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Certificates of honor awarded to Josef Bodnar for his service an Austro-Hungarian Army officer during World War I, and forged certificate of baptism and certificate of marriage used during Bodnar's escape from Nadworna along with his family, during World War II - Two certificates attesting to the raise in rank of Austro-Hungarian Army soldier Josef Bodnar, issued in Vienna, November-December 1915; - Certificate attesting to the awarding of a medal of honor to Austro-Hungarian Army soldier Josef Bodnar, issued in Vienna, 24 January 1917; - Diploma of Law awarded to Joseph Bodnar in Lwow, 04 August...

File Number : 1203

Type of Material : Diploma, Personal Documents

Language : Latin, German

Testimony of Tamara (Beilin) Berkovitz, born in Mstislavl, Belorussia in 1927, regarding her experiences in Mstislavl and in hiding in villages

Testimony of Tamara (Beilin) Berkovitz, born in Mstislavl, Belorussia in 1927, regarding her experiences in Mstislavl and in hiding in villages Her family escapes from Mstislavl, 22 June 1941; escape back to Mstislavl, a week later; abuse and rape of young and old women by the Germans; concentration of the Jews in the Technikum; murder of the Jews in killing pits; escape during the murder; wanderings; finding a hiding place in villages among soldiers and partisans, 1941-1945; Move to Moscow, May 1945; life in Moscow; return to Poland; aliya to Israel, 1956; move to Kibbutz Nir David, 1958; death in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaakov Hofman Hauchmann, born in 1929 in Glebokie, Poland, about his experiences in the Glebokie ghetto, in hiding with villagers, with the partisans in 1942–1944, and in the Red Army

Offspring of a traditional family in Glebokie; Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; German occupation ensues in June 1941; hears rumors about murder in nearby forests; searching for food in villages at night; establishment of the ghetto; establishment of a Judenrat; hunger; volunteering for nighttime work in return for food; brother dies in the first Aktion; building hideouts; ghetto liquidated in August 1942; witness escapes during the Aktion; lives in hiding with villagers; handed over to Russian partisans; integration into a partisan unit; activity in 1942–1944; a decade of service in the Red Army; receiving...

File Number : 13637

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the experiences of the Jewish community in Dubossary during World War II; documents dated, 1988-1990

Documentation regarding the experiences of the Jewish community in Dubossary during World War II; documents dated, 1988-1990 Included in the file: - List of residents of Dubossary and the Dubossary vicinity who were murdered by the Nazis, 1941; list prepared by the team established to help the restoration of the gravestone in memory of the victims of the Holocaust in Dubossary; - List of residents of Dubossary who participated in the mass murders of the local Jews; investigation reports regarding the war crimes perpetrated by Nazi war criminals and their collaborators; testimony of Nikolay Khvorostyan,...

File Number : 1448

Type of Material : Investigation Reports, List of Collaborators, Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation, Poems/songs, Testimony, List of Murdered Jews

Language : Russian

Testimony of Avraham Tavori Tureholz, born in Staszow, Poland, 1930, regarding deportation to Auschwitz, jumping off a train, joining partisans and assistance in the fighting against the German army

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Tavori Tureholz, born in Staszow, Poland, 1930, regarding deportation to Auschwitz, jumping off a train, joining partisans and assistance in the fighting against the German army Family background, religious family; relocation to Arad, Romania, 1932; a visit to Eretz Israel, 1933, where his mother's family lives; attempt to stay in Eretz Israel; buying a plot of land; stabbing of his father by an Arab in Jaffa; the British authorities' investigation of the father and the understanding that there are no certificates for the family to remain in Eretz Israel; deportation within four weeks...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Paulina Keynan, nee Godin in Wilno, Poland in 1925, regarding her deportation to the Wilno ghetto and the Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps and the death march

Testimony

Testimony of Paulina Keynan ,nee Godin, born in Wilno,Poland,in 1925 Childhood within a well-to-do traditional family, good neighbourly relations with the Polish population, increasing displays of anti-Semitism, boycotting Jewish businesses; outbreak of the war; Russian occupation; exile of wealthy people to siberia; confiscation of part of the family house for the purpose of housing Soviets; father's imprisonment for half a year; life in hiding for about two weeks in fear of exile to Siberia; German occupation in 1941; expulsion from the family house; father's arrest and disappearance; restrictions and...

File Number : 13648

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avigdor Elboim, born in Krasnik, Poland, in 1930, regarding his experiences as a young boy in Krasnik, in the Budzyn, Radom Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony of Avigdor Elboim, born in Krasnik, Poland,in 1930, regarding his experiences as a young boy in Krasnik; in the Budzyn, Radom, Auschwitz camps and others, Life before the war; he came from a traditional family; his grandfather had connections with the Lublin"yeshiva"; German occupation in 1939; executions as the Germans started occupying Poland; building of the Budzyn camp; he works as an apprentice glazier; deportation with his family to Budzyn; life in the camp; "Aktionen" and murder of his parents; murder of his grandfather before his eyes; murder of his sisters and grandmother; rescue by German...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter by Ye. Gekhman, regarding the extermination of the Jews of Riga during the German occupation

Letter by Ye. Gekhman, regarding the extermination of the Jews of Riga during the German occupation German Army occupation of Riga, 01/07/1941; abuse of Jews on the streets of Riga; assembly of Jews in the synagogues, prayers from the windows, and shooting; burning of synagogues with the Jews inside; resistance by Jews from the first days of the occupation: an activist named Abel shot two Germans; Elkitnek, the school principal, fell with a weapon in his hands; Mrs. Ganshteyn was murdered en route to the synagogue after she condemned the Germans; a student named Abram Epshteyn organized a group of young Jews...

File Number : 60

Type of Material : Letter, Names

Language : Russian

Letter of Testimony of Abram Bekker regarding his experiences during the Holocaust and the murder of the Jews of Khmelnik, 1941-1943

Letter of Testimony of Abram Bekker regarding his experiences during the Holocaust and the murder of the Jews of Khmelnik, 1941-1943 Occupation of the city of Khmelnik, 18 July 1941; establishment of the Judenrat under the chairmanship of Barenberg; order to the Khmelnik Jews to wear the yellow badge, a yellow band with a blue Jewish Star, 21 July 1941; prohibition on Jews to purchase merchandise in the market, except for potatoes and peas; prohibition on the local residents to speak with Jews; the first victim: the child Musya Gorbonos who was shot to death by a Ukrainian collaborator; arrival of the...

File Number : 25

Type of Material : Memoirs, Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian, Yiddish

Memoirs of Aizik Birger from Lachowice, Poland, regarding his experiences in Lachowice, the Lachowice Ghetto and in the forest

Memoirs of Aizik Birger from Lachowice, Poland, regarding his experiences in Lachowice, the Lachowice Ghetto and in the forest The German occupation; transporting of 56 men out of the city and their subsequent murder; confiscation of gold and jewelry from the Jews; murder of approximately 3,000 Jews from Lachowice, some of whom were buried alive; establishment of the Lachowice Ghetto; murder of the remnants of the Jewish population in Lachowice a few months later; hiding of the witness in the ghetto with 70 other people; escape to the forest with Nechama Proshchitzki from Krzywoszyn, Aharon Berezin and...

File Number : 8469

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Yiddish

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