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Documentation regarding Dola Ickowitz-Blaiberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1936; documents dated, 1957-2010

Documentation regarding Dola Ickowitz-Blaiberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1936; documents dated, 1957-2010 - Correspondence by Dola Ickowitz and notaries Dr. Gluecksmann and Haas in Tel Aviv, with the compensation payment authorities in Saarburg and Mainz, Germany, 1957-2010, regarding Ickowitz' experiences during the war; - Her life as a Christian, while hidden by Aniela Matras in Krakow; move to the Krakow Ghetto, by Matras; Krakow Ghetto life, with two Jewish girls; escape from the ghetto along with 10 children, while under the protection of a youth named Romek; return to Matras; life in hiding [with...

File Number : 538

Type of Material : Correspondence, Personal Records, Survey, Drawing, Photograph, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Testimony of an anonymous Jewish woman from the village of Rakow, Poland regarding her experiences in the Rakow Ghetto, escapes to the Aryan side using a false identity, hiding in the forest and in a Polish village and work in Germany using a false identity Life in Rakow at the time of the occupation including anti-Jewish legislation; life in the ghetto; capture of the witness; prevention of her deportation to Skarzysko-Kamienna due to the giving a bribe; escape of the family from the ghetto; hiding of the parents by farmers they had known before the war; trips taken to Czestochowa by train by the witness,...

File Number : 297.1

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Leon Tunis, born in Lwow, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences and his family's experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, in hiding, camps and personal documentation after the war

Memoirs of Leon Tunis, born in Lwow, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences and his family's experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, in hiding, camps and personal documentation after the war Leon Tunis: murder of his father, 1942; escape with his mother, brother and sister from the ghetto; hidden by a Polish women who is a widow of a Polish general; life with an assumed identity; capture by the Gestapo after the hiding place was exposed under torture by a female Jewish acquaintance; detention in a prison in Kielce; deportation to Auschwitz; separation of the mother from her children and she was taken to the gas...

File Number : 8451

Type of Material : Memoirs, Official Documentation, Work Permit, Interview(s), Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Latin, Hebrew, Polish, English, German

Memoirs of Jerzy Swierkosz, born in Lwow, Poland, 02 May 1934, regarding the experiences of his family in the Grabowa area within a historical and geographical context, and the fate of the Jewish community during the war Memoirs of Jerzy Swierkosz written for his grandchild; a history of the area of the Kamionka Strumillowa district, survey of the activities of the residents, notes on the personalities of various people in the vicinity, a description of daily life in the villages, local folklore, about the family and contacts with the neighbors. Chapter devoted to the destruction of the local Jewish...

File Number : 8365

Type of Material : Diagram, Photograph, List of Residents, List of Names, Memoirs

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Mordechai Shefler, born in Sanok, Poland, 17 May 1938, regarding his experiences in Sanok, in a hiding place in the forest, his wanderings, in Siberia and as a forced laborer in Yakutsk and Minor Occupation of Poland by the German Army; murder of the witness' grandfather, Rabbi Yakov Yosef Rabach (the first Jew murdered in Sanok), who tried to rescue Torah scrolls from the burning synagogue; escape towards the east; in a hiding place in the forest; arrival at an area controlled by the Soviet Union, 1940; deportation to Siberia; forced labor in Yakutsk and Minor. Return to Wroclaw, 1945,...

File Number : 8346

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoir of Bela (Svirski) Danan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto, Sanciai, Stutthof, Derbek and Neumark

Memoir of Bela (Svirski) Danan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto, Sanciai, Stutthof, Derbek and Neumark Life in the Slobodka Ghetto, August 1941-December 1943; life in Sanciai until July 1944; life in Stutthof until September 1944; life in Derbek; life in a hospital in Neumark; liberation, January 1945. Also in the file: Poem in Yiddish about her liberation, written in the hospital in Neumark, January 1945.

File Number : 8212

Type of Material : Poem/song, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Letters and postcards received by Luba Czarny from Ravensburg from her sister Bella Silbermintz and other family members in Warsaw, 1941-1942, and letters sent by Blanka Gutowska to Czarny in Germany and Canada, 1945-1948, regarding Gutowska's experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto on the Aryan side until 24 July 1942 Included in the file: - Translation of the letters and postcards to English; - Announcements published in the "Nowy Kurjer Warszawsk" newspaper, 03 August 1940.

File Number : 1693

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Letter

Language : Polish

Poems and stories written by Halinka Herman and Tosia Majue regarding the Holocaust

Poems and stories written by Halinka Herman and Tosia Majue regarding the Holocaust The poems are dedicated to the tribulations of the inmates in the extermination camps and the ghettos, and include condemnation of the collaboration between the Poles and the Nazis; a story dedicated to the memory of Mala Lanterka who escaped from the camp and was executed after being captured in Bielsko; two stories written in the form of letters to parents who perished in the Holocaust.

File Number : 225

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Stories

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Arie Leibel Stotzki, born in Bielica, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Bielica, the Zetel Ghetto and with the partisans in a forest in the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Leibel Stotzki, born in Bielica, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Bielica, the Zetel Ghetto and with the partisans in a forest in the Soviet Union Life before the war; family owns a workshop; attends a Tarbut school. Soviet occupation; ban on Jewish religious observance; drafted to the Red Army; German occupation, 1941; abuse of Jews; "Aktions"; murder of Jews; informed on by Poles; burning of the place due to the nearby air field; escape and in hiding in a forest; escape to the Zetel Ghetto; ghetto life; dismantling of Soviet equipment; murder of Jews; mass grave in a forest;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of refugees from Poland, 1945-1946

File Number : 2362

Type of Material : List of Refugees

Language : Russian

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