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Testimony of Erich Honig, born in Radauti, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Radauti, Transnistria and the Kopaygorod Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Erich Honig, born in Radauti, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Radauti, Transnistria and the Kopaygorod Ghetto His childhood. Persecution of Jews, 1941-1944; deportation to Transnistria; death march; life in Transnistria; Kopaygorod Ghetto life including forced labor clearing snow; mortality [of inmates] due to typhus disease, cold and hunger. Repatriation; Zionist activities in the context of Hanoar Hatzioni; aliya to Israel, 1964.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Sanderovitz Zur, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Siauliai Ghetto and in hiding in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Sanderovitz Zur, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Siauliai Ghetto and in hiding in a forest Life in Siauliai before the war; from a Zionist family; attends a Jewish elementary school and a Jewish high school; Hashomer Hatzair activities; his sister’s aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936. Soviet occupation, 1940; closing of Jewish institutions; deportation of well-to-do people to Siberia; establishment of a Zionist underground; nationalization of Jewish enterprises; appointment as manager of a company; verbal antisemitism on the part of the Lithuanians; German...

File Number : 12831

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Jews from Klevan, prepared by the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, 05/07/1944; includes itemization of property damage

List of Jews from Klevan, prepared by the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, 05/07/1944; includes itemization of property damage.

File Number : JM/21839

Type of Material : List of Survivors, List of Residents

Language : Russian

Documentation of the Communist Party Regional Committee in Bialystok, 1940

Documentation of the Communist Party Regional Committee in Bialystok, 1940 - Documentation regarding various [performing] companies (also Jewish); - Documentation regarding theaters including the municipal Jewish theater; - Documentation regarding the establishment of an Artists' House and exhibitions there; -Documentation regarding a Writers' Organization including mention of the names of the people serving on the administration and the authors (most of them Jews); -Documentation regarding Municipal Conservatory activity including mention of the names of the teachers (most of them Jews).

File Number : 3070

Type of Material : List of Residents, Names, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

Testimony of Moshe Zilberberg, born in Plock, Poland, 1903, regarding his experiences after the war as an activist involved in children's aliya to Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Zilberberg, born in Plock, Poland, 1903, regarding his experiences after the war as an activist involved in children's aliya to Eretz Israel Life before the war in Wloclawek; studies education and teaching; serves as a Polish Army reserves officer; public service activities as part of the General Zionist party. Life in Gluszyca, 1946; work as principal and educator in a children's home and an old age home until 1947; gathering of Jewish children from monasteries; transfer of the children to the children's home; transfer of Jewish children to Israel; aliya to Israel, 1956.

File Number : 5627

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Reports prepared by the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission regarding crimes perpetrated in Ukraine, 1945-1946

Reports prepared by the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission regarding crimes perpetrated in Ukraine, 1945-1946 - Statistical report regarding the number of deportees and murdered people in Ukraine, 07/01/1946; - Report regarding scientific, educational and cultural institutions in Ukraine that had damage caused to them by the Germans, and the extent of the damage that was caused, 07/01/1946; - Report and statistical reports regarding damage caused to infrastructures, industry and the agricultural economy in the regions of Ukraine; reports dated, 06/1945-01/1946.

File Number : 561

Type of Material : Reports, Official Documentation, Survey

Language : Russian

Directive from the Chairman of the Lodz Judenrat, Chaim Rumkowski, to Jewish organizations in the city to hand their assets over to the Judenrat, 10 November 1939

Directive from the Chairman of the Lodz Judenrat, Chaim Rumkowski, to Jewish organizations in the city to hand their assets over to the Judenrat, 10 November 1939 A list of the Jewish institutions in Lodz, and a guideline to whom each institute should hand over its assets is attached to the directive.

File Number : 212

Type of Material : Instruction

Language : Polish, German

Historical overview by Bela Mandelsburzanka regarding the history of the Jews in Lublin in the 16th and 17th centuries, published in the "Wiadomosci Krajoznawcze" newspaper in 1928

Historical overview by Bela Mandelsburzanka regarding the history of the Jews in Lublin in the 16th and 17th centuries, published in the "Wiadomosci Krajoznawcze" newspaper in 1928 The overview opens with a description of the flourishing of Jews in Lublin in the 16th century, including Jewish institutions that were active in the city, among them courts, publishing houses, and a famous yeshiva where Szolom Szachna and Mojzesz Isserles studied. The lively commerce contributed to the enrichment of the residents, including the Jews, even though they were not permitted to live in the city. The deterioration of...

File Number : 405

Type of Material : Survey, Article

Language : Polish

Memorandum regarding the activities of the Czestochowa Writers' Club Coffeehouse, 1946 (Manuscript in Polish)

Memorandum regarding the activities of the Czestochowa Writers' Club Coffeehouse, 1946 (Manuscript in Polish) In the memorandum there is severe criticism of the coffeehouse administration and the inefficient and unproductive activity of Kwasniewski, a member of the Club, and Rabbi Leib. In the summary there is a proposal to lease part of the coffeehouse in order to preserve the economic security of the Club. There is also a 1942 food ration coupon from Czestochowa in the file.

File Number : 349

Type of Material : Note, Vouchers

Language : Polish, German

Letter from the Czestochowa Judenrat to the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS- Jewish Social Self Help) administration in Krakow, 28 August 1940

Letter from the Czestochowa Judenrat to the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS- Jewish Social Self Help) administration in Krakow, 28 August 1940 Overview of cultural institutions and organizations and of charity and social welfare associations in Czestochowa; the Judenrat is requesting to maintain those institutions and organizations the termination of whose activities has been decided by order of the German authorities as of 23 July 1940. A list of organizations included in the German order dated 23 July 1943 is in the file.

File Number : 347

Type of Material : List, Letter

Language : Polish, German

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