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Testimony of Rebeca Rivka Renia (Lindebaum) Ilutovich, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1917, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, her escape to the Aryan side and in Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Rebeca Rivka Renia (Lindebaum) Ilutovich, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1917, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, her escape to the Aryan side and in Bergen-Belsen Her childhood in the city; Noar Hatzioni activities. German occupation, September 1939; murder of her father; confiscation of property; managing houses owned by her father under a German supervisor; yellow badge; sealing of the ghetto, November 1940; hunger; food smuggling; mutual help; house committees; disease; meetings of the underground in the home of the witness; illegal schools; the Jewish Police; street singers;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Peretz Hochman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, using a false identity, in Lansdorf, Muehlberg, Brockwitz Meissen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Peretz Hochman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, using a false identity, in Lansdorf, Muehlberg, Brockwitz Meissen and other places Life before the war; displays of antisemitism; help from the Jewish community to refugees from Germany. German occupation, September 1939; informing on Jews by Poles; confiscation of property; kidnapping of Jews to forced labor; anti-Jewish restrictions including against mutual help; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto, November 1940; Warsaw Ghetto life including the death of his father due to starvation, 1941; abuse by...

File Number : 12986

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Diary of Leon Dafner from the Lodz Ghetto along with protocols from House Committee meetings, 17 May 1940-22 March 1941; the situation in the ghetto, the start of the deportations and a lamentation over his five-year old daughter who was deported to her death in an "Aktion", 08 August 1942 Notebook containing a manuscript in Polish, including: - Protocols from House Committee meetings under the chairmanship of Dafner; members of the committee under the chairmanship of Dafner were elected at the first meeting, 17 May 1940, and their goals and assignments were defined; with time in the face of increasing...

File Number : 1091

Type of Material : Protocol, Diary

Language : Polish

Report submitted by Kolo Pan, the voluntary women's association that served under the Central Committee for Aid to Warsaw Jews, for 01 February 1938-01 February 1939

Report submitted by Kolo Pan, the voluntary women's association that served under the Central Committee for Aid to Warsaw Jews, for 01 February 1938-01 February 1939 Topics mentioned in the report: Administration members; details regarding aid extended to needy Jews; care for Jewish families and children; statistics regarding the income and expenditures of the association; a list of house committees working in cooperation with the association. There are two newspaper clippings regarding the association's activities attached to the report.

File Number : 116

Type of Material : List, Reports, Newspaper, Article

Language : Polish

Overview of the activities of the Lodz Judenrat from the outbreak of the war until April 1940; the author's name is not known

Overview of the activities of the Lodz Judenrat from the outbreak of the war until April 1940; the author's name is not known Overview of the Judenrat in Lodz during the years preceding the war; appointment of Chaim Rumkowski as Chairman by Leister; arrangement of relief and welfare activities; prohibition on studies, and closing of Jewish schools; forced labor and arrangement of a procedure for reporting for forced labor by the ghetto administration; provision of food by the Lodz Judenrat to the Bydgoszcz labor camp, November 1939; initiative of Rumkowski to encourage willing departure of several thousands...

File Number : 285

Type of Material : Survey Report, Documentation, Official Documentation

Language : Polish, German

Correspondence between the Lodz Ghetto community system and various organizations and institutions: Request to the house committee at Number 2 Miodowa Street to permit the taking of 300 bricks by the bearer of the authorization letter, 29 June 1940

File Number : 550

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 186, dated 27 December 1940 regarding the fact that the house committees will cease distributing food rations The change will go into effect, 30 December 1940; ghetto residents will receive food by presenting food ration cards at the food distribution stations at which they are registered; itemization of the components of the food ration and its cost; details of the procedure for redeeming the food ration.

File Number : 195

Type of Material : Placards

Language : Polish, German, Yiddish

Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 175, dated 06 December 1940 regarding payment for food distribution No. 17

Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 175, dated 06 December 1940 regarding payment for food distribution No. 17 Payment for food distribution No. 17 must be made, beginning 9 December 1940; itemization of the components of the ration and its cost; reiteration of the warning to the house committees not to sell the rations and ordering them to distribute the full ration to the tenants.

File Number : 184

Type of Material : Placards

Language : German

Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 173, dated 04 December 1940 regarding payment for food distribution No. 16

Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 173, dated 04 December 1940 regarding payment for food distribution No. 16 Payment for food distribution No. 16 is to be made starting 04 December 1940; itemization of the components of the ration and its cost; the house committees are responsible for distributing the food to the tenants, the rations may not be sold to other people; house committees that do not distribute the rations will be punished.

File Number : 182

Type of Material : Placards

Language : Polish, German

Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 167, dated 20 November 1940 regarding payment for food distribution No. 15, 25 November 1940

Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 167, dated 20 November 1940 regarding payment for food distribution No. 15, 25 November 1940 Itemization of the components of the food ration and its cost; Rumkowski's appeal to the ghetto residents to report to him any time they do not receive their entire ration, including the name of the house committee chairman. A house committee chairman who does not distribute all the rations to the residents under his responsibility will be severely punished.

File Number : 175

Type of Material : Placards

Language : Polish, German

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