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Story by Chaim Kamelmacher (Harry Kamel), born in Maniewicze, Poland, regarding the fate of the Maniewicze Jews during the war; story written, 1979

Story by Chaim Kamelmacher (Harry Kamel), born in Maniewicze, Poland, regarding the fate of the Maniewicze Jews during the war; story written, 1979 Story describing the Jewish community of Maniewicze, which served the railroad that was built and instituted during the period of the Russian Czar; the train that passed through the town fills a central role in the story, in which it turns out that the train takes a part in the murder of the Jewish community during the war.

File Number : 8607

Type of Material : Memoirs Literature

Language : Yiddish

Letters and a postcard received by Zalman and Sara Kupfer in Brazil from their family members in Poland, Gomel, Jerusalem, Odessa, Cyprus and Leningrad, with a description of the experiences of the family members before, during and after the war, including their life in a camp in Cyprus; documents dated, 1938-1947

File Number : 2199

Language : Polish, Portuguese, Yiddish

Two letters written by the Holocaust survivor Nathan (Nechemia) Goodman from New York to the New York Forverts editorial board regarding his experiences in Kostopol, 23 April 1950

Two letters written by the Holocaust survivor Nathan (Nechemia) Goodman from New York to the New York Forverts editorial board regarding his experiences in Kostopol, 23 April 1950 Two letters regarding his experiences in Kostopol, one titled "My town Kostopol, Wolyn" and "A Kostopol survivor writes about the destruction of his city".

File Number : 4.5

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

Letter written by the Holocaust survivor Shimon Mokobocki from Rochester to the New York Forverts newspaper on the destruction of a Jewish community in a town near Warsaw in 1942, 25 September 1949

Letter written by the Holocaust survivor Shimon Mokobocki from Rochester to the New York Forverts newspaper on the destruction of a Jewish community in a town near Warsaw in 1942, 25 September 1949 The events which transpired to a Jewish community in a town near Warsaw days before its destruction; the burning of the Jewish community in the town by Germans on Tuesday during the intermediate days of Sukkot.

File Number : 4.4

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

Testimonies of Leon Finkelsztein, Waclaw Bednarczyk and Jan Sulkowski regarding the Treblinka extermination camp

Testimonies of Leon Finkelsztein, Waclaw Bednarczyk and Jan Sulkowski regarding the Treblinka extermination camp File consists of the number of documents: 1) Report of witness interview of Leon Finkelsztein by the District Court in Siedlce on December 28, 1945. Leon Finkelsztein and his family arrived in Treblinka on 22 July 1942 from Miedzyrzec Podlaski; half of the 7,000 people on the transport died on the way; he was in the group selected for labour, later in Sonderkommando unit; rest of the people in the transport were killed. Description of the gassing process and methods of disposal of the...

File Number : 2166

Type of Material : Protocol, Survey Report, Testimony

Language : Polish

Publication "Treblinka - Katyn of the Jews of Europe" by Jan Aleksander Zaremba, published in Kielce in 1945

Publication "Treblinka - Katyn of the Jews of Europe" by Jan Aleksander Zaremba, published in Kielce in 1945 The publication by Jan Aleksander Zaremba was published in Kielce in 1945 by Swietokrzyska Library of Knowledge, Culture and Art; is based on the testimonies of former prisoners of the Treblinka extermination camp: - Moszek Laks (pseudonym Mietek) from Laczna, Sucheniow district; born on May 12, 1902; deported with his family to Treblinka on September 21, 1942; - Izaak Platkiewicz (pseudonym Maniek) from Grechow; born in 1910; deported with his family to Plock, then to Treblinka on September 24,...

File Number : 2169

Type of Material : Musical Notes, Testimony

Language : Polish, Yiddish