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Testimony of Jacob Simha Klayman, born in Lodz, 1928, regarding his experiences in Turobin, escape to a forest and with a NSZ partisan unit

Testimony

Testimony of Jacob Simha Klayman, born in Lodz, 1928, regarding his experiences in Turobin, escape to a forest and with a NSZ partisan unit His childhood in Lodz; attends a public school and "heder". German occupation of Lodz, 1939; deportation to Turobin in the Lublin area; harsh conditions; death of a sister and brother; search for food; escape to a forest during a deportation to an unknown destination, 1942; work in Polish villages using a false identity; joins the Narodowe Sily Zbrojne (NSZ) partisan unit; liberation, 1945. Help from the Red Cross; meets emissaries from Eretz Israel in Warsaw;...

File Number : 11679

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Marian Szatkowski, born in Makow Podhalanski, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Chabowka, the Krakow Ghetto, investigated by the German police in Przemysl and the Gestapo in Zloczow, and other places German occupation; deportation to Chabowka; camp life including labor in a Stuag factory, March 1940-April 1941; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto, summer 1941; murder of Makow Podhalanski, a Jew, summer 1942; execution of Jews in Zabiezow by Polish police, autumn 1942; interrogation by the German police in Przemysl; interogation by the Gestapo in Zloczow; deportation to Lacki Wielkie,...

File Number : 1818

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Testimony of Salomon Wettman, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1929, regarding the activities of a group of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) in Pilice, 1942

Testimony of Salomon Wettman, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1929, regarding the activities of a group of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) in Pilice, 1942 Coordination of 60 young Jews who were members of the Gordonia, Hashomer Hatzair, Akiva, Poalei Zion and Dror (Freiheit) movements into a combat underground called the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) in Pilice, 1942; their residence in Podgorze, while coordinating with the Polish Socialist Party (PPS); attack on the ZOB by the Narodowe Siły Zbrojne (NSZ - National Armed Forces), a right-wing, antisemitic faction of the Polish underground; escape...

File Number : 134

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Survey-reports, protocols and letters of the Rada Pomocy Zydom-Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) to the Polish Government-in-Exile Legation, 28 December 1942-23 December 1944

Survey-reports, protocols and letters of the Rada Pomocy Zydom-Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) to the Polish Government-in-Exile Legation, 28 December 1942-23 December 1944 - Reports and letters from Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) that were transferred to the representative of the Polish Government-in-Exile indicating the shortage in the budget for relief activities for the Jews; - Exploitation of the tragic condition of the Jews by the Poles; - Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto and deportation of the Jews to Treblinka; description of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; - Escape of Jews to the...

File Number : 83

Type of Material : Letter, Survey Report, Protocol

Language : Polish

Testimony of Theodor Hatalgi regarding his hiding on the Aryan side of Lublin and a conversation with Jimmy Blindze, a Pole who suggested to him that he participate in the mass murder of Jews on Polish soil after the entry of the Soviets In a Letter of Testimony from Theodor Hatalgi to Professor Yehuda Bauer, dated 30 November 1981, the witness gives a short overview of his escape from the Warsaw Ghetto, October 1941, and his life in Lublin with forged Aryan documents which he obtained from a Polish friend. In April 1942, his wife joined him, and they both were employed as clerks in Polish companies that...

File Number : 397

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ianek Remetz, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding and underground activities

Testimony

Testimony of Ianek Remetz, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding and underground activities Assimilated, Zionist family; life Warsaw from the age of 10 years; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of the war; escape in the direction of Lwow; return to Warsaw; Warsaw Ghetto life; attempt to make a livelihood and survival; collective punishment; difficult interpersonal relations; organizing for studies and matriculation exams; labor in the ghetto using a rickshaw; Jewish police; Judenrat; underground; spiritual life in the ghetto; selections in the ghetto,...

File Number : 7978

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechaj Kalmanowicz, born in Wojslawice, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Wojslawice, the Chelm Ghetto and in the underground in the Lublin Forest

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechaj Kalmanowicz, born in Wojslawice, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Wojslawice, the Chelm Ghetto and in the underground in the Lublin Forest Life in Wojslawice including Judenrat activities and help of the head of the Judenrat to Jews; murder of Jewish inmates in prison; deportation to Jews to the Wlodawa Ghetto; escape with his family to the Chelm Ghetto; ghetto life including deportation; escape; life in prison in Wojslawice; rescue by a Polish family; escape to the Lublin forest; joins the Armia Ludowa (AL); life in the underground in the Lublin forest; combat with members...

File Number : 3270

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Testimony of Samuel Rozen, born in Buczacz, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Buczacz Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Samuel Rozen, born in Buczacz, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Buczacz Ghetto Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Buczacz Ghetto; liberation. Life after the war including antisemitic activities of the National Armed Forces, NSZ in Krakow.

File Number : 2055

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Stefan Michta, regarding his experience in the Czestochowa ghetto, forced labor at HASAG Eisenhutte Werke factory in Rakow, his underground activity and hiding in the village of Wozniki

Testimony of Stefan Michta, regarding his experience in the Czestochowa ghetto, forced labor at HASAG Eisenhutte Werke factory in Rakow, his underground activity and hiding in the village of Wozniki By the end of January 1943, Stefan Michta was in the so-called small ghetto in Czestochowa; was forced to work in HASAG Eisenhutte Werke (metalworks) in Rakow. There he joined the Jewish Combat Organization (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa, ZOB); his pseudonym was "August"; was enrolled in the "Kantor" unit, that included Geldbard, Feler, Plawner, Kantor and Leon Bukowski (the latter, as a member of the People's Army...

File Number : 11313

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Joint testimony of Chaim Hirszman , born in Janow Lubelski, Poland in 1912 and of Pola Hirschman, nee Kaminer, born in Bilogoraj, Poland in 1923 regarding the experiences of Chaim Hirszman in Janow Lubelski and in the Belzec camp, and regarding his escape from the deportation to Sobibor

Abuse of the Jews with the entry of the Germans into Janow Lubelski; robbery of property, kidnappings for forced labor; the witness'work as a framer until the deportation to Belzec in September 1942; the separation from his wife during the selection at their arrival to the camp and his being chosen for work; during his work on the team that shaved the hair of the women who were murdered in the gas chambers, he identified the corpse of his wife; the hunger conditions in the camp, the typhus epidemic, the lack of treatment, abuse of the inmates and murders by the German staff; the transports arriving often; due...

File Number : 578

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish