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Proceedings of People's Court Session No.18 in Sofia, 29 March 1945

Proceedings of People's Court Session No.18 in Sofia, 29 March 1945 Indictments and names of plaintiffs: 1. Boris Barov - historic importance of the trial, persecution of the Jews in Europe and specifically in Germany, criticism of anti-Semitism in the world and in Bulgaria, statistical data concerning the number of Jews in the country, 1934-1945 and their economic, legal and social condition, restrictions against the Jews during the war and a survey regarding the Holocaust throughout the European countries; - Data regarding the trial (330 witnesses); - The influence of anti-Semitic ideas in...

File Number : 10

Type of Material : Protocol

Language : Bulgarian

Testimony of Joseph Lerer Eldar, born in Vijnita, 1931, regarding his experiences in different ghettos in Transnistria and forced labor

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Lerer Eldar, born in Vijnita, 1931, regarding his experiences in different ghettos in Transnistria and forced labor A close family; his parents' livelihood; learns in school and "heder"; visiting his grandparents in Poland; daily life; the religious holidays; rabbinical court; the Jewish community; life under Soviet occupation; expulsion of Jews to Siberia; plans to emigrate to the United States, which were not realized; deportation by train to Transnistria; conditions on the train; crossing the border to Mogilev Podolski; crossing the river on rafts; concentration of Jews in a synagogue;...

File Number : 11889

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jakub Denkel, born in Lwow, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences and the fate of the Jews of Lwow during the German occupation

Testimony of Jakub Denkel, born in Lwow, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences and the fate of the Jews of Lwow during the German occupation Pogrom against the Jews of Lwow perpetrated with the cooperation of the local Polish and Ukrainian populations on the day after the German occupation, 02 June 1941; arrest by the Gestapo, 04 July 1941; labor as a construction expert in the Lwow prison; second pogrom against the Jews of Lwow, 05 July 1941: concentration of several thousand Jews and their murder outside Lwow, three days later; murder of his brother and two uncles; third pogrom on the anniversary of the...

File Number : 58

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Personal documentation of the poet Eli Kubowitzki from Brussels, 1926-1927

Personal documentation of the poet Eli Kubowitzki from Brussels, 1926-1927 - Letter sent by the Jewish author, Rachel Feigenberg from Paris to Kubowitzki, 19 December 1926, regarding the Schwartzbart-Petliura trial and a review of her literary works, (pp.1-9); - Letter regarding the difficult conditions in the SS labor camp and the activities of the Kapo Kleiner, undated and unsigned (the first two pages are missing) (pp. 10-16); - Article written by J. Werner in memory of Kubowitzki titled, "A Small Bouquet of Memories", describing Kubowitzki's personality and his noble demeanor at the labor camp,...

File Number : 2

Type of Material : Diaries and Memoirs, Letter, Stories, Anthology

Language : Yiddish

Memoirs of Joachim Schönfeld, regarding his experiences in Poland and the Soviet Union during 1939-1941 and his experiences in Lwów and in the Lwów Ghetto during 1941-1943

Memoirs of Joachim Schönfeld, regarding his experiences in Poland and the Soviet Union during 1939-1941 and his experiences in Lwów and in the Lwów Ghetto during 1941-1943 He is in Warsaw with his wife and two sons at the outbreak of the war on 01 September 1939; air-raids on Warsaw; his family escapes from Warsaw and arrives to Ołyka; entry of the Red Army forces into Poland; arrival to Lwów; life under the Soviet regime; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941; air-raids on Lwów; entry of the Germans into Lwów; persecution of Jews; establishment of a Judenrat in Lwów on 25...

File Number : 9226

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Diary of Edmund Kessler of Lwów, secretly kept in the Kalwiński family's bunker in Lwów, 1942-1944, containing memories of events in June-December 1941 in Lwów and the diarist's poems from that time. - Notebook and pages with Edmund Kessler's writings from his stay in hiding in 1942-1944, including: --- Recollections of the persecution and murder of the Jews of Lwów by the Germans and the local population in June–December 1941: the Germans' entry into Lwów, discovery of bodies of political prisoners murdered by the NKVD before the Soviet forces retreated from the city, a pogrom, abuse and murder of Jews by...

File Number : 8977

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs, Diary

Language : Polish