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File Number : 3326

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Memoirs of Joachim Schönfeld, regarding his experiences in Poland and the Soviet Union during 1939-1941 and his experiences in Lwów and in the Lwów Ghetto during 1941-1943

Memoirs of Joachim Schönfeld, regarding his experiences in Poland and the Soviet Union during 1939-1941 and his experiences in Lwów and in the Lwów Ghetto during 1941-1943 He is in Warsaw with his wife and two sons at the outbreak of the war on 01 September 1939; air-raids on Warsaw; his family escapes from Warsaw and arrives to Ołyka; entry of the Red Army forces into Poland; arrival to Lwów; life under the Soviet regime; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941; air-raids on Lwów; entry of the Germans into Lwów; persecution of Jews; establishment of a Judenrat in Lwów on 25...

File Number : 9226

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Diary of Edmund Kessler of Lwów, secretly kept in the Kalwiński family's bunker in Lwów, 1942-1944, containing memories of events in June-December 1941 in Lwów and the diarist's poems from that time. - Notebook and pages with Edmund Kessler's writings from his stay in hiding in 1942-1944, including: --- Recollections of the persecution and murder of the Jews of Lwów by the Germans and the local population in June–December 1941: the Germans' entry into Lwów, discovery of bodies of political prisoners murdered by the NKVD before the Soviet forces retreated from the city, a pogrom, abuse and murder of Jews by...

File Number : 8977

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs, Diary

Language : Polish