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Memoirs of Khaia Duksztulski born in Vilna, Poland, 1914, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, in the "Lukiszki" prison, and in the home of a non-Jewish woman acquaintance outside the ghetto Life before the war; marriage to Yitzhak Bloch; birth of their son Moshe; Outbreak of the war; draft of Yitzhak into the Polish Army; Yitzhak is taken captive by the Germans, and his [subsequent] death; German occupation, 1941; Khaia's detention for violation of the curfew; transfer to the "Lukiszki" prison; release from prison, with the help of paying a bribe to the prison guards; transfer of her brothers...

File Number : 8551

Type of Material : Genealogy, Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Correspondence of the Poalei Zion Party administration in Warsaw with Party branches in Poland and other countries, with other Zionist organizations and the World Jewish Congress (WJC), winter 1947-1948 Letters and reports regarding their activities sent to the administration in Warsaw by the local branches in various cities. The reports include information regarding cultural activities, changes of personnel and organizational matters, aliya arrangements and relief campaigns for the Yishuv (Jewish population of Israel prior to establishment of the State) and the Haganah Organization. The documentation is...

File Number : 525

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Nakhum Krimerkopf regarding the fate of his family and acquaintances in Tarnogrod during the German occupation

Testimony of Nakhum Krimerkopf regarding the fate of his family and acquaintances in Tarnogrod during the German occupation The witness joined the Soviets in their retreat in 1939 and labored in a camp in the forests in Arkhangelskoye; the fate of the Jews of Tarnogrod, according to evidence he gathered among local Jewish acquaintances on his return to Poland in May 1945, as well as from letters he received from his wife who remained in Tarnogrod with their three children, Pesha, 17, and two younger children. Abuse of Jews; relative peace and freedom of trade under German rule, while the German army is...

File Number : 1118

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Memoirs of members of the Holer family (Avraham [the father], Pnina [his wife], and their children Yehuda, Rivka and Menachem), from Likowa, regarding their experiences in Likowa and in a group of partisans in the forest

Memoirs of Avraham Holer from Likowa regarding his experience in Likowa and in a group of partisans in the forest Life in Likowa during the German occupation, 01/09/1939; first days of the occupation, and the retreat of the Germans upon the arrival of the Red Army; return of the German occupation after a short while; imposition of restrictions on the Jews; transfer of Jews to forced labor on 01/01/1940; deportation of Avraham with the Jewish men to Belzec camp on the eve of Rosh Hashana (September) 1941; news regarding the horrors in Belzec camp including the murder of the Gypsies who were detained in the...

File Number : 10148

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the Regional Council in Pinsk, 1945-1946

Documentation of the Regional Council in Pinsk, 1945-1946 The Collection includes instructions of the People's Council of Commissars of Belorussia regarding the return of Polish citizens of Polish and Jewish origin back to their country and lists of people who requested to give up their Soviet citizenship, 1945-1946.

Type of Material : List of Evacuated Persons, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

Documentation of the operational committee in the Rovno region, 1939 and 1944-1945

Documentation of the operational committee in the Rovno region, 1939 and 1944-1945 Included in the collection: - Reports from meetings of the operational committees of the Kostopol and Lyudvipol districts, 1939; - Appeals sent to the authorities by evacuated Jews requesting to return to the Rovno region; - Correspondence with the People's Commissioners Committee of Ukraine, regarding the return of Soviet Union citizens to their homeland.

Type of Material : Appeal to the Authorities, Survey Report, Official Documentation, Correspondence

Language : Russian

Letter from Osias Oskar Bauer in Szczecin, Poland, to his niece in Mandatory Palestine, 1946, and documentation from the period after the war related to him and his second wife, Masza Sokolowska, who also returned to Poland from the Soviet Union - Letter written by Osias Oskar Bauer in Szczecin to his niece, Klara, in Mandatory Palestine, 29/10/1946, telling her about his experiences during the war and that his entire family perished in the Holocaust (including a translation into Hebrew): Receiving a draft notice, in 1939; saying farewell to his wife and three children; arrival in the Soviet Union; return...

File Number : 4147

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Polish, German

German passport for Chaim Wiszhna, a Polish-born foreign resident, containing residence permit stamps for Allenstein, Germany, 1940-1944, and personal documentation of Nachman Malina from the time of his stay in the Soviet Union and Poland after the war - German passport for a foreign resident, with the letter "J" on its cover, for Chaim Wiszhna, born in Kolaki, Poland, 20/11/1898, issued in Allenstein, 27/06/1939, with stamps for a residence permit (Aufenthaltserlaubnis) in Allenstein, Germany,1940-1944; - Certificate issued for Nachman Malina, living in Czernihow, by the Polish-Soviet Joint Committee...

File Number : 1624

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Passport

Language : Polish, German

Documentation associated with Moisey Gordon and Brayna née Segal, name from previous marriage Bilbinder, from Vilnius, after the war, and certifications from ITS (International Tracing Service) about the wartime history of the Cap family of Kaunas: Documentation associated with Moisey Gordon and Brayna née Segal: - ID card of Moisey Gorden, son of Benyamin and Mera Gordon (b. September 29, 1909, in Vilnius), issued on November 19, 1956; - marriage license of Moisey Gordon and Brayna Bilbinder, issued in Vilnius on October 15, 1946 (incl. notarized copy, 1947); - document issued by the Polish...

File Number : 1704

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Certification, Personal Documents

Language : Lithuanian, Russian

Memoirs of Regina Weisberg Wolf, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 30 August 1922, regarding her experiences in Poland, various concentration camps and emigration

Memoirs of Regina Weisberg Wolf, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 30 August 1922, regarding her experiences in Poland, various concentration camps and emigration to the USA Obituary for Regina Weisberg Wolf, an active member of her community in Florida, USA, 2003. "I Remember": Memoirs of Regina Weisberg Wolf, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 30 August 1922, regarding her experiences in Poland, various concentration camps and emigration to the USA - Her parents and siblings in Sosnowiec; job in the military store after studies; German occupation of Poland, 1939; persecution of Jews; deportation to the Schrodula...

File Number : 9792

Type of Material : Obituary, Photograph, Memoirs

Language : English

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