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Testimony of Henryk Rolirad, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Poznan, Poland, 1906, regarding his experiences rescuing Jews in Zbaszyn, Warsaw, with the Polish underground and in detention

Testimony

Testimony of Henryk Rolirad, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Poznan, Poland, 1906, regarding his experiences rescuing Jews in Zbaszyn, Warsaw, with the Polish underground and in detention Life before the war; work as an assistant director of a travel company; marriage and starts a family. German occupation, 1939; help to refugees in Zbaszyn; escape to Warsaw, 1940; joins the Polish underground; underground activities including smuggling Jews to the Aryan side via a tunnel; detention by the German police; escape; liberation. Reunion with his family; aliya to Israel, 1965; recognition as a Righteous...

File Number : 3068

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

The Holocaust of Jews from Ropczyce. Eugeniusz Antoni Taras in "Znak", Krakow, Nr. 5-6, 1988

"The Holocaust of the Ropczyce Jews" by. Eugeniusz Antoni Taras published in "Znak", Krakow, Nr. 5-6, 1988 The history of the Ropczyce Jews till the outbreak of WWII. Anti- Jewish measures enforced since the begining of German occupation, which escalated fast. From the marking of their shops and houses, humilition and abuse, plunder of Jewish property to, forced labor to mass killings and deportation to death camps.In February 1940, 130 young Jews from Ropczyce were deported to Debica forced labor camp. In the spring of 1940 most of the Jewish population from Ropczyce was deported to Pustkow, where the...

File Number : 2412

Type of Material : Article, Memoirs Literature, Survey

Language : Polish

Letter from Henryk Wolinski to Prof. Ber Mark regarding his assistance to Jews as part of his activities in the Polish underground and the Zegota (Council for Aid to Jews) Organization, and concerning his contacts with the Jewish Resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto, dated 26 March 1957 Henryk Wolinski is responding to questions presented to him by Ber Mark regarding his part in the rescue of Jews and assistance to the Jewish Resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto. He writes of his membership in the Union of Armed Combat (ZWZ) Organization, the forging of Aryan documents and the arrangement of hiding...

File Number : 89

Type of Material : Letter, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew, Polish