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Testimony of Johanna Adler, regarding the Jews of Lwow and their destruction

Testimony of Johanna Adler, regarding the Jews of Lwow and their destruction German occupation of Lwow; pogrom and the murder of Jews by Ukrainians and Poles; establishment of a Judenrat; contributions; "Aktions" and deportation to Janowska camp and from there to Belzec camp, 1942; establishment of the Lwow Ghetto and its liquidation in 1943.

File Number : 1343

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters, Yiddish

Diary of Alfred Monaster regarding the mass murder of Jews during a riot conducted by Germans and Ukrainians after the German occupation of Lwow

Diary of Alfred Monaster regarding the mass murder of Jews during a riot conducted by Germans and Ukrainians after the German occupation of Lwow Excerpt from Alfred Monaster's diary: "Szponach Hitleryzmu (In the Claws of Hitlerism)": German occupation of Lwow, 30 June 1941; reception of the Germans by crowds of Ukrainians in festive dress; life in hiding of the Jewish Maer family in an inner one-room apartment of a residential building during the three-day riot instigated by the Germans and perpetrated with the full cooperation of Ukrainian nationalists: mass murder of thousands of Jews during severe...

File Number : 524

Type of Material : Diaries and Memoirs

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Herman Schutzman, transcripts of testimonies of Stefa (Cang) Schutzman and of Ursula (Cang) Lifschitz, and additional documentation regarding members of the Schutzman and Cang families during the Holocaust - Transcript of the testimony of Stefa (Cang) Schutzman regarding her experiences in Lwów and Lwów Ghetto in 1939-1942, and in Krakow under a false identity in 1942-1943 (based on interviews conducted by Alex Schutzman in January-February 2005): Life under Soviet occupation in 1939-1941; detention of the witness by the NKVD and his release for a huge sum in dollars; marriage to Herman...

File Number : 11508

Type of Material : Declaration, תמליל, List of Murdered Jews, Documentary, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Russian

Diary of Edmund Kessler of Lwów, secretly kept in the Kalwiński family's bunker in Lwów, 1942-1944, containing memories of events in June-December 1941 in Lwów and the diarist's poems from that time. - Notebook and pages with Edmund Kessler's writings from his stay in hiding in 1942-1944, including: --- Recollections of the persecution and murder of the Jews of Lwów by the Germans and the local population in June–December 1941: the Germans' entry into Lwów, discovery of bodies of political prisoners murdered by the NKVD before the Soviet forces retreated from the city, a pogrom, abuse and murder of Jews by...

File Number : 8977

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs, Diary

Language : Polish

Testimony of Karolina Eli, born in Lodz, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences and those of her family in Lwow, Warsaw, Tarnow and Otwock, 1939-1949

Testimony of Karolina Eli, born in Lodz, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences and those of her family in Lwow, Warsaw, Tarnow and Otwock, 1939-1949 Family life in Lodz; stay of her aunt, Ida (Brauner) Wohlman with her husband, in England, 1939; return of Ida and Zigmund to Poland on the eve of the war; Outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939; draft of her father, Henryk Haim into the Polish Army; disbanding of her father's Army unit; meeting of her father with his wife, Chala (Chaya) and his daughter, Karolina, in Bialystok; escape to Lwow; stay in a rented apartment for approximately a year and a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew