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Testimony of an anonymous Jewish woman from the village of Rakow, Poland regarding her experiences in the Rakow Ghetto, escapes to the Aryan side using a false identity, hiding in the forest and in a Polish village and work in Germany using a false identity Life in Rakow at the time of the occupation including anti-Jewish legislation; life in the ghetto; capture of the witness; prevention of her deportation to Skarzysko-Kamienna due to the giving a bribe; escape of the family from the ghetto; hiding of the parents by farmers they had known before the war; trips taken to Czestochowa by train by the witness,...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 297.1

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Memoirs of Rachel (Lauden) Rolnitzki, born in Sosnowiec, Poland 1926, regarding her experiences in Sosnowiec and labor camps in Germany

Memoirs of Rachel (Lauden) Rolnitzki, born in Sosnowiec, Poland 1926, regarding her experiences in Sosnowiec and labor camps in Germany Her father joins the partisans, 1939; her father is turned over to the Germans by Poles; her father's murder; her mother is accused of espionage; deportation of her mother to prison; deportation of her mother to Auschwitz; selection of children in Sosnowiec, 1942; deportation of children over the age of 15 to labor camps; deportation of children under the age of 15 to Auschwitz; separation from her oldest sister; escape from the transport; joins her oldest sister; transfer...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8228

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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. 64, 26/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Escape of Soviet POWs from a prisoner transport [passing by] Oberfranken and an attack against a local family; detention of two of the escapees and their execution; distribution of a placard by Communists in France containing a threat to kill 10 German soldiers for every Communist or French person executed by the occupiers; the placard is in reaction to...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 164.64

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Survey Report

results.listIds.lang : German

Memoirs of Israel Goldman, born in Pinczow, Poland in 1925, regarding his experiences during the war

results.listIds.fileNumber : 7258

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Zophia Shulman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Grodzisk, the Warsaw Ghetto, Kock and in hiding using a false identity

Testimony of Zophia Shulman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Grodzisk, the Warsaw Ghetto, Kock and in hiding using a false identity Her childhood in Grodzisk; her family's life; her father was a shoemaker and owned a shoe store. Outbreak of the war, 1939; move to Warsaw; return to Grodzisk; detention of her father, who was a member of the municipal council, and his deportation to a concentration camp and then his return; ghetto life until 1942; survival by selling boots to Germans; move to Kock; her capture along with 800 Jews; execution of the group; her survival; escape from a...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 12171

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : English

Testimony of Yitzchak Sznajder, born in Choroszcz, Poland, 1907, regarding the experiences of the Jews in Choroszcz, and the experiences of the Sznajder brothers in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz, in the forests, and more Information regarding the Jewish community in Choroszcz before the war; information regarding the community institutions and organizations; The German occupation and murder of the Jews, 14 July 1941; imposition of limitations on the Jews; deportation of Jews for forced labor; drawing up a list of Jewish residents, 25 October 1942; deportation of all the Jews to military barracks, 02...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 3968.1

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Yiddish

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results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Freiberg, born in Warsaw, 1927, regarding his experiences in Sobibor and participation in the uprising

Testimony of Dov Freiberg, born in Warsaw, 1927, regarding his experiences in Sobibor and participation in the uprising His family moves from Warsaw to Lodz. Outbreak of the war; escape from the Germans to Warsaw; escape from the Warsaw Ghetto to Turobin; deportation to Sobibor with the Jews of Turobin and Vysoka; selection; Ukrainian camp commanders; the German camp commander; camp life; preparations for Himmler's visit to Sobibor; transports that arrived to Sobibor; resistance by the transportees from Bialystok; transport of sick people from the Netherlands that was sent in its entirety straight to...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 7018

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Testimony of Jozef Hecht, born in Lapanow, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences during wanderings, in hiding places in Tarnawa and surrounding villages and in the Red Army

Testimony of Jozef Hecht, born in Lapanow, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences during wanderings, in hiding places in Tarnawa and surrounding villages and in the Red Army Escape from Lapanow with his brother and a Jewish orphan girl just before the deportation to Bochnia, August 1942; hidden by Andrzej Adamczyk, a Polish farmer, in the village of Tarnawa; wanderings in search of a hiding place due to constant fear of being informed on; life in various hiding places at the homes of Polish farmers, in forests and in fields; searches of Polish police officers for Jews in hiding; news of the death of his...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 64

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Diary of Zelda Ginzberg, born in Lowicz, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Rawa Ruska Ghetto, in a hiding place, during wanderings, using a false identity and in hiding in forests in the Wolyn area Transfer from her residence in Rawa Ruska to Lowicz, by order of the Germans after the occupation, 02 June 1941; agricultural labor for a very low wage; concentration of the Jews of the surrounding area in ghettos, and the sealing of the Rawa Ruska Ghetto, 01 October 1941; residence in harsh, overcrowded conditions with 40 people in two rooms; hunger, and disease; deportation to Belzec camp during an...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 531

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Diary

results.listIds.lang : Polish

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