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M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground The archive gets its name from Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff, who set up the archive in early 1943, and Zvi Mersik, one of Mordechai Tenenbaum's outstanding aides, who continued to maintain the archive after Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff's death. Most of the documentation, which was created between July 1941 and April 1943, is located in the Yad Vashem Archive. The original material is not concentrated in one place: some of it is housed in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, and the rest of the material is...

Type of Material : Reports, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Yiddish

Testimony of Menachem Turek regarding the fate of the Jews of Tiktin

Testimony of Menachem Turek regarding the fate of the Jews of Tiktin Red Army retreat in the direction of the East; occupation of Tiktin by the German Army, June 1941; attitude of the local population towards the Jews including riots and robbery of property; establishment of a local police under the command of Antek Jakobiak, the Pole; establishment of a local government under Jan Fibik; entry of German soldiers into Tiktin, late June 1941; activities of the soldiers including hunting for Communists; life under the German occupation including forced labor, anti-Jewish legislation and yellow badge; abuse of...

File Number : 307

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony (by questionnaire) of M. Turek regarding "Aktions" in Bialystok, 16-24 August 1943

Testimony (by questionnaire) of M. Turek regarding "Aktions" in Bialystok, 16-24 August 1943 "Aktions" in Bialystok, 16-24 August 1943; the number of Jews killed; burial place of those murdered; description of the mass graves in which those who were murdered were buried.

File Number : 283

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Survey conducted by M. Turek regarding refugees who escaped from Treblinka, 1943-1946

Survey conducted by M. Turek regarding refugees who escaped from Treblinka, 1943-1946 - Report regarding life in Treblinka provided by refugees from Warsaw who succeeded in escaping from the camp, July 1943; - The lives of the Jewish inmates from Bialystok, Michalowa, Jalowka, Wolomin, Sokol and elsewhere in Treblinka; - Murder of Jews in gas chambers; - Murder by electricity as retaliation for the escape of Jews from deportation trains near Malkina; - Hospitalization in a Bialystok hospital of a refugee who contracted typhus.

File Number : 21

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Yiddish

"Jewish Heroes": List compiled by M. Turek, Chairman of the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok, presenting the names of Jews who participated in combat against the Germans and were awarded Medals of Excellence for their heroic acts List of the names of Jews who participated in combat against the Germans, including as Red Army soldiers serving at various Fronts, and were awarded Medals of Excellence for their heroic acts in combat.

File Number : 183

Type of Material : List of Names

Language : Yiddish