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Postcard sent by Abram Piaseczny from Dereczyn, Poland, to his son Chaim in Tel Aviv, 27 January 1941

Postcard sent by Abram Piaseczny from Dereczyn, Poland, to his son Chaim in Tel Aviv, 27 January 1941 Family's life including the detention of their son Moshe Hersh and his exile to Siberia for five years of forced labor; Abram Piaseczny: Membership in the Ostroleka community council, 1932-1935; serves as the council's chairman; escape with his wife Faige and their family members to Lomza, which was under Soviet occupation, 1939; arrival of the family to Dereczyn; German Army occupation of Dereczyn; murder of the Dereczyn Jews in a forest, by the Germans, including Piaseczny family members; escape of...

File Number : 2105

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Yiddish

To be translated

File Number : 3612

Type of Material : Names of Partisans, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

To be translated

File Number : 3582

Type of Material : Survey Report, Names, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

Letter from Moshe Aaron Feigus to his relatives in Tel Aviv, containing information regarding mass murders that took place in Wasiliszki, May 1942, and including names of local people who survived, 18 March 1945

File Number : 1506

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew, English

Testimony of Mikhail Minkovicz, born in Polotsk, Belarus, 1927, regarding his experiences in Polotsk, Borovukha, Osveya, Svolno and the region

Testimony

Testimony of Mikhail Minkovicz, born in Polotsk, Belarus, 1927, regarding his experiences in Polotsk, Borovukha, Osveya, Svolno and the region Testimony of a tradition-keeping family in Polotsk; his parents work in a wine factory; his father's visits to a synagogue; studies in a Russian elementary school; closure of a Jewish school in the city, 1938. The outbreak of war, June 1941; the bombings; family escape to Sukhoy Bor; German occupation of the area; back to Polotsk; arrest of his brother by German soldiers and his murder with other Jews in the Borovukha area; establishment of a ghetto in the city;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

War diary of the Reichsfuehrer SS commanding staff (Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS), activity reports by the 1. and 2. SS Infantry Brigades, the 1. SS Cavalry Brigade and SS Sonderkommandos regarding partisan fighting and extermination of Jews, including deportees from the Reich, in Belorussia and northern Ukraine, 1941 - 1943 War diary of the perforated baton Reichsfuehrer SS and activity reports by members of the 1. and 2. SS-Inf.-Brigarde, the 1. SS-Kav.-Brigade and Sonderkommandos of the SS published by Europa Verlag in 1965 (pp.2-28) The introduction of the document mentions the following massacres...

File Number : 185

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Report

Language : German

Testimony of Hinde Kagan, born in Oszmiana, Poland in 1931, regarding her experiences during 1941-1945, in the Oszmiana Ghetto, in a labor camp near Oszmiana, in Stutthof camp, on a death march to an unnamed destination in Germany, and liberation in Germany; postcard sent by Haim Kagan from Oszmiana in 1941 Dissertation in economics, written by Dr. Julius Fliegel in Vienna, 1933; Included in the file: - Handwritten document by Hans R. Fliegel [the son of Dr. Julius Fliegel], titled, "A hectic month in a retiree's life or 'All is well, that ends well'", composed as a diary entry with mainly personal...

File Number : 4616

Type of Material : Personal Records, Official Documentation, Diary, Thesis/dissertation, Personal Documents

Language : English, German, Yiddish

To be translated

File Number : 2520

Type of Material : סיפור

Language : English, Russian

To be translated

File Number : 624

Type of Material : Testimony, List of Murdered Persons

Language : Yiddish

To be translated

File Number : 1447

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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