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Testimony of Dvora Doris Shner née Klatz, born in 1932 in Dortmund, Germany, about her experiences as a girl in Rożniatów, Bursztin, the Rohatyn ghetto, and in hiding with villagers during the war

Offspring of immigrant parents from Galicia, receiving a "certificate" (Mandate Palestine immigration visa); father deported to Zbąszyń in 1938; reunited with father in Rożniatów in 1939; Poland partititioned and life under Soviet occupation; escaping to Bursztin; German occupation ensues in June 1941; a German soldier warns the family about murder of Jews; establishment of Judenrat; father refuses to translate from German into Polish; receiving word about murder of people in pits in Rohatyn; receiving a postcard from a family member with information about sending of trains to Bełżec; deportation to the Rohatyn...

File Number : 13614

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel His childhood in a socialist Zionist home; refugees from Germany; rise of antisemitism; outbreak of ‎war on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; restriction of Jewish movement and ‎concentration in one area; youth movements; agricultural farm; Zionist and underground ‎activities; infiltrating into a nearby work camp; work collecting and sorting possessions of the Jews ‎in the ghetto; removing dead...

File Number : 13735

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 3662

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Names, Survey Report, List of Underground Members

Language : Russian

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File Number : 3631

Type of Material : Investigation Report, Names, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

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File Number : 3630

Type of Material : Survey Report, Names, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

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File Number : 3609

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Names

Language : Russian

Survey reports prepared by underground members in Brest for the Central Committee of the Communist party of Belorussia, regarding the establishment of the Brest Ghetto, underground activities in the ghetto, the murder of Jews, and other matters, 1942-1945 Survey reports regarding the establishment of the Brest Ghetto, autumn 1941; establishment of a Judenrat, the transfer [of Jews] to forced labor, and the imposition of contributions; establishment of an underground in the Brest Ghetto, and its activities; murder of Jews from the Brest Ghetto in the ghetto and outside the city by Germans and local policemen,...

File Number : 3482

Type of Material : List of Underground Members, Official Documentation, Names, שמות משתפי פעולה, Survey Report, Names of Partisans

Language : Russian

Survey report prepared by partisans for the partisans headquarters, regarding the murder of Jews, non-Jews, and POWs in the Tolochin district, 1941-1942

Survey report prepared by partisans for the partisans headquarters, regarding the murder of Jews, non-Jews, and POWs in the Tolochin district, 1941-1942 Survey report regarding the murder of Jews in pits near Tolochin, 1941-1942 (p. 7); suppression and murder of the local population and POWs in the Tolochin district, 1941-1943; names of collaborators and names of partisans active in the Vitebsk region, 1941-1943.

File Number : 3474

Type of Material : Names of Partisans, Official Documentation, Survey Report, שמות משתפי פעולה

Language : Russian

Letter to Ilya Ehrenburg by P. Nesterenko, regarding the murder of Jews in Yalta on 18/12/1941

Letter to Ilya Ehrenburg by P. Nesterenko, regarding the murder of Jews in Yalta on 18/12/1941 German occupation of Yalta, 08/11/1941; appointment of the Jewish committee (Judenrat) during the first days; order to the Jews to wear the badge of shame [yellow badge], given on the fifth day of the occupation; robbery, beating of Jews on the city's streets, and rape; Location of weapons in one of the courtyards; all of the Jews in the building are accused, and executed; one youth was wounded but survived, and he returned home; the neighbors sent him to a hospital, where the youth was captured by the Germans...

File Number : 149

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Letter of testimony of Aleksandra Kagan from Smolensk regarding her experiences in Lwow, 1941-1944

Letter of testimony of Aleksandra Kagan from Smolensk regarding her experiences in Lwow, 1941-1944 Living in Lwow under the occupation using a false identity; move to Smolensk after the liberation; handing over her testimony regarding her experiences in Lwow and her poems to Ilya Ehrenburg as material for "The Black Book". - Pogrom in Lwow carried out by the nationalist Ukrainians during the early days of the occupation.

File Number : 89

Type of Material : Testimony, Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

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