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Collection of documents related to the murder of Jews in Ponary during 1941-1943

Collection of documents related to the murder of Jews in Ponary during 1941-1943 - Testimony of Gorwicz and Ass, in a letter given to an unknown man, en route to Ponary. The writer tells about two groups of Jews numbering 45 and 67 people, who were hiding in a forest. After they were informed on, the Jews were discovered by Germans and Lithuanians, who tortured the Jews for five days and then transferred them to Ponary. The letter is written in Polish and is translated to Russian; - Accompanying letter, written to Yad Vashem by the communications office of the Foreign Ministry on 12/11/1982, including a...

File Number : 459

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian

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

Memoirs of Meir and Paula Shtein regarding their experiences in the Vilna, Warsaw and Białystok Ghettos, written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944

Memoirs of Meir and Paula Shtein regarding their experiences in the Vilna, Warsaw and Białystok Ghettos, written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944 - memoirs of Meir Shtein regarding the situation in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 (written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944); - memoirs of Paula Shtein (maiden name: Znamirovski) regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and in the Białystok Ghetto (written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944): life in Vilna with her husband Mark and son Izho (Israel), after their escape from Warsaw on 3 September 1939; air-raids on Vilna on 22 June 1941; the German...

File Number : 11253

Type of Material : Diary, Memoirs

Memoirs of Lila Holzman (maiden name: Svirski), born in Święciany in 1926, regarding her experiences in Święciany, in Poligon camp and in the Święciany Ghetto in September-October 1941

Memoirs of Lila Holzman (maiden name: Svirski), born in Święciany in 1926, regarding her experiences in Święciany, in Poligon camp and in the Święciany Ghetto in September-October 1941 Persecution of the Jews of Święciany after the entry of the Germans; concentration of Święciany Jews in a field near the town on 27 September 1941; robbery of Jewish property; bringing about 300 tradespeople into the ghetto in Święciany; marching the rest of the town's Jews to the barracks of a military camp ("Poligon") in the forest near Święciany; meeting relatives and acquaintances from the surrounding villages; imposition...

File Number : 11043

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew