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Diary of Leon Dafner from the Lodz Ghetto along with protocols from House Committee meetings, 17 May 1940-22 March 1941; the situation in the ghetto, the start of the deportations and a lamentation over his five-year old daughter who was deported to her death in an "Aktion", 08 August 1942 Notebook containing a manuscript in Polish, including: - Protocols from House Committee meetings under the chairmanship of Dafner; members of the committee under the chairmanship of Dafner were elected at the first meeting, 17 May 1940, and their goals and assignments were defined; with time in the face of increasing...

File Number : 1091

Type of Material : Diary, Protocol

Language : Polish

Correspondence by representatives of the Jewish welfare organizations and committees in Radomysl Wielki, Poland with the administration of the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (Jewish Social Self-Help organization - ZSS) in Krakow, 25/08/1940-30/04/1942 - Correspondence with the Radomysl Wielki Judenrat, regarding welfare associations that were active before the outbreak of war: the Talmud Torah Association, a Jewish charity organization named for Rywka and Dwojra Weinberger, the National Jewish Library, and the Gemiluth Hasidim organization; - List of Jewish entrepreneurs in the Radomysl Wielki community; -...

File Number : 1006

Type of Material : Letter(s), List of Jewish Community Members, List of Jews, Documentation, Correspondence, Telegram, Administrative Documentation, Postcard

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Leib Salpeter, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow camp

Testimony of Leib Salpeter, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow camp List of names of the members of the temporary council of the Jewish community of Krakow, established on the initiative of the deputy mayor of Krakow at the start of the German occupation, September 1939; Krakow Ghetto life, including forced labor filling anti-aircraft trenches; activities in the social welfare department, in particular with the mass arrival of refugees to Krakow from throughout the Generalgouvernement; various departments dealt with sanitation, clothing, housing, care of orphans and children,...

File Number : 146

Type of Material : Survey

Language : Polish

Testimony of Dr. Grossbard regarding the fate of the Jews of Kulikow

Testimony of Dr. Grossbard regarding the fate of the Jews of Kulikow Riots against the Jews of Kulikow perpetrated by local Ukrainians after the German occupation; robbery of property; forced labor; ban on leaving [Kulikow] to go to the village; establishment of a Judenrat; forced contributions; establishment of labor camps on farms belonging to peasants, under the trusteeship of the SS, in Wiesenberg and Zwertow, a distance of 7-9 kilometers from Kulikow, September 1941; employment of Jewish men and women from Kulikow as forced laborers in the camps; transfer of Jews from the Janowska camp and from...

File Number : 141

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Jadwiga (Jaszunska) Koenigstein, born in Lodz, Poland, 1906, regarding her experiences under a false identity on the Aryan side in Warsaw

Testimony of Jadwiga (Jaszunska) Koenigstein, born in Lodz, Poland, 1906, regarding her experiences under a false identity on the Aryan side in Warsaw Life before the war; her parents Jozef and Eliza; life with her family in Warsaw during the war; life of her older sisters in Moscow; murder of her husband in January 1940; death of her mother in September 1942; life under a false identity on the Aryan side with her daughter Alina, born in 1934; deportation of the Jews of the ghetto to Treblinka; survival with the help of Catholic nuns in a convent in Robertsin; transfer of her younger sister Maria, born 1909,...

File Number : 1650

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Report on activities of the Krakow Jewish community, 1940

Report on activities of the Krakow Jewish community, 1940 - Letter from the Communications Department to the Construction Department of the Krakow municipality containing a directive to hang notices regarding the deportation of Jews throughout the city, 29 November 1940; - Report regarding the activities of the Krakow Jewish community, December 1940; among other items, there appear in the report a list of members of the community administration, summaries concerning activities of the various departments (Accounts, Taxes, Construction and Culture, Cemetery Administration, Mikveh (ritual bath)...

File Number : 309

Type of Material : Letter, Reports

Language : Polish, German

Rank insignia for Jewish policemen in the Lodz Ghetto; booklet of lunch coupons in the public kitchen in the Lodz Ghetto, 1943

File Number : 267

Type of Material : Drawing, Vouchers

Language : German

Announcements from Chaim Rumkowski, the Chairman of the Lodz Ghetto Judenrat, regarding the utilization of food coupons and other topics, 09 April 1941-30 September 1942

Announcements from Chaim Rumkowski, the Chairman of the Lodz Ghetto Judenrat, regarding the utilization of food coupons and other topics, 09 April 1941-30 September 1942 - Announcement No. 78 regarding the prohibition on making contact with people outside the ghetto through the barbed wire fences, 07 July 1940; - Announcement No. 274 regarding possibilities of utilizing food coupons for purchasing jelly, white cheese and bread, and the validity of these coupons, 18 May 1941; - Announcement No. 315 regarding the menu of items that can be acquired with food rationing coupons and the amount, 17 October...

File Number : 276

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Original

Language : Polish, German, Yiddish

זיכרונותיה של רחל אוירבך על תיפקוד מטבח עממי בניהולה בגטו Warszawa

File Number : 1187

Type of Material : Draft, Letter, Memoirs

Language : Yiddish

Notebook containing the journals of Yeshayahu Tobiasz, from 1932, and his father Eliyahu Tobiasz, 1940-1941, and memoirs of Yaakov Drori regarding the activities of Eliyahu Toiasz in the Łódź Ghetto - Notebook (scanned) containing the journals of Yeshayahu Tobiasz, from 1932, and his father Eliyahu Tobiasz, 1940-1941; the original of the notebook is located in the Jewish Historical Institute (ZIH) in Warsaw; the copy had already appeared in the Yad Vashem Archives (See Item M.49.P/15); - Journal, apparently from late 1932, kept by Yeshayahu Shaik Tobiasz, born in Łódź, Poland, 1913, containing stories and...

File Number : 10301

Type of Material : Diary, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

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