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Testimony of Lidia (Bokser) Arbel, born in Drohobycz, 1936, regarding her experiences in Lublin, 1939-1940, Drohobycz, the Drohobycz Ghetto and in hiding in the forest in the area

Testimony

Testimony of Lidia (Bokser) Arbel, born in Drohobycz, 1936, regarding her experiences in Lublin, 1939-1940, Drohobycz, the Drohobycz Ghetto and in hiding in the forest in the area Childhood in a secular family. Witness is on vacation in Lublin at the outbreak of the war, 1939; return to Drohobycz about a year later with the help of a German officer; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Drohobycz Ghetto; in hiding in a stable during an "Aktion"; her father’s labor as a sign painter for the Gestapo; move to a camp near Drohobycz with her parents, late 1942; move to a bunker in the forest, December...

File Number : 12584

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Materials provided by Jerzy Holewinski regarding the activity of the Sipo-SD School (Schule der Sipo und SD) in Rabka in 1940-1944

Materials provided by Jerzy Holewinski regarding the activity of the Sipo-SD School (Schule der Sipo und SD) in Rabka in 1940-1944 Letter to the director of the Yad Vashem institute from Jerzy Holewinski, dated February 2, 1993, regarding the transmission of the previously mentioned materials. Jerzy Holewnicki comes from the town of Starachowice, where a forced labor camp was during the war; he was a member of the Home Army (AK); witnessed the liquidation of the ghettos in Olkusz, Starachowice and Wolbromin. According to. Holewinski, there are mass graves of Jews murdered during the occupation in the forest...

File Number : 3473

Type of Material : Letter, Article

Language : Polish

Documentation regarding an order by the Reichskommissar of Ukraine to bring Jewish witnesses to a trial, the execution of two Jewish women in Kirovograd, the names of Jews who resided in the Velikaya Viska district, and other documents, February-September 1942 - Order by the Reichskommissar of Ukraine in Rowne given to the regional Generalkommissare, to bring Jewish witnesses to a trial, 26/02/1942; - List of Jews who resided in the Velikaya Viska district, 05/03/1942; - Announcement regarding the execution of two Jewish women in Kirovograd, 01/09/1942; - Announcement by the Gendarmerie in...

File Number : 508

Type of Material : List of Persecuted Persons, Reports, Official Documentation, List of Residents

Language : German, Ukrainian

Orders by the commander of the German Gendarmerie of the Reichskommissariat in Zhitomir, regarding the structure of the Gendarmerie, the manning of positions in units in the Gendarmerie and the German Police, policemen who received medals of honor, and other matters, 1942-1944 Orders by the commander of the German Gendarmerie of the Reichskommissariat in Zhitomir, regarding the structure of the Gendarmerie, the manning of positions in organizations and units in the Gendarmerie and the German Police; lists of policemen who were raised in rank or received medals of honor, and a diagram of the organization,...

File Number : 496

Type of Material : List of Police Officers, Official Documentation

Language : German

Order by the SS und Polizeigebietsfuere in Kazatin to the commander of the Gendarmerie in Zhitomir, regarding two SS men in a labor camp who stole food for Ukrainians and, in particular, their attitude toward Jewish inmates, 01/11/1942

File Number : 471

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

To be translated

File Number : 3151

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Investigation Report, Sentence, Record of Persecuted Persons, Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Alter Trus, Chairman of the Organization of Former Residents of the Briansk Community in Bialystok regarding collaborators with the Germans in Briansk

Testimony of Alter Trus, Chairman of the Organization of Former Residents of the Briansk Community in Bialystok regarding collaborators with the Germans in Briansk Names of Polish residents of Briansk who collaborated with the Germans, including Maniek Zawadzki; capture of nine Jews in hiding by Zawadzki; handing over of the Jews in hiding to the gendarmerie; murder of those who had been in hiding by the gendarmerie; murder of Jews by the Gestapo man, Michal Panaszuk from Briansk; handing over of Jews to the gendarmerie by Kotlinski and Poplawski, Polish residents of Briansk; murder of Jews who were handed...

File Number : 375

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony (by questionnaire) of an unknown witness regarding an "Aktion" and mass graves in the village of Ruszczany (in the Choroszcz district in the Bialystok area)

Testimony (by questionnaire) of an unknown witness regarding an "Aktion" and mass graves in the village of Ruszczany (in the Choroszcz district in the Bialystok area) "Aktion" in the village of Ruszczany including the number of those murdered, 11 January 1943; "Aktion" carried out by the Choroszcz gendarmerie; place where those murdered were buried including a description of the graves; exhumation.

File Number : 276

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony

Testimony of Bracha (Horowicz) Karwasser, born in Brwinow, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, on the Aryan side, using a false identity, in the Armia Krajowa (AK) in Dabrowa and Skarzysko, in activities of the Jewish underground, in Brieg and other places Deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto with her family members, late 1940; Warsaw Ghetto life including the start of the deportations, 1942; escape to the Aryan side with her two sisters; obtains forged documents; joins a group of non-Jewish women, along with her two sisters, on the recommendation of Polish acquaintances in the Armia...

File Number : 3484

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Efraim Abramczik regarding his experiences in the Zarki and Radomsk Ghettos and survival among the farmers

Testimony of Efraim Abramczik regarding his experiences in the Zarki and Radomsk Ghettos and survival among the farmers Participation as a Polish Army soldier in the battles in the Lwow area, September 1939; return to his family in Zarki; forced labor; murder of Jews; "Aktion" in Zarki, 1942; murder at the railroad station and deportation to Treblinka; escape to the villages and search for a hiding place; escape to Pilice and "Aktion" there; call to the Jews by the Germans to report in; transport of those who reported in to Radomsk, including the witness and his wife; last "Aktion" in Radomsk, Hanukkah...

File Number : 592

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

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