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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Marian Kopanitzki, born in Stanislawow, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences as a German POW and using a false identity in Dzhankoi

Testimony

Testimony of Marian Kopanitzki, born in Stanislawow, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences as a German POW and using a false identity in Dzhankoi Taken captive by the Germans, 1941; escape with the help of non-Jewish friends; detention by the German police; interrogation and release; life using a false identity in Dzhankoi; murder of Dzhankoi Jews by the Germans; liberation. Life in Lwow and Poland.

File Number : 1676

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jakub Lang, born in Lwow, Poland, 1928, regarding the murder of his uncle, cousins and additional Jews by Poles in police uniforms in Rymanow, December 1945

Testimony of Jakub Lang, born in Lwow, Poland, 1928, regarding the murder of his uncle, cousins and additional Jews by Poles in police uniforms in Rymanow, December 1945 Travel of Josef Tag, his uncle, with Majlech Stark, his cousin, from Krakow to Brzozow, 06 December 1945; accompanied during travel by Jozef Dziedzic, a Pole who had hidden his mother, uncle and two cousins in the forest from the time of the liquidation of the ghetto; rumors of robbery and murder of people in the surrounding area by gangs of armed Poles; travel to Rymanow, eight days later; arrest of the Jews at the railroad station by Poles...

File Number : 501

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Rubin Rudolf Steckman, born in Krakow, Poland, 1884, regarding his experiences in the Falenica Ghetto, the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding in the Garwolin forests

Testimony of Rubin Rudolf Steckman, born in Krakow, Poland, 1884, regarding his experiences in the Falenica Ghetto, the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding in the Garwolin forests Life in a suburb of Warsaw before the war; trade in fowl in partnership with the Liebenfeld family from Warsaw. Deportation to the Falenica Ghetto, September 1941; ghetto life, including trade with Poles in an almost open manner; smuggling food to the Liebenfeld family in the Warsaw Ghetto for 10 months; transfer to Warsaw without a yellow badge; entry into the ghetto by bribing an officer of the [Polish] Blue Police; eye-witness...

File Number : 186

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Overview of murders of Jews by Poles in Poland by an anonymous writer, 1944-1945

Overview of murders of Jews by Poles in Poland by an anonymous writer, 1944-1945 In the survey, the writer recounts instances of murder, robbery and injury of Jews by Poles in various places in Poland. At the beginning of the overview there is a description of a case where Piatek, a Polish policeman, removed 16 Rzeszow Jews from the ghetto, seemingly to smuggle them to Hungary, [but] whom he afterwards he robbed and murdered. In Rzeszow a 13 year old Polish girl was found in the house of Jews; she had been murdered by members of the Armia Krajowa (AK-the Polish underground connected to the Polish...

File Number : 687

Type of Material : Survey

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Jozef Andrzej Kaja, regarding the fate of the Jews of Turobin during the German occupation

Memoirs of Jozef Andrzej Kaja, regarding the fate of the Jews of Turobin during the German occupation Introductory survey of the history of the Jewish community in Turobin until the outbreak of World War II; increase in the severity of the anti-Jewish policies and the violence against Jews, with the entry of Ullmann into the position of the chief of the German Police in Turobin; kidnappings of Jewish men and youths, and later on of women, to forced labor in Turobin and Izbica, which was accompanied by indiscriminate shooting; mass murder of the Jews of Turobin by Germans, by means of shootings on the street...

File Number : 3606

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Testimonies and reports regarding the shooting and murder of a Jewish [Holocaust] survivor in Amberg, Bavaria, Germany, 1947

Testimonies and reports regarding the shooting and murder of a Jewish [Holocaust] survivor in Amberg, Bavaria, Germany, 1947 Included in the file: Testimonies and reports regarding a shooting in Amberg, Bavaria, Germany, 24 May 1947; Police sergeant Delles is accused with the murder of a Jew named Szalom (Schalom) Lang from Krasnik, a town located in the Lublin area in Poland; the victim, Lang, a widower and [Holocaust] survivor was 35 years old; Lang was shot by the Police sergeant in the apartment of a Jew named Heniek Oracz, in Amberg, Salzgasse 2 II, without any sign of a scuffle.

File Number : 820

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English, German, Yiddish

Letter from Feliks Brattbart, born in Czestochowa, to Yad Vashem regarding the pogrom against the Jews in Kielce in 1946, and displays of antisemitism in Poland after the war, 15 July 1990

Letter from Feliks Brattbart, born in Czestochowa, to Yad Vashem regarding the pogrom against the Jews in Kielce in 1946, and displays of antisemitism in Poland after the war, 15 July 1990 Feliks Brattbart writes of his return to Czestochowa after World War II and his residence there until 1969. He notes the assistance of the local Jewish community in the early days after his arrival in the city, and the antisemitic atmosphere and hatred towards the Jews in the city during the period that preceded the pogrom in Kielce, the wave of violence those days in Czestochowa as well, and cases of murder of Jews in...

File Number : 350

Type of Material : Photograph, Letter

Language : Polish

Testimony of Zeew Garbarsz, born in Mordy, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Mordy Ghetto, Sarnaki, Biala Podlaska, Losice, wanderings, activities against collaborators and in forests

Testimony

Testimony of Zeew Garbarsz, born in Mordy, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Mordy Ghetto, Sarnaki, Biala Podlaska, Losice, wanderings, activities against collaborators and in forests Jewish life in Mordy before the war. German occupation; arrival of refugees from western Poland; typhus; establishment of the Mordy Ghetto, 1941; establishment of a labor camp; escape of youth from the labor camp; handing over of the escapees to the Germans by the Judenrat and their murder; liquidation of the ghetto, 11 Elul 5702 (24 August 1942); wanderings with his mother and eight siblings between villages,...

File Number : 3423

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Testimony of Ozer Figa, born in Proszowice, Poland, 1911, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, Mauthausen and Ebensee

Testimony

Testimony of Ozer Figa, born in Proszowice, Poland, 1911, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, Mauthausen and Ebensee Life before the war. German occupation; riots against the Jews; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; ghetto life including the murder of his father; deportation to Plaszow; transfer to Mauthausen; transfer to Ebensee; liberation, 1945. Life after the war including displays of antisemitism; aliya to Israel, 1948.

File Number : 3025

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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