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Testimony of Avraham Eliashiv (Adolf Eliaszowicz), born 1920, regarding his experiences from the liquidation of the Bierzanow camp in November 1943, and in the Skarzysko Kamienna and Czestochowa camps until liberation on 16 January 1945 Liquidation of the Bierzanow camp in early November 1943 and march of the remaining 500 men and 30 women to the Jerozolimska camp on a street in Krakow; transfer under armed escort; deportation three days later in sealed wagons to the Skarzysko Kamienna camp; after three days of work with picric acid in Werk C, transfer to Werk A following his statement that he is an...

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

Testimony of Shaul Sorkin, born in Riga, Latvia, in 1925, regarding his experiences in Riga, Sigulda, Rybinsk, Uni, Namangan and more.

Testimony

Testimony of Shaul Sorkin,born in Riga,Latvia,in 1925, regarding his experiences in Riga, Sigulda, Rybinsk, Uni,Namangan and more. Childhood in Riga in family rooted there since 1824; younger brother and sister; outbreak of war; escaping of the Jews from there during first days of war; people's moving towards train station via "Brivibas"street; getting fired at by the Schutzmannschaft men; escape to Sigulda under air -raids by German planes; escape to Rybinsk; diseases due to hunger; living in Uni for several months; transfer to Namangan; father's death; enrolment into red army,beginning of 1943; fighting...

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

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