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Section of memoirs by Red Army sergeant Vladimir Kruchinenko, regarding prevention of the murder of Jews in the Minsk area by his battalion, summer 1944

File Number : 352

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Committed by Nazis and Collaborators in the Soviet Union, from the Dobrush district, 1943-1945

File Number : 3438

Type of Material : Lists, Names, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

Testimony of Raya Rachel (Wainshtein) Akerman, born in Malinti, Romania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Secureni, Mogilev-Podolski and Balki

Testimony

Testimony of Raya Rachel (Wainshtein) Akerman, born in Malinti, Romania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Secureni, Mogilev-Podolski and Balki Well-to-do traditional family. Soviet occupation, 1940; deportation of wealthy families; Romanian occupation, 1941; abuse of Jews; murder of Jews in the vicinity; robbery of Jewish owned property and gold; deportation to Transnistria; transfer on foot to Mogilev-Podolski after crossing the Dniester River; transfer on foot to Balki; life in Balki and labor for the railroad company; labor in the surrounding villages in exchange for a bribe; mutual help in the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Mordechai Motek Bursztein, born in Wloclawek, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Wloclawek, Bialystok, Brest Litowsk and Oktyabr

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Motek Bursztein, born in Wloclawek, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Wloclawek, Bialystok, Brest Litowsk and Oktyabr Life before the war; Beitar activities. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; air-raid and burning of the family's home; German occupation; restrictions on the Jews including the yellow badge; draft of men to forced labor; ban to congregate in public places; murder of youths in a synagogue; escape to Bialystok; escape to Brest Litowsk; life in Brest Litowsk and capture by the Soviet police; deportation to Oktyabr; life in Oktyabr including forced labor;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Salomea (Tendler) Siedman, born in Krzeszowice, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in Skala, forests, Auschwitz, hidden by a Polish family and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Salomea (Tendler) Siedman, born in Krzeszowice, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in Skala, forests, Auschwitz, hidden by a Polish family and other places From a economically secure family. German occupation, 1939, her older brother's escape to the Soviet Union; her sister's move to the Gorecki family, who are Polish; witness and her family move to her grandmother in Skala; deportation of her brother and father; murder of her mother in her hiding place in the attic; finds a hiding place in a forest; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; escape from a deportation train to the Gorecki...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Samuel Eisen, born in Tluste, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences and those of his brother Jakub Eisen, born in Tluste, 1935, in Tluste after the German occupation, working on a farm, in hiding and with the Soviet partisans in the forests Arrival of Jewish refugees from the surroundings and from Hungary; mass murder of the Hungarian Jews while crossing the Dniester River on the way back to Hungary; deportation of his mother and baby brother to Belzec; mass murder at killing pits in a second "Aktion", with the children buried alive inside the pits; labor with his father and brother Jakub on a...

File Number : 73

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Liebesman, a physician from Stanislawow, regarding mass murders of the Jews of Stanislawow, "Aktions" against the Polish and Jewish intelligentsia, killing pits and acts of sadism by the Germans German occupation of Stanislawow, July 1941; torture and murder of over 500 men and women, including physicians, in an "Aktion" against the Jewish and Polish intelligentsia, starting 03 August 1941; acts of sadism against Rabbi Horowitz and his death; "Aktions" in Stanislawow under the direct command and participation of Krueger, head of the Gestapo; mass murders of Jews in the Jewish cemetery, including...

File Number : 443

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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File Number : 354

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Adolf Nattel, born in Dukla, Poland, 1909, regarding the execution of 400 Jews from Dukla in killing pits near Tylawa

Testimony of Adolf Nattel, born in Dukla, Poland, 1909, regarding the execution of 400 Jews from Dukla in killing pits near Tylawa Approximately 1,600 out of the 2,200 Jews of Dukla transported to the railroad station in Iwonicz; their deportation to Belzec; transfer of 400 elderly people and children, some of them with their mothers, in the direction of Barwinek, near Tylawa; their murder in killing pits; participation of the Gestapo and the Grenzschutz (Border Patrol) in the mass murder; at times, use of the same bullet to shoot two or three Jews in order to save on ammunition; burial of the wounded and...

File Number : 184

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Nikolay Zamkov, born in Dubossary, Ukraine in 1924, regarding the Jews in Bolshoy Fontan and their murder in Dubossary in September 1941

Memoirs of Nikolay Zamkov, born in Dubossary, Ukraine in 1924, regarding the Jews in Bolshoy Fontan and their murder in Dubossary in September 1941 Life before the war at Bolshoy Fontan; studies; working in a kolkhoz with the Jewish guard Moysha Shcherb; German occupation of Ukraine in 1941; establishment of the German administration; transfer of SS companies to the area in August 1941; establishment of a ghetto; abuse of Jews; digging of killing pits in Dubossary; shooting and murder of Jews in September 1941; robbing and beating of Jews before the murders; burial alive of babies and of the wounded;...

File Number : 4273

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Memoirs

Language : Russian

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