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File Number : 1244

Type of Material : Booklet(s)

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

Documentation of Yaakov Erner, born in Sosnowicz, Poland, 1917, and his wife Rachel, including the fate of the family, 1943-2005

Documentation of Yaakov Erner, born in Sosnowicz, Poland, 1917, and his wife Rachel, including the fate of the family, 1943-2005 - Letter sent by Yaakov and Rachel Erner from Kibbutz Nir David to Yad Vashem, 20 February 2005, regarding their activities in Bericha in Szczecin; - Article written by Yaakov Erner regarding the significance of Yom Kippur after the loss of his family in the Holocaust, 26 September 2001; - Article titled, "My Brave Sister" written by Yaakov Erner regarding his sister Hanka's act of bravery during the liquidation of the Sosnowicz Ghetto, 10 August 1943; - Excerpts from...

File Number : 1237

Type of Material : Article, Letter, Memoirs, Personal Documents

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File Number : 8663

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Noah Galkoff, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding the Lodz ghetto and the liquidation of the ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Noah Galkoff, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding the Lodz ghetto and the liquidation of the ghetto Family background; his father is a butcher; good relations with the Polish and German neighbors; studies in a Jewish school. The outbreak of war; deportation to the ghetto; life in the ghetto; food stamps; cleaning work; the Great Children's Aktion "Shifra", 1942; Rumkowski's speech; a four-year stay in the ghetto; towards the last year, the witness' work in cleaning the houses of deported Jews, belonging to the "Yakuba" commando of the liquidation of the ghetto, named after Jakuba Street in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 3630

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report, Names

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Dvora (Lichter) Levinson, born in Tarnopol, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Tarnopol Ghetto, using a false identity in villages and in a prison

Memoirs of Dvora (Lichter) Levinson, born in Tarnopol, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Tarnopol Ghetto, using a false identity in villages and in prison Life before the war; attendance at a Polish school; afternoon classes at the Hebrew school. Soviet occupation; closing of the Hebrew school; German occupation; draft of Jews to the Judenrat and murder of the draftees including her father; deportation to the Tarnopol Ghetto; ghetto life in hiding in a bunker; leaving the bunker with forged documents in the name of Stanislawa Dobryk; discovery of the bunker by the Germans and murder of those...

File Number : 8510

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German

Memoirs of Jerzy Swierkosz, born in Lwow, Poland, 02 May 1934, regarding the experiences of his family in the Grabowa area within a historical and geographical context, and the fate of the Jewish community during the war Memoirs of Jerzy Swierkosz written for his grandchild; a history of the area of the Kamionka Strumillowa district, survey of the activities of the residents, notes on the personalities of various people in the vicinity, a description of daily life in the villages, local folklore, about the family and contacts with the neighbors. Chapter devoted to the destruction of the local Jewish...

File Number : 8365

Type of Material : List of Residents, List of Names, Memoirs, Diagram, Photograph

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Joseph Krakauer, born in Berlin, Germany, regarding his experiences as a child in Chrzanow after the deportation of his family from Germany, 1938, in the Chrzanow Ghetto and the Sosnowice Ghetto and in hiding in Biala Bielitz, his liberation, 28 February 1945, and his wanderings after the war

File Number : 8327

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Salomea Kape, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto

Memoirs of Salomea Kape, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto Life in the Lodz Ghetto, summer 1944; help given by her mother, a midwife, to a Jewish couple in hiding to whom a son was born, October-November 1944.

File Number : 8318

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Research paper written by the student, Tatyana Nikitina, regarding the diary of Roman Kravchenko from Kremenets, written 1941-1944

Research paper written by the student, Tatyana Nikitina, regarding the diary of Roman Kravchenko from Kremenets, written 1941-1944 Outbreak of the war; life under the German occupation including the wearing of the yellow badge and anti-Jewish legislation; deportation of Jews to the Kremenets Ghetto; closure of the ghetto, 01 March 1942; appointment of a Judenrat; establishment of the Jewish police; ghetto life including forced labor; burning of the synagogue; receiving information regarding the mass murder of Jews in Kiev and Rovno; murder of Jews outside the city near the [?], 10-21 August 1942; robbery [of...

File Number : 8266

Type of Material : Diary, Study

Language : Russian

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