memoirs.

File Number : 10055

Type of Material : Memoirs Literature

Language : English

Summary of the memoirs of D. E. Reibscheid, born in Krakow, Poland, 1938, regarding the experiences of his family in hiding in Krakow, in Warsaw, using a false identity in Wawrzynczyce, in Opatkowice and more German occupation, September 1939; arrest and release of Rosa; robbery of family property; persecution of Jews; registration of Jews; avoidance of registration by his family; hunts [for Jews]; deportation for forced labor; return of [Rosa's husband] Marian from the Soviet Occupied Area; deportation of (registered) Jews; family life as the Reichs family without being registered; persecution, May 1940;...

File Number : 9715

Type of Material : List of Jewish Survivors, Genealogy, Article, Testimony, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Maps, List of Rescuers, Identity Card, Slide, Certification, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German

Forged documents in the names of Antoni and Maria Sowa that served Izak and Maria (Feiweles) Pemper in Lwow during the Holocaust; personal documentation belonging to them and their son Bogdan, born in 1935, from the period after the war Forged documents from the war period: - Summary of the church registration certifying the birth of Antoni Jozef Sowa in Prądnik Czerwony, 09 July 1906, issued by the church in Krakow, 03 November 1939; - Identity card of Antoni Sowa and his wife Maria Sowa, residing in Lwow (their pictures appear on the certificate); - Birth and baptismal certificate of Maria Teresa...

File Number : 1516

Type of Material : Diploma, Certification, Declaration, Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : Latin, Polish, German

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File Number : 9

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : Polish

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