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Letter from Rabbi Isaak Karni, the Rabbi of Ulm, who was arrested by the Soviets in Budapest and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on the charge of anti-Soviet activities, requesting the support of Ilya Ehrenberg and the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (EAK) in his exoneration and release In his letter Rabbi Karni writes that he and Ilya Ehrenburg are cousins, that his mother perished in Auschwitz and he has a daughter left in Budapest.

File Number : 46

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian, German

List of documentation regarding Nazi war crimes, opinion of the Committee regarding "The Black Book" edited by Ilya Ehrenburg, and opinion of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (EAK) regarding "The Black Book" List of survey reports regarding Nazi war crimes, sent by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee to the editorial board of "The Black Book", including the: - History of the Minsk Ghetto; - Testimonies regarding the murder of the Jews of Kiev; - Stories about the Jews of Lwow; - History of the Vilna Ghetto; - Testimonies from the Riga Ghetto; - Treblinka extermination camp; - Murder of Jews from the...

File Number : 4

Type of Material : Index, Letter

Language : Russian

Testimony of Dov Goldenberg, born in Secureni, Romania, 1910, regarding his experiences in the Edineti Ghetto, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and the Shargorod Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Goldenberg, born in Secureni, Romania, 1910, regarding his experiences in the Edineti Ghetto, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and the Shargorod Ghetto From a family of limited means; attends "heder"; relations with non-Jews before the war. Soviet occupation, 1940; life under Communism; re-occupation of Secureni by the Romanians and Germans; anti-Jewish decrees in economic, cultural and religious areas; murder of Jews; deportation to the Edineti Ghetto; life with his family in the ghetto; transfer on foot under Romanian guard in the direction of Atachi; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; transfer on...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Records of the Soviet-Jewish delegation, Mikhoels-PPR, Polish Workers' Party, to the United States, September 1943

File Number : 350

Type of Material : Memoirs, Legal Documentation

Language : Polish

Correspondence with Dr. Arieh Tartakower from the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in New York, regarding the transfer of financial assistance to the countries under German occupation, a diplomatic measure to improve the conditions of the Jewish refugees in Portugal, and contact with various governments concerning the status of the Jews after the war Contains letters and telegrams. Also in the file: - Letter from Isaac Weissman regarding the lack of cooperation between the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrants Aid Society (HICEM) and the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), 09 May 1943; - Copies of...

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Telegram, Letter

To be translated

Correspondence between the Council of Peoples Kommisars (SNK), the Anti-fascist Committee (EAK), the Peoples Kommisariat for Internal Affairs of the USSR (NKVD USSR) and the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party [TSK(B)U] concerning discrimination against Jewish holocaust survivors in the cities of Zhitomir, Berdichev, Balta, Mogilev-Podolski, Vinnitsa, Khmelnik, Rafalowka station, the district of Rowne and in other places (refusal to give permission to return to their former dwellings, job discrimination, withholding receipt of aid from international Jewish organizations); measures taken to...

File Number : 206

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Russian

To be translated

Correspondence between the First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party in Rowne and the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee concerning the writing of his memoirs in which he details the participation of Jews in the Ukrainian partisan movement during WWII; correspondence with the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party [TSK KP(B)U] regarding this subject.

File Number : 192

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Russian

Testimony

Testimony of Lucia Blekman born in Miropol, Ukraine, 1929, regarding her experiences during "Aktions" in Miropol, wanderings in various Ukrainian villages, in the Ostropol Ghetto and with the partisans in forests Rescue from a pile of corpses during an "Aktion", 1941; wanderings in various Ukrainian villages; Ostropol Ghetto life; escape to forests; life with the partisans; liberation; witness gives testimony to the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, 1945; move to Moscow; end of the war. Gives testimony in a trial against Ukrainian war collaborators, 1987.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Shmuel Bromshtrom, born in Derazhnia, Ukraine, 1905, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union in combat next to Smolensk

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Bromshtrom, born in Derazhnia, Ukraine, 1905, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union in combat next to Smolensk Religious family in a Jewish town, Derazhnia; completes his studies in Odessa, 1935; life and work in Moscow. Volunteers for the People's Guard, 1941; badly wounded next to Smolensk; witness is a second-level disabled war veteran; his sister and her family perished in the Jarmolince Ghetto. His brother's daughter survives the war; reunions arranged by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee; the death of Shlomo Michaels; aliya to Israel from Odessa, 1973.

File Number : 6053

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Esther Mark, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, in hiding, in the Saratov area and Moscow

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Mark, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, in hiding, in the Saratov area and Moscow Work of her husband, Professor Bar Mark, as the administrator of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. Escape, October 1939; crosses the Soviet-German border; her husband's work at the editor-in-chief of the literary section of the "Bialystok Stern" ("Bialystok Star") newspaper in Bialystok; witness joins her husband; her work as the principal of a Yiddish-language high school; her husband is accused of Trotskyite tendencies; removal of the threat to exile her husband to Siberia; refusal to...

File Number : 4168

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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