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Testimony of Pinkas Rosengarten, born in Nowy Sacz, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Nowy Sacz, prisons in the Soviet Union and service in Iran as a military chaplain in Anders Army

Testimony

Testimony of Pinkas Rosengarten, born in Nowy Sacz, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Nowy Sacz, prisons in the Soviet Union and service in Iran as a military chaplain in Anders Army Life before the war; education; ordination as a rabbi; move to Krakow; academic studies; return to Nowy Sacz; work as a teacher in a Tarbut high school; community life; establishment of a Hashomer Hadati chapter. German occupation; forced labor; escape to the Soviet Union; arrest on the charge of espionage; detention in various prisons; prison life including forced labor and illnesses; hospitalization; pardon after...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Investigation report regarding rejection of Jewish recruits from Poland from service in the ranks of the Polish Army in Iran, 1942-1943

Investigation report regarding rejection of Jewish recruits from Poland from service in the ranks of the Polish Army in Iran, 1942-1943 Petition submitted by Dr. I. Schwarzbart to Sikorski, Chief of the Polish Army, to examine the behavior of a Polish officer who allegedly refused to accept a group of Jews sent from the Soviet Union to Iran with permission of the Soviet authorities under his command. - Letter from Schwarzbart to Sikorski, 01 October 1943; - Correspondence between Sikorski and Anders, Chief of the Polish Army in Iran, and among other officers concerning the incident; - Preliminary...

File Number : 333

Type of Material : Correspondence, Investigation Report, Investigation Reports

Language : Polish

BBC Polish Department broadcasts in Polish and English, 08 December 1942-04 August 1944

BBC Polish Department broadcasts in Polish and English, 08 December 1942-04 August 1944 Among the broadcasts during this period: Statements by Stanislaw Kot, a minister in the Polish Government-in-Exile in London regarding the resistance of the Poles to the Germans; meetings with Sikorski, the Prime Minister of the Polish Government-in-Exile and Supreme Commander of the Polish Army, in which political subjects concerning Poland were discussed; the efforts of the clergy to extend help to the Jews; information from a Swedish newspaper regarding the general liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto; the meeting of...

File Number : 41

Type of Material : Radio Broadcasts

Language : Polish, English

Testimony of Shmuel Natansohn, born in Bielsko Biala, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Przemysl, labor camps in Siberia, Samarkand and travel to Eretz Israel with the "Teheran Children"

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Natansohn, born in Bielsko Biala, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Przemysl, labor camps in Siberia, Samarkand and travel to Eretz Israel with the "Teheran Children" His immediate family; religious holidays at home and family gatherings; Jewish community life; school studies; the 1938 riots; the youth movement in the village. Entry of the Germans into Przemysl; murder of his father by the Germans; search for his father together with his twin brother; execution of hundreds of Jews in Przemysl; living with relatives in Podhajce; deportation on trains to Siberia; labor in a...

File Number : 10894

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Shabtai Harari, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Soviet captivity near Vilna, in Arkhangelsk, Komi Assr, as an Anders Army soldier in Saratov, Iran and other places Captured by the Soviets near Vilna, September 1939; gathering of Polish Army soldiers and civilians taken captive by chance; transfer to the Arkhangelsk district in the northern Soviet Union; life in Komi Assr including labor; Sikorski agreement; release from the camp; joins Anders Army; transfer to Saratov for training; transfer to Dzhalal Abad; transfer to Iran; transfer to Iraq; transfer to Eretz...

File Number : 4194

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Memoirs of Zvi Ben David (born Moshe Hirsch Oliner), born in Czermna, regarding the experiences of his family in Czermna, Lwów, and the Rybinsk camp, and Zvi's being drafted into the Anders Army and desertion; documentation pertaining to the fate of the members of the Oliner and Shermer families - Memoirs of Zvi Ben David [formerly Moshe Hirsch Oliner]: Zvi Ben David's parents were David Oliner, born in Moszczenica, and Etta (Shermer) Oliner, who died in 1925; they lived in Czermna; Zvi's siblings were Itka (who studied dressmaking, moved to Tarnów for work, and made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1936), Aharon...

File Number : 10631

Type of Material : Memoirs, List of Murdered Persons

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Laist, born in 1933 in Żółkiewka, Poland, regarding his experiences in Żółkiewka, escape to the Soviet Union, deportation to Siberia, evacuation to Tashkent and to Yangi Yul. Childhood in Żółkiewka in a traditional family; his father was` a tailor, owner of a sewing shop; the family spoke Yiddish amongst themselves; Jewish refugees from Germany in the town, from 1938; air-raids; German occupation in September 1939; rounding up of the Jewish men near the church, followed up by their release; departure of the German army and the entry of the Red Army in the same month; leaving home, and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew