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Testimony of Shulamit (Frederika) Goldlevitz Karmi, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1937, regarding her ‎experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in a Polish home under a false identity

Testimony of Shulamit (Frederika) Goldlevitz Karmi, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1937, regarding her ‎experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in a Polish home under a false identity The German occupation; move to Warsaw; transfer to the ghetto; acquisition of false identity ‎papers and move to Zabieniec; her father’s injury and hospitalization; her mother’s disappearance; ‎moving in with the Braniecka family; move to the cellar in her uncle’s building in Warsaw; ‎placement in the care of a Polish woman, Mrs. Domenska, via the Polish Central Welfare Council ‎‎(RGO); the Polish uprising; escape with Mrs. Domenska;...

File Number : 13694

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943

Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943 The Jewish Self Aid organization (in Polish: Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna [ZSS]; in German: Juedische Soziale Selbshilfe) was set up in Krakow in 1940; it went by this name until July 1942. After that date, the organization's welfare activities were cut back by order of the German authorities, and they mainly consisted of the transferring of medicines to Jews in labor camps until this activity, too, was discontinued in mid-1944. ZSS documentation includes correspondence between the administration of the...

Type of Material : Lists, Administrative Documentation, Application, Balance Sheet, Report, Statistical Report, Reports, Survey Report, Correspondence, List of Names, Financial Accounts, List of Jews, Statistical Data

O.28 - Documentation of the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) in Krakow, Poland regarding organization activities in Poland, 1939-1942

M.28 - Documentation of the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) in Krakow, Poland regarding the organization activities in Poland, 1939-1942 The documentation includes the welfare and assistance activities of the AJDC to the Jews of Poland; it consists of four main parts: 1. AJDC correspondence with the German administration authorities in occupied Poland; 2. AJDC correspondence with Jewish institutions and organizations in Poland; 3. AJDC correspondence with Jewish institutions and organizations outside of Poland; 4. Survey reports, charts and statistical data. 1. Correspondence...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Polish, English, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Norbert Beckman regarding his experiences in Plaszow

Testimony

Testimony of Norbert Beckman regarding his experiences in Plaszow Life in the Plaszow camp including transfer of food from the Polish Central Relief Organization (RGO) warehouses to Jewish Assistance Office (JUS) workshops; transfer of food and medicines from JUS to Plaszow; transfer of food by mail to Pionki, Starachowice and Stalowa Wola; transfer of medicines with help from Dr. Michael Weichert to Jewish hospitals, factories and the Centos Organization that cared for orphans; transfer of a delivery of medicines to Plaszow on orders from the SS camp physician.

File Number : 585

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Survey reports submitted by the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee) in Poland and the Council for Assistance to Jews of the Polish-Government-in-Exile Legation, December 1942-24 May 1944 English translation of the report sent by the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee) to A. Reiss, I. Schwarzbart and A. Tartakower in London, 24 May 1944. In the report there is an overview of the unrelenting persecution of Jews hiding on the Aryan side after the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, executions of Jewish scientists and intellectuals due to betrayal, including the...

File Number : 203

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Polish, English

Correspondence of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) representations in Krakow and in Warsaw with various Jewish institutions and organizations in Poland, 26 December 1939-19 November 1941

Correspondence of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) representations in Krakow and in Warsaw with various Jewish institutions and organizations in Poland, 26 December 1939-19 November 1941 - Correspondence of the Community Committee with the JDC representation in Krakow regarding settling the financial debt owed to the Institution for the Mentally Disturbed in Kobierzyn for the treatment of Jewish patients from the Silesia area; - JDC application to the ZSS (Jewish Social Self-Help) in Krakow regarding the distribution of food products, clothing and medicines from contributions made by RGO ( the...

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Correspondence, Letter, Application, Survey Report, Telegram, Balance Sheet

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Judyta Braude, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1902, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding in Warsaw

Testimony

Testimony of Judyta Braude, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1902, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding in Warsaw Life before the war; work as a nurse in a children's hospital. Life in the Warsaw Ghetto including names of phyicians and hospital attendants; escape and in hiding; life in hiding including help from the RGO - Central Welfare Council.

File Number : 2360

Type of Material : Testimony, List of Names

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Lilian Ronen née Nisenbaum (b. 1931 in Warsaw) about her family's history in the Warsaw ghetto, hiding on the "Aryan" side of Warsaw, and in Kazimierz Dolny, and biography of Avraham and Elvira Feller of Bucharest - Memoirs of Lilian Ronen (b. August 17, 1931, in Warsaw): Lilian's parents, Alfred Zelman Nisenbaum (born Efroim) and Yullia Nissenbaum née Freizinger (born Jochewed), were both born in Lublin. Her father: an engineer who owned a concrete plant; life in Warsaw; her brother, Wiktor Siegmund (Witek); family history; attending a Tarbut school in Warsaw; the Germans enter Warsaw in 1939;...

File Number : 10290

Type of Material : Biography, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English, Romanian

Summary of the memoirs of D. E. Reibscheid, born in Krakow, Poland, 1938, regarding the experiences of his family in hiding in Krakow, in Warsaw, using a false identity in Wawrzynczyce, in Opatkowice and more German occupation, September 1939; arrest and release of Rosa; robbery of family property; persecution of Jews; registration of Jews; avoidance of registration by his family; hunts [for Jews]; deportation for forced labor; return of [Rosa's husband] Marian from the Soviet Occupied Area; deportation of (registered) Jews; family life as the Reichs family without being registered; persecution, May 1940;...

File Number : 9715

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Maps, Slide, Certification, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Article, Genealogy, List of Jewish Survivors, Testimony, Identity Card, List of Rescuers

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German