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Clipping from the "Dziennik Polski" Polish newspaper, dated 11 July 1945

File Number : 871

Type of Material : Newspaper

Language : Polish

Testimony of Hilary Heitler, born in Krakow, Poland, 1911, regarding his work registering inmates at Auschwitz and in a secret unit that printed counterfeit banknotes and forged documents in the Oranienburg camp and Mauthausen, January 1943-April 1945

Testimony of Hilary Heitler, born in Krakow, Poland, 1911, regarding his labor in the registration of inmates in Auschwitz and in a secret unit that printed counterfeit banknotes and forged documents in Oranienburg and Mauthausen camps, January 1943-April 1945 Deportation from the Krakow Ghetto to Auschwitz, January 1943; labor in the registration and tattooing of inmates who arrived to the camp, until August 1943; transfer on a high speed passenger train to Oranienburg camp in a group of 60 printing press experts, 19 January 1944; labor printing [counterfeit] passports, identity cards, British and American...

File Number : 437

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Letters, postcards and telegrams related to members of the Aron and Kurzmann families during 1942-1948, declarations by Etka Kurzmann and her brother Moritz Aron regarding their experiences during the Holocaust, given during 1956-1972, and additional documentation regarding members of the Aron and Kurzmann families - Postcards sent to Fred Aron in Brussels by his parents, his brother Willi and other family members in the Rzeszów Ghetto, May-June 1942 (one postcard is undated), including a translation to Hebrew (scan); - Letters, postcards and telegrams sent to Zuza and Norbert Kurzmann in Palestine [Eretz...

File Number : 3879

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Postcard, Birth Certificate, Passport, Telegram, Diploma, Letter, Marriage Certificate, Death Certificate, Genealogy, Declaration

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, Russian, German

Testimony of Yisrael Birnberg, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in a convent in Kortrijk, Belgium

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Birnberg, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in a convent in Kortrijk, Belgium Childhood in the home of his parents, stateless immigrants from Poland. The German occupation, 1940; his father's departure for France on business; start of the deportations from Belgium, summer, 1942; sending of forged documents for his mother, his sister, and him by his father; their departure for Paris by train; forcing the passengers to leave the train in Menin, on the Belgian-French border; detention of his mother who denied that his sister and he were her...

File Number : 14063

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzchak Markovitz, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1926, regarding his move to Budapest, draft to forced labor, escape, and deportation to the ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzchak Markovitz, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1926, regarding his move to Budapest, draft to forced labor, escape, and deportation to the ghetto Move to Budapest and childhood before outbreak of the war; discriminatory laws; increase of displays of antisemitism; German occupation, 19 March 1944; yellow badge; being drafted to forced labor battalions, 05 March 1944; labor clearing away rubble and at the Kecskemet and Solnok airfields; approach of the front; escape to a marked house in Budapest; receiving a Swiss Protection Certificate; living in a protected house; transfer to a brick...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Fay Fajga (Letzter) Malkin, born in Sokal, Poland in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Sokal Ghetto and while in hiding on the Aryan side and in Lwow

Testimony of Fay Fajga (Letzter) Malkin, born in Sokal, Poland in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Sokal Ghetto and while in hiding on the Aryan side and in Lwow Life before the war; life during the Soviet occupation in 1939; German occupation in 1941; her father is killed in 1941; deportation to the Sokal Ghetto in 1941; they find a hiding place during the "Aktions"; escape from the ghetto with her mother and her mother's family; they find a hiding place above a pigsty in the home of a non-Jewish woman named Franciska Halamajowa in 1942; life in hiding; attempt to murder the witness with a...

File Number : 13798

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English