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Testimony of Meir Andrash Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding the Budapest ghetto and hiding in the Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Andrash Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding the Budapest ghetto and hiding in the Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer Family background; his father owns a printing house; life before the war; studies in a Hungarian school; enlistment of his father to labor battalions, 1940; management of the family business by his mother. German occupation, 1944; duty to wear a yellow badge; dropping out of school; an attempt by his mother to flee to the province with the witness and his brother; ban on train travel; confiscation of printing machines in the family...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shimon Simcha Berlinger, born in Berlichingen, Germany, 1914, regarding his experiences in Buchenwald, Wieringen, aliya to Eretz Israel and in the British Army

Testimony

Testimony of Shimon Simcha Berlinger, born in Berlichingen, Germany, 1914, regarding his experiences in Buchenwald, Wieringen, aliya to Eretz Israel and in the British Army Large family; the family owns a printing press; anti-Jewish legislation; Kristallnacht; detention in Buchenwald; camp life including signing a declaration to leave Germany; escape to Wieringen; aliya to Eretz Israel onboard the ship "Dora". Absorption on kibbutz; enlists in the British Army and service as a nurse, 1941; enlists in the Jewish Brigade, 1944; reunion with his sister in the Netherlands; end of the war; return to Eretz...

File Number : 12816

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sabina (Sperber) Kuperschmidt, born in Krakow, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Tarnopol Ghetto, Czystylow and hidden by a Pole

Testimony

Testimony of Sabina (Sperber) Kuperschmidt, born in Krakow, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Tarnopol Ghetto, Czystylow and hidden by a Pole From a traditional, financially secure family that owns a printing house; attends a Polish elementary school; draft of her father into the Polish Army. German occupation, September 1939; escape to Tarnopol with her mother and brother; life under Soviet rule until 1942; German occupation; ghetto life; labor of her mother and brother outside the ghetto; labor of her mother in Czystylow labor camp; escape to her mother; escape from the Czystylow camp with...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Lists of Communists from Bialystok, 1939

File Number : 3086

Type of Material : Names, Lists, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Zlotkevich and Shifrin regarding underground printing press activities in Belostok and Vilna in the 1920s and 1930s

File Number : 3056

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Names

Language : Russian

Letter to Chaim Rumkowski, the Chairman of the Lodz Judenrat, from the administration of the printing press in the Lodz Ghetto; calling cards of Chaim Rumkowski

Letter to Chaim Rumkowski, the Chairman of the Lodz Judenrat, from the administration of the printing press in the Lodz Ghetto; calling cards of Chaim Rumkowski - The accomplishments of the printing house are presented in the letter, with a request for appreciation, 07 April 1943; - On Chaim Rumkowski's prewar calling card in Hebrew, his status as one of the founders of the Children's Shelter, a member of the Lodz Jewish Community Committee and a member of the Committee of the Centos organization in Warsaw are mentioned; - On Rumkowski's calling card from the war period in German only his role as...

File Number : 1670

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Records

Language : German, Yiddish

Testimony of Mosze Nomberg, born in Radomsko, Poland, 1895, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, using a false identity in Kielce, as an Armia Krajowa (AK) soldier and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Mosze Nomberg, born in Radomsko, Poland, 1895, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, using a false identity in Kielce, as an Armia Krajowa, AK, soldier and in hiding Life before the war; move to Warsaw; work in a printing press. German occupation, September 1939; confiscation of Jewish printing presses; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life including hiding in a bunker; joins Armia Krajowa, AK; Warsaw Polish Uprising, 1944; escape to Kielce; life using a false identity with help from underground people; liberation.

File Number : 2648

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish, German

Collective testimony of Rachela Rachman, born in Warsaw, Poland, and Adam Kotlar, born in Warsaw, Poland, regarding their experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and Radom camp

Testimony

Collective testimony of Rachela Rachman, born in Warsaw, Poland, and Adam Kotlar, born in Warsaw, Poland, regarding their experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and Radom camp Life before the war. German occupation, 1939; life in the Warsaw Ghetto including labor in a printing press; transfer to Radom; camp life including labor as printing experts; liberation.

File Number : 825

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Saul Rosenzweig, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Saul Rosenzweig, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding Life before the war; works at the Unia Jewish printing press; works at the "Nasz Przegland" newspaper. German occupation; robbery of printing equipment; life in the Warsaw Ghetto; escape with help from the Armia Krajowa, AK, underground; life outside the ghetto.

File Number : 2266

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Documentation from the State Archive in Lodz, Poland (Archiwum Panstwowe w Lodzi), 1920-1950

Documentation from the State Archive in Lodz, including the following record groups: Documents of the Lodz province, Lodz municipality and the local administration (county and commune) in Aleksandrow, Brus, Lutomiersk, Łask, Pabianice, Radogoszcz, Ruda Pabianicka, and Tuszyn; Courts of Law on various levels (the Special Court of Law, District Court of Law, Provincial Court of Law and Municipal Court of Law) in: Lodz, Pabianice, Tuszyn, Zgierz; Police in Lodz; Prison in Lodz, and Sieradz; Central Resettlement Office in Poznan, the Lodz branch; Rent office in Lodz; Lodz Association for Assistance to Beggars;...

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Identity Card, Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Administrative Documentation

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German, Yiddish

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