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Testimony of Maria Sawicka, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Lowic, Poland, 1905, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, Suchedniow, Krakow and Czestochowa

Testimony

Testimony of Maria Sawicka, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Lowic, Poland, 1905, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, Suchedniow, Krakow and Czestochowa German occupation; collaboration with the Jewish underground; meetings in her home and her sister's home; rescuing children; smuggling Jews from the ghetto to a forest; killing of a Pole; the Warsaw Polish Uprising; move to Suchedniow; activities of the Jewish underground; move to Krakow; activities as a courier for Zegota; move to Czestochowa; help to those in hiding.

File Number : 2836

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Testimony

Testimony of Zimra (Rawicka) Kaminska, born in Wloclawek, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, using a false identity in the Polish underground on the Aryan side, Pruszkow and Trebin From a Zionist family; attends a Hebrew school. German occupation; attacks on Jews; deportation to Warsaw; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life including underground classesled by the educators Itzhak Katzenelson and Gottkobeski; meets with the youth movement leaders Yitzhak Zuckerman and Zivia Lubetkin; separation from her mother who was deported in an "Aktion"; escape to the Aryan side with...

File Number : 2834

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Symcha Rotem Rathajzer, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Warsaw Polish Uprising and Krakow

Testimony

Testimony of Symcha Rotem Rathajzer, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Warsaw Polish Uprising and Krakow Life before the war. German occupation, September 1939; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; preparations for the Uprising; contacts with the ghettos and Jewish partisans; the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943; escape to the Aryan side; the Warsaw Polish Uprising, 1944; escape to Krakow; contacts with the Jewish underground; liberation. Move to Lublin.

File Number : 2511

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence between Zosia Zymra Kaminski in Israel and her rescuers in Poland, 1953-1997, and the memoirs of Yosef Kaminski, from Jasionówka

Correspondence by Josef Kaminski and Zosia Zymra (Ravitzki) Kaminski in Israel during 1953-1997 with: -- Marysia Sawicka and her sister Anna Wąchalska in Łódź, who rescued Zosia Zymra during the war; -- Halina Sawicka in Łódź; Memoirs and testimonies of: -- Marysia Sawicka, from 1965, and a transcription of the testimony; Halina Siewierska-Wójcik, from 1996; -- Zymra Kaminski - for the purpose of having the award of Righteous Among the Nations granted to Marysia Sawicka and Halina Siewierska-Wójcik for their activities on behalf of the rescue of Jews in Warsaw during 1942-1945; - Letters and newspaper...

File Number : 5278

Type of Material : Telegram, Marriage Certificate, Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Testimony, Envelope, Article, כתובה, Memoirs, Postcard

Language : Italian, Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish