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Documentation of the Reichsministerium fuer Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung (Reich Ministry of Science, Education and Public Education), Germany, 1933-1945

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony

Testimony of M. Klingberg, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1918, regarding the experiences of Professor Ludwik Fleck, the bacteriologist, and his scientific activities in the Lwow Ghetto, Auschwitz and Buchenwald Life before the war; medical studies at the university. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; escape to Lwow; work at medical research. German occupation, June 1941; deportation to the Lwow Ghetto; ghetto life including work managing a hospital; contact with scientists on the Aryan side and in the Warsaw Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Buchenwald, January 1944; camp life including...

File Number : 2643

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dr. Broder, regarding his labor with a group of chemists in Plaszow, Flossenburg, Auschwitz and Gleiwitz camps

Testimony of Dr. Broder, regarding his labor with a group of chemists in Plaszow, Flossenburg, Auschwitz and Gleiwitz camps Establishment of a research group consisting of 20 chemists in Plaszow camp; labor with various kinds of fuel, agricultural crops and methods of treating them, and translation of Soviet professional literature; comfortable labor conditions; deportation to Flossenburg camp; physical labor for several weeks; transfer to a barracks to continue his "research work"; return to Plaszow; research and labor in a laboratory, using sulfur dioxide; evacuation of Plaszow and transfer to Auschwitz,...

File Number : 89

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Reports regarding the activities of the Polish Students' Union in Geneva

Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Reports regarding the activities of the Polish Students' Union in Geneva - Reports regarding the activities of the Polish Students' Union in Geneva and copies of various letters. Also in the file: - List of scientific (?) workers in Poland who perished during World War II, 1945; - Bulletin, 29 March 1946.

File Number : 62

Type of Material : Survey Report, List of Murdered Persons

To be translated

Reports from the District Committees of the Ukrainian Communist Party [KP(B)U] containing antisemitic material, concerning Jewish control of the faculty of the institutions of higher learning in the city of Kiev and Kharkov; the accusations against them were rejection of Communism, Cosmopolitanism, lacking roots and Veismannism.

File Number : 231

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Russian

To be translated

Report to the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party [TSK KP(B)U] regarding the activities of scientists from the Zoological Institute of AN USSR, the Ukrainian Academy of Science, among whom were Jews, in the struggle against "Veismannism Morganism" after the assembly of the Lenin Academy of the USSR for the Study of Agriculture, in 1948.

File Number : 230

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Russian

Testimony of Jan Zabinski, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1897, regarding his experiences in the rescue of Jews in Warsaw

Testimony

Testimony of Jan Zabinski, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1897, regarding his experiences in the rescue of Jews in Warsaw Life before the war; work as the manager of the zoo. German occupation, September 1939; establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto; activities to rescue Jews including smuggling Jews out of the ghetto and hiding them in the zoo compound with help from his wife; liberation, 1945.

File Number : 2889

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Testimony

Joint testimony of Maria (Witkowska) Teitelbaum Tarska, a Polish woman born in Warsaw, Poland, 1902, and Alfred Teitelbaum Tarski, born in Minsk, Belorussia, 1902, regarding assistance given by Poles to Jewish members of the intelligentsia and scientists and the rescue of Jewish children Alfred Tarski's work as a lecturer in mathematics at Warsaw University; Alfred's separation from his family when he goes to lecture in the United States just before the outbreak of the war; help from Maria, a non-Jew, and her sister, Jozefa Zahorska, a Polish underground activist; providing a temporary hiding place for...

File Number : 3539

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Pola (Bek) Korn, born in Tyczyn, Poland, 1916, regarding her experiences in Tyczyn, Rzeszow, Krakow, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Pola (Bek) Korn, born in Tyczyn, Poland, 1916, regarding her experiences in Tyczyn, Rzeszow, Krakow, Auschwitz and other places Life in Tyczyn; deportation to the Rzeszow Ghetto; escape; life in Krakow outside the ghetto; transfer to the prison inside the Krakow Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including medical experiments; transfer to Rajsko; camp life; list of names of prisoner physicians and scientists.

File Number : 3236

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Article by Matteo Paolieri about the chemist and Holocaust survivor, Ferdinand Münz

Article by Matteo Paolieri about the chemist and Holocaust survivor, Ferdinand Münz - an article about the experiences and scientific activity of the chemist Ferdinand Münz, born in Krakow in 1888, before, during and after the Holocaust; the article was written by Matteo Paolieri and published in the "Bulletin for the History of Chemistry" periodical in 2017: The family's move from Krakow to Vienna at the end of the 19th century; Chemistry studies in Vienna in 1906-1911; move to Germany and working in Germany; service in the Austrian army in World War I; marriage to Maria Ewald (not Jewish); life and work...

File Number : 573

Type of Material : Article

Language : English

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