Polish Jewry during the Nazi era: Extracted accounts

Identifier
WL556
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 70117
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Jan 1949
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • French
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Archival History

The precise details of the provenance precede each account (or group of accounts). The custodial history of the material prior to deposit is unknown.

Scope and Content

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This collection of material describes, in the main, the fate of Polish Jewry during the Nazi era. It was extracted from Polish archives in London. In addition there is an extract from a captured German archive and a typescript account of a French Jew's experience of Auschwitz.

Transcript of T-77 Roll 1443 Records of Headquarters, Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, "Feindpropaganda in Generalgouvernment wertet den Katyn Fall zu angriffen auf die Methoden des KZ-Lagers Auschwitz aus," (20.4.1943)

A Polish professor shot in the Warsaw Ghetto

Further information about the treatment of Jews (Warsaw, Lublin, Krakow…)

Extermination camps- Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor

The extermination of Jews in Wolynia

Further extermination of Jews in Poland (1942-1943)

The fate of the Jews in Eastern Poland

The extermination of the Jews in Galicia

The fate of the Jews in Radom, Lublin, Mielec, Miz, Wotozyn


The fate of the Jews in Radom

The extermination of the Jews in Vilnius

The problem of epidemics in the Warsaw Ghetto

The extermination of the Jews in: Izbica Lubelska, Rawa Ruska, Opole, Mielec, Rembertowic, Milosua, Zielouka, Pustelnik, Marik, Sandomierskie

The brutality of the Lithuanians

The Jewish problem in Poland

Concentration camps

Treblinka, a camp of punishment for the Warsaw district (1942)

The mortality in the Warsaw Ghetto

Health and mortality of the Jewish population in Warsaw (1939-1941)

Confiscation of libraries in Plock and Suwalki

The Ghetto and the persecution of the Jews in Bialystock (1941)

The extermination of the Jews in Lithuania

Jewish children in the Warsaw Ghetto

Jews in Warsaw and Ostrowi Mazowieckiej

The anti-Jewish propaganda in Nazi papers.

The establishment of Warsaw Ghetto life and conditions

Some information about Krakow, Poznan and the Eastern part of Poland (1940-1941)

The problem of anti-Semitism in the Polish army

Report by a journalist about Germans in Poland

Treblinka as a concentration camp for Poles (Nov 1941)

The fate of the Poles and Jews in Lithuania

Poles and Jews under German occupation


38 page account of the experiences of Dr Sima Vaisman, a French dentist, who was deported to Auschwitz via Drancy, with covering letter, 5.4.1978
French

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