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Testimony of Natan Zhepkovich, born in 1920 in Włocławek, Poland, about his experiences in the Warsaw ghetto; the Pustków Strzyzew, and Gleiwitz camps; etc.

German occupation ensues in 1939; parents and brother escape; remaining at home after receiving an induction notice for the Polish army; Germans enter grandmother's house and grandmother dies; two synagogues torched in September 1939; witness arrested by the Germans and sent away for forced labor; attempts unsuccessfully to escape to the Soviet Union; escapes to Warsaw in 1939; assigned to forced labor at an airfield in 1939; life in the Warsaw ghetto in 1940; arrested by the Jewish police and escapes; finds a forged labor permit and joins a work group exiting the ghetto; sent to Strzyzew in 1941; life in the...

File Number : 13496

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Fela (Rauchfeld) Kleiner, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, using a false identity on the Aryan side and Rembertow

Testimony

Testimony of Fela (Rauchfeld) Kleiner, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, using a false identity on the Aryan side and Rembertow Family with hardships in Warsaw; attends Jewish elementary schools. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life including sneaking out ghetto; sells possessions; contact with Zivia Lubetkin; obtains forged documents; rescue of her sister from prison; escape with her sister using false identities to the Aryan side of Warsaw and Rembertow; life using a false identity from 1943; the Warsaw Polish Uprising,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Raya Yanina (Rateizer) Guttman, born in Warsaw, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in the Warsaw Ghetto, Czerniakow farm and in hiding using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Raya Yanina (Rateizer) Guttman, born in Warsaw, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in the Warsaw Ghetto, Czerniakow farm and in hiding using a false identity Childhood in an established family. Air-raids over the city, September 1939; her grandparents' and aunts' deaths and injury of a brother; German occupation; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life including the summer "Aktion", 1942; transfer to the Czerniakow farm; return to the ghetto; her brother Kazik's underground activities; escape to the country; life in hiding in a hayloft; her sister's disappearance; Warsaw...

File Number : 12291

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka (Yelen) Wolk, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Siauliai Ghetto, Linkaiciai, Stutthof and Landsberg

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka (Yelen) Wolk, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Siauliai Ghetto, Linkaiciai, Stutthof and Landsberg Religious family; life in a Jewish environment; joins Hechalutz movement led by Yitzhak (Antek) Zuckerman; move to a “kibbutz”; aliya training in Kielce. Outbreak of the war; walk with the group to Kowel; responsible for a group of children from Germany; move to Mielnica; move to Vilna; move to Siauliai; life in Siaulia and labor in a factory; deportation to the Siauliai Ghetto; ghetto life with the group and labor in an HVL military hospital; marriage;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yechiel Weinstock, born in Staszow, 1916, regarding his experiences in Staszow and in the Skarzysko-Kamienna, Czestochowa and Warta labor camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yechiel Weinstock, born in Staszow, 1916, regarding his experiences in Staszow and in the Skarzysko-Kamienna, Czestochowa and Warta labor camps Life before the war; school studies; activity in Zionist youth movements; antisemitism before German occupation of Poland. Life in Staszow ghetto; deportation from ghetto to forced labor in Skarzysko-Kamienna camps A and C; living conditions and attitude of Ukrainian guards; activities in camp C; preparations for escape that failed; transfer to camps in Czestochowa; forced labor digging trenches in Warta camp and forced labor in Czestochowa producing...

File Number : 11261

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 3586

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Letter sent by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff from Bialystok to his sister, Tamar, in Eretz Israel regarding his experiences in Warsaw, February 1943

Letter sent by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff from Bialystok to his sister, Tamar, in Eretz Israel regarding his experiences in Warsaw, February 1943 Life in the Warsaw Ghetto; deportation of their mother to Treblinka on the tenth day of an "Aktion" in Warsaw; deportation of friends to Treblinka; life outside the ghetto as a Jewish underground activist; cooperation with the Polska Partia Robotnicza (PPR- Polish Communist Workers' Party) including obtaining weapons and combat together with the partisans; the murder process in the gas chambers in Treblinka; rescue of his girlfriend Tamar (Tema) Schneiderman by...

File Number : 8

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Letters and various news items regarding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Jewish underground in Poland, 1943-1944

Letters and various news items regarding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Jewish underground in Poland, 1943-1944 - List of 223 Jewish Resistance fighters who died in battle in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; - Open letter from the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee), dated 24 May 1944: In the beginning of the letter it is noted that it is the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the writers describe the tragic fate of the Jews of Poland during the war, including annihilation of the Jews in the Warsaw, Lodz and Lublin Ghettos and liquidation of thousands of Jews in extermination...

File Number : 196

Type of Material : Letter, Lists, Announcement

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Yiddish

Letters and reports from Jewish underground members in Poland that reached Ignacy Schwarzbart and Anzelm Reiss in London, 1944

Letters and reports from Jewish underground members in Poland that reached Ignacy Schwarzbart and Anzelm Reiss in London, 1944 - Letter dated 24 May 1944, signed (with first names) by Adolf, Zivia, Ichak and Josef, leaders of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) who remained alive to the Histadrut HaOvdim (Workers' Union) in Eretz Israel declaring a feeling of camaraderie with all the fighters against the German enemy and faith in a shared future in a socialist Jewish Palestine; - Letter to A. Dobkin, Y. Tabenkin, M. Yaari and V. Beretz in Eretz Israel from members of the Hechalutz Central Committee in...

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : English

Testimony of Mosze Malhi, born in Gorajec, 1916, regarding his experiences in the ghetto and hiding in the forests

Testimony

Testimony of Mosze Malhi, born in Gorajec, 1916, regarding his experiences in the ghetto and hiding in the forests Childhood and youth in a religious home in the village among traditional Jews; learns in "heder" and a yeshiva; membership in Hechalutz movement and time spent in a Hechalutz kibbutz, 1934-38. Entry of Germans into Kielce; the ghetto; the ghetto Judenrat; forced labor in a quarry; transfer of all the Jews in the ghetto to Frampol, 1940; massacre of Jews; mass escape to the forests and the hunt after the escapees by the Germans and the Polish police; hiding in a bunker and a hayloft belonging...

File Number : 10552

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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