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Memoirs of Joseph Kashinski, born in Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Lublin, Lwow, Kazakhstan, Uzbekhistan and other places

Memoirs of Joseph Kashinski, born in Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Lublin, Lwow, Kazakhstan, Uzbekhistan and other places German declaration of the Upper Silesia area, including Dabrowa Gornicza, as "Judenrein" (Free of Jews), 1939; German intention to build a colony in the Lublin area; Kashinski's agreement to move to Lublin; escape to the Soviet Union after discovering that the colony will be turned into the Majdanek concentration camp; sending a letter to the Red Cross with a request that they clarify his parents' fate; receiving an answer from the Red Cross regarding his...

File Number : 8227

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 66; Testimonies regarding the Lipowa camp and Selbstschutz

Documentation from trials conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin: Documentation of the trial, Volume 66; Testimonies regarding the Lipowa camp and Selbstschutz - File card: Yad Vashem (p. 1); - File card: Regional court Klagenfurt (p. 2); - Letter to Landesgericht Wien from Prosecutor Dr. Koch, 15 March 1968 in Hamburg regarding...

File Number : 123

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

Language : German

Testimony of Ita (Kwiatkowska) LIfshitz, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lask Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Ita (Kwiatkowska) LIfshitz, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lask Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and other places From a traditional family; life before the war; Jewish community; aliya of her brother to Eretz Israel, 1939; death of her mother. German occupation; family escape to Lodz and return to Kalisz; her brother's escape to the Soviet Union and his death; arrest of her father; transfer to Lask; life with relatives; deportation to the Lask Ghetto; ghetto life including labor in a clothing factory; betrayals; hanging of Jews;...

File Number : 12750

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gideon Herbert Vogelsang, born in Dortmund, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Dortmund including Kristallnacht and aliya to Eretz Israel aboard the "Patria"

Testimony

Testimony of Gideon Herbert Vogelsang, born in Dortmund, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Dortmund including Kristallnacht and aliya to Eretz Israel aboard the "Patria" Life before the Nazi rise to power; death of his mother; remarriage of his father; relations with the neighbors; attends school; member of Habonim youth movement; studies a vocation; relations with the pupils in school; destruction of Jewish owned property and burning of synagogues during Kristallnacht; detention with his father by the police; deportation of his grandfather to a labor camp; registration for aliya training; labor in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel Elunia (Musman) Duvdevani, born in Lublin, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Lublin Ghetto, Budzyn, Majdanek, Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel Elunia (Musman) Duvdevani, born in Lublin, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Lublin Ghetto, Budzyn, Majdanek, Auschwitz and other camps Life before the war; education. Outbreak of the war; air-raids over Lublin; family escape and is hidden in the home of a Christian family; return home; deportation to the Lublin Ghetto; transfer to outside the ghetto; murder of her father; escape from a round-up of Jews by Ukrainians; in hiding in a field; return to Lublin; forced labor and her mother's death; transfer to Budzyn; camp life; evacuation of the camp and transfer to Majdanek;...

File Number : 12083

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliahu Erich Heymann, born in Breslau, 1926, regarding his experiences in aliya training, Berlin, Buna-Monowitz camp and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Eliahu Erich Heymann, born in Breslau, 1926, regarding his experiences in aliya training, Berlin, Buna-Monowitz camp and a death march His immediate family; the Jewish community; school; displays of antisemitism; membership in a youth movement. Community activities after Kristallnacht; restrictions on Jews; confiscation of property; leaves home, 1940; aliya training: daily life and various jobs; closure of the aliya training sites by the Gestapo; Zionist activities; move to Berlin, April 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; camp registration process; transfer to Buna-Monowitz camp; forced labor;...

File Number : 12062

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Mager) Yablonski, born in Strzemieszyce, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in Neustadt camp, Gruenberg camp and using a false identity in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Mager) Yablonski, born in Strzemieszyce, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in Neustadt camp, Gruenberg camp and using a false identity in Germany Her family. Outbreak of the war and move to Olkusz; labor in a parachute factory in Neustadt camp; transfer to Gruenberg camp; labor in a cloth factory; closure of the camp and march with thousands of female inmates to an unknown forest in Germany; escape back to Gruenberg; hidden by local Germans; rescue of the witness and her female friends by Felix Charfowski; work in a dairy; receives a Volksdeutsche identity document which...

File Number : 12034

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shaindl (Lachman) Rubin, born in Krzepice, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Parschnitz and Auschwitz camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shaindl (Lachman) Rubin, born in Krzepice, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Parschnitz and Auschwitz camps Life before the war; attends school; displays of antisemitism. German occupation; decrees; deportation of her mother and sister to Auschwitz; her father's deportation to Sachsenhausen, 1941; her father's return and death, 1944; transfer to Parschnitz; camp life; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; death march; liberation. Move to Czestochowa; joins a kibbutz; marriage, 1947; starts a family; her son's death in an accident; aliya to Israel, 1957; rehabilitation;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Lewin Kowaliszki, born in 1924 in Lithuania, about his internment in the Lida ghetto, escape to Wilno, doing odd jobs, and detention at Gestapo headquarters

Individuals: Ribbentrop, Molotov, Lichtman Kalman, Tuvoa Bielski, Jacob Gens, Wittenberg Topics: the Jerusalem of Lithuania, the Death Head

File Number : 11871

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation from the trial of Bovensiepen and others: Legal proceedings by the Hamburg public prosecutor’s office against Kurt Engels accused of murder of Jews in Izbica, 1948 - 1958

Documentation from the trial of Bovensiepen and others: Legal proceedings by the Hamburg public prosecutor’s office against Kurt Engels accused of murder of Jews in Izbica, 1948 - 1958 Documentation from the against Rudolf Rieger accused of murder containing information about Kurt Engels: (pp. 3-24) Testimony by Henia Schwarzbier (born Katz) on 10/12/1948: Establishment of a Council of Jewish Elders (“Judenrat”) by the Germans in Izbica (1939); Forced labour of Jews for the Germans; Ill-treatment of Jews; Case: Murder of Jews: Orders concerning the killing of Jews in Belzec near Rawa Ruska (Ukraine) by...

File Number : 146

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

Language : German

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