Anonymous testimony regarding the mass execution of 140 Jews in killing pits in the forest between Tyniec and Skawina, 08 July 1942
[Deportation] order to all the Jews from villages in the Krakow area to transfer to Skawina with their property, 08 July 1942; concentration of the Jews near Skawina, accompanied by a unit of the Blue Police [Polish Police of the Generalgouvernement] and representatives of the local Judenrat; names checked according to a list; notification given regarding placement of the deportees with Jewish families in Skawina; sixteen families leave; selection carried out by the Sonderdienst...
"The Holocaust of the Ropczyce Jews" by. Eugeniusz Antoni Taras published in "Znak", Krakow, Nr. 5-6, 1988
The history of the Ropczyce Jews till the outbreak of WWII. Anti- Jewish measures enforced since the begining of German occupation, which escalated fast. From the marking of their shops and houses, humilition and abuse, plunder of Jewish property to, forced labor to mass killings and deportation to death camps.In February 1940, 130 young Jews from Ropczyce were deported to Debica forced labor camp. In the spring of 1940 most of the Jewish population from Ropczyce was deported to Pustkow, where the...
File Number : 2412
Type of Material : Article, Survey, Memoirs Literature
Testimony of Batia (Reis) Shai, born in 1925 in Rawa Ruska, Poland, about her experiences in the Rawa Ruska ghetto and under a false identity
Childhood in an Orthodox home; attends a Polish school and a Beth Jacob school at the same time; Germans enter; life in the Rawa Ruska ghetto; witness polishes boots for the Sonderdienstkommando; parents murdered; obtains false papers in the name of a Christian woman, Elinora Rogos; dyes her hair blonde; witness moved by her brother, for a large payment; to a non-Jew in Kraków; she works in his home; sent to a staging point in Kraków for forced labor; sets out as a...