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Memoirs of Pesach Fridberg regarding the Jewish partisan group, Kalinin, in Novogrodek, Poland, 1942

Memoirs of Pesach Fridberg regarding the Jewish partisan group, Kalinin, in Novogrodek, Poland, 1942 Organization of Tuvia Bielski's partisan unit following the murders in Novogrodik, 10 July 1942; receiving help from non-Jews; taking revenge against Sheska Marchinveski and the forester Aleksei Pikta, 20 September 1942; Included in the file: Original liberation certificate of Sima Zamoschik from the Kalinin partisan battalion.

File Number : 1245

Type of Material : Survey Report, Original

Language : Russian, Yiddish

Memoirs of Moshe Kaplan, born in Woronow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army, the Tannenberg POW camp, the Woronow Ghetto, in hiding in the forest, as a partisan in the Naliboki forests and more Life in Woronow after World War I; death of his father Avraham Kaplan in 1922; attendance at the Tarbut elementary school; displays of antisemitism; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; underground activities and imprisonment of his brother as a member of the Communist Party; death of his mother, 1932; life in an aliya training kibbutz in Bialystok; meeting his future wife, Chaya; release of his...

File Number : 8643

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yisrael Klein, born in Radomysl, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Radomysl, in hiding in the forest and being hidden by farmers, in Paleniec, in a commune of Jews hiding in the forests, as Red Army soldier and more Life before the war including the ultra-Orthodox way of life of his family. German occupation, 08 September 1939; hiding with his father in the attic during the concentration of the Jewish men in the municipal market; confinement of the Jews in the church without food or water for several days; murder of many Jews by shooting; transfer of the wounded to German military...

File Number : 8636

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Raja (Berkman) Beit Iosef in a letter sent from Sweden to her cousin (her mother's first cousin) Shlomo Frank in Eretz Israel regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kailis and Stutthof and the circumstances surrounding the murders of her family and Shlomo's family, 22 August 1946 Occupation of Vilna and murder of Jews; deportation of the surviving family members to the Vilna Ghetto; transfer of the family members to Ponary and their murder; escape from death in Ponary and return to the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to a concentration camp in Riga; escape from the...

File Number : 8634

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Tanya (Shuchmacher) Uzenkel, born in Proskurov, Ukraine, 1925, regarding her experiences in the ghetto, in a camp, in hiding in Proskurov and in the Stanislavchik Ghetto

Memoirs of Tanya (Shuchmacher) Uzenkel, born in Proskurov, Ukraine, 1925, regarding her experiences in the ghetto, in a camp, in hiding in Proskurov and in the Stanislavchik Ghetto Life in Proskurov at the time of the outbreak of the war; deportation to the Proskurov Ghetto; deportation to forced labor at the military headquarters in Leznevo; liquidation of the ghetto and murder of the Jews with the exception of the professionally skilled workers (among them, her mother, who was a seamstress); deportation of the family to the local camp; "Aktion" and being hidden with her family in the cellar in the home of...

File Number : 8631

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Certificates of honor awarded to Josef Bodnar for his service an Austro-Hungarian Army officer during World War I, and forged certificate of baptism and certificate of marriage used during Bodnar's escape from Nadworna along with his family, during World War II - Two certificates attesting to the raise in rank of Austro-Hungarian Army soldier Josef Bodnar, issued in Vienna, November-December 1915; - Certificate attesting to the awarding of a medal of honor to Austro-Hungarian Army soldier Josef Bodnar, issued in Vienna, 24 January 1917; - Diploma of Law awarded to Joseph Bodnar in Lwow, 04 August...

File Number : 1203

Type of Material : Diploma, Personal Documents

Language : Latin, German

Letter of testimony written by Yaakov From in a DP camp in Italy to his brother, Shalom From, in Eretz Israel, 14 November 1945, with testimony regarding his experiences in Rutka, a POW hospital in Bialystok, the Lomza Ghetto, the Zambrow camp and more Life in Lomza including air-raids in September 1939; escape to Rutka with his family; life in Rutka during the German occupation; deportation of the Jews (approximately 1,500 people) to a potato field, and their being forced to lie down on the ground; remaining on the ground until 10:00 the following morning; transfer back to Rutka and their concentration in...

File Number : 8614

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters from Rabbi Neach Ajzenbud and Rabbi Josef Rozovski in Vilna to various persons in Eretz Israel before the war

Letters from Rabbi Neach Ajzenbud and Rabbi Josef Rozovski in Vilna to various persons in Eretz Israel before the war - Letter from Rabbi Josef Rozovski in Vilna to his brother Eli Chaim Rozovski in Eretz Israel, 05 February 1935; - Two letters from Rabbi Neach Ajzenbud to his rabbinical colleagues in Eretz Israel, undated; the address of Rabbi Josef Rozovski, to which the sender requests that funds be sent, appears in his letter to Rabbi Alter Abelov; the letter contains information regarding Rabbi Josef Rozovski (executive secretary of Chaim Ozer), one of the leading rabbis in Vilna. Note: The...

File Number : 2113

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew

Postcard sent by Abram Piaseczny from Dereczyn, Poland, to his son Chaim in Tel Aviv, 27 January 1941

Postcard sent by Abram Piaseczny from Dereczyn, Poland, to his son Chaim in Tel Aviv, 27 January 1941 Family's life including the detention of their son Moshe Hersh and his exile to Siberia for five years of forced labor; Abram Piaseczny: Membership in the Ostroleka community council, 1932-1935; serves as the council's chairman; escape with his wife Faige and their family members to Lomza, which was under Soviet occupation, 1939; arrival of the family to Dereczyn; German Army occupation of Dereczyn; murder of the Dereczyn Jews in a forest, by the Germans, including Piaseczny family members; escape of...

File Number : 2105

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Yiddish

Diary of Heniek Veingarten, born in Niwice, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec, Lwow, Luck, being hidden by farmers, as a partisan in the Rowne forest and more

Diary of Heniek Veingarten, born in Niwice, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec, Lwow, Luck, being hidden by farmers, as a partisan in the Rowne forest and more Life with his family in Niwice; move to Wolbrom with his family due to difficulties in supporting themselves, 1920; abuse by gangs loyal to General Haller, including capture of his father and pulling out his beard; move of the family to Strzemieszyce, 1926; move of the family to Sosnowiec. Concentration of the Jews in the Szenja Hall in Sosnowiec, September, 1939; abuse of the Jews; mass murder of Jews; separation from his parents...

File Number : 8571

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Polish

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