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M.84 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from Archives in Serbia

M.84 - Documantation regarding the Holocaust from Archives in Serbia The Record Group was created following the division of the former Yugoslavian Record Group - M.70. In the Record Group there is archival documentation photocopied from the Central Archive of Serbia, the Military Archive, and the Foreign Ministry Archive. Included in the Record Group: - Documentation of the Yugoslavian Government-in-Exile including the Foreign Ministry, from the World War II period and afterwards; - Documentation regarding rescue activities of Jews in the areas of Yugoslavia during the war period; - Investigations...

Language : Italian, English, German, Hungarian, Serbian-Croatian

Testimony of Leopold Guttman, born in Cieszyn, Poland, 1911, regarding the thwarted escape of the Hauben family and Samuel Brenner from Plaszow camp and their execution, May 1943

Testimony of Leopold Guttman, born in Cieszyn, Poland, 1911, regarding the thwarted escape of the Hauben family and Samuel Brenner from Plaszow camp and their execution, May 1943 Experiences of Leopold Guttman during the war from the summary at the beginning of the testimony: Life in the Plaszow camp, 13 January-13 March 1943; life in the Kabel factory in Plaszow until 10 October 1944; transfer to Schachwitz, Germany until March 1945; life in the Leitmeritz camp and Theresienstadt; liberation by the Red Army, 08 May 1945. Plans of the Hauben family and Samuel Brenner to escape from the Plaszow camp by...

File Number : 495

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Luba Schoenbaum, born in Lwow, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, on the Aryan side of Krakow using a false identity and under interrogation in a Krakow prison

Testimony of Luba Schoenbaum, born in Lwow, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, on the Aryan side of Krakow using a false identity and under interrogation in a Krakow prison Deportation with her parents and brother to the Lwow Ghetto, November 1941; travel to Krakow with forged documents in the name of Wanda Maczka, which she received from Jan Jablonski, a Polish friend; residence with Mr. and Mrs. Susman on the Aryan side; blackmailed by Susman with threats of exposing her Jewish identity; arrest by the KRIPO (Kriminalpolizei); attempt to persuade her to confess her Jewish identity...

File Number : 475

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Diana Kagan, born in Poland, regarding her experiences on the Aryan side of Warsaw and in Minsk Mazowiecki and Lwow, while using a false identity

Testimony of Diana Kagan, born in Poland, regarding her experiences on the Aryan side of Warsaw and in Minsk Mazowiecki and Lwow, while using a false identity Escape to the Aryan side after the sealing of the Warsaw Ghetto, 25 November 1940; move to Minsk Mazowiecki and work as a clerk in the Steuerabteilung (German Tax Department) while using a false Polish identity; contact with Kramarz, head of the local Judenrat; brings her sister from the Warsaw Ghetto; detention of her brother-in-law after he was informed on; delivery of a note, the last sign of his being alive, regarding his desire to commit suicide...

File Number : 455

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Roza Geisler, born in Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Krakow and in Montelupich prison

Testimony of Roza Geisler, born in Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Krakow and in Montelupich prison Smuggling of the witness to Krakow by a male acquaintance of her sister, September 1942; chance meeting with her sister; work in a dairy; escape from her place of work, after attempts by her employer to force himself on her; sleeps in the home of her employer's neighbor; arrival of her employer, escorted by a drunken Polish policeman, the next morning; shooting of the neighbor who hid her; capture of the witness on the street, along with a Jew who was supposed to be supplying the witness and her...

File Number : 330

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Ludwik Rympel, born in Krakow, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, in Lwow, using a false identity in Pradnik, Czerwony, Kozieniec, Warsaw, and in other places

Testimony of Ludwik Rympel, born in Krakow, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, in Lwow, using a false identity in Pradnik, Czerwony, Kozieniec, Warsaw, and in other places Outbreak of the war; escape to Lwow with his parents and grandmother; illegally crosses the border back to Krakow; escape with his mother from the Krakow Ghetto, due to his serve health situation; wanderings between Czerwony, Pradnik and Kozieniec while using a false identity due to threats by the Polish neighbors of being informed on; move to Iwla; life with a local farmer; escape due to threats of being...

File Number : 315

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Hirsch Tauber, born in Chrzanow, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Krakow, Bobowa, Pustkow, using a false identity in the Polish Communist underground in the Krakow area, in Auschwitz-Birkenau and more Military service in the Polish Army. Outbreak of the war; occupation of Rzeszow by the Germans; escape in civilian clothing to his parents in Krakow; establishment of the Krakow Ghetto; escape with his family to Bobowa near Tarnow; search for his brother until receiving news of his murder in an "Aktion"; capture in Pustkow; deportation to the Pustkow camp; remains there for three days;...

File Number : 24

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Rejza Reizia Klingberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences as a member of the underground in the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) in the Krakow Ghetto, Bochnia, Koszyce, Sandomierz, and other places German occupation; move to Koszyce with her parents, until 1942; contact by letters with her girlfriends, and information about the fate of the Jews in Tarnow and Warsaw, and the organization by members of Hashomer Hatzair into a fighting underground; receives a forged Aryan document; move to Krakow; meets Roman Leibowicz, whose underground nickname was Laban; joins the...

File Number : 198

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Zofia Anita Weindling, born in Krakow, Poland, 1925, regarding Stefania Brandstaedter, a collaborator with the Gestapo in Krakow

Testimony of Zofia Anita Weindling, born in Krakow, Poland, 1925, regarding Stefania Brandstaedter, a collaborator with the Gestapo in Krakow Close friendship between the two women since high school days in Krakow; residence of the witness on the Aryan side of Warsaw, while using forged documents; transfer to Krakow and chance meeting with Stefania Brandstaedter on the street, May 1943; fear of Stefania Brandstaedter because of her close contacts with the Gestapo; invitations to restaurants and meetings in which Brandstaedter demonstrates feelings of friendship toward the witness; request by the witness for...

File Number : 174

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Jonasz Stern, born in Kalusz, Poland, 1904, regarding his experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, his rescue from killing pits during the liquidation of the Lwow Ghetto, in hiding, in Budapest, in Romania and in other places

Testimony of Jonasz Stern, born in Kalusz, Poland, 1904, regarding his experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, his rescue from shooting in killing pits during the liquidation of the Lwow Ghetto, in hiding, in Budapest, in Romania, and in other places Escape from Krakow to Lwow with his wife, at the outbreak of the war; move from apartment to apartment, after the occupation of Lwow; deportation to the Lwow Ghetto, November 1941; Lwow Ghetto life including overcrowding, hunger and the lack of means of existence; "Aktion", August 1942; obtains Aryan documents for his wife, and her move to Stryj; capture of the witness,...

File Number : 161

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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