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Testimony of Zdzislaw Arkuszynski, regarding the mass deportation of the Jewish population from the ghetto in Tomaszow Mazowiecki to the Treblinka extermination camp, and his experience in KL Auschwitz II - Birkenau The testimony is a fragment (pages 19-23) from Zdzislaw Arkuszynski's publication "Right To Life'', published by Bernardinum in 2005. The author, a Pole, worked on the railroad in the summer of 1942, saw a huge convoy of people escorted and loaded to the freight cars; those were the Jews from the ghetto in Tomaszow Mazowiecki deported to Treblinka; he saw his high school classmates in the crowd....

File Number : 6923

Type of Material : Memoirs Literature, Book, Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Shlomo Dragon, born in Poland, about Auschwitz-Birkenau and his activities in the Sonderkommando and the underground

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Dragon, born in Poland, about Auschwitz-Birkenau and his activities in the Sonderkommando and the underground Warsaw Ghetto; black labor in the ghetto; escape from the ghetto with his brother and reach the town of Plonsk; entrance to the Plonsk ghetto; transfer between different ghettos; deportation to Auschwitz on the eve of Hanukkah, December 1942; arrival at camp in the middle of the night; selection; tattoo number on hand 80359; tattoo number on the hand of his brother Abraham 80360; crematorium; body evacuation work from the gas chambers to the Sonderkommando crematorium; contact...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Witness questioning report of Jakub Wolman by the Commission for the Investigation of German-Nazi Crimes in Oswiecim (Auschwitz) held on April 13-14, 1945 in Krakow

Witness questioning report of Jakub Wolman born in 1914 Poland by the Commission for the Investigation of German-Nazi Crimes in Oswiecim (Auschwitz) held on April 13-14, 1945 in Krakow Jakub Wolman was studying medicine in Czechoslovakia from 1931; was in a forced labor camp in March 1942; transports of Jews from Czechoslovakia began in March of 1942 and in mid-April he was among large number of workers sent to Auschwitz; arrived on April 29, 1942 and was taken to block 18 (Buna block). Wolman recalls the group of Jews from Greece, who were misled about being colonists in Ukraine and signed contracts with...

File Number : 3104

Type of Material : Protocol, Investigation Report, Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Feliks Rosethal, regarding his Sonderkommando experience in the Auschwitz concentration camp

Testimony of Feliks Rosethal, regarding his work in the Sonderkommando in the Auschwitz death camp from November 1943, in Mauthausen and Gusen II camps until the liberation on May 5, 1945 Feliks Rosenthal was deported from Sosnowiec to the Auschwitz concentration camp in November 1943, where he was taken to work in the Sonderkommando unit in the disposal of gas chamber victims in the crematoria of Birkenau. Sonderkommando prisoners were separated from other camp inmates, living in a secluded barracks with a courtyard surrounded by a wall, first in Birkenau sector BIb, snd later in sector BIId. The...

File Number : 1867

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Report about Treblinka Camp II, dawn up in Siedlce in September–November 1945 by the prosecutor, Maciejewski, and the judge-investigator, Lukaskiewicz

Results of an investigation by a court in Siedlce concerning the Treblinka II extermination camp from September 24 to November 22, 1945: - establishment of the Treblinka I concentration and labor camp for Polish and Jewish prisoners in summer 1941, adjacent to the Siedlce–Małkinia rail line on the way from Kosowo to Małkinia; - establishmenet of the Treblinka II camp in June 1942 by the Zentralbaulsitung der Waffen SS und Polizei Warschau; the camp commander was a German SS officer; his staff was composed of Germans and Ukrainians. To clean out railroad cars and deal with the bodies and belongings of the...

File Number : 546

Type of Material : Investigation Report

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Publication "Treblinka - Katyn of the Jews of Europe" by Jan Aleksander Zaremba, published in Kielce in 1945

Publication "Treblinka - Katyn of the Jews of Europe" by Jan Aleksander Zaremba, published in Kielce in 1945 The publication by Jan Aleksander Zaremba was published in Kielce in 1945 by Swietokrzyska Library of Knowledge, Culture and Art; is based on the testimonies of former prisoners of the Treblinka extermination camp: - Moszek Laks (pseudonym Mietek) from Laczna, Sucheniow district; born on May 12, 1902; deported with his family to Treblinka on September 21, 1942; - Izaak Platkiewicz (pseudonym Maniek) from Grechow; born in 1910; deported with his family to Plock, then to Treblinka on September 24,...

File Number : 2169

Type of Material : Musical Notes, Testimony

Language : Polish, Yiddish

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File Number : 429

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

To be translated

File Number : 448

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Czech

Testimony of Izrail Veselnitzkiy (Ivan Vasilenko, during the war), born in 1906, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, in POW camps, in the Sonderkommando in the Ninth Fort, in the Kaunas Ghetto and in the partisans during 1941-1945, and his participation in the mass escape from the Ninth Fort during the night of 25-26 December 1943 The audio testimony was recorded in Vilnius on 02/12/1988, in a speech directed to the participants at a gathering marking 45 years since the escape; the gathering was intended to be held in Kaunas; Draft of the witness into the Red Army at the outbreak of the war; he...

File Number : 10830

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Elisheva (Heiman) Ben Tor, born in Tokaj, Hungary, regarding her experiences and those of her family in Tokaj, their deportation to the Auschwitz extermination camp and to other camps

Memoirs of Elisheva (Heiman) Ben Tor, born in Tokaj, Hungary, regarding her experiences and those of her family in Tokaj, their deportation to the Auschwitz extermination camp and to other camps Rise of the pro-German Arrow Cross Organization to power; gathering of all the Jews of Tokaj in the synagogue, April-May 1944; deportation of the Tokaj Jews to Auschwitz; annihilation of the Jews in gas "showers", among them her mother and two younger brothers; description of the annihilation; work sorting the items belonging to those who perished; mutual help among the inmates in transferring food; how her sister...

File Number : 9686

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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