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Documentation of Sabina Korn-Neuberg, born in Leczno, Poland, 1933, including a claim for compensation from the District Court for Social Affairs in Essen, Germany, 1944-2012

Documentation of Sabina Korn-Neuberg, born in Leczno, Poland, 1933, including a claim for compensation from the District Court for Social Affairs in Essen, Germany, 1944-2012 - Article titled, "Chasias Kinder" published in the German magazine "Stadt Revue", November 1994, regarding the activities of Chasia Bielicka who took orphan Jewish Holocaust survivors under her wing, including Sabina Neuberg; attached to the article is a photograph [of Sabina Neuberg] from 1946; - Invitation to the Second Conference, on 20 May 2000, sent to Sabina Korn; - Six lists containing the names of children in Poland who...

File Number : 1226

Type of Material : Lists, Poems/songs, Survivors and Refugees Registration Form, Letter, Personal Documents, Correspondence, Article, List of Orphan Children, Legal Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Survey Report, Drawing, Propaganda

Language : Polish, English

Testimony of Yanina Hesheles Altman, born in Lwow, Poland in 1931, regarding her experiences ‎in Janowska camp and her rescue by the Zegota organization

Testimony of Yanina Hesheles Altman, born in Lwow, Poland in 1931, regarding her experiences ‎in Janowska camp and her rescue by the Zegota organization Her father was a Zionist journalist; outbreak of the war in September 1939; father’s escape to ‎Romania; his temporary detention in a Russian prison; the German occupation in June 1941; ‎pogrom carried out by Ukrainians in which her father was murdered; establishment of the Lwow ‎Ghetto; Aktions; hanging of the Judenrat leaders; failed attempt to hide with Christian families; ‎mother’s work at the Jewish hospital; liquidation of the ghetto; mother escapes to...

File Number : 13680

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Aleksander Ranoschy regarding the experiences of Hans Brandwein and Julek Brand in the Warsaw Ghetto and Hrubieszow

Memoirs of Aleksander Ranoschy regarding the experiences of Hans Brandwein and Julek Brand in the Warsaw Ghetto and Hrubieszow Ranoschy's period of service as the principal of the largest Jewish school in Australia [?]. The periods of service of his friends, Hans Brandwein and Julek Brand, as Beitar leaders in Poland; direct involvement in his friends' activities; living conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto; carrying out the "Hrubieszow Project" by Brandwein and Brand including acquisition of a work permit and transfer of youth from the Warsaw Ghetto to farms in Hrubieszow; entry of Brandwein and Brand into...

File Number : 8200

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Correspondence between two activists in the Jewish underground, Dorka Goldkorn in Lodz and Anna Dortz in Paris, 1946

Correspondence between two activists in the Jewish underground, Dorka Goldkorn in Lodz and Anna Dortz in Paris, 1946 - Two letters written by Dorka Goldkorn (former underground activist in the Warsaw Ghetto) in Lodz to Anna Dortz (former underground activist in the Warsaw Ghetto) in Paris, 1946; - Letter written by Anna Dortz in Paris to Dorka Goldkorn in Lodz, 04 December 1946.

File Number : 1566

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Testimony of Nina (Schrager) Vardy, born in Krakow, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Krakow, the Krakow Ghetto, in hiding, Wieliczka, Warsaw and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Nina (Schrager) Vardy, born in Krakow, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Krakow, the Krakow Ghetto, in hiding, Wieliczka, Warsaw and other places German occupation of Krakow, 1939; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto, 1941; Krakow Ghetto life including labor in the workshops; in hiding during an "Aktion", 1942; smuggled outside the ghetto with her sister, 1943; deportation of her parents to a camp, 1943; her parents' escape from the camp; life in hiding while hidden by Christian Poles in Krakow, 1943; move to a hiding place without her sister in the home of Poles in Wieliczka; move to a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tuvia Goshen Goldstein, born in Belzyce, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child with an assumed Polish identity in various cities and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Tuvia Goshen Goldstein, born in Belzyce, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child with an assumed Polish identity in various cities and with the partisans Testimony of a childhood in Belzyce; help to refugees from Germany. German occupation, September 1939; confiscation of the apartment and photography studio; betrayal by Poles regarding the identity and hiding places of Jews; murder of Jews; in hiding in a barn during one of the "Aktions", 1942; move with his elder sister using an assumed Polish identity to Tarnobrzeg; receives forged documents; marriage of his sister to a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Chachkes, born in 1923 in Lwów, Poland, about his experiences during the war

Testimony

Testimony of David Chachkes, born in 1923 in Lwów, Poland, about his experiences during the war Childhood in a traditional family in Lwów; life before the war; Soviet Union annexes the area in 1939; war breaks out in June 1941; Jewish population ghettoized; Aktionen in the ghetto; witness escapes from the ghetto; obtains forged documents for family members; contacts the resistance in 1943; undertakes various tasks for the underground, including traveling to Warsaw and coming back with forged "Aryan" documents; war ends, witness immigrates to Israel and adjusts to life in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Excerpts from a diary written in the prison on Helclow Street in Krakow, regarding the activities of the partisans in the Krakow vicinity

Excerpts from a diary written in the prison on Helclow Street in Krakow, regarding the activities of the partisans in the Krakow vicinity "Aktions" of deportation; feelings of despair and helplessness; coordination of the young people into combat units; importance of the element of surprise in the activities of the Jewish partisans; fear by the Germans to enter the forests, due to the partisans' presence; "Aktion" in Krakow: mass murder of children and entire families; assassination of a German policeman, one of the supervisors of the "Aktion", and his death; fear by the Germans, of the growing strength of...

File Number : 63

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Polish

Testimony of Adolf Bromberger, born in Krakow, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in an underground group of the Polska Partia Robotnicza (PPR - Polish Workers' Party) in Krakow, in hiding on the Aryan side in Prokocim, and work while using a false identity in Kazimierza Wielka, Przemysl and Skarzysko-Kamienna Membership in an underground group of the Gwardia Ludowa (GL - People's Guard) of the PPR, in the Krakow Ghetto, from 1942; contact and cooperation with Jewish resistance fighters in the ghetto; participation in activities outside the ghetto: attack on and stealing of merchandise from an Optima...

File Number : 60

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Cesia Frymer and Pola Warszawska regarding the Jewish underground in Krakow and Rzeszow

Testimony of Cesia Frymer and Pola Warszawska regarding the Jewish underground in Krakow and Rzeszow Organization of the underground in the Krakow Ghetto after the deportations, June 1942; characteristics of the organization members; contacts between the pioneer Zionist movements and the Polska Partia Robotnicza (PPR - Polish Workers' Party), a Polish Communist party; the robbery in the Optima factories; preparation for, and carrying out of, sabotage against German targets; attack on the Cyganeria coffee shop, the preferred recreation spot for German officers in Krakow; arrest of many resistance fighters...

File Number : 529

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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