Volfus, Yehoshua:
Testimony regarding the economic life of the Jews of Rawa-Ruska during the Soviet authority; persecution of Jews following the German occupation; the financial situation of the Jews; forced labor; extermination.
Testimony of Lea (Rosenzweig) Kramer, born in Rawa Ruska, Poland, regarding her experiences in Rawa Ruska
German occupation; forced labor; desecration of Jewish cemeteries; deportation of the Jews from the surrounding area to Rawa Ruska; mass deportation of transports via Rawa Ruska; list of Rawa Ruska victims.
File Number : 738
Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Memoirs
Memoirs of Batia Shai, born in Rawa Ruska, Poland in 1925, regarding her experiences in Rawa Ruska, in the Rawa Ruska Ghetto, in hiding in Krakow, while in Germany, and in Eretz Israel
Her family's life in Krakow before the war; German Army occupation of Rawa Ruska in 1939; deportation of her family members (to extermination, under the guise of being transferred to labor); forced labor; "Aktions"; murder of her father during the large "Aktion"; escape from the ghetto, using a forged document with the name Elinora Rogos; life in hiding; work for a Polish sawmill owner in Krakow; extortion of money from her...
Testimony of Avishai Post, born in Rawa Ruska, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Rawa Ruska Ghetto, forced labor, wanderings and in hiding
Well-to-do large family who own a fur shop.
Soviet occupation; life under Soviet occupation; nationalisation of property; German occupation, 1941; forced labor transporting train tracks and bricks; labor logging trees in a forest; life in the Rawa Ruska Ghetto and building a bunker in a forest; in hiding in the bunker during the "Aktions" in the ghetto; capture of the family; escape and rescue from murder in a cemetery; life in the fields until December...
Memoirs of Zelda Ginzberg regarding her experiences in the Rawa Ruska Ghetto, in hiding in Rawa and in forests
Life in the Rawa Ruska Ghetto; deportation to Belzec [in a train car]; escape from the train car; in hiding in Rawa under a cellar together with additional families; escape; wanderings in forests and fields; murder of Jews in Lubaczow.
Testimony of Batia (Reis) Shai, born in 1925 in Rawa Ruska, Poland, about her experiences in the Rawa Ruska ghetto and under a false identity
Childhood in an Orthodox home; attends a Polish school and a Beth Jacob school at the same time; Germans enter; life in the Rawa Ruska ghetto; witness polishes boots for the Sonderdienstkommando; parents murdered; obtains false papers in the name of a Christian woman, Elinora Rogos; dyes her hair blonde; witness moved by her brother, for a large payment; to a non-Jew in Kraków; she works in his home; sent to a staging point in Kraków for forced labor; sets out as a...
Documentation regarding Jakob Scheier Szeier, born in Rawa Ruska on 27 July 1909, issued in Rawa Ruska and France in 1930-1963
-- Personal documentation issued in Rawa Ruska, Paris and Nice in 1930-1944;
-- forged identity card from Burlats from 1943 in the name of Albert Delmas, born in Le Havre in 1906; excerpt from a forged birth certificate from Le Havre from 1944;
-- documentation issued in Paris in 1947-1963;
Information about his fate in the Holocaust from the documentation: arrest in France on 21 March 1944, deportation from Drancy camp on 15 May 1944 in Transport No. 73 to Kaunas and Reval,...
File Number : 673
Type of Material : Diploma, Personal Documents, Application, Identity Card, Birth Certificate, Vouchers, Official Documentation, Personal Records, Marriage Certificate
Testimony of Bracha Bronislawa (Ber) Rauffman, born in Lwow, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in the Lwow Ghetto, the Belzec camp and in various hiding places in the village of Belzec with help from Julia Pepiak (a Righteous Among the Nations)
Life before the war.
German occupation, June 1941; deportation to the Lwow Ghetto; ghetto life; exchanging jewelry for bread; deportation of her grandmother to Belzec; escape from the ghetto with her mother, spring 1942; capture in Rawa Ruska; transfer to detention; deportation to Belzec; camp life in the staff residential area; her mother's work...
The article "Rava Russkaya" deals with the murder of the Jews from Rawa Ruska in Belzec and the liberation of the city of Rawa Ruska by the Red Army
The article deals mainly with the liberation of Rawa Rusk and the return to life; among other items mentioned in the article, is the murder of the Jews of Rawa Ruska in Belzec (in the article the name Bevzets is written); hiding of a group of Jews in the nearby forest and their return to Rawa Ruska after the liberation; names of the survivors.