1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957

• Fragmenty z mym przezyc w okresie drugiej wojny swiatowej. Rok 1939-1945

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731350
• English, Hebrew
• Typewritten 22 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Esther (Stern) Michaeli, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto and in Auschwitz and Parschnitz camps Life in the Sosnowiec Ghetto; detention of Jewish males; release of her father from detention due to her asking a German officer to intervene; smuggling fabrics out of the ghetto for sale in exchange for food; concentration of the Jews in the square before a selection; parting from her younger brother before her deportation on a transport to Auschwitz; arrival at the camp and selection in the presence of Mengele; being chosen together w...

1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957

• U Jasenovackim logorima smrti

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731420
• English, Hebrew
• Original 57 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Ing. Duro Schwarz, born, 1901, regarding his experiences in Jasenovac camp, 1941-1942 Detention by the Ustasha and deportation to Jasenovac camp; Jasenovac camp life; labor as a mechanical engineer; torture of inmates and murder of inmates; release from the camp.

1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957

• קטעי זכרונות ממחנה הרכוז באושביץ

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3549649
• English, Hebrew
• Original 13 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Lili Laor, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz

1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957

• Moje wspomnienia z obozow

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731387
• English, Hebrew
• Handwritten, original 28 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Tzvia (Woller) Elbaum, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow camp, Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz-Birkenau and more Life before the war; move to Krakow, 1937; life in Krakow; attends the Hebrew high school. Life in the Krakow Ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; deportation to Plaszow camp together with her father, 13 March 1943; escape of her mother together with her sister to the Aryan side; life of her mother and her sister on the Aryan side of Krakow until the end of the war; life in Plaszow camp; standing for hours at ro...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 4019155
• English, Hebrew
• 1945-1946
• Testimony
• Updated 9 months ago

O.15 E - Testimonies collected by the National Relief Committee for Deportees in Hungary (DEGOB) Testimonies collected from Holocaust survivors by Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottság (the National Relief Committee for Deportees in Hungary [DEGOB]), 1945-1946. The testimonies were passed on to the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) by the Magyar Zsidó Múzeum és Levéltár (Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives [MZSML]). Some of the testimonies were passed on in their original form and some were photocopied ( Signature: 2, XX-G microfilm reels). DEGOB collected a total of approximately 3,65...

1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3714307
• English, Hebrew
• Original 19 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Report by Dr. Brawer regarding the liquidation of the Grodno Ghetto Announcement made by Grodno Ghetto Judenrat Chairman, Dr. Brawer, and Chief of the Jewish Police, Szebnik, regarding the plan of the German regime to evacuate the Grodno Ghetto gradually, 11 February 1943; beginning of the liquidation of the ghetto, 02 November 1942 [should be: 22 November 1942]; "Aktion", January 1943; "Aktion", 13 February 1943; deportation of the Jews to Treblinka. Note: Copy of the original material from the ghetto archives dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto.

1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5660220
• English, Hebrew
• Original
• Updated 6 years ago

Report submitted by the Polish-Soviet Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes regarding Majdanek, published in Moscow, 1944-1945

1. P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 10568914
• English, Hebrew
• 1955-1961
• Handwritten, original Typewritten copy Typewritten original
• Updated 6 years ago

Research papers and reports regarding historical aspects of the Holocaust, 1955-1961 Among the topics of the papers and reports: - Commemoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp; - International Red Cross activities during World War II; - "Superior Orders": Absolute obedience in following orders which was an essential part of the SS doctrine.

1. O.12 - Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5408700
• English, Hebrew
• Original Typewritten copy Typewritten original 1 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Special announcement from Belzec camp, 10 July 1942

1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

• צרור רשימות מס. 8/39

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 4420073
• English, Hebrew
• Original 14 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Survey of conditions in Nazi-occupied countries and Near Eastern countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, July 1943 Poland: Information from coded letters regarding the murder of Jews in Krakow and Warsaw; murder in Treblinka and Belzec; Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek and small German company camps; deception of the inmates regarding their imminent murders; situation in Bialystok is still reasonable; demographic situation of the Jews of Lodz; the library of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva; Germany: Germany'...

1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

• צרור רשימות 16/47

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 4421693
• English, Hebrew
• Original 8 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Survey of conditions in Nazi-occupied countries as reported in the Nazi and local press and by witnesses with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, September 1943 Warsaw: Testimony on life in the ghetto according to a female witness who succeeded in reaching Sweden; identification of Jews and their property; confiscation of Jewish property; establishment of the ghetto; establishment of health services and a Judenrat; smuggling of food; typhus and tuberculosis; murders; deportees from Polish villages and towns; deportees from Germany; mortality of Polish children; Lemberg: Eye-witness te...

1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

• צרור רשימות 29/60

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 4422348
• English, Hebrew
• Original 10 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and neighboring countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses, December 1943-January 1944 Poland and the eastern districts: Testimony regarding the "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising" as reported in the Polish underground press; murder of Jews with American citizenship in Krakow; murder of Jews in Vilna and confiscation of their property by the Gestapo; antisemitism in the underground newspapers; deterioration of living conditions in Majdanek; Slovakia: Anti-Jewish propaganda and a demand to rem...

1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3714323
• English, Hebrew
• Original 5 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Survey of Treblinka, January 1943-08 February 1943 Description of the camp by the survivors who succeeded in escaping from the camp; establishment of the Treblinka concentration camp, 1940; conversion of the concentration camp into an extermination camp, March 1942; stages in construction of the camp; setting up facilities for extermination; Sauer's tenure as camp commandant; tenure of SS men and Ukrainians as staff people at the camp; murder of Jews in gas chambers in the camp. Notes: - Published in "Glosu Warszawy" - Copy of the original material dug up from deep in the gorund and taken o...

1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

• צרור רשימות 66/97

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 4436654
• English, Hebrew
• Original 7 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Survey regarding the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries as reported in the Nazi and local press, September 1943 Poland: History of the Majdanek camp; murder methods in the camp; torture of female inmates; a female SS guard who habitually abused the women; the camp on Janowska Street in Lwow; abuse of inmates by Steiner, commander of the Vilna camp; female partisans in the "Avengers" unit; partisan life in the Bialystok and Nowogrodek forests; Bielski's partisan unit; Ehrenburg report regarding activities of the partisans in Vilna and Kaunas; Children's "Aktion"; murder of 40,0...

1. P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976

• Sobibor. Martyre et Révolte: Témoignages Présentés par Miriam Novitch

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 10568237
• English, Hebrew
• 1933-1945
• Typewritten copy
• Updated 6 years ago

Testimonies regarding the persecution and murder of Jews and the uprising in the Sobibor extermination camp, collected by Miriam Novitch The testimonies were submitted by: - Eda Lichtman; - Izhak Lichtman; - Herszel Zukerman; - Jacob Biskubicz; - Mordehai Goldfarb; - Pnina Knopmacher-Krajs; - Lea Reisner-Bialowitz; - Simha Bialowitz; - Leon Felhendler; - Thomasz Blatt; - Jehouda Lerner; - Abraham Margulies; - Moshe Hochman; - Ehezkiel Hochman; - Hella Fellenbaum-Weiss; - Ber Freiberg; - Zelda Metz; - Haim Powroznik; - Salomea (Salomca) Hannel; - Ilana Safran; - Kurt Thomas; - Selma Wijnberg...

1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3714237
• English, Hebrew
• Original 1 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Testimony of a man born in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland, 1899, regarding the fate of the Jews of Zambrow Existence of the Zambrow camp, 02 November 1942-11 January 1943; deportation of Jews from the neighboring villages to Zambrow; camp life including hunger and abuse of the inmates; transfer of the Jews from Zambrow to Auschwitz, 11-17 January 1943; murder of the sick.

1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3714529
• English, Hebrew
• Original 1 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Testimony of Abram-Berl Sokol, born in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau Murder of Jews by a shot in the back of their necks art the entrance to the gas chambers in Birkenau, 1944; burning of the murder victims' bodies; murder of Karl, the Kapo, by Jewish inmates from Wysokie Mazowieckie as revenge for his abuse [of inmates], Sukkot (early October) 1944; arrival in Auschwitz of rich Jews from Warsaw in anticipation of their being transferred abroad, autumn 1944; snatching of a gun from a German by a woman at the crematorium [should be: at the gas c...

1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3714595
• English, Hebrew
• Typewritten copy 3 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Testimony of Avraham Kantorowski, born in Sokolki, Poland, regarding his experiences in Sokolki, Kielbasin, Treblinka, the Grodno Ghetto and other places Deportation of the Jews from Sokolki to Kielbasin; camp life including forced labor, hunger and murder of Jews; transfer to Treblinka; transfer to Auschwitz; escape from the train; transfer to the Grodno Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz; life in Auschwitz including murder of Jews in gas chambers; escape from the killing pit, 14 May 1944; joins the partisans; liberation. Move to Janow.

1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3714598
• English, Hebrew
• Original 2 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Testimony of Binyamin Ratzlow regarding the fate of the Jews of Suprasl Life in Suprasl before the outbreak of the war. Occupation of Suprasl by the German Army, 27 June 1941; deportation of 90 men to Bialystok; murder of Jews during the deportation; life in Suprasl including anti-Jewish legislation, yellow badge, robbery of Jewish property, forced labor and abuse; murder of Jews by Gestapo and Schupo men, May 1942; deportation of the Jews of Suprasl to the Bialystok Ghetto, 02 November 1942; deportation of the Jews from the Bialystok Ghetto to Treblinka, 19 November 1942.

1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3714345
• English, Hebrew
• Original 2 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Testimony of Dawid regarding the fate of the Jews of the Bialystok Ghetto, 05 February 1943 Belief of the Bialystok Ghetto residents in the fighters' resistance and that they would not go to their deaths during the "Aktion" in the ghetto; "Aktion" in the ghetto, 05 February 1943; hiding of Jews in hiding places; deportation of the Jews to Treblinka; vain hopes for the resistance. Note: The original material was dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto.