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Testimony

Joint testimony of Gerszon Kazdan, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1911, and Bracha Bronislava (Baum) Kazdan, born in Radom, Poland, 1911, regarding their experiences in Ostrow Mazowiecka, Bialystok, Lwow, Siberia, as a Polish Army soldier and in other places Both Gerszon Kazan and Bracha Kazdan work as dentists; escape from Zwolen to the Soviet side, November 1939; illegal border crossing. Burning of the synagogue in Ostrow Mazowiecka; life in Bialystok; life in Lwow; transfer to the Soviet Union, summer 1940; labor logging trees and as dentists in Siberia; liberation with Polish citizens from the closed camps;...

File Number : 3557

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Maria Sanocka, a Polish woman, born in Wojtowa, in the Gorlice District, Poland, 1923 regarding the fate of her Jewish neighbors

Memoirs of Maria Sanocka, a Polish woman, born in Wojtowa, in the Gorlice District, Poland, 1923 regarding the fate of her Jewish neighbors Good relations between the Poles and the Jews in Wojtawa before the war; participation of the Jews in every aspect of village life; memories of the writer of Jewish merchants from the village of Biecz; Outbreak of the war, September 1939; ties of friendship between the witness' family and the Geicailer and Fiber families; death of Chaim Geicailer during the course of his escape toward the East; the situation of the Jews under the German occupation; deportation of the...

File Number : 6643

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Testimony

Testimony of Yafa Kristina (Janower) Klajnerman, born in Zolkiewka, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Zolkiewka Ghetto, escape from a railroad station in Izbica and life in hiding using a false identity Her parents' livelihood; religious holidays; Jewish community; hosting Red Army officers in their home; attends school; displays of antisemitism. Inmate in the Zolkiewka Ghetto; activities of the head of the Judenrat; family members labor for non-Jews; shooting of people in the ghetto; shearing of beards; concentration of the Jews in an open area; escape from an "Aktion"; deportation of relatives to...

File Number : 11687

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jechiel Sztokfisz, born in Lublin, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences as a Polish Army soldier, a Soviet POW and with Anders Army

Testimony

Testimony of Jechiel Sztokfisz, born in Lublin, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences as a Polish Army soldier, a Soviet POW and with Anders Army Life before the war. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; drafted into the Polish Army; taken captive by the Soviets; joins Anders Army using a false identity, 1942; escape; joins the People's Polish Army, 1943; liberation of Lublin; liberation of Majdanek; end of the war. Serves as an officer in the standing Army until 1953; aliya to Israel, 1957.

File Number : 2125

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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

Wolna Polska (Free Poland) bulletin issued by the Zwiazek Patriotow Polskich na Srodkowym Wschodzie (Union of Polish Patriots in the Middle East) on April 1, 1944

.Wolna Polska (Free Poland) bulletin issued by the Zwiazek Patriotow Polskich na Srodkowym Wschodzie (Union of Polish Patriots in the Middle East) on April 1, 1944 The Association of Polish Patriots in the Middle East was an organization made up of some Poles who came to Eretz Israel with Anders’ army, which opposed the Polish government-in-exile in London and supported the Soviet Union and the communists and left-wing forces on Polish soil; The bulletin criticizes the policy of the Polish government-in-exile in London, which portrayed the Soviets as an enemy of the nascent Polish state; The organization...

File Number : 701

Type of Material : Brochure

Language : Polish

Testimony of Leon Cymiel, born in 1924 in Chelm Lubelski, Poland, about his experiences in Chelm Lubelski, the Chelm camp, Sobibór, with the partisans in the Lublin area, etc.

Testimony of Leon Cymiel, born in 1924 in Chelm Lubelski, Poland, about his experiences in Chelm Lubelski, the Chelm camp, Sobibór, with the partisans in the Lublin area, etc. Establishment of an open ghetto in Chelm Lubelski; imposition of “contributions” by the authorities; execution of hostages as punishment for failure by the Judenrat to meet the deadline or for failing to raise the requisite sum; toughening of anti-Jewish policies in 1941, including the establishment of camps in and around Chelm; imposing a harsh regimen on prisoners in the camps in the Chelm area; beatings, starvation, assignment of...

File Number : 4057

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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File Number : 2255

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Testimony of Jozef Malecki regarding the assistance of the Gwardia Ludowa (GL-Polish Peoples' Guard, a World War II resistance movement organized by the Polish Workers Party) to the Resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Receipt of assistance in the supplying of weapons to the Resistance fighters; battles with the Germans; the witness mentions three campaigns that were made during the final days of the Uprising with the aim of extracting members of the Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB-Jewish Fighting Organization) from the ghetto and [transferring them] over to the Aryan side in order for them to join the...

File Number : 179

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Various certificates from Warsaw, Krakow, Auschwitz from the years 1940-1945

Various certificates from Warsaw, Krakow, Auschwitz from the years 1940-1945 - fake Aryan certificates in the name of Stefania Wodzinska, born 01/05/1910 Warsaw, Poland; the file contains an identity card and work certificate issued in Greiz, Germany in 1943-1945, a transit certificate intended for travel to Germany for forced labor issued on August 22, 1942 and a birth certificate; - Authorization of the Disbandment Committee of the Krajowa Underground Army (Armia Krajowa - Homeland Army) issued to Aleksander Hawlicki, born 03/27/1923 in Brody, Poland, who served in the Krajowa Underground Army and appeared...

File Number : 612

Type of Material : Personal Documents, List of Names

Language : Polish, German

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