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Memoirs of Samuel Puterman from the Warsaw Ghetto

Memoirs of Samuel Puterman from the Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs of daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto in its various aspects; Jewish and German personalities well-known in the ghetto; "Aktions" and deportations during the ghetto's existence; service in the Jewish Ordnungspolizei (Order Police); implications of his job for his personal life and for his relationships with those around him.

File Number : 545

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Testimony of Henryk Bloch, born in Krakow, Poland, 1900, regarding Koerner, Deputy Chief of the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst (OD - Jewish Police) in Plaszow camp, and Koerner's attitude toward the inmates From an affadavit regarding Bloch's experiences, submitted at the start of his testimony: Life in Krakow before the war; Deportation to Pustkow, Plaszow, Gross-Rosen and Flossenburg camps; Attitude of Koerner, the Deputy Chief of the OD in Plaszow camp: flogging of the witness in his face and eyes, after being accused of a lack of industriousness; detention in a prisoner cell, where punishment by...

File Number : 489

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Bronislawa Rosenberg, born in Krakow, Poland regarding Zimmerman's service as a policeman in the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst (OD - Jewish Police) in Plaszow camp

Testimony of Bronislawa Rosenberg, born in Krakow, Poland regarding Zimmerman's service as a policeman in the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst (OD - Jewish Police) in Plaszow camp Zimmerman serves as a policeman in the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst (OD - Jewish Police) in Plaszow camp; Plaszow camp life, including residence in a barracks with the wife of policeman Zimmerman; she does labor, instead of Zimmerman's wife; beating of a Jewish woman in the barracks by policeman Zimmerman, until she relinquishes her place of work [for the benefit of the policeman's wife].

File Number : 42

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Liba Diefenbrun, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, in Plaszow camp, Auschwitz, Stutthof camp and Kokoszki

Testimony of Liba Diefenbrun, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, in Plaszow camp, Auschwitz, Stutthof camp and Kokoszki Life before the war; work as a seamstress; [German] occupation; death of her parents, sister and her fiance in the first deportation; death of her brother and his son in the second deportation; labor sewing uniforms; liquidation of the Tarnow Ghetto, 01 September 1942; deportation to Plaszow; murder of the children and the mothers, after an attempt to smuggle the children as packages inside backpacks; bodily search upon arrival to Plaszow camp;...

File Number : 369

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Joint testimony of Arno Levi and Lotte (Spielmann) Levi regarding their aliya training in Germany and the Netherlands, deportation to Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen, liberation while on a train transport; 1934-1945 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, April 1956: - Aliya training in Germany and the Netherlands; - Persecution and deportation to Westerbork, 1942; - Unsuccessful escape attempt from Westerbork; - Transfer to Bergen-Belsen, January 1944; - Transport from Bergen-Belsen by train across...

File Number : 5155

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Names, Testimony, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Aleksander Biberstein, born in Tarnopol, Poland, 1889, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow and Brnenec

Testimony

Testimony of Aleksander Biberstein, born in Tarnopol, Poland, 1889, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow and Brnenec Life in the Krakow Ghetto including activities in the Jewish health service; list of names of physicians and hospital attendants; list of names of public workers; medical treatment for children; public help to the hospital; liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to Plaszow; camp life including hospital activity; murder of Jews and Poles; list of names of the German and Ukrainian guards and Jewish collaborators; Jewish police activities; activities of the head Jewish doctor;...

File Number : 2362

Type of Material : Testimony, Memoirs, List of Persecuted Persons, List of Murdered Persons, List of Survivors

Language : Polish