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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. 51, 13/08/1941 Part 1 - Political Events: Protest demonstrations held by Communists in a suburb of Gent in Belgium; attack by a group of armed Communists against a gendarmerie post in Reifling (Untersteiermark area) [including the] murder of a gendarme and the mayor; report from the Einsatzgruppe Belgrad (Belgrade) regarding the completion of the "Aktion" against the partisans in the Kosmay area;...

File Number : 163.51

Type of Material : Manifesto, Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Rachel Sheli (Ashkenazi) Ben Chaim, born in Nikopol, Bulgaria, 1927, regarding her experiences in Nikopol, Sofia and Pleven

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel Sheli (Ashkenazi) Ben Chaim, born in Nikopol, Bulgaria, 1927, regarding her experiences in Nikopol, Sofia and Pleven Family with hardships; witness's father is a cantor and ritual slaughterer; attends a Hebrew school; relations with the Bulgarian population; activities in Zionist youth movements including Hashomer Hatzair, Young Wizo and Beitar. Outbreak of the war; aliya of her sister to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah, 1941; anti-Jewish legilsation; termination of studies, 1941; yellow badge, from 1942; curfew; work as an apprentice seamstress; activities in the Communist youth...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Survey of conditions in German-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and the region, as reported in the Nazi and local press and by witnesses with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, August 1943

Survey of conditions in German-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and the region, as reported in the Nazi and local press and by witnesses with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, August 1943 Poland: Testimony from a French soldier POW regarding the "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising"; the number of Jews in the Krakow Ghetto; attacks on Germans by the Polish underground; use of sacks of ashes from the crematoria in fertilizer factories near Belzec; guarding the German Ghetto in Warsaw; the women's sections at Majdanek; transports of Poles to labor in a quarry at Wolyn; opposition to German control over their crops by...

File Number : 16

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moniek Kaufman from Belchato regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau on the first day of his arrival in the camp

Testimony of Moniek Kaufman from Belchato regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau on the first day of his arrival in the camp The testimony was recorded as a diary after the liberation, in an attempt to recreate the atmosphere that prevailed at the time the events took place: life in the Lodz Ghetto from August 1942 to 28 August 1944; details of living conditions; terrible crowding in living spaces, organization for joint cooking and “inventing recipes” by people living in the same apartment, to make the most of the meager food allowance; using every available plot of land to grow...

File Number : 1311

Type of Material : Memoirs, Testimony

Language : Polish

Article by Giza Frenkel regarding acts of resistance against the Germans in the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-1941

Article by Giza Frenkel regarding acts of resistance against the Germans in the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-1941 The article is based on an album of the ghetto firefighting unit which was discovered in the archive of the unit in 1945. The following subjects are described in the article: Demonstrations of residents in the ghetto after its establishment; assaults on the house of Chaim Rumkowski, the Judenrat Chairman; burning of buildings housing German institutions in the ghetto; anonymous appeals to the ghetto residents to resist and fight the Germans.

File Number : 224

Type of Material : Article

Language : Polish

Testimony of Sheina (Shachar) Gertner, born in Vabalnikas, Lithuania, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Vabalnikas Ghetto, Panevezys Ghetto, villages and using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Sheina (Shachar) Gertner, born in Vabalninkas, Lithuania, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Vabalninkas Ghetto, the Panevezys Ghetto, villages and using a false identity From a family with limited means; attends school in Vabalninkas; attends high school in Panevezys.Outbreak of the war; hostile attitude of the Lithuanians towards the Jews; German occupation; establishment of the Vabalninkas Ghetto, July 1941; deportation to Pasvalys; escape with 40 Jews with help from a Lithuanian teacher during the liquidation of the ghetto; hides in a cowshed with her husband; murder of all the other...

File Number : 3680

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Statement of Sara (Koen) Basat, born in Sofia in 1930, regarding her experiences in Sofia and Kyustendil during the Holocaust

Statement of Sara (Koen) Basat, born in Sofia in 1930, regarding her experiences in Sofia and Kyustendil during the Holocaust - compensation claim according to the Nazi Persecution Disability Law, submitted by Sara (Koen) Basat in 1999, and documents from 1990-2000 related to the filing of the claim. The claim includes Sara Basat's statement regarding her experiences during the Holocaust: Persecution of Bulgarian Jews from 1941; her grandfather's participation in activities against the deportation of Jews in Sofia on 24 May 1943; arrest of her grandfather and his deportation to Somovit camp; beating of the...

File Number : 12064

Type of Material : Birth Certificate, Declaration, Personal Documents, Financial Records

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew, German

Documentation related to Konrad Katriel Bodzanowski, born in Breslau, Germany, and his wife Hadassah Hodes (Birnbaum) Bodzanowski, from Berlin, Germany, and their family members, dated 1913-1949

Documentation related to Konrad Katriel Bodzanowski, born in Breslau, Germany, and his wife Hadassah Hodes (Birnbaum) Bodzanowski, from Berlin, Germany, and their family members, dated 1913-1949 - Diary (without the name of the writer) of a trip from Breslau to Switzerland during 04/05-04/07/1912; diary regarding the illegal emigration of the Bodzanowski family to Belgium and the emigration of several members of the Birnbaum family to the Netherlands, written during 1939-1944; - Invitation to the marriage of Konrad Katriel Bodzanowski and Helen Zvia Hadas Birnbaum in Breslau on 21/08/1932; - Poster (in...

File Number : 810

Type of Material : Diary, Invitation, Catalog, Letter, Postcard, Poster

Language : French, Dutch, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Lili (Deresievicz) Ayalon, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1926, about her emigration to the United States after the Anschluss and the deportation of Jews lacking Czechoslovak citizenship Family background; father: fur agent with dealings in shoes and textiles; traditional family; witness attends a Jewish public school in which Christian children are also enrolled; description of studies; Professor Baruch Kurzweil; many Jewish classmates are murdered during the war; refugees from Austria and Germany arrive; witness exposed to antisemitic slogans while visiting grandparents in Cesky Tesin;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Various documents regarding the experiences of the Christian physician Dr. Arthur Erlich, born in Falkenau, Czechoslovakia, 1889; memoirs of Maurice Wolnerman, born in Paris, France, 1926, and his sister Denise Wolnerman, born in Paris, 1936, dated 1927-1997 - Biography of the Christian physician Dr. Arthur Erlich, born in Falkenau, Czechoslovakia, 1889, as entered by Dr. Bernhard Gruen and Dr. Rudolf Geser in 2016; Dr. Erlich was deported to Theresienstadt by the Nazis; he perished in Mauthausen due to his refusal to be separated from his Jewish wife Valerie (Fleischer) and their son Hans Helmut; - Two...

File Number : 196

Type of Material : Survey Report, Memoirs, Maps, Personal Documents

Language : French, English, German

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