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Memoirs of Stanislaw Gombinski [pseudonym: Jan Mawult] regarding the Warsaw Ghetto and the structure and activities of the Judenrat and the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst (Jewish Police), early 1944

Memoirs of Stanislaw Gombinski [pseudonym: Jan Mawult] regarding the Warsaw Ghetto and the structure and activities of the Judenrat and the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst (Jewish Police), early 1944 - Part 1 (pp. 2-115): events in the Warsaw Ghetto since its establishment; characteristics of various personalities; life of the ghetto residents in its various aspects; "Aktions"; deportations; - Part 2 (pp. 116-237): memoirs from the period of Gombinski's tenure as the Deputy Commander of the Jewish Police in the Warsaw Ghetto, 30 October 1940-20 January 1943; descriptions of Józef Andrzej Szeryński, Commander of...

File Number : 547

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Diary written by an anonymous regarding the Jewish police in the Warsaw Ghetto

Diary written by an anonymous regarding the Jewish police in the Warsaw Ghetto The process of establishing the Jewish police; names of office holders; positions imposed on the policemen by order of the Germans; cooperation between smugglers of food and other merchandise involving illegal departure and entry in the ghetto; about Jozef Szerynski, the Commander of the Jewish police; the role of the Jewish police in the deportation, summer 1942, and the behavior of the policemen towards the Jews during "Aktions"; selection among the policemen and deportation of some of them to Treblinka and Majdanek; the ...

File Number : 156

Type of Material : Memoirs, Diary

Language : Polish

Diary of Ernest Stefan entitled, "Trzeci Front - o Wojnie Wielkich Niemiec z Zydami Warszawy 1939-1943" (The Third Front - Great Germany's War Against the Jews of Warsaw 1939-1943)

Diary of Ernest Stefan entitled, "Trzeci Front - o Wojnie Wielkich Niemiec z Zydami Warszawy 1939-1943" (The Third Front - Great Germany's War Against the Jews of Warsaw 1939-1943) The diary was written in hiding on the Aryan side, 07-28 May 1943; the real name of the writer and his fate are not known; already in the beginning of the text the author is aware of the extinction of the Jews of Poland; his aim is to write about the fate of the Jews of Warsaw during the war and rescue a people that was murdered from being forgotten, and therefore there is almost no mention of his personal fate and that of his...

File Number : 158

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Polish