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Memoirs of Pesach Fridberg regarding the Jewish partisan group, Kalinin, in Novogrodek, Poland, 1942

Memoirs of Pesach Fridberg regarding the Jewish partisan group, Kalinin, in Novogrodek, Poland, 1942 Organization of Tuvia Bielski's partisan unit following the murders in Novogrodik, 10 July 1942; receiving help from non-Jews; taking revenge against Sheska Marchinveski and the forester Aleksei Pikta, 20 September 1942; Included in the file: Original liberation certificate of Sima Zamoschik from the Kalinin partisan battalion.

File Number : 1245

Type of Material : Original, Survey Report

Language : Russian, Yiddish

"Gorodok vzyvaet k mshcheniyu" (The City of Gorodok Calls for Revenge), an article published in a Soviet newspaper

"Gorodok vzyvaet k mshcheniyu" (The City of Gorodok Calls for Revenge), an article published in a Soviet newspaper Entry of the German forces into Gorodok, August 1941; hanging of Soviet activists in the Vitebskaya Square in the center of the city, and murder of Communists and Comsomol members; establishment of a ghetto for the 1,700 Jews of the city; murder of ghetto inmates in the areas surrounding Gorodok, from early August 1941; burning of the village of Berezino, including its inhabitants, on suspicion of their having contact with partisans; arrests in Gorodok over the course of several months,...

File Number : 288

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Russian

Letter written by Boris Toybis, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Red Army Medical Corps, regarding the murder of Jews and Gypsies in Varaklani

Letter written by Boris Toybis, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Red Army Medical Corps, regarding the murder of Jews and Gypsies in Varaklani Boris Toybis, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Red Army Medical Corps, writes in reaction to an article by Ilya Ehrenburg, published in the "Krasnaya Zvezda" newspaper 25 September 1944; he tells of the impression he was left with from his work in the military in the exhumation at the murder site in Varaklani; all the Jews and the Gypsies of Varaklani were murdered in two ditches; Toybis spoke with a Latvian eye-witness who told him about the murder; in June 1944 the Germans...

File Number : 205

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Letter of testimony by Colonel Podberezin, regarding the liberation of Brest in July 1944

Letter of testimony by Colonel Podberezin, regarding the liberation of Brest in July 1944 The writer tells about his feelings during the liberation of Brest and his satisfaction with the avenge of the German Army.

File Number : 158

Type of Material : Letter, Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Letter by Hero of the Soviet Union [Red Army] Second Lieutenant Kravtsov, regarding the murder of his family in Yaltushkov

Letter by Hero of the Soviet Union [Red Army] Second Lieutenant Kravtsov, regarding the murder of his family in Yaltushkov Establishment of the Yaltushkov Ghetto near the market square; hunger in the ghetto; concentration of the ghetto inmates in the railroad station on 20/08/1942, where most of them were murdered with cruelty, including the writer's two daughters; afterwards his wife labored in a labor camp in Yakushintsy; she was murdered with all of the camp's inmates later; Second Lieutenant Kravtsov writes that that only thing left for him is revenge.

File Number : 116

Type of Material : Photograph, Letter

Language : Russian

Letter sent to Ilya Ehrenburg by Red Army soldier M. Ayzenberg, 01/06/1944

Letter sent to Ilya Ehrenburg by Red Army soldier M. Ayzenberg, 01/06/1944 In his letter M. I. Ayzenberg calls to all of the Jews in the Soviet Union and in the world to take revenge against the Nazis, and he presents as an example his 17 year old nephew, whose entire family was murdered by the Nazis in Izyaslavl, who enlisted in [volunteered for] the Red Army; the writer notes that he sent his nephew's letter to Ehrenburg and requests that the letter be returned to him.

File Number : 19

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Testimony of Yehoshua Flusberg, born in 1926 in Dobrzyn Nad Drweca, Poland, about his experiences in the Mława ghetto; the Auschwitz, Stutthof, and Gottsdorf camps; etc.

Life before the war in parents' home; antisemitism; boycott of Jews in 1938; escaping from family home in September 1939; life in the Skepe camp; returning to home; synagogue encircled by Germans on Rosh Hashana; men rounded up in the market; deported to Prussia; deported Jews murdered and buried in a common grave; deportation order from town in November 1939; living with the family in Mława; selling cigarettes; ghetto sealed in 1942; assigned to forced labor; synagogue in Mława set ablaze; mother deported in the elders' transport; labor terminated and back to the ghetto on August 10, 1942; deportation to...

File Number : 13516

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Liberman, born in Baia Mare, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, labor battalions, Auschwitz, Gusen and on a death march to Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Liberman, born in Baia Mare, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, labor battalions, Auschwitz, Gusen and on a death march to Gunskirchen Childhood; from a religious, Zionist family with eight children; studies in a "heder" and attendance in Romanian, Hungarian and vocational schools. Outbreak of the war; information regarding the fate of the Jews and disbelief; Hungarian occupation, 1938; draft to forced labor paving roads, 1942-1943; deportation to the Baia Mare Ghetto in a brick factory; murder of the intelligentsia and the wealthy members of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dvora (Moskovitz) Berger, born in Peneszlek, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Mezosas, the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Hessisch Lichtenau and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Dvora (Moskovitz) Berger, born in Peneszlek, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Mezosas, the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Hessisch Lichtenau and on a death march Her childhood with her parents; move to Mezosas; displays of antisemitism in the school; acts of harassment. German Army occupation [of Mezosas], 1944; life under German occupation including the decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; restrictions on travel, ban on the possession of a radio, and demand to hand over valuables; attitude of the local population; in hiding while hidden by a Hungarian neighbor; deportation to the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Gorbach) Fligelman, born in Rafalowka, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Rafalowka, a forest, in hiding, in Pinsk and Chelm

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Gorbach) Fligelman, born in Rafalowka, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Rafalowka, a forest, in hiding, in Pinsk and Chelm Her childhood in a well-to-do, traditional family. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; Red Army occupation of Rafalowka; life under Soviet occupation; German Army occupation of Rafalowka, July 1941; establishment of the Rafalowka Ghetto, 1942; her family's escape from the ghetto with help from a Ukrainian guard; life in a forest; murder of the people who hid them one month later; escape; meets her sister; wanderings between villages for one year; meets...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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