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Survey report of Itzhak Ribak regarding the fate of members of the Ribak family from Wierzbnik and from Opoczno, Poland

Survey report of Itzhak Ribak regarding the fate of members of the Ribak family from Wierzbnik and from Opoczno, Poland Death of his mother; survival of his brothers, Menachem Mendel and Shmuel Meir among the Polish partisans; murder of his brothers by Poles after the war; experiences of his nephew, Shmuel Meir's infant son; arrival of his brother Yehuda to Eretz Israel via Iran while in the service of the Anders Army; fate of his younger brother Avraham, who escaped to the Soviet Union and disappeared without a trace; Included in the file: - Aliya application forms from the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem...

File Number : 1239

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Survey Report, Form, Letter, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English

Letters sent by Ignatz Friedman from Marseille to his wife Yetti and his daughter Nelly, 1942, and memoirs of Nelly (Friedman) Grussgott, born in Berlin, Germany, 1931, regarding her experiences in Berlin, 1938-1940 - Letters sent by Ignatz Friedman from Marseille to his wife Yetti and his daughter Nelly, 24/09-29/10/1942; - Memoirs of Nelly (Friedman) Grussgott: Her father departs to the United States, 1937; return of her father and his arrival to Belgium, approximately one year later; arrival of Nelly to Belgium with her mother; attempts made to obtain a permit to emigrate to the United States;...

File Number : 1833

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Letter, Memoirs

Language : English, German

זיכרונותיו של דוד רוזנצוייג יליד פולין 1928 על רדיפות יהודי Sadowne שהתחילו עם פלישת הגרמנים, על בריחתו לצד הרוסי יחד עם הוריו, על קורותיו בסיביר ובאוזבקיסטן ועל הגעתו לארץ דרך Teheran ב-1942

Memoirs of David Rosencwajg, born in Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in Sadowne, Molotov and Siberia, and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1942 Life in Sadowne before the war. German occupation; burning of homes in the town; his escape, and receives help from Poles; escape to the Soviet occupied territory; life in Molotov; life in Chelyabinsk; life in Siberia; life in Tashkent; escape to Teheran; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1942.

File Number : 8258

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Michael Felman Feldman Padan, born in Sarniki, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in Sarniki, in hiding, in forests with the partisans, in Sverdlovsk, Poland and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Felman Feldman Padan, born in Sarniki, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in Sarniki, in hiding, in forests with the partisans, in Sverdlovsk, Poland and other places His childhood in his parents' home [in Sarniki] and in his grandparents' homes in Korzec. Red Army occupation of Sarniki, September 1939; life under Soviet rule; German Army occupation of Sarniki, June 1941; administration of Sarniki by Ukrainians Danilo and Ivan, June 1941; establishment of the Sarniki Ghetto on another street; kidnapping of his father; murder of his father with another 1,000 Jews in the Jewish...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Leibel Stotzki, born in Bielica, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Bielica, the Zetel Ghetto and with the partisans in a forest in the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Leibel Stotzki, born in Bielica, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Bielica, the Zetel Ghetto and with the partisans in a forest in the Soviet Union Life before the war; family owns a workshop; attends a Tarbut school. Soviet occupation; ban on Jewish religious observance; drafted to the Red Army; German occupation, 1941; abuse of Jews; "Aktions"; murder of Jews; informed on by Poles; burning of the place due to the nearby air field; escape and in hiding in a forest; escape to the Zetel Ghetto; ghetto life; dismantling of Soviet equipment; murder of Jews; mass grave in a forest;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chava (Trakinski) Borenstein, born in Podbrodzie, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto, Swir Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strasshof and Stutthof

Testimony

Testimony of Chava (Trakinski) Borenstein, born in Podbrodzie, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto, Swir Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strasshof and Stutthof Traditional family; displays of antisemitism before the war; move to Vilna, 1929; meets Jewish refugees; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement. German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; large Vilna Ghetto life and small Vilna Ghetto life; anti-Jewish restrictions; liquidation of the small ghetto; return of her father to Podbrodzie; escape in the direction of Bialystok; in hiding in a flour mill; in hiding...

File Number : 13028

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dorota Dorla (Baum) Landwer, born in Lwow, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Lwow Ghetto and in hiding in a village using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Dorota Dola (Baum) Landwer, born in Lwow, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Lwow Ghetto and in hiding in a village using a false identity From a traditional, Zionist family. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation; restrictions on the Jews and their businesses; nationalization of property; German occupation; deportation to the Lwow Ghetto, 1942; "Aktion" and deportation; murder of her parents; stealing of property and valuables; forced labor at a sawmill; information regarding the murder of Jews and their burial in a mass grave; life in hiding with help from her brother and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 32, 24/07/1941 Section 1 - Political events; - Decrease in the level of activity of the Communist Party in Denmark; sabotage of trains in Yugoslavia; Section 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen: - Announcement of the Hoehere SS und Polizeifuehrer (HSSPF-Regional SS and Police Commander) in the Central Region regarding the parachuting of Soviet paratroopers in the Bereza-Kartuszka area and...

File Number : 163.32

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Article written by the Holocaust survivor Simon Koc from Kielce and Ostrovitz, regarding his experiences and the experiences of the Kielce Jews during the Holocaust

Article written by the Holocaust survivor Simon Koc from Kielce and Ostrovitz, regarding his experiences and the experiences of the Kielce Jews during the Holocaust The article has no date: Description of his experiences during the Ostrovitza occupation by the German Army, late 1939; various decrees including the obligation to wear an armband as a sign of recognition; establishment of a ghetto, from 20 March 1940; murder of the elderly and children; deportation of all the Jews aged 12-65 to labor camps, among them Treblinka, Plaszow, Majdanek, Lublin and Auschwitz under the orders of Frank, January 1941;...

File Number : 4.22

Type of Material : Article

Language : Yiddish

Official documentation of the District Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poznań including testimonies of Poles from Konin and the vicinity about the murder of the Jews of Konin and the vicinity, including Zagorów Executions, apparently of some 3,000 Jews, in pits in the Długa Łąka forest from autumn 1952 onward [sic: on September 26–28, 1942]; murders carried out without the local population knowing; Polish prisoners bury the victim, sort their possessions, and tidy up the area; murders evidently by Gestapo operatives and German gendarmes; Germans blur the traces of the murders in autumn...

File Number : 2

Language : Polish

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