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Testimony of Mordekhai Brefman, born in Krasnik, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Krasnik Ghetto, labor camps in Poland and Germany and the Polish Army

Testimony

Testimony of Mordekhai Brefman, born in Krasnik, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Krasnik Ghetto, labor camps in Poland and Germany and the Polish Army Situation of the Jews of Krasnik after the entry of the Germans on the day before Yom Kippur, 1939; kidnapping youths for forced labor, transferring them to labor camps in the surrounding area, and killing them a short time afterwards; release from the Janow Lubelski camp thanks to lobbying by the heads of the Krasnik community; deportation of the educated Jews to Auschwitz, Treblinka and Majdanek death camps; the Krasnik Ghetto; Judenrat activities;...

File Number : 7757

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Shmuel Shulman Shilo, born in Luck, regarding his experiences in the Luck Ghetto, hiding and Krasne labor camp

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Shulman Shilo, born in Luck, regarding his experiences in the Luck Ghetto, hiding and Krasne labor camp His family and home. Soviet rule in Luck until 1941; capture of his father and his execution with the entry of the Germans; living in the Luck Ghetto; conditions, hunger and overcrowding; organization of the youth in the ghetto; attempt to publish a newspaper; contact with partisans; attempted escape from the ghetto; hiding with a family in a cellar during an "Aktion", 1942; the big deportation to the "new" ghetto; escape of his sister; concentration with other Jews in the fortress;...

File Number : 6705

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the Zajtman and Nycenholc families from Warsaw, 1936-1947

Documentation regarding the Zajtman and Nycenholc families from Warsaw, 1936-1947 - Business documentation of Aron Nycenholc and Szlama Zajtman, from the 1930s, in Polish; - Business documentation arranged in Warsaw, 11/03/1947, in Polish (the first page is illegible); Included in the file: - 378 family photographs with notes on the back side, accompanied with a file with explanations (scan); Comments by the submitter of the material (Chana [Zajtman] Feigenbaum): Shlomo Zajtman, born in 1905, made aliya to Eretz Israel from Poland with his parents in 1925 and returned to Warsaw in 1929. He...

File Number : 1473

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, Polish