Adolf Abraham Berman

אדולף אברהם ברמן

Bermann, Adolf Abraham

Identifier: 000034
Type of Entity: Person

Dates of Existence

17/10/1906

03/02/1978

History

Psychologist, Zionist activist in the Warsaw ghetto underground and one of the leaders of ZEGOTA. Witness in Eichmann trial.

Places

Warsaw, Poland
Tel Aviv, Israel

Sources

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust / ed. I. Gutman. - New York : Macmillan, 1990. - Vol. 1, p. 202-203

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"Zegota: A Time to Remember" documentary film
1. Oral history interviews of the Sy Rotter collection, RG-50.596
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn49756
- English
- 1992
- 1 videocassette (Betacam SP),
- Updated 1 year ago
"Zegota: Council for Aid to Jews in Occupied Poland" documentary film
1. Oral history interviews of the Sy Rotter collection, RG-50.596
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn49758
- English
- 1996
- 1 videocassette (Betacam SP),
- Updated 1 year ago
The Adolf Abraham Berman Collection: Polish-Jewish Underground Welfare Activity in Occupied Warsaw and Outlying Cities and in Camps, 1943–1945
- Beit Lohamei Haghetaot Archives/ בית לוחמי הגטאות
- BERMAN.COLL.
- English
- 1943
- 714 files
- Updated 9 years ago
The Adolf Abraham Berman collection contains underground press and publications and official press printed after the failure of the Polish uprising; official and forged personal documents; overviews, reports, correspondences, radio broadcasts transcripts, operation and work plans, orders, order of battle and casualty lists; diaries, memoirs, testimonies, speeches, essays and manifestos; aid requests and financial support confirmations and receipts. The collection also contains material related to the Kielce pogrom of July 1946.
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- AJDC
- EHRI Corporate Bodies
- Corporate Body
- Updated 6 months ago
1914/present

Founded in 1914, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee provided assistance to Jews around the world, particularly in eastern Europe. During the Nazi era, this umbrella agency for aid organizations in the United States was involved in emigration planning and relief work in Germany, until 1939 providing an increasing share of the budget for German Jewish organizations, such as the Reichsvertretung. The Joint efforts continued after the war began and extended beyond the Reich into countries occupied or controlled by Germany.
Escape
- EHRI Terms
- English
- Updated 6 years ago
1 narrower keyword
Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce
- Political representation of Jews in Poland
- CKŻP
- EHRI Corporate Bodies
- Corporate Body
- Updated 7 years ago
1944-11/1950-10-29

The most prominent official Jewish institution in Poland following the Holocaust, the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, attended to the needs of Jews from fall 1944 until 1950. It sponsored a variety of programs, providing food, shelter, education, medical assistance, cultural activities, and employment services and vocational training. The CKŻP also supervised the repatriation of Jews from the Soviet Union and assisted with legal emigration. The CKŻP was supported financially by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. In 1950-10-29 CKŻP was connected with Żydowskie Towarzystwo Ku...
Czerniaków Adam
- Czerniaków, Adam, 1880-1942
- Czerniakow, Adam.
- צ׳רניאקוב, אדם, 1880־1942
- Czerniakow, Adam
- Ṣ'erniyʼaqŵb, ʼAdam.
- EHRI Personalities
- Person
- Updated 8 years ago
1880

1942

Head of the Warsaw Judenrat. Kept a diary from September 6, 1939, until the day of his death (suicide). It was published in 1979 in the English language as the The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom.
Women
- EHRI Terms
- English
- Updated 9 months ago
- Broader Terms
- Gender
- Families
- People
Forced labour
- EHRI Terms
- English
- Updated 5 years ago
- Broader Terms
- Forced labour, Deportation, Ghettos, Camps and Final Solution Camps
5 narrower keywords
Edelman Marek
- Edelman, Marek, 1919-2009
- Edelman, Marek
- Edelman, Marek, 1922-2009
- Edelman, M. (1922-2009).
- Edelmann, Marek 1919-2009
- ...
- EHRI Personalities
- Person
- Updated 10 years ago
1921

02/10/2009

Jewish-Polish political and social activist and cardiologist. Co-founder of ZOB. He took part in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, becoming its leader after the death of Mordechaj Anielewicz. He also took part in the city-wide 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Before his death on 2 October 2009 Edelman was the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Eichmann Trial -- Session 26 -- Testimony about children and the Polish underground
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1001557
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Session 26. Witness Adolph Avraham Berman testifies. Dr. Berman talks about the numbers of children in Warsaw. The Judges ask him questions. He says that there was help for Jews from the Polish underground, especially for the children. He says that Jewish children were smuggled into the Aryan section of Warsaw, and then lists the Polish underground organizations, including Janusz Korczak, that helped. He says that they worked to get the news out of what was happening. 00:08:30 Dr. Berman finishes, and the Judges call Dr. Duvdevani. He discusses the search for a cache of items stashed in the...
Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 25 and 26 -- Testimony of Z. Lubetkin, Y. Zuckerman, A. Berman, R. Kuper
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1001556
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Sessions 25 and 26. Eichmann sitting in his booth. The Judges open Session 25 and present Decision 14. This decision notes the appeal of witness interrogation abroad as certain witnesses would be arrested under the Nazi Collaborators Punishment Law of 1950, should they appear in Israel. Presiding Judge, Moshe Landau refers to Decision 11, which states that foreign courts may acquire testimony from restricted witnesses for the purpose of the Eichmann trial. There is a blip at 00:07:08. Hausner questions Zivia Lubetkin Zuckerman, a resistance fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto about the conditions ...
Underground organisations
- EHRI Terms
- English
- Updated 5 years ago
- Broader Terms
- Resistance organisations
- Underground
Ghettos
- EHRI Terms
- English
- Updated 5 years ago
- Broader Terms
- Forced labour, Deportation, Ghettos, Camps and Final Solution Camps
4 narrower keywords
Holocaust survivors
- EHRI Terms
- English
- Updated 6 months ago
- Broader Terms
- Postwar period
- People
1 narrower keyword
Persecution of Jews
- EHRI Terms
- English
- Updated 9 months ago
- Broader Terms
- Persecution
8 narrower keywords
Ministry of Public Administration in Warsaw Ministerstwo Administracji Publicznej w Warszawie (Sygn. 199)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn551211
- English
- 1945-1950
- 25,676 digital images, PDF
- Updated 1 year ago
Selected files from the following departments of the Ministry of Public Administration in Warsaw: The Cabinet of the Minister (Gabinet Ministra), Political Department (Departament Polityczny), Department of Administration and Law (Departament Administracyjno-Prawny), Department of Religious Denominations (Departament Wyznaniowy). The materials refer to: repatriation, the organization and activities of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP), Jewish political parties, organizations (e.g. Joint, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Polamit), statistical data and Jewish religious congregations,...
Oral history interviews, B-roll footage, and outtakes from the documentary film "Zegota: A Time to Remember"
1. Oral history interviews of the Sy Rotter collection, RG-50.596
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn74205
- English
- 10 videocassettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in. 16 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
- Updated 1 year ago
Oral history interviews, B-roll footage, and outtakes from the documentary film "Zegota: Council for Aid to Jews in Occupied Poland"
1. Oral history interviews of the Sy Rotter collection, RG-50.596
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn74207
- English
- 2 videocassettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in. 1 videocassette (MiniDV), sound, color ; 1/4 in.
- Updated 1 year ago
Poland
- FAST Subjects
- English
- Updated 9 years ago