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Testimony of Yocheved Yehudit Hamburger Boxbaum, born in Brzesko, Poland, 1928, regarding the Bochnia ghetto and deportation to the Auschwitz II - Birkenau camp

Testimony

Testimony of Yocheved Yehudit Hamburger Boxbaum, born in Brzesko, Poland, 1928, regarding the Bochnia ghetto and deportation to the Auschwitz II - Birkenau camp Family background, religious family; studies in a Polish school; life before the war. The outbreak of the war; dropping out of school; great fear of the Germans; deportation to the ghetto; aktions; deportation of the first intelligence personnel; whistleblowing by Jewish policemen on Jews; rumors of camps; construction of bunkers; hiding in hideout during an aktion; exposing the witness' family during the aktion and killing them; the escape of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 3565

Type of Material : Survey Report, Names, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

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

Testimony of Elsa Katz, born in Lwow, Poland, 1905, regarding her experiences and the experiences of her family in Lwow

Testimony of Elsa Katz, born in Lwow, Poland, 1905, regarding her experiences and the experiences of her family in Lwow Murder of her two uncles, her mother's brothers, during an "Aktion" against the Jewish intelligentsia in Lwow, 25 November 1941; murder of her brother in their home, by a Ukrainian policeman; detention of her mother and her aunt during an "Aktion", August 1942; hiding in an attic and in the home of a neighbor woman during the searches, until she obtains a forged Polish birth certificate.

File Number : 474

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Mikhail (David) Khenkin, born in Nemirov, Ukraine in 1927, regarding his experiences in the Nemirov Ghetto, and in hiding in Rubanovka and Ilyintsy

Memoirs of Mikhail (David) Khenkin, born in Nemirov, Ukraine in 1927, regarding his experiences in the Nemirov Ghetto, and in hiding in Rubanovka and Ilyintsy Life before the war; receiving information from refugees from Poland regarding rioting by the Germans; outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union and Germany on 22 June, 1941; retreat of the Red Army; attempt to evacuate the area; escape of his sister Sonya with the Red Army, and her escape back, due to the air-raids during the journey; German occupation on 22 July 1941; establishment of German local authorities, and setting up a Ukrainian police...

File Number : 4604

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Memoirs

Language : Russian

Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission during its activity in Grodno, regarding the murder of Jews and the murder of Soviet POWs in the Grodno district during 1941-1944

Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission during its activity in Grodno, regarding the murder of Jews and the murder of Soviet POWs in the Grodno district during 1941-1944 - Survey reports and investigation reports of eyewitnesses, regarding the murder of Jews and mentally ill persons from a local hospital in Lida, carried out near Lida on 03/07/1942; murder of Gypsies from Lida in 09/1941; murder of Jews from the intelligentsia in Lida on 02/05/1942; encirclement of the Lida Ghetto on 08/05/1942; selection and murder of Jews who were unfit for labor; - Murder of Jews from the...

File Number : JM/10647

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation, Statistical Report, Names, Investigation Report, Exhumation Report

Language : Russian

Article written by Bronislaw Chrzan regarding the liquidation of the Jewish schools in Krakow at the beginning of the German occupation, 1939

Article written by Bronislaw Chrzan regarding the liquidation of the Jewish schools in Krakow at the beginning of the German occupation, 1939 Details of the educational framework in which Jewish children in Krakow studied before the war; closing of all the Jewish schools by order of the German occupational authorities, December 1939. In the article there is a list of 155 Jewish teachers, community and cultural activists, authors and researchers who perished during the war. In the appendix to the article there is a letter from Helena (Mandelbaum) Frond sent from Sweden to her friends in Poland regarding...

File Number : 318

Type of Material : List, Study, Research Article

Language : Polish

Testimony of Mosze Zandberg, born in Zychlin, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Zychlin Ghetto, Auschwitz, Dora, Bergen-Belsen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Mosze Zandberg, born in Zychlin, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Zychlin Ghetto, Auschwitz, Dora, Bergen-Belsen and other places Establishment of the Zychlin Ghetto; murder of members of the intelligentsia including the head of the Judenrat, Alter Rozenberg, Chaim Wolf Zandberg and other people; deportation to Wiesengrund with a group of men, summer 1940; transfer to Roksman, autumn 1941; camp life for approximately one year; contacts with his family members until the liquidation of the Zychlin Ghetto; transfer to Wittenberg; camp life until April 1943; transfer to Auschwitz with...

File Number : 3508

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Summaries of the testimonies of Samuel Korall and Dorothy (Rapp) Korall regarding their experiences in the Holocaust, and documentation of members of the Korall and Rapp families

- Summary of an interview conducted with Shmuel (Samuel) Yehuda Korall, born in Krakow in 1930, by the Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich: Stay in the Krakow Ghetto; the witness's escape from the Krakow Ghetto in early 1942, and going into hiding with his mother in the village of Kalwaria; manhunt for Jews in Kalwaria in summer 1942; parting from his mother (she perished); the escape of the witness during the manhunt and his infiltration of Płaszów camp where his brother Shaul was being held; his brother Shaul's death in Płaszów; transfer of the witness to Hasag Kielce camp in December 1943; deportation to...

File Number : 11658

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Certification, Official Documentation, Biography, Identity Card

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, German

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

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