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File Number : 1760

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

List of policemen serving in positions in Valdemarpils, including their wages, 07/1941

File Number : 99

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Latvian

A letter written by a former member of the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst (Jewish Ghetto Policeman) [from] in Warsaw Ghetto to the editor of the journal "Nasze Slowo" F. Herzberg [from] in Lodz on August 11. 1949 [Warsaw on August 11, 1949.] The author disputes several subjects in the article by Franciszka Gruenberg on the mass deportation of Jews from Warsaw ghetto on July 22, 1942. The "Gross-Aktion" (Great Action) Warsaw began on July 22, 1942 and was overseen by armed Ukrainians, Latvians, Lithuanians and partly by the Polish Blue Police. The Jews were concentrated at the Umschlagplatz station square for...

File Number : 418

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Testimony of Alter Ritov, born in Riga, Latvia, 1909, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, HKP (Heeres-Kraftfahr-Park / Vehicle Repair Park) and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Alter Ritov, born in Riga, Latvia, 1909, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, HKP (Heeres-Kraftfahr-Park / Vehicle Repair Park) and in hiding German occupation; robbery, looting and murder of Jews by Latvians and police; murder of Jews in forests; Jews attack their guards and escape; establishment of the Riga Ghetto, 25 October 1941; ghetto life including the first "Aktion", 30 November 1941; second "Aktion", 09 December 1941; murder in the Romboli forests; deportation of Jews from Germany, Czechoslovakia and the Netherlands; cooperation with Jewish policemen in obtaining weapons and...

File Number : 4048

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Written testimony by Yaakov Sereiski, born in Sejny, Poland in 1924, regarding his family members who perished during the Holocaust, including excerpts from his memoirs regarding the execution of his seven year old brother Velvel in Daugavpils in summer 1941 "Letter to my brother" - written testimony, comments and undated excerpts from his memoirs, by Holocaust survivor Yaakov Sereiski, regarding the fate of his brother Velvel (Zeev), his sister Luba (Ahuva) and other family members who perished during the Holocaust; written apparently starting in the 1990s, and discovered in 2016 after his death; edited by...

File Number : 10848

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 348

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian