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Memoirs of Jerzy Swierkosz, born in Lwow, Poland, 02 May 1934, regarding the experiences of his family in the Grabowa area within a historical and geographical context, and the fate of the Jewish community during the war Memoirs of Jerzy Swierkosz written for his grandchild; a history of the area of the Kamionka Strumillowa district, survey of the activities of the residents, notes on the personalities of various people in the vicinity, a description of daily life in the villages, local folklore, about the family and contacts with the neighbors. Chapter devoted to the destruction of the local Jewish...

File Number : 8365

Type of Material : Diagram, Photograph, List of Residents, List of Names, Memoirs

Language : Polish

Testimony of Wieslaw Sokolowski, regarding his family's role in saving 14 Jewish lives in Wlodzimierz Wolynski during the German occupation

Testimony of Wieslaw Sokolowski, regarding his family's role in saving 14 Jewish lives in Wlodzimierz Wolynski during the German occupation The saving of Jews from the Wlodzimierz Wolynski ghetto is described from the perspective of a 15-year-old boy; he does not remember all the events in detail. In the fall of 1943 Wieslaw Sokolowski found out that his aunt, Aniela Radyszkiewicz, was hiding Jews in her home in Wlodzimierz Wolynski. When the Sokolowski family (Wladyslaw, Maria and their children Wieslaw and Krystyna) had to leave the village of Jungowka because of the approaching front, they moved to...

File Number : 3601

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Notebook belonging to Mikhail Smenchak, a member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), including a description of the principles, plans and objectives of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), 1944

File Number : 592

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey

Language : Ukrainian

Reports by the district Military Committees to the regional Military Committee in Stanislawow, regarding "Aktions" by groups of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) saboteurs in Ukraine, 1944-1945

Reports by the district Military Committees to the regional Military Committee in Stanislawow, regarding "Aktions" by groups of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) saboteurs in Ukraine, 1944-1945 The reports relate to events in the Rogatin, Lisec, Gvozdets and Kalush districts.

File Number : 465

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Russian

Documentation from the State Archive of the Wolyn Region regarding the number of civilians and POWs murdered in the region and the Tsuman, Luck, Lyuboml, Gorohov and Kowel Districts under the German occupation Dates of the "Aktions"; liquidation of the ghettos; murder sites, circumstances under which the murders were committed; mass graves; carrying out of the murders by Germans and Ukrainian policemen who were members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainskaya Povstancheskaya Armiya (UPA-Ukrainian Insurgent Army); names of those who perished; the number of those who perished in...

File Number : 436

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Record of Murdered Persons

Language : Ukrainian

Documentation regarding the antisemitic activities of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainskaya Povstancheskaya Armiya (UPA-Ukrainian Insurgent Army) in the Wolyn Region, 1936-1949 Biography; investigative report; official correspondence; excerpts from a verdict and confirmations regarding the criminal acts committed by Anatoli Kabaida, born in Lutsk, 1916, including commanding the Ukrainian Security Police in Kiev during the war; - List of members of the OUN who were active in Lutsk. 30 June 1937; - Notice published in the "Dilo" newspaper, 27 May 1939, regarding the...

File Number : 434

Type of Material : Indictment, Sentence, Official Documentation, Legal Documentation, Biography

Language : Polish, Ukrainian

Documentation of the Ukrainian nationalist, Taras Bulba Borovets, 1941-1945

Documentation of the Ukrainian nationalist, Taras Bulba Borovets, 1941-1945 Correspondence of Taras Bulba Borovets, commander of the Ukrainska Povstanska Armiya (UPA-Ukrainian Revolutionary Army), and one of the leaders of the Orhanizatsiya Ukrainskyh Natsionalistiv (OUN-Ukrainian Nationalists Organization) together with Andrey Melnyk and Stepan Bandera, leaders of the OUN, with the heads of the German police in Rowne and the German Government regarding the OUN and collaboration with the Germans; protocol regarding negotiations with the Germans; Andrey Melnyk turning to Ukrainian nationalist organizations in...

File Number : 76

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Letter, Protocol

Language : Russian, Ukrainian

Description of the Security Police and the SD, 1944

Description of the Security Police and the SD, 1944 Directives of the Commander of the German Security Police and the SD of Lwow to the Galicia SS Division regarding deserters betraying the Division and the terms for their extradition by the Ukrainska Povstanska Armiya (UPA-Ukrainian Revolutionary Army) that were determined based on the opinion of Gerasimovski, an active member in the Orhanizatsiya Ukrainskyh Natsionalistiv (OUN-Ukrainian Nationalists Organization) headed by Stepan Bandera including directives on the punishment to be imposed on desertion.

File Number : 98

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Russian, German

Documentation regarding German conduct in territories under the control of the Ukrainska Povstanska Armiya (UPA-Ukrainian Revolutionary Army).

Documentation regarding German conduct in territories under the control of the Ukrainska Povstanska Armiya (UPA-Ukrainian Revolutionary Army). Report sent by the German Security Police Chief and the SD of the Galicia district from Rawa Ruska to Lwow regarding the kidnapping of two German soldiers by the Ukrainska Povstanska Armiya (UPA-Ukrainian Revolutionary Army), including instructions for conduct of Germans in territories under UPA control.

File Number : 103

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Russian, German

Documentation of the Security Police and the SD, 1944

Documentation of the Security Police and the SD, 1944 Report from the Security Police Chief and the SD in Lwow sent to Berlin regarding contacts between the command echelons in the Wehrmacht (German Army), Police and Civil Administration with the Orhanizatsiya Ukrainskyh Natsionalistiv (OUN-Ukrainian Nationalists Organization) and the Ukrainska Povstanska Armiya (UPA-Ukrainian Revolutionary Army).

File Number : 102

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Russian, German

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