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Memoirs of Moshe Kaplan, born in Woronow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army, the Tannenberg POW camp, the Woronow Ghetto, in hiding in the forest, as a partisan in the Naliboki forests and more Life in Woronow after World War I; death of his father Avraham Kaplan in 1922; attendance at the Tarbut elementary school; displays of antisemitism; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; underground activities and imprisonment of his brother as a member of the Communist Party; death of his mother, 1932; life in an aliya training kibbutz in Bialystok; meeting his future wife, Chaya; release of his...

File Number : 8643

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Lazar Livshitz, born in Gomel, Belorussia, 1919, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier in Bialystok, using a false identity in the Baranovichi camp, the Biala Podlaska camp, the Deblin camp and more Part I (written 06 December 1945 as a letter to his beloved telling of his experiences): Outbreak of the war; being taken captive; transfer to the Baranovichi camp; camp life using a false identity (Nikolay Kulinenko); transfer to the Biala Podlaska camp; camp life in open cages without shelter from the rain and snow; abuse by the so-called camp police which was made up of inmates; transfer...

File Number : 8620

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Postcards sent by Leon Marcel Blum in Oflag XVII A and Offizierlager X C POW camps in Lubeck to Charles and Sophie Heinrich in Bischwiller (Bischweiler) in the Bas Rhin region, 1941-1944

Postcards sent by Leon Marcel Blum in Oflag XVII A and Offizierlager X C POW camps in Lubeck to Charles and Sophie Heinrich in Bischwiller (Bischweiler) in the Bas Rhin region, 1941-1944 Comments by the submitter of the material (Marianne Duvernoy): Leon Marcel Blum was born in Bischwiller, 05/07/1907; his father Albert Blum owned a textile factory; his mother Emma Simo was from Germany (her parents were Karl and Sophie Simo); Leon had one brother, Claude, born in 1908; Albert Blum was the head of the community in Bischwiller, and he established the city's electricity infrastructures. He was chosen...

File Number : 1911

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : French, German

Letter of testimony written by the sapper, Semen Grinshpun, to Ilya Ehrenburg regarding his experiences at the front and in POW camps in Ukraine

Letter of testimony written by the sapper, Semen Grinshpun, to Ilya Ehrenburg regarding his experiences at the front and in POW camps in Ukraine Semen Grinshpun participated in battles near Kiev; he was taken captive by the Germans with First Lieutenant Khonelidze and the medic Edi Rudaya, 03 October 1941; he was included in a group of people who had attempted to be evacuated from Kiev and were caught, which was divided into two groups: the Jews, with First Lieutenant Khonelidze who was thought to be a Jew and with the Jewish [female] medic, were murdered in a nearby village, while the non-Jews were locked...

File Number : 74

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

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. 81, 12/09/1941 Part 1 - Political Events: Finding kindling material in the warehouses of the Schienau Company and at the railroad station in Elbing; sabotage of railroad tracks near Treppau; confiscation of radios from the population in Norway; escape of inmates from the POW camps in Sokolow; Sidlce and other locations in Poland; assassination (attempt?) against a German Naval officer in Paris;...

File Number : 164.81

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Yeshayahu Shpitzer, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in Hajdunanas, the Debrecen Ghetto, Sombathely camp, Szolok and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yeshayahu Shpitzer, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in Hajdunanas, the Debrecen Ghetto, Sombathely camp, Szolok and other places Life before the war; family is Sanz hassidim. Death of his father, 1942; life in Debrecen and vocational studies; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Debrecen Ghetto; ghetto life; escape; life in the local prison; receives help from the local Jewish community; trial; life in Szolok camp with political inmates; transfer to labor loading coal on trains; transfer to another camp; camp life; construction of a bunker against...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Vizel, born in Nizni Apsa, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Budapest, camps in Hungary, the Kolomyja area, with the partisans and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Vizel, born in Nizni Apsa, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Budapest, camps in Hungary, the Kolomyja area, with the partisans and in other places Life before the war; religious family; move to Budapest; life in Budapest including studies; work in tailoring under the auspices of the JDC organization. Membership in the Relief and Rescue Committee; rescue of an orphan girl; deportation to camps in Hungary; life in camps in Hungary including wearing a white armband, 1943; establishment of an underground organization; escape with young people while using forged documents;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yan Steiner Hudi, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Topolcany, Novaky, with the underground in Bratislava and Goerlitz

Testimony

Testimony of Yan Steiner Hudi, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Topolcany, Novaky, with the underground in Bratislava and Goerlitz Life before the war in Bratislava; his father is an officer in the Czechoslovakian Army; attends a state school; Hashomer Hatzair activities; aliya of his sister to Eretz Israel, 1938; move to a Jewish school, 1939. Deportation to Topolcany, late 1940; life in Topolcany; life with his mother and brother after the escape of his father; escape to farm owned by Jews, 1941; life on the farm; deportation of the family to Novaky, April 1942; camp...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaakov Aba Manilevitz, born in Radoszyce, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Lodz and wanderings

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Aba Manilevitz, born in Radoszyce, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Lodz and wanderings Religious family with many children; help in the family's livelihood; move to Lodz; studies knitting and weaving management, 1931; work in a knitting factory; activities in the Bund. Outbreak of the war; escape in the direction of Warsaw; detention; transfer to Lodz; escape to a forest; wanderings; liberation by the Red Army. Marriage; life on a farm; escape following rumors of a pogrom; move to Austria; move to Germany; starts a family; aliya to Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Nachman Buki Hersz, born in Lipno, Poland, 1903, regarding his experiences in France in the Polish Army, in Strasburg, Altengrabow, using a false identity in Ecueille, in hiding in a forest, and in other places Life in France in the army of the Polish Government in Exile, May 1940; taken captive by the German Army; transfer to Strasburg; POW camp life in Strasburg; separation of the Jewish POWs, and transfer to Altengrabow, January 1941; camp life; transfer with Jews to labor in construction and collecting garbage in Dessau; transfer to Altengrabow camp due to the escape of POWs; visit by a...

File Number : 3273

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French, Yiddish

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