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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 : Reports, Names, Official Documentation, Circular

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 : Testimony, Letter

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...

Testimony of Salomon Goldman, born in 1900 in Bochnia, Poland, regarding his experience in Lwow and the local ghetto, and in hiding on the Aryan side

Testimony of Salomon Goldman, born in 1900 in Bochnia, Poland, regarding his experience in Lwow and the local ghetto, and in hiding on the Aryan side Salomon Goldman lived in Lwow with wife and daughter (5 years old) before the war; pogroms organized by the Ukrainian population at the beginning of the German occupation of the city. On July 10, 1941, 3,000 Jews, including Salomon, were gathered in the square; persecution and mistreatment; most of them were loaded into cars and taken away to unknown destination; 50 professionals and some other people (Salomon amongst them) were released. Establishment of the...

File Number : 692

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Feiwel Auerbach, born in 1906 in Sasow, Poland, regarding his experience in Sasow and the local forced labor camp, and in hiding in Huta Werchobuska and Huta Pieniacka villages with assistance of local population The Germans entered the village of Sasow in July 1941; murder of 12 Jews soon after; tortures of elderly; forced labor; a pogrom took place two weeks later; people were beaten to death, Feiwel's sister amongst them. On July 18, 1941, 26 male Jews were taken to Olesko and never returned. The ghetto in Sasow and the Judenrat were established; contributions; a married couple with a young...

File Number : 657

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Fejwel Filar, born in 1931 in Wyszkow, Poland, regarding his experiences in Wyszkow, Krasna Sloboda, and participating in partisan activity in the forests of Smolniki

Testimony of Fejwel Filar, born in 1931 in Wyszkow, Poland, regarding his experiences in Wyszkow, Krasna Sloboda, and participating in partisan activity in the forests of Smolniki Fajwel Filar lived in Wyszkow when the town was occupied by the Germans in 1939. The Jewish population was gathered in the barns outside the town; the men were shot, and the women and children were expelled to the east; they walked on foot to Bialystok and then to Krasna Sloboda (Krasnaya Sloboda). Fajwel describes the German occupation in 1941; abuse and murder of Jewish men; burial of the murdered in the cemetery by Jewish women;...

File Number : 621

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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