Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

47 Results

Letters written to Ilya Ehrenburg by Yevsey Lantsman from the front, regarding the murder of Jews, Jewish resistance and rescue

Letters written to Ilya Ehrenburg by Yevsey Lantsman from the front, regarding the murder of Jews, Jewish resistance and rescue In his first letter, Yevsey Lantsman tells about the important role of Ehrenburg's articles among the fighters at the front; Yevsey Lantsman arrived to the city of Piryatin one day after its liberation, and he tells about Nazi war crimes in the city: Decrees imposed on the Jews from the first days of the German occupation; establishment of the ghetto; epidemics and starvation in the ghetto until Pesach (April) 1942; transfer to Pirogovskaya Levada of Jews who did not succeed in...

File Number : 122

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Letter

Language : Russian

Documents from the process in Regional Courts (Landesgericht) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Documentation of the trial, volume 28; Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 1960 - 1962 Testimony (05/09/1960) of Eugen Schweizer, born 1908; member of the NSDAP since 1933; police inspector with administrative tasks; transferred to Warsaw in 01/1940, ranked as SS-Obersturmfuehrer (first lieutenant); at the office of the KdS (commander of the security police) until 12/1944, detached to the RSHA (Reich Main Security Office) in Berlin in 01/1945;...

File Number : 85

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

Language : German

Documents from the trial conducted in Landesgericht (regional court) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Documentation of the trial, volume 15; Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 1961 Letters (1961) of the investigating judge from the Landesgericht Salzburg (regional court) to various magistrate courts in Germany requesting legal assistance in the criminal proceedings against Hermann Hoefle; the letters contain an account of the suspicion, its factual foundation, and Hoefle's vindication, as well as requests for hearings of the witnesses...

File Number : 72

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Maps, Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation

Language : German

Documents from the process in the Regional Courts (Landesgericht) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Documentation of the trial, volume 14; Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 1961 Letters (1961), one translated into French, from the investigating judge at the Landesgericht Salzburg (regional court) to various magistrate courts in Germany (and to a court in Paris) requesting legal assistance in the criminal proceedings against Hermann Hoefle and others; the letters contain an account of the suspicion, its factual foundation, and Hoefle's...

File Number : 71

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

Language : German

Instructions of Keitel regarding fighting the partisans, 16/12/1942

File Number : 214.2

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Aleksander Kudlik, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Czestochowa, Treblinka and in hiding in a forest and villages

Testimony

Testimony of Aleksander Kudlik, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Czestochowa, Treblinka and in hiding in a forest and villages Life in Czestochowa including forced labor in a factory; deportation to Treblinka, 12 October 1942; transfer in a group of Jews to labor sorting clothes; hanging of two inmates by their feet by the guards; transfer of a train with corpses from Warsaw by the Germans; transfer to labor removing coats and furs from the women, May 1943; typhus; meets Jews from Bulgaria; orchestra and artistic performances for the German guards; activities planning the...

File Number : 562

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of David Farfel, born in Nieswiez, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Nieswiez Ghetto, Mir Forest, Naliboki Forest and Puszcza

Testimony

Testimony of David Farfel, born in Nieswiez, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Nieswiez Ghetto, Mir Forest, Naliboki Forest and Puszcza Life before the war. Soviet occupation; German occupation; murder of Red Army POWs; murder of Jews by the German Army; murder of Jews, 30 October 1941; rescue from murder with his wife and father as a skilled professional; establishment of the Nieswiez Ghetto; ghetto life including the establishment of the Judenrat; appointment of a refugee from Warsaw as head of the Judenrat; activities in a secret school; organizing the underground; life with the...

File Number : 3197

Type of Material : Memoirs, Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Leon Arie Zelwer, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Leon Arie Zelwer, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto Life before the war. German occupation; life in the Czestochowa ghetto including underground activities; liberation by the Red Army.

File Number : 1245

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

List of articles regarding Jewish self-defense, resistance movements, armed uprisings and the partisans, published in the "Das Neu Leben" journal in Lodz, 19/04/1945-02/03/1946

List of articles regarding Jewish self-defense, resistance movements, armed uprisings and the partisans, published in the "Das Neu Leben" journal in Lodz, 19/04/1945-02/03/1946 List of 15 articles written by the following authors: M. Mirski, Adolf Berman, Icchok Cukerman, Symche Rotajzen, Majlech Felin, Stanislaw Kon, Bernard Borg, G. Alef, Majlech Bakalczuk, Jozef Wulf, Efraim Siedlecki, and L. Szeftel.

File Number : 202

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Bibliography, Journal

Language : Polish

Testimony of Rejza Reizia Klingberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences as a member of the underground in the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) in the Krakow Ghetto, Bochnia, Koszyce, Sandomierz, and other places German occupation; move to Koszyce with her parents, until 1942; contact by letters with her girlfriends, and information about the fate of the Jews in Tarnow and Warsaw, and the organization by members of Hashomer Hatzair into a fighting underground; receives a forged Aryan document; move to Krakow; meets Roman Leibowicz, whose underground nickname was Laban; joins the...

File Number : 198

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Items per page:

1 – 10 of 47