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Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France), Zone Sud correspondence mainly with Chief Rabbi Schneour Zalman Schneersohn regarding the matter of the Seignebon Estate, the agricultural training center for religious youth, 1941-1944 The material was created by: General Director of the 2nd Department "Work" In the file: Correspondence mainly with Chief Rabbi Schneour Zalman Schneersohn and Ms. De Heredia regarding the matter of the Seignebon Estate, the agricultural training center for religious youth in Gers, in southern France.

File Number : 155

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Names, Circular, Reports

Language : French

Testimony of a Polish woman, Hildegarda Hoszek, regarding the aid and sheltering the KL Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners, who escaped from the death march in January 1945 in the area of the village of Kamien Hildegarda Hoszek lived in the village of Czerwonka during the occupation. On January 22, 1945 Hildegarda Hoszek saw a long column of prisoners escorted by SS-men with dogs on her way to the sister Wanda Kulik in Kamien. Hildegarda was looking for her father, Antoni Hoszek, among the prisoners; he was arrested on February 11, 1943 and imprisoned in the Auschwitz camp; she found out after the war that her...

File Number : 2373.13

Type of Material : Letter, Testimony

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Stanislawa Karsov-Szymaniewska (Przedpelska) regarding her activity in the resistance movement; organizing aid for Jews in occupied Warsaw

Testimony of Stanislawa Karsov-Szymaniewska (Przedpelska) regarding her activity in the resistance movement; organizing aid for Jews in occupied Warsaw Stanislawa Karsov-Szymaniewska was a head of one of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK) units in the Warsaw area. Together with her mother, Janina Radwan-Przedpelska, and her daughter, Liliana, she was also involved in helping Jews during the occupation: organizing escapes from the Warsaw ghetto; food supply for ghetto and for Jewish children; issuing false...

File Number : 744

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

P.75 - Rachel Minc collection

P.75 - Rachel Minc collection Rachel Minc (born in Lodz, Poland, in 1899 and died in 1978) is a Polish-born French Jewish educator and writer who worked for the rescue of Jewish children during the Second World War. She studied educational psychology and pedagogy in Berlin, and then in the Scandinavian countries, where she met the anti-fascist pedagogue Minna Specht, founder, with Leonard Nelson, of the German resistance movement to Nazism, the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). This movement was banned by the Nazis in 1933 and after the war allied with the German Social Democratic...