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Memoirs of Shmuel Haler, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto, Koenigshuette, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen and other places

Memoirs of Shmuel Haler, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto, Koenigshuette, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen and other places Life in the Bedzin Ghetto until 1942; life in Koenigshuette; life in Gross Sarne; life in Gross Masselwitz; life in Dyhernfurth; life in Gross-Rosen; death march to Mauthausen; life in Mauthausen, January-May 1945; liberation by the US Army, May 1945. Unsuccessful aliya attempt via Italy; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 8201

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof Life before the war; attends a high school. Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; ghetto life; labor for an estate owner in exchange for food; liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; disappearance of her parents after a selection; deportation to Kaiserwald; transfer to Strassenhof; camp life including forced labor digging trenches and in a carpet factory; deportation to Stutthof; camp life including forced labor digging...

File Number : 12447

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Protocol of the working session of Reich Defence Committee (Reichsverteidigungsausschuss) for Poland held on 2/3/1940 in Warsaw and excerpts from monthly reports by Oberfeldkommandanturen of the Wehrmacht in Poland regarding ghettos, 1941-1942 Protocol of the working session of Reich Defence Committee (Reichsverteidigungsausschuss) for Poland, which took place on 2/3/1940 in Warsaw (pp.4-18) The session dealt with the tasks of Reich Defence Committee, the security situation in the occupied Poland and principles of the Nazi policy towards different groups of its population. It was presided by the...

File Number : 183

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Project, Report, Discussion, Speech

Language : German

Testimony of Pnina Zahavi, born in Snow, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Snow and as a forced laborer using a false identity in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Pnina Zahavi, born in Snow, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Snow and as a forced laborer using a false identity in Germany Her childhood. Life under Soviet occupation, September 1939; acts of robbery by villagers from the area after the Soviets flee, July 1941; persecution of Jews after the German occupation; murder of most of the residents of Snow, including her family; hidden by a Baptist minister who is the head of the town council; escape to Baranowicze; joins a group of Soviet forced laborers using the false identity of Valentina Stepantsova; transfer with the group to Munich,...

File Number : 6598

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Scheinowitz, regarding his experiences during his deportation from Plaszow, in Zschachwitz camp, and in Leitmeritz and Theresienstadt

Testimony of Scheinowitz, regarding his experiences during his deportation from Plaszow, in Zschachwitz camp, and in Leitmeritz and Theresienstadt Deportation from Plaszow with 400 inmates, 09 October 1944; arrival to Zschachwitz to labor in the MIAG weapons factory, 13 October 1944; camp life including labor and residence in a three-story building; appointment of Majer, a Jew from Germany who had supervised the kitchen in Plaszow, as the Lageraelteste (camp elder); administrative matters and roll-call are held on the entrance level of the building; stealing of all the inmates' valuables, clothing and other...

File Number : 103

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Sofiya Anvayer, born in Moscow, Russia, regarding her experiences in Vyazma POW camp, Smolensk camp, in Elbing, Stutthof camps and more

Memoirs of Sofiya Anvayer, born in Moscow, Russia, regarding her experiences in Vyazma POW camp, Smolensk camp, in Elbing, Stutthof camps and more Life in Vyazma POW camp in October-November 1941; selection; hiding her Jewish origin; work in a camp hospital; outbreak of a typhus epidemic; contracting typhus and life in a hospital; transfer to Smolensk in March 1942; life in the camp; work in a hospital; transfer to forced labor in Germany; life at Elbing camp; working in a factory; helping the underground; sabotage at a factory; missions for the underground in Neuteich; work in a camp hospital; arrest by the...

File Number : 4339

Type of Material : Memoirs, Article

Language : Russian

Documentation submitted by Matylda Woliniewska regarding the experiences of female inmates in the Majdanek and Lipsk-Schoenfeld camps

Documentation submitted by Matylda Woliniewska regarding the experiences of female inmates in the Majdanek and Lipsk-Schoenfeld camps - Several pages from a theatrical play by an unknown author that takes place in a dining hall, a clinic, and a shelter in a labor camp; - An article by Matylda Woliniewska regarding female Polish inmates in Majdanek containing information concerning harsh living conditions; cultural activities; radio; concerts; a choir; friction between the inmates; attempts to make contact with families; incidents of assistance; political activity; committees set up by inmates: Sanitation...

File Number : 4237

Type of Material : Memoirs, Diary, Testimony, Letter, Poems/songs

Language : Polish

Historical research regarding the Trawniki labor camp in Poland written by Stanislaw Jablonski

Historical research regarding the Trawniki labor camp in Poland written by Stanislaw Jablonski The research study opens with a presentation of the structure of the study and archival sources on which the author based his work. The first chapter is devoted to the way the camp was organized and its jobs. According to Jablonski, the Trawniki camp was established between 22 June and 09 July 1941. Initially, it served as a camp for Soviet POWs and a transit camp for underground members caught by the Germans during the Sonderzug Heinrich campaign. Additionally, already by 1941, Trawniki had begun to act...

File Number : 472

Type of Material : Research Article, Study

Language : Polish

Documentation from Russian State Military Archives (RGVA)

Documentation from Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi, RGVA), 1939-1944 years. Archive was established in 1920 as the Archive of the Red Army (from 1933 Central Archive of the Red Army, from 1941 Central State Archive of the Red Army, and from 1958 Central State Archive of the Soviet Army).In 1946 Institution had been supplied with separate subarchive, so called 'Separate Archive' that included documents collected by the Soviet Army during World War II in the other states and transferred here in 1946. In 1992, Special was renamed the Center for the Preservation of Historical and Documentary...

Type of Material : Photograph, Instruction, List of Collaborators, List of Deportees, List of Names, List of Perpetrators, Album, List of Detainees, List, List of Camp Inmates, List of Deportation From Berlin, Card File, List of Deportation From France, Names, Official Documentation, List of Inmates

Language : German

Letter from the American soldier Milton Oliver Robinson, in Europe, to his sister Joanna, U.S. describing the horrors he saw in the Ludwigslust camp as it was being liberated

Letter from the American soldier Milton Oliver Robinson, in Europe, to his sister Joanna, U.S. describing the horrors he saw in the Ludwigslust camp as it was being liberated - transcript of a letter from the American soldier Milton Oliver Robinson, in Europe, to his sister Joanna, U.S. describing the horrors he saw in the Ludwigslust labor camp as it was being liberated. The transcript is cited in Joanna’s letter to her grandmother, Hattie, May 7, 1945.

File Number : 4412

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English

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