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Personal file of Szymon Ferber, born in Niemirow, Poland in 1911, regarding his service as a Polish Army officer and soldier during 1943-1946

Personal file of Szymon Ferber, born in Niemirow, Poland in 1911, regarding his service as a Polish Army officer and soldier during 1943-1946 Documents and confirmations regarding the receipt of medals for bravery of the highest order in the Polish Army; his experiences, and evaluations regarding the continuation of his service and his advancement in the Polish Army, as written by his commanders; Bernard Ferber was born in Niemirow; completion of seven years of studies and work for a carpenter starting from the age of 14 years, and work in that profession until the outbreak of the war; move to Uzbekistan...

File Number : 834

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : Polish, Russian

Personal cards of Jewish Polish Army officers and soldiers in German POW camps, from November 1939 until May 1940

File Number : 697

Type of Material : Card File, List of Jewish Soldiers, List of Pows, List of Inmates

Language : German

Documents related to Dr. Michael Sternschuss-Staniewski, born in Ditkowce, 1871, including a Jewish registration form from Krakow, 1940, with deportation stamp, 1941 – Birth documentation of Sternschuss family members – Registration of the change of surname of Michael Sternschuss to Sternschuss-Staniewski from 1924 – Jewish registration form for Michael Sternschuss-Staniewski, born in Ditkowce, 1871, that was drawn up in Krakow in 1940 and has a deportation stamp dated 1941 – Information from the questionnaire: His wife is of Aryan origin; he converted to Christianity in 1905; he served in the Polish army...

File Number : 1893

Type of Material : Birth Certificate, Personal Records, Questionnaire, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German

Letters and postcard from the Polish Army officer Isaak Distenfeld to his wife and daughter, during his term as a war prisoner of the Soviets at Starobelsk in February–April 1940

- letters from the Polish Army officer Isaak Distenfeld to his wife and daughter, during his term as a war prisoner of the Soviets at Starobelsk in February–April 1940 - postcard from Isaak Distenfeld in Starobelsk (the sender’s address is erased and a note that he has left appears) to his wife, Ida Distenfeld, in Lwów. According to the postmark, the card was sent from Starobelsk on June 17, 1940, and had been written on June 14, 1940. - postcard with a portrait of Isaak Distenfeld on the reverse, drawn by another POW who was with him. The date, February 20, 1940, and a signature appears on the reverse of the...

File Number : 4789

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Drawing

Language : Polish

Testimony of Dov Albert Shumer, born in Sanok, Poland in 1934, regarding his experiences in Sambor, Rogatin, the Ural region, Krasnoyarsk and more

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Albert Shumer, born in Sanok, Poland in 1934, regarding his experiences in Sambor, Rogatin, the Ural region, Krasnoyarsk and more Family life in Sanok; his father is an infantry officer in the Polish Army; escape to Sambor and Rogatin; deportation to the Ural region; labor of his father in cutting down trees; description of life; escape to Krasnoyarsk in 1942; escape to Kazakhstan; life in Dzhambul; attending a Russian and Polish school; receiving news regarding the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto; arrival of US trucks with food; repatriation to Katowice; transfer to Zabžė with the help of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Etel (Wahl) Miller, born in Frasin, Romania in 1927, regarding her experiences in Cernauti

Testimony of Etel (Wahl) Miller, born in Frasin, Romania in 1927, regarding her experiences in Cernauti Childhood and her family in Cernauti; family’s move to Botoșani following the economic crisis from 1932 to 1937; family’s return to Cernauti; antisemitism; the Soviet occupation in 1940; conclusion of studies; outbreak of the Russo-German War in June 1941; the German-Romanian occupation; restrictions imposed on the Jews, including wearing a yellow badge and a curfew during most of the daytime hours; expulsion to the Cernauti ghetto in October 1941; family receives permission to leave the ghetto because of...

File Number : 14375

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Amada (Pilosov) Levi, born in Razgrad, Bulgaria in 1926, regarding her experiences in Varna, Preslav, and Imrenchevo

Testimony of Amada (Pilosov) Levi, born in Razgrad, Bulgaria in 1926, regarding her experiences in Varna, Preslav, and Imrenchevo Daughter of a well-to-do traditional family in Razgrad; father an army officer in World War I; move to Varna when she was one year old due to her father’s work; attempted escape with the members of her youth movement on the “Salvador”; disembarking from the ship in March 1940 due to her father’s opposition; the German occupation in March 1941; expulsion; mother subjected to an invasive search of her private parts and suffers a severe injury; arrival in Preslav; receiving...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs and personal documentation of Leonid Shteyman, born in Zavodovka, Ukraine in 1911, from 1942-1966

Memoirs and personal documentation of Leonid Shteyman, born in Zavodovka, Ukraine in 1911, from 1942-1966 - Memoirs of Leonid Shteyman from 29 October 1951: Life in Zavodovka before the war with his family; life in an orphanage in Berezovka from 1930; studies in Zhitomir; transfer to the kolkhoz in Zozulyany in 1933; studies at Nikolayev in 1940; conscription into the army in June 1941; military service and wounded on 22 November 1941; undergoing surgery at a hospital in Moscow; life and treatment in a military hospital in Sverdlovsk until April 1942; - summary of Leonid Shteyman's biography: Leonid's...

File Number : 10223

Type of Material : Curriculum Vitae (cv), Certification, Form

Language : Russian

Personal documentation of Polish Army officer Dr. Izrael Chaim Rubinsztejn, born in Rajgrod in 1909, dated 1927-1938, and his brother Naum Dawid Rubinsztejn and his family members, from before and after the war Personal documentation regarding Dr. Izrael Chaim Rubinsztejn: - Matriculation certificate of Izrael Rubinsztejn, issued in Bialystok on 28/06/1927; - Diploma of Physician, awarded to Izrael Rubinsztejn by the University of Vilna on 20/03/1934; - Certificate from the School for Medical Assistance Officers (military physicians) in Warsaw, given to Chaim Rubinsztejn on 18/03/1935; - Birth...

File Number : 1736

Type of Material : Diploma, Personal Documents, Marriage Certificate, Certification, Passport, Birth Certificate

Language : Polish

Letter dated 1945 written by United States Army officer Herschel Auerbach to his son Mark in the United States with a description of the atrocities he saw in Germany at the end of the war

Letter dated 1945 written by United States Army officer Herschel Auerbach to his son Mark in the United States with a description of the atrocities he saw in Germany at the end of the war - Copy of a letter written by United States Army officer Herschel Auerbach to his son Mark in the United States on his birthday, 15 May 1945, containing a request that Mark never forget the crimes of the Germans and a description of the atrocities he saw in Germany at the end of the war: A young German woman released from the so-called insane asylum in which she was imprisoned for falling in love with a Jewish man; former...

File Number : 4102

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English

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