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Personal documentation belonging to William Wolfgang Brickman, born in the United States, 1913, a US soldier who spied in Germany

Personal documentation belonging to William Wolfgang Brickman, born in the United States, 1913, a US soldier who spied in Germany - Letter sent by William (Zeev) Wolfgang Brickman from Fürth-Unterfürberg, Germany, to Dr. Ernest O. Melby, Dean of the New York University School of Education requesting the renewal of his appointment as an Instructor in the Department of History of Education at the University, 04 February 1946; - Certificate confirming the completion of a course in the United States Military Intelligence Training Center awarded to William Wolfgang Brickman, 03 March 1945; - United States...

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results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Personal Documents

results.listIds.lang : English, German

Testimony of Channah (Pinchover) Uhrbach, born in Breslau, Germany, 1918, regarding her experiences in Cologne, Berlin, Breslau, her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 and more

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Testimony of Channah (Pinchover) Uhrbach, born in Breslau, Germany, 1918, regarding her experiences in Cologne, Berlin, Breslau, her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 and more Life before the war; education; Nazi rise to power; economic boycott; "Nuremberg" laws, 1935; opening of the liberal Jewish school; studying Hebrew; life in Moravska-Ostrava including agricultural labor; deportation of Jews to Sachsenhausen; murder of Jews in the camp and sending their ashes to their families; escape to Cologne; life in Cologne including training by Bachad (Brit Chalutzim Datiim); choosing of children in Blakenese for legal...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13043

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Reports (Referat) of the Director of the IVA1 (Gestapo anti-Communists) Department in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA-Reich Security Headquarters) regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 2, 23 June 1941 - The report consists of two sections: political events and military events; - Detention by the Gestapo of hundreds of people suspected of subversion, in the Suwalki area; continuation of the imprisonment of people holding Soviet citizenship in Germany; reports of the battles taking place in Poland; arrest of Soviet spies.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 163.2

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Survey Report

results.listIds.lang : German

Reply letter written by Matilde Bassani to Mr. M. Di Consiglio thanking him for the information he provided regarding a spy and noting that the matter has been passed on for treatment by the partisans Polacco and Angelo Lombardi, 09 August 1944 - Letter from Matilde Bassani to Polacco to which she added the information regarding the spy which she had received from M. Di Consiglio, 09 August 1944.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 75

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Official Documentation

results.listIds.lang : Italian

Correspondence concerning the burial of Tekla Andrusishin, a Jewish woman from Augustowka, Poland, who converted to Christianity, October–November 1942, and press clippings about the Ukrainian war criminal Iwan Stebelski, aka "Winter." - Letter from the Lwów branch of the Ukrainian Central Committee, sent on November 5, 1942, turning down a request from the bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church concerning the burial of Tekla Andrusishin of Augustowka, who converted and married a Ukrainian in 1890. Kost Pankiwskyi, writing for the Committee, states that the Committee is not allowed to deal with...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 381

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Correspondence, Newspaper Clippings

results.listIds.lang : Ukrainian

Testimony of Elkhanan Shteingarten, born in Ratno, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Ratno Ghetto, in hiding and with partisans

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Testimony of Elkhanan Shteingarten, born in Ratno, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Ratno Ghetto, in hiding and with partisans Life in Ratno. Murder by Germans of 30 Jews and 30 Ukrainians in Ratno, early July 1941; among those murdered was the witness’ brother; murder of 111 Jews as an act of revenge for two Germans killed by partisans; murder of Jews from the area by the Einsatzgruppen, summer 1942; hidden with his family and other Jews during the murder in Ratno, 26 August 1942; escape to the forest and hidden by a Polish forester whose grandfather was Jewish; living in the forester's home, with...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 6483

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Janina (Zemianowa) Brandwajn, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and Warsaw

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Testimony of Janina (Zemianowa) Brandwajn, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and Warsaw Life in the Warsaw Ghetto including help from Jewish institutions; rescue of the families of Jewish physicians by hospitalizing them; transfer to a concentration center before deportation; escape with help from Jewish policemen; rescue of Jews by members of the Polish underground; handing over of Jews to Germans by Poles from outside the ghetto; rescue of children; activities of a British Army undercover agent outside the Warsaw Ghetto.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 2359

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Testimony of Pál Székely, born in Kecskemét, Hungary, 1900, regarding his experiences in Budapest and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kaufering and Allach camps

Testimony of Pál Székely, born in Kecskemét, Hungary, 1900, regarding his experiences in Budapest and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kaufering and Allach camps Life in Budapest; capture by the Gestapo, together with his mother, as a result of being informed on by Barna Majoros, manager of the factory, 26 June 1944; activity of Barna as a secret agent of the Gestapo; transfer to the prison in Svábhegy; prison life including being subjected to physical torture in the presence of his mother; interrogation by the Gestapo; robbery of possessions; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; selections; rescue from the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1875

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hungarian

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results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Memoirs of Velvel Zeev Yehuda Lach, born in Ostrow, Poland, regarding [his experiences during] 1939-1944

Memoirs of Velvel Zeev Yehuda Lach, born in Ostrow, Poland, regarding [his experiences during] 1939-1944 The memoirs were written after the war, in four sections: Part one: Established, ultra-orthodox family in the Jewish community in Ostrow; German Army occupation of Ostrow on 01/09/1939; life during the German occupation; his family escapes to Zembrow; they hope to arrive to Vilna; arrival to Bistrick; attempt by his father to escape to Soviet territory with help from a non-Jewish border smuggler; detention and imprisonment in Oszmene; release; reunion with his mother and sister; return to Bistrich;...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 9493

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Yiddish

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