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File Number : 3668

Type of Material : Correspondence, Testimony

Language : Polish

Article written by Teresa Prekerowa regarding the Felicja underground unit which worked within the framework of the Zegota (Council for Aid to Jews) Organization, published in Annual XV of the State Archives in Warsaw, 1979 Overview of the structure of the Felicja underground unit, the personalities who were active in the unit and their methods of action, and the activities of Maurycy Herling-Grudzinski. Attached is a list of Jews who received financial assistance, 1943-1944.

File Number : 132

Type of Material : Research Article, Article

Language : Polish

Article by Mieczyslaw Zajac regarding Jewish refugees from Poland in Hungary 1939-1945, published in Krakow, 1985

Article by Mieczyslaw Zajac regarding Jewish refugees from Poland in Hungary 1939-1945, published in Krakow, 1985 Arrival of Jewish and Polish refugees [in Hungary] from Poland, autumn 1939; sympathetic attitude of the Hungarian authorities towards the refugees, unrelated to their origins; separation of Polish Army men and Jews due to the antisemitic attitude of the Polish officers; additional wave of Jewish refugees from Poland in 1942; sending out of a secret circular by the Hungarian Interior Minister according to which all the refugees should be received and transferred to camps in the interior of...

File Number : 10

Type of Material : Article, Research Article

Language : Polish

"Na Oczach Swiata" (In Sight of the World), a pamphlet regarding the Jewish fighting during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the attitude of the Poles towards the Jews during that period; the pamphlet was published in 1943 In the pamphlet the author, Anna Kann, an activist in the Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) Organization, emphasizes the differentiation that should be made between the attitude towards the Resistance fighters and the basic approach to the "Jewish Problem" in Poland. According to the author, the Polish people in general support the Jewish Resistance fighters without reservation and at...

File Number : 127

Language : Polish

Władysław Bartoszewski's review of Żegota members

Władysław Bartoszewski's review of Żegota members A review by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski with a list of members who were active in Zegota, working to save Jews in various places in Poland, including Krakow, Lvov and Warsaw. The list, Glowni Organizatorzy Akcji Pomocy Zydom W Polsce W Okresie Okupacji, was compiled for the Department of the Righteous Among the Nations in Warsaw in March 1967.

File Number : 448

Type of Material : List

Language : Polish

Testimony of Bronislawa (Orzecky) Hessen, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1910, regarding her experiences as a Polish woman helping Jews in Warsaw

Testimony

Testimony of Bronislawa (Orzecky) Hessen, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1910, regarding her experiences as a Polish woman helping Jews in Warsaw Life before the war. German occupation, September 1939; rescue of a Jewish child; help to a Jewish writer; help of a clerk in the Turkish embassy to a Jewish woman; financial help to escapees from the committee to help Jews; liberation, 1945.

File Number : 2929

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Miriam Marianska Hochberg, regarding her experiences in Krakow using a false identity, in the forest with the underground and in Warsaw

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Marianska Hochberg, regarding her experiences in Krakow using a false identity, in the forest with the underground and in Warsaw German occupation; life in Krakow using a false identity, 1940; obtains forged documents from the Polish Socialist Party - PPS; help to Jews outside the ghetto; work as a clerk for the RPZ organization, including helping to obtain forged documents; help smuggling Jews from camps; activities with members of the PPS; help smuggling the writer Michal Borwicz from Janow to the Miechow forests; joins the partisans as a courier; sent to Warsaw; life in Warsaw...

File Number : 468

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Shaul Goldhar, born in Staszow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Staszow Ghetto, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Skarzysko-Kamienna, Buchenwald and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shaul Goldhar, born in Staszow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Staszow Ghetto, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Skarzysko-Kamienna, Buchenwald and other places Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Staszow Ghetto; deportation to Skarzysko-Kamienna; camp life including mutual help; transfer to Sulejow; transfer to Piotrkow Trybunalski; transfer to Buchenwald; transfer to Flossenbuerg; death march; liberation, 1945. Move to Bratislava; return to Poland; aliya to Israel, 1950.

File Number : 3090

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jakob Lieberman, born in Krakow, Poland, 1911, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Jakob Lieberman, born in Krakow, Poland, 1911, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in hiding Life before the war. German occupation, September 1939; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; ghetto life; escape; life in hiding with help from a Polish member of the Armia Krajowa, AK; help from the Relief Committee for Jews; liberation.

File Number : 2987

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Testimony of Maria Sawicka, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Lowic, Poland, 1905, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, Suchedniow, Krakow and Czestochowa

Testimony

Testimony of Maria Sawicka, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Lowic, Poland, 1905, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, Suchedniow, Krakow and Czestochowa German occupation; collaboration with the Jewish underground; meetings in her home and her sister's home; rescuing children; smuggling Jews from the ghetto to a forest; killing of a Pole; the Warsaw Polish Uprising; move to Suchedniow; activities of the Jewish underground; move to Krakow; activities as a courier for Zegota; move to Czestochowa; help to those in hiding.

File Number : 2836

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Polish

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