Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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List of Jewish officers in the Polish Army murdered in Katyn by the Soviet authorities, 1940

File Number : 155

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews, List of Military Officers

Language : Polish

Testimony of Izydor Ferber, regarding his experiences in Lwow Ghetto, Janowska camp and in hiding

Testimony of Izydor Ferber, regarding his experiences in Lwow ghetto, Janowska camp and escape to Bucharest 0n July 30, 1943 German occupation, June 1941; restrictions on the Jews; pogroms against the Jews perpetrated by Germans and Ukrainians; Another pogrom known as "Petliura Days"; establishment of the Lwow Ghetto; ghetto life including "Aktions"; November, 1941 German concentration camp Janowska was established; deportation to Janowska; The first deportation to the Belzec extermination camp in March 1941. Following these initial deportations, death by disease and shootings, Jews were forced to work....

File Number : 251

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Letters and postcard from the Polish Army officer Isaak Distenfeld to his wife and daughter, during his term as a war prisoner of the Soviets at Starobelsk in February–April 1940

- letters from the Polish Army officer Isaak Distenfeld to his wife and daughter, during his term as a war prisoner of the Soviets at Starobelsk in February–April 1940 - postcard from Isaak Distenfeld in Starobelsk (the sender’s address is erased and a note that he has left appears) to his wife, Ida Distenfeld, in Lwów. According to the postmark, the card was sent from Starobelsk on June 17, 1940, and had been written on June 14, 1940. - postcard with a portrait of Isaak Distenfeld on the reverse, drawn by another POW who was with him. The date, February 20, 1940, and a signature appears on the reverse of the...

File Number : 4789

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Drawing

Language : Polish

Letters and postcards sent by Polish Army officer Isaak Distenfeld from captivity in Starobielsk to his wife and daughter in Lwow, February-April 1940

Letters and postcards sent by Polish Army officer Isaak Distenfeld from captivity in Starobielsk to his wife and daughter in Lwow, February-April 1940 - Letters and postcards sent by Polish Army officer Isaak Distenfeld from captivity in Starobielsk to his wife Ida and their daughter Zosia in Lwow, February-April 1940, in which he mentioned his brothers Ignatz, Leon, and Felix, Broncia Schlachter (who had stayed with the Distenfeld family during the time she attended high school), and other family members and friends. He wrote the last postcard 14 April 1940, a short time before the massacre in the Katyn...

File Number : 4571

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter

Language : Polish

Personal documentation of Polish Army officer Dr. Izrael Chaim Rubinsztejn, born in Rajgrod in 1909, dated 1927-1938, and his brother Naum Dawid Rubinsztejn and his family members, from before and after the war Personal documentation regarding Dr. Izrael Chaim Rubinsztejn: - Matriculation certificate of Izrael Rubinsztejn, issued in Bialystok on 28/06/1927; - Diploma of Physician, awarded to Izrael Rubinsztejn by the University of Vilna on 20/03/1934; - Certificate from the School for Medical Assistance Officers (military physicians) in Warsaw, given to Chaim Rubinsztejn on 18/03/1935; - Birth...

File Number : 1736

Type of Material : Diploma, Personal Documents, Marriage Certificate, Certification, Passport, Birth Certificate

Language : Polish

Testimony of Aleksandra Gabriela (Brandwein) Plonski, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1929, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, in the Warsaw Ghetto, and in hiding

Testimony of Aleksandra Gabriela (Brandwein) Plonski, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1929, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, in the Warsaw Ghetto, and in hiding Her father was a physician and a Polish Army officer; murder of her father by the NKVD in the Katyn forest; German Army occupation of Warsaw; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw Ghetto life including selling belongings until 1942; receipt of help from Christian friends; "Aktions"; construction of hiding places; contacts with the Armia Krajowa - AK; fostered by members of the underground on the Aryan side; forced conversion to Christianity; her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Anna (Tarska) Jedrzejczak regarding how she and her mother were hidden by Stefania Frenkel on the Aryan side of Warsaw, 1944; postcards sent to Lisbon by Maria Tarska from Warsaw, 1942

Memoirs of Anna (Tarska) Jedrzejczak regarding how she and her mother were hidden by Stefania Frenkel on the Aryan side of Warsaw, 1944; postcards sent to Lisbon by Maria Tarska from Warsaw, 1942 - Memoirs of Anna (Tarska) Jedrzejczak, born 19 January 1929, regarding her experiences on the Aryan side of Warsaw during the war, and how she and her mother were hidden by Stefania Frenkel in Bielany; written in Warsaw, 13 February 1987: The egalitarian treatment of Jews by the Polish population in the Zoliborz or Bielany neighborhoods of Warsaw; life in Zoliborz among the Polish population until 02 February...

File Number : 7043

Type of Material : Postcard, Memoirs

Language : Polish, German

Memoirs of Emilia Dabrowska, born in Jagielnica, 1922, regarding her experiences in Jagielnica during the war and afterwards, and her help to Jews, 1941-1944, along with an introduction written by her nephew Ian Pienkowski - Memoirs of Emilia Dabrowska regarding her experiences in Jagielnica, 1939-1945,, and her help to Jews, 1941-1944 (written 1995-1998), along with an introduction written by her nephew Ian Pienkowski (written 2001-2007): Outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939; draft of her brother Stanislaw Dabrowski into the Polish Army; his capture by the German Army; his release from captivity, 18...

File Number : 9510

Type of Material : הקדמה, Memoirs

Language : Polish