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Memoirs of Leon Ginsburg, born in Maciejow, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences in Kowel and Chelm using a false identity

Memoirs of Leon Ginsburg, born in Maciejow, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences in Kowel and Chelm using a false identity Murder of family members in Maciejow and Luboml, 1942; escape from Kowel, 1942; transfer to Chelm, summer 1943; life in Chelm using the false identity of Stanislaw Kwiatkowski, an orphaned Polish Catholic boy; work as a shepherd for the Pyra family in exchange for room and board, 1943-1944; watching the trains transporting Jews to Sobibor; watching passengers who were Jews from the Netherlands; commerce in the victims' shoes when the trains returned from Sobibor en route to...

File Number : 8263

Type of Material : Testimony, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English

"The Lublin Children’s Shoes": Poem by Johannes Becher

"The Lublin Children’s Shoes": Poem by Johannes Becher The poem was written regarding the piles of children’s shoes discovered in Majdanek after the liberation. In the file there are also notes on the text made by Edith Wolff, the submitter, and an introduction by Dr. Kaduri Ball that includes biographical details regarding Edith Wolff.

File Number : 15

Type of Material : Poems/songs

Language : German

Testimony of Leon Polaniecki, a Pole, regarding his experiences during the German occupation in Rzeszow and Tarnow, in Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen and other camps, and regarding the fate of the Jews in the camps Family background; education supportive of the ideas of socialism. Arrest after being informed on for his opposition to the German occupation regime; detention in Rzeszow camp, 1942; transfer to Tarnow camp, January 1943; transfer to Auschwitz; selection and transfer to labor in barracks construction in Rajsko camp; routine murder of Jewish inmates by the SS; murder of sick inmates on the spot, or...

File Number : 543

Type of Material : Memoirs, Testimony

Language : Polish

Circulars from the Zydowska Samopomoc Społeczna (ZSS-Jewish Social Self-Help) administration in Krakow regarding assistance to refugees, dated 18 March 1941, and regarding an addition to the enterprise for feeding children, and the distribution of shoes, dated 15 July 1942 - In Circular No. 23, dated 18 March 1941 the Zydowska Samopomoc Społeczna (ZSS-Jewish Social Self-Help) administration announces to the Welfare Committees, the Judenrats and local ZSS branches in the Generalgouvernement that relief will be given to refugees through regional distribution. Therefore, they should turn to the organization...

File Number : 496

Type of Material : Circular

Language : Polish, German

Directions for the implementation of various labor assignments in the Drancy camp, 1942-1944

Directions for the implementation of various labor assignments in the Drancy camp, 1942-1944 The material was created by: The Drancy camp The Drancy camp Labor Service In the file: Directions for the implementation of various labor assignments in the Drancy camp

File Number : 110

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : French

Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France), Zone Nord, accounts books regarding daily supplies of goods and clothing to the Drancy camp, 1943-1944

Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France), Zone Nord, accounts books regarding daily supplies of goods and clothing to the Drancy camp, 1943-1944 The material was created by: UGIF, Zone Nord; Group 7 Service 4 Provisions In the file: Three UGIF accounts books regarding daily supplies of goods and clothing to the Drancy camp.

File Number : 103

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Notepad, Financial Accounts

Language : French

Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France), Zone Nord correspondence regarding the provision of cloth, soap and fuel to the Drancy camp, 1944

Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France), Zone Nord correspondence regarding the provision of cloth, soap and fuel to the Drancy camp, 1944 The material was created by: UGIF, Zone Nord Group 7 Service 4 Provisioning In the file: UGIF, Zone Nord correspondence, mostly regarding the provision of cloth, soap and fuel to the Drancy camp.

File Number : 100

Type of Material : Names, Official Documentation

Language : French

Memoirs of Benjamin Vishnevetzky, born in Ostrog, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences in Ostrog, Rostov, Baku and Leninabad

Memoirs of Benjamin Vishnevetzky, born in Ostrog, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences in Ostrog, Rostov, Baku and Leninabad Life before the war; his parents were Pnina Perla (Berger) Vishnevetzky and Avraham Vishnevetzky; his siblings were Motke, Simcha, Yitzhak, Zvia and Moshe; he studies in the Tarbut school; antisemitism; signing of the Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement (German–Soviet Non-Aggression Pact) on 23/08/1939; Soviet occupation; draft of two of his brothers Simcha and Yitzhak to service in the Red Army; his brothers guard a train that is moving explosive materials during shelling by Wehrmacht...

File Number : 9826

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew