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Memoirs of the twins Alla (Gaber) Bruk and Kira (Gaber) Rashba, born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, 1935, regarding their experiences in Leningrad, Dzhankoy and using a false identity in Akkerman

Memoirs of the twins Alla (Gaber) Bruk and Kira (Gaber) Rashba, born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, 1935, regarding their experiences in Leningrad, Dzhankoy and using a false identity in Akkerman Growing up in the parents' home; Outbreak of the war; digging defense trenches; evacuation from Leningrad, 28 June 1941; arrival at Malaya Vishera; air-raids; murder of children; escape to Armavir; in hiding in a cellar; wanderings at the front; arrival to Dzhankoy; morbidity; rescue of one of the sisters by a surgeon in a German hospital in Dzhankoy; arrival in Akkerman; life using a false identity with the family...

File Number : 8496

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Reports sent to the US State Department by US diplomatic delegations in Germany, regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933 against Jewish businesses, and regarding the Kristallnacht riots, 1933-1938

Reports sent to the US State Department by US diplomatic delegations in Germany, regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933 against Jewish businesses, and regarding the Kristallnacht riots, 1933-1938 Reports regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933: - Report by the US Embassy in Berlin, 03/04/1933: Description of the background and aims of the boycott; Nazi Party propaganda; establishment of the "Central Committee for the Struggle against the Propaganda of Terror and for the Jewish Boycott" in Munich, and the local committee for the implementation of the boycott; regulations published regarding the...

File Number : 277

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Survey Report, Lists of Businesses and Skilled Workers, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Memoirs of Mary (Wrzos) Seidenwurm, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Radom Ghetto, Majdanek, the Ostrowiec camp and other places

Memoirs of Mary (Wrzos) Seidenwurm, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Radom Ghetto, Majdanek, the Ostrowiec camp and other places Life in the Warsaw Ghetto; murder of her father Abraham Wrzos, her step-mother and her step-sister (Thea?) in Treblinka; loss of her brothers Max and Joachim, and her husband Michael Seidenwurm; life in the Radom Ghetto; life in Majdanek; life in the Ostrowiec camp; acquaintance with Nuchim Ancer, later her husband; life in Auschwitz; life in Bergen-Belsen. Transfer to Sweden; life in Sweden in rehabilitation institutions; reunion...

File Number : 1665

Type of Material : Testimony, Reports, Poems/songs, Memoirs

Language : German

Testimony of Kalman (Braun) Bar On, born in Ilok, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Budapest Ghetto, and in Birkenau in the Twins' Block

Testimony

Testimony of Kalman Braun Bar On, born in Ilok, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Budapest Ghetto, and in Birkenau in the Twins' Block Childhood with his grandfather's family in Balassagyarmat, because his father died when Kalman was 2 years old; learns in a yeshiva, and move to a yeshiva in Papa when he was 12 years old; move to Budapest, and detention in the railroad station, Pesach 1944; remaining in a detention camp for two weeks and return home to the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; arrival at the Twins' Block in the hospital, 13 June 1944; life in the camp; work with a friend...

File Number : 11842

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ludwig Woerl, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Munich, Germany, 1906, regarding his experiences in Dachau, Auschwitz, Buna-Monowitz, Ebensee and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Ludwig Woerl, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Munich, Germany, 1906, regarding his experiences in Dachau, Auschwitz, Buna-Monowitz, Ebensee and other places Life in Munich before the war; training as a volunteer Red Cross orderly; disseminates handbills about the Dachau concentration camp; organizes a group of opponents of the regime; deportation to Dachau, May 1934; camp life including torture and interrogation; life handcuffed in a bunker; murder of supporters of Ernst Roehm, the SA commander, July 1934; work as an orderly and arranging orderly service; list of names of sadists; meets...

File Number : 7657

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Norbert Beckman regarding his experiences in Plaszow

Testimony

Testimony of Norbert Beckman regarding his experiences in Plaszow Life in the Plaszow camp including transfer of food from the Polish Central Relief Organization (RGO) warehouses to Jewish Assistance Office (JUS) workshops; transfer of food and medicines from JUS to Plaszow; transfer of food by mail to Pionki, Starachowice and Stalowa Wola; transfer of medicines with help from Dr. Michael Weichert to Jewish hospitals, factories and the Centos Organization that cared for orphans; transfer of a delivery of medicines to Plaszow on orders from the SS camp physician.

File Number : 585

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony

Collective testimony of Tatjana Tauba Goldstein, born in Luck, Poland, 1911, and Wiktoria Strusinska, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Luck, Poland, 1897, regarding their experiences in the Luck Ghetto, Bytom and in hiding Life before the war; work as physicians. German occupation; establishment of the Luck Ghetto, December 1941; ghetto life including work in a hospital; Tatjana's escape, August 1942; life in hiding with help from Wiktoria and her husband; murder of Wiktoria's husband and Polish intelligentsia; Tatjana's escape to Bytom; life being hidden by relatives of Wiktoria; liberation,...

File Number : 2547

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Cwi Hauptman, born in Stryj, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences as a physician in the Red Army in Soviet POW camps in Chelm, Wlodawa, Skrobow, Deblin and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Cwi Hauptman, born in Stryj, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences as a physician in the Red Army in Soviet POW camps in Chelm, Wlodawa, Skrobow, Deblin and other places Serves as a physician in the Red Army; taken captive by the Germans, 1941; life in Soviet POW camps in Chelm, Wlodawa, Skrobow and Deblin; information about the murder of Jewish POWs in the camp, late 1941; help to Jewish POWs by the German physicians, Dr. Gerecht and Dr. Jaeger; labor as a physician in the POW camps; escape from the camp; liberation by the Red Army, July 1944. Life in a former Soviet POW camp in Naleczow;...

File Number : 1851

Type of Material : Testimony, Survey

Language : Polish

Testimony of Ajzyk Grunwald, born in Krakow, Poland, 1923, regarding castration of masses of young men in the context of medical experiments in Auschwitz, April 1943

Testimony of Ajzyk Grunwald, born in Krakow, Poland, 1923, regarding castration of masses of young men in the context of medical experiments in Auschwitz, April 1943 Taking of male inmates, ages 20-24, from Block 27 in Birkenau for castration surgery in Block 21 in Auschwitz; unsuccessful escape attempt before the surgery; preparation and castration under anesthesia for experimental purposes, according to the SS physician Schumann; severe pain after the surgery, and severe pain during urination up to the day of the testimony's submission; after the surgery, mortality of approximately 90% of the 3,000 men...

File Number : 87

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Irena Szajowicz regarding the Janowska camp

Testimony of Irena Szajowicz regarding the Janowska camp History of the Janowka camp: structure; the German officers; attitude towards the inmates; food shortage; the labor; the regimen; activities of the Judenrat on behalf of the camp inmates; activities of the women on behalf of their relatives in the camp; female Jewish inmates; "Aktions"; selections; executions; abuse of the camp inmates; mass executions of inmates and of Jews brought to Janowska as part of their deportations from ghettos or transfers from other camps. The file contains names of German camp commanders and their helpers and names of...

File Number : 546

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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