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Testimony of Bernard Dov Davidovic, born in Kopasnovo, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Kalin, Stanislawow, the Staw Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Bernard Dov Davidovic, born in Kopasnovo, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Kalin, Stanislawow, the Staw Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places Life before the war; relations with non-Jewish neighbors; move to Kalin, 1937. Re-annexation to Hungary; deportation of his father and brother to a labor battalion; deportation to Stanislawow guarded by Ukrainian policemen; life in Stanislawow in a synagogue; help from the Jewish community; transfer to a flour factory with a group of deportees; life in the flour factory; deportation by truck and murder of his mother and siblings...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Official documentation of the regional committee for the investigation of Nazi war crimes in Poznań, regarding Bolewice camp

Official documentation of the regional committee for the investigation of Nazi war crimes in Poznań, regarding Bolewice camp Establishment of Bolewice camp in 1940; population of the camp with approximately 350 Jews; the camp is subject to the administration of the camps for Jews, in Poznań; administration of the labor in the camp by a German company responsible for the paving of the Berlin-Warsaw road; direct supervision over the camp inmates by the Gestapo; actual supervision of the camp inmates by Gendarmerie people who are Germans from Grodzisko; housing of the inmates and the German guards in four or...

File Number : 45

Type of Material : Legal Documentation

Language : Polish

Official documentation of the regional Committee for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Poznań, regarding Czarkow camp

Official documentation of the regional Committee for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Poznań, regarding Czarkow camp Establishment of Czarkow camp in 1941; population of the camp with approximately 1,000 Jews including young people above age 13; Czarkow camp life including hunger, beatings and beatings to death by German and Polish guards, and labor in the preparation of the ground and the construction of railroad tracks; executions of inmates by the Germans, including the execution of 12 inmates near the camp and the leaving of their corpses in the camp for several days; administration of the labor...

File Number : 36

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Research and History

Language : Polish

Official documentation of the District Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poznań concerning a camp in Pawłowo

Official documentation of the District Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poznań concerning a camp in Pawłowo Camp in Pawłowo established in late 1941 or early 1941; approx. 300 Jewish men from Poland are placed in the camp; life in the camp including hunger, abuse by Polish supervisors, morbidity, and drainage work along the Orla River; Jewish prisoners executed for searching for food outside the camp; camp liquidated in 1943 or 1944. Also in the file: Lists of names of Jews who perished in the camp or in nearby villages.

File Number : 27

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, List of Murdered Persons, Legal Documentation, List of Persecuted Persons, Map

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Shmuel Sheiner, born in Maramarosziget, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Maramarosziget Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jaworzno, Bedestyl, on a death march and in Buchenwald

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Sheiner, born in Maramarosziget, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Maramarosziget Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jaworzno, Bedestyl, on a death march and in Buchenwald Life before the war; from a well-to-do hasidic family; relations with the non-Jewish population. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1941; displays of antisemitism; cruelty towards the Jews shown by the Arrow Cross members; escape of Jewish refugees from Lwow to Maramarosziget, 1943; knowledge concerning murder of Jews from the refugees; rabbinical prevention of escape by the family; German occupation, March 1944;...

File Number : 5779

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ozjasz Kalech regarding his experiences during the deportation from Tarnobrzeg, during the "Aktion" in Debica, in the Rzeszow, Flossenburg, Kolmar and Oranienburg camps, and during a death march Deportation of the Jews of Tarnobrzeg via the San River to Radomysl, October 1939; "Aktion" in the Debica area, 19 July 1942: murder of the elderly people and the babies, selection and separation of men for deportation to [labor] camps; harsh labor accompanied by constant beatings and abuse in the Rzeszow camp; torture and murder of inmates by sadistic methods, almost daily; transfer to Flossenburg and...

File Number : 85

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Jozef Sterngast regarding his experiences in the Plaszow camp and the systematic murder of inmates in the Strafkommando (Penal Kommando)

Testimony of Jozef Sterngast regarding his experiences in the Plaszow camp and the systematic murder of inmates in the Strafkommando (Penal Kommando) Deportation to the Plaszow camp, January, 1943; division of inmates into outside laborers and the Barackenbau (construction and maintenance) laborers inside the camp; labor conditions harsher for those working inside the camp; labor in the Steinbruch (stone quarries) owned by the Antoni Scheidt Ueberbuehren Company; the role of the members of the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst (OD - Jewish Police) in assigning labors and releasing wealthier Jews from harsh labors for...

File Number : 77

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Daniel Fischgarten, born in Busko Zdroj, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in the Busko Ghetto, in hiding, in the HASAG camps in Kielce and Skarzysko, in Buchenwald, Mauthausen and other places Busko Ghetto life, without a fence, in the area of two streets in Busko; "Aktion", September 1942: murder of children and babies by crushing their skulls, and the shooting of elderly people on the spot; march to Jedrzejow, that lasts for two days, and the departure of a transport from Jedrzejow to Treblinka camp; escape while en route to Jedrzejow; in hiding in fields, for three weeks, and in hiding...

File Number : 72

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Mila Hornik, born in Krakow, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Rzeszow, Radomysl Wielki, the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lichtewerden camp and other places

Testimony of Mila Hornik, born in Krakow, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Rzeszow, Radomysl Wielki, the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lichtewerden camp and other places German occupation of Rzeszow; labor cleaning the Germans' barracks; travel to relatives in Radomysl Wielki; escape to Koprzywnica via Sandomierz with the help of a German, before the deportation; travel to Krakow and labor in Ostbahn Mogilska [?]; residence in the Krakow Ghetto, and daily departures to labor; establishment of Plaszow camp; escape from the Krakow Ghetto through the sewers, and arrival to Bochnia;...

File Number : 70

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Franciszek Jaswiecki, a Pole, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, the Rajsko camp and the Gross-Rosen camp

Memoirs of Franciszek Jaswiecki, a Pole, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, the Rajsko camp and the Gross-Rosen camp Auschwitz, winter 1942: fate of the inmates and sadistic acts of Germans and others responsible for the block; murder of infants in their mothers' arms via application of a poison by an SS physician; death under torture of the Polish General Boleslaw Roja; murders in Rajsko; transfer to Gross-Rosen; treatment of inmates by the camp personnel; discovery of the pad of drawings and sketches by Jaswiecki and his transfer to the Penal Kommando for a period of three months; the Germans flee...

File Number : 542

Type of Material : Testimony, Memoirs

Language : Polish

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