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Testimony of Rudy Uri Ravid Schmuckler, born in Danzig, 1926, in the Free City, regarding his escape to the USSR and exile to Siberia

Testimony

Testimony of Rudy Uri Ravid Schmuckler, born in Danzig, 1926, in the Free City, regarding his escape to the USSR and exile to Siberia. Family background, Zionist family; his father's work as a Hebrew teacher; studies in a German general school. Great anti-Semitism; transfer to a Jewish school; aliya of his brother to Eretz Israel and his absorption in Kfar Giladi, 1937; knowledge of living conditions in Eretz Israel from letters from his brother; crushing Jewish shop windows; throwing stones at Jews; Crystal Night events; spraying house windows; the next day the Christian neighbors attempt to set things...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Shock, born in Krasnystaw, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in Vladimir, Siberia, Sverdlovsk Ural, Bukhara and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Shock, born in Krasnystaw, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in Vladimir, Siberia, Sverdlovsk Ural, Bukhara and other places His childhood; move to Vladimir, 1939. Deportation to Siberia, 1940; transfer to Sverdlovsk Ural, 1941; transfer to Bucara [should be: Bukhara], Uzbekistan; detention of his father in Bukhara; release of his father; acts of abuse and beating of youth in Bukhara; liberation, May 1945. Move back to Poland, 1946; placed in a children's home in Germany; life in the children's home, 1946-1949; aliya to Israel, April 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pnina Pola (Shtutman) (Freiman) Harel, born in Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Ostrow Mazowiecka, Bialystok and Ural

Testimony

Testimony of Pnina Pola (Shtutman) (Freiman) Harel, born in Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Ostrow Mazowiecka, Bialystok and Ural Life before the war; from a religious family; setting Jewish businesses on fire during the 1930s; antisemitic plays by non-Jewish children. Air-raids on Ostrow Mazowiecka, September, 1939; deportation of her father to forced labor; escape of her father; trampling a Torah scroll and pulling out beards on the street; concentration of the Jews in the market square; deportation order by the Germans; escape towards the Soviet Union;...

File Number : 13263

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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. 77, 08/09/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Losses among German troops in battles against Croatian rebels; detention of Communists involved in the distribution of placards in Greece; escape of one of the Communists detained, with the help of members of the Bulgarischer Klub (Bulgarian Club); anti-Hungarian demonstration held by Slovakian nationalists, in Pressburg; Part 2 - Reports of the...

File Number : 164.77

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 22 November 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 22 November 1949 Volume 50 Order given by Stalin in broadcast speech (06/11/1941): Extermination of all Germans (ethnic Germans [Volksdeutsche] and captured German soldiers) on Russian soil. (pp. 6-7) Discussion between the Defense and the Prosecution regarding documents (pp. 3-4 and 8-9) Question/s regarding International Law: Documents from the International Military Tribunal (IMT) Judgment; Soviet government information to the Reich Government concerning...

File Number : 50

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Legal Documentation, Indictment

Language : English

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 15 November 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 15 November 1949 Important note: Volume 46 and 47 (Yad Vashem Archives TR.4/ 46-47): nonexistent. Volume 48 Note: The document starts mid-sentence with a discussion between the Prosecution and the Defense, regarding a translation concerning the killing of POWs. (p. 3) Articles regarding the guerilla movements, activities and operations in the Soviet Union, Crimea and Ukraine; Killing of German and Romanian soldiers by guerillas; Explosion of German Army trains....

File Number : 48

Type of Material : Indictment, Names of Perpetrators, Legal Documentation

Language : English

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 17 October 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 17 October 1949 Important note: The following statement is from the point of view of the Defense. Charge 7: Prohibited labor by POWs (pp. 4-24) Employment of POWs on prohibited and dangerous work: Construction of field positions and the clearing of mines; Law regarding prohibited and dangerous work: Arguments and definitions regarding this case by the Geneva Convention, The Hague Land Warfare Convention and Professor Oppenheim’s book “International Law”. (pp....

File Number : 28

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Indictment, Names of Perpetrators

Language : English

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aleksander Shaike Agas Grushka, born in Kowel, Poland, 1919 or 1920, regarding his experiences fighting alongside the partisans in the Kowel area during the war, and against Ukrainian nationalists in the Maniewicze area and acts of revenge against Germany, after the war Life before the war. Life in Warsaw during the outbreak of the war, September 1939; participation as a volunteer in the defense of Warsaw; surrender of Poland and escape of his father on foot to the family home in Powórsk; life in Kowel including labor in railroad workshops repairing trains, 1939-1940; attendance at a...

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Letter

Language : Hebrew

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