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Testimony of Adolf Bromberger, born in Krakow, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in an underground group of the Polska Partia Robotnicza (PPR - Polish Workers' Party) in Krakow, in hiding on the Aryan side in Prokocim, and work while using a false identity in Kazimierza Wielka, Przemysl and Skarzysko-Kamienna Membership in an underground group of the Gwardia Ludowa (GL - People's Guard) of the PPR, in the Krakow Ghetto, from 1942; contact and cooperation with Jewish resistance fighters in the ghetto; participation in activities outside the ghetto: attack on and stealing of merchandise from an Optima...

File Number : 60

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Cesia Frymer and Pola Warszawska regarding the Jewish underground in Krakow and Rzeszow

Testimony of Cesia Frymer and Pola Warszawska regarding the Jewish underground in Krakow and Rzeszow Organization of the underground in the Krakow Ghetto after the deportations, June 1942; characteristics of the organization members; contacts between the pioneer Zionist movements and the Polska Partia Robotnicza (PPR - Polish Workers' Party), a Polish Communist party; the robbery in the Optima factories; preparation for, and carrying out of, sabotage against German targets; attack on the Cyganeria coffee shop, the preferred recreation spot for German officers in Krakow; arrest of many resistance fighters...

File Number : 529

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Letter sent by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff from Bialystok to his friends in Eretz Israel regarding the fate of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, April 1943

Letter sent by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff from Bialystok to his friends in Eretz Israel regarding the fate of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, April 1943 Dror activities in Poland, 1941-1943; German policy regarding the Jews; life in Warsaw and in the ghetto including the economic and social situation; the Ringelblum Archives; the various parties in the ghetto; preparations for the uprising; the fate of Tema Schneiderman; negotiations with the Armia Krajowa (AK) and the Polska Partia Robotnicza (PPR- Communist Workers Party). Note: Copy of the original material from the ghetto archive dug up from deep in...

File Number : 9

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew

Report (by radio) of Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the life of the Jews and the Jewish underground in the Warsaw Ghetto in honor of the second anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1945

Report (by radio) of Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the life of the Jews and the Jewish underground in the Warsaw Ghetto in honor of the second anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1945 Life of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto including "Aktions", hunger and executions, 1942-1943; deportation of Jews from the ghetto to Trawniki; deportation of Jews from the ghetto to their deaths in the gas chambers in Treblinka; establishment of the underground Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB - Jewish Fighting Organization) in the ghetto; Jewish underground activities including fighting against the Germans; killing of...

File Number : 65

Type of Material : Survey

Language : Polish

Testimony of Jan Jablonski, regarding the activities of the Jewish Communists underground in the Warsaw Ghetto

Testimony of Jan Jablonski, regarding the activities of the Jewish Communists underground in the Warsaw Ghetto Making of contact by a veteran Communist with underground movements on the Aryan side before the sealing of the Warsaw Ghetto. Establishment of a branch of the "Association of Friends of the Soviet Union" in cooperation with Communists in the Warsaw Ghetto, whose main task was to listen to the radio and distribute the underground press. Later on an organization was established, named "Patish u'Magal" ("Hammer and Sickle"), which numbered between 600-700 members, most of them workers and veteran...

File Number : 674

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Lecture delivered by Janusz Zarzycki in 1963 regarding German policy in Poland after the occupation, and the central importance of the Communists in the fighting against the Nazis and the giving of assistance to the Jews Nazi policy in Germany during the 1930s; policy towards the Jews in Poland after the occupation; establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto and its consequences for the Jewish population; deportation of Jews to the Treblinka annihilation camp; the Warsaw Ghetto uprising with an emphasis on assistance to the Jewish fighters from the Leftist sectors of the Polish underground; hiding of the Jews who...

File Number : 114

Type of Material : Lecture

Language : English

Documents of the Fighting Jewish Organization, Blok Antyfaszystowski (Anti-Fascist Bloc), PPR (Communist Party), and other organizations, regarding the resistance of Jews to the German occupation and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Documents of the Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB- Jewish Fighting Organization), the Blok Antyfaszystowski (Anti-fascist bloc), the PPR (Polish Communist Workers' Party) and other organizations regarding Resistance by the Jews to the German occupier and concerning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Testimony of Franciszek Leczycki regarding the assistance of the Gwardia Ludowa (Polish Peoples' Guard, a World War II resistance movement organized by the Polish Workers Party) and the PPR to the Jewish underground in the ghetto in the preparation of the Uprising and the fighting against the Germans; - "Pierwsza...

File Number : 189

Type of Material : Article, Application, Newspaper Clippings, Announcement, Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Bernard Borg regarding battles between Germans and Jews in the factory area during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Testimony of Bernard Borg regarding battles between Germans and Jews in the factory area during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Preparations for combat: Smuggling weapons, propaganda, cooperation with underground organizations on the Aryan side; participation of Communist Party (PPR) members in the ghetto in shooting lessons with Janek Szwarcfuks; Final preparations before the fighting: supplying food to the Resistance fighters; planning of escape routes from the ghetto; Outbreak of the Uprising: Fighting at the intersection of Leszno and Zelazna Streets and on Smocza Street; May Day celebration by the...

File Number : 195

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Antisemitic reports submitted by the Antyk Intelligence Unit of the Polish Army, 1941-1944

Antisemitic reports submitted by the Antyk Intelligence Unit of the Polish Army, 1941-1944 - Reports regarding activities of Communists in Grodno and Wolyn, 1941; - "Raport w sprawie K" (Report on K), a report regarding the activities of the Communist Party in Warsaw and relations between the residents of the city and the Communists, dated 18 April 1942; - Material regarding the anti-Communist campaign planned by the members of the Antyk Unit, including a description of the activities of the members of the Communist Party in Poland and the influence of Jews on this Party; - Report regarding Jews...

File Number : 58

Type of Material : Investigation Report, Letter, Reports

Language : Polish

Letter from Communist Party activists on the Central Committee of Polish Jews to the Central Committee of the Communist Party, dated 15 May 1945; report dated 25 April 1949

Letter from Communist Party activists on the Central Committee of Polish Jews to the Central Committee of the Communist Party, dated 15 May 1945; report dated 25 April 1949 In their letter, the Communist activists on the Central Committee of Polish Jews complain that there are no clear guidelines from the Party regarding the wave of Jews returning to Poland after the war. The writers also offer suggestions on how to cope with the influence of the Zionists on the Jews. Also in the file: A report by Jewish activists in the Polish Communist Party regarding the organizing of Jewish committees to deal with...

File Number : 43

Type of Material : Reports, Letter

Language : Polish

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