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Testimony of Izak Scheindlinger, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, in Plaszow camp and while in hiding in Krakow on the Aryan side

Testimony of Izak Scheindlinger, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, in Plaszow camp and while in hiding in Krakow on the Aryan side Mass murders of Jews in the Krakow Ghetto, March 1943; deportation to Plaszow camp, March 1943; labor in the mass burial of Jews who were murdered in the Krakow Ghetto, including many children, and in the removal of the corpses of patients and medical staff from the Jewish hospital; eye-witness to the mass murder of Jews in killing pits, while returning to the camp from labor; methods of the murder of Jews in Plaszow camp; discipline in camp; labor by women and men...

File Number : 46

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Article by Jozef Hofstaetter regarding the ghettos and camps in Krakow, Wieliczka, Stalowa Wola, Bierzanow, Prokocim, Plaszow, Zablocie and Mauthausen

Article by Jozef Hofstaetter regarding the ghettos and camps in Krakow, Wieliczka, Stalowa Wola, Bierzanow, Prokocim, Plaszow, Zablocie and Mauthausen The article is divided into chapters by location: - Krakow: New wave of immigration to the place; transfer to forced labor; abuse of the Jews; imposition of restrictions by the German authorities; Aryanization of Jewish organizations and institutions; appointment of Hans Frank as head of the Generalgouvernement; Judenrat established; activities against the Jews, including a curfew, wearing the yellow star, plunder of property and bank accounts; activities...

File Number : 3937

Type of Material : Article, Letter, Memoirs

Language : Polish

Testimony of Helena Gabrilowicz (Polish false identity: Marja Rokita) regarding her experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and on the Aryan side using a false identity, 1943-1945

Testimony of Helena Gabrilowicz (Polish false identity: Marja Rokita) regarding her experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and on the Aryan side using a false identity, 1943-1945 Obtaining forged documents before the liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to the Plaszow camp with the liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; escape back to Krakow, two weeks later, to the Aryan side; underground activities and finding a hiding place for her daughter and her mother; living with her daughter and her mother in the apartment of their former housemaid on the Aryan side; work in a shoe factory until the end of the war; coping...

File Number : 297

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 8887

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew