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Testimony of Yitzchak Sznajder, born in Choroszcz, Poland, 1907, regarding the experiences of the Jews in Choroszcz, and the experiences of the Sznajder brothers in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz, in the forests, and more Information regarding the Jewish community in Choroszcz before the war; information regarding the community institutions and organizations; The German occupation and murder of the Jews, 14 July 1941; imposition of limitations on the Jews; deportation of Jews for forced labor; drawing up a list of Jewish residents, 25 October 1942; deportation of all the Jews to military barracks, 02...

File Number : 3968.1

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Documentation from the CICR (Comite International de la Croix Rouge - International Red Cross) regarding the three visits made by CICR representatives in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 23 June 1944, 06 April and 21 April 1945 - Official CICR summary from 26 June 1990, regarding attempts by CICR representatives to visit the Theresienstadt Ghetto, and concerning the spreading of information about the nature of the ghetto only after their third visit; - Selected documentation from the CICR Archive regarding the three visits made by CICR representatives to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 23 June 1944, 06 April and 21...

File Number : 430

Type of Material : Drawing, Reports, Official Documentation

Language : Czech, French, English, German

Documentation related to Salomon Tocker, a Zionist activist in the World Zionist Congress (WJC) and a member of the administration of the Keren Hayesod (UJA) organization and other Jewish organizations and institutions in Eretz Israel and worldwide Personal letters and correspondence with various institutions, organizations and people for the purpose of producing entrance visas to the United States and Eretz Israel; official documents related to activities and the support of the State of Israel, and documents related to his activities in the Keren Hayesod (UJA) organization in the years after the war;...

File Number : 753

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Spanish, Polish, French, English, German

To be translated

File Number : 3144

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Obituary notices and commemoration material from Jewish organizations in the United States following the death of Sy Zaks in 1977, and a letter by Lily Zaks including the experiences of her husband, written in 1985 Sy Yeshayahu Zaks was born in Bedzin, Poland. He escaped from a transport en route to a death camp, and lived for two years while using a false identity as a Pole named Jan Byczek. Zaks survived the war. After the war he was in a DP camp in Germany and then emigrated with his wife to the United States, where he was active in Jewish organizations on behalf of the commemoration of the Holocaust and...

File Number : 2057

Type of Material : Obituary, Memoirs

Language : Polish, English, German, Yiddish

Reply letter written by Jan Krawczyk in Tarnow to his Jewish friend on 03 June 1945, containing information regarding the Jews in Poland, including in Tarnow during and after the war

Reply letter written by Jan Krawczyk in Tarnow to his Jewish friend on 03 June 1945, containing information regarding the Jews in Poland, including in Tarnow during and after the war Letter containing information regarding the various murders of Jews, Poles, Russians, Gypsies, and Slavic peoples by the Germans during the war; survival of 300 Jews in Tarnow out of 20,000 Jews who lived there before the war; hypothesis regarding the death of his family; information regarding the experiences of the Jews during the war, including confinement in ghettos, transfer to camps, and murder in gas chambers or by firing...

File Number : 1590

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Survey made by the French Ministry of Culture regarding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, published 16 May 1947

Survey conducted by the French Ministry of Culture regarding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, published 16 May 1947 "La Bataille du Ghetto de Varsovie (19 April-16 May 1943)", a survey [conducted by the French Ministry of Culture regarding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising] published in Documentation and Research Volume No. 623 of the French Ministry of Culture.

File Number : 181

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : French

Excerpts from farewell letters of Arthur Shmuel Zygielbojm from 11 May 1943

Excerpts from farewell letters of Arthur Shmuel Zygielbojm from 11 May 1943 - excerpts from letters written by Shmuel Zygielbojm in London on 11 May 1943, before his suicide (to the Polish authorities, to his brother Faivel Zygielbojm and to his friends Leon and Lucjan Blit), translated into English; - press publications in memory of Shmuel Zygielbojm, without specifying the names of the newspapers or dates of publication. Comments from the submitter of the material: Avida Ayalon The submitter's father - Faivel Zygielbojm, born in 1907 (Artur Shmuel Zygielbojm's brother) - emigrated to South Africa in...

File Number : 5122

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Article

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Documents related to the activities of Rabbi Dr. Dawid Kahane in the 1980s and 1990s, including letters that he received, drafts and remarks that he wrote, and miscellaneous materials concerning Polish Jewry before, during, and after the war - letter from Dr. Arye Kimmelman, Association for the Return of Persons Lost in the Holocaust, Jerusalem, to Rabbi Dr. Dawid Kahane, Tel Aviv, February 27, 1996, along with lists of children concealed in non-Jews’ homes in Poland, including: -- a list of Holocaust survivor children, most from the Kraków area, concealed with non-Jewish families, drawn up activists in the...

File Number : 393

Type of Material : Letter, Diary, Article, Article, List of Jews, Excerpt(s), Lecture, Newspaper Clippings, Draft

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters, Hebrew, Polish, German, Yiddish

"Hannah Szenes: A tribute to the man who told us her story", an article regarding international awareness of Hannah Szenes

"Hannah Szenes: A tribute to the man who told us her story", an article regarding international awareness of Hannah Szenes - "Hannah Szenes: A tribute to the man who told us her story", an article written by Lindsay Toledano, 15 May 2015, and published in the "Times of Israel" website; the article pertains to the involvement of her father, Nigel Abraham Marsh, in the dissemination of international awareness of Hannah Szenes; Nigel Abraham Marsh was a film producer and author.

File Number : 136

Type of Material : Internet Material, Article

Language : English

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