Jewish newsletters published in various Polish cities, 1945–1947, collected by the ŻIH archives
- bulletin of Keren Hayesod (United Palestine Appeal);
- bulletin of the Historical Commission newsletter, published by the Central Committee of the Bund in Poland (Byuletin fun der historisher komisie fund tsentral komitet fun “Bund” in Poyln);
- “Der Royter folk,” a publication of SKIF (the Bund youth movement) in Łódź;
- Dror-Young Pioneer Movement in Łódź, April 1946;
- pamphlet with summary of activity in 1945–1946 of the Jewish committee in Kattowice (Historical Commission newsletter, published by the...
Report prepared by the Federation of Sefardi Jewry in the US Occupation Zone in Germany, regarding its activities in the Feldafing DP camp, 1947
Included is a detail report regarding the Federation's activities in the areas of culture, help to needy people, emigration and religion.
Life before the war; offspring of a Zionist family; war breaks out in September 1939; escape to Wilno; violence during the period of Lithuanian rule; sending parcels to acquaintances in Warsaw; Soviet occupation ensues in July 1940; German occupation ensues in June 1941; dispossession; murder of Jews in the streets and in Ponary; eviction from the family home; father murdered in Ponary in August 1941; ghettoization in September 1941; the Yom Kippur Aktion; mother in contact with the chairman of the Judenrat, Jacob Gens; mother works for the cleaning police and receives a pass; witness attends school; activity...
Testimony of Simcha Penzer Rabinowitz Ben Shaul, born in Vilna, Lithuania (Poland), 1934, regarding his experiences in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto and in hiding
His childhood in Vilna.
Red Army occupation of Vilna, summer 1940; nationalization of his family's business; German Army occupation of Vilna, June 1941; life under German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation, the decree regarding wearing a yellow badge, kidnappings, confiscation of property and ban on entry to public places; mass murder [of Jews] in Ponary, July 1941 and August 1941; "Aktion" against "the large provocation", late August 1941;...
Testimony of Binyamin Mordechai Karinski, born in Ostryna, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Ostryna, Mogilev, Stalingrad, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and other places
His childhood in a traditional family, including attending a Tarbut school and a Polish school; learns metalworking in an ORT school in Grodno.
Outbreak of the war; Red Army occupation of Ostryna; deportation of wealthy people to Siberia; German Army occupation of Ostryna, 1941; escape to the Soviet Union; his parents remain in Poland; murder of his parents; march of refugees; arrival to Mogilev; move to Stalingrad; move to Uzbekistan;...
Testimony of Haim Altaratz, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1931, regarding his experiences in Sarajevo, Mostar, Split, Dubrovnik and other places
His childhood in Sarajevo.
German Army occupation of Sarajevo, April 1943; informed on by their Croatian housemaid; rape of his grandmother by drunk German officers; move to Mostar using Aryan documents with help from a Moslem acquaintance; rescue of his brother by the Moslem acquaintance; move to Split which was under Italian occupation; move to Dubrovnik; transfer to an Italian camp on the island of Rab, September 1943; joins Tito's partisans; BBC broadcasts to...
Testimony of Meir Werner, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto, using a false identity and in Braunschweig
His childhood in a traditional, Zionist family including attending a Tarbut school; activities in Hashomer Hatzair; antisemitism; opening of Catholic food shops as competition with the Jewish shops; receives knowledge from the newspapers, "Heynt" ("Today"), regarding the fate of the Jews in the German Reich, 1937; meets refugees following Kristallnacht, 1938.
Outbreak of the war, 1939; attitude of the German soldiers toward the Jews; deportation to the...
Testimony of Batia (Marder) Keret, born in Wlodzimierz, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences in the Wlodzimierz Ghetto, in hiding, in Vladimir, Volbgaro and Israel
Her childhood with her mother in a single-parent family.
Deportation to the [Wlodzimierz] Ghetto, 1940; views a father smothering his [crying] baby; her mother relinquishes a Bausweis certificate [?] for her; pogrom; murder of her family members; transfer to the Wlodzimierz Ghetto No. 2; in hiding in the storeroom of a non-Jew, in exchange for payment; escape to Bialin; move back to Ghetto No. 2 due to hunger and the cold; activities of the...