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Survey of conditions in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and the Middle East countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press and by witnesses with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, August 1943 Poland: The fate of the Warsaw Jews and regarding the annihilation of 90% of the Jews of Poland as reported in the Swedish press; Ziegelboim and the Bund; Frank's speeches; annihilation of the Jews of the Baltic States; murder of Jews in Gomel; Germany: Goebbels' speeches regarding war fatigue; Slovakia: Legislation prohibiting Jews from traveling by public transportation; confiscation of land from...

File Number : 17

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

List of Warsaw Judenrat members present at a meeting 04 November 1939

File Number : 166

Type of Material : List of Judenrat Members

Language : Polish

Documents of Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) of the Legation of the Polish Government-in-Exile pertaining to the annihilation of Jews in Poland, 1942-1944

Documents of Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) of the Legation of the Polish Government-in-Exile pertaining to the annihilation of Jews in Poland, 1942-1944 - "Sprawa zydowska w Polsce" (The Jewish Matter in Poland), an article containing a historical-statistical overview of the Jewish population in Poland; the focal points of concentration of the overview: Jewish residence in Poland, social stratification of the Jewish minority, Jewish employment, special taxes levied on Jews, literacy and higher education, Zionist movements, emigration to other countries, relations between Poles and Jews, the influence...

File Number : 52

Type of Material : Survey Report, Letter, Survey

Language : Polish

Reports and letters of the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee), Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) and the Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB- Jewish Fighting Organization) regarding what is taking place in Poland, 1943-1944 - Letters from the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to their comrades in Palestine, April 1943; - Announcement of the suicide of Szmuel Zygelbaum; - Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) activities to rescue Jewish children; - Requests from the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee) of the Polish Government-in-Exile in London Legation...

File Number : 78

Type of Material : Letter, Survey Report, Investigation Report, Reports

Language : Polish

Letters of protest written by Szmul Sygelbojm, the representative of the Jews of Poland in the Polish-Government-in-Exile in London to the government representatives regarding the indifference of the institutions in Poland and the world in the face of the annihilation of the Jews of Poland; other documents pertaining to Sygelbojm 's tragic death in May 1943 In the file, among other items: - Letter written by Szmul Sygelbojm to Mikolajczyk, the Minister for Internal Matters of the Polish-Government-in-Exile, containing information regarding the appearance of two periodicals of the Bund underground in the...

File Number : 536

Type of Material : Letter, Article

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English

To be translated

File Number : 5122

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Poems/songs, Article, Letter

Language : Polish, Yiddish

British government documents about the extermination of the Jews in Poland, 1942

Copies from the British Public Record Office.: British government documents about the extermination of the Jews in Poland, reports about antisemitism of the polish population, reports about the ghettos in Warsaw, Lodz, Crakow etc, about the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the suicide of Shmuel Mordecai Zygielbojm, first reports about the annihilation camps and the gas chambers.

File Number : 1705

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : English

Szmul Artur Zygielbojm: Correspondence and biographical notes

Szmul Artur Zygielbojm: Correspondence and biographical notes Szmul Mordechai Artur Zygielbojm was a Jewish-Polish socialist politician, leader of the Bund, and a member of the National Council of the Polish government in exile. He committed suicide to protest the indifference of the Allied governments in the face of the Holocaust. The file contains: Correspondence with family and various Polish-Jewish institutions; letters of condolences after his death; biographic articles from various newspapers and jounrnals.

File Number : 1610

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Letter(s)

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Yiddish

Documentation pertaining to the Holocaust of the Jews of Poland, including letters, articles and reports, 1939-1944

Documentation pertaining to the Holocaust of the Jews of Poland, including letters, articles and reports, 1939-1944 Collection of documents pertaining to the Holocaust of the Jews of Poland and the activities of Jewish and Polish organizations, 1942-1944, including: - Two anonymous articles regarding the situation of the Jews in Poland: "Sprawa żydowska w Polsce" (The Matter of the Jews in Poland), written in Warsaw, 1939, and "Rozwiazanie sprawy zidowskiej na forum miedzynarodovym" (Solving the Jewish Problem in the International Forum), undated; - Collection of documents, such as letters, reports and...

File Number : 1479

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Excerpt(s), Survey Report, Documentary, Article, List of Murdered Jews, Document(s), Letter, Letter(s)

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Correspondence with various organizations and bodies, 1964

Correspondence with various organizations and bodies, 1964 - Correspondence between Dr. Nathan Eck and Jewish organizations, authors, survivors and Holocaust scholars. The correspondence contains reports, requests for information and more regarding the history of the persecution and destruction of the Jews in German occupied Europe and the rescue efforts undertaken by various organizations. - Correspondence regarding the publication of research articles in the Yad Vashem "Studies".

File Number : 17

Type of Material : Correspondence, Letter, Administrative Documentation, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, Yiddish

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