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Documentation from the trial of Hermann Hoefle held in the Salzburg Regional Court; Testimonies by survivors living in Israel regarding the Sobibor death camp; Statement by Georg Michalsen (SSPF Lublin) regarding the activity of the SSPF Lublin and "Aktion Reinhard", 1963 - 1964 Requests for testimonies Transcript of a letter by the state prosecutor at the Regional Court in Hamburg regarding the testimony of Benjamin Eichner and the request to ask him about the activities of Dirke, Bernd and Schubert (28/02/1964) pp.6-7 Requests by the Vienna Regional Court to Israeli authorities to gather information...

File Number : 109

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

Language : Hebrew, French, German

Testimony of Chaim Sheinfeld, born in Krakow, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Lwow, Krakow and Czestochowa

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Sheinfeld, born in Krakow, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Lwow, Krakow and Czestochowa Family with hardships; his father mends umbrellas for a livelihood; his mother is a seamstress; life in an apartment which was also used for work; attends a Jewish Polish school; livelihood from sport; studies to become a dental technician. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape with a friend to the Soviet occupied area; meets with his wife in Lwow; return to Krakow; "Aktion"; murder of relatives; life in salt mines; work with a Polish dental technician; deportation to Czestochowa; camp life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Binyamin Yakubovitz, born in Radom, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Gorki, Rostov, the Red Army, using a false identity and in Samarkand

Testimony

Testimony of Binyamin Yakubovitz, born in Radom, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Gorki, Rostov, the Red Army, using a false identity and in Samarkand Traditional religious family; his mother runs a kiosk; his father works in a toy workshop; move of the family to Warsaw; livelihood hardships; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement. Draft to labor in Bialystok, 1939; German occupation; escape with his family to the Soviet Union; return of the family to Warsaw; death of family members in the Warsaw Ghetto; labor engraving on the Siberian border; transfer to Gorki, 1941; life in Gorki...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avrahm Shemesh, born in Ludwipol, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Ludwipol Ghetto, forests, with the partisans and in Babino

Testimony

Testimony of Avrahm Shemesh, born in Ludwipol, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Ludwipol Ghetto, forests, with the partisans and in Babino From a Zionist family; witness' father owns a grocery store; attends a Tarbut school. Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation; raid on his home and confiscation of property, 1941; establishment of the Ludwipol Ghetto; abuse of Jews; looting of Jewish property by the Ukrainians; forced labor with his brother paving roads; in hiding in the cellar of his grandfather's oil factory; liquidation of the Ludwipol Ghetto, 26 August 1942; attempted murder by a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and neighboring countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses, January 1944

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and neighboring countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses, January 1944 Poland: Living conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Zuckerman's words; murder of 13 women and children in the Pawiak Prison; suspicion of women and children that they are Jews disguising themselves as non-Jews; Germany: The fate of the Jews of Germany; Jewish-German relations; Slovakia: Concentration of the Jews in camps in Slovakia; Jewish organization in Bratislava; pressure for deportation of Jews from...

File Number : 26

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka (Yelen) Wolk, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Siauliai Ghetto, Linkaiciai, Stutthof and Landsberg

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka (Yelen) Wolk, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Siauliai Ghetto, Linkaiciai, Stutthof and Landsberg Religious family; life in a Jewish environment; joins Hechalutz movement led by Yitzhak (Antek) Zuckerman; move to a “kibbutz”; aliya training in Kielce. Outbreak of the war; walk with the group to Kowel; responsible for a group of children from Germany; move to Mielnica; move to Vilna; move to Siauliai; life in Siaulia and labor in a factory; deportation to the Siauliai Ghetto; ghetto life with the group and labor in an HVL military hospital; marriage;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yechiel Weinstock, born in Staszow, 1916, regarding his experiences in Staszow and in the Skarzysko-Kamienna, Czestochowa and Warta labor camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yechiel Weinstock, born in Staszow, 1916, regarding his experiences in Staszow and in the Skarzysko-Kamienna, Czestochowa and Warta labor camps Life before the war; school studies; activity in Zionist youth movements; antisemitism before German occupation of Poland. Life in Staszow ghetto; deportation from ghetto to forced labor in Skarzysko-Kamienna camps A and C; living conditions and attitude of Ukrainian guards; activities in camp C; preparations for escape that failed; transfer to camps in Czestochowa; forced labor digging trenches in Warta camp and forced labor in Czestochowa producing...

File Number : 11261

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 3586

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Letter sent by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff from Bialystok to his sister, Tamar, in Eretz Israel regarding his experiences in Warsaw, February 1943

Letter sent by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff from Bialystok to his sister, Tamar, in Eretz Israel regarding his experiences in Warsaw, February 1943 Life in the Warsaw Ghetto; deportation of their mother to Treblinka on the tenth day of an "Aktion" in Warsaw; deportation of friends to Treblinka; life outside the ghetto as a Jewish underground activist; cooperation with the Polska Partia Robotnicza (PPR- Polish Communist Workers' Party) including obtaining weapons and combat together with the partisans; the murder process in the gas chambers in Treblinka; rescue of his girlfriend Tamar (Tema) Schneiderman by...

File Number : 8

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Appeal by Icchak Cukierman, the Commander of the Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB- Jewish Fighting Organization) to the Jewish fighters to join the fighters in the Warsaw Polish Uprising, dated 03 August 1944

File Number : 178

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

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