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Memoirs of Eliezer Brenner, his sister Shaindel (Brenner) Vigenanski, and his wife, Yettie (Lanzet) Brenner, regarding their experiences in Krakow, the Melk camp, the Plaszow camp, Transnistria and more Experiences of Eliezer Brenner, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1913: Deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; deportation to the Plaszow camp; camp life including labor in Wieliczka; camp life with his brother, Moshe; transfer to the Mauthausen camp; camp life; selection; labor in a quarry; transfer to the Melk camp; labor in a subterranean ammunitions factory; transfer to the Ebensee camp by death march; liberation in...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8621

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Document, Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Letter sent by Rubin Reder from Lwow to Ilya Ehrenburg in Moscow, 29 October 1944

Letter sent by Rubin Reder from Lwow to Ilya Ehrenburg in Moscow, 29 October 1944 The letter is an appeal to Ilya Ehrenburg to publicize what went on in the Belzec death camp in any way that he possibly can in order to reveal the atrocities to the whole world Rubin Reder writes of his experiences since his capture with other Jews in Lwow, 15 July 1942, including his deportation to the Janowska camp, and from there to Belzec; according to him, 5,000 people were crammed into each car on the deportation train; after their arrival and the shearing of the women's hair, they were all forced into a shower, as...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 169

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter

results.listIds.lang : Polish, Russian, Yiddish

Documentation regarding a letter written by Mikhail Besprozvany, a soldier in the Red Army and inmate in Majdanek, regarding his impending death, 1944-1988

Documentation regarding a letter written by Mikhail Besprozvany, a soldier in the Red Army and inmate in Majdanek, regarding his impending death, 1944-1988 - Document by Semyon Krasilschik with the Russian translation of a letter written by Mikhail Besprozvany, a Red Army soldier and inmate in Majdanek, regarding his fate, in which he bids farewell to his relatives; 25 March 1944; the document includes an article by the author Ilya Ehrenburg relating to the letter as well as comments on Semyon's letter, as requested by Semyon Krasilschik, representing the military paper, "Sokol Rodini", - Newspaper...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1596

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Newspaper, Letter, Article

results.listIds.lang : Russian, Yiddish

Testimony of Chana Anka Berta (Lezerkevitz) Goldfinger, born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in Moravska Ostrava, Wiznica, the Krakow Ghetto, Budapest and other places Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; deportation of Jews without citizenship to Poland; deportation of her father; escape with the family and joins her father in Wiznica; life in Krakow including work; work assignments for the Wermacht; unsuccessful escape to Russia; escape to Poland; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; ghetto life; "Aktion" against children; in hiding in an attic; labor...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Regina Rivka (Fogel) Laufman, born in Borsa, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in Borsa and Vaslui

Testimony of Regina Rivka (Fogel) Laufman, born in Borsa, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in Borsa and Vaslui Ultra-Orthodox family; displays of antisemitism; expulsion from school; transfer to a Jewish school; activities in the Hanoar Hatzioni movement; move to Vaslui, 1941; activities in the Bnei Akiva movement; plans to make aliya to Eretz Israel; acts of vandalism against the Jews. Burning of homes and property; coordination by the community; help to Jewish refugees; help with housing and livelihood; burning of Torah scrolls to the sound of music; life in a "kibbutz" [aliya training], in...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Tonia (Wolnerman) Kaplan, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Olkusz, Blechhammer, Gogolin and other places

Testimony of Tonia (Wolnerman) Kaplan, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Olkusz, Blechhammer, Gogolin and other places Life before the war; attends a Polish kindergarten and school. Outbreak of the war; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw Ghetto life including forced labor; behavior of the Polish police and the Germans; attempts to escape from the ghetto; departs on foot including receiving help from Polish farmers; arrival to Olkusz; her father and sister remain in the Warsaw Ghetto; life in Olkusz including labor with her mother and the witness' sister is...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Article by Stepien Wieslaw from the Regional Center for Research and Documentation of Remnants of the Past in Lodz, which deals with a comparative analysis of aerial photographs of the Chelmno-nad-Nerem camp The analysis is based on an aerial photograph of the Chelmno-nad-Nerem camp from 19 May 1942. The author used two aerial photographs, from 1958 and 1997, for comparison. Also in the file: - "Oboz zaglady w Chelmnie nad Nerem 1941-1945" (The Chelmno Extermination Camp on the Ner River, 1941-1945), an article by Janusz Golczynski.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 321

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Article, Photograph, Map

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Clipping from the "Dziennik Polski" Polish newspaper, dated 11 July 1945

results.listIds.fileNumber : 871

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Newspaper

results.listIds.lang : Polish

זיכרונותיה של Sara Haber , ילידת Kalisz, על קורותיה בזמן מלחמת העולם השנייה בגטו Kalisz, בגטו Lodz עד חיסולו ושילוח ל-Auschwitz ול-Bergen Belsen

Memoirs of Sara Haber, regarding her experiences in Kalisz during World War II

results.listIds.fileNumber : 6201

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Polish

O.15 E - Testimonies collected by the National Relief Committee for Deportees in Hungary (DEGOB)

O.15 E - Testimonies collected by the National Relief Committee for Deportees in Hungary (DEGOB) Testimonies collected from Holocaust survivors by Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottság (the National Relief Committee for Deportees in Hungary [DEGOB]), 1945-1946. The testimonies were passed on to the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) by the Magyar Zsidó Múzeum és Levéltár (Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives [MZSML]). Some of the testimonies were passed on in their original form and some were photocopied ( Signature: 2, XX-G microfilm reels). DEGOB collected a total of approximately 3,650...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : German, Hungarian

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