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Country: Israel

  1. Police files from the St. Gallen, Switzerland canton (region) pertaining to refugees and immigrants

    Police files from the St. Gallen, Switzerland canton (region) pertaining to refugees and immigrants - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  2. Card file of the Jewish residents and refugees from Pinsk in alphabetical order, 1939-1941

    Card file of the Jewish residents and refugees from Pinsk in alphabetical order, 1939-1941

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Isaac Meir Berman, b. 1906, a trader from Lodz, who describes the beginning of the war and the bombardment of Lodz, as well as the arrival of refugee from the surrounding countryside. He describes how he left Lodz with his family, making his way by car to Jezow, then Warsaw and Minsk Mazowiecki under heavy bombardments, together with other refugees. Many of the bombarded cities suffered casualties. He arrived in Vilnius by train. Protocol No.14 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to V...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Isaac R,. 26 year old tannery worker from Warsaw. He was in Warsaw at the beginning of the war, the fire-warden for his building, and describes the emergency procedures take during the bombardment. He left Warsaw before the Germans entered it, making his way to check on his mother via Pulawy, Ryki, and Kazimierz Dolny, and then returning to Warsaw. He describes the damage inflicted by the German aerial bombardment, and says that in Pulawy the Germans were already seizing Jews for forced labour. In Pulawy, likewise, the Germans ruined the Jewish community financially by confisca...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of rabbi E. S., from Kremenets, a yeshiva student from the Beit Yossef yeshiva in Międzyrzec. He describes attempting to return home to Kremenets from Międzyrzec under German bombardment. At first in Międzyrzec bombs destroyed the railway but no casualties resulted, however, incendiaries and more bombs killed over 200 people in the city. The author made his way to Terespol, then to Luzhki and Divin, encountering a flood of refugees, both civilian and military, and eventually to Kobryn where the Germans caught up with him, drafting him for forced labor to bury German and Polish sol...

  6. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland:Statement No2]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Aaron Berg, a 26 year old radio-mechanic from the town Kolumna near Łódź testifies abut his experiences during the invasion of the Nazis in Poland between the 1st to 14th of September 1939. He depticts the changes of behavior of christian Poles towards their jewish neighbours, heavy bombardments from the Nazis and the suffering of strong hunger. His protocol is an extract from a volume of protocols provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugees. The statement is presumably a translation from Yiddish, but the original is missing. Statement No 2

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Protocol No. 10 is an extract from a volume of protocols provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugees. In 1939 they formed a comittee to collect evidence about the condition of the Jews in Poland under Nazi Germany occupation. Protocol No 10 is in Yiddish and given by Shlomo Ferkal (24 yrs., living in Vilnuius / Lithuania). In it he describes how in September 1939 his town Mezhirichi was bombed by the Nazis and how he was fled towards Kovel. He is depicts the bombardements of civilians/ refugees, the life of the refugees and the treatment of Jews by non-jewish citizens.

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Avraham Mlotek, 31 year old from Warsaw. He describes leaving Warsaw with two friends on September 7th. He describes bombardments and destruction, and Jews fleeing from towns. He made his way through Wawer, Międzyrzec Podlaski and Biala, where heavy bombardments resulted in destruction, fear and injuries, and onto a passenger train which was shot on by the Red Army at the border. Protocol No. 20 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...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of D. K.. 25 year old yeshiva student in the Kleck yeshiva, resident of Brisk. He describes the heavy bombardment of the German planes, and the incendiaries which destroyed parts of the city, and led to multiple casualties. The Germans occupied Brisk and conscripted both Jews and Poles to forced labor, forced Jews to open stores on the Sabbath, and looted Jewish businesses. They detained many in the city but the detainees were freed when the Russians were about to take over the city. The Russians in their turn detained ethnic Germans in a camp and shot several as spies for the Ger...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Rachel B., 43 year old woman from Rozan. She describes the conquest of the city by the Germans and the beginning of atrocities committed against Jews in her town and the surrounding area. These include arbitrary shootings targeted at children and the elderly, and burning of Jews in synagogues. She and her two children left to Goworowo, where all jews were ordered into the synagogue with the market on fire, and men were taken out and shot. On officer stopped the mass burning because there were too many Jews, but much of the Jewish neighbourhood burned with many casualties. She d...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of N. B. a 15 year old yeshiva student from Goworowo, who gives a brief account of the state of several towns under German occupation. Lapy, occupied by the Germans then by the Soviets, mostly destroyed by bombardment. Goworowo, occupied by the Germans; most of the Jews were forced to leave the city and many were killed. He lists names of several of the victims. Protocol No. 52 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 ...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The author, S. M. from Lodz, describes how at the order of Major Ulyushkovsky he and many other Jewish refugees left Lodz on September 6, 1939. He describes the difficulties on the road to Warsaw, including German bombings and machine-gun fire behind Pruszkow and anti-Semitic incidents from the Polish army. At the village of Wiskitki he learned the Germans occupied Warsaw and returned to Lodz. He provides a description of the initial repressive orders given the Lodz Jews, including curfew, expulsion from schools, firing of all state employees and physicians, and confiscation of radios. On N...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of A. J., from Wyszkow, 44 year old kaftan-maker, member of the local Bund committee, socialist delegate and a chairman of the laborer front. He describes initial bombardments and refugees arriving from nearby towns such as Pultusk and Maków Mazowiecki. He and his family hid in the orchard during the last period of the war, and were arrested by Germans on their return to Wyszkow. The Polish men were released but the Jews were held. After being held the Jews, too, were freed. He describes anti-Semitic incitement of the Polish population by the occupying German soldiers in Wyszkow, ...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of J. L., 18 years old, and Z. L., 21 years old carpenter, brothers from Ostrow Mazowiecki, giving details about the massacre of 561 of the city's Jews by the Germans. They describe how the Germans together with the local Poles drove the Jews out of their homes, took them outside of town, and forced them to dig mass graves. They were then forced to lie in the graves, and to take their children down into the graves, and were shot with rifles and revolvers. The survivors fled to the Russian side of the border. Protocol No. 192 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements pro...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Pessie R, from Suwałki. She describes that when the Russians left Suwalki, and the Germans entered it, they looted all merchandise fgrom Jewish stores, and fined the proprietors and the rich large fines. They issued an order that Jews must gather three days' worth of food, and were arresting people and holding them in the synagogue. The author was warned by a Polish neighbors, and hid in the cellar while her three children fled. She was let out by a neighbor, and left town for the Lithuanian border with other refugees. They remained in the no-man's-land on the border, and sever...

  16. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland: Record No. 17]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Perl Kirshzweig, a tailor from Warsaw describes how refugees from Łódź arrived in Warsaw and were hosted by locals, like her. Several shell fired hurt a lot of people and among them also Jews, who were treated kindly in the hospital until it was bombed, too. The situation in Warsaw rapidly declined and there was no water, electricity or food and the hospitals were extremely dirty. Jews, who wanted to take the Bus to the hospital in Łódź were forced out of their seats and their tickets sold to polish Christians. In contrast to that, Kirshzweig testifies about acts of kindness from german sol...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of J. M. S, 18 year old from Wyszków, who describes aerial bombings of his town by the Germans, and the downing of a German plane near the village of Somianka though the pilot was never found. He describes the arrival of refugees into town from Ostrolenka, and, later, from Pultusk and Tsebanow. He describes how German bombings killed several people and destroyed houses, though his uncle Herschel Polz' house was not destroyed. More bombings killed the wife of Leibl Levin and his three children. Many, both Christians and Jews, fled in the direction of Warsaw. He describes the flight...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of N. K., 17 year old student from Warsaw. He describes the repressions and orders on Jews after the German occupying forces entered Warsaw; Jews had to give up their radios, and were forbidden from having more than 2000 zloty in their possession. Monetary fines were imposed and a curfew set in place punishable by shooting. The Jews were forbidden to live in certain streets, and restricted from purchasing new housing in others. He describes seizures of Jews for forced labor and the resulting deaths and physical damage as a consequence, as well as the closing of Jewish businesses, ...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Owsiej Bułkin, a furrier from Berlin was expelled from Germany as a Polish citizen on the 28th of October 1938. Firstly he was brought to Zbąszyń, a polish border town where he was one of the approximately 17,000 Jews that were affected by the expulsion. He depicts mistreatment from German and Polish citizens and authorities and how he went back to Germany to reunite with his family in order to bring them to Vilnius. His statement was given on the 16th Nov. 1939 and he testifies, that the family has lost all of their assets and belongings and that they are suffering tremendously. Statement ...

  20. [British Committe for refugees from Czecho-Slovakia] ; [Inquiery for leaving Czecho-Slovakia]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains copies of a form, an inquiry for leaving Czecho-Slovakia, which is offert by the British Committe for Refugees from Czecho-Slovakia.