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Testimony of Chana Hanka (Klapholz) Pinkus, born in Oswiecim, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Sosnowiec, Mechtal, and Gross Masselwitz

Testimony

Testimony of Chana Hanka (Klapholz) Pinkus, born in Oswiecim, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Sosnowiec, Mechtal and Gross Masselwitz From a large family; learns in Beit Yakov and a Polish school; her family move to Jezor, 1935; displays of antisemitism. German occupation, 1939; decrees; learns to be seamstress; life with a non-Jewish woman; deportation to Sosnowiec, 1942; life in Sosnowiec including labor cleaning; transfer to a military camp in Mechtal; camp life including kitchen, laundry labor and building an electricity plant; transfer to Gross Masselwitz; liberation by the Red Army, 08...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Halina Nelken regarding the Geraetelager (storage camp for aviation and signals equipment) in Zabłocie, under the command of the Luftwaffe (German air force) in Krakow

Testimony of Halina Nelken regarding the Geraetelager (storage camp for aviation and signals equipment) in Zabłocie, under the command of the Luftwaffe (German air force) in Krakow Camp life, including behavior of Fischer, the camp commander, and staff members toward the female Jewish inmates; harsh labor carrying heavy metal parts and loading them on rail cars; capture of an elderly Jew attempting to buy bread through the barbed-wire fence; his punishment with flogging by the camp commander; escape of three young Jewish women; inspection in the barracks and physical examination of the female inmates; fear...

File Number : 159

Type of Material : Testimony, Poems/songs

Language : Polish

Documentation, including reports, protocols, orders and so forth, related mainly to activities of the RSHA, SS, SD, Police and Wehrmacht, 1939-1944; documentation dated, 1939-1946

Documentation, including reports, protocols, orders and so forth, related mainly to activities of the RSHA, SS, SD, Police and Wehrmacht, 1939-1944; documentation dated, 1939-1946 Included in the file: 23/06/1942 Letter, marked as Classified, of SS-Oberfuehrer Viktor Brack to Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, in which he suggests to select and preserve approximately two-three million fit-for-work Jews following their sterilization or castration by X-ray. (pp. 2-3). 27/10/1943 Letter of SS-Gruppenfuehrer Odilo Globocnik (from Triest) to SS-Gruppenfuehrer Maximilian von Herff in the...

File Number : 120

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Reports, Correspondence, Protocol, Orders, Administrative Documentation

Language : German

Documentation regarding the anti-Mischlinge legislation, and the conduct of medical experiments on concentration camp inmates, 1942-1944

Documentation regarding the anti-Mischlinge legislation, and the conduct of medical experiments on concentration camp inmates, 1942-1944 - Letter sent to Lammers by Minister of the Justice Schlegelberger, including a request for a repeat discussion regarding the treatment of Jews and Mischlinge, before a final decision will be made regarding the matter; - Letter written by Schlegelberger regarding the Final Solution, including an argument that the "means for the solution of the problem" are not to include second degree Mischlinge or first degree Mischlinge whose children became valued members of society;...

File Number : 81

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Activities report of the Nazi Party Aussenpolitisches Amt (Foreign Policy Office), 1936

Activities report of the Nazi Party Aussenpolitisches Amt (Foreign Policy Office), 1936 Included in the report are the chapters: England, North, Southeast, "Near East" [Eastern Europe], foreign trade, the press, and the Schuelungshaus (School for Foreign Relations); Activities of the Foreign Policy Office of the Nazi Party, on behalf of the advancement of the political and economic interests of Germany and for the strengthening of the status of the Nazi Party in various countries; contacts between the Luftwaffe representatives and their colleagues in England, and invitation to the British to the Nazi...

File Number : 26

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Chaim Zajde, born in Przytyk, Poland, 1912, regarding his experiences in the Radom Ghetto, Majdanek, Plaszow, Wieliczka and camps in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Zajde, born in Przytyk, Poland, 1912, regarding his experiences in the Radom Ghetto, Majdanek, Plaszow, Wieliczka and camps in Germany Deportation to the Radom Ghetto; ghetto life including labor in workshops; "Aktion" against laborers with Meldekarten work permits; liquidation of the orphanages and old age homes; burning of Torah scrolls; murder of the intelligentsia who had applied for aliya; deportation to Majdanek; camp life including labor in factories, March-April 1944; murder of Jewish POWs; hanging of non-Jewish inmates who were caught trying to escape; transfer to Plaszow;...

File Number : 1825

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Documentation of Isaak Stone, a U.S. serviceman during the war who kept abreast of the Nuremberg trials in 1945–1946

Documentation of Isaak Stone, a U.S. serviceman during the war who kept abreast of the Nuremberg trials in 1945–1946 - statement titled “The Military Balance in the Middle East” by Senator Henry M. Jackson, July 14, 1971; - letter from Senator Henry M. Jackson to Isaak Stone, July 19, 1971; - secret documents—materials from a U.S. Army (?) survey of German forces; - correspondence of Richard Strauss and Martin Borman with Adolf Hitler, June 1939–January 1944; - letter of Isaak A. Stone, November 7, 1942; - letter of Isaak A. Stone, June 12, 1962; - map of Central Europe, showing the positions of U.S....

File Number : 47

Type of Material : Survey, Map, Correspondence

Language : English, German

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

To be translated

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Letter of testimony written by Shlomo Shapira regarding a unit of Hashomer Hatzair fighters from Warsaw that was sent to Tarnów in 1942

Letter of testimony written by Shlomo Shapira regarding a unit of Hashomer Hatzair fighters from Warsaw that was sent to Tarnów in 1942 - Letter of testimony written by Shlomo Shapira to his friend Yisrael regarding a unit of Hashomer Hatzair fighters from Warsaw that was sent to Tarnów in 1942; - Arrest of Shlomo and his deportation to a Luftwaffe labor camp in Bielany, near Warsaw, 1942; meeting his brother David Shapira, a Polish Jewish partisan, in a rented apartment on the Aryan side of Tarnów; membership of David in a unit of Hashomer Hatzair fighters from Warsaw that was sent to Tarnów in 1942;...

File Number : 8983

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Hebrew