Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

4 Results

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

Announcements by the Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB- Jewish Fighting Organization) and the Żydowski Związek Walki (ŻZW-Jewish Fighting Union) regarding resistance to the German occupier in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942-1943 - Announcement by the Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB- Jewish Fighting Organization) regarding the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 23 April 1943; - Call to the residents of the ghetto by the ZOB to resist the German occupier and beware of collaborators, 20 January 1943; - ZOB leaflet calling for opposition to the deportation of Jews organized by the Germans in the ghetto, dated...

File Number : 191

Type of Material : Announcement, Placards

Language : Polish

Excerpt from the diary of Pawel, a member of the Zydowski Zwiazek Wojskowy (ZZW-Jewish Military Alliance), dated 19 April 1943; memories of Mordechai Anielewicz

Excerpt from the diary of Pawel, a member of the Zydowski Zwiazek Wojskowy (ZZW-Jewish Military Alliance), dated 19 April 1943; memories of Mordechai Anielewicz The excerpts from the diary were written on the Aryan side regarding the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and escape with other Resistance fighters to Otwock. In the diary there is sharp criticism of the attitude of the Poles towards the Jewish Resistance fighters, their unwillingness to assist and their indifference to the fate of the Jews in the ghetto. The author also notes the refusal of the Armia Krajowa (AK-the Polish underground...

File Number : 130

Type of Material : Memoirs, Diary

Language : Polish

Excerpt from the diary of Emanuel Ringelblum, translated by Michael Galova

Excerpt from the diary of Emanuel Ringelblum, translated by Michael Galova Included in the file: an article titled "Bitwa na placu Muranowskim" [Battle at Muranowski Square] (from Wikipedia), from which a translated excerpt was taken.

File Number : 580

Type of Material : Article, Excerpt(s)

Language : Hebrew, Polish