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Experiences of Yezhi Brauner (Yonatan Iurek), born in Krakow, Poland, 1926, while hidden by a Polish farmer, and in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow and Bruenlitz

Experiences of Yezhi Brauner (Yonatan Iurek), born in Krakow, Poland, 1926, while hidden by a Polish farmer, and in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow and Bruenlitz Experiences of his grandfather David Brauner and his grandmother Rosalia Rosenfeld; he attends the Hebrew school in Krakow, until the outbreak of the war; [establishment of the Krakow Ghetto]; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; escape, along with his mother; in hiding with his mother on a farm while hidden by a Polish farmer; murder of many of his family members during the "Aktions" in Krakow, 1942; return to the Krakow Ghetto, 15 November 1942; labor on...

File Number : 8603

Type of Material : Memoirs, List of Murdered Jews

Language : Hebrew

Diary of Heniek Veingarten, born in Niwice, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec, Lwow, Luck, being hidden by farmers, as a partisan in the Rowne forest and more

Diary of Heniek Veingarten, born in Niwice, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec, Lwow, Luck, being hidden by farmers, as a partisan in the Rowne forest and more Life with his family in Niwice; move to Wolbrom with his family due to difficulties in supporting themselves, 1920; abuse by gangs loyal to General Haller, including capture of his father and pulling out his beard; move of the family to Strzemieszyce, 1926; move of the family to Sosnowiec. Concentration of the Jews in the Szenja Hall in Sosnowiec, September, 1939; abuse of the Jews; mass murder of Jews; separation from his parents...

File Number : 8571

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Polish

Postcards and a letter sent by Ignacy Zaks, from the Warsaw Ghetto to his family members in Lorba, the Soviet Union, 1941

Postcards and a letter sent by Ignacy Zaks, from the Warsaw Ghetto to his family members in Lorba, the Soviet Union, 1941 Note: Ignacy Zaks was born in Warsaw, Poland, 1905 and Maria (Tyrmond) Zaks was born in Warsaw, 1910; they were married in Warsaw (circa), 1934; they were deported to the Warsaw Ghetto during the war, along with their parents and their daughter Elizabet who was born, 1938; Ignacy Zaks sent letters and a postcard from the Warsaw Ghetto to his siblings who had escaped to the Soviet Union; five postcards and one letter remain, from this correspondence; Elizabet was smuggled to a Christian...

File Number : 2067

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard

Language : Polish

Booklet containing research on the family history (roots) of Adela (Esther Ita) (Gerstman) Frenkel and Chaim Frenkel written by their daughter, Chana (Frenkel) Shtauber, 1990

Booklet containing research on the family history (roots) of Adela (Esther Ita) (Gerstman) Frenkel and Chaim Frenkel written by their daughter, Chana (Frenkel) Shtauber, 1990 Included in the booklet:: - Description of the experiences of Adela and Chaim Frenkel and their family until their aliya to Israel; - Certified testimonial declaration by Adela Frenkel in Pardes Chana, 23 October 1989, regarding her rescue during the war by a Polish woman, Wiktoria Szymanska, later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem and invited by Adela Frenkel to visit Israel, (in Hebrew, with instructions...

File Number : 8537

Type of Material : Booklet(s), Testimony, Personal Documents, Memoirs, Declaration, Photograph

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Documents of Halina Ruth Cypel, including a forged identity card with a false name used during her life on the Aryan side of Warsaw, a postcard written by Jan Jakimin in Poland, 1944, received during her stay as a Polish forced laborer in Germany, 1944, and letters received in the United States after the war - Postcard sent by Jan Jakimin from Poland to Halina Stefanska (Halina Ruth Cypel's false name) in Berlin, 18 December 1944; - Halina Ruth Cypel's forged identity card with false name Halina Stefanska, used during her life on the Aryan side of Warsaw, issued in Warsaw, 07 June 1943; - Letters sent...

File Number : 1947

Type of Material : Personal Records, Postcard, Names, Letter, Declaration

Language : Polish, English, German

Personal documents of Samuel Hammer and Jeannetta Janina (Berlas) Hammer, including forged documents used during their stay on the Aryan side in Warsaw while using false identities, and other documents, 1934-1947 - Forged identity document with the name Janina (Gradowska) Kowalska, issued in Warsaw, 02 April 1943; - Forged identity document of Samuel Hammer, with the name Aleksander Lenartowski, issued 03 February 1943 and valid until 15 September 1944; - Diploma for studies in law, awarded to Jeannetta Hammer by the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwow, 12 November 1934; - Information sheet of the...

File Number : 1176

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of an anonymous Jewish woman from the village of Rakow, Poland regarding her experiences in the Rakow Ghetto, escapes to the Aryan side using a false identity, hiding in the forest and in a Polish village and work in Germany using a false identity Life in Rakow at the time of the occupation including anti-Jewish legislation; life in the ghetto; capture of the witness; prevention of her deportation to Skarzysko-Kamienna due to the giving a bribe; escape of the family from the ghetto; hiding of the parents by farmers they had known before the war; trips taken to Czestochowa by train by the witness,...

File Number : 297.1

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

To be translated

File Number : 1976

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Letter from Francis Rubinlicht in hiding together with her brother Henry on the Aryan side of Warsaw to her relatives in the United States, 21 March-12 November 1943

Letter from Francis Rubinlicht in hiding together with her brother Henry on the Aryan side of Warsaw to her relatives in the United States, 21 March-12 November 1943 Notes: Francis Rubinlicht and her brother Henry found a hiding place on the Aryan side of Warsaw using the false identity of Romanovski, 21 March-12 November 1943; Francis perished six days after she finished the letter and Henry, who survived, wrote the concluding words to her letter; The letter was translated into English by Lillian Rubinlicht.

File Number : 1484

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English

זיכרונותיה של דורה ירמולקובסקה Dora Yarmolkovska ילידת Warszawa "במסווה הארי" על קורותיה בגטו Warszawa עד 17/04/1943 ואחר כך בצד הארי של העיר תחת זהות בדויה, באחד הכפרים ליד Warszawa יחד עם בן-חסותה היהודי שחשב אותה לפולניה והתחתן איתה כדי להציל את חייו וב-Lodz מפברואר 1942 במחבוא אצל פולנים.

File Number : 7660

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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