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  1. Testimony of Yaakov Verbawski regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and as a partisan

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

    Testimony of Yaakov Verbawski regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and as a partisan "Aktion" directed against children and the elderly in the Kaunas Ghetto under the command of Wilhelm Gecke and Bruno Kittel from the Vilna Ghetto, 27-28 March, 1944; abusive acts against the Jews; murder of Jews; exposure of Jews' hiding places; removal of children and the elderly from the hiding places; murder of the elderly and the children in the Ninth Fort; murder of 36 Jewish policemen in the Ninth Fort; escape to the forests; joins the partisans; combat as part of the "Leningrad" partisan ba...

  2. Testimony of Samuel Goldberg, born in Korycin, Poland, regarding his experiences in Korycin, in hiding and in Janow

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

    Testimony of Samuel Goldberg, born in Korycin, Poland, regarding his experiences in Korycin, in hiding and in Janow Establishment of a local police in Korycin; accusation against the Jews that they set fire to the threshing floor belonging to a Jew in order to ignite the entire village; abuse of Jews; criminal activities of Polish collaborators as policemen; names of the criminals; murder of Jews in Korycin, 02 November 1942; escape; being hidden by Andrysiewicz, the farmer; transfer to Korycin, 03 August 1944; survival of four Jews from 1,000 Jews in Korycin; names of the Jews who survived...

  3. Testimony of Awrahm Meir Szmulewicz, born in Iwie, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in Iwie, in forests and as a partisan

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

    Testimony of Awrahm Meir Szmulewicz, born in Iwie, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in Iwie, in forests and as a partisan Occupation of Iwie by the German Army, 28 June 1941; concentration of the Jews in the market square, 01 August 1941; selection; deportation of Jews to the Staniewicz village area; murder of the Jews by the Germans with help from Poles; names of the collaborators with the Germans; appointment of a Judenrat; yellow badge; deportation of Jews from the surrounding villages to the Jewish quarter in Iwie; surrounding of the Jewish Quarter by the Germans, 08 May 1942; tr...

  4. "16 Days in Hiding": Report by an unknown author regarding his experiences in hiding in Grodno

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

    "16 Days in Hiding": Report by an unknown author regarding his experiences in hiding in Grodno Liquidation of the Grodno Ghetto under the command of Kurt Wiese and Erich Schott, the Gestapo men, February-12 March 1943; life in hiding including a detailed description of the hiding place; collaboration of the Polish and Belorussian police with the Germans in discovering hiding places of Jews; capture of the Jews in hiding; escape of the author; the author's transfer to Bialystok.

  5. Testimony of Dr. T. Cytron, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1908, regarding the investigation of the explosion of a building on Czysta Street in Bialystok, June 1943

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

    Testimony of Dr. T. Cytron, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1908, regarding the investigation of the explosion of a building on Czysta Street in Bialystok, June 1943 Explosion of a building on Czysta Street in Bialystok, June 1943; deaths of two people in the explosion; transfer of the wounded to a hospital in the ghetto; Cytron's period of service as the duty physician in the hospital; investigation of the explosion by order of Hauptsturmfuehrer Fritz Friedel and Untersturmfuehrer Klein in the presence of Barash, the Judenrat chairman, and Markus, the head of the Jewish police; manufacture of t...

  6. Survey of Treblinka, January 1943-08 February 1943

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

    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...

  7. Report submitted by M. Turek regarding the suicide of Adam Czerniakow, the Chairman of the Warsaw Ghetto Judenrat, June 1942

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

    Report submitted by M. Turek regarding the suicide of Adam Czerniakow, the Chairman of the Warsaw Ghetto Judenrat, June 1942 Rumors regarding the suicide of Engineer Adam Czerniakow, the Chairman of the Warsaw Ghetto Judenrat, June 1942; the Germans' promise to deport the Warsaw Jews to labor camps; deportation of the Warsaw Jews to their deaths, 19 June 1942; influence of the condition of the Jews on Czerniakow's suicide. Note: Copy of the original material dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto.

  8. Testimony (by questionnaire) of an unknown witness submitted to the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok regarding an "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 05-12 February 1943

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

    Testimony (by questionnaire) of an unknown witness submitted to the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok regarding an "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 05-12 February 1943 "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 05-12 February 1943; names of those who carried out the murder; number of murder victims including their personal information; names of those who carried out the "Aktion" including Fritz Fiedel; burial of those murdered in the cemetery in Bialystok; description of the graves.

  9. Testimony of Dr. T. Cytron regarding the evacuation of the hospital in the Bialystok Ghetto, 17-24 August 1944

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

    Testimony of Dr. T. Cytron regarding the evacuation of the hospital in the Bialystok Ghetto, 17-24 August 1944 Evacuation of the hospital in the Bialystok Ghetto during the liquidation of the ghetto, under the direction of Fritz Friedel, the criminal, 17-24 August 1944; abusive acts against the patients; selection; execution of patients in the cemetery, 20 August 1944; deportation of women and children to Treblinka in boxcars, 24 August 1944; deportation of the men to Lublin and from there to Majdanek and Blizyn.

  10. Testimony of Nochum Babikier, born in Zabludow, Poland, 1900, regarding his experiences during the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, Part I

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

    Testimony of Nochum Babikier, born in Zabludow, Poland, 1900, regarding his experiences during the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, Part I Start of the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 15-16 August 1943; publishing of announcements in the ghetto regarding the transfer of the ghetto Jews to Lublin; preparations by young people for resistance activities against the Germans; shooting battle between the youth and the Germans; setting fire to the ghetto gate; combat against the Germans and Ukrainians who participated in carrying out the "Aktion" over the course of several days; selection...

  11. Testimony of Jozefina Szepper-Modzowiecka, born in 1910, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, in Sachsen and in Bialystok

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

    Testimony of Jozefina Szepper-Modzowiecka, born in 1910, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, in Sachsen and in Bialystok Life in Auschwitz including abuse and forced labor; attitude of the German female Kapo; selections including selections conducted by Mengele; sexual relations among the inmates including with Jewish Sonderkommando members; Nell's period of service as camp commandant(?); transfer to a camp in Sachsen; camp life including forced labor and hunger; air-raids on German cities; transfer back to Bialystok.

  12. Testimony of Meir Zhukovski, born in Sokolki, Poland, 1913, regarding an "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 16 August 1943

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

    Testimony of Meir Zhukovski, born in Sokolki, Poland, 1913, regarding an "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 16 August 1943 "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 16 August 1943; murder of Jews on the streets by Ukrainian and Belorussian collaborators; armed preparation by young fighters for fighting with the Germans; killing of a German officer by a Jewish woman named Devora (?) from Warsaw; murder of the Jewish woman by a German; murder of approximately 800 Jews as punishment for the killing of the German officer; shooting battle between the Jewish fighters and the Germans; deaths of Jewish vict...

  13. Testimony of Isaak Kagan regarding his experiences in a Vilna prison, Ponary and in the Vilna Ghetto

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

    Testimony of Isaak Kagan regarding his experiences in a Vilna prison, Ponary and in the Vilna Ghetto Arrest by the Gestapo; transfer to a prison in Vilna, 1941; meeting with other inmates who were arrested in Vilna; "Aktion" against Jews employed by the Gestapo, 05 December 1941; drafting of young Jews who are fit for labor; deportation of the elderly and the sick to their deaths; transfer with other inmates from the prison to Ponary; murder of Jews under the command of Horst Schweinberger; escape from the killing pit; hidden by a Polish farmer; transfer back to the Vilna Ghetto with help f...

  14. Testimony of Kuczykiewicz regarding the fate of Jews from Bialystok in the Bialystok Ghetto and Majdanek

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground
    • ZYDZI BIALOSTOCCY KTORZY ZGINELI NA MAJDANKU

    Testimony of Kuczykiewicz regarding the fate of Jews from Bialystok in the Bialystok Ghetto and Majdanek Deportation of 300 Jews from Bialystok to Majdanek, 17 August 1943; placement of the Jews in Block 17 and Block 11 in Majdanek; murder of the Jews in Majdanek, 03 November 1943; names of those murdered; murder of Jews in Bialystok including those murdered by Richard Dibus, the Gestapo man, 16 August 1943; rescue of archival material by Jeruchem Bachrach, director of the Bialystok Ghetto Archive, by entrusting the material to Kuczykiewicz.

  15. Testimony of Noach Bokholuski regarding his experiences in the Grodno Ghetto

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

    Testimony of Noach Bokholuski regarding his experiences in the Grodno Ghetto In hiding for four months; leaving his hiding place, 16 February 1943; termination of Judenrat activities; management of the ghetto by the Jewish police; declaration by the Germans that Grodno is Judenrein (free of Jews); discovery of hiding places of Jews; murder of the Jews who had been hiding; criminal acts of Kurt Wiese, the German; criminal acts of Rindler, the German; escape of youth to the forests and to Bialystok from the ghetto; concentration of the remaining Jews in the synagogue; transfer of the Jews to ...

  16. Testimony of Yaakov Fabritzky regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and the forests in the Briansk area

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

    Testimony of Yaakov Fabritzky regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and the forests in the Briansk area "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 02-12 February 1943 by the Germans and the Jewish police under the command of Fritz Friedel; Jews in hiding in hiding places; capture of the Jews in hiding; murder of the Jews in hiding; hanging of the Jew, Melamed, after he expressed resistance to the Germans; deportation of approximately 500 Jews to their deaths; murder of approximately 800 Jews in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; escape from the train to the forests in the Briansk area.

  17. Testimony of Zalman Kalesznik, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1908, regarding the burning of the Jews Quarter and the synagogue in Bialystok

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

    Testimony of Zalman Kalesznik, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1908, regarding the burning of the Jewish Quarter and the synagogue in Bialystok Concentration of the Jews in the synagogue in Bialystok, 27 August 1941; setting the synagogue on fire by Germans and Poles; burning of approximately 5,000 Jews in the synagogue; deportation to a labor camp in Dzialdowo; transfer to camps in the Konigsberg area; escape from the camp; liberation, 27 January 1945.

  18. Testimony of Mojsze Gierszuni, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Bialystok

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

    Testimony of Mojsze Gierszuni, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Bialystok Liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 16 August 1943; discovery of hiding places; detention in the Bialystok prison; forced labor opening graves and burning corpses in Augustow, Grodno and Bialystok under the command of Germans and Ukrainians, June 1944; escape to the forests; in hiding on the Aryan side of Bialystok. Note: The testimony was given before a committee investigating German crimes in Bialystok.

  19. Memoirs of Benedikt Friedman, born in Lwow, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Lwow and in labor camps in Austria during the war

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

    Memoirs of Benedikt Friedman, born in Lwow, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Lwow and in labor camps in Austria during the war Jewish life in Poland before the war. German attack on Lwow; Soviet occupation of Lwow; giving of equal rights to the Jews, and the Soviet policies toward Jewish refugees; German occupation of Lwow, and persecution of Jews by the Ukrainians; anti-Jewish legislation and decrees by the German authorities against the Jewish residents; establishment of the Judenrat, confiscation of property, collection of monies, and other measures. The file includes: testimon...

  20. Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Documentation regarding trials against Philippe Lugrin, a Swiss Nazi activist, and his accomplices, for the murder of Jewish cattle merchant, Arthur Bloch, in Payerne, western Switzerland, 16 April 1942

    1. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969

    Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Documentation regarding trials against Philippe Lugrin, a Swiss Nazi activist, and his accomplices, for the murder of Jewish cattle merchant, Arthur Bloch, in Payerne, western Switzerland, 16 April 1942 In the file: - Verdict handed down by the Moudon court against Lugrin, 05 June 1947; - Lugrin's statement before the court; - Draft of articles by B. Sagalowitz regarding the Lugrin Trial, June 1947; - Handwritten notes by B. Sagalowitz regarding the proceedings of the Lugrin Trial; - Documentation regarding the trial against the accomplices in the murder of Arth...