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Testimony of Eliana (Levin) Wolf, born in Vilna, Poland, 1939, regarding her experiences and those of her family in the Vilna Ghetto and in various villages using false identities

Testimony

Testimony of Eliana (Levin) Wolf, born in Vilna, Poland, 1939, regarding her experiences and those of her family in the Vilna Ghetto and in various villages using false identities The family in Vilna. Draft of her father to the Polish Army; escape with her mother from the Vilna Ghetto using forged documents;change of her name to Zosia; life [with a false identity] in various villages near Lodz; church attendance; liberation. Move to Lodz after the war; trauma on learning that she is Jewish; return to Vilna; reunion with her father; move to Warsaw; aliya to Israel, 1959.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Cohen) Erlanger, born in Dieren, the Netherlands, 1929, regarding her experiences in Arnhem, Amsterdam, Valkenburg and being hidden by families in south Holland

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Cohen) Erlanger, born in Dieren, the Netherlands, 1929, regarding her experiences in Arnhem, Amsterdam, Valkenburg and being hidden by families in south Holland Move of family to Arnhem; attends a government school; religious life; arrival of German refugees. German occupation; deteriorating situation; yellow badge; expulsion from school; transfer to a Jewish school; transfer to the Amsterdam Ghetto with the aid of a Righteous Among the Nations; transfer to Valkenburg; life with her sister hidden by a village family; visits by Paul Terwiudt (Righteous Among Nations); being hidden by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 79, 10/09/1941 Part 1 - Political Events: Hiding of a group of criminals in a barn in the Cilli area; the barn surrounded by members of the gendarmerie and their setting it on fire; shooting and killing one of the criminals after he escaped; identification of the criminal as a Jew from Wrbno; robbery and burning a house, in Lack (Marburg district), by members of the Cetniki organization (Serbian...

File Number : 164.79

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Mike Stolowitzky, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in Warsaw, in Vilna and in hiding in a forest, and regarding Gertruda Babilinjia, later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations Life before the war; from a family of merchants; business dealings of the family in railroad tracks; information regarding the caregiver who rescued him; vague memories of his mother; German occupation; escape to Vilna together with Gertruda Babilinjia, his Polish nanny; information regarding Gertruda, his caregiver; death of his mother; oath given by the caregiver to...

File Number : 13268

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avigdor Gelsman Barzelai, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1940, regarding his experiences using a false identity in an orphanage in Warsaw and an orphanage in a monastery in Klarisew

Testimony

Testimony of Avigdor Gelsman Barzelai, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1940, regarding his experiences using a false identity in an orphanage in Warsaw and an orphanage in a monastery in Klarisew Family life before the war. The witness is smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto to the Baudovina orphanage; orphanage life; transfer to an orphanage in a monastery in Klarisew. His mother's return, 1945; separation from the monastery; life in Warsaw; aliya to Israel, 1950.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of perished from Lutsk, prepared by the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, in 03/01/1945; includes itemization of property damage

List of perished from Lutsk, prepared by the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, in 03/01/1945; includes itemization of property damage.

File Number : JM/19691

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons

Language : Russian

Collection of Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, secretary general of the Wereldraad der Kerken (Council of Churches) in Geneva, 1940-1946

Collection of Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, secretary general of the Wereldraad der Kerken (Council of Churches) in Geneva, 1940-1946 During the war Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft conducted close ties with the Dutch underground and with the Dutch Government in Exile in London; he was active in the promotion of the connection between the Dutch Government in Exile and the Dutch people; he prepared reports regarding underground activities using the code GC, a sign for the Church connection, in order to transfer the reports to London; he updated the activists in the Netherlands in the same manner; Included in the...

Type of Material : Reports, Correspondence, Announcement

Language : Dutch

Collection of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (the German Office for Administration and Justice) in the Netherlands, 1940-1944

Collection of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (the German Office for Administration and Justice) in the Netherlands, 1940-1944 The Germans established a system for civil administration in 1940; Arthur Seyss-Inquart stood as the Reichskommissar - head of the civil administration; establishment of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (German Office for Administration and Justice) under Seyss-Inquart, and under the administration of Friedrich Wimmer in The Hague; among the office's functions were administration and justice: legislation, internal matters, justice, culture,...

Type of Material : Letter, Instruction, Correspondence, Reports, Circular

Language : Dutch, German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 57, 19/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Notification of the SIPO in Radom regarding the scattering of placards from a Soviet plane containing a call to oppose the occupation authorities; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen and the units subservient to them: - Einsatzgruppe z.b.V: The situation in the former Soviet territories of Poland; division into the various populations; the...

File Number : 163.57

Type of Material : Survey Report, Manifesto

Language : German

Report written by Hans Koch, the representative of the Office for the Occupied Territories in the East, to the Heeresgruppe Sued (Army Groups South) regarding the political and cultural-religious situation in Ukraine, 1941 The political situation on the right bank of the Dnieper River: Quiet area: support by the population of the Wehrmacht force that captured the area, as liberators; establishment of a system of administration (Feldkommandaturen and Ortskommandaturen), and a parallel system of economic administration; arguments between the Wehrmacht and the population regarding the economic and personal...

File Number : 197

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

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