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Documents from the trial conducted in Landesgericht (regional court) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Documentation of the trial, volume 15; Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 1961 Letters (1961) of the investigating judge from the Landesgericht Salzburg (regional court) to various magistrate courts in Germany requesting legal assistance in the criminal proceedings against Hermann Hoefle; the letters contain an account of the suspicion, its factual foundation, and Hoefle's vindication, as well as requests for hearings of the witnesses...

File Number : 72

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

Language : German

Legal file of Marian Rotkopf, a Jewish policeman in Bochnia, 1941-1945, 1947-1949

Legal file of Marian Rotkopf, a Jewish policeman in Bochnia, 1941-1945, 1947-1949 Accusation of Marian Rotkopf for his colloboration with the Nazis during his service in the Jewish police; petition by Rotkopf to the Citizen's Court of the Central Committee of Polish Jews (CKZP) in Krakow to clear his name; In the folder: correspondence, testimonies, proceedings and an edition of the Jewish News Agency (ZAP), 11 February 1949.

File Number : 8

Type of Material : Indictment, Sentence

Language : Polish

Testimony of Cesia Frymer and Pola Warszawska regarding the Jewish underground in Krakow and Rzeszow

Testimony of Cesia Frymer and Pola Warszawska regarding the Jewish underground in Krakow and Rzeszow Organization of the underground in the Krakow Ghetto after the deportations, June 1942; characteristics of the organization members; contacts between the pioneer Zionist movements and the Polska Partia Robotnicza (PPR - Polish Workers' Party), a Polish Communist party; the robbery in the Optima factories; preparation for, and carrying out of, sabotage against German targets; attack on the Cyganeria coffee shop, the preferred recreation spot for German officers in Krakow; arrest of many resistance fighters...

File Number : 529

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Erwin Lieberman, born in Krakow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences as an activist in the Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ŻOB - Jewish Combat Organization) in Krakow and in detention, and regarding the abuse suffered by him and other inmates from Amon Goeth in the Plaszow camp Activities in a ŻOB unit in Krakow; arrest after being informed on for sending a threatening letter to Goeth and Kroener, head of the Gestapo; arrest of people whose last names were Leiberman or similar names in the Krakow Ghetto and in all surrounding camps; interrogation under torture with the direct participation of...

File Number : 522

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Rejza Reizia Klingberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences as a member of the underground in the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) in the Krakow Ghetto, Bochnia, Koszyce, Sandomierz, and other places German occupation; move to Koszyce with her parents, until 1942; contact by letters with her girlfriends, and information about the fate of the Jews in Tarnow and Warsaw, and the organization by members of Hashomer Hatzair into a fighting underground; receives a forged Aryan document; move to Krakow; meets Roman Leibowicz, whose underground nickname was Laban; joins the...

File Number : 198

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of an anonymous Jewish woman, regarding her experience in the Warsaw ghetto, hiding on the Aryan side, and involvement in the ghetto resistance movement

Testimony of an anonymous Jewish woman, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, hiding on the Aryan side, and involvement in the ghetto resistance movement Document entitled "Disclosure". The author found a mention of herself in the newspaper article; she disagrees with part of the facts, and, unwillingly, she speaks out after 50 years; her name remains unknown due to the request for anonymity. The author was in the Warsaw ghetto; she managed to escape to the Aryan side after the loss of mother during the Aktion in July 1942; made friends with the smugglers and started trading food. The woman...

File Number : 3595

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Stefan Michta, regarding his experience in the Czestochowa ghetto, forced labor at HASAG Eisenhutte Werke factory in Rakow, his underground activity and hiding in the village of Wozniki

Testimony of Stefan Michta, regarding his experience in the Czestochowa ghetto, forced labor at HASAG Eisenhutte Werke factory in Rakow, his underground activity and hiding in the village of Wozniki By the end of January 1943, Stefan Michta was in the so-called small ghetto in Czestochowa; was forced to work in HASAG Eisenhutte Werke (metalworks) in Rakow. There he joined the Jewish Combat Organization (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa, ZOB); his pseudonym was "August"; was enrolled in the "Kantor" unit, that included Geldbard, Feler, Plawner, Kantor and Leon Bukowski (the latter, as a member of the People's Army...

File Number : 11313

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Israel Gutman, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1923, regarding the deportation “Aktion” in the Warsaw Ghetto in July 1942 and the establishment of the Jewish Fighting Organization and its activities in July-September 1942 Life in the ghetto; information regarding the activities of youth movements and especially of Hashomer Hatzair and Dror; institutions for mutual help; deportation at the end of July 1942; description of the fate of his sister (appears under the name Esther) and her deportation for extermination with the Korczak Orphanage; life with friends in different hiding places in the ghetto;...

File Number : 11156

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Israel Gutmann: "The Jews of Warsaw, 1939 - 1943" - Fragment (pages 1-481) of a typescript on the Warsaw Ghetto, the underground movement and the Ghetto Uprising

Israel Gutman: Fragment (pages 1 - 481) of a typescript on the Warsaw Ghetto, the underground movement and the Ghetto Uprising 1. The first months of the Nazi occupation 2. The establishment of the Ghetto 3. The Warsaw Ghetto 4. The political underground in the Warsaw Ghetto 5. Prelude to the mass deportation 6. The fateful deportation 7. The Ghetto underground during the deportation and the establishment of the Jewish Fighting Organization (Z.O.B.) 8. The Polish response to the liquidation of Warsaw Jewry 9. The remnant of the Ghetto until January 1943 10. The movement toward combat: Mid-September...

File Number : 11

Type of Material : Research Literature

Language : English

"The Zionists in the Resistance Movement", an article written after the war in Polish regarding the role of the Zionist movement and its significance in the armed struggle of the Jewish underground

"The Zionists in the Resistance Movement", an article written after the war in Polish, regarding the role of the Zionist movement and its significance in the armed struggle of the Jewish underground The article presents excerpts from the diary of Gusta Justyna Dawidzon which she wrote in prison. Zionist ideology and [the role of] the Zionist movements in organizing the Jewish Resistance movement and initiating the armed struggle against the Germans are considered in the article. Emphasis is placed on the crucial role of the members of the Zionist movements in various cities, for example, in Krakow, [where]...

File Number : 1680

Type of Material : Article

Language : Polish

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