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Memoirs of Gary Keins, titled "a journey through the valley of perdition", an eyewitness testimony on Jewish life in Poland during Nazi occupation, 1939-1945.

Memoirs of Gary Keins, titled "a journey through the valley of perdition", an eyewitness testimony on Jewish life in Poland during Nazi occupation, 1939-1945. This file contains: 07/1995 Foreword to the memoirs of Gary Keins, (page 2), Memoirs of Gary Keins, titled "a journey through the valley of perdition"; inter alia describing his prewar life in Upper Silesia and Poland; the German occupation of Poland; going underground and life in hiding under false identity; the living conditions in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation; his experiences in Zamosc, Cracow, Otwock and Lemberg (Lwow); about the...

File Number : 3211

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents, Testimony, Personal Records

Language : Polish, English

BBC Polish Department broadcasts in Polish and English, 08 December 1942-04 August 1944

BBC Polish Department broadcasts in Polish and English, 08 December 1942-04 August 1944 Among the broadcasts during this period: Statements by Stanislaw Kot, a minister in the Polish Government-in-Exile in London regarding the resistance of the Poles to the Germans; meetings with Sikorski, the Prime Minister of the Polish Government-in-Exile and Supreme Commander of the Polish Army, in which political subjects concerning Poland were discussed; the efforts of the clergy to extend help to the Jews; information from a Swedish newspaper regarding the general liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto; the meeting of...

File Number : 41

Type of Material : Radio Broadcasts

Language : Polish, English

Documents regarding Jews from Poland in the Soviet Union, 1941-1943

Documents regarding Jews from Poland in the Soviet Union, 1941-1943 Reports and sources from the Polish Embassy in the Soviet Union regarding Polish Jews in the Soviet Union; in the documentation, among other items are documents concerning the distribution of aid to the Jews of Poland; correspondence between Kot, the Polish Ambassador, and Izchak Gruenbaum in Eretz Israel, from December 1942; a list of rabbis in the Soviet Union; lists of Jews deported to the Far East; the Erlich and Alter affair; Jews serving with Anders Army in Teheran.

Type of Material : Lists, Reports, Correspondence, Investigation Report

Documentation of the Polish Legation from the Polish-Government-in-Exile regarding the situation of Jews holding Polish citizenship in the Soviet Union, relations between Poles and Jews and testimonies regarding the annihilation of the Jews of Poland, 1942-1943 - Protocol of a meeting between Jan Kot, the Minister, and Yitzchak Gruenbaum; at the meeting the following subjects were discussed: Deportation of Jews to labor camps as passed on by Gruenbaum; various facets of the relations between Poles and Jews, 23 March 1942; - Protocol from a conference on various matters pertaining to Jewish-Polish...

File Number : 16.3

Type of Material : Letter, Lists, Protocol, Reports

Language : Polish, English

Documentation from the Polish Embassy in the Soviet Union regarding discrimination against Jewish refugees holding Polish citizenship in [matters pertaining to] evacuation and in possibilities of emigration from the Soviet Union to Iran and Palestine, 1942 - Survey-report regarding the "Jewish Matter" in the first wave of evacuations of Polish refugees, among them Jews, from areas of the Soviet Union to Iran, April-May 1942: Emphasis on the positive treatment and even favoring treatment towards the Jews by the Polish Legation responsible for the evacuation of Polish citizens from the Soviet Union to Iran;...

File Number : 16.2

Type of Material : Letter, Survey Report, Lists, Reports, Manifesto, Statistical Report

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English