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Testimony of Joseph Paul Skopal, born in Malacky, Czechoslovakia, 1939, regarding his experiences as a child in Malacky, in camps in Yugoslavia and a camp in Italy

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Paul Skopal, born in Malacky, Czechoslovakia, 1939, regarding his experiences as a child in Malacky, in camps in Yugoslavia and a camp in Italy Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; unsuccessful attempt to make aliya to Eretz Israel; closing of the borders; life in two camps in Yugoslavia; deportation to a camp in Italy; life in camps guarded by Italian soldiers; public kitchen activities; observance of religious commandments; observance of religious holidays; concentration of children in classes; malaria; liberation by the British Army. Meets Jewish Brigade soldiers; educational...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Feliks Rogowski, born in Krakow, Poland, regarding his experiences in Wieliczka, Plaszow, Prokocim, Julag I, Skarzysko-Kamienna and Czestochowa

Testimony

Testimony of Feliks Rogowski, born in Krakow, Poland, regarding his experiences in Wieliczka, Plaszow, Prokocim, Julag I, Skarzysko-Kamienna and Czestochowa Life in Wieliczka; deportation to Plaszow; transfer to Prokocim, 1942; camp life including an inmates' kitchen set up by the Jewish Assistance Office (JUS); transfer to Julag I, 1943; camp life including typhus; establishment of a hospital; obtains medicines and equipment with help from Dr. Michael Weichert; labor of Jewish physicians in the hospital; transfer to Skarzysko-Kamienna, autumn 1943; camp life including the transfer of money, letters and...

File Number : 614

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Tova Kinstler, born in Sered, Czechoslovakia, 1897, regarding her experiences in Sered and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Tova Kinstler, born in Sered, Czechoslovakia, 1897, regarding her experiences in Sered and Theresienstadt Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; attitude toward the Jews; establishment of the Hlinka Guard movement, late 1941; pogroms by local residents under the auspices of the Hlinka Guard, until mid-1942; establishment of a labor camp; establishment of a Jewish public kitchen and work as a chief cook; deportation of women to camps on the first transport of women, February 1942; deportation of young men to Auschwitz, 19 March 1942; deportation of men to Majdanek via Lublin, 20 March 1942;...

File Number : 5880

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Memoirs of an anonymous writer regarding the experiences of the Jews in the Mogilev Ghetto written on the reverse side of labels for cans of jam provided by the Romanian civilian government in Transnistria Jewish life in the Mogilev Ghetto including Jewish mutual help and [public] kitchens; appointment of a Judenrat; appointment of Jewish police; deportation of Jews from the ghetto to the camps; life until the liberation.

File Number : 4800

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Rank insignia for Jewish policemen in the Lodz Ghetto; booklet of lunch coupons in the public kitchen in the Lodz Ghetto, 1943

File Number : 267

Type of Material : Drawing, Vouchers

Language : German

Report prepared by the Chairman of the Sosnowiec Judenrat regarding activities of Jewish communities and self-help organizations for the needy in Upper Silesia, 25 March 1941

Report prepared by the Chairman of the Sosnowiec Judenrat regarding activities of Jewish communities and self-help organizations for the needy in Upper Silesia, 25 March 1941 In the report there is statistical data regarding the activities of Jewish communities and self-help organizations in 27 large cities in Upper Silesia: activities of public kitchens, orphanages, old age homes, kindergartens and more; an extensive paragraph on provision of food and financial assistance; statistical data regarding the size of the Jewish populations in the area; a general picture is presented in the first chapter and...

File Number : 478

Type of Material : Reports

Language : German

General documentation from the Piotrkow Jewish community, 1939-1941

General documentation from the Piotrkow Jewish community, 1939-1941 - Announcement to the Jewish population in Piotrkow, dated 14 December 1939, regarding the possibility of emigration to the Soviet Union and an organized trip by train for all emigrants; - Letter written by Z. Tenenberg and I. Samsonowicz from the Zydowska Samopomoc Społeczna(ZSS-Jewish Social Self-Help) in Piotrkow to the ZSS in Krakow, 14 February 1940, along with a notice regarding a welfare plan for the Jewish population of Piotrkow. The plan includes provision of food to children, opening a public kitchen and increasing the number...

File Number : 416

Type of Material : Letter, Announcement

Language : Polish

Directions for the implementation of various labor assignments in the Drancy camp, 1942-1944

Directions for the implementation of various labor assignments in the Drancy camp, 1942-1944 The material was created by: The Drancy camp The Drancy camp Labor Service In the file: Directions for the implementation of various labor assignments in the Drancy camp

File Number : 110

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : French

Various directives regarding procedural arrangements, labor in the kitchens and repair services in the Drancy camp, 1941-1943

Various directives regarding procedural arrangements, labor in the kitchens and repair services in the Drancy camp, 1941-1943 The material was created by: The Drancy camp Drancy administrative services, kitchens and equipment In the file: Various directives regarding procedural arrangements, labor in the kitchens and repair services in the camp.

File Number : 106

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Names

Language : French

Group testimony of Lucie Glück, born in 1926, and Margit Krausz, born in 1923, in Munkács, Czechoslovakia, regarding their experiences in the Munkács Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen camps Deportation from the Munkács Ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944; arrival in the camp, June 1944; camp life; hunger; roll-calls; labor in the kitchen for four months; receiving adequate food on account of their labor in the kitchen; evacuation of the camp, January 1945; transfer on a death march to Bergen-Belsen; life on the march for eight days; arrival in Loslau; being put into freight cars there and...

File Number : 1848

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

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