Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

20 Results

Testimony of Zipora Glick, born in Sighet, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Sighet, Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen and Soemmerda

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Glick, born in Sighet, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Sighet, Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen and Soemmerda Ultra-Orthodox family; learns in a "heder" and attends a Romanian elementary school. Annexation to Hungary, 1940; anti-Jewish decrees; exile of Jews who are not Hungarian citizens to Poland; exemption of her family from the exile due to her father being wounded in World War I; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Sighet Ghetto; exits the ghetto to purchase food and smuggle the food into the ghetto; concentration in a room in the synagogue, in the second "Aktion";...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Grinberg) Bak, born in Nowy Korczyn, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences as a child in the Nowy Korczyn Ghetto, the Sandomierz Ghetto and in hiding in a bunker

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Grinberg) Bak, born in Nowy Korczyn, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences as a child in the Nowy Korczyn Ghetto, the Sandomierz Ghetto and in hiding in a bunker Life in Nowy Korczyn before the war; religious family; relations with local Poles. Outbreak of the war, 1939; termination of studies; selling of valuables; "Aktion" in the square, 1942; Nowy Korczyn Ghetto life in an open ghetto with several Jews and including her brother; deportation to the Sandomierz Ghetto with her brother; deportation in a train including jumping from the railroad car; receives help from Poles; escape...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Visvel, born in Staszow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Staszow Ghetto, Skarzysko Kamienna, Buchenwald, Schlieben and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Visvel, born in Staszow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Staszow Ghetto, Skarzysko Kamienna, Buchenwald, Schlieben and other places Only child of a single mother; learns in a "heder" and a Polish school. German occupation; escape to a village; return to Staszow; deportation to the Staszow Ghetto; deportation to Skarzysko Kamienna; camp life including labor at the Werk A factory; murder of his mother; transfer to Buchenwald; life in the tent camp; transfer to Schlieben; transfer to Flossenbuerg; transfer to Gusen; transfer to Mauthausen; liberation by the Allied...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Lemanska, born in Lodz, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Kamenets-Podolskiy Ghetto, the Rowne Ghetto, using a false identity in Lwow and Luebeck-Schlutup, and other places From a traditional-secular family; her father is a building contractor; her family makes aliya to Eretz Israel, 1925; her family return to Poland, 1926; her home becomes a shelter for Socialists and Communists; attends a Polish school. German occupation; decrees; behavior of the Volksdeutsche; escape to Bialystok with her sisters; move to Lwow; move to Kamenets-Podolskiy; German occupation; betrayal by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of the Police Headquarters staff in Ukraine, prepared 11 May 1943

File Number : 443

Type of Material : List of Police Officers

Language : German

Orders, directives and official correspondence of the Kommando der Schutzpolizei (Security Police Commando), SS units and gendarmes in Kiev, March-June 1943

Orders, directives and official correspondence of the Kommando der Schutzpolizei (Security Police Commando), SS units and gendarmes in Kiev, March-June 1943 Order from the Oberkommando der Schutzpolizei (Security Police High Command) to the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Army High Command) to shoot any escaped Soviet POW without warning and a prohibition on abusing POWs; orders and directives from the SS Obergruppenfuehrer (the commander of the SS elite unit) and the Polizeifuehrer (army commander) of southern Russia to the subunits in Zhitomir, Luck and Kiev regarding organizational matters, and especially...

File Number : 440

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Questionnaires of Security Service workers affiliated with the SD, the Propaganda Department of the Gendarmerie headquarters and the head of the Stanislawow area, from documents of the NSDAP power-of-attorney affiliated with the government of the Galicia region, 1941-1942

File Number : 168

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Russian

Testimony of Pinchas Mendel Levi, born in Kalisz Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Kozminek, Warta, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Pinchas Mendel Levi, born in Kalisz Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Kozminek, Warta, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and other places Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; deportation to Kozminek, September 1939; transfer to Warta; life in Warta including labor in German houses until June-July 1942; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, July 1942; ghetto life including labor in a carpentry workshop and a tobacco factory; deportation to Auschwitz, June 1944; sneaks onto a transport to Germany, September 1944; transfer to Kaufbeuren; camp life including labor building a subterranean...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim (Gertler) Gavish, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in Poland and Hungary

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim (Gertler) Gavish, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in Poland and Hungary Deportation from Budapest to Korosmezo via Horodenka and Tluste, summer 1941; unsuccessful attempts to reach the Hungarian border; capture of the family which numbered eight people, by German gendarmes next to Delatyn; life in Stanislawow; "Aktion" in a cemetery; the witness and his family escape to Kalusz where they receive help from the local Judenrat, October 1941; escape to Hungary, 1942; witness is connected with the rest of his family through messengers sent from Budapest by his...

File Number : 6965

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Maria (Machtyngier) Guterman, born in Radlin, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Lagow, in hiding and on the Aryan side of Proszowice

Testimony

Testimony of Maria (Machtyngier) Guterman, born in Radlin, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Lagow, in hiding and on the Aryan side of Proszowice Life before the war. German occupation; deportation from Kielce to Daleszyce, 1940; escape to Lagow; murder of Jews in Lagow; escape; life in hiding with help from a Polish family; escape to the Aryan side of Proszowice; liberation. Life after the war including displays of antisemitism.

File Number : 2973

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Items per page:

1 – 10 of 20