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  1. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Israel I., a yeshiva student from Lida, left October 22, 1939 with his yeshiva which relocated communally from Kleck to Vilnius. He describes German bombardment of the city, which resulted in over 60 casualties, Jews and Christians. The Polish military left the city, leaving it to a local militia, which consisted of both Jews and Poles, led by a local Polish dignitary. There were rumors that the Polish population was planning a pogrom, but nothing happened. The Soviets entered the city in mid-September and were generally well-inclined to the Jewish population. Life in the city ...

  2. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    In his statement, 46 year old Zalman Pudlowski, a textile worker and member of the Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln un Rusland (General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia) describes his escape from Bełcható to Łódź. He depicts a shift in the Polish Christian - Jewish relations from friendly to violent and how he was arrested in Błonie and forced to work. He furthemore gives details about the life in Warsaw, bombings by the Nazis, the panic among the Polish citizens and the arrest of the leadership of the Bund. Protocol No. 15 is an extract from a volume of pro...

  3. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Lucian Teitelboim, 22 year old radio electrician from Warsaw, a soldier in the 13th Wilno Uhlan regiment. He describes the military's uncertainty as information was concealed for fear of spies, and general fear. Though casualties from bombardment were not large among the military, civilians were killed, including women and children. No actions were taken against the German airplanes. He describes the disorganization and lack of discipline in the ranks after bombardments as well as possible desertions by officers. He describes how after the routing of the regiment and its surren...

  4. The Tragedy of Goworowo - Bulletin No. 1

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This bulletin was intended to publish the work of the Committee for collecting material about the destruction of the Jews in Poland, describing the destruction of the Jewish community of Goworowo in the first months of the war. The bulleting consists of a summary of the testimony of a woman from Rozan, here referred to as X, elsewhere giving her name as Rachel B. the bulletin describes the gathering of Jews into the synagogue and holding them for hours under threat of incendiary bombs and fire. Many of the men were taken out and shot. In the end they were let out under German fire, to see t...

  5. Central Location Index of the Relatives Search Department

    In the collection there are documents, lists and index cards. There are two main sections to the collection: Index Cards and Boxes of Documents.1. Index Cards: There are approximately 1,200,000 index cards, not in alphabetical order. Most of the cards are in good physical condition; 2. Boxes of documents: There are approximately 210 boxes of documents clearly divided into two kinds of material:A. The lists are located in 83 boxes including the names of those survivors for whom the organization has searched. The names appear on the index cards as well (in Part 1), because with every applicat...

  6. David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany

    This record group is a collection of testimonies recorded by David Boder, a Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in DP camps in Europe in 1946. The collection is comprised of testimonies of Jews and non-Jews, recorded in various languages and translated into English. The testimonies focus on the events in the lives of the survivors during the war in the ghettos and camps, while serving in the military, in hiding and in children's homes. The testimonies also contain information regarding the rehabilitation of the survivors from immediately after the war until the ...

  7. Jewish Labor Committee Records, Part II: Holocaust Era Files.

    In “Series III: Foreign Countries” of this fonds, we find several files containing “mixed materials” on Belgium, for the period 1948-1956. See box 80, folders nrs. 25-32 and box 81, folders nrs. 1-2. These numbers correspond with microfilm reels nrs. 237-238. In “Subseries IV:C: Child Adoption Program: Correspondence files” of “Series IV: Immigration, Resettlement and Refugee Aid” we note the following files: “Belgium: General & Lists” (box 114, folder nr. 29), “Belgium: Mila Alter” (box 114, nrs. 30-31) and “Belgium: Poale Zion” (box 114, nr. 32). These files mostly contain corresponde...

  8. Ursell Family Papers

    Personal papers of Dr. Siegfried Ursell, German-Jewish refugee in the UK. 5WWI medals in a box (1914 - 1918); Jewish Registration cards for Siegfried and Helene Ursell (1939); Inaugural dissertation by Siegfried Ursell, printed document (1908); Postcards from Hutchinson Internment Camp (1940); Certificate of Medical Register in the UK (1944); Application for British Nationality (1947); Various correspondence (1933/1939/1961); Lists of furniture and books (1939); Correspondence relating to inventory and move to the UK (1939); Various official documents and correspondence (1933 - 1939); Unive...

  9. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland: Statement No 114]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of David M., a 24 year old journalist from Brok. He tells how on Saturday, September 9, Brok was lit on fire by the Germans who poured gasoline on the houses and burned down 110 Jewish homes. That same night the Germans shot or stabbed 38 Jews. They ordered all Jews to gather in the church, and shot anyone who remained outside, or did not go fast enough. The Jews were deported to the detainee-camp at Ostrow Mazowiecka where they were put to work without food for three days. Eventually they were freed, and most of the Jewish population of Brok left for Zambrow. Protocol No. 114 is ...

  10. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Pierazky, Binyamin-Eliyahu, a 27 year old metal-worker and factory engineer from Warsaw. He describes how he fled from Poland with his six brothers, and lost them along the way. He describes train bombardments and fires that burned through the night, and the abandonment of the wounded by Polish military in retreat, despite the attempt of a Jewish doctor to force them to take the wounded. Some of the refugees were killed along the way as the group made its way by train to Lublin. Eventually the author arrived alone to Vilnius where he was helped by kind people, and was attemptin...

  11. Convention concerning the status of refugees coming from Germany

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a convention concerning the status of refugees coming from Germany. The convention was signed by seven states, which like the 1936 provisional arrangement contained some restrictions on expulsion and refoulement. The convention shows definitions and handlings regarding the refugees. Beeing desirous of supplementing and consolidating the work done by the league of nation on behalf of the refugee. An identity certificate for refugees coming from Germany is also attached. This certificate is issued for the purpose of providing refugees from Germany with identety papers to tak...

  12. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Abraham R., 20 year old from Lomza. He tells of the German bombardments of Lomza and noted a single Jewish casualty, then tells of his own deportation to a detainee-camp in Rastenburg, Germany (now Ketrzyn, Poland), where about 1300 Jews were held without food. Each night the prisoners received a loaf of bread per 4 men, and no more. He describes how on arrival of Polish prisoners, the Germans and Poles took the Jews' clothes, and how three men died because they couldn't handle the cold, hunger and disease. he was in the camp for three weeks, and was freed eventually together w...

  13. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of J. K. a 30 year old trader from Przemyśl who returned there from Warsaw at the beginning of October. He describes how the city was initially taken over by the Germans who bombarded it; many people were left homeless. During the first days of the German occupation all Jewish stores were looted, with the Germans recording a film claiming the Christian population of the city looted them. Additionally, the author describes mass arrests of the Jewish intelligentsia of the city, and their mass execution. The Jews were required to pay large sums to free the arrestees but received only...

  14. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Lejzer-Isaac Gottlieb, a yeshiva student from Mir. He left Opatów two days before the Germans entered it, for Bialystok. He describes the German aerial bombardment, and a flood of refugees into Bialystok, as well as the burning of Torah scrolls by the Germans. He fled on through Vawkavysk, and eventually found the Soviets in Navahrudak, where he notes Polish resistance and shots fired by partisans. He mentions the rumours f the burning of several Jewish communities by the germans' bombardment or soldier actions, but cannot confirm these rumors. Protocol No. 28 is an extract fro...

  15. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland: Statement No 9]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    In his statement, the 25 years old clerk Lejb Rozencwajg from Warsaw describes his excape to Lublin in September 1939. Because of an order issued by the major of Warsaw, refugees were forced to go back to the city to defend it. Rozencwajg depicts how Jews, also religious Jews, volunteered to dig defense trenches in Warsaw but faced antisemetic reactions from polish Christians. Furthermore, he describes how life rapidly changed for the Jewish community after the occupation by the Nazis. Protocol No. 9 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish r...

  16. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of B. H., 18 year old student from Vishnevets. He states that while the town had no military operations of any kind or any military presence, it was bombarded heavily by German airplanes, and the Jewish sections of the town suffered heavy damage, with one street completely destroyed. There were about sixty people killed, twenty of them Jews. Protocol No. 155 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1939 they formed a committee to collect evidence on the condition of ...

  17. [International Tracing Center Reports]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The files contain of several handwritten notes in German. They are connected to the file (Sys. No. 432013). Reoccurring names from other documents are: Otto H. (Sys. No 432013), Heinrich Crans (Sys. No 431774), Lothar Wochinger (Sys. No. 431774), Willi Winter (Sys. no. 431774), Georg Hainka (Sys. no. 432013), Adam Dozidowski (Sys. No 431774), Heinrich Wasem (Sys. no. 432013). There is a note about a Work Camp in Finow, a notification about a list containing the names of children from Buchenwald and Auschwitz who were brought to Switzerland, 9 pages of names and addresses (including the name...

  18. United Restitution Organization (URO)

    1. United Restitution Organization (URO): Rundschreiben 1961-1973

    The file contains ten circulars (“Rundschreiben”) by the United Restitution Organization (Frankfurt) ranging between July and October 1964. The circulars include the following issues: no. 1279, no. 1270, no. 1268, no. 1267, no. 1266, no. 1265, no. 1264, no. 1263, no. 1261, and no. 1255. They mainly deal with recent court judgements on questions of restitution, especially regarding juridical regulations and procedures, damages to life, the definition of the term “Flüchtling” (refugee), health damages following Nazi persecution, widow’s pension, damages to the property, and the conditions of ...

  19. United Restitution Organization (URO)

    1. United Restitution Organization (URO): Rundschreiben 1961-1973

    The file contains seven circulars (“Rundschreiben”) by the United Restitution Organization (Frankfurt) from November and December 1963. The circulars include the following issues: no. 1183, no. 1182, no. 1179, no. 1178, no. 1177, no. 1175, and no. 1173. They mainly deal with recent court judgements on questions of restitution, especially regarding juridical regulations and procedures, the definition of the term “Flüchtling” (refugee), court judgements and historical information on wearing the Yellow Star in Nazi-Germany occupied Croatia, the purchase power of the Israeli Pound, claims for l...

  20. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Rabbi Abraham Efraim Nadelman, from Ostrow testifies about the incidents in his town from the 2nd September to the 2nd October 1939. He begins with describing the invasion of the Nazis and heavy canon fire and bombings that left a lot of casualties among the inhabitants. He depicts in details how the situation of the Jews of the town, with its Jeschiwa students, decreases rapidly and the Jews suffer severe torture and humiliation. Pious Jews suffer tremendously. Their beards get shaven off brutally, they get beaten and tortured for hours and they are forced to do degrading work. On every Je...