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Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation belonging Julian Czerwonogora, born in Wiszkow, Poland, 1907, from the period of his military service in the British Army, 1943-1947

Personal documentation belonging Julian Czerwonogora, born in Wiszkow, Poland,1907, from the period of his military service in the British Army, 1943-1947 Manuscripts (typewritten) of Julian Czerwonogora: - The Decline of Western Culture; - The Prince and The Jew; - The Collapse Of The Red Empire. Also in the file: - Paratrooper's certificate belonging to Julian Czerwonogora (in Polish); - Identity card and medical card belonging to Dora Czerwonogora, the sister of Julian Czerwonogora, issued in England, 1947 and 1950. Note: Julian Czerwonogora was born in Wiszkow, Poland, 24 January...

File Number : 687

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Literature, Personal Documents

Language : Polish, English

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File Number : 13417

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. 84, 15/09/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Call by the British radio station, Daventry, to harm the functioning of the German factories in the occupied German territories by slowing down the pace of work; finding hidden parachutes in the Kremsier district; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen: No reports were received; Part 3 - Military events: Activity of the Wehrmacht and Red Army...

File Number : 164.84

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

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. 78, 09/09/1941 Part 1 - Political events: A case of cannibalism in the Lamsdorf POW camp; assassination [attempt?] of the Bezirkszollkommissar (District Customs Commissioner) in the Selzach area, in Kaernten und Krain; battle against the Communist rebels in Serbia; exchange of views between the German headquarters and the Serbian Government regarding the manner of participation of Wehrmacht...

File Number : 164.78

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

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. 80, 11/09/1941 Part 1 - Political Events: Detention of 10 people who were suspected of organizing strikes in the Prague factories; return to work of the majority of the factories in Oslo; death sentence to two functionaries in the workers union; detention of more than 100 strike leaders; appointment of a senior Nazi Party official in place of the head of Norway's labor union; an order to...

File Number : 164.80

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Orders by Hess in the name of Hitler, regarding the treatment of British and American pilots and paratroopers who land on German territory, 1940

Orders by Hess in the name of Hitler, regarding the treatment of British and American pilots and paratroopers who land on German territory, 1940 - Translation to English, including comments, of an order regarding the capture of pilots, guarding the contents of the aircraft, and reporting the incident to the nearest Police station; in special cases, it is permitted to kill the pilot on the spot; transmission of the order, by means of the Nazi Party; the order is meant to be dispersed among the population - only by verbal means; - Document in German, including an explanation regarding in which cases pilots...

File Number : 259

Type of Material : Legal Documentation

Language : English, German

Testimony of David Eugene Goldstein, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, using a false identity and with the partisans

Testimony of David Eugene Goldstein, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, using a false identity and with the partisans From a large family; witness's father is an insurance agent; death of his father, 1929; family move to Bratislava, 1933; attends a Jewish public school and a Sciences high school; Hashomer Hatzair activities. Confiscation of possessions and restrictions on the Jews; Aryanization of the family business, 1938; drafted into the Slovakian Army, March 1940; unsuccessful attempt to make aliya to Eretz Israel on a Yugoslavian ship; his brother is exempt...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs and documentation of Andras Durovecz, regarding Hannah Szenes

Memoirs and documentation of Andras Durovecz, regarding Hannah Szenes - Calling card of George Steiger; - Photograph of Hannah Szenes; - Greeting card for the new year, in Hungarian, sent by Andras Durovecz to the brother of Hannah Szenes, regarding his planned visit in Israel, 1991; - Note written in Hebrew by Hasida David, who interviewed Andras Durovecz about his meeting with Hannah Szenes in Egypt before her transfer to Hungary, that Durovecz had left to the interviewer in his will the article he wrote about his meeting with Szenes; - Memoirs of Durovecz, in Hungarian (up to p. 16); the rest...

File Number : 6743

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English, Hungarian

Personal documentation belonging to Martin David Lewin Lewis, born in Tempelburg, Germany, 1922, from the years 1938-1946

Personal documentation belonging to Martin David Lewin Lewis, born in Tempelburg, Germany, 1922, from the years 1938-1946 1-2: Release certificate of the Jew, Martin Lewin, born in Tempelburg, from the Sachsenhausen camp (original and copy), 24 December, 1938; 3. Copy of the confirmation from the ORT school in Berlin (defined as a "private Jewish vocational school for Jews who are prepared to emigrate") that Martin Israel Lewin was a student at the institution, 01 April-31 December 1938, issued 07 January 1939; 4. Photocopy of the title page of the book, "Understand The Risks - How Those Who Fled To...

File Number : 389

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Book, Personal Documents

Language : English, German

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