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Testimony of Shulamit (Frederika) Goldlevitz Karmi, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1937, regarding her ‎experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in a Polish home under a false identity

Testimony of Shulamit (Frederika) Goldlevitz Karmi, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1937, regarding her ‎experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in a Polish home under a false identity The German occupation; move to Warsaw; transfer to the ghetto; acquisition of false identity ‎papers and move to Zabieniec; her father’s injury and hospitalization; her mother’s disappearance; ‎moving in with the Braniecka family; move to the cellar in her uncle’s building in Warsaw; ‎placement in the care of a Polish woman, Mrs. Domenska, via the Polish Central Welfare Council ‎‎(RGO); the Polish uprising; escape with Mrs. Domenska;...

File Number : 13694

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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,...

File Number : 297.1

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Eugenia Seinfeld, born in Majdan Sredni, Poland, 1898, regarding her experiences in Holoskow, the Tlumacz Ghetto and in hiding at the home of a Pole and in the fields

Testimony of Eugenia Seinfeld, born in Majdan Sredni, Poland, 1898, regarding her experiences in Holoskow, the Tlumacz Ghetto and in hiding at the home of a Pole and in the fields German occupation of Holoskow; seizure of the family farm by the Germans and Ukrainians; labor as a cook for the Germans until 1942; bribery; blackmail by Ukrainians, until the deportation of the eight Jewish families; deportation on foot, and beatings during the march to Otynia; march for another 20 kilometers to Tlumacz; concentration of several thousand Jews, including many refugees from surrounding towns and villages, in the...

File Number : 175

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Reports sent to the US State Department by US diplomatic delegations in Germany, regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933 against Jewish businesses, and regarding the Kristallnacht riots, 1933-1938

Reports sent to the US State Department by US diplomatic delegations in Germany, regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933 against Jewish businesses, and regarding the Kristallnacht riots, 1933-1938 Reports regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933: - Report by the US Embassy in Berlin, 03/04/1933: Description of the background and aims of the boycott; Nazi Party propaganda; establishment of the "Central Committee for the Struggle against the Propaganda of Terror and for the Jewish Boycott" in Munich, and the local committee for the implementation of the boycott; regulations published regarding the...

File Number : 277

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Survey Report, Lists of Businesses and Skilled Workers, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Investigation material of the charges against Mueller-Scholtes, assistant to the Chief of the Berlin Police, at the Nuremberg Trial held during 1945-1946

Investigation material of the charges against Mueller-Scholtes, assistant to the Chief of the Berlin Police, at the Nuremberg Trial held during 1945-1946 Charges against Mueller-Scholtes, assistant to the Polizepraesident (Chief) of the Berlin Police, Count Helldorf, for the extortion of Jews who wanted to emigrate from Germany; appeals to the Police by well-to-do Jewish residents in Berlin, in October 1938, with the request to receive passports, while making payment of all the fees and fines required for emigration; rejection of the applications of the well-to-do Jews, with an explanation that they must pay...

File Number : 262

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Legal Documentation, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Protocol of the working session of Reich Defence Committee (Reichsverteidigungsausschuss) for Poland held on 2/3/1940 in Warsaw and excerpts from monthly reports by Oberfeldkommandanturen of the Wehrmacht in Poland regarding ghettos, 1941-1942 Protocol of the working session of Reich Defence Committee (Reichsverteidigungsausschuss) for Poland, which took place on 2/3/1940 in Warsaw (pp.4-18) The session dealt with the tasks of Reich Defence Committee, the security situation in the occupied Poland and principles of the Nazi policy towards different groups of its population. It was presided by the...

File Number : 183

Type of Material : Discussion, Legal Documentation, Speech, Project, Report

Language : German

Legal file no.15/63 of Hirsch Heniek ben Pesach Barenblatt, the commander of the Jewish police in Bedzin, 1942-1943

Legal file no.15/63 of Hirsch Heniek ben Pesach Barenblatt, the commander of the Jewish police in Bedzin, 1942-1943 Barenblatt was accused of turning over Jews to be deported, assault, stealing of property, extortion, management of forced labor and collaboration with the Nazis; the trial was conducted in the Tel-Aviv District Court in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1963; in the folder there is an indictment, a verdict, court proceedings, testimonies and additional legal material.

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Sentence, Indictment, Photograph

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Adela Bar Eli, born in Stryj, Poland, 1909, regarding her experiences in the Drohobycz Ghetto, Lvov and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Adela Bar Eli, born in Stryj, Poland, 1909, regarding her experiences in the Drohobycz Ghetto, Lvov and in hiding German occupation of Drohobycz, late June 1941; pogrom by Ukrainians with help from the Germans, which lasts for three days, in which hundreds of Stryj Jews are murdered or injured; economic hardships at the start of the occupation; establishment of the Judenrat in Drohobycz; detentions and deportations of Jews to Belzec camp; murder of 300 Jews in the Bronica forest near Drohobycz; establishment of the Drohobycz Ghetto after the large "Aktion", August 1942; housing and nutrition...

File Number : 7656

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Maria (Goldberg) Lilienstein Szapiro, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1897, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding in Warsaw

Testimony

Testimony of Maria (Goldberg) Lilienstein Szapiro, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1897, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding in Warsaw German occupation; life in Warsaw including her husband's disappearance, 06 September 1939; deaths of her sister and son; ghetto life including robbery of her home and wounding by soldiers; escape outside the ghetto with her sister including blackmail; finds a hiding place in the home of a Polish family; blackmail and payment of ransom money; provision of basic needs by Polish musicians; liberation. Life in Poland; aliya to Israel, 1950.

File Number : 2797

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Bella Andermann, born in Lwow, Poland, 1888, regarding the experiences of her niece Pepa (Andermann) Landmann on the Aryan side of Lwow, 1943

Testimony of Bella Andermann, born in Lwow, Poland, 1888, regarding the experiences of her niece Pepa (Andermann) Landmann on the Aryan side of Lwow, 1943 Hiding of the son of Pepa (Andermann) Landmann in a village near Buczacz; work by Pepa on the Aryan side of Lwow using a false identity; her arrest by the Gestapo after being informed on by a Polish worker; release after interrogation; visit by a Polish blackmailer at her home threatening to inform on her to the Germans.

File Number : 59

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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