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Personal documents, including correspondence between Joel Rybak and his family, and a Red Cross letter sent by Mirjam and Rachel Grosfeld in Eretz Israel to their mother Nuta Grosfeld in Bedzin; documents dated, 1932-1941 Included in the file: - Letters sent by Joel Rybak from Rowne to his sister Mirjam in Eretz Israel, 1932-1935; - Letters sent by Joel Rybak from the "Owadja" (Ovadia) aliya training "kibbutz" in Slawkow to his sister Mirjam and her husband Avraham Kreizer, 1936-1937; - Postcard sent by Joel Rybak from Slawkow to his father Aron in Rowne; - Letters and postcards sent by Aron and...

File Number : 2019

Type of Material : Red Cross Letter, Letter, Personal Documents, Postcard

Language : Polish, English, Yiddish

Letter by Wladyslaw Szlezak, born in Cieszanow, regarding the Jews of Cieszanow during the German occupation and their relations with the Poles, his family's help to Jews, and the fate of the Poles in Cieszanow; letter sent to Cyla Perlmutter on 02/02/2000 In Szlezak's letter to Cyla Perlmutter, he relates to several subjects: 1. Establishment of the Cieszanow Ghetto for local Jews who were residents of Cieszanow and for Jewish refugees who arrived to the town; violence by the Ukrainians toward Poles and Jews; help by his grandmother Anna, who gave food to Jews from the ghetto; help by his father to Jews...

File Number : 5867

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Collection of articles and testimonies regarding Satanov Jews during the World Wars

Collection of articles and testimonies regarding Satanov Jews during the World Wars - the poem "Know where you came from and where you are going" from 25 October 1996; - map of Ukraine showing Satanov; - map of Satanov; - three encyclopedia articles regarding Satanov; - article regarding the history of Satanov, published in the "HeAvar" (The Past) quarterly in May 1965; - article regarding the Podolia region; - article entitled "Gerush Satanov" (the deportation from Satanov regarding the deportation of Satanov Jews in 1915; - "The pogrom in Proskurov in 1919 / personal testimony from a...

File Number : 4656

Type of Material : Investigation Reports, Map, Documentary, Poem/song, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Russian, Yiddish

Memoirs of Boleslaw Ringler, born in Boryslaw, Poland in 1907, regarding his experiences in Rypno, Stanislawow, in prison in Drohobycz, in hiding in Boryslaw, and in other places

Memoirs of Boleslaw Ringler, born in Boryslaw, Poland in 1907, regarding his experiences in Rypno, Stanislawow, in prison in Drohobycz, in hiding in Boryslaw, and in other places Hearing rumors in Boryslaw regarding an approaching war; fear and chaos among the residents; outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation; deportation of residents to Siberia; labor in a fuel mine in Rypno; marriage to a non-Jewish woman; birth of his daughter Krystyna; life in Rypno; visit by his wife and daughter at the home of his father-in-law in Boryslaw; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; separation from his...

File Number : 4167

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Diary of Leon Kaminski, titled Bet Hatsala [“Dom Ocalenia"— house of rescue] about his experiences in hiding with the Halkiew family in Zalucze

Diary of Leon Kaminski, titled Bet Hatsala [“Dom Ocalenia"— house of rescue] about his experiences in hiding with the Halkiew family in Zalucze Life before the war in Zalucze; hearing rumors about impending outbreak of war; war breaks out; Soviet occupation ensues on September 17, 1939; war erupts between Germany and the USSR; multiple bombardments and destruction in Zalucze; Ukrainian pogroms against Jews; the witness, his wife, and his children live in hiding with the Halkiew family; German occupation ensues; Jews oppressed and homes looted; witness assigned to forced labor; multiple Aktionen in 1941;...

File Number : 3697

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Polish

"Przytyk. Wielki proces Polakow z Zydami" (Przytyk, the Great Trial of Poles and Jews), a book by Stefan Niebudek, published 07 July 1936

"Przytyk. Wielki proces Polakow z Zydami" (Przytyk, the Great Trial of Poles and Jews), a book by Stefan Niebudek, published 07 July 1936 In the book there is a report from a trial conducted following riots against the Jews in Przytyk, 09 March 1936. The rioting broke out after a period of tension in the relations between Polish merchants and Jewish merchants, which was accompanied by a wave of severe antisemitic propaganda. During the riots, three people were murdered and more than 20 injured. At the trial 57 people were prosecuted: 43 Poles and 14 Jews; 35 of the defendants were sentenced to...

File Number : 418

Type of Material : Book

Language : Polish

Testimonies of Dr. Erwin Lichtenstein, former counsel of the Synagogengemeinde (Jewish community) of Danzig, regarding the final year of community life in Danzig and the emigration of almost the entire community, 1933-1939 - Danzig's status as a free town according to international law; the makeup of the Jews of Danzig; - Bare majority for the Nazis in the elections in Danzig , May 1933; coalition of the Nazi Party, the German National People's Party and the Center party; on a governmental level, no measures against Jews, but increasing pressure against the Jews by the National Socialists; gradually...

File Number : 72

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Transcript of testimony of Batia (Wegh) Adler, born in Nagovo in 1924, about her experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust

Transcript of testimony of Batia (Wegh) Adler, born in Nagovo in 1924, about her experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust Childhood in Nagovo—persecution of Jews by Ukrainians and local inhabitants in 1938–1939; Hungary annexes area in 1939; some rural Jews, including the witness's parents, are deported; witness remains in hiding during the deportation; wanders from hideout to hideout in the area, staying mainly with relatives, in 1941–1943; back to Nagovo in 1943; life in Nagovo with grandmother; sent to Mateszalka ghetto in 1944; forced labor outside the ghetto; deported to Auschwitz; selection:...

File Number : 12546

Type of Material : תמליל

Language : Hebrew

Documentation from the State Archive of Mykolayiv Region from 1917-1954

Documentation from the State Archive of Mykolayiv Region from 1917-1954 With the establishment of the Soviet regime in January 1920, all the archives were nationalized and in 1921 the state archives of the Mykolaiv Region were established. The documentation includes: - documents from numerous fonds in the region of Mykolayiv, Ukraine from 1917-1938; directives of the Communist Party on work with national minorities; correspondence, reports, resolutions, lists of members of the Jewish sector; protocols, personal files of Jews for the elimination of members of Communist Party organizations; lists of...

Type of Material : Card File, List of Business Owners, Official Documentation, Names, Propaganda, List of Voters, Reports, Survey Report

Language : Polish, Russian, Ukrainian

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

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