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Documentation regarding the German occupation of the Netherlands, in particular regarding the persecution of the Jews in the occupied Netherlands, their concentration and eventual deportation to extermination camps in the East, 1940-1945, and partial postwar documentation regarding the investigation of Nazi war crimes in the Netherlands, 1945-1966 Included in the file: Part One: 03/02/1942 Circular by the Commander of the Security Police and the SD in the Netherlands, Wilhelm Harster, concerning the competences in Jewish questions, including the transfer of competences to the "Central Office for...

File Number : 154

Type of Material : Correspondence, Document(s), List of Camp Inmates, List of Sick People, List of Disabled People, Protocol, Reports, List of Persecuted Persons, Questions and Answers, List of Evacuated Persons, Draft, Official Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Index, List of Names, List of Deportees, Circular, Investigation Reports, Radio Broadcasts, Testimony, Deportation List, Record of Survivors, Administrative Documentation, Laws and Decrees, Lists, Legal Documentation

Language : French, English, Dutch, German

Memoirs of Eugenia Prawer, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1925, regarding her experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto and while using a false identity in Steinbruecken

Memoirs of Eugenia Prawer, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1925, regarding her experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto and while using a false identity in Steinbruecken Life before the war; studies in a junior high school and high school; information about friends, teachers and courses of study; her interest in Polish literature; death of her father; outbreak of the war and escape to Warsaw; escape back to Bedzin several weeks later; imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation from homes and looting of Jewish property; transfer of Jews to forced labor; studies in the underground; Bedzin Ghetto life; labor;...

File Number : 5279

Type of Material : Letter, List of Names, List of Jewish Pupils, List of Jewish Children, Memoirs, Poems/songs

Language : Polish

Documentation regarding the activities of Helena de Jong, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1923, in the resistance movement during World War II, 1940-1945

Documentation regarding the activities of Helena de Jong, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1923, in the resistance movement during World War II, 1940-1945 Questionnaires containing questions regarding: - Personal data; - From the time of the German occupation until the February strike (February 1941); - From February 1941-summer 1942, beginning of the deportations to Poland; - Deportations to concentration camps; - Active resistance and contacts with illegal organizations; Testimony of Gideon Drach, Haifa, regarding Helena de Jong (also known as Carli Oroszlan), her maintenance and...

File Number : 5169

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Dutch, German

Testimony of Waclaw Jablonski regarding the activities of Communist organizations in the Warsaw Ghetto; testimony of Franciszek Leczycki regarding the assistance of the Gwardia Ludowa (GL-Polish Peoples' Guard) and the Communist Party (PPR) to the Resistance fighters in the ghetto Testimony of Waclaw Jablonski: Joining the underground in the ghetto; establishment of the Union of Friends of the Soviet Union, the Sierp i Mlot organization and other Communist organizations in the ghetto; various activities of the organizations: the press and propaganda, sabotage activities, attacks on Gestapo men,...

File Number : 183

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Dorka Goldkorn regarding the activities of the Spartakus Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto and concerning the progress of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Memoirs of Dorka Goldkorn regarding the activities of the Spartakus Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto and concerning the progress of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Participation in the union of Polish Socialist youth and the socialist Spartakus Organization before the war; activities within the Spartakus framework after the establishment of the ghetto, including participation in shooting lessons at a firing range and other activities; activities of Spartakus members on behalf of the ghetto residents; activities of the organization's Intelligence Deportment; attempts to assist people during the "Aktions" and...

File Number : 180

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Overview of the activities of the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee) on the Aryan side of Warsaw

Overview of the activities of the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee) on the Aryan side of Warsaw Contacts and cooperation of the members of the underground in the ghetto with underground organizations on the Aryan side; establishment of Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) and the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee); activities of Dr. A. Berman, the ZKN representative and member of Zegota on the Aryan side; support of the ZKN for the Resistance fighters in the ghetto; provision of weapons to the fighters; rescue of people from the ghetto after the defeat of the...

File Number : 194

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Polish

Testimony of Jozef Malecki regarding the assistance of the Gwardia Ludowa (GL-Polish Peoples' Guard, a World War II resistance movement organized by the Polish Workers Party) to the Resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Receipt of assistance in the supplying of weapons to the Resistance fighters; battles with the Germans; the witness mentions three campaigns that were made during the final days of the Uprising with the aim of extracting members of the Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB-Jewish Fighting Organization) from the ghetto and [transferring them] over to the Aryan side in order for them to join the...

File Number : 179

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Documents of the Fighting Jewish Organization, Blok Antyfaszystowski (Anti-Fascist Bloc), PPR (Communist Party), and other organizations, regarding the resistance of Jews to the German occupation and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Documents of the Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB- Jewish Fighting Organization), the Blok Antyfaszystowski (Anti-fascist bloc), the PPR (Polish Communist Workers' Party) and other organizations regarding Resistance by the Jews to the German occupier and concerning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Testimony of Franciszek Leczycki regarding the assistance of the Gwardia Ludowa (Polish Peoples' Guard, a World War II resistance movement organized by the Polish Workers Party) and the PPR to the Jewish underground in the ghetto in the preparation of the Uprising and the fighting against the Germans; - "Pierwsza...

File Number : 189

Type of Material : Testimony, Announcement, Article, Application, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Polish

Documents of Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) of the Legation of the Polish Government-in-Exile pertaining to the annihilation of Jews in Poland, 1942-1944

Documents of Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) of the Legation of the Polish Government-in-Exile pertaining to the annihilation of Jews in Poland, 1942-1944 - "Sprawa zydowska w Polsce" (The Jewish Matter in Poland), an article containing a historical-statistical overview of the Jewish population in Poland; the focal points of concentration of the overview: Jewish residence in Poland, social stratification of the Jewish minority, Jewish employment, special taxes levied on Jews, literacy and higher education, Zionist movements, emigration to other countries, relations between Poles and Jews, the influence...

File Number : 52

Type of Material : Survey Report, Letter, Survey

Language : Polish

List of members of the ŻOB (Jewish Fighting Association) in Krakow who died in battle in 1943, and a historical overview of ŻOB activities, 1942-1943

List of members of the ŻOB (Jewish Fighting Association) in Krakow who died in battle in 1943, and a historical overview of ŻOB activities, 1942-1943 The biographies of ŻOB leaders in the Krakow Ghetto, among them Gola Mirer, Hesio Bauminger, Benek Halbreich, Dolek Liebeskind and Abraham Leibowicz, are attached to the list; In the overview there is a description of the establishment of the ŻOB in 1942, its central goals (obtaining forged identity cards and work permits, obtaining weapons, enlisting new members, intelligence, distribution of underground newspapers) and sabotage operations carried out by...

File Number : 508

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons, Survey, List of Underground Members

Language : Polish

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