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Letter of testimony written by Stanislav Kon, a survivor of Treblinka, to Ilya Ehrenburg regarding the uprising in Treblinka

Letter of testimony written by Stanislav Kon, a survivor of Treblinka, to Ilya Ehrenburg regarding the uprising in Treblinka Stanislav Kon fought as a Polish Army soldier; he was deported to Treblinka with his family in October 1942; his wife and child were murdered immediately; he worked sorting clothing in the camp; underground activities of Jewish forced laborers who chose the date 02 August 1943, obtained weapons and cut the camp telephone cable; most of the Jewish fighters were killed, but they succeeded in destroying some of the facilities; a few succeeded in escaping and reaching the forest.

File Number : 111

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Polish

Letter of testimony written by Ber Frayberg, a Sobibor survivor

Letter of testimony written by Ber Frayberg, a Sobibor survivor Ber Frayberg was born in Warsaw in 1928; in 1942 he escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto to the village of Lyubelshchina; he was taken from there to the train station for Sobibor, along with many other Jews; they were among the first Jews deported to Sobibor in May 1942; all the Jews were divided into two groups: women and children to one camp, and men to the second camp; Ber Frayberg worked with the second group and knew what was going on in the third part of the camp; afterwards he worked as a barber who sheared the hair of the women who were...

File Number : 56

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Zvi Hershele Birenbaum, born in Proszowice, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Bedzin, the Kamionka Ghetto, Birkenau, Theresienstadt, Nordhausen and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Hershele Birenbaum, born in Proszowice, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Bedzin, the Kamionka Ghetto, Birkenau, Theresienstadt, Nordhausen and on a death march Childhood orphaned of his father; move to Bedzin with his mother and siblings. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Lwow; life as a refugee; return to Bedzin; yellow badge; selection [during an Aktion] and rescue of his mother from deportation; deportation to the Kamionka Ghetto; ghetto life including work in a sewing workshop; deportation to Birkenau; camp life including labor in the craftsmen's block as a tailor and a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation from the trial of Hermann Hoefle held in the Salzburg Regional Court; Testimonies by survivors living in Israel regarding the Sobibor death camp; Statement by Georg Michalsen (SSPF Lublin) regarding the activity of the SSPF Lublin and "Aktion Reinhard", 1963 - 1964 Requests for testimonies Transcript of a letter by the state prosecutor at the Regional Court in Hamburg regarding the testimony of Benjamin Eichner and the request to ask him about the activities of Dirke, Bernd and Schubert (28/02/1964) pp.6-7 Requests by the Vienna Regional Court to Israeli authorities to gather information...

File Number : 109

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, French, German

Testimony of Semyon Rozenfeld, born in 1922, regarding his experiences and those of his wife, Yevgenia, in the Red Army

Testimony of Semyon Rozenfeld, born in 1922, regarding his experiences and those of his wife, Yevgenia, in the Red Army Semyon: drafted into the Red Army, 1940; taken captive, August 1941; transfer to a POW camp in Minsk; from there to Sobibor; uprising in the camp, 14 October 1943; escape and in hiding in forests for 10 months; return to the ranks of the Red Army, 1944; injury in the battle to liberate Poznan, Poland; injury in battle; hospitalization in Lodz for three months; occupation of Berlin; release from the Army, 1945. Yevgenia: Service in the Red Army, 1942-1945; Meeting [Semyon] while...

File Number : 63

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Zembrzyuski, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Smolensk, Majdanek, Zamosc, Klemensow, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof, Dachau and other places Life before the war. German occupation, 1939; decrees including confiscation of bank accounts; murder of his father; establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life including carpentry labor; deportation to Smolensk, summer 1942; transfer to Majdanek; transfer to Zamosc; camp life including labor in an airfield; transfer to Klemensow; camp life including labor in an airfield; transfer to Wierzbnik; camp...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimonies of Antoni?owski [name not fully decipherable] about the Wlodawa ghetto and the Sobibór extermination camp in 1941–1944, of Eda Richtman about deportation from Kraków to Sobibór, of Rubin Floman about various camps, of Jehuda Elberg about the Warsaw ghetto uprising, and of Pinkus about the liquidation of the amp in Poniatowa. - Testimony of Antoni?owski [name not fully decipherable], a Polish physician from Wlodawa, about the establishment of the Wlodawa ghetto in 1941, construction of the Sobibór extermination camp, and the camp's internal structure. Arrival of trains carrying Jews from Poland...

File Number : 875

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Freiberg, born in Warsaw, 1927, regarding his experiences in Sobibor and participation in the uprising

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Freiberg, born in Warsaw, 1927, regarding his experiences in Sobibor and participation in the uprising His family moves from Warsaw to Lodz. Outbreak of the war; escape from the Germans to Warsaw; escape from the Warsaw Ghetto to Turobin; deportation to Sobibor with the Jews of Turobin and Vysoka; selection; Ukrainian camp commanders; the German camp commander; camp life; preparations for Himmler's visit to Sobibor; transports that arrived to Sobibor; resistance by the transportees from Bialystok; transport of sick people from the Netherlands that was sent in its entirety straight to...

File Number : 7018

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Eugeniusz Redlich, born in Krakow, Poland, 1923, regarding the Sonderkommando uprising in Birkenau

Testimony of Eugeniusz Redlich, born in Krakow, Poland, 1923, regarding the Sonderkommando uprising in Birkenau Selection among the Sonderkommando inmates, October 1944; transfer of 200 inmates to Auschwitz, with the promise to transfer them to another camp; the inmates receive new clothing, after taking a shower; the inmates are then sent to the gas chambers; coordination of an uprising among the Sonderkommando inmates, mainly by Jews, before the next selection, and the preparation of weapons and ammunition; explosion of the two large crematoria, as a central aim; disarming of 14 SS men and a German Kapo of...

File Number : 375

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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