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Testimony of Aharon Feigenblum, born in 1919 in Włocławek, Poland, about his experiences as a member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Kalisz, in Warsaw, and in the movement underground in the Soviet Union

Receives a religious education; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; lives in a hakhshara (training center) in Kalisz in 1937; Kol Nidre eve in 1939; three Jews murdered; witness escapes to his parents in Warsaw in November 1939; escapes to Wilno and lives there until June 1940; escapes to Tashkent and Samarkand in 1941; membership in the Hashomer Hatzair underground in the Soviet Union in 1941–1944; involved in the affair surrounding Mordechai Rozman, a leader of the underground, who succumbed to NKVD interrogation and surrendered names of underground members; liberation and return to Poland in December 1945;...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13553

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehoshua Hotner, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1910, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1934 and the experiences of Avraham Levin, his brother-in-law, in the Warsaw Ghetto including the writing of a diary for the Oneg Shabbat Archives and his murder in Treblinka camp Life before the war; attends a Jewish high school and his teacher is Arie Levin; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1934; activities of Avraham Levin in the Oneg Shabbat Archives in the Warsaw Ghetto; discovery of Levin's diary in the Archives after the war; testimony of the murder of Avraham Levin in Treblinka; publication of the diary, 1969. ...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Kadish Sosnovski, born in Szczuczyn, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Szczuczyn, Bialystok, Minsk, Smolensk and other places

Testimony of Kadish Sosnovski, born in Szczuczyn, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Szczuczyn, Bialystok, Minsk, Smolensk and other places Life before the war. German occupation; concentration of Jews including his father; deportation of his father; Soviet occupation; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, June 1941; escape to Bialystok with his mother; escape to Minsk; life in Minsk; escape to Smolensk; life in Smolensk including his mother's illness; hospitalization of his mother in a hospital; witness' life in an orphanage; life in a kolkhoz in the home of a...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

מכתבים שמסרו Emanuel ו-Józia Ringelblum במסתור ב-Warszawa אל Adolf Abraham ו-Basia Berman במסתור מנובמבר 1943 עד מרץ 1944

results.listIds.fileNumber : 6280

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Testimony of Shoshana Emilka (Kosover) Rozentzveig, born in Radzymin, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Radzymin Ghetto, using a false identity in Warsaw, the Polish underground and as a Polish forced laborer in Germany Life before the war; Jewish community; school. German occupation; decrees; plucking of her father's beard; deportation to the Radzymin Ghetto; ghetto life; her mother's illness; her father's death; deportation of her mother and family members to Treblinka; obtains a Polish identity card from a priest; move to Warsaw; joins the Polish underground; activities in the underground;...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Collection of children's poems in Yiddish, titled, "Hand in Hand", published in Brussels, 1945

Collection of children's poems in Yiddish, titled, "Hand in Hand", published in Brussels, 1945 Verification [?] of the Holocaust expressed in the songs; Zionism expressed in the songs ("From the Negev to the Galil" - p. 17, "My Valley", pp. 18-19, and in Hebrew, "We're building a Port Here", poem by Lea Goldberg, p. 22); dedication of the collection to the memory of Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 36

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Poems/songs

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Yiddish

Articles and essays from the Israeli press regarding Polish literature and the history of Polish Jewry during World War II, 1946-1976

Articles and essays from the Israeli press regarding Polish literature and the history of Polish Jewry during World War II, 1946-1976 - Yiddish manuscript of a biography of Meir Balaban by an unknown author; - "Dwie ksiazki o sztuce zydowskiej w Polsce" (Two Books About Jewish Handicraft in Poland) an article by D. Dawidowicz, in a translation by Wladyslaw Chrapusta, published 29 December 1956, on the occasion of the opening of an exhibit in Tel Aviv devoted to a Polish book. In the article, there is information regarding the book, "Synagogi Drewniane" (Wooden Synagogues) by Maria and Piechotka...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 96

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Article, Newspaper, Article

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; Liquidation of the Lodz ghetto in 1943-1944, escape from Treblinka

The report of the Jewish National Committee dated May 24, 1944 containing information about the Warsaw Ghetto fighters; about the difficulties of moving them out of the ghetto area; about the murder of Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, his wife and child and 35 other Jews living in the bunker (hiding place); about the Bund Jewish Aid organization and the Jewish National Committee, the two institutions that extended help; about the Lodz Ghetto from which tens of thousands of Jews were taken to their deaths in 1944 -1943; about labor camps in the vicinity of Skarzysko; other forced labor camps such as Bergen-Belsen and...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 535

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Reports

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Survey reports submitted by the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee) in Poland and the Council for Assistance to Jews of the Polish-Government-in-Exile Legation, December 1942-24 May 1944 English translation of the report sent by the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee) to A. Reiss, I. Schwarzbart and A. Tartakower in London, 24 May 1944. In the report there is an overview of the unrelenting persecution of Jews hiding on the Aryan side after the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, executions of Jewish scientists and intellectuals due to betrayal, including the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 203

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Survey Report

results.listIds.lang : Polish, English

Excerpts from the Ringelblum archive about Mordechai Anielewicz; Brief articles on Aktions in the Warsaw ghetto and the cooperation of the Jewish police on August 30, 1942; A photograph of Anielewicz

Excerpts from the Ringelblum archive about Mordechai Anielewicz; Brief articles on Aktions in the Warsaw ghetto and the cooperation of the Jewish police on August 30, 1942; A photograph of Anielewicz 1. Excerpts from the Ringelblum archive, written by Ringelblum about Mordechai Anielewicz from the Warsaw ghetto; 2. Short articles including descriptions by Yehiel Gurni and Yehoshua Perla about Aktions in the Warsaw ghetto, and about the cooperation of the Jewish police with the Germans on August 30, 1942; 3. Photograph of Mordechai Anielewicz, commander of the Warsaw ghetto.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 146

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Photograph, Diary

results.listIds.lang : Yiddish

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