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Documentation regarding Bockfield and Skweres family members who perished during the Holocaust

Documentation regarding Bockfield and Skweres family members who perished during the Holocaust Documents include deportation lists, inmates cards, an official letter sent from Paris by an SS officer regarding a deportation of Jews to Auschwitz, with explanations about transports from Drancy to Auschwitz that included Bockfield family members (including the names of children on transport no. 66).

File Number : 1312

Type of Material : Personal Documents, List of Deportees, Official Documentation

Language : French, English, German

Two letters written by Leib Levitzki in Zychlin to the Soviet Union, 18 July 1940 and 29 January 1941

Two letters written by Leib Levitzki in Zychlin to the Soviet Union, 18 July 1940 and 29 January 1941 Note: Leib Levitzki perished during the war at a later date.

File Number : 1562

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

Testimony of Johanna Adler, regarding the Jews of Lwow and their destruction

Testimony of Johanna Adler, regarding the Jews of Lwow and their destruction German occupation of Lwow; pogrom and the murder of Jews by Ukrainians and Poles; establishment of a Judenrat; contributions; "Aktions" and deportation to Janowska camp and from there to Belzec camp, 1942; establishment of the Lwow Ghetto and its liquidation in 1943.

File Number : 1343

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters, Yiddish

Testimony of Liba Diefenbrun, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, in Plaszow camp, Auschwitz, Stutthof camp and Kokoszki

Testimony of Liba Diefenbrun, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, in Plaszow camp, Auschwitz, Stutthof camp and Kokoszki Life before the war; work as a seamstress; [German] occupation; death of her parents, sister and her fiance in the first deportation; death of her brother and his son in the second deportation; labor sewing uniforms; liquidation of the Tarnow Ghetto, 01 September 1942; deportation to Plaszow; murder of the children and the mothers, after an attempt to smuggle the children as packages inside backpacks; bodily search upon arrival to Plaszow camp;...

File Number : 369

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Mina Kalb, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1911, regarding her experiences in the Rzeszow Ghetto and in Szebnie, Plaszow, Skarzysko and Czestochowa camps

Testimony of Mina Kalb, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1911, regarding her experiences in the Rzeszow Ghetto and in Szebnie, Plaszow, Skarzysko and Czestochowa camps Life in Rzeszow, before the war; [German] occupation; Rzeszow Ghetto life, from its establishment in December 1940 until the first deportation, July 1942; "Aktion" that lasted for two weeks; labor in a group of 200 women in the cleaning and arrangement of the ghetto; continuation of the manhunt for "illegal" Jews, and the shooting of anybody who was captured without documents; deportation of half of the Jews who remained from the "Aktion", November...

File Number : 366

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Heinz Pieterkowski, regarding the experiences of the children of a dormitory and an orphanage in the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow camp

Testimony of Heinz Pieterkowski, regarding the experiences of the children of a dormitory and an orphanage in the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow camp Transfer of several Jewish children from the municipal child daycare center to a dormitory, several days before the deportation; announcement by Entenberg, the directory of the dormitory, regarding the addition of the dormitory pupils and the orphanage's children to the deportees, if there will be a shortage of people to fill the quota of deportees; 250 children were in the orphanage's dormitory, and 100 of the children were above the age of 15; escape of several...

File Number : 362

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Tadeusz Loranz, born in Krakow, Poland, 1902, regarding the experiences of the Jews of Krakow in Skawina, and the witness' experiences in Julag I, Julag II and Biezanow

Testimony of Tadeusz Loranz, born in Krakow, Poland, 1902, regarding the experiences of the Jews of Krakow in Skawina, and the witness' experiences in Julag I, Julag II and Biezanow - Deportation of the Jews of Krakow via Skawina, during the witness' stay in a convalescence home in Skawina, March 1943; transfer in trucks, into which Jews were pushed and overcrowded, under the escort of vehicles and armed guards; return to Krakow; receives information that the deportation was done with the liquidation of the ghetto; - Labor by the witness in the Siemens Bau Union factories, which were administered by them...

File Number : 359

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Anonymous testimony regarding the experiences of the witness in the Dabrowice camp, his escape to Tomaszow Mazowiecki and in the Wolanow and Starachowice camps, April 1941-autumn 1943

Anonymous testimony regarding the experiences of the witness in the Dabrowice camp, his escape to Tomaszow Mazowiecki, and in the Wolanow and Starachowice camps, April 1941-autumn 1943 - Deportation from Warsaw on a transport of 200 people to the Dabrowice camp near Skierniewice, 15 April 1941; speech the evening of their arrival at the camp by the drunk commandant who releases them from standing for roll call after being given a bribe of bread and alcohol; labor in 10-12 hour shifts draining fields, unsupervised; mass escapes; replacing of the guards and tightening of discipline; - Escape from the camp...

File Number : 357

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Excerpts from the diary of a Polish woman, Maria (Bill) Bojarkowa, from Wieliczka, regarding the experiences of the Jews of Wieliczka and in the Niepolomice forests

Excerpts from the diary of a Polish woman, Maria (Bill) Bojarkowa, from Wieliczka, regarding the experiences of the Jews of Wieliczka and in the Niepolomice forests Arrival of a massive number of Jews, after their deportation from Niepolomice and Wieliczka; concentration of approximately 11,000 Jews in Wieliczka, 23 August 1942; lack of places to reside for the thousands of refugees; help given by Maria (Bill) Bojarkowa, who was a member of the municipal committee of Wieliczka, to a Jewish physician named Landau and his family members, to arrive to Krakow; creation of Aryan documents for them; concentration...

File Number : 349

Type of Material : Diaries and Memoirs

Language : Polish

Testimony of Samuel Grunkraut, born in Poland, regarding his experiences and the experiences of the Jews of Tarnow in the Tarnow Ghetto and in Auschwitz

Testimony of Samuel Grunkraut, born in Poland, regarding his experiences and the experiences of the Jews of Tarnow in the Tarnow Ghetto and in Auschwitz Concentration of the Jews in the Tarnow Ghetto in Magdeburg Square, by order of Amon Goeth, 02 September 1943; pushing and crowding of 160-170 people inside each railroad car, and the sealing of all of the railroad cars; death of approximately half of the Jews in each car, due to suffocation; understanding that the train is traveling to Auschwitz; escape of the witness with some of his friends, through a window which they broke while near the Skawinia...

File Number : 336

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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