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Memoirs of Moshe Zeev Gelbert, born in Ilisesti, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Ataki, Mogilev and Katsmazov

Memoirs of Moshe Zeev Gelbert, born in Ilisesti, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Ataki, Mogilev and Katsmazov Anti-Jewish legislation, 1941; deportation to Transnistria; order to remove jewelry and hand it over to Romanian soldiers in Burdujeni; arrival in Ataki; assembly of Jews in the synagogue; finding a sign on the wall written in blood, reading, "Jews were murdered in this place. You Jews passing by here, please say Kaddish"; murder of Jews by the Romanian gendarmerie; destruction of the certificates [of the murdered?] so that they could not be identified; arrival in Mogilev on...

File Number : 8497

Type of Material : Memoirs, Red Cross Letter, List of Deportees

Language : Hebrew, Romanian

Documentation of Avraham Magid, born in Poland, 1911, regarding his experiences in the partisans in forests in the Vilna and Lida area, in Zionist activities in Italy, and in other places

Documentation of Avraham Magid, born in Poland, 1911, regarding his experiences in the partisans in forests in the Vilna and Lida area, in Zionist activities in Italy, and in other places Memoirs of Avraham Magid; his activities as a commander of a partisans unit in forests in the Vilna area, 1943; life in the partisans, including his participation in the liberation of Lida; life in Lida; meets Chaja Sawicka, his future wife; escape from the partisans camp with another 24 people due to fear of being murdered by non-Jewish partisans; escape to the families camp of Tuvia Bielski; order by General Vasily...

File Number : 8350

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Memoirs of Simcha Itzkovitz, born in Mir, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Mir Ghetto, in hiding in the forest and as a partisan

Memoirs of Simcha Itzkovitz, born in Mir, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Mir Ghetto, in hiding in the forest and as a partisan Life in the Mir Ghetto; deportation and murder of his mother in an "Aktion", 09 November 1941; escape with his three siblings with help from Oswald Rufeisen, a member of the ghetto underground, August 1942; life in hiding in the forest; joins the Lidski partisan battalion, May 1943; transfer to the Bielski partisan battalion; work in an explosives workshop; use of German bombs and shells; return to Mir, 1944; transfer by the Red Army to study vehicle mechanics in...

File Number : 8045

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 3513

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Emanuel Elbinger, born in 1931 in Krakow, Poland, regarding his experiences in Nowe Brzesko ghetto and in hiding in nearby villages

Testimony of Emanuel Elbinger, born in 1931 in Krakow, Poland, regarding his experiences in Nowe Brzesko ghetto and in hiding in nearby villages The Elbinger family (mother, father, daughters Lusia and Pola, and son Emanuel) owned a fabrics shop in Nowe Brzesko. Harassment and persecution of the Jewish population in Nowe Brzesko began after the Germans came; the old men were beaten and abused in the streets; the Elbingers' shop was confiscated, but they managed to give some of the goods and valuables to the Polish friends for safekeeping, in order to provide themselves with necessities for life later. In the...

File Number : 3506

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Publication titled "Extermination of the Jews in Lithuania - facts from the years 1941-1945", compiled from various documents, edited by M. Segalson, Tel Aviv, 1959

Publication titled "Extermination of the Jews in Lithuania - facts from the years 1941-1945", compiled from various documents, edited by M. Segalson, Tel Aviv, 1959 This file contains: Publication under the title "Extermination of the Jews in Lithuania - facts from the years 1941-1945", compiled from various documents, inter alia testimonials, witness reports, articles, drawings, photographs, edited by M. Segalson in Tel Aviv; the publication gives a historical summary and description of the persecution, torture and murder of Lithuanian Jewry, carried out by the German occupation forces and their...

File Number : 3362

Type of Material : Memoirs, Photograph, List of Nazi War Criminals, Drawing, Newspaper Clippings, Testimony, Document(s), List of Perpetrators, Photocopy, Documentary, Excerpt(s), Reports

Language : German

Documentation regarding the activities and personnel of Polizeibataillon 310 in Belorussia, 1940-1943

Documentation regarding the activities and personnel of Polizeibataillon 310 in Belorussia, 1940-1943 Part 1 (pp. 1-529): - Correspondence and radio messages of Polizeibataillon 310 (later Polizeiregiment 15, 3. Bataillon), between 22/08/1942-18/11/1942 (pp. 1-212 and 394-512). The unit was stationed in Kobryn and conducted its activities in the area between Kobryn and Brest in western Belorussia. Its main objectives were the destruction of the partisan resistance and the extermination of the remaining Jews. The unit participated in three larger operations against the partisans in operations code-named...

File Number : 13

Type of Material : List of Perpetrators, Record of Murdered Persons, Statistical Data, Photograph, Personal Documents, Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation, Personal Records

Language : Italian, German

Testimony of Lidia (Drel) Kleyman, born in Gritsev, Ukraine, 1931, regarding her experiences in the Gritsev Ghetto, Starokonstantinov Ghetto and with a partisan unit in forests

Testimony

Testimony of Lidia (Drel) Kleyman, born in Gritsev, Ukraine, 1931, regarding her experiences in the Gritsev Ghetto, Starokonstantinov Ghetto and with a partisan unit in forests Outbreak of the war, summer 1941; attempt to escape; return to Gritsev with her family; anti-Jewish decrees; murder including drowning of Jews in a lake by Ukrainian policemen; murder of men in a forest near Gritsev in the first "Aktion", August 1941; rescue with her mother and toddler sister; life in the Gritsev Ghetto including murder in the Slavuta forests during the second "Aktion" in the autumn; transfer with those who were left...

File Number : 4019

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony

Testimony of Raja (Kaplinska) Kalmanowicz, born in Nowogrodek, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, Lida, Nowogrodek, in hiding and with Tuwia Bielski’s partisans in the Naliboki forests Soviet occupation, 1939; nationalization of her parents' property; paragraph 11 is entered into her family's identity cards; restriction on rights to receive work and to be accepted into institutions of higher learning; completion of a laboratory technician's course in Bialystok; work as the director of a laboratory in Lida; detention of her parents by the NKVD; outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union...

File Number : 4055

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony

Testimony of Benjamin Pener, born in Pultusk, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Soviet occupied zone, in Grodno, the Slonim Ghetto, near the Pietralewicze forest and with the Ponomarenko partisans Outbreak of the war between Germany and Poland, September 1939; life in Bialystok under Soviet occupation; move to Grodno; move to Slonim; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; German occupation; murder of his family members; murder of approximately 1,000 men; visit to a mass grave near the Pietralewicze forest; murder of Vinet, one the heads of the Judenrat, in an "Aktion", 15...

File Number : 3638

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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