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Testimony of Tzvi Erenreich Amid, born in Przemysl, Poland in 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Przemysl, Yarmasa and Tashkent

Testimony of Tzvi Erenreich Amid, born in Przemysl, Poland in 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Przemysl, Yarmasa and Tashkent Life before the war; educated, Zionist family originally from the Silesia area; unsuccessful attempt to make aliya to Eretz Israel via Romania in 1939; Soviet occupation; transfer to Yarmasa; transfer to Tashkent in 1941; release of his father; joins the Zwiazek Patriotow Polskich - ZPP (Organization of Polish Patriots); Return to Poland and move to Wloclawek in June 1946; activities in the Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludnosci Zydowskiej w Polsce (TOZ)...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports from various Judenrats submitted to the Joint Distribution Committee regarding the administration of funds and relief assistance in various places in Poland, 1940

Reports from various Judenrats submitted to the Joint Distribution Committee regarding the administration of funds and relief assistance in various places in Poland, 1940 - Detailed administrative reports regarding relief assistance (income and expenses); sources external and internal to the budget are mentioned and itemization of the expenses; TOZ, AJDC, ZSS and CENTOS are among the external bodies mentioned; - Statistical data reports regarding the number of Jews in the community, the number of people requesting assistance, statistics concerning the activities of the public kitchens and assistance in...

File Number : JM/2733

Type of Material : Statistical Reports

Language : Polish

Testimony of Dov Berl Rabnitzky, born in Pruzana, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Pruzana Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen and Gusen I

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Berl Rabnitzky, born in Pruzana, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Pruzana Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen and Gusen I Eldest son in a traditional Bund family; education in Vilna, 1938; return home, Pesach 1939. Outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939; Soviet occupation, 19 September 1939; deportation of opponents of Soviet rule, 1940-1941; German occupation, 22 June 1941; abuse of the Jews; decrees and bans; deportation to the Pruzana Ghetto; ghetto life including mutual help; youths join the partisans; instances of suicide and attempts at suicide by Judenrat members;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mina Miler, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding, in a forest and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Mina Miler, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding, in a forest and with the partisans Life before the war; Jewish community; displays of antisemitism. German occupation, 1939; draft of Jews to forced labor; identification of Jewish owned shops; confiscation of possessions; concentration of Jews at assembly points; escape to Warsaw; life in the Warsaw Ghetto including her father's labor in the children's kitchen; disease and mortality; arrest of her father and his deportation; labor with her mother in a brush workshop; deportation of her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943

Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943 The Jewish Self Aid organization (in Polish: Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna [ZSS]; in German: Juedische Soziale Selbshilfe) was set up in Krakow in 1940; it went by this name until July 1942. After that date, the organization's welfare activities were cut back by order of the German authorities, and they mainly consisted of the transferring of medicines to Jews in labor camps until this activity, too, was discontinued in mid-1944. ZSS documentation includes correspondence between the administration of the...

Type of Material : Lists, Administrative Documentation, Application, Balance Sheet, Report, Statistical Report, Reports, Survey Report, Correspondence, List of Names, Financial Accounts, List of Jews, Statistical Data

Testimony of Efraim Sternberg, born in Brudzew, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Plaszow, Mauthausen and Linz

Testimony

Testimony of Efraim Sternberg, born in Brudzew, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Plaszow, Mauthausen and Linz Childhood in Lesznow. Outbreak of the war; deportation of his parents to Lodz, 1939; studies in a vocational school; work for the German Army; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto with his family, 1940; detention in a prison; prison life; deportation to Plaszow; camp life including forced labor for the TODT organization; labor for the Banker Schindler Company, 1942; transfer to Mauthausen, 1944; transfer to Linz; camp life including labor in a quarry for the Bauwerke steel...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Fania (Bulkin) Srebrenik, born in Vilna, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Olkieniki, Swieciany and with the partisans in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Fania (Bulkin) Srebrenik, born in Vilna, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Olkieniki, Swieciany and with the partisans in a forest Life before the war; attends a religious school; joins Hashomer Hatzair led by Abba Kovner. Soviet occupation, 1940; inclusion of witness's family in the Black List; her parents hide; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation of her parents in the Large "Aktion"; labor in an SS kitchen; escape to Swieciany with a group; obtains employment laying railroad tracks; transfer to Olkieniki; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Roza (Kushcinsky) Lewkowicz, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Siniawka, forests, in hiding and Uzbekistan

Testimony

Testimony of Roza (Kushcinsky) Lewkowicz, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Siniawka, forests, in hiding and Uzbekistan From a traditional family; education; sport; move to her grandparents' home in Siniawka. Life under Soviet rule including confiscation of property and her father's arrest; German occupation; hidden by a Pole; escape to forests with her brother; hiding in a village including labor milking cows; escape to Uzbekistan; life on a kolkhoz including her brother's illness; escape; liberation. Reunion with her father; nursing studies; return to Poland; marriage...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

O.28 - Documentation of the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) in Krakow, Poland regarding organization activities in Poland, 1939-1942

M.28 - Documentation of the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) in Krakow, Poland regarding the organization activities in Poland, 1939-1942 The documentation includes the welfare and assistance activities of the AJDC to the Jews of Poland; it consists of four main parts: 1. AJDC correspondence with the German administration authorities in occupied Poland; 2. AJDC correspondence with Jewish institutions and organizations in Poland; 3. AJDC correspondence with Jewish institutions and organizations outside of Poland; 4. Survey reports, charts and statistical data. 1. Correspondence...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Polish, English, German, Yiddish

To be translated

File Number : 765

Language : Polish

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