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Testimony of Yehuda Windisz, born in Krakow, 1924, regarding his experiences in labor camps in Plaszow and Czestochowa

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Windisz, born in Krakow, 1924, regarding his experiences in labor camps in Plaszow and Czestochowa Immediate family; children; his parents' livelihood; religious holidays; the Jewish community; school; antisemitism; joining a youth movement; recruitment of Jews for labor in fortifications; his father leaves home; avoiding non-kosher food. Entry of the Germans into the town; decrees against Jews; cleaning streets; confiscation of property; giving Polish friends possessions; Polish collaborators; return home of the father; the synagogue becomes a carpentry workshop; hunger distress;...

File Number : 11476

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Issues 29-36 of the "Hechalutz Halochem" (The Fighting Pioneer) newspaper; various documents pertaining to the Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB- Jewish Fighting Organization)

Issues 29-36 of the "Hechalutz Halochem" (The Fighting Pioneer) newspaper; various documents pertaining to the Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB- Jewish Fighting Organization) - Issues 29-36 of the "Hechalutz Halochem" (Fighting Pioneer) newspaper, containing articles regarding Jewish life in the ghettos, various youth movements, the Jewish underground and its activities in Krakow, members of the Hechalutz Halochem organization and the other youth movements in Krakow, such as Histadrut Hanoar Hachalutzi and Hashomer Hatzair, who died in battle against Germans. Among those murdered were Aharon Liebeskind,...

File Number : 509

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Placards, List of Murdered Persons

Language : Polish, German

List of members of the ŻOB (Jewish Fighting Association) in Krakow who died in battle in 1943, and a historical overview of ŻOB activities, 1942-1943

List of members of the ŻOB (Jewish Fighting Association) in Krakow who died in battle in 1943, and a historical overview of ŻOB activities, 1942-1943 The biographies of ŻOB leaders in the Krakow Ghetto, among them Gola Mirer, Hesio Bauminger, Benek Halbreich, Dolek Liebeskind and Abraham Leibowicz, are attached to the list; In the overview there is a description of the establishment of the ŻOB in 1942, its central goals (obtaining forged identity cards and work permits, obtaining weapons, enlisting new members, intelligence, distribution of underground newspapers) and sabotage operations carried out by...

File Number : 508

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons, List of Underground Members, Survey

Language : Polish

Partial diary of Gusta Dawidsohn-Draenger (known as Justyna) regarding the activities of the Resistance movement in the Krakow Ghetto, 1942-1943, written during the time she was detained in the Helcow Prison in Krakow, 1943

Partial diary of Gusta Dawidsohn-Draenger (known as Justyna) regarding the activities of the Resistance Movement in the Krakow Ghetto, 1942-1943, written during the time she was detained in the Helcow Prison in Krakow, 1943 Parts of the diary were preserved by Jewish workers at the prison who found them after the escape of Gusta Dawidsohn-Draenger and her husband Szymon Draenger (known as Marek). The diary is very personal. Written in the third person, it contains memories, thoughts of the writer and detailed descriptions of members of the Resistance Movement in the Krakow Ghetto to which Gusta and her...

File Number : 507

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Polish

Testimony of Yanka Yokheved Erenfrid, born in Krakow, 1922, regarding her experiences in Krakow, the Bochnia Ghetto, Trzebinia and Auschwitz camps, a death march and Bergen-Belsen camp

Testimony

Testimony of Yanka Yokheved Erenfrid, born in Krakow, 1922, regarding her experiences in Krakow, the Bochnia Ghetto, Trzebinia and Auschwitz camps, a death march and Bergen-Belsen camp Her parents' house; her father is very religious and her mother is liberal regardIng observance of the religious commandments; witness attends a Polish school in the morning and a Jewish school in the afternoon; Zionist activities in the Akiva youth movement; Jewish life in Krakow; displays of antisemitism by the "Endeks". Outbreak of the war; entry of the Germans; eviction of the family from their home; murder of Jews on...

File Number : 9508

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Pistol, born in Wieliczka, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Wieliczka, Dobczyce, Plaszow, Skarzysko Kamienna and camps in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Pistol, born in Wieliczka, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Wieliczka, Dobczyce, Plaszow, Skarzysko Kamienna and camps in Germany His childhood in Wieliczka. Outbreak of the war; German occupation; murder of 32 Jews, abuse and damage to property; move to Dobczyce; deportation to Plaszow; camp life; transfer to Skarzysko Kamienna; cruelties by the Polish labor foremen; labor in Werk 1 factory; sabotage by the Polish underground; instances of death; disease and exhaustion among the inmates; transfer to Buchenwald and then to Schlieben; labor in a factory producing anti-tank...

File Number : 9177

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of members of Jewish youth movements and the Jewish Fighting Organization in Krakow who fell in battle against Germans, 1942-1943

File Number : 509

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews, List of Underground Members

Language : Polish

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