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Letter sent by Rubin Reder from Lwow to Ilya Ehrenburg in Moscow, 29 October 1944

Letter sent by Rubin Reder from Lwow to Ilya Ehrenburg in Moscow, 29 October 1944 The letter is an appeal to Ilya Ehrenburg to publicize what went on in the Belzec death camp in any way that he possibly can in order to reveal the atrocities to the whole world Rubin Reder writes of his experiences since his capture with other Jews in Lwow, 15 July 1942, including his deportation to the Janowska camp, and from there to Belzec; according to him, 5,000 people were crammed into each car on the deportation train; after their arrival and the shearing of the women's hair, they were all forced into a shower, as...

File Number : 169

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish, Russian, Yiddish

Letter of testimony by Khaim Povroznik, regarding resistance and the escape from Sobibor camp in October 1943

Letter of testimony by Khaim Povroznik, regarding resistance and the escape from Sobibor camp in October 1943 Khaim Povroznik tells that he was born in Lyubomi in 1911; he was taken to German captivity in 1939 and imprisoned in a camp for Jews in Kholm; start of the implementation of the "Aktions" against Jews by the Germans in 1942, and the murder of most of the Jews of Kholm; transfer of Jews from the camp to Sobibor extermination camp during February-March 1943; selection in Sobibor camp; the writer of the letter remained in Sobibor camp no. 1 due to his profession as a carpenter; murder of Jews who...

File Number : 160

Type of Material : Testimony, Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Shaul Ziman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Plonsk Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and the Ebensee camp

Testimony of Shaul Ziman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Plonsk Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and the Ebensee camp German occupation of Poland; air-raids; occupation of Warsaw; displays of antisemitism [and anti-Jewish regulations] by the Germans; establishment of the ghetto; administration by the Judenrat; smuggling of food into the ghetto by the children; Jewish policemen; leave-taking from his parents and escape from the ghetto; wanderings from village to village using a false identity (Stanislaw Vishnewski); work for a Polish farmer; arrival at the...

File Number : 8470

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Eliahu Rozenberg, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and Treblinka

Memoirs of Eliahu Rozenberg, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and Treblinka Life in the Warsaw Ghetto, deportation to Treblinka, life in Treblinka including participation in the Uprising; escape from Treblinka.

File Number : 8280

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Leon Ginsburg, born in Maciejow, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences in Kowel and Chelm using a false identity

Memoirs of Leon Ginsburg, born in Maciejow, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences in Kowel and Chelm using a false identity Murder of family members in Maciejow and Luboml, 1942; escape from Kowel, 1942; transfer to Chelm, summer 1943; life in Chelm using the false identity of Stanislaw Kwiatkowski, an orphaned Polish Catholic boy; work as a shepherd for the Pyra family in exchange for room and board, 1943-1944; watching the trains transporting Jews to Sobibor; watching passengers who were Jews from the Netherlands; commerce in the victims' shoes when the trains returned from Sobibor en route to...

File Number : 8263

Type of Material : Testimony, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English

Report on Auschwitz, 1944, and personal documentation of Benzion Kalb, 1943-1968

Report on Auschwitz, 1944, and personal documentation of Benzion Kalb, 1943-1968 - Number of inmates in the transports according to country of origin; list of Jews from Slovakia who were interned in Auschwitz, early April 1944; report written by two Slovak Jews who escaped from Auschwitz, 1944; - Letters received by Benzion Kalb in Kezmarok during the war from persons actively working with Kalb in rescuing the Jews of Poland; - Letter sent by Rabbi Weissmandl to Benzion Kalb with a request to hide the children who were rescued in homes of non-Jews; non-compliance of the request by Benzion Kalb; -...

File Number : 130

Type of Material : Survey Report, Documentary, Article, List of Camp Inmates, Letter, List of Jewish Survivors

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Moshe Miklos Bleier Ofer, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and more

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Miklos Bleier Ofer, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and more Childhood in a wealthy, religious family. Hungarian occupation and rise in displays of antisemitism; German occupation, 1944; yellow badge; robbery of valuables and assets; deportation to the Sevlus Ghetto, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection and transfer together with his twin brother to a camp hospital (Kranken Hause); medical experiments; transfer to Camp D and labor near Crematorium 2; approach of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Poems and stories written by Halinka Herman and Tosia Majue regarding the Holocaust

Poems and stories written by Halinka Herman and Tosia Majue regarding the Holocaust The poems are dedicated to the tribulations of the inmates in the extermination camps and the ghettos, and include condemnation of the collaboration between the Poles and the Nazis; a story dedicated to the memory of Mala Lanterka who escaped from the camp and was executed after being captured in Bielsko; two stories written in the form of letters to parents who perished in the Holocaust.

File Number : 225

Type of Material : Stories, Poems/songs

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Zvi Horovitz, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1922

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Horovitz, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1922 Childhood in a religious family; attendance at a Romanian school; life until 1940. Russian occupation; German occupation, summer 1941; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; decision of the parents to go into hiding; deportation; various types of labor in Cernauti and afterwards in Bessarabia in a labor camp; a short let-up and deportation to labor in southern Transylvania; the decision to escape; assistance by a Romanian officer and deportation; arrival in Bucharest during the air-raids, 1944. Illegal aliya attempt with the assistance of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of Dady Maestro from Sarajevo regarding the experiences of the family members and the history of the Jewish community in Sarajevo before and during the war

Documentation of Dady Maestro from Sarajevo regarding the experiences of the family members and the history of the Jewish community in Sarajevo before and during the war - Permit from the community in Sarajevo confirming the deportation of Sida (Maestro) Pinto and her two daughters to Jasenovac camp where they perished, 1991; - Postcards sent by Albert Maestro from Jasenovac camp, 1943; Albert succeeded in escaping from the camp with the help of partisans; - Permit from the community in Sarajevo according to the [population registry] books for the David ben Yossef family and Mazalta Maestro, 1917; -...

File Number : 207

Type of Material : Documentary

Language : Hebrew, English

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