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Survey reports, prepared in 1942, regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in Minsk during 1941-1942

Survey reports, prepared in 1942, regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in Minsk during 1941-1942 Establishment of the Cherven Ghetto; murder of Jews in the Cherven Ghetto in autumn 1941; registration of Jews in Minsk in late July 1941; establishment of a camp in Drozdy for men from Minsk, and separation of the men in the camp according to ethnic groups; imprisonment of Jewish men in a prison in Minsk; murder of Jewish men in summer 1941; murder of Jewish members of the intelligentsia in Minsk in summer 1941; establishment of the Minsk Ghetto, 25 July 1941; establishment of a Judenrat in the Minsk...

File Number : 3724

Type of Material : Survey Report, Names, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Aviva (Nieburg) Braver, born in Liepaja, Latvia, 1937, regarding her experiences in Liepaja and in hiding in Riga

Memoirs of Aviva (Nieburg) Braver, born in Liepaja, Latvia, 1937, regarding her experiences in Liepaja and in hiding in Riga Life in the Liepaja Ghetto until 1943; life in hiding in Riga from 1943; life being hidden by Zhenya and Friedrich Kumerow in their home (Friedrich Kumerow was later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations); knowledge of the Kumerow children that the witness was being hidden; keeping the secret by the Kumerow children; end of the war. Return of the witness' mother to Riga. Also in the file: Testimony by the witness regarding the experiences of her husband, Kalman Braver,...

File Number : 8038

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Elisabeta (Katz) Szirtes, born in Margita, regarding her experiences, 1942-1945

Memoirs of Elisabeta (Katz) Szirtes, born in Margita, regarding her experiences, 1942-1945 The life of the Katz family in Margita; there were nine children in the family; Drafting of her brothers to Hungarian Army labor battalions, 1942; Elisabeta's marriage and move to Sepsiszentgörgy; drafting of her husband to the labor battalions; her husband is taken captive in Ukraine; deportation of the pregnant Elisabeta to the Szasregan Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; hiding her pregnancy; transfer for labor in the Plaszow camp; tattooing of the number 20362 on her arm; miscarriage caused by the hard labor;...

File Number : 5824

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Ilona (Weiner) Grosz, born in Jaszkarajeno, Hungary, 1912, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz and Langenbielau

Testimony

Testimony of Ilona (Weiner) Grosz, born in Jaszkarajeno, Hungary, 1912, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz and Langenbielau Life before the war. German occupation, March 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Langenbielau; camp life including labor in a factory; liberation. Continues to work in the factory for the Red Army.

File Number : 1981

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Testimony of Ludwik Fleck, born in Lwow, Poland, 1896, regarding his experiences in Lwow and his labor in the field of serology and bacteriology in the Laokoon factory laboratory in Lwow and in the medical experiments block for women in Auschwitz and in Buchenwald Deportation from his home in Lwow, September 1941; labor in the Jewish hospital on Koziewicza Street; stay in hiding, and the death of his two sisters and brothers-in-law during an "Aktion", 1942; transfer to the Jewish quarter; detention in the hospital with his wife and son, who worked as laboratory technicians, November 1942; labor in a...

File Number : 460

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Ludwik Fleck, born in Lwow, Poland, 1896, regarding his experiences in Lwow, in hiding, and in Auschwitz and Buchenwald camps

Testimony of Ludwik Fleck, born in Lwow, Poland, 1896, regarding his experiences in Lwow, in hiding, and in Auschwitz and Buchenwald camps Eviction with his family from their apartment in Lwow, September 1941; life in a rented room in the home of a Pole, in exchange for 10,000 zlotys; work as a physician in the Jewish hospital, under the administration of Dr. Kurzeck; in hiding with his wife and his 14 year old son while hidden in the home of Kurzeck during the "Aktion", 1942; death of his two sisters and his brothers-in-law; deportation to the Lwow Ghetto; Lwow Ghetto life, including living in one room...

File Number : 430

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Documentation regarding the German occupation of the Netherlands, in particular regarding the persecution of the Jews in the occupied Netherlands, their concentration and eventual deportation to extermination camps in the East, 1940-1945, and partial postwar documentation regarding the investigation of Nazi war crimes in the Netherlands, 1945-1966 Included in the file: Part One: 03/02/1942 Circular by the Commander of the Security Police and the SD in the Netherlands, Wilhelm Harster, concerning the competences in Jewish questions, including the transfer of competences to the "Central Office for...

File Number : 154

Type of Material : Correspondence, Document(s), List of Camp Inmates, List of Sick People, List of Disabled People, Protocol, Reports, List of Persecuted Persons, Questions and Answers, List of Evacuated Persons, Draft, Official Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Index, List of Names, List of Deportees, Circular, Investigation Reports, Radio Broadcasts, Testimony, Deportation List, Record of Survivors, Administrative Documentation, Laws and Decrees, Lists, Legal Documentation

Language : French, English, Dutch, German

Memoirs of Selma Schebschelowitz, born in Kuldiga, Latvia, 1920, regarding her experiences in Riga and the Riga Ghetto and the persecution of Latvian Jews, 1941-1944

Memoirs of Selma Schebschelowitz, born in Kuldiga, Latvia, 1920, regarding her experiences in Riga and the Riga Ghetto and the persecution of Latvian Jews, 1941-1944 Selma Schebschelowitz was born in Kuldiga, Latvia, 1920; family background and education; Escape to Riga together with her parents and her sister following the outbreak of the war; German occupation; working in the ruins of the old city, with the prefecture and as a maid for the Waffen-SS 1941; deportation to the Riga Ghetto together with her parents, 1941; escape from the ghetto, November 1941; living in hiding, for two years; escape...

File Number : 1602

Type of Material : Report, List of Jews, List of Murdered Jews, Memoirs, List of Nazi War Criminals, List of Jewish Survivors

Language : German

Testimony of Pejsach Bursztejn, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and Birkenau

Testimony of Pejsach Bursztejn, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and Birkenau Description of the site intended for construction of Auschwitz; building of Auschwitz, 1941 [should be: 1940]; deportation of the first political inmates from Germany to Auschwitz; abuse of the inmates; erection of the first gas chamber in the bunker; building of Auschwitz2-Birkenau, winter 1942 [should be: 1941]; activating the gas chambers in Birkenau; burning of corpses by inmates known as "Sonderkommando" workers; building of approximately 400 blocks; building the crematorium; building...

File Number : 203

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Rachel Eshed-Freilich, born in Olkusz, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Liege and camps

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel Eshed-Freilich, born in Olkusz, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Liege and camps Life in Liege, Belgium. German occupation; life in a small village with her husband; activities in the Belgian underground; contact with her family; birth of her son; detention by the Gestapo after being informed on; imprisoned in the Citadel in Liege; deportation to Malines; transfer to Birkenau; hands over her son whom she never saw again; pain and depression over the loss of her son; transfer to Auschwitz to block 1, October 1944; camp life and good living conditions; food, cleanliness, good...

File Number : 7955

Type of Material : Testimony, Letter

Language : Hebrew

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