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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

Letter of testimony written by Boris Goldberg regarding a Soviet officer who escaped from the Demblin camp, put together a partisan detachment and rescued nine Jews in the village of Oksheya

Letter of testimony written by Boris Goldberg regarding a Soviet officer who escaped from the Demblin camp, put together a partisan detachment and rescued nine Jews in the village of Oksheya Boris Goldberg tells of a Jewish woman who was hiding in the forest with a child and Jewish partisans who had escaped from an "Aktion" in Oksheya; her sister Rakhil had returned to the village in order to ask for food, was arrested and murdered after being abused; in the village of Oksheya, the soldier Boris Goldberg saw a grave marked with the first name, Ivan; the officer buried there had escaped from the Demblin cam,...

File Number : 66

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 55: Correspondence between Landesgericht Wien and other regional courts regarding interrogation requests and rogatory letters; testimonies mainly from members of the HSSPF Lublin

Documentation from trials conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin: Documentation of the trial, Volume 55: Correspondence between Landesgericht Wien and other regional courts regarding interrogation requests and rogatory letters; testimonies mainly from members of the HSSPF Lublin - Yad Vashem file card (p. 1); - Landesgericht...

File Number : 113

Type of Material : Letter, Names of Perpetrators, Testimony, Legal Documentation, Official Documentation

Language : German

Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 49; Trial against Dr. Ludwig Hahn, held in the Hamburg Regional Court: Testimonies by perpetrators (including soldiers from Police Battalion 61) and survivors regarding the Warsaw Ghetto, August 1960 - July 1961

Documentation from trials conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin: Documentation of the trial, Volume 49; Documentation of the trial against Dr. Ludwig Hahn, held in the Hamburg Regional Court: Testimonies by perpetrators (including soldiers from Police Battalion 61) and survivors regarding the Warsaw Ghetto, August 1960 - July...

File Number : 49

Type of Material : Testimony, Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons, Investigation Report, Letter(s), Legal Documentation, Record of Survivors

Language : German

P.18 - Kaczerginski Collection: Documentation regarding the Vilna Ghetto, 1941-1954

P.18 - Kaczerginski Collection: Documentation regarding the Vilna Ghetto, 1941-1954 Shmaryahu Kaczerginski was born in Vilna in 1908. From a very young age, he started to write and publish poetry and stories. Kaczerginski was one of the founders and activists in "Young Vilna", a group of young Yiddish poets in Vilna, and he was also active in the Communist movement. Even when he was a young man, some of his poems were adopted by the Jews of Vilna and Poland, and these poems became the folk songs sung by many of the Jews. In 1942, after about a year of hiding from the Germans, Kaczerginski returned to...

Type of Material : Diary, Testimony, Letter, Musical Notes, Poems/songs, Research Article, Play(s), Script(s)

Language : Russian, Yiddish

Testimonies of an anonymous woman, Rachela Kaplanska, and Julia Braun regarding the deportation of Jews from the Bialystok area, Sokoly, and Grodno, 01 November 1942

Testimonies of an anonymous woman, Rachela Kaplanska, and Julia Braun regarding the deportation of Jews from the Bialystok area, Sokoly, and Grodno, 01 November 1942 - Testimony of an anonymous woman regarding what befell the Jews in Grodno: Outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union and Germany; deterioration of the living conditions of the Jews in Grodno; establishment of the ghetto, 01 November 1941; division of the ghetto into two parts; transfer of the people with vocations into one part and the rest of the Jews into the second part; closing of the ghetto; deportation of many Jews from the area into...

File Number : 5931

Type of Material : Letter, Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Henryk Wasserlauf, born in Krakow, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Skarzysko-Kamienna camp and smuggling ammunition to partisans in nearby forests

Testimony of Henryk Wasserlauf, born in Krakow, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Skarzysko-Kamienna camp and smuggling ammunition to partisans in nearby forests Labor in the Skarzysko-Kamienna camp on a locomotive; friendship with the driver of the locomotive, a member of the Polish underground Armia Krajowa (AK); smuggles ammunition from the camp to partisans in the forest; interrogation under beatings and release without him betraying the names of his smuggling partners; eye-witness testimony to the building of a crematorium on the camp grounds, spring 1944; arrival of four transports a day...

File Number : 485

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

List of articles regarding Jewish self-defense, resistance movements, armed uprisings and the partisans, published in the "Das Neu Leben" journal in Lodz, 19/04/1945-02/03/1946

List of articles regarding Jewish self-defense, resistance movements, armed uprisings and the partisans, published in the "Das Neu Leben" journal in Lodz, 19/04/1945-02/03/1946 List of 15 articles written by the following authors: M. Mirski, Adolf Berman, Icchok Cukerman, Symche Rotajzen, Majlech Felin, Stanislaw Kon, Bernard Borg, G. Alef, Majlech Bakalczuk, Jozef Wulf, Efraim Siedlecki, and L. Szeftel.

File Number : 202

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Bibliography, Journal

Language : Polish

Testimony of Izrael Frenkiel, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1899, regarding his experiences in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Goerlitz camp, Buchenwald and Buna-Monowitz (Auschwitz III)

Testimony of Izrael Frenkiel, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1899, regarding his experiences in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Goerlitz camp, Buchenwald and Buna-Monowitz (Auschwitz III) Life in Tomaszow Mazowiecki before the war. Detention with the German occupation, 13 September 1939; deportation with a group of 1,000 people, among them 200 Jews, to the POW transit camp in Goerlitz, in the Sudeten Mountains; deportation of 2,000 inmates, among them 200 Jews, from Tomaszow Mazowiecki several days later; transfer to Krakow; transfer to Buchenwald; life in the Small Camp established for the Jewish inmates, including...

File Number : 185

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Helena Aussenberg, born, 1914, regarding her experiences in Radomysl Wielki, Dulcza Mala, in hiding, in Polaniec, and in the Jewish partisans family camp in forests

Testimony of Helena Aussenberg, born, 1914, regarding her experiences in Radomysl Wielki, Dulcza Mala, in hiding, in Polaniec, and in the Jewish partisans family camp in forests German occupation; kidnappings of Jews to forced labor, including humiliations and the theft of Jewish property; riots by Gestapo men in a random manner, including robbery and shooting of Jews; a portion of the Jews present themselves before the authorities for forced labor, according to a list published by the Judenrat; transfer of those Jews to Pustkow camp; deportation "Aktions" of Jewish men to Pustkow, at frequent intervals, as...

File Number : 160

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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