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Letters written by Jadwiga Schleichkorn sent under an assumed name from Belgium to Karolina Janicka, will of her husband Stefan and a letter of their son to the Janicki couple who hid them

Letters written by Jadwiga Schleichkorn sent under an assumed name from Belgium to Karolina Janicka, will of her husband Stefan and a letter of their son to the Janicki couple who hid them Jadwiga Schleichkorn was active in the Union of Polish Patriots in Brussels; the letters to Karolina Janicka were signed using her assumed name Sikorska; the couple Jadwiga and Stefan were hidden by the Janicki family in Tyczyn in 1942; Stefan Schleichkorn in his will dated 18 April 1942 left everything to the Janicki family; letter by Czeslaw Janicki, the son of the Janicki couple, which included a testimony. Stefan...

File Number : 1780

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Will, Letter

Language : Polish

Testimony of Tzvi Erenreich Amid, born in Przemysl, Poland in 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Przemysl, Yarmasa and Tashkent

Testimony of Tzvi Erenreich Amid, born in Przemysl, Poland in 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Przemysl, Yarmasa and Tashkent Life before the war; educated, Zionist family originally from the Silesia area; unsuccessful attempt to make aliya to Eretz Israel via Romania in 1939; Soviet occupation; transfer to Yarmasa; transfer to Tashkent in 1941; release of his father; joins the Zwiazek Patriotow Polskich - ZPP (Organization of Polish Patriots); Return to Poland and move to Wloclawek in June 1946; activities in the Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludnosci Zydowskiej w Polsce (TOZ)...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva Chava (Rozenblum) Frankel Pshemyslavsky, born in Dzialoszyce, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Malkinia, Bialystok, Jaroszewicze, Poltava and Orsk

Testimony

Testimony of Eva Chava (Rozenblum) Frankel Pshemyslavsky, born in Dzialoszyce, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Malkinia, Bialystok, Jaroszewicze, Poltava and Orsk Ultra-Orthodox family; move to Lodz; joins the Communist party. German occupation, September 1939; capture of her father for forced labor; release of her father with help from the witness; Yom Kippur prayer, in opposition to the [authorities'] orders; escape in the direction of the east, November 1939; arrival to Malkinia; crosses the border to the Soviet occupied zone; move to Bialystok; move to a refugees center in Jaroszewicze;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Wolna Polska (Free Poland) bulletin issued by the Zwiazek Patriotow Polskich na Srodkowym Wschodzie (Union of Polish Patriots in the Middle East) on April 1, 1944

.Wolna Polska (Free Poland) bulletin issued by the Zwiazek Patriotow Polskich na Srodkowym Wschodzie (Union of Polish Patriots in the Middle East) on April 1, 1944 The Association of Polish Patriots in the Middle East was an organization made up of some Poles who came to Eretz Israel with Anders’ army, which opposed the Polish government-in-exile in London and supported the Soviet Union and the communists and left-wing forces on Polish soil; The bulletin criticizes the policy of the Polish government-in-exile in London, which portrayed the Soviets as an enemy of the nascent Polish state; The organization...

File Number : 701

Type of Material : Brochure

Language : Polish

Testimony of Esther Mark, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, in hiding, in the Saratov area and Moscow

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Mark, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, in hiding, in the Saratov area and Moscow Work of her husband, Professor Bar Mark, as the administrator of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. Escape, October 1939; crosses the Soviet-German border; her husband's work at the editor-in-chief of the literary section of the "Bialystok Stern" ("Bialystok Star") newspaper in Bialystok; witness joins her husband; her work as the principal of a Yiddish-language high school; her husband is accused of Trotskyite tendencies; removal of the threat to exile her husband to Siberia; refusal to...

File Number : 4168

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Cypora (Drewniak) Melamed, born in Lublin, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences while using a false identity, in Przemysl, on the Soviet side, in Lwow, Kokand and Moscow

Testimony

Testimony of Cypora (Drewniak) Melamed, born in Lublin, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences while using a false identity, in Przemysl, on the Soviet side, in Lwow, Kokand and Moscow Orphanage life in Rzeszow. Outbreak of the war; receives documents as a non-Jewish woman from Germans; transfer by the Germans to Przemysl along with her younger brother and three young women; concentration of Jews, Poles and Ukrainians in a monastery; execution of Jews in a forest near Przemysl, late 1939; escape from the monastery across the San River to the Soviet side along with a group of Jewish children, with help...

File Number : 3656

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Szaja Szichatow, born in Rowne, Poland, 1896, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Szaja Szichatow, born in Rowne, Poland, 1896, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union Life before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to the Soviet Union; end of the war, 1945. Activities on behalf of the repatriation of Jewish refugees to Poland within the framework of the Jewish Committee in Moscow, November 1945; Jewish Committee activities in Warsaw.

File Number : 2051

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Rena (Spielman) Szklaniewicz, born in Krakow, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Lwow and Kazakhstan

Testimony

Testimony of Rena (Spielman) Szklaniewicz, born in Krakow, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Lwow and Kazakhstan Life before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Lwow; Soviet occupation; deportation to Kazakhstan; help from the Union of Polish Patriots; liberation.

File Number : 1553

Type of Material : Names, Testimony

Language : Polish

Letter sent by Sheindel Adler from Warsaw to Sara Horowitz in Eretz Israel in 1936; telegram sent by the Kwietny family in Dawidgródek to Krasnoborsk in 1941; personal documentation regarding Szolom Kwietny, and other documents Personal letters: - Letter sent by Sheindel Adler and another relative in Warsaw to her daughter Sara (Adler) Horowitz and her family members in Eretz Israel on 09/04/1936; written on stationery with the name Sz. Kwietny; - Telegram sent by the Kwietny family in Dawidgródek to the Kwietny family in Krasnoborsk on 22/04/1941, regarding the death of the mother; Personal...

File Number : 4445

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Certification, Telegram, Letter, Membership Cards

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Uzbek, Russian, Yiddish

Written testimony by Golda (Landkof) Dafner, regarding the deportation of her daughter Mucha during the "Aktion" against children in the Łódź Ghetto, 08/09/1942; letters, postcards and other documentation related to the engineer Hirsz Gregorz Landkof and his family members, 1920-1930s - "Dzieje wysiedlenia": Written testimony by Golda (Landkof) Dafner, regarding the deportation of her daughter Mucha in early September 1942; written, 08/09/1942 (scan); - Postcard sent to G. Landkof in Brin Navolok by Ada (nee Tirman), from the address of A. Vaysman in Hancewicze, 20/05/1941; - Postcard and letter sent to...

File Number : 10879

Type of Material : Telegram, Certification, Personal Documents, Diary, Postcard, Letter, Diploma

Language : Polish, Russian

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