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Testimony of Salomon Wettman, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1929, regarding the activities of a group of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) in Pilice, 1942

Testimony of Salomon Wettman, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1929, regarding the activities of a group of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) in Pilice, 1942 Coordination of 60 young Jews who were members of the Gordonia, Hashomer Hatzair, Akiva, Poalei Zion and Dror (Freiheit) movements into a combat underground called the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) in Pilice, 1942; their residence in Podgorze, while coordinating with the Polish Socialist Party (PPS); attack on the ZOB by the Narodowe Siły Zbrojne (NSZ - National Armed Forces), a right-wing, antisemitic faction of the Polish underground; escape...

File Number : 134

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Survey reports submitted by the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee) in Poland and the Council for Assistance to Jews of the Polish-Government-in-Exile Legation, December 1942-24 May 1944 English translation of the report sent by the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee) to A. Reiss, I. Schwarzbart and A. Tartakower in London, 24 May 1944. In the report there is an overview of the unrelenting persecution of Jews hiding on the Aryan side after the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, executions of Jewish scientists and intellectuals due to betrayal, including the...

File Number : 203

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Polish, English

Testimony of Jochanan Kalfus, born in Wisnicz, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Wisnicz, Bochnia and in the underground in the Krakow forest

Testimony

Testimony of Jochanan Kalfus, born in Wisnicz, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Wisnicz, Bochnia and in the underground in the Krakow forest Life in Wisnicz including deportation to Plaszow; camp life including construction; life in Bochnia including the deportation of Jews; life in the Krakow forest in a Jewish underground group lead by Szymszon Dranger; receives help from Poles; murder of people in hiding due to being informed on.

File Number : 3284

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony

Testimony of Cadok Cwi Florman, born in Lipno, Poland, 1906, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Pawiak, the Aryan side, in the underground movement, using a false identity, in the Warsaw Polish Uprising and Brusnik Warsaw Ghetto life including commercial contacts with Poles; detention in Pawiak; release; rescue from the Umschlagplatz along with his wife and toddler daughter; move to the Aryan side; acts of extortion; joins the underground movement with help from a Pole named Tadeusz Kledzik; drafted as a Pole in the Warsaw Polish Uprising using a false identity as Kaniowski, 01 August 1944;...

File Number : 3464

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

"The Zionists in the Resistance Movement", an article written after the war in Polish regarding the role of the Zionist movement and its significance in the armed struggle of the Jewish underground

"The Zionists in the Resistance Movement", an article written after the war in Polish, regarding the role of the Zionist movement and its significance in the armed struggle of the Jewish underground The article presents excerpts from the diary of Gusta Justyna Dawidzon which she wrote in prison. Zionist ideology and [the role of] the Zionist movements in organizing the Jewish Resistance movement and initiating the armed struggle against the Germans are considered in the article. Emphasis is placed on the crucial role of the members of the Zionist movements in various cities, for example, in Krakow, [where]...

File Number : 1680

Type of Material : Article

Language : Polish