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Testimonial letter written by Roman Kaplan regarding the evacuation of his family from Polotsk to Sverdlovsk, 1941, and the experiences of his family during the war and afterwards

File Number : 8567

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Cypora Glikson, born in Warsaw, Poland, a Yiddish actress, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, Bialystok and Uzbekistan

Memoirs of Cypora Glikson, born in Warsaw, Poland, a Yiddish actress, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, Bialystok and Uzbekistan "Memoirs of a Yiddish Actress": Escape from Warsaw to the Soviet Union, 1939; life in Bialystok; life in Uzbekistan; end of the war. The memoirs were translated from Yiddish by Yaacov David Shulman.

File Number : 8034

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

List of NKVD members from the Brzesc district, prepared, 1940

File Number : 2505

Type of Material : List of Nkvd Members

Language : Russian

Testimony of Eugen Valdhorn, born in Wattenscheid, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Zbaszyn, Uzbekistan and as a Red Army soldier

Testimony

Testimony of Eugen Valdhorn, born in Wattenscheid, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Zbaszyn, Uzbekistan and as a Red Army soldier Life before the war; Habonim membership; his father's death; competes in championship boxing for youth. Deportation to Zbaszyn; celebration of his Bar-Mitzvah in Zbaszyn; joins aliya training; his mother’s return to Germany; murder of relatives; outbreak of the war and escape to the Soviet Union; hardships en route to Uzbekistan; enlists in the Red Army using forged documents; displays of antisemitism within the military; combat against the German Army; air-raid on a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hana (Reider) Lamdan, born in Kamenets Podolskiy, Ukraine, 1922, regarding her experiences in Zilabinsky, Namangan, Tashkent and Rostov

Testimony

Testimony of Hana (Reider) Lamdan, born in Kamenets Podolskiy, Ukraine, 1922, regarding her experiences in Zilabinsky, Namangan, Tashkent and Rostov Family with many children; her father was a hat-maker and her mother is a trader; death of her father; restrictions on Jews; move of the family to the Crimea, 1931; return home, 1934; draft of her brother. Outbreak of the war, 1941; air-raid on their home; injury to her mother; work at the post office as a telephonist; move with her brothers to Zilabinsky, 1941; move to Namangan; transfer to Tashkent, 1943; transfer to Rostov; life in Rostov and labor as a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Alexs Chapir, born in Kodyma, Ukraine, 1938, regarding his experiences as a toddler in the Bershad Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Alexs Chapir, born in Kodyma, Ukraine, 1938, regarding his experiences as a toddler in the Bershad Ghetto Only son; Communist activities of his father. Outbreak of the war; German occupation; deportation of the family to the Bershad Ghetto, 1941; life in hiding in ditches that his father had dug in the ghetto until 1944; death of relatives of his father; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Life in Bershad; move to Kryzhopol; attends school; move to Chisinau; studies nursing; move to Odessa, 1965; marriage, 1971; persecuted by the regime for the decision to make aliya; aliya to Israel with...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sima (Jaschunski) Faitelson, born in Kovarsk, Lithuania, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, the underground, escape to forests and joining the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Sima (Jaschunski) Faitelson, born in Kovarsk, Lithuania, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, the underground, escape to forests and joining the partisans Family life; education; writing poetry. Outbreak of the war and life under the Soviet occupation; German occupation, 1941; hard economic situation and persecution by the Germans and Lithuanians; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; life in the ghetto; leaving on foot for labor preparing the area into an airfield; "Aktions"; writing poetry in Yiddish on her past and daily life in the ghetto; joining the anti-Fascist underground...

File Number : 11888

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Announcement by Dr. Max Thomas, the SD and SIPO commander of Ukraine, to the SD and SIPO commanders in Zhitomir, regarding the general political situation in Kiev as the capital city of Ukraine, 11/02/1942 Announcement regarding the general political situation in Kiev as the capital city of Ukraine, including Ukrainian nationalism, the struggle between the Ukrainian nationalist groups A. Melnick, S. Bandera and others, and the suspicion of contact between these groups and N.K.V.D. agents.

File Number : 495

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

To be translated

File Number : 342

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Russian

List of partisans who operated on Ukrainian soil in 1941–1944

List of partisans who operated on Ukrainian soil in 1941–1944. List of NKGB SSSR (Narodny Komissariat Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti SSSR) partisan battalions and groups that operated in Ukraine during World War II, including names of battalions and groups, their numerical composition, and the place and time of their activity. List compiled by the KGB (Komissariat Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, State Security Office) of the SM USSR (Sovet Ministrov Ukrainskoy SSR, the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic).

File Number : 317

Type of Material : List of Partisans

Language : Russian

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