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Excerpts from a diary written in the prison on Helclow Street in Krakow, regarding the activities of the partisans in the Krakow vicinity

Excerpts from a diary written in the prison on Helclow Street in Krakow, regarding the activities of the partisans in the Krakow vicinity "Aktions" of deportation; feelings of despair and helplessness; coordination of the young people into combat units; importance of the element of surprise in the activities of the Jewish partisans; fear by the Germans to enter the forests, due to the partisans' presence; "Aktion" in Krakow: mass murder of children and entire families; assassination of a German policeman, one of the supervisors of the "Aktion", and his death; fear by the Germans, of the growing strength of...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 63

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Diary

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Testimony of Berta Lichtig, regarding the experiences of the Jews of Mielec following the German occupation including "Aktions", deportations to labor camps and deportations to extermination

Testimony of Berta Lichtig, regarding the experiences of the Jews of Mielec following the German occupation including "Aktions", deportations to labor camps and deportations to extermination German occupation of Mielec before Rosh Hashana, 10 September 1939; the synagogue is set on fire; closure of the Jews who were in the bathhouse and the poultry slaughterhouse, where they are burned alive; mass escape of Jewish youth and men to the Soviet side, following two days of murder; arrival of Poles who were deported from Poznan (the city and the region), and they take control over the homes of Jews and key...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 453

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Testimony of Wegwejzer Izrael, born in Lodz, Poland, in 1910, regarding his experiences after the expulsion of the Jews from Rawa Mazowieckia, hiding with Polish farmers and in the surrounding forests Wegwejzer managed to escape during the deportation "Aktion" of Jews from Rawa Mazowiecka on 28/10/1942 and hid first in the Przewodowice village, with the farmers Radlicki and Poplawski in the house of Sawicki, a neighbour of Poplawski; 3 sisters Lewkowicz and a married couple Krolikowski with a young boy were hiding there too; every time there was a rumor about Jews hiding in the area, Wegwejzer and the Jews he...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 571

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Letter of testimony of Sabina Dluzniewska,a Polish woman, regarding the experiences of Lidia Krauze, born in Lodz, Poland and her husband Henryk Blumberg born in 1906, and their stay on the Aryan side using forged papers Lidia Krauze, a catholic Pole, daughter of a father of Austrian origin, lived in a relationship without a marriage certificate with the Jew Henryk Blumberg in Warsaw since 1929; in autumn 1939 the two of them traveled to Bialystok, but then decided to go back in order to take care of the relatives who had remained in Warsaw; both worked in a factory within the ghetto and lived together in...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 554

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

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