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Testimony of a Jewish girl regarding the early days of the occupation of Bialystok, mass murders of Jews and her trip to Bielsko and back to the Bialystok Ghetto with her family

Testimony of a Jewish girl regarding the early days of the occupation of Bialystok, mass murders of Jews and her trip to Bielsko and back to the Bialystok Ghetto with her family Memories of an unknown eight year old Jewish girl after the German occupation of Bialystok in June 1941; mass arrests of Jewish men; release of her father from detention; entry of the Germans into the courtyard of their building a short time afterwards; taking of the men by the Germans and random shooting of whomever they found in the building; taking of her baby sister and her sibling(s) by the writer and escaping to her...

File Number : 233

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Testimony of Sima (Birman) Kolka, born in Vilani, Latvia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Vilani, Riga, Siberia, Breslau and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Sima (Birman) Kolka, born in Vilani, Latvia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Vilani, Riga, Siberia, Breslau and Israel Her childhood in Vilani. Life in Vilani under Soviet occupation including closure of the school; learns sewing; burning of the Jews' homes by Latvians; escape to Riga; life in Riga including work in a cooperative; escape via Siberia; [move via] Ural to Kazakhstan; life in a kolkhoz; transfer to Siberia; life in Siberia; end of the war. Move to Novosibirsk; move to Riga; life after the war; move back to Breslau, 1958; aliya to Israel; life in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of residents from Dubrovka who were burned alive or shot to death, 24/11/1942

File Number : 2457

Type of Material : List of Residents

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. 44, 06/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Increasing activity of painting Communist slogans in public places in Germany and Austria; cases of arson in the Untersteiermark area, Yugoslavia; execution of a Communist terror group, Gurkfeld; condemnation [?] of partisan activity among the population; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen: - Report of the SIPO and SD commander in...

File Number : 163.44

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

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. 38, 30/07/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Sabotage on the roads in northern Yugoslavia (in the Kraina and Untersteiermark areas); activity against Communists suspected of sabotage; release from imprisonment, by Communists, of a man who carried out an act of sabotage on a radio transmitter, in Belgrade; continuation of the searches for the members [?]; planning of a widespread operation to carry out...

File Number : 163.38

Type of Material : Survey Report, Statistical Data

Language : German

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. 35, 27/07/1941 Part 1 - Political Events: Finding forged Reichskleiderkarte (Reich clothing vouchers) dispersed by enemy aircraft in the Saarbruecken, Darmstadt and Kiel areas; high motivation to fight Germany among the Communists in Bruen, Frankfurt, [including] the establishment of groups of saboteurs and partisan groups, and plans to distribute anti-German placards among the local population;...

File Number : 163.35

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

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. 24, 16 July 1941 Part 1 - Political Events: Distribution of an anti-war placard against the war on the eastern front in Krakow, meant for soldiers serving on this front; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen and the subunits under their authority including deployment, movement and activity: Einsatzgruppe A: -Occupation of Daugavpils/Donabuerg by the German Army; fires set off by Jews;...

File Number : 163.24

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

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. 20, 12 July 1941 Part 1 - Political events: - Intent by the Bandera (Nationalist Ukrainian leader) group to establish a Ukrainian government in Kiev just as they did in Lwow; assembly held by Lublin's Ukrainian mayor in order to thank the German Army for the liberation; Part 2 - Reports from the Einsatzgruppen: - Deployment and activity of Einsatzgruppen B and Einsatzgruppen C: The situation...

File Number : 163.20

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Article by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the liquidation of the Jewish community in Bialystok commemorating of the murder of 200, 000 Jews from Bialystok and the vicinity

Article by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the liquidation of the Jewish community in Bialystok commemorating of the murder of 200,000 Jews from Bialystok and the vicinity Outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 22 June 1941; mass escape of young Jews towards the East from the threat of the Germans; success of just a few in escaping to the Soviet Union; deaths of most of the escapees as a result of German shelling; occupation of Bialystok by the German Army, 27 June 1941; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation, robbery of property and murder of Jews; concentration...

File Number : 291

Type of Material : Article

Language : Yiddish

Collective testimonies regarding the experiences of the Jews of Buda Koshelevo in 1941-1943

Collective testimonies regarding the experiences of the Jews of Buda Koshelevo in 1941-1943 Letters written by Anatoliy Feldman to Viktor Bobrovnichiy, regarding his experiences in Buda Koshelevo and in the Red Army Life before the war in Buda Koshelevo; hearing rumors regarding the deportation of men and teenagers to Germany by the occupation authorities; encirclement of Gomel on 14 August 1941; retreat of the Red Army; escape of men and teenagers from Buda Koshelevo; life of his mother and family members in the Buda Koshelevo Ghetto and their murder, together with the rest of the Jews from the ghetto;...

File Number : 5949

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons, Testimony, Memoirs, Photograph

Language : Russian

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