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Testimony of Eva Chava (Rozenblum) Frankel Pshemyslavsky, born in Dzialoszyce, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Malkinia, Bialystok, Jaroszewicze, Poltava and Orsk

Testimony

Testimony of Eva Chava (Rozenblum) Frankel Pshemyslavsky, born in Dzialoszyce, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Malkinia, Bialystok, Jaroszewicze, Poltava and Orsk Ultra-Orthodox family; move to Lodz; joins the Communist party. German occupation, September 1939; capture of her father for forced labor; release of her father with help from the witness; Yom Kippur prayer, in opposition to the [authorities'] orders; escape in the direction of the east, November 1939; arrival to Malkinia; crosses the border to the Soviet occupied zone; move to Bialystok; move to a refugees center in Jaroszewicze;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Julious Iancu, born in Bacau, Romania, 1920, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in labor battalions

Testimony

Testimony of Julious Iancu, born in Bacau, Romania, 1920, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in labor battalions Life in a religious family of craftsmen. Outbreak of the war; anti-Jewish restrictions; draft to labor battalions, 1941; labor clearing rubble; labor laying railroad tracks; publication of knowledge in daily newspapers and BBC broadcasts regarding the extermination of Jews in extermination camps; liberation by the Red Army, August 1944; eviction from their home; move to Bucharest. Life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1964.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hans Schmal, born in Berlin, Germany, 1935, regarding his experiences in Berlin as a child whose mother was a German convert to Judaism and his father was Jewish

Testimony

Testimony of Hans Schmal, born in Berlin, Germany, 1935, regarding his experiences in Berlin as a child whose mother was a German convert to Judaism and his father was Jewish Life before the war; his mother was a German convert to Judaism and his father was a Jewish Communist; life in a non-Jewish workers' neighborhood. Visits by the Gestapo in his family's home; his father's work building hangars for the German Army; his father leaves his work due to relations with the factory manager; escape to an apartment with non-Jewish families; life in a room in the apartment; birth of his brother, 1942; his family...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hana (Hartman) Marku, born in Edineti, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Buhusi and Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Hana (Hartman) Marku, born in Edineti, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Buhusi and Bucharest Life before the war; move to Buhusi; life in Buhusi; displays of antisemitism; joins the Dror-Habonim movement. Receives forged documents with the name Anna Hartan; life in Bucharest; smuggle of weapons inside a viola case; end of the war, 23 August 1944. Joins the Communist party; marriage; aliya to Israel, 1984.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of partisans who were candidates for membership in the Communist party in the Wolyn region, 1941-1944

File Number : 83

Type of Material : List of Partisans, List of Communists

Language : Russian

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. 59, 21/08/1941 Part 1 - Political Events: [Passing] by the Danish Parliament of a law banning Communist organizations and Communist activity; confiscation of the Communist Party's assets; Part 2 - Reports from the Einsatzgruppen and the subgroups that are subject to them: - Einsatzgruppe A: Fighting against the partisans; transfer of a section of the Sonderkommando 1B to Jaski; -...

File Number : 163.59

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Yuri Sapozhnikov, born in Dymer, Ukraine, 1906, regarding his experiences as a Red Army physician in Belorussia, Poland and Denmark

Testimony

Testimony of Yuri Sapozhnikov, born in Dymer, Ukraine, 1906, regarding his experiences as a Red Army physician in Belorussia, Poland and Denmark Life until the Bolshevik revolution, 1917; family move to Kiev; joins Hanoar Hatzioni; disappointment from the Zionist movement; life in a Jewish agricultural area in Kalinen; agricultural work; drafted into the Red Army; joins the Communist party; work as a farm manager; studies medicine in Kiev; service as a military physician during the Winter War against Finland, 1939-1940; outbreak of the war against Germany, June 1941; service as a military physician and...

File Number : 12662

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

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. 49, 11/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Distribution of Communist placards; detention of 10 Communist and Socialist functionaries, in Luxembourg; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen: Einsatzgruppe A: Reduction of the waiting period of candidates for the Communist Party in the Baltic States from three years to one and in certain cases acceptance could be immediate; establishment of...

File Number : 163.49

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : 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. 37, 29/07/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Re-establishment of an underground organization for the Communist Party following the eradication of the previous organization, in Amsterdam; acts of sabotage by Communists; anti-Communist activity in the Kraina area and in Yugoslavia, including an attempt to blow up a radio transmitter in Belgrade; capture of the people involved; actions taken against Jews...

File Number : 163.37

Type of Material : Film, Survey Report

Language : 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. 36, 28/07/1941 Part 1 - Political Events: There is no new information; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen: Einsatzgruppe A: Two "Aktions" in Vilna; murder of 193 Jews in the second "Aktion"; uncovering an underground Jewish-Polish organization in Vilna and planting an informer in its midst; murder of approximately 200 people per day, in Minsk, including Communist functionaries, agents...

File Number : 163.36

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

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