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Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 58, 20/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Escape of prisoners from a Soviet POW camp in the Torgau region; murder of a member of the local gendarmerie and injury of a farmer by three of the escapees; anti-German Communist demonstration, in Paris; outbreak of brawls during the dispersion of a demonstration by the French police and German soldiers, causing an injury to a German soldier; presence of...

File Number : 163.58

Type of Material : Survey Report, Statistical Data, Manifesto

Language : German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 57, 19/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Notification of the SIPO in Radom regarding the scattering of placards from a Soviet plane containing a call to oppose the occupation authorities; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen and the units subservient to them: - Einsatzgruppe z.b.V: The situation in the former Soviet territories of Poland; division into the various populations; the...

File Number : 163.57

Type of Material : Survey Report, Manifesto

Language : German

Assorted overviews and reports from the Delegatura—the representative mission of the Polish Government-in-Exile in London, 1943, concerning the German occupation in eastern Poland, Poland–Ukraine relations, and plans for the post-war era. The file contains, among other things: - German operations in and around Białystok; the occupation authorities' political and economic policies; anti-Polish tendencies; mass transports to Germany for slave labor; events in the Wolyn area; Polish–Ukrainian relations and actions against Poles by Ukrainian gangs, including robberies and murder in villages; the situation in...

File Number : 34

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Anna Sawicz, recalling her experiences in villages near Złoczów and Rzeszów

Memoirs of Anna Sawicz, recalling her experiences in villages near Złoczów and Rzeszów Note: the memoirist called called her writings a diary but they appear to be a memoir written after the war. Names mentioned in the text are given not in full but in initials only and few toponyms appear. Anna and her husband lived in the suburbs of Złoczów. The Soviets controlled the area at the beginning of the war; the Germans entered in 1941. Anna's husband was captured by the Germans several times and came home despite the mortal danger involved. In 1942, he was sent to a labor camp and the witness' efforts to...

File Number : 639

Type of Material : Diary, Testimony

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Emilia Dabrowska, born in Jagielnica, 1922, regarding her experiences in Jagielnica during the war and afterwards, and her help to Jews, 1941-1944, along with an introduction written by her nephew Ian Pienkowski - Memoirs of Emilia Dabrowska regarding her experiences in Jagielnica, 1939-1945,, and her help to Jews, 1941-1944 (written 1995-1998), along with an introduction written by her nephew Ian Pienkowski (written 2001-2007): Outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939; draft of her brother Stanislaw Dabrowski into the Polish Army; his capture by the German Army; his release from captivity, 18...

File Number : 9510

Type of Material : הקדמה, Memoirs

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Meilech Bakalczuk-Felin, born in Serniki, Poland, 1896, regarding his experiences in the Dabrowica Ghetto and the Serniki Ghetto, and as partisan in Polesie forests

Memoirs of Meilech Bakalczuk-Felin, born in Serniki, Poland, 1896, regarding his experiences in the Dabrowica Ghetto and the Serniki Ghetto, and as partisan in Polesie forests Passing thoughts regarding writing the memoirs, including his escape from the ghetto and activities in the partisans ranks; escape from the Dabrowica Ghetto to a forest, along with his cousin Ephraim Bakalczuk, 09/1942; in hiding in Brodnitsa, while hidden by a friend; arrival to Serniki; murder of his father in Serniki, 1941; murder of the Jews of Serniki, 1942; escape from the Serniki Ghetto along with his sister's children; in...

File Number : 8788

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs

Language : English