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Diary of Heniek Veingarten, born in Niwice, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec, Lwow, Luck, being hidden by farmers, as a partisan in the Rowne forest and more

Diary of Heniek Veingarten, born in Niwice, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec, Lwow, Luck, being hidden by farmers, as a partisan in the Rowne forest and more Life with his family in Niwice; move to Wolbrom with his family due to difficulties in supporting themselves, 1920; abuse by gangs loyal to General Haller, including capture of his father and pulling out his beard; move of the family to Strzemieszyce, 1926; move of the family to Sosnowiec. Concentration of the Jews in the Szenja Hall in Sosnowiec, September, 1939; abuse of the Jews; mass murder of Jews; separation from his parents...

File Number : 8571

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Bela Arshavski, born in Gadyach, Ukraine, 1921, regarding her experiences in Gadyach, as a Red Army soldier in Alekseyevka, a captive of the German Army and using a false identity in the villages of Ukraine Life in Gadyach at the outbreak of the war; drafted to the Red Army as a medical nurse; retreat after the Red Army [?]; correspondence with her family which had been evacuated to Uzbekistan; transfer to Alekseyevka with her battalion; air-raids; encounter with the German Army; killing of all the soldiers in the battalion except her and another physician; hiding of their personal documents and...

File Number : 8550

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Joseph Viner, born in Gradki, Poland, in 1932, regarding his experiences in the ‎deportation to Sine Waly estate, escape and hiding among farmers and in the forest‎

Testimony of Joseph Viner, born in Gradki, Poland, in 1932, regarding his experiences in the ‎deportation to Sine Waly estate, escape and hiding among farmers and in the forest‎ His childhood in a rural community; annexation to the Soviet Union in 1939; the German ‎occupation in June 1941; his expulsion from school; deportation to Sine Waly estate; escape and ‎hiding in the forest and with farmers in summer 1942; meeting his father and moving to a families ‎camp in the forest in autumn 1942; attack by a gang of Ukrainians; his father murdered and Joseph ‎injured; move to Dubno under a borrowed identity in...

File Number : 13682

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents of Isidor Juker, born in Buczkowice, Poland, 08 May 1900; documents are from the period after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and his release from camp

Personal documents of Isidor Juker, born in Buczkowice, Poland, 08 May 1900; documents are from the period after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and his release from camp - Certificate issued in Fulda after the war, attesting that Isidor Juker was an inmate in Gross-Rosen and Bergen-Belsen camps for four years during the German occupation; - Hattenhof resident's card with the name Isidor Juker, issued by the temporary military authority, 19 September 1945; - Certification issued in Hannover, 17 July 1945, that Isidor Juker registered at the committee for former inmates of concentration camps; -...

File Number : 724

Type of Material : Documentary, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

Memoirs of Zhenya Chernyavskaya, born in Rogozno, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in detention, in the Demidowka Ghetto, in hiding, her wanderings using a false identity, underground activism and more Family history; parental home in Rogozno; the Soviet occupation; move to Dubno; high school studies; work as a teacher in a village in the Kozin area; pedagogical studies at Rowne. Outbreak of the war and retreat of the Soviet forces; the German occupation; establishment of Ukrainian auxiliary forces; detention, 26 July 1941; abuse by Ukrainians; release to house arrest and second detention after two...

File Number : 8531

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Documentation regarding the experiences of the Jewish community in Dubossary during World War II; documents dated, 1988-1990

Documentation regarding the experiences of the Jewish community in Dubossary during World War II; documents dated, 1988-1990 Included in the file: - List of residents of Dubossary and the Dubossary vicinity who were murdered by the Nazis, 1941; list prepared by the team established to help the restoration of the gravestone in memory of the victims of the Holocaust in Dubossary; - List of residents of Dubossary who participated in the mass murders of the local Jews; investigation reports regarding the war crimes perpetrated by Nazi war criminals and their collaborators; testimony of Nikolay Khvorostyan,...

File Number : 1448

Type of Material : Investigation Reports, List of Collaborators, Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation, Poems/songs, Testimony, List of Murdered Jews

Language : Russian

Testimony of Matvey Lichterman, born in Shumyachi, Soviet Union, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, in a POW camp in Uman and Vinnitsa

Testimony of Matvey Lichterman, born in Shumyachi, Soviet Union, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, a POW camp in Uman and Vinnitsa Participation in a Red Army military operation as a paratrooper; death of many soldiers and his capture by the German Army; transfer to Uman; life in a POW camp; hiding his Jewish identity; life using the false identity of Mikhail Garin; murder of many POWs; transfer to forced labor outside the camp; receiving food from the local population; survival due to the food; draft of Ukrainians as forced laborers for the German Army and the camp police; propaganda campaign...

File Number : 8509

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : Russian

Letter written to Ilya Ehrenburg by a Red Army Second Lieutenant, regarding the murder of Jews in the Kalinindorf district

Letter written to Ilya Ehrenburg by a Red Army Second Lieutenant, regarding the murder of Jews in the Kalinindorf district The writer of the letter discovered during a visit in the Kalinindorf district in June 1944 that his wife had been murdered along with other Jews; he sent Ilya Ehrenburg a report regarding the murder of Jews in the Kalinindorf district: in Kalinindorf, in Frayleben; included are the names of the murderers and Ukrainian collaborators; the writer argues that the collaborators along with the Nazis are prospering, while the families of Red Army soldiers and Jews who survived are unable to...

File Number : 98

Type of Material : Letter, Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Paulina (Barak) Birnbaum, born in Orinin, Ukraine, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Zhvanchik Ghetto, the Gorodok Ghetto, in Kopaygorod, Tulchin, Mogilev and Barlad

Memoirs of Paulina (Barak) Birnbaum, born in Orinin, Ukraine, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Zhvanchik Ghetto, the Gorodok Ghetto, in Kopaygorod, Tulchin, Mogilev and Barlad German occupation of Zhvanchik; attitude of the local population; attempts of Jews to appease the Germans by welcoming them with a Torah scroll; acts of abuse against the Jews; collaboration of the Ukrainians with the Germans; pogrom in Zhvanchik, 31 August 1941, including the murder of her father; in hiding in an attic; mass murder of the Jews of Zhvanchik [in killing pits]; in hiding in a cemetery; "Aktion" in the ghetto;...

File Number : 8480

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs

Language : Russian

Letter to Ilya Ehrenburg by Naum Basin, born in Ryasno, regarding the extermination of the Jews of the Wolyn region by local collaborators during the war

Letter to Ilya Ehrenburg by Naum Basin, born in Ryasno, regarding the extermination of the Jews of the Wolyn region by local collaborators during the war According to letters received by Mr. Basin: Murder of the Jews of Ryasno, 03/03/1942; escape of Jews from Sarny; search for the Jews in the forests and murder of the Jews by Ukrainian collaborators; murder of Jews in the Wolyn region by collaborators; the writer includes an excerpt from the testimony of Ye. Drukhevich, regarding the murder of Jews in Miedzyrzecz on 20/08/1942; Included in the letter: Proposal of an idea to establish a Jewish...

File Number : 24

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

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