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Testimony of Salomea Hanel, born in Ustrzyki Dolne, Poland, 1916, regarding her experiences in Drohobycz, Ustrzyki Dolne, Zaslaw, Sobibor, and while using a false identity in Krakow

Testimony of Salomea Hanel, born in Ustrzyki Dolne, Poland, 1916, regarding her experiences in Drohobycz, Ustrzyki Dolne, Zaslaw, Sobibor, and while using a false identity in Krakow Move from Ustrzyki Dolne to Drohobycz, five weeks before the outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 1941; taking of Jews to forced labor while abusing them, immediately following the occupation of Drohobycz; return home, two weeks later; forced labor and the theft of property; "Aktion" against Communists, late April 1942; murder of families whose relatives worked in service to the Soviets before the war;...

File Number : 27

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Joint testimony of Mikhael Itzkhaki and Alter Feitelson regarding the daily routine in the Ninth Fort in Kovno, dated 1971

Joint testimony of Mikhael Itzkhaki and Alter Feitelson regarding the daily routine in the Ninth Fort in Kovno, dated 1971 Life in the Ninth Fort, which was part of the fortifications around the city of Kovno; shackling inmates with chains on their feet before they go out to work; 20 people to a cell; reveille at 05:00; work removing the corpses of the Jews from the Kovno Ghetto who had been murdered in killing pits by the Germans in 1941, and burning them; return to the cells after fulfilling their work quota; setting up an escape group; murder of Soviet soldiers who had been captured; attempt to maintain...

File Number : 3493

Type of Material : Testimony, Interview(s)

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 1946

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

"Rok w Treblince" (A Year in Treblinka), a booklet written by Jakub Wiernik while hiding on the Aryan side after his escape from Treblinka, published by the Polish underground in 1944

"Rok w Treblince" (A Year in Treblinka), a booklet written by Jakub Wiernik while hiding on the Aryan side after his escape from Treblinka, published by the Polish underground in 1944 - Letter from Jakub Wiernik to an unknown addressee, devoted to his efforts to spread information regarding Treblinka and his life during the war; the letter was written in Rishon Lezion, Israel, 20 January 1960; - "Rok w Treblince" (A Year in Treblinka), the booklet (in Polish) published in Warsaw in 1944. In the booklet Wiernik tells of his deportation from Warsaw, 23 August 1942, and his stay in Treblinka until the...

File Number : 473

Type of Material : Letter, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English

List of Jews from Lodz who labored in the Chelmno camp; response from the Trawniki camp authorities; report regarding the inmates' uprising at the Sobibor camp, 14 October 1943

List of Jews from Lodz who labored in the Chelmno camp; response from the Trawniki camp authorities; report regarding the inmates' uprising at the Sobibor camp, 14 October 1943 - Letter in Yiddish containing a description of the abuse by the Germans of Jews who arrived from Lodz and labored at the Chelmno camp, along with a list of the names of 13 Jews; - Article written on a postcard sent from the Trawniki camp in response to the application made by Ruth Adler, dated late July 1943, requesting to receive the addresses of her family members; in the response, dated 29 August 1943, it is noted that these...

File Number : 343

Type of Material : Reports, Letter, List of Names

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

To be translated

File Number : 692

Type of Material : Study

Language : Polish

Testimony of Izrail Veselnitzkiy (Ivan Vasilenko, during the war), born in 1906, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, in POW camps, in the Sonderkommando in the Ninth Fort, in the Kaunas Ghetto and in the partisans during 1941-1945, and his participation in the mass escape from the Ninth Fort during the night of 25-26 December 1943 The audio testimony was recorded in Vilnius on 02/12/1988, in a speech directed to the participants at a gathering marking 45 years since the escape; the gathering was intended to be held in Kaunas; Draft of the witness into the Red Army at the outbreak of the war; he...

File Number : 10830

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian