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        <titleproper>The Bialystok Ghetto Underground Archive (Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive): Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground</titleproper>
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        <publisher>ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives</publisher>
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          <addressline>Jerusalem</addressline>
          <addressline>IL</addressline>
          <addressline>+97226443669</addressline>
          <addressline>9726443719</addressline>
          <addressline>http://yadvashem.org/</addressline>
          <addressline>ref@yadvashem.org.il</addressline>
          <addressline>Israel</addressline>
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      <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">The Bialystok Ghetto Underground Archive (Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive): Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground</unittitle>
      <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">407 Files</physdesc>
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        <language langcode="eng" encodinganalog="3.4.3">English</language>
        <language langcode="heb" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Hebrew</language>
        <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
        <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
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        <corpname>ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives</corpname>
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      <p><![CDATA[JL accotding to the RG description in the YVcomputarized catalogue ]]></p>
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      <p><![CDATA[The Mersik -Tenenbaum Archive includes Judenrat documentation from the Bialystok Ghetto, writings of Tenenbaum-Tamaroff, testimonies, memoirs and reports about Ponary and Treblinka, the Bialystok Ghetto, the Grodno Ghetto and the villages in the districts where these cities were located. Additionally, there are personal documents belonging to those who perished in Treblinka, Zvi Mersik and others. Since, to some extent, the collection of testimonies of the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok (1945-1947) complements the Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive, we decided to include both collections in one Record Group ("Inventory List"in the original). The letter"B"before the number indicates that the testimonies belong to the Bialystok Historical Committee collection.]]></p>
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    <bibliography encodinganalog="3.5.4">
      <p><![CDATA[For further details regarding this archive, see Yad Vashem Studies, Jerusalem, 1958]]></p>
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      <p><![CDATA[YV archives]]></p>
    </originalsloc>
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      <p><![CDATA[The archive gets its name from Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff, who set up the archive in early 1943, and Zvi Mersik, one of Mordechai Tenenbaum's outstanding aides, who continued to maintain the archive after Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff's death.]]></p>
    </bioghist>
    <otherfindaid encodinganalog="3.4.5">
      <p><![CDATA[Description of files available on the ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room and on the YV website ]]></p>
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      <p><![CDATA[Most of the documentation, which was created between July 1941 and April 1943, is located in the Yad Vashem Archive. The original material is not concentrated in one place: some of it is housed in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, and the rest of the material is still in the hands of unknown private individuals. There are only three original documents in the Yad Vashem Archives; all the rest are copies prepared from the original with great precision by the Historical Committee in Bialystok in 1946. Every document that was originally typed on a typewriter was copied on a typewriter, and every document that was in manuscript form in the original was copied by hand. The paper size of the copies is approximately the paper size of the original, and every copy is stamped with the stamp of the Historical Committee in Bialystok and assigned a serial number, as well as the note:"Copy of the material from the ghetto archive dug up from deep in the ground outside the ghetto". On the margins of every copy the printed signature of Attorney M. Turek, Director of the Historical Committee in Bialystok appears, certifying that the copy is an exact replica of the original. This archival collection, together with a collection of the testimonies (copies) of the Historical Committee in Bialystok from 1945-1947, was submitted to the Yad Vashem Archive in 1955 by Attorney M. Turek (Tamir).Over the years the Yad Vashem Archive has been able to complement the Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive with copies received from the Jewish Historical Committee in Warsaw and the Ghetto Fighters'House, as well as by photocopying several documents belonging to Ms. Nina Tenenbaum, Mordechai Tenenbaum's sister.]]></p>
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        <date><![CDATA[17/05/2012]]></date>
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        <did>
          <unitid>10838472</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Articles written by Mordechai Tenenbaum in underground newspapers in the Warsaw Ghetto, 01 February 1941-17 July 1942</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1941-02 - 1942-07-17</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
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          <p><![CDATA[Articles written by Mordechai Tenenbaum in underground newspapers in the Warsaw Ghetto, 01 February 1941-17 July 1942 1. "The Call": A call to Jews, 15 May 1942; report regarding the situation of the fighting against the Germans on the fronts; mass murder of nations in Europe; murder of Jews in cities and forests in Vilna, Baranowicze, Slonim, Lwow, Lublin and other places; deaths of Jews in ghettos from starvation and disease; murder of Jews in gas chambers; a call to the residents of the ghettos and the inmates in extermination camps to rise up and join in the struggle against the Germans in every place possible; a call for unification of forces in the struggle against the Germans; 2. "News": Published in Warsaw, 09 June 1947 [should be: 1942] with the title, "In Immediate Danger"; danger of murder of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto after the liquidation of the ghettos in the Warsaw area; a call to Jews to prepare for a struggle against the Germans; a call for revenge for the murder of the Jewish people and the unknown fighters who have fallen in battle; 3. "News", the Hechalutz Union, February 1941: An article regarding emigration of Jews from the occupied countries to Eretz Israel.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Antifascist underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="567">Camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="529">Extermination</subject>
          <subject>רוצחים</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="540">Mass murders</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Warszawa,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="1106">Warszawa,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Lwow,Lwow,Lwow,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Vilna,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Slonim,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Baranowicze,Baranowicze,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Lublin,Lublin,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Article</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714205</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Orders and announcements Numbers 1-435 issued by the Bialystok Ghetto Judenrat, 08 July 1941-01 April 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

454 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Orders and announcements Numbers 1-435 issued by the Bialystok Ghetto Judenrat, 08 July 1941-01 April 1943 A. Orders and announcements issued by the Bialystok Ghetto Judenrat regarding the yellow badge, the obligation to clean the apartments before deportation of the Jews to the ghetto, the drafting of skilled professionals for various assignments and the drafting of candidates for the ghetto police and firefighters; announcement regarding the obligation to pay local taxes published, 03 January 1943; announcement regarding the obligation of Jews who hold foreign passports to report to the Judenrat office, 31 March 1943; B. Notes made by Mordechai Tenenbaum regarding Judenrat announcements in the ghetto; C. Newspaper clippings; Number 208 and 281 are missing. Note: Copy of the original material dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: M. Turek

submitted by: עורך דין מ. טורעק , מנהל הועדה היהודית ההסטורית Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject>Skilled workers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="647">Registration of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">Ghettoization</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
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        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000406">Tenenbaum (Tamaroff), Mordechai (1916-1943)</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Documentary</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714207</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Letter sent to the AK (Armia Krajowa) leadership in the Bialystok area requesting cooperation in fighting against the Germans, 02 April 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

Typewritten copy

10 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04-02 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Letter sent to the AK (Armia Krajowa) leadership in the Bialystok area requesting cooperation in fighting against the Germans, 02 April 1943 Request for cooperation in fighting against the Germans including establishing work arrangements and fighting methods; request of the Free Poland representatives to provide 200 grenades and scores of guns to the Jewish underground [in Bialystok] or to immediately send underground members for combat outside the ghetto. Note: Copy of the original material dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק, מנהל הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Weapons</subject>
          <subject>The Aryan side</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="242">Underground</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="212">Resistance</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="843">Letter</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714208</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Gerszon Szniadower, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in Lubieszow, in hiding in forests and as a partisan</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

9 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-07-20 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Gerszon Szniadower, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in Lubieszow, in hiding in forests and as a partisan Escape from Lubieszow; in hiding in forests; combat as a partisan in the Pasilawisk (?) forests; the fate of the Jewish partisans from Janow in the partisan family camps; liberation by the Red Army, July 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="207">Family camps in the forest</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Lubieszów,Kamien Koszyrski,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Janow,Janow Lubelski,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714209</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"I Have No One To Speak Yiddish With": Poem/song by Zalman Kaleshnik</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">-</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["I Have No One To Speak Yiddish With": Poem/song by Zalman Kaleshnik Deportation of Kaleshnik from Bialystok to camps including Konigsberg; murder of his family; murder of friends; life without anyone with whom Kaleshnik can speak Yiddish; liberation in Konigsberg.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="532">Murders</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt; (&lt;&gt;),&lt;&gt;,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>Konigsberg,Tekov,Slovakia,Czechoslovakia</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714210</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"I Am Free": Poem/Song by Zalman Kaleshnik from Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-07-21 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["I Am Free": Poem/Song by Zalman Kaleshnik from Bialystok Liberation from the Konigsberg camp; his family perished; Kaleshnik's lament over the bitterness of his fate.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה ההסטורית היהודית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt; (&lt;&gt;),&lt;&gt;,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>Konigsberg,Tekov,Slovakia,Czechoslovakia</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714211</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Pejsach Bursztejn, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-07-22 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Pejsach Bursztejn, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto Order disseminated by the Judenrat members in the name of the German authorities regarding the transfer of the Jews from the Bialystok Ghetto to a camp in Lublin, 16 August 1943; shooting at the Germans by ghetto underground members; Jewish casualties; German dead; burning of houses in the ghetto; transfer of Jews to trains by order of Fritz Friedel; selection; separation of children from their parents; deportation of the women to Treblinka; deportation of the men to Auschwitz-Birkenau.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject>Women Workers</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz Birkenau,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Lublin,Lublin,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714212</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Personal documentation belonging to Eliyahu Kavenski regarding fighting by the partisans, 22 November 1942-22 January 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-07-23 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Personal documentation belonging to Eliyahu Kavenski regarding fighting by the partisans, 22 November 1942-22 January 1943 1. Letter of appreciation for fighting in the "01 May" partisan regiment; excellence list attached to the attached to the Order of Lenin award for bravery; 2. Sabotage activities of the partisans in the demolition of trains; wounding of approximately 470 German soldiers. Liberation; return to Bialystok.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית -בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1097">German soldiers</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1105">Air-raids</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1137">Personal documents</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714213</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Hela Welkenberg regarding the fate of the children during the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-07-24 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Hela Welkenberg regarding the fate of the children during the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 16 August 1943; transfer of the Jews to a field outside the city; transfer of the children back to the ghetto by order of the Jewish police; deportation of the children to Auschwitz by train, 22 August, 1943; murder of the children in the gas chambers in Auschwitz.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו" מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject>Jewish children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="499">Gas chambers</subject>
          <subject>Liquidation of the Bialystok ghetto</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714214</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Yisrael Dorn, born in Bydgoszcz, Poland, regarding his experiences in Warsaw and Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1955-08-01 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Yisrael Dorn, born in Bydgoszcz, Poland, regarding his experiences in Warsaw and Bialystok Taken captive by the Germans, 1939; forced labor; transfer to Warsaw; transfer to Bialystok, 1941; life in Bialystok including forced labor outside the ghetto; "Aktion", 05 February 1943; "Aktion", 15 August 1943; prison life including hunger and morbidity; transfer from the prison to labor outside the ghetto; hiding of children in hiding places in the ghetto; "Aktion" directed against children, August 1943; murder of the children; escape from the prison; liberation by the Red Army, 27 July 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Warsaw Ghetto Uprising</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Warszawa,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714215</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Sarah Shawicz, born in Vilna, Lithuania, regarding her experiences in Vilna, Kaiserwald and Stutthof</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-08-05 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Sarah Shawicz, born in Vilna, Lithuania, regarding her experiences in Vilna, Kaiserwald and Stutthof Occupation of Vilna by the German Army, 24 June 1941; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation and yellow badge; "Aktions"; deportation of Jews to Ponary; murder of Jews in Ponary; activities of the underground movement in the ghetto; activities of Yitzhak Wittenberg, commander of the Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (FPO - United Partisan Organization); cultural life in the ghetto; forced labor in Biala Waka; liquidation of the ghetto, 24 September 1943; deportation to Kaiserwald; life in Kaiserwald; transfer to Stutthof; life in Stutthof; liberation by the Red Army, 25 January 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="868">Jewish organizations</subject>
          <subject>Cultural life</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname>Wittenberg, Yitzhak</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Vilna,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Biala Waka,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="788">Kaiserwald,Camp,Latvia</geogname>
          <geogname>Ponary Area,Murder Site,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714216</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Sarah Shawicz, born in Vilna, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Panevezys, Siauliai and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

6 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-08-06 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Sarah Shawicz, born in Vilna, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Panevezys, Siauliai and other places Liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, 24 September 1943; concentration of the Jews on Losia Street, outside the ghetto; selection; deportation of the men to Estonia by train; deportation of the women, including the witness, to the Kaiserwald labor camp in Riga; camp life including forced labor; transfer of the women to Panevezys, 30 August 1944; transfer of the women to Siauliai; transfer of the women to Krzemieniewo, 19 January 1945; death march; escape; wanderings among the villages; liberation by the Red Army. Move to Bialystok.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="411">Selection</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="207">Family camps in the forest</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject>Death Marches</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Panevezys,Panevezys,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Siauliai,Siauliai,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Krzemieniewo,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="788">Kaiserwald,Camp,Latvia</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714217</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Dora Kagan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Kaunas</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

8 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-08-08 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Dora Kagan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Kaunas Occupation of Kaunas by the German Army; riots against the Jews, 24 June 1941; murder of 800 Jews during a pogrom conducted by Lithuanian collaborators; murder of Jews in the Seventh Fort; murder of Jews in the Ninth Fort; liquidation of the Seventh Fort, 07 July 1941; transfer of the Jews from the Seventh Fort to the Ninth Fort; yellow badge; establishment of two ghettos in Slobodka, 15 August 1941; appointment of a Judenrat; establishment of the Jewish police; deportation of 500 youth to forced labor; ghetto life including robbery of property and the levying of a forced contribution; "Aktion", 17 September 1941; "Aktion", 04 October 1941; deportation of children from the children's home; deportation of the elderly; burning of the hospital; liquidation of the small ghetto; "Aktion", 28-29 October 1941; forced labor; deportation of Jews to labor in Riga, 23 November 1942; work in factories in the ghetto; deportation of approximately 3,500 Jews to Estonia, 26 March 1943; deportation of children and the sick to the Ninth Fort; collaboration of criminals from Vilna with Bruno Kittel in carrying out an "Aktion" in Kaunas; deportation of Jews to Stutthof; deportation of Jews to Dachau; liquidation of the Kaunas Ghetto, 15 July 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית הסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="282">Hospitals</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="315">Children's homes</subject>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Seventh Fort in Kovno</subject>
          <subject>Ninth Fort in Kovno</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1130">Trials of Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="599">Shearing of beards</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="177">Dachau,Camp,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>Letichev,Letichev,Kamenets Podolsk,Ukraine (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Kaunas,Kaunas,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Riga,Rigas,Vidzeme,Latvia</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714218</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Announcement ("public appeal") sent to the Armia Krajowa (AK) in Warsaw regarding extension of help to the Jews of Poland and seeking revenge on the enemy, April 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

פוטוקופיה

5 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="heb" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Hebrew</language>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Announcement ("public appeal") sent to the Armia Krajowa (AK) in Warsaw regarding extension of help to the Jews of Poland and seeking revenge on the enemy, April 1943 Notes: - The announcement is a copy of the original material dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto; - The announcement was published in the Yad Vashem Collection, 1957.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עוד"ד מ. טורק,מנהל הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב -Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Revenge</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="297">Assistance to Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="847">Mutual help</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="212">Resistance</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Praga Warszawa,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Placards</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714219</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Yitzchak Wernik regarding his experiences in Lomza, Zambrow and Auschwitz</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-08-10 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Yitzchak Wernik regarding his experiences in Lomza, Zambrow and Auschwitz Shelling of Lomza by the Germans, 01 September 1939; deaths of Jews and Poles as a result of the shelling; occupation of Lomza by the German Army, 25 June 1941; attitude of the local population towards the Jews; life in Lomza including abusive acts and murder of the Jews; yellow badge, 04 July 1941; deportation of Jews to Zambrow by the Gestapo; murder of the Jews in Zambrow; establishment of the ghetto, July 1941; appointment of a Judenrat; establishment of a Jewish police; forced labor; deportation of the Lomza Jews to the Zambrow camp, 31 October 1942; liquidation of the ghetto, 01 November 1942; life in Zambrow including the spread of typhus in the camp; liquidation of the Zambrow camp, 10 January 1943; transfer of the Jews to Auschwitz; murder of the Jews in the gas chambers in Auschwitz.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="493">Typhus</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1083">Bombs</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="499">Gas chambers</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Zambrow,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="519">Łomża,Ghetto</geogname>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714220</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Aharon Freinkel regarding his experiences in Druskininkai, the Grodno Ghetto, as a partisan in Marcikance and as a Red Army soldier</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-08-11 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Aharon Freinkel regarding his experiences in Druskininkai, the Grodno Ghetto, as a partisan in Marcinkance and as a Red Army soldier Liquidation of the Druskininkai community, August 1942; deportation of the Druskininkai Jews to the Kielbasin camp; escape from Druskininkai to the Grodno Ghetto; transfer from Grodno to the forest; organizing a partisan unit in the Marcinkance area; acts of revenge by the partisan unit; liberation by the Red Army, 12 July 1944. Combat as a Red Army soldier.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1097">Soviet soldiers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1215">Partisans</subject>
          <subject>פקודות גירוש</subject>
          <subject>Forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Druskininkai,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="204">Grodno,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Marcinkance,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2410">Kiełbasin,Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714221</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"From Death to Life": Testimony of Rivka Iafe, regarding her experiences in the Siauliai Ghetto, Stutthof, on a death march and in hiding in the forest</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-08-12 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["From Death to Life": Testimony of Rivka Iafe, regarding her experiences in the Siauliai Ghetto, Stutthof, on a death march and in hiding in the forest Deportation from the Siauliai Ghetto to Stutthof, July 1944; life in Stutthof until 19 January 1945; liquidation of the women's camp in Stutthof; murder of female inmates; death march of 100 women to Neumark; transfer of the women to the forest; murder of the women by shooting in the forest; escape from the killing pit while injured; in hiding in the forest; liberation by the Red Army.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the killing pits</subject>
          <subject>Death Marches</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="1054">Siauliai,Ghetto</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
          <geogname>Neumark,Rawa Mazowiecka,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714222</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Helena Najmark regarding her experiences in Ostrow Mazowiecki</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-08-14 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Helena Najmark regarding her experiences in Ostrow Mazowiecki Occupation of Ostrow Mazowiecki by the German Army, 10 September 1939; riots against the Jews; life in Ostrow Mazowiecki including robbery of property; levying of a forced contribution and forced labor; desecration of the synagogue including religious articles; escape of the Jews to the Soviet side in Prosienica; execution of approximately 800 Jews, 10 October 1939.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
          <subject>Desecration of religious articles</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="645">Desecration of synagogues</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escapes</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
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          <geogname>Ostrow,Ostrow Mazowiecka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Prosienica,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714223</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Yaakov Werbowski, born in Akmene, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, in the forests and as a partisan</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Yaakov Werbowski, born in Akmene, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, in the forests and as a partisan Liquidation of the Kaunas Ghetto, 08-15 July 1944; hiding of Jews in hiding places during the ghetto liquidation "Aktion"; escape of Jews outside the ghetto; search for escapees; the witness' work as a clerk in the Labor Bureau; deportation of Jews to Danzig by order of Wilhelm Gecke; murder of Jews who attempted to escape; acts committed by the murderers over the course of a week; escape to the forests; combat as a partisan in the "Leningrad" battalion; liberation by the Red Army, 10 August 1944.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורת ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1215">Partisans</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Danzig,Danzig,&lt;&gt;,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
          <geogname>Kaunas,Kaunas,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714224</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Yaakov Verbawski regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and as a partisan</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-08-16 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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 battalion; liberation by the Red Army, 10 August 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1215">Partisans</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="599">Shearing of beards</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject>Ninth Fort in Kovno</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="002110">Gecke Wilhelm</persname>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="001860">Kittel Bruno</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="874">Kaunas,Ghetto,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Fort 9,Murder Site</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714225</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Velvel Szczuczyner regarding the fighting of Jews in Brok after the war</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-05-17 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Velvel Szczuczyner regarding the fighting of Jews in Brok after the war Fighting of Jews against gangs of the military arm of the Polaish antisemitic nationalist Narodowe Sily Zbrojne (NSZ- Polish Armed Forces) in Brok (in the Ostrow Mazowiecki area), 17 August 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject>Pogroms after the liberation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Brok,Ostrow Mazowiecka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714226</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Memoirs of Yitzchak Resnick, born in 1926, regarding his experiences in Ostryna, Kielbasin and Auschwitz</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-08-18 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Memoirs of Yitzchak Resnick, born in 1926, regarding his experiences in Ostryna, Kielbasin and Auschwitz Drafted into the Polish Army, 1939; capture by the Germans; pretends to be of Belorussian origin; escape from a POW transport in the Ostryna area; combat as a partisan; return to the Ostryna Ghetto; liquidation of the Ostryna Ghetto; deportation to the Kielbasin camp; transfer to Auschwitz; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="567">Camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="511">POWs</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2410">Kiełbasin,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="49">Ostryna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Ostryna,Szczuczyn,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714227</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Sanctification of His Name": Testimony of Bluma Camiel regarding her experiences in the Slonim Ghetto, and the experiences of her daughter, Felia, the partisan</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-08-19 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Sanctification of His Name": Testimony of Bluma Camiel regarding her experiences in the Slonim Ghetto, and the experiences of her daughter, Felia, the partisan Life with her 17-year old daughter, Felia, in the Slonim Ghetto including anti-Jewish legislation and torture, until October 1942 (?); her daughter's work in ammunition depots; smuggling weapons to the partisans in the Slonim area; escape with her daughter; her daughter joins the partisans, August 1942 (?); Felia's death as a partisan fighter, October 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Slonim,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="723">Slonim,Ghetto</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714228</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Dora Kagan regarding the 60 men who were heroes in the Kaunas Ghetto, in the Ninth Fort, and regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, as a partisan, as a Red Army soldier and in Stutthof</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-08-20 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Dora Kagan regarding the 60 men who were heroes in the Kaunas Ghetto, in the Ninth Fort, and regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, as a partisan, as a Red Army soldier and in Stutthof Transfer of 60 (Actually, there were 64 young men, of whom four were not Jewish) Jews ("Kommando") from the Kaunas Ghetto to the Ninth Fort by the Germans and their helpers to burn corpses; murder of family members of the Kommando laborers in the Ninth Fort; planning the escape of the Kommando members; digging of trenches by the Kommando men; breaking down a door by the Kommando members; escape of the Kommando members to the forests and the Kaunas Ghetto, 25 December 1943; [the witness'] combat as a partisan; combat as a Red Army soldier; liquidation of the Kaunas Ghetto; deportation to Stutthof, June 1944; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="489">Labor Commando</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the killing pits</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Fort 9,Murder Site</geogname>
          <geogname>Kaunas,Kaunas,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714229</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Article intended for distribution among Wehrmacht soldiers regarding crimes of the Germans in the extermination camps in Poland, 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

Typewritten copy

5 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 - 1943-04-08</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Article intended for distribution among Wehrmacht soldiers regarding crimes of the Germans in the extermination camps in Poland, 1943 Responsibility of the Germans for the murder of millions of Jews in Europe; burning of synagogues, desecration of cemeteries and the establishment of extermination camps within occupied Poland, 1943; murder of Jews in the Wartheland area including the Jews of Lodz by the use of gas vans in the Chelmno camp; murder of the Jews of eastern Galicia, Lublin and Slovakia in the Belzec extermination camp by electrocution; murder of Jews in the Auschwitz and Sobibor extermination camps by electrocution and burning in the crematorium; murder of Jews from Poland, the Soviet Union, Austria and other places in gas chambers. Note: Copy of the original material dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות,מס' 1084/26]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="645">Desecration of synagogues</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="483">Crematoria</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="347">Desecration of cemeteries</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="499">Gas chambers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="535">Gas vans</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2031">Sobibor,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Slovakia</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Soviet Union</geogname>
          <geogname>Lodz,Lodz,Lodz,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Galicia Region,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Lublin,Lublin,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Austria</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="41">Belzec,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2029">Chelmno,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="843">Letter</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714230</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Episode from the Kaunas Ghetto": Testimony of Dora Kagan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-08-02 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Episode from the Kaunas Ghetto": Testimony of Dora Kagan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof and other places Deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; ghetto life including decrees and abusive acts; cruelty of the Lithuanian guards at the gate of the ghetto to the Jews; confiscation of food items smuggled into the ghetto by the Jews; capture of Jews smuggling food; transfer of the smugglers to the Ninth Fort, 04 February 1943; deportation to Stuttgart as retaliation for the defeat of the Germans in the battle for Stalingrad; transfer to other camps in Germany, June 1944; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו" מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Smuggling food</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt; (&lt;&gt;),&lt;&gt;,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>Fort 9,Murder Site</geogname>
          <geogname>Kaunas,Kaunas,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="874">Kaunas,Ghetto,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714231</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Lethal Injection": Testimony of Dora Kagan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and Friedendorf</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-08-22 - 1945</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Lethal Injection": Testimony of Dora Kagan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and Friedendorf Liquidation of the Kaunas Ghetto, June 1944 [should be: July 1944]; deportation to the women's camp in Friedendorf; evacuation of the camp, 19 January 1945; death march; departure of those who are sick, including the witness, from the camp; approach of Red Army soldiers; murder of Jews by the Germans before the Germans' escape; liberation of the camp by the Red Army, 23 January 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject>Death march from Germany</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="282">Hospitals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="623">Evacuation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Friedendorf,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="874">Kaunas,Ghetto,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Czeszyn,Cieszyn,Slask,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714232</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Memoirs of Avraham Manelis regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, the forests in Sokolka; the forests in Knyszyn and as a partisan</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-08-24 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Memoirs of Avraham Manelis regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, the forests in Sokolka; the forests in Knyszyn and as a partisan Deportation to the Bialystok Ghetto with his family; ghetto life including forced labor; "Aktion", 05 February 1943; deportation to Treblinka; escape from the train; in hiding in a village; move back to the ghetto; obtains weapons; move to the forests in the Sokolka area with friends; move to the Knyszyn forests; relations with the Poles; the Jewish group joins a battalion of partisans, "Krasnaya Zvezda" (Red Star) and "26 Years October"; combat of the Jews, including the witness, with [should be: against] the Germans; liberation of Bialystok by the Red Army, 27 July 1944.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטרית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1215">Partisans</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escapes</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>Weapons</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Knyszyn,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Sokolka,Sokolka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714233</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Jewish Street": Poem written by Yakov Apatshinski, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Piotrkow Trybunalski and as a Red Army soldier</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-08-25 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Jewish Street": Poem written by Yakov Apatshinski, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Piotrkow Trybunalski and as a Red Army soldier Escape from Piotrkow Trybunalski to the Soviet Union, 1939; enlistment in the Red Army, 1941; combat as part of the Polish Kosciusko Division, 1943. Return to Bialystok after the war; return to the Jewish street that once was but is no more; demand for revenge.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Revenge</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Soviet Union</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714234</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Last Will and Testament of a 14-Year Old Boy": Poem/Song written by Berl Szuster about life in Poland under the German occupation and a request for revenge</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-24 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Last Will and Testament of a 14-Year Old Boy": Poem/Song written by Berl Szuster about life in Poland under the German occupation and a request for revenge Being hidden by a farmer in a village near Bialystok; life in Poland under the German occupation; murder of children and adults; request for vengeance on the criminals; request that justice triumph.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק , יו"ר הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject>Revenge</subject>
          <subject>Young people</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714235</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Yosef Nissenboim, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and Dachau</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-09-09 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Yosef Nissenboim, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and Dachau Life in the Kaunas (Slobodka) Ghetto until its liquidation; liquidation of the ghetto, July 1944; deportation of the men to Kaufering, 24 July 1944; deportation to camps in the Dachau area; transfer to Camp 2 (30 kilometers from Dachau); camp life including hunger and forced labor in a factory; transfer of the sick to the extermination camp; execution of Jews by hanging, 24 October 1944; evacuation in Dachau, 23 April 1945; death march in the direction of Tirol; leaving the sick and the weak behind in Dachau; escape of the Germans due to the approach of the US Army; liberation, 01 May 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Liberation by the US Army</subject>
          <subject>The sick in the camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject>Death march from Germany</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Kaunas,Kaunas,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="177">Dachau,Camp,Germany</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714236</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Memoirs of Natan Kropinski, born in 1905, regarding his experiences in Wysokie Mazowieckie and Wysokie</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-09-12 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Memoirs of Natan Kropinski, born in 1905, regarding his experiences in Wysokie Mazowieckie and Wysokie Occupation of Wysokie Mazowieckie by the German Army, 10 September 1939; life under the German occupation including riots, burning of houses and forced labor; deportation of Jewish men to Zambrow, 12 September 1939; murder of Jews en route to Zambrow; escape of men from Zambrow to Lomza; transfer of the rest of the men to forced labor in Germany; orders of the Germans to leave Wysokie and transfer to villages in the vicinity, 19 September 1939; occupation of Wysokie by the Red Army, 26 September 1939; return of the Jews to Wysokie; occupation of Wysokie by the German Army, 24 June 1941; life in Wysokie including anti-Jewish legislation, yellow badge , forced labor, abuse and murder of Jews; establishment of the Wysokie Ghetto; deportation of Jews from Jablonka and Kulesze to Wysokie; levying of a forced contribution; deportation of the Jews of Wysokie to the Zambrow camp, 02 November 1942; murder of approximately 15 sick people; escape to the forests in Wysokie.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject>Sick people</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Jablonka,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zambrow,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zambrow,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kulesze Koscielne,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wysokie,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wysokie Mazowieckie,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714237</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of a man born in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland, 1899, regarding the fate of the Jews of Zambrow</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-09-17 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ. טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportations</subject>
          <subject>Hunger-related diseases</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zambrow,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714238</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Fishel Feinfeld, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Blizyn and Auschwitz</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-09-20 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Fishel Feinfeld, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Blizyn and Auschwitz Preparations of the underground fighters for the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising including collecting weapons and making contact with partisans outside the ghetto; "Aktion" conducted by German soldiers, 16 August, 1943; Jews in hiding in hiding places; burning of the ghetto gate by the underground fighters; armed combat of underground fighters with the Germans; deaths of Jewish victims; heroic acts by 72 Jewish fighters who were murdered by the Germans during the uprising; deportation to Blizyn; transfer to Auschwitz.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Rebellions</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="139">Jewish armed resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="567">Camps</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="1605">Blizyn,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714239</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Shmuel Margalis, born in 1905, regarding his experiences in Dokszyce, as a partisan and as a Red Army soldier</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-09-18 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Shmuel Margalis, born in 1905, regarding his experiences in Dokszyce, as a partisan and as a Red Army soldier Occupation of Dokszyce by the German Army, 24 June 1941; riots against the Jews; murder of approximately 500 Jews; "Aktion", 28 March 1942; murder of 495 women and children; escape to the forests; combat as a partisan in the "Stalin" Brigade; killing of Germans; combat in the Newel area as a Red Army soldier.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Newel,Pinsk,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Dokszyce,Glebokie,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714241</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Announcement regarding the discovery of a monograph about the Grodno Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

Typewritten copy

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">-</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Announcement regarding the discovery of a monograph about the Grodno Ghetto Entrustment of the monograph into the hands of Nimtzenovitz's hands by Attorney-at-Law Vincenti Firstenberg in Grodno. Note: Copy of the original material dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: מ.טורקוב עו"ד,מנהל הוועדה ההסטורית - יהודית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="204">Grodno,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grodno,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Placards</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714242</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Zofia Zarnowiecka, the Christian, regarding the hiding of Jews in Vilna, 1939-1944</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-09-24 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Zofia Zarnowiecka, the Christian, regarding the hiding of Jews in Vilna, 1939-1944 Hiding of young Jews who escaped from the Vilna Ghetto; hopes of the youth to make aliya to Eretz Israel; forced labor of the Jews digging for the Lithuanian partisans; contact with the youth after the war.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="261">Rescuers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="101">Jewish refugees</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="329">Antisemitism - partisans</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Vilna,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714243</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Wolf Wisznia, born in 1920, regarding his experiences in Drohiczyn, Semiatycze and as a partisan</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-09-25 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Wolf Wisznia, born in 1920, regarding his experiences in Drohiczyn, Semiatycze and as a partisan Occupation of Drohiczyn by the German Army, 23 June 1941; deportation of the Jews to Semiatycze; life in Semiatycze including riots by the local Poles; transfer back to Drohiczyn; forced labor; establishment of the Drohiczyn Ghetto, April 1942; appointment of a Judenrat; escape of approximately 250 Jews from the ghetto; resistance of Jews to deportation; murder of the resistors; escape together with a group of Jews; joining the partisans; attitude of the partisans towards the Jews including murder threats; escape of the Jews from the partisans; in hiding in forests; liberation by the Red Army.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="329">Antisemitism - partisans</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Drohiczyn,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Semiatycze,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
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        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714244</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Pinchas Finkelstejn, born in 1922, regarding his experiences in Radziwilow and in hiding</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

7 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-09-27 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Pinchas Finkelstejn, born in 1922, regarding his experiences in Radziwilow and in hiding Outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; retreat of the Red Army from Radziwilow; escape attempts towards the East in the direction of Bialystok by Jews; attitude of the local population towards the Jews; robbery and murder of Jews by Polish gangs; occupation of Radziwilow by the German Army; collaboration between the Poles and the Germans; life under the occupation including decrees, riots, robbery of property, abusive acts and murder of Jews by the Poles; burning of holy books removed from the synagogue; arrest of Jews, 18 August 1941; establishment of the ghetto for those Jews who remained alive after the riots; deportation of the Jews for forced labor on an estate in the area; deportation of the Jews to the Bogusze camp, 02 November 1942; transfer of the Jews from Bogusze to Auschwitz; in hiding in the area among the Polish population.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportations</subject>
          <subject>Desecration of religious articles</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="354">Burning of books</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Escape attempts</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="652">Imprisonment</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
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        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Radzilow,Szczuczyn,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bogusze,Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714245</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Episodes From the Ciechanowice Ghetto": Testimony of Ephraim Wiener, born in Ciechanowice, Poland, 1898, regarding his experiences in Ciechanowice and in hiding in forests</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-09-30 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA["Episodes From the Ciechanowice Ghetto": Testimony of Ephraim Wiener, born in Ciechanowice, Poland, 1898, regarding his experiences in Ciechanowice and in hiding in forests Occupation of Ciechanowice by the German Army, 22 June 1941; life in Ciechanowice including forced labor, abuse and murder of Jews; establishment of two ghettos, 20 July 1941; appointment of a Judenrat; food rationing (for ghetto residents); Jews working in various workshops; deportation of 245 Jews to forced labor on an estate in the vicinity; murder of the Jews; escape of 31 Jews from the killing site; liquidation of the Ciechanowice Ghetto, 2-8 November 1942; deportation of the Jews to Treblinka and Majdanek; murder of the Jews in Treblinka and Majdanek; escape to the forests; in hiding in the forests until the liberation.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportations</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="834">Food rationing</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="549">Workshops</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Ciechanowice,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="851">Ciechanowiec,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="560">Majdanek,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714246</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Mikhail Majek regarding his experiences in Sokoly</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

5 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-10-01 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Mikhail Majek regarding his experiences in Sokoly Liquidation of the Sokoly Ghetto; escape during the liquidation of the ghetto; in hiding in forests; riots and murder of Jews in Sokoly, 17 February 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה ההסטורית היהודית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Pogroms after the liberation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Sokoly,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714247</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Within the Graves": Poem/Song written by Jakob Opaczynski , born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 1920</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-10-02 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Within the Graves": Poem/Song written by Jakob Opaczynski , born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 1920 The poem/song was written in memory of the Jewish fighters who died in battle against the Germans; escape of the author to the Soviet Union at the time of the German occupation of the city (Piotrkow Trybunalski?); drafting of the author to the Red Army, 1941; participation of the author in battles against the Germans. The author's move back to Bialystok after the war.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from occupied territory</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Piotrkow Trybunalski,Piotrkow,Lodz,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Soviet Union</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714249</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Simcha Burshtein regarding the village of Kleszczele during the Nazi occupation</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-10-08 -</unitdate>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Simcha Burshtein regarding the village of Kleszczele during the Nazi occupation Occupation of the village by the Germans, 23 June 1941; establishment of local government by the Poles and appointment of Misaievitz, the teacher, as the mayor; abuse of the Jews; replacement of the local Polish government by the Nazi occupation authority; anti-Jewish legislation; robbery of property; establishment of the Kleszczele Ghetto, late May 1942; forced labor outside the ghetto, 02-06 November 1942; deportation of the Jews to Bialystok, and from there to the Treblinka extermination camp.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kleszczele,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714250</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Henoch Piasek, born in Bielsk Podlaski, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences in Bielsk Podlaski</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-10-10 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Henoch Piasek, born in Bielsk Podlaski, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences in Bielsk Podlaski Occupation of Bielsk Podlaski by the German Army, 26 June 1941; life in Bielsk Podlaski including anti-Jewish legislation and yellow badge; appointment of a Judenrat; murder of 30 Jews; murder of 12 Jews; establishment of the Bielsk Podlaski Ghetto, August 1941; levying of a forced contribution; burning of Torah scrolls, prayer shawls and tefillin; forced labor; concentration of approximately 11,000 Jews in the ghetto including Jews from Narwa, Briansk and Orlo, ghetto life including crowding, morbidity and hunger; liquidation of the ghetto, 11 November 1942; murder of the sick; deportation of the Jews to Treblinka.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה ההודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>Sick people</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject>Desecration of religious articles</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Orlo,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Narve,Virumaa,&lt;&gt;,Estonia</geogname>
          <geogname>Melitopol,Melitopol City,Zaporozhye,Ukraine (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Briansk,Bryansk,Orel,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="131">Bielsk Podlaski,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bielsk Podlaski,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714251</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Lasia Katz, born in Jurbarkas, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, Stutthof, Freudendorf and on a death march</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-10-12 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Lasia Katz, born in Jurbarkas, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, Stutthof, Freudendorf and on a death march Occupation of Kaunas by the German Army; life in Kaunas; deportation to Stutthof; life in Stutthof; transfer to Freudendorf; life in Freudendorf; approach of the Red Army; death march, 19 January 1945; leaving behind of the sick and the elderly in the camp (which was not identified); murder of the sick and the elderly.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="599">Shearing of beards</subject>
          <subject>The sick in the camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject>Death Marches</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Kaunas,Kaunas,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="890">Freudendorf,Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714252</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Reports written about the Vilna Ghetto and the Bialystok Ghetto, 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

25 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="heb" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Hebrew</language>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Reports written about the Vilna Ghetto and the Bialystok Ghetto, 1943 1. Excerpt from a report written by the Bialystok Judenrat for the Gestapo regarding the employment of Jews in the ghetto, 02 April 1943, and evacuation, February 1943; Note: One page; the excerpt is a copy of the original material dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto. 2. Report written, apparently by Hermann Adler in Budapest, Hungary (after he escaped from Warsaw, Poland), regarding Mordechaj Tenenbaum, the Hechalutz movement, and activities of Anton Schmidt in the Vilna Ghetto, November 1943. Note: 24 pages.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: מ.טורק, יו"ר הועדה היהודית ההיסטורית איזורית ב-Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="623">Evacuation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="001153">Schmidt Anton</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grodno,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Budapest,Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun,&lt;&gt;,Hungary</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Hungary</geogname>
          <geogname>Warszawa,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey report</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714253</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Leon Kowarski, born in 1932, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, in hiding and as a partisan</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-10-14 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Leon Kowarski, born in 1932, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, in hiding and as a partisan "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto; escape due to fear of the Germans and Ukrainian collaborators; hidden by farmers; in hiding in a forest; joins the partisans in the Bialystok area under the command of Rotczinski; combat as a partisan.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject>Youth</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714254</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Dr. Tobiasz Cytron, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and in Blizyn</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Dr. Tobiasz Cytron, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and in Blizyn Giving medical help to a wounded partisan, June 1943; return of the partisan to his unit in the forest; shooting battle between the Bialystok Ghetto underground fighters and the Germans, 16 August 1943; giving medical help to a wounded fighter; renewal of the fighting, 17 August 1943; abuse of the patients in the hospital by Ukrainians and SS men including Fritz Friedel; murder of the patients, 20 August 1943; deportation of 1,250 Jews from the ghetto; murder of the Jews who were deported; selection, 22 August 1943; "Aktion" against children, 24 August 1943; deportation of the children to Treblinka; attempt to rescue children who were intended to be exchanged for Germans; deportation of the children to a camp in Czechoslovakia; transfer of the children from Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz; murder of 20,000 Jews including children at Majdanek, 02-03 November 1943; murder of 1,500 children, aged 0-10, from Tomaszow, Kielce and Radom in the Blizyn camp, 08 November 1943; outbreak of typhus in Blizyn; prevention of liquidation of the camp by the witness by hiding evidence of the outbreak from the Germans.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עוד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Deportation to camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Jewish children</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject>Jewish physicians with the partisans in Ukraine during World War II</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="870">Jewish hospitals</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>Ukrainian war criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000751">Friedel Fritz</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Czechoslovakia</geogname>
          <geogname>Blizyn,Konskie,Kielce,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="560">Majdanek,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714255</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Report by Dr. Gershowicz regarding the Jews in the Kaunas Ghetto, 22 June 1941-14 July 1944</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-10-16 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Report by Dr. Gershowicz regarding the Jews in the Kaunas Ghetto, 22 June 1941-14 July 1944 Occupation of Kaunas by the German Army, 24 June 1941; riots against the Jews in Slobodka, 26 June 1941; murder of Jews in the Ninth Fort, 27 June 1941; arrest of Jews, 14 August 1941; establishment of the Kaunas Ghetto, 15 August 1941; "Aktion" against the intelligentsia, 18 August 1941; confiscation of valuables, 21 August 1941; deportation of Jews to forced labor at an airfield, 14 September 1941; "Aktions" in the small ghetto, 26 September 1941 and 14 October 1941; murder of approximately 10,000 Jews in the Ninth Fort, 28 October 1941; deportation of Jews to Riga, 06 February 1941 and 20-22 October 1941; "Aktion" against children, 27-28 March 1944; liquidation of the ghetto; deportation of the men to camps in Germany, 08-14 July 1944; deportation of the women to Stutthof, 08-14 July 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="585">Confiscation of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Intelligentsia</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="874">Kaunas,Ghetto,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Fort 9,Murder Site</geogname>
          <geogname>Riga,Rigas,Vidzeme,Latvia</geogname>
          <geogname>Kaunas,Kaunas,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
          <geogname>Slobodka,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,USSR</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714256</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Meir Markewitz, born in Lomza, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in Trzcianne, Bogusze and in hiding</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-10-17 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Meir Markewitz, born in Lomza, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in Trzcianne, Bogusze and in hiding Occupation of Trzcianne by the German Army, 26 June 1941; "Aktion"; murder of Jews by the Gestapo; burial of those murdered in a mass grave; forced labor; deportation of the Jews to the Bogusze camp; life in Bogusze for three months; transfer to Treblinka; murder of Jews in gas chambers in Treblinka; escape with his family; life being hidden by a farmer, including morbidity; liberation by the Red Army, 12 August 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from death camp</subject>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="499">Gas chambers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="861">Morbidity</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bogusze,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grajewo,Grajewo,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Trzcianne,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714257</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Risa Balglei, born in 1929, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, Jasinowka and in forests</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-10-18 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Risa Balglei, born in 1929, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, Jasinowka and in forests Life in Bialystok including anti-Jewish legislation and yellow badge; establishment of the Bialystok Ghetto; escape from Bialystok to Jasinowka, 1941; life in Jasinowka until 1942; being hidden by a farmer in the Jasinowka area until 1943; wanderings in fields and forests; liberation by the Red Army, 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Jasinowka,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714258</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Temma Kaplan, born in Knyszyn, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Knyszyn, Jasinowka and in hiding</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-08-19 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Temma Kaplan, born in Knyszyn, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Knyszyn, Jasinowka and in hiding Occupation of Knyszyn by the German Army; life in Knyszyn including anti-Jewish legislation and yellow badge; escape during an "Aktion", 1942; transfer to Jasinowka; life in Jasinowka until 25 October 1942; hidden by farmers until the liberation; liberation by the Red Army.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, י"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Jasinowka,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Knyszyn,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714259</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of C. Veiner, born in Krynki, Poland, 1913, regarding the fate of the Jews of Krynki</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-10-20 -</unitdate>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of C. Veiner, born in Krynki, Poland, 1913, regarding the fate of the Jews of Krynki Deaths of approximately 70 Jews during an air-raid on Krynki, June 1941; occupation of Krynki by the German Army, 29 June 1941; desecration of the "Beit Midrash" (religious study hall) including religious articles, 01 July 1941; murder of 13 youths in the forest, 03 July 1941; murder of Jewish Communists during an "Aktion"; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation, yellow badge, forced labor and robbery of Jewish property; establishment of the Krynki Ghetto; placing of Polish and Jewish policemen as guards at the ghetto gate; appointment of a Judenrat; arrest of Jews and their murder; liquidation of the Krynki Ghetto, 02 November 1942; deportation of the Jews to Grodno; deportation of the Jews from Grodno to extermination camps; remaining of approximately 150 professional skilled workers who worked in a factory; deportation of the professionally skilled workers to Auschwitz, 22 June 1943.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו'ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject>Desecration of religious articles</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of property</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Krynki,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grodno,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="979">Krynki,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714261</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Chana Finkelstejn, born in Radzilow, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences in Radzilow and in hiding</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-10-22 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Chana Finkelstejn, born in Radzilow, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences in Radzilow and in hiding Occupation of Radzilow by the German Army; life in Radzilow including riots against the Jews by the Poles, abusive acts, desecration of religious articles and robbery of property; concentration of the Jews in the threshing floor; setting the threshing floor on fire; burning of the threshing floor including the Jews there; hidden by farmers with her family; wanderings from place to place; liberation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Desecration of religious articles</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Radzilow,Szczuczyn,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714262</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Dr. T. Cytron regarding the evacuation of the hospital in the Bialystok Ghetto, 17-24 August 1944</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-10-24 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="411">Selection</subject>
          <subject>Sick people</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="282">Hospitals</subject>
          <subject>Jewish children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="623">Evacuation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000751">Friedel Fritz</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Blizyn,Konskie,Kielce,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="560">Majdanek,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714263</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Dr. T. Cytron, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1908, regarding the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising, 16-26 August 1943, and his experiences in Blizyn, Majdanek and Auschwitz</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-10-27 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Dr. T. Cytron, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1908, regarding the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising, 16-26 August 1943, and his experiences in Blizyn, Majdanek and Auschwitz Preparations for the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising; establishment of underground organizations; collection of weapons; establishing contact with partisans outside the ghetto; entry of German soldiers into the ghetto; start of the "Aktion", 16 August 1943; decision of the underground members to burn the ghetto gate; decision of the underground members regarding armed resistance against the Germans; acts of bravery by the fighters in the ghetto; murder of the fighters; deportation to Blizyn; life in Blizyn; transfer to Majdanek; life in Majdanek; transfer to Auschwitz; life in Auschwitz.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עוד"מ.טורעק , יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Rebellions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportations</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="560">Majdanek,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="1605">Blizyn,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714264</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Letter sent by Zipora Birman to her friends in Eretz Israel about life in the Bialystok Ghetto, 01 March 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

Typewritten copy

37 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-03-01 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="heb" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Hebrew</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Letter sent by Zipora Birman to her friends in Eretz Israel about life in the Bialystok Ghetto, 01 March 1943 Life in the Bialystok Ghetto including the Dror movement and Kibbutz Tel Chai; list of names of kibbutz members. Notes: - Copy of the original material dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto; - Published in the Yad Vashem Collection, 1957.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק, הוועדה ההיסטורית יהודית איזורית ב-Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1203">Youth movements</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Kibbutzim</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Tel Hai,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,British Mandate for Palestine</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="843">Letter</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714265</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">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</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-10-29 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[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 the grenades that caused the explosion in a ghetto workshop was ordered by the Jewish underground in the ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>Weapons</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject>Jewish physicians with the partisans in Ukraine during World War II</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="282">Hospitals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1043">Compensation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="549">Workshops</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000751">Friedel Fritz</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Blizyn,Konskie,Kielce,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="560">Majdanek,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714266</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Liova Frank, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-11-01 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Liova Frank, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 15 August 1943; resistance activities by the underground fighters including shooting and throwing grenades at the Germans; deportation of the Jews to Treblinka by train; escape from the train; wanderings in the area; meeting Jews who were hiding in the forest.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714267</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Avraham Finklestein, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, the forests and as a partisan in Bryansk</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-11-03 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Avraham Finklestein, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, the forests and as a partisan in Bryansk Occupation of Bialystok by the German Army; life in Bialystok under German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation, robbery of property, yellow badge, forced labor, abuse and murder; establishment of the Bialystok Ghetto; "Aktion", 01-02 November 1942; escape of Jews from the ghetto, including the witness and his family, during the "Aktion"; in hiding with Jews and Soviets in the forests; murder of 27 Jews who had been in hiding in the forests; life in the forests including hunger; joining a partisan family camp in the Bryansk area; fighting against the Germans by the partisans; shelling; liberation [of Bryansk?] by the Red Army.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה ההסטורית היהודית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="207">Family camps in the forest</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bryansk,Bryansk City,Orel,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Soviet Union</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714268</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Aliza Finkel, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in Bialystok and in a camp in the Zaldowa area</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-11-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Aliza Finkel, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in Bialystok and in a camp in the Zaldowa area Occupation of Bialystok by the German Army; life in Bialystok including anti-Jewish legislation, riots, yellow badge, abuse, burning of synagogues and forced labor; establishment of the ghetto; in hiding in the ghetto; deportation to a labor camp in the Zaldowa (?) area with her family; camp life together with other skilled professionals for approximately two years including cold, hunger and food rationing [for the camp inmates]; liberation by the Red Army.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="646">Burning of synagogues</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>Skilled workers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714269</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Joint testimony of Leibel Chazan, born in Ciechanowiec, Poland, 1932, and Chana Chazan, born in Ciechanowiec, Poland, 1934, regarding their experiences in Ciechanowiec, forests and in hiding</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-11-05 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Joint testimony of Leibel Chazan, born in Ciechanowiec, Poland, 1932, and Chana Chazan, born in Ciechanowiec, Poland, 1934, regarding their experiences in Ciechanowiec, forests and in hiding Escape from the "Aktion" in the Ciechanowiec Ghetto; in hiding in forests in the vicinity; meeting parents and siblings who escaped to the forest; wanderings in the forest without food; life being hidden by a farmer including hunger; liberation by the Red Army in Ciechanowiec.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding by Poles</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Ciechanowiec,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714270</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Mina Gritszak, born in Sokoly, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences in the Sokoly Ghetto, in hiding and in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-11-07 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Mina Gritszak, born in Sokoly, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences in the Sokoly Ghetto, in hiding and in Bialystok "Aktion" in the Sokoly Ghetto, 01 November 1942; escape from the "Aktion" with her family; life being hidden by farmers in fields and in the forest; hope for liberation; liberation of Sokoly by the Red Army. Move to Bialystok with her family.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Sokoly,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714271</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Golda Rzotkiewicz, born in Trestina, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in Trestina, in the forests and in hiding</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-11-08 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Golda Rzotkiewicz, born in Trestina, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in Trestina, in the forests and in hiding Occupation of Trestina by the German Army, 25 June 1941; burning of Trestina; concentration of the Jews in a pit; release of the Jews two weeks later; life in Trestina including robbery of property, abuse and murder of Jews; escape to the forests; hidden by farmers; "Aktion", 02 November 1941; wanderings in the forests in the vicinity; liberation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה ההסטורית היהודית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Trestina,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714272</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Mendel Melinsky, born in Wasilkowo, Poland, regarding his experiences in Wasilkowo, Zabludowa and Auschwitz</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-11-09 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Mendel Melinsky, born in Wasilkowo, Poland, regarding his experiences in Wasilkowo, Zabludowa and Auschwitz Jewish life in Wasilkowo before the war. Entry of the German Army into Wasilkowo, 1939; retreat of the German Army two weeks later; occupation of Wasilkowo by the Red Army; life under the Soviet occupation; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 22 June 1941; retreat of the Red Army; attempt by his family to escape to the Soviet Union; air-raids en route to the Soviet Union; inability to cross the Front line; escape to relatives in Zabludowa; burning of buildings in Zabludowa by the Germans; deportation to Auschwitz; survival.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק ,יו"ר הוועדההיהודיתההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Russian front</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to camps</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject>Escape attempts</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Zabludow,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wasilkowo,Oszmiana,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714273</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Leaving My Home": Testimony of Fania Landau, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Augustow and Auschwitz</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-11-10 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Leaving My Home": Testimony of Fania Landau, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Augustow and Auschwitz Life in the Bialystok Ghetto including:"Aktions", hunger and forced labor outside the ghetto; deportation of Jews to Treblinka; deportation to Augustow, 14 August 1943; notification of the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto and the murder of the Jews; murder of the Jews of Augustow, 15 August 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; life in Auschwitz.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה הנהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Augustów,Augustow,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714274</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Memoirs of A. Dereszinski, born in Slonim, Poland, 1903, regarding the fate of the Jews of Kostopol</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-11-12 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Memoirs of A. Dereszinski, born in Slonim, Poland, 1903, regarding the fate of the Jews of Kostopol Occupation of Kostopol by the German Army, 28 June 1941; life under the German occupation including robbery of Jewish property; abusive acts, rape and murder of Jews; murder of 500 men on orders from Kreishauptmann Leonard; murder of approximately 1,300 women and children on orders from Kreishauptmann Leonard; establishment of ghettos in the Kostopol area, including Stefan, Ludwipol, Berezene and Derazne, 05 October 1941; life in Stefan; division of the Kostopol Ghetto into three parts: a labor camp for men, 16-60; a ghetto for women, the elderly and children and an area intended for professionally skilled workers and Judenrat members; ghetto life including forced labor in construction and paving roads, food rationing, crowding, levying of taxes and forced contributions; execution of the Jews of Kostopol and the surrounding area, 22 August 1942; survival in the surrounding forests.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="834">Food rationing</subject>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="606">Rape</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Ludwipol,Kostopol,Wolyn,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Stefan,Kostopol,Wolyn,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="910">Kostopol,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kostopol,Kostopol,Wolyn,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Berezene,Kostopol,Wolyn,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Derazne,Kostopol,Wolyn,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714275</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Letter written by Zipora Birman in the Bialystok Ghetto regarding the sending of her regards to her sister, Shoshana Fink, in Jerusalem, 04 February 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-03-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="heb" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Hebrew</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Letter written by Zipora Birman in the Bialystok Ghetto regarding the sending of her regards to her sister, Shoshana Fink, in Jerusalem, 04 February 1943 The wording of the letter: "Bialystok Ghetto, 04 February 1943. I'd like to ask that my sister be found. She lives in Jerusalem. I don't remember her address. Her last name is now Shoshana Fink. [Please] send her my regards. I have no news of the family. I was still in the house under the Soviets. That was the last time. Today they most certainly are no longer alive. I, too, shall not be. Another week, maybe another month. I really wanted to meet her. At least for a few minutes. Too bad. Goodbye to her. Zipora." Note: Copy of the original material dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד טורעק מ., מנהל הוועדה ההסטורית ב- Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="227">Search for relatives</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Jerusalem,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,British Mandate for Palestine</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="843">Letter</genreform>
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      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714276</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Simcha Burstein, born in Kleszczele, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in Hajnowka, the Pruzinyn Ghetto and in forests in Kleszczele</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-01-14 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Simcha Burstein, born in Kleszczele, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in Hajnowka, the Pruzinyn Ghetto and in forests in Kleszczele Occupation of Hajnowka by the German Army, 23 June 1941; concentration of Jewish men in the synagogue; murder of the Jews including burning the synagogue; life under the German occupation including yellow badge, anti-Jewish legislation, forced labor paving roads and abuse of the elderly; appointment of a Judenrat; transfer of the local authority to the local mayor; levying of a forced contribution; abuse of members of the Jewish intelligentsia; liquidation of the Jewish community in Hajnowka, 06 August 1941; deportation of the Jews to the Pruzinyn Ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto, 26 January 1943; escape to the forests in Kleszczele.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="645">Desecration of synagogues</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Intelligentsia</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="599">Shearing of beards</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Hajnówka,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bielsk Podlaski,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kleszczele,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714277</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Vorsh regarding the experiences of the Jews in Narwa, Bialowieze, the Bielsk Podlaski Ghetto and Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-11-16 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Vorsh regarding the experiences of the Jews in Narwa, Bialowieze, the Bielsk Podlaski Ghetto and Bialystok Occupation of Narwa by the German Army, 1941; deportation of the Jews of Zabludow to Narwa; levying of a forced contribution in Bialowieze by the Gestapo; deportation of the [unemployed?] Jews to Pruzana; murder of Jews; deportation of the rest of the Jews to the Bielsk Podlaski Ghetto, 01 October 1942; transfer of the Jews to Bialystok; escape.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: ווארש]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportations</subject>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Zabludow,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Pruzana,Pruzana,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Narve,Virumaa,&lt;&gt;,Estonia</geogname>
          <geogname>Bielsk Podlaski,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714278</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Hillel Eidelman, born in Rakow, Poland, 1893, regarding his experiences in Rakow, Minsk and as a partisan</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-11-18 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Hillel Eidelman, born in Rakow, Poland, 1893, regarding his experiences in Rakow, Minsk and as a partisan Occupation of Rakow by the German Army, 27 June 1941; persecution and detention of Communists, Jews and Soviet Army POWs by the Polish gendarmie including Gribovski, Lukashevitz and Yachtevitz; arrest; concentration of the Jews in the synagogue compound; murder of Jews; deportation of the Jews who remained to a camp in Minsk by truck; camp life including hunger and thirst; unsuccessful attempt to escape from the camp, 30 June 1941; transfer of the inmates to another camp in the Minsk area; camp life including abuse of Jews, murder of members of the Jewish intelligentsia and separation of Jewish inmates from non-Jewish inmates; escape from the camp; move to Rakow, 10 July 1941; murder of Jews in Rakow; establishment of the Rakow Ghetto, 25 September 1941; ghetto life including crowding; billeting of 1,000 people in the four synagogues in Rakow; appointment of a Judenrat under Hirsch Rubinik; deportation of Jews for forced labor; period of service of Misha Mangoi as ghetto commander; "Aktion" by Lithuanians, 1942; burning of 1,000 Jews in the synagogue; joins the "Kuznitzov" partisan battalion; survival.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: מ.טורעק , יו"ר הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject>Imprisonemnt and deportation</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Intelligentsia</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="645">Desecration of synagogues</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from camps</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1000">Communists</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject>Soviet POWs</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="642">Persecution of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Rakow,Molodeczno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Minsk,Minsk City,Minsk,Belorussia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="1043">Rakow,Ghetto</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714279</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Chawa Rozensztejn regarding her experiences in Lomza</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-11-20 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Chawa Rozensztejn regarding her experiences in Lomza Liquidation of the Lomza Ghetto, November 1942; life outside the ghetto including hunger and finding a hiding place in a farmer's threshing floor; liberation by the Red Army.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: מ.טורעק,יו"רהוועדה היהודית ההסטורית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding by Poles</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714280</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Memoirs of Dr. T. Cytron, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences as a physician in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-11-22 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Memoirs of Dr. T. Cytron, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences as a physician in the Bialystok Ghetto Medical treatment of a wounded German found in the courtyard of a house at 50 Jurowiecka Street in the presence of Hauptsturmführer Friedel; transfer of the wounded man to the care of a German physician in the hospital on Warszawska Street; death of the wounded man a few days later; no reprisals against the ghetto Jews made by the Germans because the wounded man had been found outside the ghetto perimeters; German suspicion that the Poles had carried out the murder of the German; further information that the German had been shot by Szymon Datner.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית,ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>German physicians</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1043">Compensation</subject>
          <subject>Jewish physicians with the partisans in Ukraine during World War II</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="139">Jewish armed resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="282">Hospitals</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000751">Friedel Fritz</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714281</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Feiche Shuster-Rosenbaum, born in Jasinowka, Poland, 1912, regarding the fate of the Jews of Jasinowka</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

21 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-11-24 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Feiche Shuster-Rosenbaum, born in Jasinowka, Poland, 1912, regarding the fate of the Jews of Jasinowka Jewish life in Jasinowka before the war. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; general drafting of men; occupation of Jasinowka by the German Army; decrees, robbery of property and murder of Jews; occupation of Jasinowka by the Red Army; life under Soviet occupation; occupation of Jasinowka by the German Army; deportation of the Jews by train; escape of approximately 300 Jews from the train; Jews hiding in villages in the surrounding area; escape of Jews from hostile villages; Jews hiding in the surrounding forests; abusive acts and murder of Jews by Germans and Poles; discovery of hiding places of Jews in the forests; murder of the Jews whose hiding places were discovered; names of those murdered; acquisition of weapons with help from Polish farmers; clash between a group of Jews and gendarmes in the village of Bagne; murder of two gendarmes; murder of the Jews, Chaim Tikotzski and Moshe Barishefsky; setting on fire of a granary in Agrodniki in which Jews were hiding; burning of the Jews hiding in the granary; Soviet partisan activity in the area; rescue of 58 Jews from all those who escaped; liberation of the 58 escapees by the Red Army; names of Polish farmers who rescued Jews.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק , יו"ר הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1215">Soviet partisans</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="139">Jewish armed resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Jasinowka,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714282</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Jozefina Modzowiecka-Szepper, born in Bialystok, Poland. 1910, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-12-06 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Jozefina Modzowiecka-Szepper, born in Bialystok, Poland. 1910, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto Start of the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 16 August 1943; concentration of the Jews on Jurowiecka Street; deportation of the Jews to the railroad station by Belorussian and Ukrainian collaborators; escape attempts from the train by the youth; transfer to Treblinka; murder of inmates on arrival at Treblinka including teachers from the Hebrew High School; names of those murdered; transfer of the rest of the Jews to Lublin, and from there to Majdanek; suicides; survival; liberation. Return to Bialystok.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Belorussian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Ukrainian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="217">Suicides</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject>Jewish teachers</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="560">Majdanek,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Lublin,Lublin,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714283</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Fania Brzezinska, born in Knyszyn (near Bialystok), Poland, regarding her experiences in Knyszyn during the war</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

7 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-12-08 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Fania Brzezinska, born in Knyszyn (near Bialystok), Poland, regarding her experiences in Knyszyn during the war Outbreak of the war between Germany and Poland, 01 September 1939; occupation of Knyszyn by the Germans, 14 September 1939; robbery of property, anti-Jewish legislation, abuse, turning the synagogue into a cowshed; kidnapping of 80 men and their deportation to the Dzialdowo camp for forced labor under sub-human conditions; the Knyszyn Judenrat; abuse of Jews; murder of Jews; criminal activities of Hugo Koch, the Nazi; humane treatment by Schmidt, the German; hostile attitude of the local population towards the Jews; extermination of the Jews in Knyszyn together with the Jews of Zabludowa, Michalowa and Jews from the surrounding villages, 02 November 1942; escape of the witness; in hiding in various places in the vicinity until the liberation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורקוב,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="645">Desecration of synagogues</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Knyszyn,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Dzialdowo,Dzialdowo,Pomorze,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Michalowa,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zabludow,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714284</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Leib Wiszniewski regarding his experiences in Baranowicze, in the forests and as a partisan</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-12-12 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Leib Wiszniewski regarding his experiences in Baranowicze, in the forests and as a partisan Jewish community life in Baranowicze before the outbreak of the war. Occupation of Baranowicze by the German Army, late June 1941; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation, abusive acts, yellow badge and forced labor; murder of 73 Jews; concentration of approximately 1,000 Jewish men in the city square; abuse of the men; release of the Jews on orders of a German general on the claim that the Jews were needed to labor; establishment of the Baranowicze Ghetto, summer 1941; deportation of approximately 10,000 Jews to the ghetto; appointment of a Judenrat; establishment of a labor bureau; establishment of the Jewish police; term of office of Attorney-at-Law Isaacman as Judenrat Chairman; Isaacman and his secretary's concerns for the interests of the Jews of the ghetto; food rationing; "Aktion", late 1941; distribution of green work certificates to workers; distribution of yellow certificates to those unfit for work; murder of those holding yellow certificates including women, the elderly and children in a forest near Baranowicze; murder of the Judenrat Chairman on the charge that he did not [?] cooperate with the Germans during the "Aktion"; murder of 40 Jewish policemen; organization of the Jews in preparation for an uprising against the Germans; preparations for the uprising including collecting weapons; betrayal to the Germans regarding the preparations of the Jews for an uprising; deportation of 700 young men for forced labor; the fate of the 700 young men is not known; escape into the forests, October 1943; combat against the Germans as part of the "Grajdonovski " partisan unit; liberation by the Red Army, July 1944.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
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          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="834">Food rationing</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject>Jewish children</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="139">Jewish armed resistance</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="578">Work certificates</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Baranowicze,Baranowicze,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Baranowicze Area,forest,Murder Site,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714285</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Struggle and Liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 1945": Article written by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Jews of Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

23 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-12-14 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA["Struggle and Liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 1945": Article written by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Jews of Bialystok Occupation of Bialystok by the German Army, 27 June 1941; burning of 800-1,000 Jews in the Great Synagogue by the Germans; capture of 300 members of the intelligentsia and their disappearance without a trace; murder of the elderly, women and children; start of the final liquidation of the Jewish community in Bialystok and its surrounding areas, 16 August 1943; torture and murder of Jewish men, women and children by Germans and collaborators; uprising of the Bialystok Jews against the Germans; deportation of the Bialystok Jews to camps including Treblinka, Majdanek, Lublin and Auschwitz; murder of a general total of 200,000 Jews from the Bialystok area. Note: The article was published in Lodz by the Central Jewish Historical Commission (Library number 00128), 1946.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Jewish Intelligentsia</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="139">Jewish armed resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject>Rebellions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="599">Shearing of beards</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="645">Desecration of synagogues</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Lublin,Lublin,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="560">Majdanek,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Article</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714286</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"The Destruction of Bialystok": Report by Zipora Kaplan regarding the fate of Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

18 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["The Destruction of Bialystok": Report by Zipora Kaplan regarding the fate of Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto Deportation of Jews from the Bialystok area to Treblinka, November 1942; murder of the Jews in Treblinka; escape of Jews from villages in the area to the Bialystok Ghetto; transfer of the civilian government in the ghetto to the Gestapo; sealing of the ghetto; prevention of Jews from leaving the ghetto to go to work outside the ghetto, February 1943; "Aktion" conducted by the Gestapo, Kripo and Schupo, 05 February 1943; refusal of Jewish policemen to cooperate with the Germans; murder of Jews in old age homes; murder of the sick in hospitals; murder of children in children's homes in order to silence their cries including the use of Luminal; killing of a German by Melamed, a Jew; retaliation of the Germans for the killing of the German; murder of Jews in the ghetto; deportation of thousands of Jews to Treblinka. Note: Copy of the original material dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק עו"ד , מנהל הוועדה ההסטורית ב-Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="315">Children's homes</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="282">Hospitals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>Revenge</subject>
          <subject>Redemption of children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey report</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714287</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Regina Wilder, born in Drohobycz, Poland, 1914, regarding her experiences in Drohobycz and in Germany</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-07-18 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Regina Wilder, born in Drohobycz, Poland, 1914, regarding her experiences in Drohobycz and in Germany Occupation of Drohobycz by the German Army, 25 June 1941; riots against the Jews including abuse and murder of Jews by Poles and Ukrainians, 27 June 1941; establishment of a Judenrat led by Dr. Rosenblatt; Dr. Bernfeld's term of office as Judenrat treasurer; life under the German occupation including robbery of property and yellow badge; murder of Jews, including Professor Szymon Epstein; deportation of approximately 800 Jews including children and women to an unknown destination; "Aktion", 08 August 1942; survival of Jews who were in hiding and who had work certificates; establishment of the Jewish Quarter; "Aktions"; escape of Jews; Jews being hidden by farmers or hiding in forests; employment of Jews on a farm raising vegetables for the SS; escape of Jews with false Aryan documents to other cities; transfer of women, including the witness, to forced labor in Germany; liberation, 22 March 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Ukrainian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="578">Work certificates</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="183">Aryan documents</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportations</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1216">SS man</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps in Germany</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Drohobycz,Drohobycz,Lwow,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714288</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Sara Kirzner, born in Smorgon, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in camps and in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-12-12 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Sara Kirzner, born in Smorgon, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in camps and in Bialystok Life in a(n unnamed) camp including forced labor and morbidity; hospitalization; execution of the sick by injection of poison by order of the SS, 19 January 1945; rescue of the sick by a Jewish female physician from Hungary by dilution of the poison injection with water; liberation. Move to Bialystok.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject>Jewish physicians with the partisans in Ukraine during World War II</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="282">Hospitals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="861">Morbidity</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject>זריקות</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Smorgon,Oszmiana,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Vilna,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714289</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Unsuccessful Foray from the Ghetto by the Jewish Partisan Movement in Bialystok": Article written by Szymon Datner regarding the armed struggle of the Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto, 1945</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

10 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-02-20 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Unsuccessful Foray from the Ghetto by the Jewish Partisan Movement in Bialystok": Article written by Szymon Datner regarding the armed struggle of the Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto, 1945 Jewish underground preparations in the Bialystok Ghetto for convincing Jews to leave the ghetto and join the partisans in the forests, 24 May 1943; debate regarding conducting armed resistance; opposition of Judenrat members to the struggle lest it endanger the lives of the Jews in the ghetto; failure of the attempt at an armed resistance against the Germans by the Jews.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו" הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="139">Jewish armed resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Article</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714290</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"You Are A Jew, Mishka": Poem by Yakov Apatshinski, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 1920, regarding a Jewish boy during the war</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-11-21 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA["You Are A Jew, Mishka": Poem by Yakov Apatshinski, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 1920, regarding a Jewish boy during the war Life in Piotrkow Trybunalski until 1939. Outbreak of the war; escape to the Soviet Union; enlists in the Red Army, 1941; serves in "Kosciusko" Polish Battalion Number 1, 1943; serves in combat, including in Stalingrad and in Berlin. Life in Bialystok after the war; writing of a poem about a Jewish boy named "Mishka" who is not afraid of hunger or suffering; thoughts of the enemy that the Jew is dead; revival of the Jew and rebirth; spilling of Jewish blood; control of the enemy; calling upon the forest to fight against the enemy.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Stalingrad,Stalingrad City,Stalingrad,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Soviet Union</geogname>
          <geogname>Piotrkow Trybunalski,Piotrkow,Lodz,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714291</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Ida Lewitanska, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1916, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-12-23 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Ida Lewitanska, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1916, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto Occupation of Bialystok by the German Army, 27 June 1941; life under the German occupation including shooting in the streets and murder of Jews; concentration of Jews in the synagogue; burning of the synagogue including the Jews inside the building; opening of an escape window in the synagogue by a Pole; escape of Jews from the burning synagogue through the escape window; deportation of professionally skilled workers to forced labor; murder of Jews; levying of a forced contribution; collection of money by the Judenrat to ransom Jews arrested by the Gestapo; sealing of the ghetto, August 1941; the witness is in the eight month of her pregnancy; giving birth in the ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהוגית ההסורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="645">Desecration of synagogues</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="652">Imprisonment</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="758">Synagogues</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714293</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Marian Modzowiecki, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1900, regarding the fate of inmates in the Flossenburg camp and the Sachsen camp</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-02 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Marian Modzowiecki, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1900, regarding the fate of inmates in the Flossenburg camp and the Sachsen camp Deportation of 1,000 Jews from Hungary to the Flossenburg camp for forced labor for the Hungarian Army, November 1944; deaths of 2,000 Jews from the 3,000 Jews drafted for forced labor from starvation, morbidity and murder; abusive acts against the inmates; transfer of 50 professionally skilled inmates to jobs in various factories; murder of inmates by Phenol injection; murder of inmates including burning them alive and freezing them to death; liberation in Sachsen, 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="511">POWs</subject>
          <subject>Skilled workers</subject>
          <subject>Jewish prisoners</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject>הקפאה למוות</subject>
          <subject>זריקות</subject>
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        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Sachsen,Ansbach (Oberfranken und Mittelfranken),Bavaria,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Hungary</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="341">Flossenbürg,Camp,Germany</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714294</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Mala Polonska, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Wolkowysk, Warsaw, Germany and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-05 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Mala Polonska, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Wolkowysk, Warsaw, Germany and other places Escape from the Bialystok Ghetto to Wolkowysk, 1943; arrest of members of the Wolkowysk community; murder of the members of the Wolkowysk community who were arrested; "Aktion" on Yom Kippur by the Gestapo in Wolkowysk, 09 October 1943; escape to Warsaw by using a Soviet identity card; arrest; transfer to prison; meeting with Jewish inmates in the prison; prison life including morbidity; murder of 182 Jews in Nowosiolek, 15 April 1942; deportation of 1,500 people, including the witness, for forced labor in Germany, 22 April 1943; life in Germany for two years; transfer of the female inmates to Porczberg(?) until the liberation; liberation. Move back to Bialystok.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="183">Aryan documents</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escapes</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="872">Jewish communities</subject>
          <subject>Imprisonemnt and deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="493">Typhus</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Warszawa,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wolkowysk,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714295</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of A. Gerszuni, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1921, regarding the fate of the Jewish underground in the Bialystok Ghetto and his experiences in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen and Dachau</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-07 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of A. Gerszuni, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1921, regarding the fate of the Jewish underground in the Bialystok Ghetto and his experiences in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen and Dachau Preparations of youth in the Bialystok Ghetto for resistance activities against the Germans; forced labor at building; contact with Soviet POWs; rescue of Soviet POWs by members of the Jewish underground in the Bialystok Ghetto including transmitting information regarding the battlefront situation and provision of food, cigarettes and medicines; deportation to Auschwitz; life in Auschwitz; transfer to Buchenwald; life in Buchenwald; transfer to Gross-Rosen; life in Gross-Rosen; transfer to Dachau; life in Dachau.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1097">Soviet soldiers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="511">POWs</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="510">POW camp</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="833">Food supply</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="43">Buchenwald,Camp,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="433">Gross Rosen,Camp,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt; (&lt;&gt;),&lt;&gt;,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="177">Dachau,Camp,Germany</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714296</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Report by Pesach Kaplan regarding the Judenrat in the Bialystok Ghetto, 1941-1942</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

17 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04-08 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Report by Pesach Kaplan regarding the Judenrat in the Bialystok Ghetto, 1941-1942 Occupation of Bialystok by the Germans, 1941; appointment of a Judenrat under the leadership of Rabbi Gedalia Rosenman; Rosenman's resignation; appointment of Efraim Barash, the engineer, as Judenrat Chairman; appointment of 24 Judenrat members; relaying orders from the Germans to the ghetto population by the Judenrat; establishment of the Jewish police by the Judenrat; police activities; Judenrat activities including providing food to the ghetto population, drafting Jews for forced labor and giving social assistance to the ghetto population; establishment of ghetto institutions including an old age home, pharmacies, children's houses, hospitals, a laundry, a dressmaking workshop, workshops, factories, schools and firefighters; concerns of the Judenrat regarding industry, housing and sanitation in the ghetto. Note: Copy of the original material dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ. טורק, מנהל הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב- Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Residence</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1134">Schools</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="549">Workshops</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="599">Shearing of beards</subject>
          <subject>Social aid and welfare</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="834">Food rationing</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Firefighters</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="282">Hospitals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="937">Industry</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="315">Children's homes</subject>
          <subject>Ammunition factories</subject>
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        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="001648">Rosenman, Gedalia</persname>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000022">Barasz Efraim</persname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey report</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714297</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Jozefina Szepper-Modzowiecka, born in 1910, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, in Sachsen and in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-09 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="605">Sexual abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="411">Selection</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="485">Kapo</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000272">Mengele Josef</persname>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000979">Nell Paul</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Sachsen,Ansbach (Oberfranken und Mittelfranken),Bavaria,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714298</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Rivkeleh the Sabbath Observer", poem/song by Pesach Kaplan, written in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-12 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Rivkeleh the Sabbath Observer", poem/song by Pesach Kaplan, written in the Bialystok Ghetto Rivkaleh's work as a seamstress in the Bialystok Ghetto; her longings for her boyfriend, Hersheleh, who was deported from the ghetto and whose fate is unknown.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportations</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714300</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Jewish Heroes": List compiled by M. Turek, Chairman of the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok, presenting the names of Jews who participated in combat against the Germans and were awarded Medals of Excellence for their heroic acts</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-15 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Jewish Heroes": List compiled by M. Turek, Chairman of the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok, presenting the names of Jews who participated in combat against the Germans and were awarded Medals of Excellence for their heroic acts List of the names of Jews who participated in combat against the Germans, including as Red Army soldiers serving at various Fronts, and were awarded Medals of Excellence for their heroic acts in combat.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: מ.טורעק ,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject>Jewish heroes</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000836">Tamir (Tureck), Menachem</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>List of names</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714301</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Memoirs of Mosjce Kalsztejn, born in Suwalki, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Minsk and as a partisan</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-17 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Memoirs of Mosjce Kalsztejn, born in Suwalki, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Minsk and as a partisan Unsuccessful escape attempt from Minsk to Smolensk; return to Minsk; establishment of the Minsk Ghetto, August 1941; "Aktion" against Jews by Ukrainians and Lithuanians, 07 October 1941; murder of 2,500 Jews during the "Aktion"; murder of 2,000 Jews in the streets of Minsk, March 1942; arrest, 03 May 1942; life in prison for ten months; murder of a policeman; escape by truck with the policeman's uniform; murder of the witness' wife as retaliation by the Germans; joins the partisans.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.ורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="652">Imprisonment</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Ukrainian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="139">Jewish armed resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Minsk,Minsk City,Minsk,Belorussia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="600">Minsk,Ghetto</geogname>
          <geogname>Suwalki,Suwalki,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>פוטוקופיה</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714302</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Two poems written by Y. Chernichau in Bialystok regarding the will to live and struggle against the Nazis, 03 January 1946</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-19 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Two poems written by Y. Chernichau in Bialystok regarding the will to live and struggle against the Nazis, 03 January 1946 1. "In Flame and Smoke", regarding the will to live and struggle against the Nazis; 2. "Jewish Spirit" , calling for a struggle against the Nazis.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714303</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Simcha Bursztejn, born in Kleszczele, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Bryansk and in forests</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-20 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Simcha Bursztejn, born in Kleszczele, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Bryansk and in forests Occupation of Bryansk by the German Army, 24 June 1941; life in Bryansk including decrees, abusive acts and murder of Jews; desecration of the memorial for Lenin put up in Bryansk, 1940; anti-Jewish decrees imposed on the Jews by the Polish mayor, Dr. Danbrausky and the police chief, Pietshak; displays of antisemitism against the Jews; forced labor paving roads and digging trenches; murder of Moshe Klimentausky, the Jew, for possessing a radio; establishment of the Bryansk Ghetto, April 1942; "Aktion" carried out by the Gestapo, 02 November 1942; escape of approximately 550 Jews from the Germans; liquidation of the ghetto, 07 November 1942; escape from the ghetto; life in the forests; survival.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="329">Antisemitism during the war</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bryansk,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kleszczele,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bielsk Podlaski,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="172">Bransk,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714304</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Simcha Bursztejn, born in Kleszczele, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Drohiczyn</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-20 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Simcha Bursztejn, born in Kleszczele, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Drohiczyn Occupation of Drohiczyn by the German Army, 22 June 1942; murder of 31 Jewish men; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation, forced labor and yellow badge; appointment of Szwab, the teacher, as mayor; establishment of the Drohiczyn Ghetto, April 1942; smuggling of food items into the ghetto; "Aktion" conducted by the Gestapo, 02 November 1942; murder of Jews; escape of Jews from the ghetto; deportation of the Jews to the Semiatycze Ghetto; deportation of the Jews to Treblinka, 09 November 1942; survival of approximately 70 Jews who succeeded in escaping.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Smuggling food</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportations</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Semiatycze,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Drohiczyn,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714305</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Iccak Stupnik, born in Zambrow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in Zambrow and the forests</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-21 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Iccak Stupnik, born in Zambrow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in Zambrow and the forests Jewish life in Zambrow before the outbreak of the war. Occupation of Zambrow by the German Army, 25 June 1941; life under the occupation including anti-Jewish legislation and abuse of the Jews; "Aktion", July 1941; selection; murder of 800 Jews, mostly youth, 15 Kilometers from Zambrow; establishment of the Zambrow Ghetto; attitude of the Polish population towards the Jews; murder of 300 elderly Jews, women and men; sorting of the Jewish population in the ghetto into the privileged and the forced laborers; Judenrat members, Jewish policemen and the well-to-do are the privileged; the rest of the Jews are forced laborers including working at paving roads; "Aktion", 02 November 1941; deportation of the Jews of Zambrow including Jews from neighboring villages to a camp one kilometer's distance from Zambrow; camp life including abuse, hunger, cold and morbidity; criminal activities of Bloch, the Polish commandant of the camp, including murder of Jews; collaboration of Gliksman, the Jew from Lodz, with the Germans; liquidation of the camp, 19 January 1943; escape to the forests; joining the partisans; survival as a partisan.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Elderly</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="825">Women</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="493">Typhus</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="411">Selection</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1215">Partisans</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="117">Jewish collaborators</subject>
          <subject>Jewish children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Zambrow,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zambrow,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714307</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Report by Dr. Brawer regarding the liquidation of the Grodno Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

19 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04-08 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק, מנהל הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב- Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="204">Grodno,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey report</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714308</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"From Bialystok to Majdanek": Poem written by Szalke Grinberg, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1919</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-23 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["From Bialystok to Majdanek": Poem written by Szalke Grinberg, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1919 Life in Bialystok until the outbreak of the war. Deportation of Jews to the Bialystok Ghetto; life in Bialystok including anti-Jewish legislation, robbery and murder of Jews.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="560">Majdanek,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714309</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Belz": Poem/song by Gina, born in Boryslaw, regarding the murder of the Jews of Belz</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-25 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Belz": Poem/song by Gina, born in Boryslaw, regarding the murder of the Jews of Belz The fate of the Jews of Belz; murder of the Jews of Belz; last will and testament to the survivors to remember what happened and to avenge.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד צ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Revenge</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="532">Murder</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Boryslaw,Drohobycz,Lwow,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Belz,Sokal,Lwow,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714310</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Abram Lipcer regarding his experiences in Janow, Sokolki, Kielbasin and in hiding</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-26 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Abram Lipcer regarding his experiences in Janow, Sokolki, Kielbasin and in hiding Deportation of his family to the Kielbasin camp; life in Kielbasin; transfer of the family to Treblinka; transfer to Janow, 02 November 1942; transfer together with 1,600 other Jews to Sokolki; transfer to Kielbasin; transfer of 20,000-25,000 Jews from Korycin, Grodno, Sokolki, Janow, Krynki and Suchowola to Kielbasin; life in Kielbasin including forced labor, robbery of possessions, food rationing; suicides and abusive acts; transfer to the railroad station near Grodno after six weeks; transfer to Treblinka; escape; hidden by a farmer for 19 months; attitude of the local population towards the Jews.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק. יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Antisemitism after the war</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="834">Food rationing</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation by train</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from an Aktion</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="217">Suicides</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="532">Murder</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Suchowola,Sokolka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Sokolka,Sokolka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Krynki,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grodno,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2410">Kiełbasin,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Korycin,Sokolka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Janow,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714311</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Mira Kniaziew, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Blizyn, Auschwitz and Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-26 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Mira Kniaziew, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Blizyn, Auschwitz and Bialystok Life in the Blizyn labor camp; transfer to Auschwitz; transfer of her father to forced labor in Germany; separation from her father; life in Auschwitz; liberation. Move back to Bialystok.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ,טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="1605">Blizyn,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714312</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Rafael Nachowicz, born in Brisk, Poland regarding the fate of the Jews of Luck</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-27 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Rafael Nachowicz, born in Brisk, Poland regarding the fate of the Jews of Luck Deportation of the Jews from the villages in the Luck area to the ghetto and to camps; [ghetto] life including levying of decrees and the yellow badge; smuggling of food into the ghetto by farmers from surrounding villages; barter of merchandise and valuables between the farmers and the Jews; deportation of the Jews to killing pits in the Luck area by truck; murder of the Jews; help from Polish farmers to Jews who succeeded in escaping; combat as a Red Army soldier; wounded; hospitalization; meeting with a Ukrainian soldier who informed him of the fate of the Jews of Luck.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ. טורעק , עו"ד הוועדה היהדית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="296">Assistance and rescue</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1321">Killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>Smuggling food</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Luck,Łuck,Wolyn,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="525">Luck,Ghetto</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714316</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Samuel Goldberg, born in Korycin, Poland, regarding his experiences in Korycin, in hiding and in Janow</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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; murder of Jews in Janow; survival of two Jews from 2,500 Jews in Janow; hiding of the Jews who survived by local farmers; names of the Jews who survived. Note: The testimony was taken down by Dr. Szymon Datner, 18 October 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Korycin,Sokolka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Janow,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714317</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Genia Wilenska, born in Slonim, Poland, 1913, regarding her experiences in Slonim, in hiding on the Aryan side, in Bialystok and Bielsk</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-01-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Genia Wilenska, born in Slonim, Poland, 1913, regarding her experiences in Slonim, in hiding on the Aryan side, in Bialystok and Bielsk In hiding with her husband and 6-year old son in Slonim; discovery of the hiding place; deportation of her son to the Wolkowysk camp; removal of her son from the camp by bribing a Kapo; in hiding on the Aryan side using forged documents; escape with her son; joins her husband in a partisan family camp; discovery of the partisan camp by the Germans; death of her husband during the fighting against the Germans; escape with her son; in hiding in forests; strangulation of children by their mothers lest they be discovered by the Germans; transfer to Bialystok; transfer to Bielsk; entrusting her son to a children's home; life in Bielsk; liberation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ. טורעק, יו"ר הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Children in hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="825">Women</subject>
          <subject>The Aryan side</subject>
          <subject>הריגה</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="485">Kapo</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="315">Children's homes</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="207">Family camps in the forest</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to camps</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Wolkowysk,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bielsk Podlaski,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Slonim,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714322</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Protocols of Judenrat meetings and General Meetings in the Bialystok Ghetto, 02 August 1941-11 November 1942</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

142 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Protocols of Judenrat meetings and General Meetings in the Bialystok Ghetto, 02 August 1941-11 November 1942 Also in the file: - Protocol from Judenrat meeting Number 14 regarding employment, taxes, forced contribution, ghetto boundaries, prevention of typhus and more, 22 November1941; - Protocol from a General Meeting in the ghetto regarding the establishment of Ghetto Number 2, intended for essential skilled laborers, 09 November 1941; - Protocol from a meeting of the Judenrat, Jewish police and managers of factories in the ghetto regarding employment, attitude of the authorities, obedience to authority directives and prevention of decrees, 10 November 1942; - Protocol from a meeting of Department Heads attached to the Judenrat regarding clerks dealing with industrial matters, social assistance and so on; - Protocol from a Judenrat meeting regarding the evacuation of streets in the ghetto and handing over of apartments [belonging to Jews] to 5,000 Poles or Belorussians transferred from the Bialowigz area; a call to Jews to help those who have been evicted from their apartments and house them in new apartments in the ghetto, 11 November 1942. Note: Copy of the original material dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ. טורעק, מנהל הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="861">Morbidity</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="549">Workshops</subject>
          <subject>Residence</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="847">Mutual help</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Official documentation</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714323</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Survey of Treblinka, January 1943-08 February 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

5 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">-</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[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 out of the ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורקוב, מנהל הוועדה ההסטורית ב- Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="499">Gas chambers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from camps</subject>
          <subject>Concentration Camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1216">SS man</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Ukrainian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="540">Mass murders</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000351">Sauer Albert</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey report</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714324</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Dora Rubina, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, the Vilna Ghetto, Kozlowa Ruda, Stutthof and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

6 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-02 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Dora Rubina, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, the Vilna Ghetto, Kozlowa Ruda, Stutthof and other places Life in Warsaw, 1939; escape with three actors to Bialystok; escape to Vilna; establishment of the "Remikat" (?)acting troupe in Vilna; names of the actors in the troupe; establishment of a theater in Vilna during the Soviet occupation; names of the theater actors; names of the performances presented in the theater; occupation of Vilna by the German Army, 24 June 1941; escape of the actors from Vilna; establishment of the Vilna Ghetto, 06 September 1941; life under the German occupation including forced labor and "Aktions"; [obtaining] work permits; detention of Jews in the ghetto; murder of Jews in Ponary; resistance to the Germans by Frania Winter, the actress; murder of the actress by the Germans; establishment of a theater in the ghetto; names of the performances held in the theater; names of the actors in the performances; arrest of the singer Luba Levitzki; singing the song, "Eli, Eli" [My God, My God] by the singer before her death; murder of the singer; rumors regarding the liquidation of the ghetto; putting on the last performance of "Moshe, Be Strong" [by Kasriel Brojde]; escape of Jews to the forest; liquidation of the ghetto, 23 September 1943; in hiding with 40 Jews; escape to the Aryan side; transfer with her husband, Mordechaj Shadowski, to the "Keiylis" Block [in the camp] in Vilna; arrest of her husband by the Gestapo, 10 May 1944; deportation to the Kozlowa Ruda camp, 16 May 1944; camp life including digging peat; murder of the actors who remained in "Keiylis"; transfer to Stutthof; transfer to other camps in Germany; death march including hunger and disease; liberation by the Red Army, 10 March 1945. Move back to Bialystok. Note: The title of the testimony is "The Path of Suffering of Jewish Actors".]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="695">Theater</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from an Aktion</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1321">Killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="697">Jewish actors</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="652">Imprisonment</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kozlowa Ruda,Kalvarija,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Vilna,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
          <geogname>Warszawa,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714325</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Pejsach Bursztejn, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1909, regarding the existence of sexual problems in Blizyn and Auschwitz</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-02-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Pejsach Bursztejn, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1909, regarding the existence of sexual problems in Blizyn and Auschwitz Life in Blizyn including hunger, beatings, fear, morbidity and murder; development of impotence among women and men living in the same block due to the murder and epidemics of typhus which would break out; life of the inmates with special privileges including the Kapos, skilled professionals, Blockaltestes, kitchen workers and profiteers; existence of greater sexual demands among the privileged; obtaining a woman for gratification of sexual needs by the privileged in exchange for a kilo of bread or other favors; young women yielding to SS men; women remaining overnight in the men's block; life in Auschwitz including separation between men and women; sexual abuse; bringing of women to Block 21 for the sexual gratification of the SS men, Blockaltestes and Kapos; transfer of good looking European women to Auschwitz for employment as sex slaves for the SS, Blockaltestes and Kapos; transfer of the women to the crematorium after a few months; medical experiments on men and women (by the Germans) including sterilization and artificial impregnation of the women.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו,ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="861">Morbidity</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="495">Medical experiments</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="668">Sterilization</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="605">Sexual abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="493">Typhus</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="485">Kapo</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject>Jewish prisoners</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="1605">Blizyn,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714326</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Stanislaw Jerominski, born in 1896, regarding the rescue of a Jewish baby girl</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-02-08 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Stanislaw Jerominski, born in 1896, regarding the rescue of a Jewish baby girl Rescue of a 1-year old Jewish baby girl from the Jews of Choroshoch (?) from Knyszyn by Jerominski and his wife from the village of Chobotki after the liquidation of the Knyszyn Ghetto, November 1942; hiding the baby girl by the Jerominski family and relatives in Jasinowka until the liquidation of the Jasinowka Ghetto, 05 January 1943; raising the baby as a daughter by the Jerominski couple even after the war.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1206">Babies</subject>
          <subject>Jewish children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>Rescue by Poles</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Jasinowka,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Knyszyn,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714327</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Pejsach Bursztejn, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and Birkenau</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

5 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-02-10 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Pejsach Bursztejn, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and Birkenau Description of the site intended for construction of Auschwitz; building of Auschwitz, 1941 [should be: 1940]; deportation of the first political inmates from Germany to Auschwitz; abuse of the inmates; erection of the first gas chamber in the bunker; building of Auschwitz2-Birkenau, winter 1942 [should be: 1941]; activating the gas chambers in Birkenau; burning of corpses by inmates known as "Sonderkommando" workers; building of approximately 400 blocks; building the crematorium; building modernized gas chambers; deportation of thousands of Jews from Europe to Birkenau in order to murder them; selections in the camp; deception of the victims before their murder; extracting gold teeth from the mouths of the corpses; building Crematorium Number 4, 1944 [should be: 1943]; building Crematorium Number 5, 1944 [should be: 1943]; transfer of 400 crates containing the eyeglasses of those murdered to Germany; shearing the hair of the women before their entry into the gas chambers; finding approximately seven tons of hair in the camp after the war; murder of pregnant women in the gas chambers; sterilization of 300 young men by X-rays, January 1942; medical experimentation on the inmates; murder of inmates on whom the experiments were conducted; life of the inmates in the camp, including forced labor, morbidity and mortality from exhaustion and starvation; operating the four crematoria 24 hours a day; sexual abuse of beautiful European women by German Kapos and Blockaltestes in Block 21; murder of inmates by shooting in the "Enker" (?) of Block 11; work of Sonderkommando men burning corpses; Sonderkommando Uprising, autumn 1944; murder of approximately 10,000 inmates per hour in the gas chambers; preparation of pits for burning the corpses due to pressure in the crematoria; burning of bodies in the pits; most of the Jewish victims were from Theresienstadt, Greece, France and Poland including children from Bialystok accompanied by Dr. Katzenelson; evacuation of the inmates performing forced labor, November 1944; termination of gas chamber activities, November 1944; partial obliteration of the signs of murder by the Germans; liquidation of the camp, 12 January 1945; demolition of the last crematorium; liberation of the camp by the Red Army, 18 January 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="516">Burning of corpses</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="825">Women</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="499">Gas chambers</subject>
          <subject>Hunger-related diseases</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="574">Cover up of traces of murder</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="483">Crematoria</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="623">Evacuation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject>Political prisoners</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="411">Selection</subject>
          <subject>Sterilization of women</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1321">Killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="495">Medical experiments</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="861">Morbidity</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Greece</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,France</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2">Birkenau,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="1">Auschwitz I,Concentration Camp,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Theresienstadt,Litomerice,Bohemia,Czechoslovakia</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2">Auschwitz II - Birkenau,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714329</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Dina (Tepper) Wajnsztejn, born in Suchowola, Poland, 1905, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-02-11 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Dina (Tepper) Wajnsztejn, born in Suchowola, Poland, 1905, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto In hiding with her daughter during the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 16-23 August 1943; discovery of hiding places of Jews; murder of the Jews who were caught; participation of Fritz Friedel and Ukrainians in carrying out murders; names of those murdered; final liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 23 August 1943. Note: The testimony was taken down by M. Turek, 16 August 1946.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד .טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject>Ukrainian war criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000751">Friedel Fritz</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714330</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Mieczyslaw Winicki, the Pole (?), from Bielsk, regarding his experiences in Bielsk and the rescue of two Jewish women in the Lence area</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-02-14 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Mieczyslaw Winicki, the Pole (?), from Bielsk, regarding his experiences in Bielsk and the rescue of two Jewish women in the Lence area Work as a bookkeeper in factories in Bielsk, August 1941-15 July 1943; arrest of workers for sabotage activity in the factory; murder of workers for sabotage activity in the factory; escape; hidden by various farmers; meeting with two Jewish women hiding in the forest near Lence (?); help to the women; keeping the hiding place of the women a secret from the Germans by the local residents; the life of the women in the forest near Lence (?) in the Nowo-Aleksandrowo area for approximately 20 months; liberation of the women by the Red Army. Move to Bialystok. Note: The testimony was written down by M. Turek, 18 October 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="297">Assistance to Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the woods</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="652">Imprisonment</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bielsk Podlaski,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Nowy Aleksandrów,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714331</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Dr. Tobiasz Cytron regarding the fate of Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto, Treblinka, Theresienstadt, Majdanek and Blizyn</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">xerox

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Dr. Tobiasz Cytron regarding the fate of Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto, Treblinka, Theresienstadt, Majdanek and Blizyn Preparing an uprising in the Bialystok Ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto hospital; deportation of children to Treblinka; deportation of children to Theresienstadt; murder of Jews in Majdanek; murder of children in Blizyn.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה הודית ההסטורית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject>Jewish children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="282">Hospitals</subject>
          <subject>Bialystok Ghetto Uprising</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="1605">Blizyn,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="449">Theresienstadt,Ghetto,Czechoslovakia</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="560">Majdanek,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714332</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Rachela Kaplanska, born in Sokol, Poland, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, the Bialystok Ghetto, in hiding and on the Aryan side</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-02-18 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Rachela Kaplanska, born in Sokol, Poland, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, the Bialystok Ghetto, in hiding and on the Aryan side Life in the Vilna Ghetto; life in the Bialystok Ghetto, from 30 December 1941; in hiding with her family in a hiding place for two weeks during the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 16 August 1943; discovery of the hiding place by the Germans; detention of those hiding along with 700 other people who had been hiding in "Linas Hacedek"; names of the inmates; abuse of the Jews by the Ukrainians; deportation of the Jews to Treblinka; escape en route; transfer back to the Bialystok Ghetto; transfer to the Aryan side; in hiding in villages; attitude of the local population in Sokol.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Ukrainian population</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to the Aryan side</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject>Imprisonemnt and deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject>The Aryan side</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Ukrainian collaborators</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Sokol,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714333</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Nochum Babikier, born in Zabludow, Poland, 1900, regarding his experiences during the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, Part I</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-02-22 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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; murder of the patients in the hospital; robbery of Jewish property; abuse; deportation of young people, including the witness, to an unknown destination.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="282">Hospitals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="139">Jewish armed resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation by train</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject>Bialystok Ghetto Uprising</subject>
          <subject>Liquidation of the Bialystok ghetto</subject>
          <subject>Sick people</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Ukrainian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="411">Selection</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Lublin,Lublin,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714334</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Survey conducted by M. Turek regarding refugees who escaped from Treblinka, 1943-1946</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">-</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Survey conducted by M. Turek regarding refugees who escaped from Treblinka, 1943-1946 - Report regarding life in Treblinka provided by refugees from Warsaw who succeeded in escaping from the camp, July 1943; - The lives of the Jewish inmates from Bialystok, Michalowa, Jalowka, Wolomin, Sokol and elsewhere in Treblinka; - Murder of Jews in gas chambers; - Murder by electricity as retaliation for the escape of Jews from deportation trains near Malkina; - Hospitalization in a Bialystok hospital of a refugee who contracted typhus.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, מנהל הוועדה ההיסטורית ב- BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="304">Refugees during the war</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="499">Gas chambers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="493">Typhus</subject>
          <subject>Sick people</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000836">Tamir (Tureck), Menachem</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialistok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Jalowka,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Michalowa,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Praga Warszawa,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Sokol,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Warsaw,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wolomin,Radzymin,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey report</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714335</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Nochum Babikier, born in Zabludow, Poland, 1900, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and on the train to Lublin, Part II</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-02-24 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Nochum Babikier, born in Zabludow, Poland, 1900, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and on the train to Lublin, Part II Deportation of Jews from the Bialystok Ghetto to Lublin by train; escape of young people from the train traveling in the Starosielce area; shooting at the escapees by the Ukrainian guards; deaths of some of the escapees; incidents of suicide in the railroad cars; arrival in Lublin. Note: - Continuation of Yad Vashem archives number M.11/209 (3714333).]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation by train</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="217">Suicides</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Ukrainian collaborators</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Lublin,Lublin,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Starosielce,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714336</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Nochum Babikier, born in Zabludow, Poland, 1900, regarding his experiences in Majdanek, Part III</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Nochum Babikier, born in Zabludow, Poland, 1900, regarding his experiences in Majdanek, Part III Arrival in Majdanek, 20 August 1943; absorption in the camp; order to undress; order to hand over valuables to the Germans; selection; transfer to the showers; receives an inmate's uniform; transfer of 600 inmates including the witness to Block Number 4 under the supervision of a Polish Blockaeteste and a Polish Stubendienst (Block Janitor); description of the block; camp life including abuse of inmates and required attendance at morning, afternoon and evening roll calls; transfer of 700 professionally skilled men and 150 seamstresses to a labor camp in the Lublin area. Note: See Yad Vashem Archives File Number (3714335).]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה ההסטורית היהודית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Blockaelteste</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="484">Inmates in positions of authority</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="411">Selection</subject>
          <subject>Stubendienst</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="825">Women</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="560">Majdanek,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Lublin,Lublin,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714337</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Yudel Egber, born in Kreizberg, Poland, 1901, regarding his experiences in Riga</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

7 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-03-03 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Yudel Egber, born in Kreizberg, Poland, 1901, regarding his experiences in Riga Occupation of Riga by the German Army, 01 July 1941; escape of Jews from Riga; murder of the escapees by the Latvians; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation, eviction of Jews from their homes, yellow badge and arrest of Jews; abusive acts and murder of Jews by the Latvian police; desecration of cemeteries; burning of synagogues; establishment of the Riga Ghetto; sealing of the ghetto, 25 October 1941; appointment of a Judenrat; deportation of Jews to forced labor; deportation of Jews to the "Kazrnirongas camp" (?); murder of Jews in the cemetery by the Latvian police, 29 November 1941; burial of those murdered in a mass grave which had already been prepared; first "Aktion", 30 November 1941; second "Aktion", 07-12 December 1941 [should be 01 December and 08-09 December 1941]; murder of Jews including the sick and children in the orphanage, 07 December 1941; murder of policemen and members of the Judenrat and their families in the Rumbuli forest; robbery of Jewish property; hiding places of Jews in hiding; murder of approximately 2,500 Jews in the Rumbuli forest, 09 December 1941; burial of the wounded while they are still alive; deportation of Jews from Austria and Germany, including from Hannover and Leipzig to Riga; deportation of 500 Jews from Lithuania to Riga; transfer of the Jews from Germany to the Salaspils camp, 18 kilometers from Riga; camp life including forced labor; murder of approximately 200 Jews in the Bikernieki forest, February 1942; life in the Salaspils camp including mortality from starvation and cold; employment of Jews in the ghetto giving services to ghetto residents; the fate of Jews in the Dvinsk Ghetto; the fate of Jews in the Liebau Ghetto; murder of Jewish policemen, 31 October 1942; murder of 160 professional skilled people, 05 November 1942; transfer of Jews from Germany, Czechoslovakia and Austria to a camp in Riga; beginning of the liquidation of the camp of Jews from Latvia, May-June 1943; beginning of the liquidation of the ghetto of Jews from Latvia, May-June 1943; beginning of the liquidation of the ghetto of Jews from Germany, May-June 1943; deportation of Jews to the Kaiserwald camp and from there to Estonia; liquidation of the camps, 31 October 1943; deportation of Jews from Vilna to Kaiserwald, late 1943-[early] 1944; transfer of Jews from Kaiserwald to Stutthof, late August 1944; liberation of Riga by the Red Army, September 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="646">Burning of synagogues</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="347">Desecration of cemeteries</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation to Estonia</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="645">Desecration of synagogues</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="750">Jewish cemeteries</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Mass escape</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="650">Prisoners</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Vilna,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Czechoslovakia</geogname>
          <geogname>Dvinsk,Ghetto,Latvia</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt; (&lt;&gt;),&lt;&gt;,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>Hannover,Hannover (Hannover),Hanover,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="788">Kaiserwald,Camp,Latvia</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Latvia</geogname>
          <geogname>Leipzig,Leipzig (Leipzig),Saxony,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>Liebau,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Narve,Virumaa,&lt;&gt;,Estonia</geogname>
          <geogname>Riga Region,Closed Ghetto, vicinity,Murder Site</geogname>
          <geogname>Riga,Rigas,Vidzeme,Latvia</geogname>
          <geogname>Rumbuli,forest,Murder Site,Latvia</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="1596">Salaspils,Camp,Latvia</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Austria</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey report</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714338</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Jehoszua Keiles, born in Grodzinsk, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in Semiatycze</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-03-05 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Jehoszua Keiles, born in Grodzinsk, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in Semiatycze Occupation of Semiatycze by the German Army, 23 June 1941; life in Semiatycze including riots, robbery of property, forced labor and murder of Jews, 29 June 1941; arrest of Jews and their murder by local Poles; names of the murderers; appointment of a Judenrat by the German Feldgendarmerie, August 1941; names of the Judenrat members; murder of Jews in the streets; names of those murdered; establishment of the Semiatycze Ghetto, 01 August 1942; criminal acts of Wladek Nawak, the Pole; liquidation of the Semiatycze Ghetto, 02 November 1942; transfer of Jews from Grodzisk and Drohiczyn [to Semiatycze?]; murder of children; transfer of the Jews to Treblinka; in hiding in a hiding place; being hidden by a Polish farmer until the liberation; rescue of seven Jews by the farmer; survival of 70 Jews from Semiatycze.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="652">Imprisonment</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject>Jewish children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="261">Rescuers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Semiatycze,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Drohiczyn,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grodzisk,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714339</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Meir Zhukovski, born in Sokolki, Poland, 1913, regarding an "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 16 August 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-03-07 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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 victims; deaths of Germans; killing of Germans by partisan grenades; retreat of the partisans due to their being shelled by two German tanks.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject>Weapons</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714340</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Report submitted by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding an "Aktion" in Bialystok, 27 June 1941</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-03-10 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Report submitted by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding an "Aktion" in Bialystok, 27 June 1941 Occupation of Bialystok by the German Army, 27 June 1941; murder and burning of approximately 2,000 Jews during the "Aktion", 27 June 1941 ("Bloody Friday"); burning of the Jewish Quarter and the Great Synagogue including Jews; making an escape opening in the synagogue by a Pole; escape of approximately 12 Jews from the burning synagogue; names of those who were saved.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק ,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="645">Desecration of synagogues</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="758">Synagogues</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="261">Rescuers</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714341</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Anatol Rabinowicz regarding his experiences in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-03-14 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Anatol Rabinowicz regarding his experiences in Bialystok Witness is handed over to the Gestapo in Bialystok by Anton Wojtowicz, the Pole, 11 March 1944; life in detention including interrogation, abuse and beatings; work burning corpses. Note: The testimony was taken down 16 October 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Anti-Jewish investigation</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1137">Denunciation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="516">Burning of corpses</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714342</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Collective testimony of Szlomo Szuster and Israel Goniadzki regarding the fate of the Jews of Jasinowka</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-03-17 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Collective testimony of Szlomo Szuster and Israel Goniadzki regarding the fate of the Jews of Jasinowka Occupation of Jasinowka by the German Army, 27 June 1941; burning of the Jewish Quarter by the local Polish population, 28 June 1941; murder of 50 Jews by the local Polish population, 28 June 1941; deportation of the Jews to Bialystok; murder of the Jews; murder of the Jews of Jasinowka, 25 January 1943; escape of approximately 400 Jews to the forests and Bialystok; being hidden by farmers; collaboration of Poles with the Germans including persecution and murder of Jews; survival of 60 Jews out of the 1,300 Jews of Jasinowka.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד .טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Jasinowka,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714343</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Night-Time Gravediggers": Testimony of POW A. Chalef regarding POWs in Lublin</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-03-20 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Night-Time Gravediggers": Testimony of POW A. Chalef regarding POWs in Lublin Labor of Jewish POWs from the POW camp in Lublin burying the bodies of Poles murdered by the Germans, 1942-1943. Note: The testimony was written down in a partisan unit according to Chalef's story, February 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="516">Burning of corpses</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="512">Jewish POWs</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Polish POWs</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="532">Murders</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Lublin,Lublin,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714344</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Letter written by Taibeleh Szulman from the Kaunas Ghetto to her sister in Tel Aviv asking her to locate the non-Jewish farmer to whom she entrusted her daughter in order to save the child</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-04-05 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Letter written by Taibeleh Szulman from the Kaunas Ghetto to her sister in Tel Aviv asking her to locate the non-Jewish farmer to whom she entrusted her daughter in order to save the child Life in the Kaunas Ghetto; deportation to the Aleksotaskowno camp; request to locate the farmer from Aleksotas (without mentioning his name) to whom she entrusted her two year old daughter, Ziseleh, in order to save the child; request to reward the farmer for rescuing the child; the letter writer and her family did not survive.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="567">Camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Children in the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="261">Rescuers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="874">Kaunas,Ghetto,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Tel Aviv,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,British Mandate for Palestine</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="843">Letter</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714345</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Dawid regarding the fate of the Jews of the Bialystok Ghetto, 05 February 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: מ.טורק עו"ד,מנהל הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject>Warsaw Ghetto Uprising</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="212">Resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialistok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714346</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Chronological list written by M. Turek regarding the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, 24 June 1941-26 June 1944</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-04-05 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Chronological list written by M. Turek regarding the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, 24 June 1941-26 June 1944 Establishment of the Vilna Ghetto; appointment of a Judenrat; ghetto life including yellow badge, levying of forced contributions; "Aktions" and murder of Jews; liquidation of Vilna Ghetto Number 2; deportation of Jews to Estonia; discovery of hiding places of Jews; liquidation of the ghetto; liberation of (Vilna) by the Red Army.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation to Estonia</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,Camp,Estonia</geogname>
          <geogname>Vilna,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Kaunas,Kaunas,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Document</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714347</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Chronology": Chronological list compiled by M. Turek regarding the murder of the Jews in the Kaunas Ghetto, 24 June 1941-15 July 1944</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-04-05 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Chronology": Chronological list compiled by M. Turek regarding the murder of the Jews in the Kaunas Ghetto, 24 June 1941-15 July 1944 Occupation of Kaunas by the German Army; life under the German occupation including riots, "Aktions", the murder of Jews and robbery of Jewish property; appointment of the Judenrat; establishment of the Kaunas Ghetto; murder of Jewish members of the intelligentsia; murder of 200 children from the orphanage; burning of the hospital; deportation of Jews to Riga; murder of Jews after the defeat of the German Army in Stalingrad; deportation of Jews to Estonia; "Aktion" directed against children and the sick; liquidation of the ghetto; burning of the ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation to Estonia</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="282">Hospitals</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Intelligentsia</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="540">Mass murders</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="316">Orphanages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject>Sick people</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="874">Kaunas,Ghetto,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Kaunas,Kaunas,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Latvia</geogname>
          <geogname>Narve,Virumaa,&lt;&gt;,Estonia</geogname>
          <geogname>Riga,Rigas,Vidzeme,Latvia</geogname>
          <geogname>Stalingrad Spartakovka,Stalingrad City,Stalingrad,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Document</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714348</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Simcha Bursztejn, born in Kleszczele, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Ciechanowice and in hiding in forests</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-05-30 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Simcha Bursztejn, born in Kleszczele, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Ciechanowice and in hiding in forests Occupation of Ciechanowice by the German Army, 22 June 1941; appointment of Richter, a Volksdeutsche, as head of the city of Ciechanowice; term of office of Romanov, the collaborator, as Richter's replacement; life in Ciechanowice including anti-Jewish legislation, yellow badge, forced labor, robbery of Jewish property, abuse and murder of Jews; establishment of two ghettos; appointment of a Judenrat, 20 July 1941; ghetto life including labor in various workshops; murder of Jews; escape of Jews from the murder site; liquidation of the ghetto, 2-8 November 1942; deportation of the Jews to Treblinka; names of collaborators who abused Jews; deportation of 500 men and 200 women two days before the liquidation of the ghetto; murder of the men and the women; murder of approximately 4,000 Jews in Ciechanowice by the Germans; escape to the forests; life in hiding in the forests; liberation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורת ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="532">Murders</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Czyzew,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Ciechanowice,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714349</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Jewish Street Song": Poem written by Jakow Opaczynski, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 1920</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-05-27 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Jewish Street Song": Poem written by Jakow Opaczynski, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 1920 Return of a Jewish soldier who fought bravely against the Nazis to an empty city which has been destroyed; life in the Jewish street before the war including preparations for the Sabbath, debates between Revisionists and Zionists and relations between Jews and non-Jews; outbreak of the war; life in the ghetto including hunger, cold, mortality, abuse, beatings, arrest and murder of Jews; transporting of Jews by the Gestapo; destruction of the Jewish street; atmosphere of silence in the cemetery; desecration of synagogues and cemeteries; escape of the author to the Soviet Union at the outbreak of the war; participation in combat from Leningrad to Berlin as commander of the Polish "Kosciusko" Division of the Red Army; transfer back to Bialystok.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="747">Cemeteries</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="645">Desecration of synagogues</subject>
          <subject>Children in the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="652">Imprisonment</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="532">Murders</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Soviet Union</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714350</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Joint testimony of Leime Plishko, born in Wysokie Mazowiecki, Poland, and Abram Sokol, born in Wysokie Mazowiecki, Poland, regarding the Sonderkommando Uprising in Auschwitz</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-05-31 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Joint testimony of Leime Plishko, born in Wysokie Mazowiecki, Poland, and Abram Sokol, born in Wysokie Mazowiecki, Poland, regarding the Sonderkommando Uprising in Auschwitz Decision of the Sonderkommando workers in Auschwitz to resist under the command of Zalmen Gradowski from Suwalki; betrayal of the resistance; execution of the Sonderkommando Kapo by Otto Mohl and Musfeld; outbreak of the uprising by the Sonderkommando workers in Birkenau, Sukkot (02 October) 1944; burning of Crematorium Number 4 by the Sonderkommando workers; murder of the Sonderkommando workers; killing of a German by a Jewish inmate from Crematorium 1; demolition of the gate to the nearby women's camp; attempt to blow up Crematorium Number 1; arrival of SS men as reinforcements; suppression of the uprising by the SS men; murder of 400 resisters; names of 18 of the resisters; suicide among the inmates; obtaining weapons; photograph of the crematorium including 3,000 bodies; transfer of the photographs, including other documents, outside the camp; remaining of 100 Sonderkommando workers out of 2,000 at the time of the evacuation of the camp; murder of 1,500 Jews with American citizenship, summer, 1944; resistance by the inmates.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק , יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="483">Crematoria</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="623">Evacuation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="516">Burning of corpses</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="217">Suicides</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject>Jewish prisoners</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="485">Kapo</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="506">Women's Camps</subject>
          <subject>Uprising of inmates</subject>
          <subject>Sonderkommando Uprising in Auschwitz, 7 October 1944</subject>
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        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="001598">Mohl</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Suwalki,Suwalki,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2">Birkenau,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714351</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Benjamin Dumbelski, born in Sejny, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Sejny, in hiding, in Sopocz, Jasinowka and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-12 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Benjamin Dumbelski, born in Sejny, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Sejny, in hiding, in Sopocz, Jasinowka and other places Riots against the Jews in Sejny, November 1939; deportation of the Jews from Sejny; robbery of Jewish property; escape of Jews in the direction of the Lithuanian border; capture of the escapees by the Germans; concentration of the escapees in a field; life in the field including hunger and cold; transfer of the Jews back to Sejny; life in Sejny including suicides; desecration of synagogues; escape of Jews in the direction of the Lithuanian border; abuse by Lithuanian policemen; invasion of the German Army into the Soviet Union, 22 June 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; detention of Jews including the witness; murder of Jews; escape of Jews to the forests; in hiding near the Polish border for a month; crossing the border to Sopocz (near Grodno); transfer to Nowy Dwor; transfer to Jasinowka; life in Jasinowka including forced labor; employment of Jews by local farmers; in hiding in a pit in an open field with three other Jews, May 1944; murder of two of the Jews in hiding; combat between the Germans (?) and the Red Army (?); liberation by the Red Army, 08 August 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="234">Escape through the border line</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject>Imprisonemnt and deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="217">Suicides</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="645">Desecration of synagogues</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Sejny,Suwalki,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Jasinowka,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714352</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Awrahm Meir Szmulewicz, born in Iwie, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in Iwie, in forests and as a partisan</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-02 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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; transfer of the Jews to the market square; selection; leaving professionally skilled Jews in Iwie; deportation of the approximately 4,000 remaining Jews to the killing pit in the Staniewicz village area; liquidation of the ghetto, 20 January 1943; escape to the forests; joins the partisans.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="411">Selection</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1321">Killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escaping and joining the Partisans</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportations</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Iwie,Lida,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714353</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Efraim Kissler, born in Bialystok, Poland, 30 September 1925, regarding the struggle by the Bialystok Ghetto fighters</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-13 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Efraim Kissler, born in Bialystok, Poland, 30 September 1925, regarding the struggle by the Bialystok Ghetto fighters 1. Surrounding of the Bialystok Ghetto, 16 August 1943; combat by a group of fighters with live weapons against the Germans (listing of the names of the fighters); wounded and fallen on both sides; torching of a house in the ghetto by the fighters as a sign of the beginning of the fighting which went on for a whole day; unsuccessful attempt to escape outside the ghetto through an escape opening located at Ciepla Street in the ghetto; hiding of some of the fighters in a hiding place at Fabryczna Street for four days; the goal of the fighters was to transfer as many people as possible out of the small ghetto and to the forest and the partisans; 2. Details supplied by Efraim Kissler regarding the Jewish police in the Bialystok Ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יוR הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714354</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"How the Germans Came to Power": Story by Jan Pardo, born in Nowogrod, regarding the birth of the Devil</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-14 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["How the Germans Came to Power": Story by Jan Pardo, born in Nowogrod, regarding the birth of the Devil An appeal to God regarding the birth of the Devil.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Germans</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Nowogrod,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714355</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Menachem Finkielsztejn, born in Radziwilow, Poland, regarding the experiences of the Jews in Grajewo, Wasocz, Milewo, Radziwilow, Jedwabne and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-14 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Menachem Finkielsztejn, born in Radziwilow, Poland, regarding the experiences of the Jews in Grajewo, Wasocz, Milewo, Radziwilow, Jedwabne and other places Life in Grajewo including robbery of Jewish property; rioting for three days; agreement of the Germans to the murder of Jews by Poles; abuse of Jews by Poles, 05 July 1941; murder of Jews in Wasocz by Poles, 05 July 1941; murder of approximately 1,200 Jews including those from the neighboring villages; burial of those murdered in a common grave; forced labor by the Jews of Milewo; deportation of the Jews to the Bogusze camp, 02 November 1942; transfer of the Jews from Bogusze to Majdanek and Treblinka; burning alive of approximately 1,500 Jews in Radziwilow and in the neighboring villages, 07 July 1941; murder of Jews in Jedwabne, 11 July 1941; transfer of the Jews of Jedwabne to Lomza and Zambrow, 02 November 1942; transfer of the Jews from Lomza and Zambrow to extermination camps; in hiding until liberation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to camps</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wasosz,Grajewo,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Radziwillow,Dubno,Wolyn,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="560">Majdanek,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grajewo,Grajewo,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Jedwabne,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bogusze,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zambrow,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714356</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Isaak Kagan regarding his experiences in a Vilna prison, Ponary and in the Vilna Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">-</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="deu" encodinganalog="3.4.3">German</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[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 from the farmer.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק, מנהל הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="261">Rescuers</subject>
          <subject>Sick people</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="599">Shearing of beards</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Ponary Area,Murder Site,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Vilna,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714357</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of the Pole, Kaminski from Osowcy, regarding the murder of Jews in the Bialystok area</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-14 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of the Pole, Kaminski from Osowcy, regarding the murder of Jews in the Bialystok area Concentration of Jews in the Bogusze transit camp, 02 November 1942; deportation of the Jews to Treblinka; partisan activity in the Bialystok area; murder of Jewish partisans in the Dworzysk area, 02 January 1943; names of those murdered.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"רהוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to extermination camps</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Osowce,Buczacz,Tarnopol,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bogusze,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Dworzysk,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714358</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Antoni Jakobowski, the political inmate born in Radom, Poland, regarding the resistance movement in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-14 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Antoni Jakobowski, the political inmate born in Radom, Poland, regarding the resistance movement in Bialystok Jakobowski was a Polish Communist and a political inmate; establishment of an anti-fascist organization outside the Bialystok Ghetto, late 1941; establishment of an anti-fascist organization inside the Bialystok Ghetto; term of office of Ryka Szynder-Wojskowska as the first Executive Secretary of the organization; term of office of Joszke Kaver as the second Executive Secretary of the organization; term of office of Kwieta (Bluma Laks) as the organization courier; appeal to the partisans by the members of the organization to prepare for a struggle against the Nazis; leadership of the organization by Daniel Bernstein and Mordechaj Tenenbaum; call for a struggle against the Nazis based on the fundamental tenets of the anti-fascist organization by the people in Block A in the ghetto; names of members of the organization; suicides of two Jewish physicians, Dr. Viktor Fryszman and Dr. Zadworzanski, during the "Aktion", 21 August 1943; death of Jakobowski under unknown circumstances.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ. טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה החיהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
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          <subject>Jewish physicians with the partisans in Ukraine during World War II</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="217">Suicides</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_cb" authfilenumber="1204">Combat</subject>
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        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000406">Tenenbaum (Tamaroff), Mordechai (1916-1943)</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714359</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Dr. Tobiasz Cytron, born in Bialystok, Poland, regarding his experiences in Blizyn, the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz and Majdanek</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

7 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-17 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Dr. Tobiasz Cytron, born in Bialystok, Poland, regarding his experiences in Blizyn, the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz and Majdanek Air-raids on Bialystok by Soviet aircraft, July 1942; deaths of approximately 35 Jews in the air-raid; suicides by women in the railroad car en route from Bialystok to extermination camps, 16 August 1943; arrival of the railroad car in Lublin including selection; transfer of Jews, including the witness and his family, to Majdanek; murder of members of the intelligentsia in the Bialystok Ghetto; names of those murdered; events of the first day of the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising; liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto; deportation of approximately 1,200 children to Theresienstadt, 18 August 1943; transfer of inmates, most of them from the Bialystok Ghetto from Majdanek to Blizyn, September 1943; singing in Russian during the evenings by a young singer in order to raise the morale of the inmates; planning the escape of the inmates from the camp; populating the camp with inmates from Smolensk, Czestochowa, Radom, Kielce and Germany; camp life including forced labor; names of Jewish collaborators with the Germans; outbreak of scarletina and typhus in the camp, November 1943; giving medical treatment to those ill with typhus, most of them from Bialystok, including in the nearby Polish camp; "Aktion" against children and the sick in the camp, 08 November 1943; names of those murdered; giving first aid to partisans; Sonderkommando Uprising in Auschwitz, autumn 1944; evacuation of Auschwitz, 18 January 1945.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ. טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="117">Jewish collaborators</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Jewish prisoners</subject>
          <subject>The sick in the camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="411">Selection</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="217">Suicides</subject>
          <subject>Bialystok Ghetto Uprising</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="493">Typhus</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt; (&lt;&gt;),&lt;&gt;,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="1605">Blizyn,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="449">Theresienstadt,Ghetto,Czechoslovakia</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="560">Majdanek,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Lublin,Lublin,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714361</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Zalmen Kolesznik regarding the experiences of Jews from Bialystok in various camps</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-21 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Zalmen Kolesznik regarding the experiences of Jews from Bialystok in various camps Deportation of 20 essential professionally skilled workers including tailors, shoemakers, carpenters and welders from Bialystok to forced labor in East Prussia, 13 January 1943 and 01 March 1943; deportation of professionally skilled workers to Dzialdowo; deportation of professionally skilled workers to various labor camps; names of the inmates; fate of the inmates; murder of most of the inmates in the Krolewiec camp.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהדית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Jewish prisoners</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Skilled workers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Krolewiec,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Dzialdowo,Dzialdowo,Pomorze,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714362</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"In a Lithuanian Village": Poem/Song written by Ch. Chajtin</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">-</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA["In a Lithuanian Village": Poem/Song written by Ch. Chajtin A Jewish mother leaves her little son in a Lithuanian village in order to save him from the Germans.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Nazis</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject>Jewish children</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714363</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Spring": Poem by Szmerke Kaczerginski, written in the Vilna Ghetto, 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-29 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA["Spring": Poem by Szmerke Kaczerginski, written in the Vilna Ghetto, 1943 Longings of the poet's beloved for the arrival of spring to warm her heart during her hard work in the ghetto; arrival of spring; flowering; his beloved's anticipation of her lover's return after the liberation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714364</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Elegy": Poem written by an unknown author regarding the transport of the children to the "Imaginary Village" by Janusz Korczak</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">-</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Elegy": Poem written by an unknown author regarding the transport of the children to the "Imaginary Village" by Janusz Korczak Deportation of the Jews to the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life including forced labor, abuse and murder of Jews; care for the children and their rescue from death by Korczak; stories about Poland after the liberation; "Aktion" directed at children; deportation of the children to Treblinka; story to the children about a trip to the countryside; arrival of the children in Treblinka; murder of the children in the gas chambers; murder of Korczak with the children.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Murder of Children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="499">Gas chambers</subject>
          <subject>Children in the ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
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        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000224">Korczak, Janusz (Goldszmit, Henryk) (1878-1942)</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="1106">Warszawa,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714365</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Memoirs of Dawid Roznberg, born in Sniadowa, Poland, 1926, from the time of the Nazi occupation of Sniadowa through the occupation period by the Nazis</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">-</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Memoirs of Dawid Roznberg, born in Sniadowa, Poland, 1926, from the time of the Nazi occupation of Sniadowa through the occupation period by the Nazis Forced labor until the extermination of the Jews of Sniadowa and the villages in the vicinity of the city of Lomza, 01 November 1942; the witness' escape from the deportation into the neighboring forests; arrest by two local gendarmes; escape from the gendarmes; in hiding for two weeks along with another Jew; arrest by the Polish gendarmerie; en route sees mass graves of the Jews of Kosow, Zambrow and Lubertin who were murdered by the Nazis; escape from the gendarmerie; in hiding in various hiding places in the forest until the liberation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית הסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the woods</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1124">Gendarmerie</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zambrow,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Sniadowo,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714366</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Helena Najmark, born in Ostrowiec Mazowiecki, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-23 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Helena Najmark, born in Ostrowiec Mazowiecki, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Bialystok Escape from Ostrowiec Mazowiecki to Bialystok, 1939; occupation of Bialystok by the German Army; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation and forced labor in the ghetto and outside the ghetto; deportation of Jews unfit for work to Pruzany, September-October 1941; forced labor together with 55 other Jews in the factory managed by Kurt Ringermut, the German, outside the ghetto; attitude of the factory manager towards the Jewish workers; hiding of the Jews during an "Aktion"; deportation of young women to harvest potatoes in Wolkowysk, October 1942; activities of Barash, the Bialystok Ghetto Judenrat Chairman in order to save Jews by paying ransoms; "Aktion" in the areas outlying Bialystok, 02 November 1942; deportation of the Jews of Wolkowysk to Treblinka; rescue of Jews from Wolkowysk by Ringermut and their transfer to Bialystok; hiding of Jews in Ringermut's home; hiding of Jews in hiding places by Ringermut; ways of rescuing Jews from Wolkowysk; indictment of Ringermut for hiding Jews; banishment of Ringermut to Germany as a punishment for hiding Jews; move to Germany with Ringermut; work as Ringermut's housemaid.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Rescue by Germans</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="261">Rescuers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000022">Barasz Efraim</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Pruzana,Pruzana,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wolkowysk,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Ostrowiec Mazowiecki,Ostrow Mazowiecka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt; (&lt;&gt;),&lt;&gt;,Germany</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714367</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Polish proclamation calling upon the Poles to learn from the example of the Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto, 06 February 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

11 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-02-03 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Polish proclamation calling upon the Poles to learn from the example of the Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto, 03 February 1943 The self-defense organization of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto; fighting of the Jews in the ghetto against German policemen, 19 January 1943; use of tanks against the Jewish fighters by the Germans; battles between the Germans and the Jews; the call of the proclamation to the Poles to learn from the example of the Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto; influence of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on the Jewish fighters in the Bialystok Ghetto; deportation of the Jews of Warsaw to Treblinka.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: מ.טורק מנהל הוועדה היהודית ההיסטורית ב-Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Warsaw Ghetto Uprising</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="212">Resistance</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="1106">Warszawa,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Manifesto</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714368</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Zachariasz Slowinski, born in Dworzysk, Poland, 1899, regarding his experiences in Suprasl</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-23 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Zachariasz Slowinski, born in Dworzysk, Poland, 1899, regarding his experiences in Suprasl Interrogation by members of the local and German gendarmerie in Suprasl regarding Slowinski's help to partisans, January 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Anti-Jewish investigation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="296">Assistance and rescue</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Suprasl,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Dworzysk,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714369</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of an unknown witness regarding his experiences in Bialystok, July 1944</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-23 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of an unknown witness regarding his experiences in Bialystok, July 1944 Retreat of the Germans from Bialystok, July 1944; burning of Bialystok by the Germans; murder of two Jewish women on Grotgerra Street by three Ukrainians, July 1944; burial of the murdered women by the witness.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="746">Burial</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Ukrainian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="825">Women</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714370</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of P., a woman, regarding the hiding of Jews in the Bialystok area</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-23 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of P., a woman, regarding the hiding of Jews in the Bialystok area Hiding of Jewish families by the witness in the Bialystok area; giving the members of the Fajnberg family a place to live by obtaining Aryan documents; names of the Jews she hid.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>The Aryan side</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="261">Rescuers</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714371</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Eliasz Baumac regarding the fate of Antoni Jakubowski</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-23 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Eliasz Baumac regarding the fate of Antoni Jakubowski Escape of Antoni Jakubowski from Ciechanow to Tykocin; transfer of Jakubowski to Bialystok in order to make contact with the Bialystok -Warsaw anti-fascist movement; arrest of Jakubowski by the Germans while en route to Bialystok; murder of Jakubowski by the Germans; list of names of partisan groups in the Bialystok area commanded by Eliasz Baumac.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Ciechanow,Ciechanow,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Tykocin,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714372</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (written in a diary) of A. Karasik, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1915, 13 July-22 July 1944</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

Typewritten copy</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">-</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (written in a diary) of A. Karasik, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1915, 13 July-22 July 1944 Work in a unit whose job is to burn corpses; murder of the members of the unit in pits; escape from the pit.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714373</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of the female witness, L. L., regarding the murder of the Jews of Bialystok and her help to Jews in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-23 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of the female witness, L. L., regarding the murder of the Jews of Bialystok and her help to Jews in Bialystok Deportation of approximately 12,000 Jews, including children and the elderly from Bialystok to Treblinka, February 1942; murder of the Jews by passing an electric current through their bodies after they were wet; payment of a ransom by the Judenrat in order to rescue the Jews of the Bialystok Ghetto for six months, 01 October 1942; murder of the Jews from the outlying areas in place of the ghetto Jews because the ransom was paid; issuing of ten identity cards for Jews, including their names; rescue of some of the Jews thanks to these cards; attempt to rescue Jews and Poles in Majdanek; transfer of necessary skilled workers from Majdanek to Czestochowa, November 1943; unsuccessful attempt to rescue the Jewish physicians, Wolfson and Koenig, 07 December 1943.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק , יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="261">Rescuers</subject>
          <subject>Skilled workers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="183">Aryan documents</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="296">Assistance and rescue</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="297">Assistance to Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Cracow,Krakow,Krakow,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Czestochowa,Czestochowa,Kielce,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="560">Majdanek,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714374</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Mordchaj Mietek Jonisz, born in Radzymin, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences as a partisan in Slonim and Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-24 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Mordchaj Mietek Jonisz, born in Radzymin, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences as a partisan in Slonim and Bialystok Fighting as a partisan in Slonim, late 1941-October 1942; membership in the fighters' movement in the Bialystok Ghetto from December 1942; names of the fighters; surrounding of the ghetto by the Germans; fighting against the Germans by the partisans; falling of Jewish fighters; German deaths; participation of the Jewish police in the attack on the Germans; murder of approximately seventy [Jewish] fighters by Belorussian collaborators; [German] fighting using tanks against the [Jewish] fighters in the ghetto; hiding by the fighters after the liquidation of the ghetto; escape of fighters, including the witness, to forests in the Cyliczanki area(?); brave deeds of Srolek Felder, a partisan fighter in Bialystok; fighting of partisans as part of the Chaim Lipiczanski Brigade in the Bialystok area; brave deeds of the fighter, Heniek Wejsenberg.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Jewish heroes</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="881">Jewish fighters</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Slonim,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714375</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Szyje "Andrej" Kantor, born in Kielce, Poland, 1915, regarding the fate of partisans in the forests in the Bialystok area</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-25 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Szyje "Andrej" Kantor, born in Kielce, Poland, 1915, regarding the fate of partisans in the forests in the Bialystok area Fighting of "Andrej", the partisan, against the Germans in the forests in Izobsk (?) and Suprasl, August 1943-January 1944; rescue of Jews who escaped from the Bialystok Ghetto; battle of partisans against the Germans; death of Sasza, the partisan, together with other partisans in battle.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יוR הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject>Heroes</subject>
          <subject>Jewish heroes</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escaping and joining the Partisans</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>Rescue of individuals in Polish forests</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Suprasl,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714376</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Eli Ulicki, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1910, regarding the murder of Jewish athletes in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-25 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Eli Ulicki, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1910, regarding the murder of Jewish athletes in the Bialystok Ghetto The names of 15 Jewish athletes who were murdered in "Aktions" in the Bialystok Ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="709">Sports</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714377</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (recorded in a protocol) of Maria Lapicz from Warsaw regarding the restoration of the Jewish child, Basia Ogorek, to the Jewish Committee in Bialystok after she rescued the child</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-24 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (recorded in a protocol) of Maria Lapicz from Warsaw regarding the restoration of the Jewish child, Basia Ogorek, to the Jewish Committee in Bialystok after she rescued the child Restoration of the Jewish child, Basia Ogorek, to the Jewish Committee in Bialystok by Maria Lapicz, the Christian woman, after she found the child at the railroad station in Warsaw, 1942, and hid her until the liberation, 22 June 1946.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="261">Rescuers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Warszawa,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Biala Podlaska,Biala Podlaska,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Document</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714378</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of an anonymous witness regarding his experiences in Kiena, Wieluczny and the Vilna Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten original

מקור וקסרוקס

8 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="deu" encodinganalog="3.4.3">German</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of an anonymous witness regarding his experiences in Kiena, Wieluczny and the Vilna Ghetto Forced labor peat digging in Kiena (near Vilna); deportation of the Jews from Kiena to the Wieluczny Ghetto, 20 September 1941; deportation of Jews from Szumsk and the neighboring villages for forced labor in Kiena in place of the Jews deported to Wieluczny; deportation of Jews from Nowo Wilejka and other villages to Wieluczny; murder of Jews in Wieluczny, 22 September 1941 by Lithuanian collaborators; escape from the killing pit in Wieluczny; transfer to the Vilna Ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק, מנהל הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית בBialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Szumsk,Krzemieniec,Wolyn,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wieluciany,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Nowa Wilejka,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kiena,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714379</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Basia Ogorek, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Janowa Podlaskie, Biala Podlaski and on the Aryan side of Warsaw with help from a Polish woman</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-26 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Basia Ogorek, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Janowa Podlaskie, Biala Podlaski and on the Aryan side of Warsaw with help from a Polish woman Life with her family in the Warsaw Ghetto until summer 1940; transfer to Janowa Podlaskie; life in Janowa Podlaskie including work for a farmer outside the ghetto; escape to Biala Podlaski; transfer to Warsaw; life on the Aryan side of Warsaw with help from the Polish woman, Maria Lapicz; giving food to Jews in the ghetto [by the Polish woman?]; liberation in Bialystok.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>The Aryan side</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="261">Rescuers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="297">Assistance to Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Biala Podlaska,Biala Podlaska,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Warszawa,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="1106">Warszawa,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Janowa,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714380</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Eli Ulicki, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz; Birkenau; Mauthausen and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

7 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Eli Ulicki, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz; Birkenau; Mauthausen and other places First "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 05 February 1943; hiding of Jews in hiding places in the ghetto; discovery of the hiding places; deportation of approximately 3,000 Jews to Malkinia by train; attempts to escape from the train; suicide on the trains; deportation of the Jews to Auschwitz via Warsaw; arrival in Auschwitz, 07 February 1943; selection; transfer of Jews to the crematorium; transfer of Jews to the labor camp; life in Birkenau for six weeks; transfer to Auschwitz, 20 March 1943; life in Auschwitz until 18 January 1945 including forced labor; evacuation of the camp due to the approach of the US Army; transfer of inmates to Czechoslovakia including hunger; attitude of the Czech population towards the inmates; transfer to Mauthausen; life in Mauthausen; liberation, 05 May 1945 by the US Army. Move back to Bialystok.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="623">Evacuation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from a transport</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="483">Crematoria</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>Liberation by the US Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="411">Selection</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2">Birkenau,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Czechoslovakia</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="570">Mauthausen,Camp,Austria</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714381</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Joint testimony of Jozef Bartoszko and Juliana Bartoszko regarding the burning of the Great Synagogue in Bialystok, 27 June 1941</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Joint testimony of Jozef Bartoszko and Juliana Bartoszko regarding the burning of the Great Synagogue in Bialystok, 27 June 1941 Burning of the Great Synagogue in Bialystok; concentration of Jews in the Great Synagogue by the Germans, 27 June 1941; shooting of Jews concentrated in the Great Synagogue; burning of the Jews inside the synagogue; survival of a few Jews.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="758">Synagogues</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714382</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"The Judenrat in Bialystok": Poem/Song written by Efroim Kisler, 25 January 1945</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-01 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["The Judenrat in Bialystok": Poem/Song written by Efroim Kisler, 25 January 1945 Corruption of members of the Judenrat in the Bialystok Ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714383</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Joint testimony of Michal Iwanow, born in Katarynka, Poland, 1909, and Zofia Iwanow regarding the hiding of a Jew</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-06-02 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Joint testimony of Michal Iwanow, born in Katarynka, Poland, 1909, and Zofia Iwanow regarding the hiding of a Jew Hiding of the Jew, Jankel Sokolowicz from Wasilkow, November 1942-July 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק ,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="261">Rescuers</subject>
          <subject>Rescue by Poles</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wasilkow,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714384</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Szymon Kaminski, born in Lenin, Poland, regarding the fate of the Jews of Hajnowka and Narewka</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-02 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Szymon Kaminski, born in Lenin, Poland, regarding the fate of the Jews of Hajnowka and Narewka Occupation of Hajnowka by the German Army, 24 June 1941; deportation of approximately 250 Jews from Narewka for forced labor in a chemicals factory in Hajnowka; transfer of the Jews back to Narewka; deportation of the men to outside of Narewka; murder of the men; deportation of the women and children to Kobryn, on orders from Staczek Solowej, the Polish deputy mayor; transfer of the women and children to Pruzany by truck; death march of 300 Jews to Pruzany including abusive acts.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה יהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="529">Extermination</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Death Marches</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Hajnówka,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kobryn,Kobryn,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Narewka,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Pruzany,Pruzana,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Stoczek,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714385</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Gerszon Tabak, born in Zambrow, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Zambrow, Sokol, Bialystok, Brzozowo-Solniki and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-03 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Gerszon Tabak, born in Zambrow, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Zambrow, Sokol, Bialystok, Brzozowo-Solniki and other places Escape to Warsaw, 1939; move to Zambrow; move to Sokol; move to Bialystok; work as a shepherd on the farm belonging to Leonard Malerski in Brzozowo-Solniki; escape to other farms in the area until 02 November 1942; in hiding in forests; "Aktion" in Bialystok, August 1943; escape of Jews during the "Aktion"; escape of Jews from the railroad cars; move to the Suprasl forests; names of farmers who helped Jews hide in the forests; names of Polish partisans who murdered Jews including partisans who were in hiding with Tabak; collaboration with the Germans and murder of Jews by Ruszkowski.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="296">Assistance and rescue</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1215">Polish partisans</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Brzozowo,Wloclawek,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Warszawa,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Sokol,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zambrow,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714386</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Memoirs of an unknown author regarding the experiences of his family in the Generalgouvernement area</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Memoirs of an unknown author regarding the experiences of his family in the Generalgouvernement area Life in hiding with his family in the Generalgouvernement area, including persecution, hunger, cold and murder of Jews, 1943; struggle for existence; incitement against the Jews; attitude of the local population towards the Jews; attitude of the local population towards people who helped the Jews.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק , יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="297">Assistance to Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="357">Incitement</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="642">Persecution of Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714387</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Excerpts from memoirs by an unknown author regarding the fate of the Jews in the Generalgouvernement area</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-05 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Excerpts from memoirs by an unknown author regarding the fate of the Jews in the Generalgouvernement area Life in the Generalgouvernement area including persecution, hunger and murder of Jews; Jews in hiding in hiding places including cellars and attics for 13 months.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="532">Murders</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="642">Persecution of Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714388</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Joint testimony of unknown witnesses regarding the burning of Jews in the Great Synagogue in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-07 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Joint testimony of unknown witnesses regarding the burning of Jews in the Great Synagogue in Bialystok Murder of Jews in Bialystok; burning of Jews in the Great Synagogue; names of some of those murdered; escape of Jews from the blazing synagogue through the opening of a side door by the synagogue guard.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="297">Assistance to Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="758">Synagogues</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714389</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Excerpts from Gestapo documents from Bialystok regarding the Bialystok Ghetto, 21 January-10 March 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="deu" encodinganalog="3.4.3">German</language>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Excerpts from Gestapo documents from Bialystok regarding the Bialystok Ghetto, 21 January-10 March 1943 Orders related to decreasing the ghetto boundaries; continuation of forced labor in the ghetto factories; halting work for Jews outside the ghetto; replacing Jewish laborers with Belorussian laborers.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק, מנהל הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="549">Workshops</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Official documentation</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714390</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of an unknown person regarding partisan activity in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-07 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of an unknown person regarding partisan activity in Bialystok Partisan activity in Bialystok including the names of the partisans who fell in combat, 15 July 1943-January 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="881">Jewish fighters</subject>
          <subject>Jewish heroes</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714391</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Szlomo Bursztejn regarding his experiences in the Kleszczele Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-07 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Szlomo Bursztejn regarding his experiences in the Kleszczele Ghetto Life in the Kleszczele Ghetto; "Aktion" conducted by the Gestapo, 01 November 1942; planning of escape from the ghetto by Jews; arguments against escape; escape with other Jews; survival of four people.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportations</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="955">Kleszczele,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kleszczele,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714392</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Joint testimony of Dr. Cytron, Chana Gerc, Dawid Kolesznik and Szeperowa regarding the fate of the Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz and Dzialdowo</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-08 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Joint testimony of Dr. Cytron, Chana Gerc, Dawid Kolesznik and Szeperowa regarding the fate of the Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz and Dzialdowo 1. Deportation of 800 children from the Bialystok Ghetto to Theresienstadt; the children’s life in Theresienstadt for 13 months; failure to exchange the children; transfer of the children to Auschwitz, September 1944; murder of the children with120 additional children in the gas chambers in Auschwitz; 2. Deceptive announcement about the evacuation of the Bialystok Ghetto Jews to Lublin, 16 August 1943; 3. Evacuation of children from the Baltic States, 27 March 1944; 4. Murder of 150 professionally skilled workers in Auschwitz; 5. Juzef Bergsztejn's service as the Chief Physician in the Dzialdowo camp; 6. Yitzhak Barasz's term of office as chairman of the [Bialystok Ghetto] Judenrat; term of office of Gedaliah Rosenmann, Berl Subotnik; Avraham Goldberg, Liman and Leibel Dynes as Judenrat members.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Jewish physicians with the partisans in Ukraine during World War II</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject>Skilled workers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to camps</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to Auschwitz</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of children</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="449">Theresienstadt,Ghetto,Czechoslovakia</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Baltic States,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Dzialdowo,Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714393</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Feliks Cwar, the Pole, regarding the fate of the Wolowysk Jews</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-08 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Feliks Cwar, the Pole, regarding the fate of the Wolowysk Jews The Jewish community in Wolkowysk numbered 7,000 Jews until the outbreak of the war. Survival of ten Jews at the end of the war; murder of ten physicians and pharmacists for assisting partisans, September 1942; murder of Jews in the Bialystok area, 02 November1942; deportation of Jews from Piaski, Podorsk, Porozow, Ros, Zelwy and Wolpy to Wolkowysk; deportation of the Jews from Wolowysk to Treblinka, March 1943.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק , יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Jewish physicians with the partisans in Ukraine during World War II</subject>
          <subject>Jewish pharmacists</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to extermination camps</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Zelwa,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wolpa,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wolkowysk,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Ros,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Porozow,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Piaski,&lt;&gt;,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Podorosk,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714394</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (by questionnaire) of Stanislaw Wroblewicz regarding "Aktions" in Suprasl</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-08 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (by questionnaire) of Stanislaw Wroblewicz regarding "Aktions" in Suprasl "Aktions" in Suprasl; murder campaigns; the number of people murdered, including their personal information; burial places of those murdered including a description of their graves; protocol from a deliberation in the Bialystok court concerning Wroblewicz's testimony regarding the non-existence of camps and ghettos in Suprasl and the surrounding areas, and concerning the deportation of Jews to an unknown destination by the Germans at the start of the German occupation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="746">Burial</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="540">Mass murders</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Suprasl,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714395</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (by questionnaire) of Jan Fiedorowicz regarding the fate of the Jews of Jasinowka</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-08 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (by questionnaire) of Jan Fiedorowicz regarding the fate of the Jews of Jasinowka Murder of 300 Jews in Jasinowka (the Kalinowka district in Bialystok), 25 January 1943; details regarding the "Aktions", the number of people murdered, personal details of the murdered people and a description of the mass graves in which those who were murdered were buried; deportation of approximately 1,000 Jews to Bialystok; protocol of a deliberation in a Bialystok court, 25 March 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק ,י"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Jasinowka,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714396</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (by questionnaire) of an unknown witness regarding "Aktions" and mass graves in Jasinowka, and testimony of Jan Mularczyk regarding the murder of the Jews of Zabludow</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-08 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (by questionnaire) of an unknown witness regarding "Aktions" and mass graves in Jasinowka, and testimony of Jan Mularczyk regarding the murder of the Jews of Zabludow Details about an "Aktion" in Jasinowka, including the number of Jews murdered and the burial places, 02 August 1942; protocol from a deliberation held in the Bialystok court regarding the testimony of Jan Mularczyk concerning the murder of the Jews of Zabludow, 25 September 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ,BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="746">Burial</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Jasinowka,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zabludow,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714397</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (by questionnaire) of an unknown witness regarding the liquidation of the Zabludow Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-10 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (by questionnaire) of an unknown witness regarding the liquidation of the Zabludow Ghetto Establishment of the Zabludow Ghetto, January 1942; liquidation of the Zabludow Ghetto, 01 November 1942; "Aktions" including the murder of Jews; site where the Jews were buried; names of the survivors.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועד היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="748">Graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="746">Burial</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="904">Holocaust survivors</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zabludow,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="371">Zabludow,Ghetto</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714398</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (by questionnaire) of Piasecki regarding an "Aktion" in Knyszyn, 02 November 1942</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-09 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (by questionnaire) of Piasecki regarding an "Aktion" in Knyszyn, 02 November 1942 "Aktion" in Knyszyn, 02 November 1942; names of those who carried out the murders; number of murder victims; burial places of the murder victims; description of the graves of the murder victims; list of 59 names of Jews who were murdered in Knyszyn by the Germans.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Mass burial</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Knyszyn,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714399</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (anonymous questionnaire) regarding the fate of the Jews of Grodek</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

5 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-10 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (anonymous questionnaire) regarding the fate of the Jews of Grodek Establishment of a ghetto in Grodek under the command of Hans Gorski, spring 1942; the number of Jews in the ghetto including their names; ghetto life including forced labor and murder of the Jews; liquidation of the Grodek Ghetto, autumn 1943; deportation of Jews to Bialystok.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Gródek,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="206">Gródek,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714400</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Notes from a journey made by Jews via Bryansk Zablodowa, Bielsk and Ciechanowice</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Notes from a journey made by Jews via Bryansk Zablodowa, Bielsk and Ciechanowice Journey of a group of Jewish laborers from a factory in Bialystok under the supervision of a German soldier in order to transfer machines to another factory, April 1943; journey of the Jews via Bryansk Zablodowa, Bielsk and Ciechanowice; murder of the Jews of Bryansk Zablodowa, Bielsk and Ciechanowice, November 1942.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: מ.טורק. יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההיסטורית ב-Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="549">Workshops</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bilsk,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bryansk,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Ciechanowice,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zabludow,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Diagram</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714401</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Jan Dolinski, the Pole, regarding the fate of the Jews of Goniadz</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-11 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Jan Dolinski, the Pole, regarding the fate of the Jews of Goniadz "Aktion" in Goniadz, June 1941; murder of 116 Jews by Gestapo men and members of the gendarmerie; pointing out the site of the mass graves; deportation of the Jews of Goniadz to Grajewo, 01 November 1942; protocol of a deliberation in a Bialystok court including an admission by Dolinski, the mayor of Goniadz, regarding the fact that there were no camps in Goniadz, 29 September 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="748">Graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1124">Gendarmerie</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="746">Burial</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Radzhilov,Szczuczyn,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Goniadz,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714402</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (by questionnaire) of an unknown person regarding the murder of the Jews in the village of Romejki</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-11 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (by questionnaire) of an unknown person regarding the murder of the Jews in the village of Romejki "Aktion" in the village of Romejki (Jaswily district in the Bialystok area) by gendarmes from Jasionowka, 30 November 1943; murder of Jews; burial of those who were murdered; exhumation of the graves, September 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק , יור הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="746">Burial</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="748">Graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Exhumation</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Jasionowka,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Romejki near Jaswily,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714404</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (by questionnaire) of Wladyslaw Matyszewski regarding the murder of Jews in Goniadz and Wasilkow, May 1944</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-11 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (by questionnaire) of Wladyslaw Matyszewski regarding the murder of Jews in Goniadz and Wasilkow, May 1944 Murder of Jews in Goniadz and Wasilkow, May 1944; burial places of those murdered; names of those murdered; protocol from a deliberation in the Bialystok court regarding Matyszewski's testimony about there not being a camp or a ghetto in Wasilkow, 29 September 1945; deportation of approximately 700 Jews to Bialystok.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: MATYSZEWSKI WLADYSLAW]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="748">Graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="746">Burial</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Goniadz,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wasilkow,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714405</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (by questionnaire) of an unknown witness regarding an "Aktion" in Grabowka and the murder of Jews from the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-15 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (by questionnaire) of an unknown witness regarding an "Aktion" in Grabowka and the murder of Jews from the Bialystok Ghetto "Aktion" in Grabowka (Dojlidy district), 1941; murder of approximately 16,000 Jews from the Bialystok Ghetto by shooting by SS men, Ukrainians and Belorussians; burning of the bodies; burial place of those murdered.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו" ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Belorussian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="516">Burning of corpses</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Ukrainian collaborators</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grabowka,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714406</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Joint testimony (by questionnaire) of Szymon Amiel and others regarding the Zielona camp and mass graves in Grabowka, Bacieczki, Nowosiolki and Augustow</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

19 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-16 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Joint testimony (by questionnaire) of Szymon Amiel and others regarding the Zielona camp and mass graves in Grabowka, Bacieczki, Nowosiolki and Augustow Details regarding the implementation of "Aktions" including the names of those who committed the murders, the number of Jews murdered, personal information about those murdered, the burial places of the victims, a description of the graves and the names of Nazi criminals; protocols from a deliberation in a Bialystok court regarding the murder of Jews in Zielona, Grabowka, Bacieczki, Nowosiolki and Augustow, October 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="746">Burial</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1130">Trials of Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Nowosiółki,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grabowka,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zielona,Nadworna,Stanislawow,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bacieczki,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Augustów,Augustow,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714407</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (by questionnaire) of an unknown witness regarding an "Aktion" and mass graves in the village of Ruszczany (in the Choroszcz district in the Bialystok area)</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-17 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (by questionnaire) of an unknown witness regarding an "Aktion" and mass graves in the village of Ruszczany (in the Choroszcz district in the Bialystok area) "Aktion" in the village of Ruszczany including the number of those murdered, 11 January 1943; "Aktion" carried out by the Choroszcz gendarmerie; place where those murdered were buried including a description of the graves; exhumation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו" הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Exhumation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="746">Burial</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="532">Murders</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Choroszcz,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714408</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (by questionnaire) of an unknown witness regarding the POW camp for Soviet prisoners in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-08 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (by questionnaire) of an unknown witness regarding the POW camp for Soviet prisoners in Bialystok Establishment of a POW camp for Soviet prisoners in Bialystok, July 1941; camp life including forced labor, morbidity; epidemics and murder; burial of the murdered; liquidation of the camp, June 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Soviet POWs</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="493">Typhus</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="532">Murders</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="510">POW camp</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714409</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (by questionnaire) of A. Krzewniak regarding "Aktions" and murder in a POW camp for Soviet inmates located in Bialystok, 01 July 1941-20 July 1944</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-17 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (by questionnaire) of A. Krzewniak regarding "Aktions" and murder in a POW camp for Soviet inmates located in Bialystok, 01 July 1941-20 July 1944 "Aktions" in the camp; murder of inmates by the Wehrmacht including the number of victims; burial site of the victims including a description of the graves.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Soviet POWs</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Mass burial</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="748">Graves</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714410</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (by questionnaire) handed in to the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok regarding the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-17 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (by questionnaire) handed in to the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok regarding the Bialystok Ghetto Establishment of the Bialystok Ghetto; forced labor; "Aktions" in the ghetto; names of those who committed the murders; number of those murdered; liquidation of the ghetto; burial sites of those murdered; deportation of Jews to Treblinka; deportation of Jews to Auschwitz; deportation of Jews to Majdanek; names of Nazi criminals.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Mass burial</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="560">Majdanek,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714411</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Report submitted by M. Turek regarding the suicide of Adam Czerniakow, the Chairman of the Warsaw Ghetto Judenrat, June 1942</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">מקור וקסרוקס

7 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">-</unitdate>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: מ.טורק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההיסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="217">Suicides</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000086">Czerniakow, Adam (1880-1942)</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Warszawa,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714412</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (by questionnaire) sent to the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok regarding an "Aktion" in Trzcianne, 1941</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-18 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (by questionnaire) sent to the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok regarding an "Aktion" in Trzcianne, 1941 "Aktion" in the village of Trzcianne, 28 June-01 July 1941; murder [of Jews] by the Wehrmacht; names of those who committed the murders; number of victims; burial places of those murdered; exhumation of the bodies.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב- BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Exhumation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="747">Cemeteries</subject>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Trzcianne,Murder Site</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714413</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (by questionnaire) handed in to the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok regarding an "Aktion" in Bialystok, 27 June 1941</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-18 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (by questionnaire) handed in to the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok regarding an "Aktion" in Bialystok, 27 June 1941 "Aktion" in Bialystok carried out by the Wehrmacht, 27 June 1941; burning of Jews in the synagogue; murder of approximately 700 Jews including their personal information.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק,יו"ר הוועדה ההודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Burning Jews alive</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="646">Burning of synagogues</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714414</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">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</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-18 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="747">Cemeteries</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000751">Friedel Fritz</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714415</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (by questionnaire) of M. Turek regarding "Aktions" in Bialystok, 16-24 August 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-12 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (by questionnaire) of M. Turek regarding "Aktions" in Bialystok, 16-24 August 1943 "Aktions" in Bialystok, 16-24 August 1943; the number of Jews killed; burial place of those murdered; description of the mass graves in which those who were murdered were buried.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject>Mass burial</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000836">Tamir (Tureck), Menachem</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714416</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (by questionnaire) of M. Turek, Chairman of the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok regarding an "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 18 August 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

Typewritten copy

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-18 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (by questionnaire) of M. Turek, Chairman of the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok regarding an "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 18 August 1943 "Aktion" on Jurowiecka Street in the Bialystok Ghetto conducted by Ukrainian and Belorussian collaborators, 18 August 1943; murder of 72 underground fighters during the "Aktion"; names of the murderers; burial of the bodies in the cemetery in the ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="881">Jewish fighters</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Mass burial</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714417</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Dr. Peta Welian, born in Bialystok, Poland, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, in hiding, in Stutthof and Auschwitz</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-21 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Dr. Peta Welian, born in Bialystok, Poland, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, in hiding, in Stutthof and Auschwitz Start of the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 16 August 1943; plan for the murder of 45,000 Jews from the Bialystok Ghetto and the vicinity; "Aktion" under the command of Fritz Friedel; life in hiding with her family for four months including hunger and disease; discovery of the hiding place; transfer of the family to the prison; deportation to Gdansk by train; deportation to Stutthof; life in Stutthof for seven weeks; attitude of the Polish female inmates; transfer to Auschwitz, 12 January 1944; life in Auschwitz including labor as a physician in the Union ammunitions factory; liberation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר נהוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportations</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
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        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714418</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Memoirs of Dr. Peta Welian regarding Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">-</unitdate>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Memoirs of Dr. Peta Welian regarding Bialystok]]></p>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714419</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Dr. Peta Welian, born in Bialystok, Poland, regarding the fate of the Jewish policeman, Pesach Birnbaum, in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-10 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Dr. Peta Welian, born in Bialystok, Poland, regarding the fate of the Jewish policeman, Pesach Birnbaum, in the Bialystok Ghetto First "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, February 1943; refusal of the policeman, Pesach Birnbaum, to obey the orders of the Germans including orders to capture escapees and reveal hiding places; dismissal of the policeman from his post by Izak Markus, the police chief; second "Aktion" in the ghetto, August 1943; deportation of Birnbaum and his family to Treblinka.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714420</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Yitzchak Stashevski, born in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Vinnitsa Ghetto, Kiev, Szczecin and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-23 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Yitzchak Stashevski, born in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Vinnitsa Ghetto, Kiev, Szczecin and other places The Jewish community of Vinnitsa numbered 25,000 Jews before the outbreak of the war. Occupation of Vinnitsa by the German Army, 22 July 1941; evacuation of the Jews of Vinnitsa; 7,300 Jews left behind; establishment of the Vinnitsa Ghetto in the Military Quarter; murder of young Jews; appointment of a Judenrat; first "Aktion", September 1941; riots against the Jews; murder of approximately 2,000 women, children and the elderly; second "Aktion", August 1942; murder of women during the "Aktion"; escape to Kiev; disguises himself as a Volksdeutsche; volunteers for work in Germany; arrival at Camp 212 in Szczecin; discovery of the fact that he is Jewish; escape to Waldenburg; capture by the Germans; release; life in the Breslau area; escape to Berlin, 01 January 1944; liberation, 02 May 1945.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו,ד מ.טורעק,יו'ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
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          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from prison</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps in Germany</subject>
          <subject>Ethnic Germans</subject>
          <subject>Imprisonemnt and deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Waldenburg,Waldenburg i. Schles. (Breslau),Silesia (Lower),Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>Berlin,Berlin (Berlin),City of Berlin,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>Breslau,Breslau (Breslau),Silesia (Lower),Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>Szczecin,Stettin (Stettin),Pomerania,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>Vinnitsa,Vinnitsa City,Vinnitsa,Ukraine (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Kiev,Kiev City,Kiev,Ukraine (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Silesia Region,&lt;&gt; (&lt;&gt;),&lt;&gt;,Germany</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714421</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Feigl Golombek-Rozensztejn, born in Stawiski, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in Stawiski, in hiding and in the forests</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-27 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Feigl Golombek-Rozensztejn, born in Stawiski, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in Stawiski, in hiding and in the forests Occupation of Stawiski by the German Army, 27 June 1941; rioting and murder of Jews by the Polish population; participation of the Polish collaborator, Josef Wieczarek in the murder of approximately 700 Jews; names of those murdered; forced labor; burning of the synagogue, July 1941; rescue of Rabbi Wassersztejn from the burning synagogue by Antoni Novitzki, the Pole; transfer of Rabbi Wassersztejn to the Lomza Ghetto; in hiding in the surrounding villages; deportation of Jews to a place near Nowograd [?]; murder of the Jews, 15 August 1941; approximately 60 professionally skilled workers and their families are left alive; establishment of the ghetto, 17 August 1941; liquidation of the ghetto, 02 November 1942; deportation of the Jews to the Bogusze camp; deportation of Jews from Grajewo and Suwalki to Bogusze; life in Bogusze including hunger, morbidity and murder; liquidation of the camp; transfer of the Jews to Auschwitz; escape of Jews to the surrounding forests; being hidden by farmers; in hiding in the forests; liberation, 24 January 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו" ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="567">Camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Hunger-related diseases</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject>Rescue by Poles</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bogusze,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grajewo,Grajewo,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Stawiski,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Suwalki,Suwalki,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714422</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Report by P. Kaplan regarding the fate of Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto, April 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

Typewritten copy

16 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Report by P. Kaplan regarding the fate of Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto, April 1943 Occupation of Bialystok by the German Army, 23 June 1941; life under the German occupation including riots against the Jews, mortality among the elderly and children, hunger, murder of Jews, forced contributions and robbery of Jewish property; burning of the synagogue including Jews who were put inside the building; establishment of the ghetto, 01 August 1941; murder of approximately 200 members of the intelligentsia including physicians and teachers; "Aktion"; transfer of approximately 3,000 able-bodied youth to labor, July 1941; deportation of approximately 40,000 Jews to the ghetto; Judenrat activities in the ghetto including establishing schools and economic assistance; transfer of libraries and Torah scrolls to outside the ghetto by the Judenrat; arrest of approximately 60 Jewish lawyers; transfer of Jews to forced labor outside the ghetto; transfer of approximately 4,000 Jews to Pruzany, September 1941; acquisition of work certificates ("Sheinen") out of fear of deportation; levying of taxes and ransoms on the ghetto Jews [by the authorities]; deportation of approximately 900 Jews, February 1942; ghetto life including economics and trade inside and outside the ghetto, 1942; smuggling food items into the ghetto; running a "black market" of food items and clothing by the ghetto Jews; activities of the factories including economic assistance to the workers; a call to Jews to protect themselves and aspire to freedom.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: מ.טורק, מנהל הוועדה ההסטורית המחוזית ב-Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="578">Work certificates</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1134">Schools</subject>
          <subject>Smuggling food</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="706">Libraries</subject>
          <subject>Elderly</subject>
          <subject>Economy</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="645">Desecration of synagogues</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
          <subject>Children in the ghettos</subject>
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        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Pruzana,Pruzana,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714423</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Poem/Song written by Sonia Birger, born in 1927, about inmates who were not privileged to be liberated because they were murdered</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-20 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Poem/Song written by Sonia Birger, born in 1927, about inmates who were not privileged to be liberated because they were murdered Life in the Stutthof camp including murder of Jews; murder of inmates by shooting and their falling into a killing pit; burial of some of the inmates while they are still alive; the poem/song was written in Stutthof, 10 July 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="746">Burial</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="510">Prisoner camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject>Jewish prisoners</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714424</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Hitler's Dream": Poem/Song written by an unknown inmate and handed over to the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok about Hitler's dream to conquer the world</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Hitler's Dream": Poem/Song written by an unknown inmate and handed over to the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok about Hitler's dream to conquer the world Hitler's dream to conquer the world and present the last Jew in the world as a museum exhibit.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדההיהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Jewish prisoners</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000185">Hitler, Adolf</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt; (&lt;&gt;),&lt;&gt;,Germany</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714425</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"The Village Is Burning": Song sent to the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA["The Village Is Burning": Song sent to the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok A village goes up in flames; a call to Jews to rescue themselves; a call to Jews to put out the fire or die as heroes; the song was edited by a Jew in a hiding place (a trench?) in Poland.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714426</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Treblinka": Poem/Song written by partisans in Treblinka and sent to the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok by M. Turek</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Treblinka": Poem/Song written by partisans in Treblinka and sent to the Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok by M. Turek Deportation of Jews to Treblinka by the gendarmerie; promise made by a Jewish policeman regarding improvement of the lives of the Jews in the camp; separation of children from their mothers; expectation of the end of the war and liberation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714427</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Feigel (Rosenstein) Golombek, born in Stawiski, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in Kolno</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Feigel (Rosenstein) Golombek, born in Stawiski, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in Kolno Abuse and murder of approximately 30 Jews in Kolno by Polish farmers; names of those murdered; rape of young Jewish women; destruction of Lenin's statue in the Kolno square, 05 July 1941; burial of the statue in the Jewish cemetery; beating of Jews by Poles during the burial of the statue; deportation of Jewish youth to labor [camps], 15 July 1941; the fate of the youth is unknown; deportation of the parents of the youth to Bogusze by Gestapo men; murder of the parents by shooting; liquidation of the Kolno [Ghetto] over the course of three days; escape of approximately 50 Jews; names of those who escaped; the fate of those who escaped.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההיסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Youth</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="606">Rape</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="746">Burial</subject>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from an Aktion</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bogusze,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kolno,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Stawiski,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714428</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"My Character": Poem/Song by Rozental, born in Vilna</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-31 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA["My Character": Poem/Song by Rozental, born in Vilna The fate of a single woman who did not have money or gold to pay for her joining a person with a yellow life certificate ("Gele sheinen"); writing of songs for the theater by the author; the author's fate is unknown.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק עו"ד , יו"ר הוועדה היהוית ההסטורית ב-BIAKYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Women Workers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="578">Work certificates</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Vilna,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714429</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Those Streets": Poem/Song written by Rozental from the area of Vilna</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-31 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Those Streets": Poem/Song written by Rozental from the area of Vilna Attitude of the non-Jewish population towards the Jews; anti-Jewish legislation; condition of the non-Jews in contrast with that of the Jews; writing of theater songs by the author; the fate of the songs he wrote is not known.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ. טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Vilna,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714430</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Basze Kapcer, born in Szczucin, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Szczucin, the Szczucin Ghetto, in hiding and in forests</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-08-11 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Basze Kapcer, born in Szczucin, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Szczucin, the Szczucin Ghetto, in hiding and in forests Occupation of Szczucin [by the Red Army], 1939; murder of approximately 300 men; occupation of Szczucin [by the German Army], 24 June 1941; abuse of Jews by the local Polish population; names of collaborators; murder of approximately 300 Jews by Poles, 25 June 1941; names of those murdered; murder of Jews including burning the Jews alive by Poles in Grajewo, Radzilow and Stawiski; establishment of a ghetto in Szczucin, 20 July 1941; appointment of a Judenrat comprised of 15 members and four policemen; names of the Judenrat members; term of office of Yona Lewinowicz as Judenrat chairman; liquidation of the ghetto, 02 November 1942; deportation of the Jews to the Bogusze camp by wagon; unsuccessful attempts to escape from the camp; in hiding in the forests; hidden by a farmer until the liberation; liberation, 26 January 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: מ.טורעק ,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Szczucin,Dabrowa,Krakow,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bogusze,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Radzhilov,Szczuczyn,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Stawiski,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714431</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Katarzyna Wolkotrup, a Polish woman, regarding the rescue of a Jewish child from Baranowicze</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-08-20 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Katarzyna Wolkotrup, a Polish woman, regarding the rescue of a Jewish child from Baranowicze Hiding of a Jewish family by their Polish female neighbor; discovery of the hiding place; murder of the family; rescue of the 8-month old child.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Rescue by Poles</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Baranowicze,Baranowicze,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714437</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Writings of Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff: Proclamation calling for self-defense in the Bialystok Ghetto, 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

Typewritten copy

9 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="eng" encodinganalog="3.4.3">English</language>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Writings of Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff: Proclamation calling for self-defense in the Bialystok Ghetto, 1943 Writing of the proclamation before the first "Aktion", January 1943; description of the extent of the catastrophe that has beset the Jews in the countries occupied by Germany including humiliation, torture and murder; a call to Jews not to believe Nazi propaganda; deportation of the deportees to their deaths in the crematorium and mass graves in the forests in Poland; forced labor will not rescue the laborers from death; a call not to go like sheep to the slaughter; a call to fight for life and to die with honor; a call to destroy all property before deportation and annihilation; a call to the youth to join the partisans and fight in an armed struggle against the Germans.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: M/Turek

submitted by: עו"ד מ. טורק, מנהל הוועדה ההסטורית היהודית ב- Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_cb" authfilenumber="1204">Combat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="483">Crematoria</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="562">Torture</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1215">Partisans</subject>
          <subject>Nazi Propaganda</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000406">Tenenbaum (Tamaroff), Mordechai (1916-1943)</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Placards</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714438</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Report by an unknown writer regarding the fate of the Jews of Grodno</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

27 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Report by an unknown writer regarding the fate of the Jews of Grodno Deportation of 1,200 Jews from Grodno to Bialystok, 12 March 1943; declaration of Grodno as "Free of Jews" by the Germans; cooperation of the Jewish police in revealing hiding places of Jews; liquidation of Ghetto 2 in an "Aktion", November 1942; transfer of Jews from Ghetto 1 to the Kielbasin camp, December 1942; deportation of approximately 10,000 Jews, 16 January 1943; deportation of approximately 3,700 Jews, 13 February 1943; transfer of the Jews remaining in Grodno to Bialystok, 13 March 1943; Judenrat activities in the Grodno Ghetto; life of the Grodno Jews in Bialystok including their economic situation; attitude of the Jews towards each other during the "Aktions"; escape of Jews to the forests; attitude of the partisans towards the Jews; refusal of the partisans to absorb Jews who had escaped from the ghetto to join their lines; fate of the 500 Jews who remained in the ghetto, March 1943; attitude of Kurt Wiese, the German commander, towards the Jews of Grodno.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההיסטורית ב - Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="847">Mutual help</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="329">Antisemitism - partisans</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject>Economy</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000975">Wiese Kurt</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="204">Grodno,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grodno,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2410">Kiełbasin,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grodno 2,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714440</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Boris Greineman, born in Disna, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Grajewo and Wilejka</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-09-29 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Boris Greineman, born in Disna, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Grajewo and Wilejka Jewish life in Wilejka before the outbreak of the war. Occupation of Wilejka by the German Army; deportation from Grajewo to Wilejka, August 1941; life in Wilejka including abuse; murder of 400 Jews, 15 August 1941.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Grajewo,Grajewo,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wilejka,Wilejka,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714441</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Boris Grajneman, born in Disna, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Vilna and as a partisan</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-09-30 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Boris Grajneman, born in Disna, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Vilna and as a partisan Liquidation of the ghettos in the Vilna area, 1943; escape of Jewish youth from Vilna, Postawy and Glebokie to the forests in Narocz; the youth join the partisans; attitude of the Belorussian population towards the youth; forest life from 1942, including help to Jews who escaped during the liquidation of the ghettos; establishment of a Jewish partisan regiment, known as "Revenge", in the forests in Narocz; establishment of a group of approximately 300 Jewish fighters; transfer of Jews from the Vilna Ghetto; joining the partisans by the Jews; employment of non-combatant Jews in helping combatant groups including sewing clothes and housework; witness serves as commander of a combat unit that defeated a regiment of Germans in Kobylnik; rescue of scores of Jews in hiding in Kobylnik after the liquidation of the ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדההיהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Disna,Glebokie,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Postawy,Postawy,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Narocz,Wilejka,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kobylnik,Postawy,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Glembokie,Glebokie,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714442</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Simcha Bursztejn regarding his experiences in Orlo</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-09-30 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Simcha Bursztejn regarding his experiences in Orlo Occupation of Orlo by the German Army, 24 June 1941; establishment of local government; life in Orlo including yellow badge, forced labor and robbery of property; anti-Jewish legislation and implementation of the Nuremberg Laws by the mayor; murder of Jews; establishment of the Orlo Ghetto, spring 1942; allotment of living quarters measuring two square meters for each ghetto Jew; liquidation of the ghetto, 2-4 November 1942; deportation of Jews to Bielsk Podlaski; deportation of the Jews to Treblinka.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">Ghettoization</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to extermination camps</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bielsk Podlaski,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Orlo,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714443</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Collective testimony of Simcha Tepperman and Leizer Davidowicz regarding the experiences of the Jews of Bielsk-Podlaski</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-10-24 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Collective testimony of Simcha Tepperman and Leizer Davidowicz regarding the experiences of the Jews of Bielsk-Podlaski Occupation of Bielsk-Podlaski by the German Army, 24 June 1941; life under the German occupation including decrees, robbery of property and forced labor; establishment of a local authority; names of Polish collaborators; arrest of 30 Jews including their names; murder of the Jews arrested; levying of forced contributions; burning of Torah scrolls and desecration of religious articles; murder of the Jews of Bielsk-Podlaski, 15 November 1942.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ. טורעק, יוR הוועדההיהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Desecration of religious articles</subject>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bielsk Podlaski,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714444</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Left, Left, Left": Poem/Song by an unknown writer about calling for revenge on the Germans</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-10-25 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Left, Left, Left": Poem/Song by an unknown writer about calling for revenge on the Germans A call for revenge on the Germans for their criminal deeds; a warning to the Germans regarding their annihilation as they annihilated other nations; revival of the Sphinx in the modern world; the Sphinx's cry: "Left, Left, Left".]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדההיהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="268">Information concerning extermination</subject>
          <subject>Revenge</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714445</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Simcha Bursztejn, born in Kleszczele, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Bialowieza</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-10-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Simcha Bursztejn, born in Kleszczele, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Bialowieza Occupation of Bialowieza by the German Army, 24 June 1941; life in Bialowieza including anti-Jewish legislation, yellow badge, levying of a forced contribution and confiscation of Jewish property; deportation of Jews to forced labor; establishment of local government under Kriskiwicz, the Pole; appointment of a German as mayor in place of Krisiwicz, 15 July 1941; attempts by the German to kill Jews and non-Jews; murder of men, aged 13-50, September 1941; deportation of the elderly, women and children to Kobryn and Antopol; murder of the deportees, autumn 1942; deportation of professionally skilled laborers to Pruzany; declaration by the Germans that Bialowieza is Judenrein (Free of Jews), January 1942.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ .טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Skilled workers</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="585">Confiscation of property</subject>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Pruzana,Pruzana,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialowieza,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Antopol,Kobryn,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Chwedkowicze,Kobryn,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714446</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Menachem Turek regarding the fate of the Jews of Tiktin</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

8 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-10-29 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Menachem Turek regarding the fate of the Jews of Tiktin Red Army retreat in the direction of the East; occupation of Tiktin by the German Army, June 1941; attitude of the local population towards the Jews including riots and robbery of property; establishment of a local police under the command of Antek Jakobiak, the Pole; establishment of a local government under Jan Fibik; entry of German soldiers into Tiktin, late June 1941; activities of the soldiers including hunting for Communists; life under the German occupation including forced labor, anti-Jewish legislation and yellow badge; abuse of the Jews by Polish policemen; deportation of Jews from Trzcianne, Jedwabne and Wizna to Tiktin, early July 1941; information regarding the fate of the Jews of Jedwabne, Trzcianne and Wizna who were shot and burned alive; desecration of cemeteries including demolition of ancient monuments of rabbis, learned scholars and leading sages; destruction of the Great Synagogue; murder of the Jews of Tiktin by shooting; burial of those murdered in mass graves in the Lopuchowo forest; survival of 17 Jews from 2,000 Jews in Tiktin; names of the survivors.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="645">Desecration of synagogues</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="101">Jewish refugees</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="347">Desecration of cemeteries</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000836">Tamir (Tureck), Menachem</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Jedwabne,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wizna,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Trzcianne,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Tiktin,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Lopuchowo,forest,Murder Site</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714447</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Irony of Fate", "I Do Not Like" and "A Feeling of Spring": Poems/Songs written by M. Turek in hiding places and forests in the Tiktin area</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Handwritten copy

Original

12 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-02 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="heb" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Hebrew</language>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA["Irony of Fate", "I Do Not Like" and "A Feeling of Spring": Poems/Songs written by M. Turek in hiding places and forests in the Tiktin area "Irony of Fate": Legal restraints on criminals in the past as opposed to control by criminals and their current murderous acts; forfeiting the lives of lawyers and physicians including their hiding in hiding places in fear for their lives; "I Do Not Like": the author's resignation to his anticipated fate; the author must not be pessimistic, but rather he should rejoice that life is short; Composition of other poems/songs by the author including "A Feeling of Spring".]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Tiktin,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714448</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of David Jochwedovitz Kahana regarding his experiences in Slonim, the Baranowicze Ghetto, the Rozana Ghetto, the Pruzana Ghetto and forests in Lithuania</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

9 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-10-30 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of David Jochwedovitz Kahana regarding his experiences in Slonim, the Baranowicze Ghetto, the Rozana Ghetto, the Pruzana Ghetto and forests in Lithuania Outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; disintegration of the Soviet rule; mass escape of Jewish youth from Slonim towards the East; evacuation of government officials and Communist party members; hoarding of products including food; air-raid on Slonim by the German Army; occupation of Slonim by the German Army; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation, robbery of property, forced labor, yellow badge and murder of Jews; appointment of a Judenrat; establishment of a Jewish police; activities of workshops and factories established by the Germans; deportation of Jews to ghettos; concentration of the Jews of Slonim in the "Community Hall", 17 July 1941; murder of 1,250 Jewish youth in the Pietralewicze forest near Slonim; names of a number of those murdered; "Aktions", June-August 1942; murder of the Jews of Slonim, December 1942; transfer to the Baranowicze Ghetto; ghetto life; transfer to the Rozana Ghetto; ghetto life; transfer to the Pruzana Ghetto; ghetto life; life in the forests in Lithuania; survival.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="549">Workshops</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="623">Evacuation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escapes</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="824">Pruzana,Ghetto</geogname>
          <geogname>Slonim,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="1023">Rozana,Ghetto</geogname>
          <geogname>Pietralewicze Forest,forest,Murder Site,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="170">Baranowicze,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714449</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Survey conducted by M. Chmielnik (Pseudonym: M. Caine) regarding the experiences of the Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto, 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

7 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="heb" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Hebrew</language>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Survey conducted by M. Chmielnik (Pseudonym: M. Caine) regarding the experiences of the Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto, 1943 The waiting of those sentenced to death for the carrying out of the verdict; tension of the condemned as the hangmen approach; staying in hiding places from fear of the murderers; presence of informers in the ghetto; attitude of the Jewish police. Note: Published in Yad Vashem Collection, Volume 2, 1957.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית -בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714450</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Ania (Rybalowska) Wincygsztern, born in Slonim, Poland, regarding her experiences in Slonim, Wolkowysk, Bialystok, Stutthof, Auschwitz and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-10-30 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Ania (Rybalowska) Wincygsztern, born in Slonim, Poland, regarding her experiences in Slonim, Wolkowysk, Bialystok, Stutthof, Auschwitz and other places Murder of 10,000 Jews in Slonim under the command of Hick, the Gestapo man, 14 November 1941; deportation to Rozana; transfer to Wolkowysk; forced labor with 360 young Jewish women from Bialystok; "Aktion" in Wolkowysk and in the nearby villages, 02 November 1942; transfer together with 336 young women to Bialystok by Munsfeld, 27 November 1942; forced labor in the Markowszczyzna farm owned by SS Und Polizei Fuehrer (SSPF) Helfrich in the Bialystok area; beginning of the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 16 August 1943; deportation of Jews, including the witness, to the prison in Bialystok by Grand, the German, 17 August 1943; murder of Jews jailed in the prison in Nowosiolek; transfer of the professionally skilled workers back to work in the workshops and factories [in the Bialystok Ghetto]; final liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 23 August 1943 [should be 18 August-20 August 1943]; transfer to Stutthof together with 159 women; attitude of Jadwiga Jackowska, the Polish Lageraelteste, towards the female inmates; transfer to Auschwitz, 06 January 1944; death march from Auschwitz towards the West, 17 January 1945; escape; in hiding in a village; liberation by the Red Army.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="549">Workshops</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject>Death Marches</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Rozana,Iwacewicze,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
          <geogname>Wolkowysk,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Slonim,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714451</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Iccok Szneidr, born in Choroszcz, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Choroszcz, the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz, Jastrzebia Gora and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-10-30 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Iccok Szneidr, born in Choroszcz, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Choroszcz, the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz, Jastrzebia Gora and other places Escape with his two brothers from Choroszcz to the Bialystok Ghetto; first "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 05 February 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; life in Auschwitz until 18 January 1945 including forced labor; death march; escape to Jastrzebia Gora, 21 January 1945; in hiding in forests; liberation by the Red Army, 11 March 1945. Move to Bialystok by train via Ostroleka; stopping of the train by a gang of Poles belonging to "Iskra", 22 May 1945; murder of Jewish survivors by the gang members.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ. טורעק, יו"ר הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Death Marches</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to Auschwitz</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Choroszcz,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Ostroleka,Ostroleka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Jastrzębia Góra,&lt;&gt;,Silesia,&lt;&gt;</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714452</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Hela Chaja Strykowska, born in Zdunska Wola, Poland, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, being hidden by Poles and in Warsaw</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-08 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Hela Chaja Strykowska, born in Zdunska Wola, Poland, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, being hidden by Poles and in Warsaw Life in the Bialystok Ghetto; first "Aktion", January 1943; being hidden by a Polish family named Galinski; attempt to rescue the witness by Loga Galinska, the Polish woman; transfer to Warsaw with Polish women; work for a German farmer in Warsaw; life in Warsaw until the liberation; liberation by the Red Army.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="261">Rescuers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Warszawa,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714453</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Gawriel Awerbuch, born in Warsaw, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and in prison in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-10-31 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Gawriel Awerbuch, born in Warsaw, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and in prison in Bialystok Liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 16 August 1943; transfer of 100 able bodied professionally skilled workers to the prison by the Germans during the liquidation of the ghetto; transfer of 80 inmates from the prison to labor on a farm in Markowszczyzna owned by the head of the SS and the head of the police (?); transfer of the remaining 20, including the witness, to labor in SS workshops and factories; names of the 20 inmates; working by the inmates without any marks identifying them as Jews; term used to refer to the inmates: "Civilian POWs"; survival of 19 of the inmates; murder of an inmate by the Armia Krajowa (AK) after the war; outbreak of typhus in the prison; murder of all the sick people in the prison; attitude of the German foreman, Stefalblum, towards the Jewish factory workers; escape and survival of the Jews thanks to Stefalblum's attitude.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from prison</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Imprisonemnt and deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="650">Prisoners</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
          <subject>Sick people</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="493">Typhus</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="549">Workshops</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714454</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Edward Janowicz, the Pole, regarding the murder of 4,000 Jews from Bialystok in Pietraszek, 12 July 1941</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-08 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Edward Janowicz, the Pole, regarding the murder of 4,000 Jews from Bialystok in Pietraszek, 12 July 1941 Murder of 4,000 Jews from Bialystok in Pietraszek, 12 July 1942; burial of those who were murdered in five mass graves that had already been dug; escape of an injured Jew from the killing pit; help given by Sosnowski, the Pole, to the injured man to escape.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1321">Killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="297">Assistance to Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="540">Mass murders</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Pietraszek,field,Murder Site,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714456</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Mira Kwasowicer, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

5 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-10 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Mira Kwasowicer, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto Being hidden in the Bialystok Ghetto during an "Aktion" by Maria Kozachuk, the Polish woman, February 1943; rescue of a Jew by Seifert, the German policeman; in hiding with her family during the "Aktion", 16 August 1943; forced labor in a factory; murder of 70 (underground) fighters in the ghetto, 20 August 1943; abuse (of Jews?) by Ukrainian collaborators; "Aktion" against the sick and the elderly; approach {of the army) of the Front to Bialystok including shelling; liberation by the Red Army, 28 July 1944.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject>Sick people</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714457</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Joint testimony of Cytron and Kuczykiewicz regarding their experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-11 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Joint testimony of Cytron and Kuczykiewicz regarding their experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto Murder of the two Jewish collaborators, Judkowski and Cwiklicz by members of the underground in the Bialystok Ghetto; romantic connection between Asia Dereczynska and the Gestapo agent, Judkowski; attitude of the Polish youth towards German soldiers after the occupation of Bialystok by the German Army; fate of Jankiel Segal and his family in Bialystok; fate of the Perelmuter family in Bialystok; payment of a forced contribution as a ransom for the men caught by the Gestapo, 03 July 1941; demonstration by the wives of the men caught by the Gestapo against the Judenrat when the men are not released; suicide of Tania (Peker) Tat in the ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק , יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="217">Suicides</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="117">Jewish collaborators</subject>
          <subject>Imprisonemnt and deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714458</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Jasza Klin regarding the fate of Jewish partisans in Rozana and the fate of the Jews of Ros and Wolpa</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-17 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Jasza Klin regarding the fate of Jewish partisans in Rozana and the fate of the Jews of Ros and Wolpa Fighting of Jewish partisans from the Bialystok area in the Katowski Brigade under the command of Babakow in Rozana in the Slonim area, late 1942; names of the fighters; deportation of Jews from Ros and Wolpa (in the Wolkowysk area), 02 November 1942; fate of the Jews of Ros; fate of the Jews of Wolpa.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wolkowysk,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Slonim,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Rozana Grodzienska,Iwacewicze,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Ros,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wolpa,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714459</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Joint testimony of Tobiasz Cytron and Idy Babkies regarding the fate of the Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-11 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Joint testimony of Tobiasz Cytron and Idy Babkies regarding the fate of the Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto Evacuation of the Jews from the Bialystok Ghetto to Lublin due to German concerns regarding the condition of the Jews in the ghetto, August 1943; remarks made by Polish women transferred to Auschwitz that one should not be happy in light of the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto and the burning of Jews in their homes, November 1944; the Jews' hope for liberation because of the shelling of Bialystok by the Red Army; biography of Dr. Aron Babkes and his fate; administration of the sending of Jewish children from Bialystok to Theresienstadt by Mrs. Barasz, the wife of the Judenrat chairman; deportation of Mrs. Barasz, the wife of the Judenrat chairman, with the children to Auschwitz, where they were murdered in the gas chambers.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: IDA BABKIES

submitted by: IDY BABKES

submitted by: TOBIAS CYTRON]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Deportation to Auschwitz</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="499">Gas chambers</subject>
          <subject>Children in the ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="449">Theresienstadt,Ghetto,Czechoslovakia</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Lublin,Lublin,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714460</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Report submitted by M. Cain (M. Chmielnik) regarding his experiences in Lomza, Gacz, in hiding in Dombrowa and Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Report submitted by M. Cain (M. Chmielnik) regarding his experiences in Lomza, Gacz, in hiding in Dombrowa and Bialystok Life in the prison in Lomza, June 1941; escape of Red Army soldiers to the central Soviet Union area with their families; breaking down the doors of the prison by inmates; escape of inmates from the prison; transfer of inmates who had escaped back to Bialystok; transfer to the village of Gacz; life in Gacz including riots and murder of Jews; attitude of the local Polish population towards the Jews; transfer to Dombrowa; being hidden by a local Jew; escape to Bialystok, 04 July 1941; the fate of the Jews of Bialystok including riots, burning and murder of Jews during the occupation of Bialystok by the German Army. Note: Copy of the original archival material from the ghetto archive dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק, יו,ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Dombrowa,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Gacz,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714461</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"The Small Ghetto": Testimony of Felicja Raszkin, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and in hiding</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-14 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["The Small Ghetto": Testimony of Felicja Raszkin, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and in hiding Life in the Bialystok Ghetto for two years; "Aktion" in the ghetto, 16 August 1943; surrounding of the ghetto by German soldiers and Belorussian and Ukrainian collaborators; riots against the Jews; breaking out of fires in the ghetto; shooting in the ghetto; deportation of the Jews from the ghetto to Pietrasze Square; transfer of approximately 300 Jews back to the ghetto according to a list prepared earlier by members of the Judenrat; transfer of professionally skilled workers back to their places of work in the factories; transfer of approximately 800 Jews in [should be: to] the small ghetto; rumors regarding the smuggling of children out of the ghetto to Switzerland; the fate of the children is unknown; escape from the ghetto; hidden by Poles in a village for 11 months; liberation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1097">German soldiers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Children in the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Belorussian collaborators</subject>
          <subject>Production plants</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Ukrainian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714462</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Joint testimony of Dr. Szymon Datner, Eliasz Baumac and Kalman Barakin regarding the experiences of Jewish partisans in the Bialystok area</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-15 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Joint testimony of Dr. Szymon Datner, Eliasz Baumac and Kalman Barakin regarding the experiences of Jewish partisans in the Bialystok area 1. Heroic fighting by Yechiel Zeifman; fighting of the partisans in the "Kadima" regiment commanded by Sasza Suchatchevsky; death in battle of Zeigman and six other partisans in combat against the Germans and Belorussian collaborators in the Izoba forests, 25 September 1943; 2. Transfer of the youth, Wacek Birnbaum, 16, to forests together with partisans who joined "Philipov", the Jewish partisan regiment; arrival of partisans from the Warsaw area into the forests, June 1944; participation of Wacek in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; Wacek's fighting bravely against the Germans alongside Jewish and Soviet partisans in the forests in the Warsaw area; Wacek's joining the Red Army in Knyszyn, August 1944; disappearance of all traces of Wacek within the Red Army framework; 3. Ezra Obiedzinski's service as a teacher in Grajewo; transfer to the Bialystok Ghetto; underground activities in the ghetto; liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, August 1943; transfer to the killing pit with 70 Jews; escape from the killing pit to the forests; fighting against the Germans as part of the "Baumac" partisan regiment; joining the Red Army; death in battle, 1944; 4. Jankel Grajewer, born in Slonim, Poland, 1925; survives two "Aktions" in Slonim; transfer to the Bialystok Ghetto; escape to the forests; fighting against the Germans as part of the "Baumac" partisan regiment; death in battle against Wlassow men, June 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escaping and joining the Partisans</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Knyszyn,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="1106">Warszawa,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Warszawa,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714463</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Report by Szymon Datner from Wizna, Poland, regarding the fate of the Jews of Wizna</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Report by Szymon Datner from Wizna, Poland, regarding the fate of the Jews of Wizna Air-raids on houses in Wizna by German aircraft, 22 June 1941; burning of houses including Jewish houses; occupation of Wizna by the German Army, 22 June 1941; chasing after the Jews hiding in the fields and swamps by Polish fascists; abuse of Jews by Poles; murder of Jews by Poles; names of the Polish murderers; names of those murdered; arrival of Gestapo men in Wizna, 26 June 1941; murder of Jewish men outside the city; names of the murderers; names of those murdered; escape of Jews to Bialystok, Lomza and Jedwabne; murder of the Jews of Jedwabne; names of the survivors from Wizna.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: מ.טורעק יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="540">Mass murders</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="642">Persecution of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Wizna,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714464</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Overview by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the murder of Jews in Wasocz</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

Typewritten copy

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Overview by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the murder of Jews in Wasocz Occupation of Wasocz by the German Army; establishment of a Polish police; life under the German occupation including abuse, rioting and robbery of property; "Aktion" for three days; murder of Jews, including children, in the streets and in the houses by the Polish police, 05 July 1941; rape of women; amputation of the fingers of the murder victims in order to take their rings; removal of the gold teeth of the murder victims; murder of Soviet clerks who did not have time to escape from the Germans; murder of the wives of officers who did not have time to escape from the Germans; survival of approximately 15 people who were in hiding from the 1,200 Jews of Wasocz; deportation of the 15 people to Milewo (in the Szczucin area); life in Milewo including forced labor together with 500 Jews from the surrounding area; extermination of the Jews of the Bialystok area, 02 November 1942; deportation to Treblinka.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="606">Rape</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="540">Mass murders</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Milewo,Ghetto</geogname>
          <geogname>Grajewo,Grajewo,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Szczucin,Dabrowa,Krakow,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wasosz,Grajewo,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714465</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Destruction of Radzilow": Overview written by Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Jews of Radzilow</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

7 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-29 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Destruction of Radzilow": Overview written by Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Jews of Radzilow Occupation of Radzilow by the German Army, 23 June 1941; attitude of the Poles towards the German Army; handing over of Soviet Army soldiers who did not have time to escape [by the Poles] to the Germans; names of Polish collaborators; abuse and murder of Jews by Poles; robbery of property; desecration of religious objects including the burning of Torah scrolls; attitude of the Poles towards the Jews; incitement of the Poles against the Jews; establishment of a local Polish authority in Radzilow; levying of a forced contribution; concentration of the Jews in a granary near the village of Radziwiez; burning of the granary including the Jews inside the granary; search for Jews in hiding or who escaped; murder of the Jews captured; concentration of the Jews of Radzilow including refugees from Szczucin and Jedwabne in the market square in Radzilow by the Gestapo, 07 July 1941; abuse, humiliation, beatings and murder of Jews by the Germans with help from the Poles; "Aktion", 7-10 July 1941; deportation of the Jews who survived the "Aktion" to Milewo and the Bogusze camp, 02 November 1942; transfer to Treblinka; murder of Jewish survivors by Polish farmers in order to prevent them from testifying regarding the crimes committed by the Poles and the Germans in Radzilow, 23 January 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Desecration of religious articles</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grajewo,Grajewo,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bogusze,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Szczucin,Dabrowa,Krakow,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Radzilow,Szczuczyn,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wasosz,Grajewo,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Jedwabne,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Milewo,Ghetto</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714466</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Destruction of Jedwabne": Report by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Jews of Jedwabne</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Destruction of Jedwabne": Report by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Jews of Jedwabne Occupation of Jedwabne by the German Army, 23 June 1941; life under the German occupation including riots, robbery of property, rape of women, abuse and murder of Jews by Polish gangs; names of the Jews murdered; burning alive of approximately 1,500 Jews from Jedwabne in a threshing floor in Jedwabne, 10 July 1941; deportation of the Jews who survived to Lomza and to Zambrow, 02 November 1942, and from there to Auschwitz; names of the Polish murderers; escape of seven Jews; hiding of the Jews who escaped by the Polish woman, Antonina Vizhkovska; survival of the Jews.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Rescue by Poles</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="606">Rape</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to Auschwitz</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Zambrow,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Jedwabne,Murder Site</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714467</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Destruction of the Jews of Kolno": Report by Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Kolno Jews</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Destruction of the Jews of Kolno": Report by Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Kolno Jews Occupation of Kolno by the German Army, 22 June 1941; riots against the Jews by Polish gangs; murder of approximately 30 Jews; life under the German occupation including robbery of property, forced labor, rape of women, beatings and abuse; destruction of the statue of Lenin on order of the Germans; burial of the statue in the Jewish cemetery by Jews including arranging a funeral ceremony; deportation of Jewish youth from Kolno allegedly to forced labor, 15 July 1941; disappearance of all trace of the young people; false promises by the Germans regarding a meeting of the Kolno Jews with their family members; deportation of Jews and their murder, 18 July 1941; escape of approximately 50 Jews to Stawiski and other forests; stabbing of a German policeman with a knife by Eidenberg, the Jew, and Chaya-Leah Olech during the deportation; survival of Eidenberg and Olech in the Grabovek forests until 1944; discovery of Eidenberg and Olech and their murder; survival of the Jewish woman, Dinah Chludniewitz, in Germany because she worked using a Christian identity.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודי ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Jewish heroes</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="750">Jewish cemeteries</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kolno,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Stawiski,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714468</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Destruction of Stawiski": Overview written by Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Jews of Stawiski</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Destruction of Stawiski": Overview written by Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Jews of Stawiski Occupation of Stawiski by the German Army, 27 June 1941; life under the German occupation including riots, robbery of property, forced labor, abuse and murder of Jews by Polish gangs led by Jozef Wieczarek; collaboration of Polish fascists with the Germans; names of those murdered; abuse of Rabbi Wassersztejn including throwing him into the burning synagogue while holding a Torah scroll; rescue of Rabbi Wassersztejn by Antoni Novitzki, the Pole; "Aktion", 15 August 1941; murder of the Jews of Stawiski; transfer of 60 skilled professionals to the Stawiski Ghetto with their families; liquidation of the ghetto, 02 November 1942; deportation of the Jews to the Bogusze camp; transfer of the Jews from Bogusze to Auschwitz, December 1942; liberation of Stawiski and the villages in the surrounding area by the Red Army, 24 January 1945. Names of those who survived.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to Auschwitz</subject>
          <subject>Desecration of religious articles</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Grajewo,Grajewo,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bogusze,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="689">Stawiski,Ghetto</geogname>
          <geogname>Stawiski,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714469</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Destruction of the Village of Zareby Kosciel": Summary by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the experiences of the Jews of Zareby</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Destruction of the Village of Zareby Kosciel": Summary by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the experiences of the Jews of Zareby Occupation of Zareby Kosciel by the German Army, 22 June 1941; collaboration of the Poles with the Germans; life under the German occupation including the robbery of Jewish property, humiliation, beatings and murder of Jews; attempt to destroy the statue of Stalin and arrangement of a Jewish funeral for the statue; abuse of Rabbi Spivack, the rabbi of Zareby Kosciel; murder of Jews in the villages in the vicinity including Jedrzejow and Czyzow; request of the Polish rioters of the Germans that the Germans deport the Jews from Zareby Kosciel so the Poles can get their possessions; escape of approximately 200 Jews from Zareby to the forests; survivor of 15 of the Jews who escaped; murder of the Jews of Zareby Kosciel near the village of Nianowick, 02 September 1941; names of those who were murdered; murder of five Jews who were in hiding in the Zareby area by Polish fascists; liberation of Zareby by the Red Army.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Zareby Koscielne,Ostrow Mazowiecka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Jedrzejow,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Ostrów Mazowiecka,Ostrow Mazowiecka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Czyzew,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714470</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Overview by Pesach Kaplan regarding the Judenrat in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

16 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Overview by Pesach Kaplan regarding the Judenrat in the Bialystok Ghetto One-sided policy of the Judenrat in the Bialystok Ghetto including forced labor and following orders of the Germans in order to save the lives of the Jews of the ghetto; opposition of the Jews to the Judenrat's policy, preferring resistance and uprisings against the Germans; Kaplan's period of service as the ghetto archivist and the first editor of the ghetto newspaper; the practice of recording events that occurred in the ghetto; the practice of recording Judenrat activities until March 1943, including the attitude of the Germans towards the Judenrat, the Jewish police, trials held in the ghetto; the Finance Department, the Economics Department, the Labor Bureau, charity organizations, the Sanitation department, the Housing department, the ghetto economy, the Construction Department, education and culture in the ghetto; statistics and the Industrial Department; hiding of the truth regarding the murder of Jews in Poland from the Jews of the ghetto by the Judenrat members; deportation of the Jews to their deaths without resistance on their part because the truth was hidden from them.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו" ד מ.טורעק , יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Labor Bureau</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="719">Jewish culture</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1130">Trials</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1055">Statistics</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="937">Industry</subject>
          <subject>Economy</subject>
          <subject>Education in the ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714471</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"16 Days in Hiding": Report by an unknown author regarding his experiences in hiding in Grodno</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["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.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק , יור הוועדה ההסטןרית היהודית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000975">Wiese Kurt</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="204">Grodno,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grodno,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714472</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Evacuation to Pruzana": Overview by Szymon Datner regarding the deportation of the Jews of Bialystok to Pruzana</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Evacuation to Pruzana": Overview by Szymon Datner regarding the deportation of the Jews of Bialystok to Pruzana Sealing of the Bialystok Ghetto, 01 August 1941; rumors regarding the murder of 10,000 Jews in Slonim, 14 November 1941; rumors regarding the murder of Jews from Vilna in Ponary; deportation of Jews who are not working from Bialystok to Pruzana, autumn 1941; compilation of a file of families fit for work by the Judenrat and the police; deportation of a total of 5,000 Jews to Pruzana each day over the course of three weeks, including robbery of their possessions and money; activity of members of the Bialystok Judenrat in bringing back Jews transferred to Pruzana; treatment by the members of the Pruzana Judenrat of the Jews transferred from Bialystok, including medical help, provision of food and a place to live; deportation of Belorussians [from Pruzana?] to Germany; handing over the apartments of the Belorussians to the Jews of the ghetto; attempts by Jews from Pruzana to return to Bialystok; liquidation of the Pruzana Ghetto, late January 1943; deportation of the Pruzana Jews to Auschwitz.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to Auschwitz</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="623">Evacuation</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="824">Pruzana,Ghetto</geogname>
          <geogname>Ponary Area,Murder Site,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Vilna,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Slonim,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714473</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Overview compiled by Szymon Datner regarding the murder of the Jews of Slonim, the murder of the Jews of Ponary and the arrival of refugees from Slonim to the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Overview compiled by Szymon Datner regarding the murder of the Jews of Slonim, the murder of Jews in Ponary and the arrival of refugees from Slonim to the Bialystok Ghetto Deportation of the Jews of Bialystok to Pruzana; fallaciousness of the hope of the Bialystok Jews that they would survive that became apparent on the arrival of information from the Vilna Ghetto regarding "Aktions", murder of Jews, Jews with yellow work certificates, the Lukiszki prison and the killing pits in Ponary; arrival of refugees from Slonim; the refugees' story regarding the murder of 10,000 Jews from Slonim by Lithuanian soldiers under the orders of the Germans, 14 November 1941; the refugees' story regarding the murder of the Jews of Dereczyn; help from the Bialystok Judenrat members in smuggling Jews from Vilna into Bialystok including concern for living quarters and work for the refugees; Zelikovitch's term as liaison between the Judenrat and the German authorities; escape of Jews to the Warsaw Ghetto with the hope of a more secure life; work of the Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto, including the refugees, in the Judenrat factories in the ghetto; names of the managers of the Judenrat factories; survival of Iser Kagan in the Lukiszki prison, December 1941; deportation of Iser Kagan from Vilna to Ponary with other Jews; escape from the killing pit; transfer back to the Vilna Ghetto; criticism over the non-disclosure of the truth by the Judenrat.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="578">Work certificates</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject>Skilled workers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="304">Refugees during the war</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="652">Imprisonment</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1321">Killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Slonim,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="1106">Warszawa,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Dereczyn,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Lukiszki,Detention Site,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Ponary Area,Murder Site,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Pruzana,Pruzana,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714474</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Zalman Kolesznik, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Dzialdowo and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-29 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Zalman Kolesznik, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Dzialdowo and other places Suicide by hanging of Zwi Wider, the manager of the Bialystok Ghetto bakery, February 1943; suicide by hanging of Szlomo Jenielow, the barber, in the Bialystok Ghetto, February 1942; deportation to the Dzialdowo labor camp after the first "Aktion", 13 March 1943; life in Dzialdowo; transfer to forced labor in various camps in the Koenigsberg area; escape from the camp; liberation, 27 January 1945.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation to Germany</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Hangings</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="217">Suicides</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Dzialdowo,Dzialdowo,Pomorze,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Koenigsberg,Königsberg (Pr.) (Königsberg (Pr.)),East Prussia,Germany</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714475</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Pinchas Gruszniewski, born in Lomza, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Lomza and the Kolno area</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-11-29 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Pinchas Gruszniewski, born in Lomza, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Lomza and the Kolno area Life in Lomza. Establishment of the Lomza Ghetto; decrees; liquidation of the ghetto, 01 November 1942; escape of the Jews to the Aryan side and the villages during the liquidation of the ghetto; deportation of Jews from the ghetto to Zambrow; escape to Lomza; wanderings among the villages in the Kolno area; disguise as a Christian; work on a farm as a Christian; survival with help from Sadowska, the Polish woman.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject>The Aryan side</subject>
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        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zambrow,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="519">Łomża,Ghetto</geogname>
          <geogname>Kolno Area,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714476</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Towards the West": Novella written by Szymon Datner</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

9 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-06 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA["Towards the West": Novella written by Szymon Datner Death march of women who survived in the camp (with no indication of the name of the camp), January 1945, including worn out clothing, fatigue and hunger; collapse of women during the death march; murder of the women who collapsed by the German guards; hopes of the women that the war is about to end and their liberation is not far off; approach of (the Red Army) Front towards the west; air-raids on the Germans by the Allies; rumor spread by the Germans regarding the need to escape from the approaching Bolsheviks lest they burn everything and commit murderous acts.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="567">Camps</subject>
          <subject>Death march from Germany</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="825">Women</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt; (&lt;&gt;),&lt;&gt;,Germany</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714477</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Mosze Jenczmien, born in Bryansk, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in the Bryansk Ghetto and the fate of the partisans in the Bialystok area</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-09 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Mosze Jenczmien, born in Bryansk, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in the Bryansk Ghetto and the fate of the partisans in the Bialystok area Liquidation of the Bryansk Ghetto, 02 November 1942; escape of approximately 800 Jews to the surrounding forests; deportation of the Jews to Bielsk, and from there to Treblinka, 09 November 1942; murder of 70 Jews whose hiding place was discovered; participation of the Polish population in the murder of Jews who escaped to the forests; names of the collaborators who murdered Jews who escaped from the ghetto; organization of a group of Jews in the partisan movement, March 1943; joining the partisans by Jews who escaped from the Bialystok Ghetto, including their names, August 1943; hunt for Jewish and Soviet partisans by the Germans and the Ukrainians, January 1944; sabotage of trains and bridges including burning the homes of collaborators and Germans by partisans from the Zhukov Brigade; establishment of a family camp for women, children and the elderly; execution of Gaiawe Kaszak, the collaborator, by Shmuel Kleinat, the partisan; attack on the partisan camp by "Vlasov" gangs, 08 May 1944; liberation of the partisan and family camp, 08 May 1944; names of partisans who fell bravely in the battle against the Germans; fighting and death in battle of Yosef Prybut, the partisan.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Jewish heroes</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">Ghettoization</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject>Family camps</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bryansk,Bryansk City,Orel,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Bielsk,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714478</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Dr. Peta Welian regarding her experiences in the Union ammunitions factory in Auschwitz</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-11 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Dr. Peta Welian regarding her experiences in the Union ammunitions factory in Auschwitz Labor as a physician in the Union ammunitions factory in Auschwitz; heroic deeds of four women including providing ammunition to inmates who participated in the uprising in Auschwitz, summer 1944; execution of the women by hanging.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק , יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject>Hangings</subject>
          <subject>Uprising of inmates</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714479</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Protocol written by M. Turek regarding the exhumation of a mass grave of Jews murdered during the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 12 November 1946</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-12 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Protocol written by M. Turek regarding the exhumation of a mass grave of Jews murdered during the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 12 November 1946 Details regarding those murdered including the condition of the grave in which they were buried during the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 16-23 August 1943.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Liquidation of the Bialystok ghetto</subject>
          <subject>Exhumation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Report</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714480</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of the Pole, Zygmunt Sosnowski, from Bialystok, regarding the rescue of Jews in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-13 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of the Pole, Zygmunt Sosnowski, from Bialystok, regarding the rescue of Jews in Bialystok Employment of Jews on earthworks by the Germans near the witness' home; hiding the Jew, Rafal Sonnabend from 28 November 1943 until the liberation; rescue of three other workers; names of those rescued.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding by Poles</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Rescue by Poles</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714481</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Hanka (Szpiler) Wulk, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in Wolkowysk and Rozana</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

6 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-15 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Hanka (Szpiler) Wulk, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in Wolkowysk and Rozana Occupation of Wolkowysk by the German Army, 30 June 1941; escape of her family to Lyskow; escape from Lyskow to Rozana, which had already been occupied by the German Army, 24 June 1941 [but the Germans had not yet begun to abuse the Jews]; murder of approximately 15 Jews, 12 July 1941; arrest of 18 Communists; fate of the Communists who were arrested is unknown; appointment of a Judenrat; life in Rozana under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation, yellow badge, levyingn of a forced contribution and hunger; liquidation of the Rozana Ghetto, 31 December 1942; deportation of Jews from Rozana, Podorosk and Lyskow to a camp in Wolkowysk; deportation of Jews from Wolkowysk, 10 November 1942 and 05 December 1942; deportation of 1,600 Jewish forced laborers from Wolkowysk to Treblinka, January 1943.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עוד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Lyskow,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Rozana,Iwacewicze,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Podorosk,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wolkowysk,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714482</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimonies of Jews regarding their experiences under the German occupation as written down by an unknown person (from the "What's Doing?" series) , 25 March 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

5 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimonies of Jews regarding their experiences under the German occupation as written down by an unknown person (from the "What's Doing?" series) , 25 March 1943 1. Rescued from the grave: Murder of the Jews of Tykocin, summer 1941;escape of Jews from the killing pit and their rescue by local farmers; arrival of one of the escapees in Bialystok and Choroszcz; 2. Last will and testament at the Jewish gravesite: Murder of the Jews of Alytus; a call by the Rabbi of the city of Alytus to escape from the killing pit so there will be survivors who will be able to tell of the murder of the Jews in Alytus; arrival of a survivor in Bialystok; 3. Escape from the killing pit: Murder of the Jews of Lida in the killing pits, May 1942; escape of a woman and an 8-year old Jewish child from the killing pit; rumors regarding the murder of the Jews of Vilna in Ponary; disbelief of Jews in the story of the female survivor who arrived in Lida; arrival of another female survivor, injured, in Lida who verified the female survivor's story; 4. Escape of a child and his mother from the deportation in Horodok to the direction of the forest, November 1941; arrival of the mother and child in the Bialystok Ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות , מס' 1084/1]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject>Mass burial</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="261">Rescuers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Vilna,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Ponary Area,Murder Site,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Tykocin,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Horodek,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Lida,Lida,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Ljuta,&lt;&gt;,Carpathian Ruthenia,Czechoslovakia</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Choroszcz,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Belorussia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Alytus,Alytus,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Stories</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714483</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Report by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-16 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Report by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto Names of German soldiers who were killed fighting at the Front; setting fire to a cotton wool factory by a woman named Zieleniecka; orders from the Germans to turn in equipment to them, including furs and sports shoes; establishment of the Hilfspolizei (Auxiliary Police) after the occupation of Bialystok by the German Army; life of the Jews in hiding after the liquidation of the ghetto, 16 August-15 September 1943; hunt for Jews ("The Sunday"), 17 July 1941; death of Gedalke Kurcgorn, a member of the "Judity" underground, together with 70 underground fighters in combat with the Germans during the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising, 16 August 1943; capture of Czeslaw Powalew because he obtained Aryan documents for Jews; murder of Czeslaw Powalew; names of underground fighters in the Bialystok Ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ. טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Bialystok Ghetto Uprising</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="183">Aryan documents</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject>Jewish heroes</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714484</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Joint testimony of A. Rozenberg, born in Bialystok, Poland, and Abrasza Gerszuni, born in Bialystok, Poland, regarding Zelig Iglewicz, born in Szczuczyn, Poland, a member of the Revolt and Resistance movement in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-17 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Joint testimony of A. Rozenberg, born in Bialystok, Poland, and Abrasza Gerszuni, born in Bialystok, Poland, regarding Zelig Iglewicz, born in Szczuczyn, Poland, a member of the Revolt and Resistance movement in the Bialystok Ghetto Assistance activities for Soviet POWs found in the area of the Polish Army 10th regiment near Bialystok; rescue activities and assistance to POWs carried out as part of the activities of an underground cell comprised of four underground members (Judyta, the Comsomol organization); arrest of Iglewicz by the Germans, torture; release; Iglewicz was wanted by the Gestapo; he did not report in and all trace of him disappeared.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="652">Imprisonment</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="512">Jewish POWs</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714485</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Report by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the experiences of Jews from the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-17 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Report by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the experiences of Jews from the Bialystok Ghetto Fighting by Frida Rybalowska, 18, against the Germans during the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising, 16 August 1943; opposition of Avraham Limon to the Judenrat decision to cooperate with the Germans and deport approximately 6,000 Jews from the ghetto; names of members of the ghetto firefighters' unit; activities of Marek Szlenger, executive secretary of the Comsomol under the leadership of Judyta Nowodrodzka, against the Germans.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Jewish heroes</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject>Bialystok Ghetto Uprising</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="001328">Nowogrdzka Judith</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714486</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Report by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the fate of Sasza, the partisan from Noworosyjsk</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-18 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Report by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the fate of Sasza, the partisan from Noworosyjsk Sasza's military service in the Red Army; Sasza is taken captive by the Germans in the Bialystok area; Sasza is sentenced to death by the Germans; Sasza's escape to the forests in the Suprasl area; help to Sasza from Polish farmers; Sasza joins the partisans; Sasza fights as a partisan including passing on information regarding German troop movements and participation in the demolition of 12 trains of Germans; Sasza assumes command of the Kirov battalion in the Rozansk area; Sasza falls in battle against the Germans.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escaping and joining the Partisans</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject>Jewish heroes</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="511">POWs</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Suprasl,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Rozansk,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714487</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Kuczykiewicz regarding the fate of Jews from Bialystok in the Bialystok Ghetto and Majdanek</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-18 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[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.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="214">Rescue</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="002311">Dibus Richard</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="560">Majdanek,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714488</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Kuczykiewicz regarding the hiding of Jews by non-Jews and life in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-19 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Kuczykiewicz regarding the hiding of Jews by non-Jews and life in the Bialystok Ghetto Hiding of the Jewish stage director, Grysza Segalowicz, in the home of Hela, the actress, until spring 1943; hiding of the Kuczykiewicz couple by a woman named Mokicz; transfer of the Soviet wife of the Jewish actor, Wiktor Bubrik, to the Bialystok Ghetto where they perished.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטוריח ב- BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject>Rescue by Poles</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714489</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Joint testimony of Izak Trumkowski regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier and Fania Jesielewska regarding her experiences in Voronezh, Kuybyshev and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-19 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Joint testimony of Izak Trumkowski regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier and Fania Jesielewska regarding her experiences in Voronezh, Kuybyshev and other places Izak Trumkowski: Military service as a Red Army soldier; combat at the Smolensk Front; the fate of his comrades-in-arms from Bialystok; deaths of family members in the Bialystok Ghetto; Fania Jesielewska: Her experiences during the evacuation to the Soviet Union; life in Voronezh; transfer to Kuybyshev; life in Kuybyshev; liquidation of the Sokolka Ghetto, November 1942; deportation of her brother, Leizar, from the Sokolka Ghetto to the Kielbasin camp; her brother's escape from Kielbasin; deportation of her sister, Dina, from Kielbasin to Treblinka; term of office of Dr. Sonnabend as Judenrat chairman in Sokolka; Sonnabend's survival.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההיסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="623">Evacuation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Voronezh,Voronezh City,Voronezh,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Sokolka,Sokolka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kuybyshev,Kuybyshev City,Kuybyshev,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Soviet Union</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2410">Kiełbasin,Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714490</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Zalmen Bialostocki, born in Bialystok, regarding the fate of the Bialystok Jews in Pavlodar</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-20 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Zalmen Bialostocki, born in Bialystok, regarding the fate of the Bialystok Jews in Pavlodar Presence of approximately 100 Jews from Bialystok in Pavlodar during the war; deportation of the Jews by the Soviet authorities, 13 April 1940; names of the Jews who survived in Pavlodar; names of the Jews who perished.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועזה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation to the Soviet Union</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Pavlodar,Pavlodar City,Pavlodar,Kazakhstan (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Soviet Union</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714491</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Ruben Rybalowski, born in Bialystok, Poland, regarding the fate of theater players from Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-20 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Ruben Rybalowski, born in Bialystok, Poland, regarding the fate of theater players from Bialystok Rescue of actors in the Jewish theater in Bialystok because they had gone out on tour in the Soviet Union before the outbreak of the war; survival of the actors in Tashkent, Soviet Union; survival of the Bialystok Jews in Tashkent; names of Jews who perished; names of Jews who survived.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועה היהודית הסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="695">Theater</subject>
          <subject>Jewish rescue</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Tashkent,Tashkent City,Tashkent,Uzbekistan (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Soviet Union</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714492</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Poem written by Ruwen Rybalowski in memory of his daughter, Frieda, who fell in combat during the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising, 16 August 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-22 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Poem written by Ruwen Rybalowski in memory of his daughter, Frieda, who fell in combat during the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising, 16 August 1943 Burial of his daughter, Frieda, together with 70 fighters in the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising; farewell to his daughter, Frieda, at her grave in the Bialystok cemetery; survival through evacuation within the Soviet Union.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Bialystok Ghetto Uprising</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="746">Burial</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Soviet Union</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714493</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Eliezer regarding his experiences in the Grodno Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

22 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Eliezer regarding his experiences in the Grodno Ghetto "Action" in the Grodno Ghetto, 13-16 February 1943; arrangement of hiding places in the ghetto; description of the hiding place; concentration of approximately 400 women in the Great Synagogue, 12 December 1943; participation of the Jewish police in the "Action" under the command of Kurt Wiese and Otto Streblow, the Gestapo men; attempt of the women to escape en route to the synagogue; murder of the women by shooting; surrounding of the Judenrat courtyard by the Schupo (German police); transfer of the Judenrat members to the synagogue; murder of Brawer, the Judenrat chairman; transfer of the witness with other Jews from their hiding places to the synagogue; murder of the escapees; remaining of those sick with typhus, the hospital staff and the policemen and their families in the ghetto; escape of youth to the forests; burning of Judenrat documents by order of Wiese; escape of Jews from the railroad cars; escape from Grodno, 23 February 1943.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות מס'1084/2]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="117">Jewish collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="758">Synagogues</subject>
          <subject>Sick people</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000975">Wiese Kurt</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Grodno,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="204">Grodno,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714494</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Icchak Lewin, born in Nowogrodek, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Nowogrodek, the Dworzec Ghetto, as a partisan and more</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-23 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Icchak Lewin, born in Nowogrodek, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Nowogrodek, the Dworzec Ghetto, as a partisan and more Labor in a camp in Tiktin at the outbreak of the war; escape to Bialystok; transfer to Nowogrodek, 10 July 1941; murder of approximately 80 Jews in the market place in Nowogrodek; names of some of those murdered; first "Aktion", 07 December 1941; participation of Judenrat members in carrying out the selection; deportation of Jews unfit for work to their deaths; establishment of the Nowogrodek Ghetto; establishment of the Jewish police in the ghetto; forced labor outside the ghetto; deportation of the Jews of Lubacz to Nowogrodek, May 1942; preparations by a group of young people and their escape to the forests; deaths of members of the group in combat with the Germans in Naliwki; "Aktion" in the ghetto, 07 August 1942; participation of the Jewish police in carrying out the "Aktion"; leaving approximately 800 professionally skilled Jews in work places in the ghetto; escape from Nowogrodek to the Dworzec Ghetto; transfer to the Lipichanski forests; arrival of most of the partisans from Zetl; hunt for the partisans by the Germans; attitude of the Polish population towards the Jews; joining a Jewish partisan regiment led by the Bielski brothers; rescue of approximately 1,500 Jews from the Nowogrodek Ghetto and from Lida by the Bielski brothers; joining of approximately 150 Jewish partisans to the "Khirov" Soviet partisan regiment, spring 1943; survival; liberation, 20 July 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק , יו"ר הוועדה יהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="329">Antisemitism during the war</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Naliwki,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Lida,Lida,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="214">Dworzec,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zetl,Nowogrodek,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Tiktin,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="647">Nowogrodek,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Novogrodek,Nowogrodek,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
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          <unitid>3714495</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Fania Lipinska, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Bialystok and in camps</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

7 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-26 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Fania Lipinska, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Bialystok and in camps Occupation of Bialystok by the German Army, 27 June 1941; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation, riots against the Jews, levying of a forced contribution, forced labor; yellow badge and abuse of Jews; arrest of members of the intelligentsia, 02 July, 1941; the fate of the people who were arrested is unknown; arrest of 4,000 men (Subbotniks?); appointment of a Judenrat; appointment of Barash as Judenrat chairman; establishment of the Jewish police under the command of Fenigshtein; sealing of the ghetto, 01 August 1941; arrest by the Gestapo; release; move back to the ghetto; "Aktion"; murder of Jews; deportation of Jews from Grodno and its surrounding cities to the Bialystok Ghetto; escape of Jews to the forests; the escapees join the partisans; second "Aktion" under the command of Fritz Friedel; beginning of the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising including the entry of German tanks into the ghetto; murder of Jews during the Uprising; killing of Germans during the Uprising; suppression of the Uprising by the Germans; "Aktion" against children; deportation of 1,200 children to Czechoslovakia; deportation of the children to Auschwitz; deportation of Jews from the Bialystok Ghetto to Treblinka; life in camps; transfer to the Kratzau camp; life in Kratzau; liberation.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
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          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="652">Imprisonment</subject>
          <subject>Jewish children</subject>
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          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Pruzana,Pruzana,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kratzau,Camp,Czechoslovakia</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714496</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Elke Fomin, born in Grodno, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Grodno Ghetto, Kielbasin, the Bialystok Ghetto, Stutthof, Auschwitz and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-27 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Elke Fomin, born in Grodno, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Grodno Ghetto, Kielbasin, the Bialystok Ghetto, Stutthof, Auschwitz and other places Deportation to the Grodno Ghetto; ghetto life including anti-Jewish legislation, yellow badge, forced labor, abuse and murder of Jews; deportation to the Kielbasin camp, October 1942; camp life including hunger and murder of Jews; "Aktion" under the command of Fritz Friedel; deportation with the family [no destination given], 20 January 1943; escape from the train; transfer to the Bialystok Ghetto, 21 January 1943; "Aktion", 05 February 1943; ghetto life including forced labor; second "Aktion" under the command of Fritz Friedel, 16 August 1943; in hiding until 05 November 1943; discovery of the hiding place; turning in of the witness to the Gestapo; deportation to Stutthof, 22 November 1943; life in Stutthof for seven weeks; transfer to Auschwitz, 12 January 1944; life in Auschwitz including labor in Union factories; evacuation, 18 January 1945; death march to Ravensbrueck; transfer to Neustadt; life in Neustadt including hunger and morbidity; liberation, 02 May 1945.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
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          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from an Aktion</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to Auschwitz</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject>German criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="861">Morbidity</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Imprisonemnt and deportation</subject>
          <subject>Jewish children</subject>
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        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000751">Friedel Fritz</persname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2410">Kiełbasin,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="204">Grodno,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="760">Ravensbrück,Camp,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>Neustadt,&lt;&gt; (&lt;&gt;),Bavaria,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714497</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Wiera Pietroczuk, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1906, regarding her experiences in Stutthof, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-29 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Wiera Pietroczuk, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1906, regarding her experiences in Stutthof, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places Her mother's conversion to Christianity; her mother's marriage to a non-Jewish man. Work smuggling food into the Bialystok Ghetto; arrest; deportation to Stutthof; camp life; transfer to Auschwitz, 12 January 1944; selection by Dr. Mengele; transfer of women to the crematorium; names of those who perished; life in Auschwitz including forced labor until 02 November 1944; transfer to Ravensbrueck with other women; labor in an ammunition factory in Malchow; death march, 24 April 1945. Transfer of the women to the Red Cross for treatment, late April 1945; transfer of the women to Denmark; transfer of the women to Switzerland; transfer of the sick women, including the witness, to recuperate in the Dowerstop sanitarium; life in the sanitarium until September 1945; transfer back to Poland.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
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        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Imprisonemnt and deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="411">Selection</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="825">Women</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="506">Women's Camps</subject>
          <subject>Death march from Germany</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="483">Crematoria</subject>
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        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="775">Malchow,Camp,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Switzerland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="760">Ravensbrück,Camp,Germany</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714498</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Izchak Schnejder, born in Choroszcz, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Choroszcz</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-30 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Izchak Schnejder, born in Choroszcz, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Choroszcz Occupation of Choroszcz by the German Army, 26 June 1941; transfer of the local authority to the Polish anti-Semite, Waclaw Bobrowski; life in Choroszcz including anti-Jewish legislation, robbery of property, forced labor, arrests and abuse of the Jews; murder of Jews, 26 August 1941; names of those murdered; appointment of a Judenrat; surrounding of Choroszcz by the Germans with help from Polish members of the gendarmie, 02 November 1942; deportation of approximately 360 Jews to a transit camp near Bialystok and from there to Treblinka; escape of a number of Jews; capture of the escapees by German soldiers with help from the local population; names of Polish collaborators; arrival of 10 Jews from Choroszcz to the Bialystok Ghetto; names of those who perished; names of the survivors.]]></p>
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        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
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        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Choroszcz,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714499</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Elke Fomin, born in Grodno, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Grodno Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-31 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Elke Fomin, born in Grodno, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Grodno Ghetto Establishment of Ghetto Number 1 in the Grodno fish market; establishment of Ghetto Number 2 in Slobodka; term of office of Dr. Brawer as Judenrat chairman in Ghetto Number 1; term of office of Rubintszik as chief of the Jewish police; Rubintszik's excellence at discovering hiding places of Jews; life in the Grodno Ghetto including yellow badge and forced labor in the ghetto and outside the ghetto; liquidation of Ghetto Number 2, November 1942; deportation of most of the Jews to the Kielbasin camp; transfer of the remaining Jews to Ghetto Number 1; "Aktions" in the ghetto under the command of Wiese, the Gestapo man; incidents of suicide; murder of Jews by hanging; murder of the Judenrat members including Brawer, the chairman; deportation of the Jewish police who arrived in Bialystok, March 1943.]]></p>
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        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק , יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="505">Transit camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="217">Suicides</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="204">Grodno,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2410">Kiełbasin,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grodno,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714500</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Ester (Hendler) Wajnberg, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1910, regarding her experiences in Vilna, in hiding in the Vilna Ghetto, in the forests and Tashkent</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-12-31 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Ester (Hendler) Wajnberg, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1910, regarding her experiences in Vilna, in hiding in the Vilna Ghetto, in the forests and Tashkent Life with her two-year-old daughter in Vilna until the outbreak of the war. First "Aktion" in the Vilna Ghetto; in hiding with other women and 24 children for three weeks; discovery of the hiding place; murder of her daughter before her eyes; escape from the ghetto to the forests with 19 other people, 15 November 1942; employment of the witness as a nurse in a partisan regiment (?); head wound during shelling, 1943; transfer by plane to a hospital in Tashkent; life in Tashkent until August 1946. Return to Lulin [should be "Lublin"].]]></p>
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        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Tashkent,Tashkent City,Tashkent,Uzbekistan (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Vilna,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714502</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (recorded in a protocol) of Jakow Kohen regarding the unveiling of a monument in the Bialystok cemetery (Zabia) held marking the third anniversary of the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising and the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 23 August 1946</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-08-25 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (recorded in a protocol) of Jakow Kohen regarding the unveiling of a monument in the Bialystok cemetery (Zabia) marking the third anniversary of the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising and the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 23 August 1946 "Aktions" in the ghetto; murder of the Bialystok Jews in the ghetto and in camps; liquidation of the ghetto, 16 August-23 August 1943; activities of the Jewish underground fighters during the uprising; joining of underground fighters with the partisans and the Red Army.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
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          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="747">Cemeteries</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714503</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony (recorded in a protocol) of Yaakov Cohen regarding an assembly held marking the third anniversary of the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto and the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising, 23 August 1946</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

5 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-08-25 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony (recorded in a protocol) of Yaakov Cohen regarding an assembly held marking the third anniversary of the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto and the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising, 23 August 1946 Declaration by the speakers that the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising will go down in the history of the Jewish people; description of the preparations for the uprising including means of warfare; outbreak of the uprising, 16 August 1943; marking the murder of approximately three million Polish Jews; marking the endurance of the Holocaust survivors who are the nucleus of the strength and the revival of the Jewish nation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject>Bialystok Ghetto Uprising</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714504</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Yocheved Veinshtein regarding her experiences in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

22 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-02-03 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Yocheved Veinshtein regarding her experiences in Bialystok Occupation of Bialystok by the German Army, 1941; concentration of 50 men in the synagogue; burning of the synagogue with the Jews inside; riots against the Jews; escape of Jews from the killing pit; attitude of the Polish population towards the Jews; robbery and murder of Jews on paths under the control of Polish partisans; deportation of the Jews of Kniszyn to Treblinka; burning of Jews in Radzilow; murder of Jews in Trzcianne; burning of approximately 400 Jews in Trzcianne.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות ,מס'1084/3]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="645">Desecration of synagogues</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1215">Polish partisans</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Radzilow,Szczuczyn,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kniszyn,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Trzcianne,Murder Site</geogname>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Aron Lach, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Bialystok and as a partisan</unittitle>
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3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-01-02 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Aron Lach, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Bialystok and as a partisan Extermination of the Jews in the outlying area of Bialystok, 02 November 1942; extensive participation by Hashomer Hatzair members in the uprising movement in Bialystok; names of members of the movement including their assignments; "Aktion" in Bialystok; reinforcement of the transfers of fighters to the forests and the partisans; establishment of a Jewish fighting organization by members of the parties; names of the members of the organization including Mordechai Tenenbam and Haike Grosman, the leaders; organizing groups including the witness to go out to the forests in Suprasl starting February 1943; fighting as partisans; making contact with a group of Soviet partisans who had been POWs and were released by Jewish partisans; search for Jews who had escaped from the ghetto during the liquidation and from trains in order to have them join the partisan units; death in battle of a Jewish partisan group led by Sasza when they are informed on, November 1943; landing of five parachutists, early 1944; transfer of two radio stations (?) to the partisans by the parachutists in order to make radio contact with the Soviet Union; help from three Germans (Reichsdeutsche) including Schaner in providing weapons and money to the partisans; Schaner joins the partisans with his personal weapon approximately two weeks before the liberation; capture of 20 Vlasov followers and their trial by the partisans, July 1944; activities of Jewish partisans in the Suprasl area including the shelling of eight trains near Starosielce and Horodok, laying mines on a main road in Krynki causing the demolition of three trucks carrying German soldiers, and sabotage of German telephone lines; liberation in Belorussia; enlistment in the Red Army.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק. יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
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          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1137">Denunciation</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escaping and joining the Partisans</subject>
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          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000159">Grosman Haika</persname>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000406">Tenenbaum (Tamaroff), Mordechai (1916-1943)</persname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Belorussia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Krynki,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Soviet Union</geogname>
          <geogname>Suprasl,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
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          <unitid>3714506</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Szika Mankowski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, in hiding and in forests as a partisan</unittitle>
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3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-01-05 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Szika Mankowski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, in hiding and in forests as a partisan In hiding during the first "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto; acquisition of work cards for himself and for his family; survival with his family with help from the work cards until liquidation of the ghetto, 16 August 1943; killing of two Germans in the ghetto; retaliation by the Germans for the killings; in hiding with his family and other Jews for three months until 03 November 1943; escape to the forests; joins the partisans in the Suprasl area; partisan activities; joins the Red Army, 01 August 1944.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הבוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב- BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escaping and joining the Partisans</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="578">Work certificates</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
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          <geogname>Suprasl,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
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          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
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          <unitid>3714507</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Arie Leyb Prybut, born in Briansk, Poland, 1907, regarding an "Aktion" in Briansk conducted by the local population, 02 November 1942</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-01-03 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Arie Leyb Prybut, born in Briansk, Poland, 1907, regarding an "Aktion" in Briansk conducted by the local population, 02 November 1942 "Aktion" in Briansk under the command of Jozef Adamczuk, Boleslaw Byczkowski, the mayor of the village of Oleksin, and others, 02 November 1942; hunt for the Jews who escaped from the "Aktion"; capture of 16 Jews; names of the Jews captured; murder of the Jews by the Poles under orders from the Germans; murder of Soviets hiding in the village; name of the witness corroborating the facts.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
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        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Oleksin,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Briansk,Bryansk,Orel,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Bielsk Podlaski,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
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          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714508</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Letter sent by Alter Trus, Chairman of the Organization of Former Residents of the Briansk Community in Bialystok to the regional Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok regarding collaboration with the Gestapo by Janusz and Koszak from Briansk</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-01-06 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Letter sent by Alter Trus, Chairman of the Organization of Former Residents of the Briansk Community in Bialystok to the regional Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok regarding collaboration with the Gestapo by Janusz and Koszak from Briansk Collaboration with the Gestapo by Janusz and Koszak including capturing Jews and Soviets in hiding in the village; criminal acts of Janusz and Koszak; names of Jews murdered by Janusz and Koszak; names of Jews turned over to the Gestapo by Janusz and Koszak; death sentence imposed on Janusz and Koszak by the partisan brigade in the Briansk area, 1943; execution of the death sentence on Koszak; escape of Janusz; Janusz in hiding in Briansk.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ. טורעק , יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב- BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1137">Denunciation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Briansk,Bryansk,Orel,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="843">Letter</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714509</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Letter sent by Alter Trus, Chairman of the Organization of Former Residents of Briansk in Bialystok to the regional Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok regarding collaboration of the mayor of the village of Petraszko with the Germans</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-01-07 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Letter sent by Alter Trus, Chairman of the Organization of Former Residents of Briansk in Bialystok to the regional Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok regarding collaboration of the mayor of the village of Petraszko with the Germans Collaboration of the mayor of the village of Petraszko with the Germans including capturing and murdering Jews and Soviets who had escaped from the Germans and were hiding in Petraszko; criminal deeds of the mayor of the village; names of Jews who were murdered by the mayor; imposition of a death sentence on the mayor by the "Zukow" partisan brigade in the Briansk area; escape of the mayor; hiding of the mayor; names of witnesses confirming the facts.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="117">Jewish collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Briansk,Bryansk,Orel,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="843">Letter</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714510</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Letter sent by Alter Trus, Chairman of the Organization of Former Residents of Briansk in Bialystok, to the regional Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok regarding the crimes of the Tur brothers from the village of Patoki in the Briansk area after the</unittitle>
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1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-01-07 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Letter sent by Alter Trus, Chairman of the Organization of Former Residents of Briansk in Bialystok, to the regional Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok regarding the crimes of the Tur brothers from the village of Patoki in the Briansk area after the liquidation of the Briansk Ghetto, 1943 Criminal acts of the two Tur brothers including capturing the three Jews, Lejzer Skowronek, his son, Manes Skowronek and Jankiel Olendzki, and handing them over to the German police; murder of the three Jews; names of witnesses who are prepared to validate the events.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה עיהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bielsk Podlaski,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Briansk,Bryansk,Orel,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="843">Letter</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714511</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Report submitted by Alter Trus, Chairman of the Organization of Former Residents of Briansk in Bialystok, to the Organizations of Jewish Former Residents of Briansk in Chicago, South Africa and other places, 23 January 1947</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-01-23 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Report submitted by Alter Trus, Chairman of the Organization of Former Residents of Briansk in Bialystok, to the Organizations of Jewish Former Residents of Briansk in Chicago, South Africa and other places, 23 January 1947 Establishment of the organization, 03 May 1946; making contact by survivors from Briansk with their relatives abroad; the fate of the Jews murdered by the Germans, collaborators and various gangs; activities of the Committee including social welfare assistance to the needy; help from organizations abroad; goal of the Committee is to help Jews emigrate abroad and to publish a memorial book about the destruction of the Jewish community in Briansk.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="203">Emigration after the War</subject>
          <subject>Social aid and welfare</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="868">Jewish organizations</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Briansk,Bryansk,Orel,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714512</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Gerszon Lew, born in Drohiczyn, Poland, 1909, regarding the criminal acts of Polish collaborators in Drohiczyn</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-01-08 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Gerszon Lew, born in Drohiczyn, Poland, 1909, regarding the criminal acts of Polish collaborators in Drohiczyn Collaboration of Poles, including Smurlo Kazik and Skiba Kazik with the Germans in Drohiczyn including the capture of Jews who had hidden in the forest; discovery of hiding places and the murder of Jews; names of the Jews who were murdered or were turned over to the Germans by collaborators; names of witnesses who can verify the crimes of the collaborators.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1137">Denunciation</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Drohiczyn,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714513</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Jankel Rubin, born in Briansk, the Soviet Union, 1909, regarding the murder of Jews in Briansk by the local population</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Jankel Rubin, born in Briansk, the Soviet Union, 1909, regarding the murder of Jews in Briansk by the local population Acts of the Polish collaborators Kamnski and the Rycz brothers from the village of Chojewo including hunting down Jews and Soviets in hiding, revealing their hiding places and turning them over to the Germans, early 1943; murder of Jews who were turned over; names of those murdered including two women; names of Jews who were drowned [?]; names of witnesses willing to testify against the criminals; criminal acts of Janek Stefanowicz from Kiersnow including capturing Jews and Soviets and turning Jews over to the Germans, 15 February-15 May 1943; murder of the Jews who were captured; names of those murdered; names of witnesses willing to testify against the criminals.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק , יוR הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Briansk,Bryansk,Orel,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Kalnica,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714514</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Letter sent by Alter Trus, Chairman of the Organization of Former Residents of Briansk in Bialystok, to the regional Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok regarding the crimes of Josef Adamczuk, the mayor of the village of Oleksin in the Briansk area</unittitle>
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2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">-</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Letter sent by Alter Trus, Chairman of the Organization of Former Residents of Briansk in Bialystok, to the regional Jewish Historical Committee in Bialystok regarding the crimes of Josef Adamczuk, the mayor of the village of Oleksin in the Briansk area Criminal acts of Jozef Adamczuk including discovering hiding places of Jews and Soviets hiding in the forests, capturing the Jews and handing them over to the Germans and their murder; names of his victims; names of witnesses prepared to testify against Adamczuk.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1137">Denunciation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="117">Jewish collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Briansk,Bryansk,Orel,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Oleksin,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="843">Letter</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714515</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Mikhail Estrik (a 21-year old youth), regarding his experiences in the Slonim Ghetto, in hiding, his escape from his execution and in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Handwritten copy

Typewritten copy

34 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-03-14 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Mikhail Estrik (a 21-year old youth), regarding his experiences in the Slonim Ghetto, in hiding, his escape from his execution and in Bialystok Surrounding of the Slonim Ghetto by Germans, Belorussians, Lithuanians and Ukrainians; Jews in hiding in hiding places; burning of the quarter where the professionally skilled workers lived including spilling gasoline and throwing grenades; deaths of approximately 1,000 Jews in the fire or from smoke inhalation; search for Jews in hiding places; arrest of Jews; selection; deportation of Jews to forced labor; distribution of work permits to professionally skilled workers; discovery of the witness' hiding place; transfer with the other 17 people hiding there to the prison; transfer to the execution site by truck; overcoming the policemen with three other men; throwing ([the policemen?) from the moving truck; escape to the forest; murder of the Jews who remained in the trucks; transfer to the ghetto in Slonim where the professionally skilled workers with yellow certificates lived; deportation of Jews to a camp in Kozlowszczyzna; escape from the Slonim Ghetto to Bialystok; preparations for armed resistance in Slonim; resistance not carried out; escape of Jews to the forests; "Aktion" including the murder of Jews in Slonim, 09 August 1942 and 24 February 1943 (?); remaining of approximately 400 Jews with essential occupations, including two women, in Slonim.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות מס' 1084/4]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="578">Work certificates</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="549">Workshops</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Belorussian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Ukrainian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="139">Jewish armed resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="723">Slonim,Ghetto</geogname>
          <geogname>Slonim,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714516</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Isak Sznajder, born in Choroszcz, Poland, 1907, regarding the criminal acts of Boleslaw Kalinowski, the policeman</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-01-12 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Isak Sznajder, born in Choroszcz, Poland, 1907, regarding the criminal acts of Boleslaw Kalinowski, the policeman Service of Boleslaw Kalinowski from Zalesiany as a policeman attached to the [place] Gestapo; chasing after of Jews from Choroszcz and from Izbyszcze hiding in the forests by Kalinowski including revealing hiding places; capture of Jews and turning them over to the Gestapo by Kalinowski; murder of Jews by Kalinowski; testimony of Choroszcz residents regarding Kalinowski's crimes.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק , יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="642">Persecution of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Choroszcz,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714517</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Lew Gerszon, born in Drohiczyn, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Drohiczyn</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-01-12 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Lew Gerszon, born in Drohiczyn, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Drohiczyn Occupation of Drohiczyn by the German Army, 22 June 1941; riotous acts and abuse of the Jews by the local population including the Polish policemen, the Jablonszki brothers, Bratnowski, Kazimiasz and Telekowszki; appointment of a Judenrat; term of office of Lazar Resnick as Chairman of the Judenrat; names of Judenrat members; sealing of the Jewish Quarter, March 1942; establishment of the Drohiczyn Ghetto, May 1942; liquidation of the ghetto, 02 November 1943; escape of 300 Jews from the ghetto; deportation of the Jews to Semiatycze; transfer of the Jews from the surrendering area to Semiatycze; deportation of the Jews from Semiatycze to Treblinka; survival of 72 Jews out of the 300 who escaped from the ghetto; murder of 10 Jews after the liberation; collaboration of the local population with the Germans in the murdering of Jews.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: ען"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="813">Attitude of the Polish population</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Drohiczyn,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Drohiczyn Bialystoсki,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Siemiatycze,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714518</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Lejb Trus, born in Briansk, Soviet Union, 1919, regarding his experiences in Briansk, in forests and as a partisan</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-01-13 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Lejb Trus, born in Briansk, Soviet Union, 1919, regarding his experiences in Briansk, in forests and as a partisan Rumors regarding the murder of Jews of the outlying area around Bialystok, early November 1942; escape of approximately 700 Jews from Briansk to the forests; murder of some of the escapees by shooting by the Germans; survival of 74 of the escapees in the forests; joining the partisans by the escapees including carrying weapons; abuse of the witness including a murder attempt by the brothers Rycz and Kaminski, collaborators from the village of Piaski-Chojewo, December 1942; wounding; wounding while escaping from the collaborators; criminal acts committed by the Rycz and Kaminski brothers; survival in the forests; joining the "Zhukov" partisan regiment numbering approximately 40 Jewish and approximately 80 Soviet fighters in the Briansk area.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Briansk,Bryansk,Orel,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Piaski,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714519</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Gelia Faktor, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1905, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and in camps</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-01-15 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Gelia Faktor, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1905, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and in camps Occupation of Bialystok by the German Army, 27 June 1941; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation and persecution of the Jews; burning of men in the synagogue; murder of Jews in the streets; burning of the Jews who were murdered in the synagogue; in hiding for three months; deportation of Jews to the Wolkowysk camp; "Aktion" directed against children; deportation to camps; liberation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="642">Persecution of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to camps</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="646">Burning of synagogues</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wolkowysk,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714520</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Alter Trus regarding help given to Jews by Polish residents of Briansk</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-01-20 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Alter Trus regarding help given to Jews by Polish residents of Briansk 1. Medical help given to Jewish partisans in the forests by Dr. Cywinski; 2. Food provided to Jews in hiding in the forests by four Polish families from Briansk; 3. Hiding of Jews in their homes without recompense, by Poles, including Zygmunt Polityki and the Golobiecki family; 4. Providing of weapons and food to partisans without recompense by Antek Koloszko; 5. Help given to Jews by the residents of the villages of Olendzk and Brzeznica; preaching by the priest, Czarkowski, that the Jews in hiding in the area should be helped.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="297">Assistance to Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Brzeznica,Radomsko,Lodz,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Poplawy,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Briansk,Bryansk,Orel,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714521</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Alter Trus, Chairman of the Organization of Former Residents of the Briansk Community in Bialystok regarding collaborators with the Germans in Briansk</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-01-22 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Alter Trus, Chairman of the Organization of Former Residents of the Briansk Community in Bialystok regarding collaborators with the Germans in Briansk Names of Polish residents of Briansk who collaborated with the Germans, including Maniek Zawadzki; capture of nine Jews in hiding by Zawadzki; handing over of the Jews in hiding to the gendarmerie; murder of those who had been in hiding by the gendarmerie; murder of Jews by the Gestapo man, Michal Panaszuk from Briansk; handing over of Jews to the gendarmerie by Kotlinski and Poplawski, Polish residents of Briansk; murder of Jews who were handed over; names of witnesses to the crimes of the collaborators.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: ען"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Briansk,Bryansk,Orel,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714522</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Zelda Kaczarewicz, born in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland regarding the murder of her childrenת and her experiences in Piekuty</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-01-16 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Zelda Kaczarewicz, born in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland regarding the murder of her childrenת and her experiences in Piekuty Capture together with her three children by Wanicki and Jan Roszkowski, Polish collaborators from the village of Jablon-Dopki (from the Piekuty area in the Wysokie Mazowieckie district); turning the witness and her children over to the gendarmes in Piekuty; removal of the witness and her children to outside the village; murder of the children by shooting by the gendarmes; injuring of the witness from shooting by the gendarmes; survival of the witness with help from Father Kruszewski, the local priest.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1124">Gendarmerie</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="297">Assistance to Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Wysokie,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Piekuty Nowe,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714523</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Zelda Kaczarewicz, born in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland, 1906, regarding the murder of her children by local Poles</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">-</unitdate>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Zelda Kaczarewicz, born in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland, 1906, regarding the murder of her children by local Poles Murder of Zelda Kaczarewicz' three children by local Poles. Note: See Yad Vashem Archives Testimony Number M.11/3714522(376).]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714524</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Diary of Mosze Majk regarding his experiences in hiding in Bruszewo</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

39 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-03-31 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Diary of Mosze Majk regarding his experiences in hiding in Bruszewo Majk's work as a radio technician; murder of the Jews from the outlying areas in Bialystok, 02 November 1942; life with other Jews from Sokoly in hiding in the courtyard of the Kalinowski family in Bruszewo, 20 December 1942-16 January 1944; hiding the diary in the house at 18 Nowy Swiat Street in Bialystok; handing the diary over to the Historical Committee in Bialystok.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ. טורעק , יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית המחוזית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding by Poles</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Sokoly,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Diaries and memoirs</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714525</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Chiel Szedler, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Janina, Buchenwald and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-01-26 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Chiel Szedler, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Janina, Buchenwald and other places Life in the Bialystok Ghetto including work as an electrician and a sorter and repairer of Soviet weapons that fell into German hands; smuggling weapons parts into the ghetto by Szendler and other workers; arrival of weapons parts into the hands of the partisans through a Soviet officer; smuggling a radio station [receiver?] into the ghetto; attitude of Schulz, the German policeman; help of Jewish inmates to Soviet POWs working with them in the barracks; activities of Shmuel Bashevkin in smuggling weapons and helping POWs; first "Aktion" in the ghetto, February 1943; deportation of the Jews, including the witness, to Auschwitz; escape of inmates from the train en route to Auschwitz; murder by shooting of the inmates who escaped; arrival at Auschwitz including selection; transfer of 120 men and 30 women to the camp; murder of the rest of the Jews in the gas chambers; life in Birkenau under quarantine for six weeks; forced labor in Auschwitz; labor in coal mines in Janina in the Jaworzno area; life in Janina including abuse and murder of Jews; transfer of the Jews to the Gleiwitz camp, 17 January 1945; transfer to Buchenwald in coal cars; transfer to Sachsenhausen; selection; transfer to Oranienburg; death march, April 1945 including hunger, exhaustion and mortality of the inmates; liberation by the US Army, 27 April 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Death Marches</subject>
          <subject>Smuggling weapons</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="411">Selection</subject>
          <subject>Murder of war prisoners</subject>
          <subject>Murder of inmates</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="803">Sachsenhausen,Camp,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="33">Jaworzno,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="847">Oranienburg,Camp,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>Janina,Ioannina,Epirus,Greece</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="43">Buchenwald,Camp,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2">Birkenau,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
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        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714526</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of an unknown witness regarding his experiences in Suprasl, in forests and in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

13 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-03-01 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of an unknown witness regarding his experiences in Suprasl, in forests and in the Bialystok Ghetto About the Suprasl population, including Jewish occupations, 1939. Occupation of Suprasl by the Germans, 26 June, 1941; "Aktion" against the Communists; first "Aktion" against the Jews, 29 July, 1941; deportation of 40 Jews to Bialystok; murder of three of the Jews by shooting; life in Suprasl including levying of a forced contribution; forced labor and riots; appointment of a Judenrat under Glicksman; arrest of the Judenrat chairman; "Aktion" against Jews in the Bialystok area, 31 September [sic] 1942; escape of Jews from the Bialystok area; arrest of the witness' family in Czarnowice; escape to the forests with other Jews; transfer to the Bialystok Ghetto. Note: The testimony was taken down, 01 March 1943.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות,1085/5]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1000">Communists</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Suprasl,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714527</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Abram-Berl Sokol, born in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland, regarding his experiences in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Zambrow and Auschwitz</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-01-30 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Abram-Berl Sokol, born in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland, regarding his experiences in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Zambrow and Auschwitz Occupation of Wysokie Mazowieckie by the German Army, 23 June 1941; labor of the Jews of Wysokie Mazowieckie and Jablonka paving a road; establishment of the Wysokie Mazowieckie Ghetto; deportation of Jews from the surrounding villages including Dabrowa and Jablonka Koscielna to the Wysokie Mazowieckie Ghetto; ghetto life including forced labor until September 1942; deportation of the ghetto Jews to Zambrow, 02 November 1942; transfer from Zambrow to Auschwitz, 01 October 1943; murder of Jews who tried to escape; murder of Jews who hid in villages in the vicinity; names of those murdered.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.ורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to Auschwitz</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="326">Wysokie Mazowieckie,Ghetto</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Dąbrowa,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Jablonka,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zambrow,Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714528</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Abram-Berl Sokol, born in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland, regarding his experiences in Zambrow, Czyzew, Auschwitz and Mauthausen</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-02-02 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Abram-Berl Sokol, born in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland, regarding his experiences in Zambrow, Czyzew, Auschwitz and Mauthausen Life in the Zambrow camp including hunger and abuse of inmates; mortality of hundreds of inmates including children and the elderly; liquidation of the camp; transfer of approximately 800 elderly, sick and children to the "hospital"; murder by poisoning of the elderly, sick and children by Bloch, the German, and Knott, the physician; transfer of Jews, including the witness, from Zambrow to Czyzew, 15 January 1943; transfer from Czyzew to Auschwitz by railroad car; selection; transfer of children, the elderly and women to the gas chambers; burning of the bodies by the Sonderkommando workers under the command of Steinberg and Mohl, the Germans; transfer to Block Number 19; transfer to Block Number 20; life in Auschwitz including hunger, abuse and murder of Jews; transfer to Mauthausen on a death march with other inmates, 18 January 1945; arrival in Mauthausen, 26 January 1946; transfer of the remaining inmates to the Ebensee camp; forced labor repairing railroad tracks; liberation by the US Army, 06 May 1945. Sole survival of the witness out of 20 family members.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
          <subject>Death Marches</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Sick people</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="570">Mauthausen,Camp,Austria</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="573">Ebensee,Camp,Austria</geogname>
          <geogname>Czyzew,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zambrow,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wysokie,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714529</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Abram-Berl Sokol, born in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-02-03 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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 chamber]; shooting and killing of the German by the woman; the woman's suicide by shooting; abuse of the Jews by Eliezer Greenboim, the Kapo, in order to ingratiate himself to the Germans; burning of Torah scrolls, prayer shawls and Tefilin which were brought to Auschwitz; beating Jews to death with sticks in the Strafkommando (penal) block.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="499">Gas chambers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="516">Burning of corpses</subject>
          <subject>Desecration of religious articles</subject>
          <subject>Murder of inmates</subject>
          <subject>Jewish heroes</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="485">Kapo</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Warszawa,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2">Birkenau,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714530</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Hercke Ceszluk, born in Stawiski, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Blizyn, Lieberose, Gross-Rosen and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-02-05 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Hercke Ceszluk, born in Stawiski, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Blizyn, Lieberose, Gross-Rosen and other places Deportation from the Bialystok Ghetto in freight cars; escape attempt from the freight cars by the Jews by breaking the doors of the freight cars in the Malkinia railroad station; shooting at the escapees by the Ukrainian guards; murder and wounding of the escapees; arrival in Lublin; selection; transfer to the Blizyn camp; life in Blizyn including hunger, cold and beatings; mastery over the other Jews by Jews from Tomaszow, Piotrkow, Radom and the Jewish police; transfer to the Lieberose camp; life in Lieberose including forced labor in construction; hostility of the Hungarian Jewish deputy to the Blockaelteste towards the Jews from Poland; transfer from Lieberose to Gross-Rosen on foot covering approximately 30 kilometers a day for seven days; life in Gross-Rosen for ten days; transfer to Sachsenhausen; transfer to Mauthausen in freight cars, 15 February 1945; life in Mauthausen including abuse; of the 450 inmates [who arrived], 76 remain; the state of the witness' health; liberation, 05 May 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation by train</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="411">Selection</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Ukrainian collaborators</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Berlin,Berlin (Berlin),City of Berlin,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="1605">Blizyn,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="433">Gross Rosen,Camp,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="843">Lieberose,Camp,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>Lublin,Lublin,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="570">Mauthausen,Camp,Austria</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="803">Sachsenhausen,Camp,Germany</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714531</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Mira Bernsztejn, born in Bialystok, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and on the Aryan side</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-02-05 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Mira Bernsztejn, born in Bialystok, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and on the Aryan side "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 05 February 1943; membership in the Jewish underground in the ghetto; escape from the ghetto; transfer to a German family; work as a housemaid in the home of the German family; replacement of the old Polish passport with an identity card (Personalausweis); attitude of Polish friends; help from Polish friends; desire of Polish friends to betray the witness to the Germans; life on the Aryan side including maintaining contact with the anti-fascist organization; providing medicines and food to Soviet partisans in the forests in the Bialystok area; joining the partisans, July 1944; liberation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="297">Assistance to Jews</subject>
          <subject>The Aryan side</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Medical treatment</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714532</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Chaim Zachariasz, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences in Demblin and Neu-Brandenburg</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-02-07 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Chaim Zachariasz, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences in Demblin and Neu-Brandenburg Taken captive by the Germans in a stronghold in Demblin (Chelm area), 06 October 1939; transfer to Radom by train with other POWs; transfer to Berlin via Czestochowa; disguises himself as a Pole; transfer to the Neu-Brandenburg camp as a Pole; agricultural labor for German farmers; publication of an order requiring residents of western Belorussia and Ukraine to report and register for exchange for Volksdeutsche, January 1940; return of the POWs to the Neu-Brandenburg camp; the witness remains in the camp in his Polish identity; release, 20 March 1941; work as a waiter in a restaurant in Neu-Brandenburg for four years and four months; liberation in Neu-Brandenburg by the Red Army, 29 April 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="511">POWs</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Radom,Radom,Kielce,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Neu Brandenburg,Neubrandenburg (Schwerin),Mecklenburg,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt; (&lt;&gt;),&lt;&gt;,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>Demblin,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Czestochowa,Czestochowa,Kielce,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Berlin,Berlin (Berlin),City of Berlin,Germany</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714533</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Abram Blumental, born in Pietkowo, Poland, 1906, regarding his experiences in Pietkowo, Jeziory, Bialystok and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-02-09 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Abram Blumental, born in Pietkowo, Poland, 1906, regarding his experiences in Pietkowo, Jeziory, Bialystok and other places The Jews of Pietkowo before the war. Occupation of Pietkowo by the German Army; life in Pietkowo including forced labor; deportation of the Jews to the Jeziory Ghetto, August 1942; deportation of Jews from nearby villages to the Jeziory Ghetto; forced labor in the neighboring forests; escape from Jeziory, 30 October 1942; deportation of the Jews to the Kielbasin camp, 02 November 1942; wanderings from place to place; transfer to Bialystok; transfer to Pietkowo; transfer to the forests in Pietkowo and Rudki; help from farmers to Jews hiding in the forests; liberation, July 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="297">Assistance to Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Rudki,Rudki,Lwow,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Jeziory,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2410">Kiełbasin,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Pietkowo,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714534</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Chana Basl Lewin, born in Lomza, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Lomza Ghetto, on the Aryan side using a false identity, in Wartendorf and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-02-10 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Chana Basl Lewin, born in Lomza, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Lomza Ghetto, on the Aryan side using a false identity, in Wartendorf and other places Establishment of the Lomza Ghetto, forced labor outside the ghetto; labor as a housemaid in the home of a German guard; agricultural labor for Zamedeh, the farmer, in the village of Penzi (near Lomza); registration as a Christian using the name Jadzia Lewinska; move to a farm in Wartendorf near the border with help from the German guard; escape back to the ghetto; "Aktion" in the ghetto; escape to Penzi (?); move to the previous place of employment in Wartendorf with help from a German friend; life in Wartendorf for two months; escape; wanderings among the local villages including Jezioro and Radula; employment at various jobs including agricultural work; arrival of Jews in the village after escaping from the Germans, 1944; help to the escapees by providing food and clothing; approach of the Front; liberation by the Red Army. Meeting with survivors from Tiktin and the surrounding area; move back to Lomza; move to Briansk; move to Bielsk.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to the Aryan side</subject>
          <subject>The Aryan side</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="847">Mutual help</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="297">Assistance to Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bielsk Podlaski,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Jeziory,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Briansk,Bryansk,Orel,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="519">Łomża,Ghetto</geogname>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714535</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Szyje Bartnowski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Pruzana, as a partisan, in Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Blechhammer and in other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-02-11 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Szyje Bartnowski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Pruzana, as a partisan, in Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Blechhammer and in other places Deportation from the Bialystok Ghetto to Pruzana with his family, October 1941; life in Pruzana until December 1941; escape into the forests in Bialowieza with two Polish Communists; joins a Soviet partisan battalion; works at providing clothing from the Pruzana Ghetto to the partisan battalion with help from the Judenrat; move back to the ghetto when he contracts typhus; deportation of the Jews from the Pruzana Ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau in closed railroad cars, 28 January 1943; arrival in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 01 February 1943; selection; transfer into the camp of 300 of the 4,000 Jews who arrived there; transfer of the rest of the Jews to the gas chambers; deaths of 150 out of the 300 Jews from exhaustion, hunger and beatings; camp life including labor building cabins for the SS; murder of Jews in the gas chambers; labor in Block 10 in which medical experiments were performed on women from the Netherlands and Greece, early 1943; labor with a group of Poles repairing the crematorium in Mauthausen; murder of nine Poles by hanging; transfer in a Red Cross car to the Auschwitz clinic after contracting typhus; transfer with the building commando from Birkenau to forced labor in Blechhammer, summer 1944; names of the Jews in the camp; escape from the camp; help from a German family to escapees including providing food, clothing and money for them; [move to Katowice;] meeting with Binyamin Levitzki, the Jew, who lived on the Aryan side of Katowice using false documents; escape to Sosnowiec; escape to Bendzin; in hiding in Bendzin with his Soviet friend; approach of the Front; entry of the Red Army into Bendzin; encounters Dr. Franz from Auschwitz who sent Jews and Soviets to their deaths; hands Dr. Franz over to Red Army soldiers; imposition of the death sentence on Dr. Franz by the soldiers; enlists in the Red Army; move to Auschwitz with his military unit; help to sick inmates who remained in Auschwitz; capture of three SS men; hands the SS men over to the Red Army; liberation of Mauthausen by his unit.]]></p>
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        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1215">Soviet partisans</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="499">Gas chambers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="495">Medical experiments</subject>
          <subject>Murder of inmates</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation by train</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="297">Assistance to Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="483">Crematoria</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Katowice,Katowice,Slask,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="1216">Blachownia Śląska/Blechhammer,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2">Birkenau,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Sosnowiec,Sosnowiec,Kielce,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Pruzana,Pruzana,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="824">Pruzana,Ghetto</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="570">Mauthausen,Camp,Austria</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialowieza,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bendzin,Bedzin,Kielce,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714536</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Leizer Orshanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz, Jaworzno, Blechhammer and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-02-12 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Leizer Orshanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz, Jaworzno, Blechhammer and other places In hiding with 60 other Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto; discovery of the hiding place by the Jewish police, 05 February 1941; betrayal of those in hiding to the Germans by Salaman, the Jewish policeman; deportation to Auschwitz with his family; selection; transfer of the children, women and the elderly to the crematorium, including their names; life in Auschwitz including labor as a house painter with his 14-year old son in Block Number 15A; transfer to labor in the Budy camp; transfer to labor in the Babicze camp; transfer with other Jews to forced labor mining coal in the Jaworzno camp, August 1943; life in the Jaworzno camp for approximately two years; evacuation of the camp, 17 January 1943; transfer to Blechhammer on foot for three days without food or drink; escape from the camp together with his son and five other inmates; in hiding in the forest; organizing themselves into a group of about 40 people who had escaped from the camp; approach of the armies and the Front; liberation. Return to Bialystok, March 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="10">Budy,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="33">Jaworzno,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Babicze,Oswiecim,Krakow,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="1216">Blachownia Śląska/Blechhammer,Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714537</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Yitzchak Offenbach regarding the fate of the Jews of Dereczyn</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

17 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1941-07 - 1943-04</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Yitzchak Offenbach regarding the fate of the Jews of Dereczyn In 1939, the Jewish population of Dereczyn numbered approximately 700 people. Deportation of Jews from the neighboring villages to Dereczyn; the number of Jews in Dereczyn increased to approximately 3,000; occupation of Dereczyn by the German Army, 31 June 1941; life in Dereczyn including decrees, robbery of property and forced labor paving roads; appointment of a Judenrat; deportation of 150 Jews to labor in the Kozlowszczyzna camp; participation of Jewish policemen from Slonim in carrying out the deportation; execution of 400 Jews in Dereczyn; escape of young people from Dereczyn to the forests; participation of Lithuanian collaborators and policemen from Slonim in carrying out the "Aktion" in Dereczyn; capture of Jews; transport of captured Jews by truck; execution of the Jews; murder of Jews by shooting; escape of Jews who had been in hiding in Zelwa; deportation of the escapees from Zelwa to Wolkowysk; some of the escapees remain in the forests.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: הוועדה הססטורית היהודית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="304">Refugees during the war</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Zelwa,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wolkowysk,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kozlowszczyzna,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Dereczyn,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714538</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Joint testimony of Cyla Kunica, born in 1922, and Rachela Pleban, born in 1923, regarding their experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and Majdanek</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-02-13 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Joint testimony of Cyla Kunica, born in 1922, and Rachela Pleban, born in 1923, regarding their experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and Majdanek Liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto; concentration of thousands of Jews in the Pietrasza Square in the Bialystok Ghetto, 18 August 1943; selection including separation of the elderly, women and children from the men; transfer of approximately 150 women, including the witnesses, to the group of men; deportation to Treblinka in railroad cars under the supervision of Ukrainian guards; escape attempts; suicide attempts; arrival in Lublin; suicides with the assistance of Czarnoleska, the female physician inmate; names of the women who committed suicide; suicide of the female physician, Czarnoleska, by cutting her veins and swallowing poison; transfer of the inmates to Majdanek.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ. טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Ukrainian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="217">Suicides</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation by train</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to camps</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="560">Majdanek,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Lublin,Lublin,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714539</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Sergiusz Siewer, the Christian Polish man, born in Grodno, Poland, regarding the hiding of a Jewish girl and a Jewish boy in Bacieczki</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-02-14 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Sergiusz Siewer, the Christian Polish man, born in Grodno, Poland, regarding the hiding of a Jewish girl and a Jewish boy in Bacieczki Care for a three year old girl found in the village of Bacieczki, late 1942; finding the five year old boy; care for the boy by Kciuk, the Polish woman from Bialystok; raising the children as Christians; transfer of the boy to a Jewish family, August 1944; handing over of the girl to Jews by Sergiusz.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="742">Conversion</subject>
          <subject>Jewish children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject>Rescue by Poles</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Łapy,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bacieczki,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714540</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Michl Orszanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, in prison in Grodno and in prison in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

5 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-02-17 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Michl Orszanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, in prison in Grodno and in prison in Bialystok Occupation of Bialystok by the German Army, 26 June 1941; burning of the Great Synagogue; murder of Jews and burning of their bodies in the burning synagogue; riots against the Jews including burning their homes; deportation of Jews to forced labor; establishment of the Bialystok Ghetto, 01 August 1941; works as a painter in SS and Gestapo units outside the ghetto; attitude of the Polish foremen towards the workers; "Aktion" in the ghetto, 05 February 1943; hiding by Jews in hiding places; in hiding with his family in a baking oven; discovery of the hiding place; concentration of the Jews in the ghetto square under the command of Fritz Friedel; transfer of those who are professionally skilled, including the witness, to the Judenrat; term of office of Barasz as Judenrat Chairman; term of office of Marcus as head of the Jewish police; disclosure of hiding places by Jewish informers; start of the liquidation of the ghetto, 16 August 1943; selection by Fritz Friedel including separation of women from men; deportation of the women to Majdanek; deportation of the men to the prison in Grodno, and from there to the prison in Lomza; life in Lomza for approximately three months; transfer with ten professionally skilled men to the prison in Bialystok, late September 1943.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו,ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation by train</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject>German criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="758">Synagogues</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grodno,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="560">Majdanek,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714541</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Michl Orszanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Lomza, Bialystok and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-02-18 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Michal Orszanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Lomza, Bialystok and other places Liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 16 August 1943; deportation of inmates from Markowszczyzna to the prison in Bialystok during the liquidation; inmates' work in SS workshops outside the prison; transfer with other inmates from the Lomza prison to the Bialystok prison, late September 1943; attempts to escape by the inmates; capture of the escapees; murder of some of the escapees; arrest of non-Jews by the Gestapo; transfer of the detainees to the prison; transfer of men, women and children who had been in hiding to the prison; murder of those who had been in hiding in Grabowka, November 1943; transfer of inmates to Stutthof.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from prison</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Markowszczyzna,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grabowka,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714542</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Michl Orszanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Stutthof, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-02-19 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Michl Orszanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Stutthof, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna and other places Deportation with 40 men and 150 women from the prison in Bialystok to Stutthof, late November 1943; escape attempt en route to Stutthof; murder of the escapees; life in Stutthof for seven weeks; transfer of the inmates to Auschwitz, 12 January 1944; transfer of the inmates to Block 13 in Birkenau; life in Birkenau including abuse of the inmates by a Jewish Kapo; deportation of Jews from Bedzin to Birkenau, 29 January 1944; murder of the Jews in the crematorium; transfer with other inmates to the Buna camp; camp life including abuse; forced labor at painting, hewing rocks and labor in concrete; selection in the camp clinic by Dr. Fischer; mutual help among the inmates; transfer of approximately 12,000 inmates to Gleiwitz on a death march with the approach of the armies at the Front including deaths from hunger and cold; arrival of approximately 7,000 inmates at Gleiwitz; deaths of the rest of inmates en route; selection; murder of the sick; transfer of the healthy inmates to Buchenwald in open railroad cars over the course of two weeks; life in Buchenwald including mortality; burning of thousands of corpses of inmates in the crematoria; transfer of Jews, including the witness, to Theresienstadt; liberation, 08 May 1945.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="847">Mutual help</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject>Murder of deportees</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to camps</subject>
          <subject>Sick people</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation by train</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Będzin,Bedzin,Kielce,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2">Birkenau,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="3">Buna,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="43">Buchenwald,Camp,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="17">Gleiwitz Steigern,Camp,Germany</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="449">Theresienstadt,Ghetto,Czechoslovakia</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714543</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Ichezkl Pendzuch, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1901, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Augustow, in prison in Bialystok and in Dzialdowo</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-02-20 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Ichezkl Pendzuch, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1901, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Augustow, in prison in Bialystok and in Dzialdowo Deportation from the Bialystok Ghetto to Augustow, 14 August 1943; life in Augustow including forced labor building a villa for General-Admiral Canaris along with five Jewish inmates; deportation to the prison in Bialystok; prison life for approximately four months including hunger, morbidity, abuse and murder of inmates; transfer to Dzialdowo; life in Dzialdowo including carpentry labor; labor of inmates digging burial pits in Bialuta (?) for 45,000 Jewish and Soviet inmates from Ukraine; liberation, 18 November 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="747">Cemeteries</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Mass burial</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Augustów,Augustow,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Dzialdowo,Dzialdowo,Pomorze,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Ukraine (USSR)</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714544</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Chaim Orszanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1928, regarding his life in the Bialystok Ghetto and in camps in Germany</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-02-23 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Chaim Orszanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1928, regarding his life in the Bialystok Ghetto and in camps in Germany Occupation of Bialystok, 26 June 1941; riots and the burning of 28 city streets; witness works as a housepainter for an SS unit; abuse of inmates; establishment of the ghetto, 01 August 1943; forced labor under harsh conditions; abuse of the workers by Baranchok, the Polish foreman; transport of Jews to various job assignments by the Judenrat labor office; extermination of the Jews from the areas outlying Bialystok, 01 November 1942; the first "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 05 February 1943; in hiding in an attic with his family; discovery of the hiding place by Salomon, a Jewish policeman; concentrating of those who had hidden in the ghetto square; deportation of the Jews in railroad cars; escape from the railroad cars; arrival of the transport in Auschwitz; selection; separation of 65 men from the transport and their transfer to Birkenau; sending the remaining deportees to the gas chambers; sub-human conditions in Birkenau; transfer to Auschwitz six weeks later; labor as a housepainter in the camp; transfer to Jaworzno two months later; labor mining coal and afterwards as a welder until the evacuation of the camp; 17 January 1945; death march by the inmates, falling aside of the sick and the weak; arrival in Blechhammer of approximately 2,000 Jews out of the 5,000 inmates who started the march; approach of the front; mass escape of inmates from the camp; shooting of some of the escapees by the Germans; in hiding in the forests in the area with a number of Jews from Bialystok until liberation by the Red Army, 02 February 1945.]]></p>
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        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="623">Evacuation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="499">Gas chambers</subject>
          <subject>Murder of deportees</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject>Skilled workers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation by train</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from an Aktion</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Blechhammer,Cosel (Oppeln),Silesia (Upper),Germany</geogname>
          <geogname>Jaworzno,Chrzanow,Krakow,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2">Birkenau,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714545</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Efraim Nachimowicz, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and Majdanek</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-02-24 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Efraim Nachimowicz, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and Majdanek Deportation of Jews from the small ghetto in Bialystok to Majdanek including members of the Judenrat and Jewish policemen; separation of the men from the women and children; labor of the men in their professions; labor of the women as housekeepers in German homes; labor of the Jewish policemen and Judenrat members, including Barash, the Judenrat chairman, under improved conditions; concentration of the actors and cultural and artistic people in a special block under improved conditions with the purpose of exchanging them for German POWs held by the US Army; camp life including barter and smuggling merchandise by inmates; escape approximately a week before the liquidation of the camp.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="266">Smuggling</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from camps</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000022">Barasz Efraim</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="560">Majdanek,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714547</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Liza Bursztyn, born in Lomza, Poland, 1912, regarding her experiences in Lomza</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-11-27 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Liza Bursztyn, born in Lomza, Poland, 1912, regarding her experiences in Lomza Establishment of the Lomza Ghetto, July 1941; abuse of the witness by a Gestapo man; capture of 50 Jewish youth; murder of the youth in the Lomza area; work at housecleaning outside the ghetto; her husband's work at construction; arrest of Communists; murder of approximately 2,000 Jews without work permits, September 1941; names of those murdered; robbery of Jewish property by Manko, the Gestapo man, 31 October 1942; liquidation of the Lomza Ghetto, 01 November 1942; suicide of Hefner, the Jewish physician; escape; in hiding in various places; liberation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="217">Suicides</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1000">Communists</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Łomża,Murder Site</geogname>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="519">Łomża,Ghetto</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714548</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Chapters from a diary regarding Dror movement activities in the Bialystok Ghetto, Part I</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Handwritten copy

Original

Typewritten copy

53 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="heb" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Hebrew</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Chapters from a diary regarding Dror movement activities in the Bialystok Ghetto, Part I Underground activities including preparations for an uprising; murder of Jews in Grodno and cities in the region, 13 January-19 January 1943.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: M. Turek

submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק, מנהל הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Bialystok Ghetto Uprising</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Grodno,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grodno,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="684">Diary</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714549</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Ephraim Aranowski regarding his experiences in Dereczyn</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

17 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 - 1943</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Ephraim Aranowski regarding his experiences in Dereczyn "Aktion" in Dereczyn under the command of the Belorussian police; Jews in hiding in hiding places; murder of Jews in killing pits; throwing of bricks at Belorussian policemen by Jews hiding in an attic; wounding and killing of the policemen; escape of the Jews to the forests; combat as partisans; revenge by the partisans for the killing of the Jews in Dereczyn; arrival of the partisans in Dereczyn; execution of the Belorussian policemen who participated in the murder of the Jews by the partisans; execution of the mayor by the partisans; execution of the head of the gendarmerie by the partisans; burning of the homes of the mayor and the head of the gendarmerie.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות, 1084/7]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Revenge</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1321">Killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Dereczyn,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714550</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Chawa Okon, born in Briansk, Soviet Union, 1917, regarding her experiences in the Briansk Ghetto, as a partisan and in hiding</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-02-28 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Chawa Okon, born in Briansk, Soviet Union, 1917, regarding her experiences in the Briansk Ghetto, as a partisan and in hiding Surrounding of the Briansk Ghetto by the Germans, 03 November 1942; murder of Jews in the streets; escape from the ghetto with help from Gadlewski, the Pole; escape of her brother and sister from the ghetto; murder of the rest of her family in Treblinka; joins the Zhukov partisan regiment together with her brother and sister; attack on the Germans by the regiment; deaths of partisans in the attack; escape of the partisans to the forests; in hiding in fields and forests including hunger and cold; murder of her brother by Poles; hidden by the Polish farmer, Yashe Szukowski, in a village in the Briansk area along with her sister; liberation. Murder of two Jewish women in the home of a Polish woman after the war.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject>Murder of deportees</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="296">Assistance and rescue</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Briansk,Bryansk,Orel,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714551</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Abram Sniadowicz, born in Ostroleka, Poland, regarding his experiences in Ostroleka, Miaskowo, Zambrow and in hiding</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-03-02 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Abram Sniadowicz, born in Ostroleka, Poland, regarding his experiences in Ostroleka, Miaskowo, Zambrow and in hiding Riots against the Jews in Ostroleka, 1939; anti-Jewish legislation in Miszenic, Rozana, Ostroleka and Krasnosielsk including eviction from their places of residence; escape of Jews in the direction of the Soviet border; life in villages under the Soviet occupation until 1941; occupation of Miaskowo by the German Army, 22 June 1941; life under the German occupation including forced labor and abuse of Jews; anti-Jewish legislation including yellow badge, from 10 July 1941; appointment of a Judenrat; deportation of Jews, including the witness, from neighboring villages to Miaskowo; robbery of Jewish property; murder of Jews in Tarnowa (Lomza area) by German gendarmes, 1942; deportation of Jews from Miaskowo to the Zambrow camp, 02 November 1942; escape of Jews; life in Zambrow including hunger and morbidity; deportation of Jews from Zambrow to Czyzew, 10 January 1943; transfer of women, the elderly and children to Treblinka; survival by being hidden by farmers.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="493">Typhus</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Mass escape</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportation of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
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          <geogname>Pultusk,Murder Site</geogname>
          <geogname>Rozana,Iwacewicze,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zambrow,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Miastkowo,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Ostroleka,Ostroleka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Miszenic,Ostroleka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Krasnosielsk,Makow Mazowiecki,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Czyzew,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714552</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Abram Szniadowicz, born in Ostroleka, Poland, regarding his experiences in Miaskowo, in hiding, in Lomza and Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

5 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-03-03 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Abram Szniadowicz, born in Ostroleka, Poland, regarding his experiences in Miaskowo, in hiding, in Lomza and Bialystok Liquidation of the Jewish community in Miaskowo, 02 November 1942; escape with his 13-year old son; capture of Jews who had escaped and were hiding in the vicinity by Polish gangs; betrayal of Jews who were captured to the Germans by the Polish gangs in exchange for three kilograms of sugar per Jew; unsuccessful attempts to find a hiding place with farmers in the vicinity; wanderings with his son; life with other Jews in hiding in a subterranean hiding place for approximately six months including hunger and morbidity, November 1943-25 April 1944; in hiding in swamps in the vicinity; approach of the armies at the Front; escape to Lomza, Pesach (5 April) 1945; escape from Lomza to Bialystok. Persecution of Jews by Ukrainian gangs after the liberation; murder of the Jews by the gangs.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject>Hunger-related diseases</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Ukrainian collaborators</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Miastkowo,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714553</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Jakow Chaszkes, born in Semiatycze, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in Lipczany, in hiding in Sarnaki and in forests</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-03-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Jakow Chaszkes, born in Semiatycze, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in Lipczany, in hiding in Sarnaki and in forests Work for a Pole in Lipczany (the Sarnaki area), October 1941; liquidation of the Sarnaki Ghetto, August 1942; escape; in hiding in an attic belonging to a farmer in Sarnaki for 18 months; escape to the surrounding forest; meeting other Jews who were hiding in the forest; liberation in Semiatycze by the Red Army.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
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          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="943">Work</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Sarnaki,Siedlce,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="760">Sarnaki,Ghetto</geogname>
          <geogname>Semiatycze,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714554</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Jakow Fabricki, born in Kolno, Poland regarding chronological events in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">xerox</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-06-18 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Jakow Fabricki, born in Kolno, Poland regarding chronological events in the Bialystok Ghetto German occupation of Bialystok, 27 June 1941; burning of Jews in their homes and in the burning synagogue; attempts of Jews to escape to the Soviet Union; establishment of the Judenrat headed by Rabbi Dr. Israel Roseman; murder of approximately 3,500 men on "Black" Saturday; levying of a forced contribution; forced labor outside the ghetto; establishment of various Jewish institutions; Jewish police in the ghetto; informers in the ghetto; harsh conditions and hunger; deportation of Jews from approximately 75 villages and towns in the areas outlying Bialystok to camps and prisons; deportation of approximately 100,000 Jews to extermination camps; escape of Jews to forests and hiding places; final extermination of the Jews from the outlying areas that lasted 30 days; robbery of property; hunger, cold, illness and persecutions, December 1942; suicides; attempts to escape from the trains; rescue of special professionally skilled people by the German Wehrmacht authorities; deportation of 4,000 Bialystok Jews to Pruzana; extermination of the Jews of Pruzana; setting up life in the Bialystok Ghetto; work outside the ghetto; commerce, smuggling of food and so on; first "Aktion" in the ghetto under the command of Fritz Friedel, the war criminal, 05 February 1943 ; cooperation by the Jewish police in concentrating the Jews and their deportation to their deaths; separation between able-bodied professionally skilled Jews and other Jews; murder of Jews in the streets; heroic act of Melamed, the Jew, who succeeded in causing the death of a German before he was hanged; the role of the Judenrat in the liquidation of the Jews; murder of many Jews discovered in hiding places; revelation of hiding places by Jewish informers; execution of informers by Jews; continuation of the "Aktion" over 13 days; reduction of the area of the ghetto; hanging of three Jews; improvement of living conditions in the ghetto before the final liquidation; transfer of the last 1,700 Jews from the Grodno Ghetto to the Bialystok Ghetto; employment of the Jews in various factories; details about Zelikovitz, the informer and collaborator with the Germans; liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 16-23 August 1943; escape of the witness from the death train; joining a group of Jews in the Briansk forests.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Hangings</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="117">Jewish collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000751">Friedel Fritz</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Briansk,Bryansk,Orel,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Grodno,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kolno,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Pruzana,Pruzana,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714555</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Letters sent by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff from Vilna to relatives in the Tomsk area (Novosibirsk district) in the Soviet Union, 04 April 1940-24 May 1941</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">xerox

8 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
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          <p><![CDATA[Letters sent by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff from Vilna to relatives in the Tomsk area (Novosibirsk district) in the Soviet Union, 04 April 1940-24 May 1941 The contents of the letters is difficult to read.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית המרכזית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Information regarding relatives and friends</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Tomsk,Tomsk City,Novosibirsk,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Vilna,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="843">Letter</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714557</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Letters sent by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamarof to Bronka Klibanski, February-13 August 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">xerox

94 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-02 - 1943-08-13</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Letters sent by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamarof to Bronka Klibanski, February-13 August 1943 The contents of the letters is illegible.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: קליבנסקי ברונקה]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000406">Tenenbaum (Tamaroff), Mordechai (1916-1943)</persname>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="001037">Klibanski, Bronia</persname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="843">Letter</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714559</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Collective testimony of Yashke Milikowski and Dr. Yisrael Shperling regarding their experiences in Slonim</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

16 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943 - 1943-04</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Collective testimony of Yashke Milikowski and Dr. Yisrael Shperling regarding their experiences in Slonim]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות ,מס'1084/8]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1321">Killing pits</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Slonim,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714560</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Zelig Tenenbaum regarding the fate of the Jews of Grajewo</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten original

מקור וקסרוקס

33 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-08-23 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Zelig Tenenbaum regarding the fate of the Jews of Grajewo Occupation of Grajewo by the German Army, summer 1941; life under the German occupation including rioting and forced labor; wounding and murder of Jews by Poles; concentration of approximately 500 men in the marketplace; abuse of Jews including Communists in the theater building; attitude of the Poles towards the Jews; appointment of a Judenrat; torture of Jews by the Gestapo; rape of women; murder of the elderly and Communists in the cemetery; establishment of the ghetto; deportation of the Jews from Botki and Grodno to labor camps in Bialystok, 22 July 1942; deportation of the Jews of Grajewo to Treblinka, November 1942; murder of POWs from the camp near Boguszyn. Note: The testimony was written down, 23 August 1943.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית-לוחמי הגיטאות , מס' 1084/9]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject>Jewish communists</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="511">POWs</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="747">Cemeteries</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kleszczele,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grajewo,Grajewo,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Botki,Taurage,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Boguszyn,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Orle,Szczuczyn,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714561</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony by an unknown witness regarding his experiences in Minsk and Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Handwritten copy

Typewritten copy

16 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">-</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony by an unknown witness regarding his experiences in Minsk and Bialystok Occupation of Minsk by the German Army; murder of 300 Jews during the early days of the occupation; deportation of the men to a labor camp; attitude of the Belorussians towards the Jews; life under the German occupation including hunger and food rationing; establishment of the Minsk Ghetto, September 1941; ghetto life including robbery of property, rape of young girls and forced labor; appointment of a Judenrat; Dr. Rosenman's tenure as Judenrat chairman; riots against the Jews including in Bobruysk and Mogilev; rumor mills regarding the discovery of mass graves containing thousands of murder victims; murder of the Jews in the outlying areas, October-November 1941; riots against the Jews, 7-12 November 1941; transfer to Bialystok via Baranowicze.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות מס' 1084/10]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="834">Food rationing</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Baranowicze,Baranowicze,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bobruysk,Bobruysk City,Mogilev,Belorussia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Minsk,Minsk City,Minsk,Belorussia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="600">Minsk,Ghetto</geogname>
          <geogname>Mogilev,Mogilev City,Mogilev,Belorussia (USSR)</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714562</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Red Friday": Testimony of an unknown person regarding the burning of the Jewish Quarter in Bialystok, 23 June 1941</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">xerox

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">-</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
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          <p><![CDATA["Red Friday": Testimony of an unknown person regarding the burning of the Jewish Quarter in Bialystok, 23 June 1941 Occupation of Bialystok by the German Army, 23 June 1941; riots in the Jewish Quarter conducted by Germans including the throwing of grenades, pouring of fuel and setting fire to houses; burning of the synagogue including the Jews inside the building; deaths of approximately 1,700 Jews from smoke inhalation or the fire; burning of more than 30 streets in the Jewish Quarter; destruction of 10 "Batei Midrash" (religious study halls) ; destruction of the Great Synagogue.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: .בית לוחמי הגיטאות ,מס'1084/11]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject>Burning Jews alive</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="645">Desecration of synagogues</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="646">Burning of synagogues</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="642">Persecution of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="540">Mass murders</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714563</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Aharon Lancziki regarding the fate of the Jews of Swislocz</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">xerox

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Aharon Lancziki regarding the fate of the Jews of Swislocz "Aktion" in Swislocz; concentration of the Swislocz Jews in the market square; selection; deportation of the elderly and the children to the forest; murder of the elderly and the children in a killing pit in the forest; deportation of the young people to the Wolkowysk camp; transfer [of the young people?] to Treblinka.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי מס' 1084/12]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="599">Shearing of beards</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="411">Selection</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1321">Killing pits</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Wolkowysk,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Swislocz,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Swislocz,forest,Murder Site,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714565</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"The Thursday Spirit or the Sabbath Spirit": Testimony of an unknown man regarding his experiences in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

xerox

5 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA["The Thursday Spirit or the Sabbath Spirit": Testimony of an unknown man regarding his experiences in Bialystok Occupation of Bialystok by the German Army; life in Bialystok including robbery of Jewish property and levying of a forced contribution; establishment of a local government headed by Rinert; appointment of a Judenrat headed by Rabbi Rosenman; Barash's term of office as Rabbi Rosenman's assistant; Aktion", 10 July, 1941; surrounding of the Jewish Quarter by the Germans; arrest of Jews; abuse of Jews; murder of approximately 200 Jews; "Aktion", 12 July 1941; concentration of the Jews in the market courtyard; arrest of approximately 3,000 men; deportation of the men to an unknown destination; suspicion that the men were murdered in the area of the village of Pietrasze.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות, מס' 1084/14]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject>Warsaw Ghetto Uprising</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Pietrasze,Nowogrodek,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714566</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Memoirs of Sima regarding her experiences in Grodek</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">מקור וקסרוקס

10 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Memoirs of Sima regarding her experiences in Grodek Occupation of Grodek by the German Army, 27 June 1941; life under the German occupation including robbery of Jewish property, anti-Jewish legislation, yellow badge; ban forbidding the local population to sell food products to the Jews; appointment of a Judenrat; abuse of Judenrat members by the Gestapo; murder of Jews; Polish and Belorussian collaborators; arrest of Communists and their murder; concentration of the Jews in the market square in Grodek, 01 November 1942; deportation of the witness' family to a[n unnamed] camp by wagon; population of the camp by approximately 13,000 Jews including Jews from Knyszyn, Narew, and Zabludow Michalowo; transfer of [the Jews] in wagons [to an unknown destination], 18 November 1942; rescue of the witness.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות , מס' 1084/15]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1000">Communists</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Belorussian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Zabludow,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Narew,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Michałowo,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Knyszyn,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Gródek,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714567</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of a rabbi from Sokoly regarding the fate of the Jews of Jedwabne, Ostrow Mazowieckie, Sokoly and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

10 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of a rabbi from Sokoly regarding the fate of the Jews of Jedwabne, Ostrow Mazowieckie, Sokoly and other places Jewish life in Sokoly before the outbreak of the war. Occupation of Sokoly by the German Army, 12 September 1939; riots against the Jews including the arrests of men, murder, looting and the burning of 30 homes in the Jewish Quarter just before Rosh Hashana (13 September) 1939; decrees and riots in Wysokie Mazowieckie and Lomza; deportation of the Jews of Wysokie Mazowieckie to Lomza, Zambrow and Bialystok; burning of Torah scrolls in Rutki; fate of the Jews of Ostrow Mazowieckie; exit of the Germans from Sokoly, 23 September 1939 and 25 September 1939; occupation of Sokoly by the Red Army[, 1939]; occupation of Sokoly by the German Army, 24 June 1941; life under the German occupation including forced labor and abusive acts against Jews; murder of the Jews of Jedwabne; murder of the Jews of Radzilow; murder of the Jews of Stawiski including burning Jews alive; murder of the Jews of Tykocin and Rutki by Polish collaborators; help to Jews from Marschalik, a Volksdeutsche; execution of the Sokoly Rabbi and other rabbis during an "Aktion" in Bialystok, February 1943.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות, מס, 1084/16]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Zambrow,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wysokie,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Tykocin,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Stawiski,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Sokoly,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Rutki,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Radzilow,Szczuczyn,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Ostrów Mazowiecka,Ostrow Mazowiecka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Jedwabne,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714568</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Chapters from a diary regarding Dror movement activities in the Bialystok Ghetto, Part II</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

Typewritten copy

26 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-03 - 1943-03-31</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="heb" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Hebrew</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Chapters from a diary regarding Dror movement activities in the Bialystok Ghetto, Part II Underground activities including preparations for an uprising; murder of Jews in Grodno and cities in the region, 31 March 1943. Note: Copy of the original material dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: M. Turek

submitted by: עו"ד מ. טורעק, מנהל הועדה היהודית ההסטורת ב- Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Bialystok Ghetto Uprising</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grodno,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="684">Diary</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714569</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Memoirs of Rabbi Halperin regarding his experiences in Orla, Poland and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

12 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Memoirs of Rabbi Halperin regarding his experiences in Orla, Poland and other places Jewish life in Orla before the outbreak of the war. Occupation of Orla by the Red Army on the Sukkot holiday (28 September) 1939; occupation of Orla by the German Army, 26 June1941; concentration of the Jews in the market square; orders of the Germans to report for forced labor; life in Orla including abuse of the Jews, confiscation of property, closing of synagogues and desecration of holy books; appointment of a Judenrat; establishment of a Jewish police; appointment of Scharf as mayor; imposing of decrees on the Jews by the mayor; robbery of Jewish property; yellow badge; levying of a forced contribution in lieu of executions of Jews; deportation of Jews to the Orla Ghetto; "Aktion", 02 November 1942; deportation of approximately 1,450 Jews to the Bielsk Ghetto; deportation of the Jews in railroad cars from Bielsk to a camp near Bialystok (name not mentioned); camp life including hunger and epidemics; transfer from the camp with his family, 01 February 1943.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות , 1084/17]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Hunger-related diseases</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="758">Synagogues</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="645">Desecration of synagogues</subject>
          <subject>Desecration of religious articles</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="585">Confiscation of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="58">Orla,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Orla,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bielsk Podlaski,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714570</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Memoirs of Zipora Birman regarding her experiences in Vilna</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

15 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Memoirs of Zipora Birman regarding her experiences in Vilna Occupation of Vilna by the German Army; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation; kidnapping of Jews by Lithuanians in order to transport them to forced labor; arrest of men; deportation of Jews to the ghetto; deportation of Jews to the Lukiszki prison; abuse of Jews while being deported to the ghetto; beating of Jews while being deported to the ghetto; transfer of skilled professionals from the prison to ghetto number 1; deportation of the rest of the Jews from the prison to the killing pits in Ponary; first "Aktion"; liquidation of ghetto number 2; murder of Jews; promise of rescue of those with "yellow" work certificates; temporary transfer of those with yellow certificates to ghetto number 2; deportation of Jews without yellow certificates to the killing pits in Ponary; abuse of Jews by Lithuanian collaborators; attitude of the Polish population towards the Jews; deportation of skilled professionals and their families back to ghetto number 1; ghetto life including hunger; in hiding outside the ghetto; escape to the Bialystok Ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות , מס' 1084/18]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="578">Work certificates</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
          <subject>The Aryan side</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1321">Killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Vilna,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Ponary Area,Murder Site,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714571</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Leib Aronson regarding his experiences in Jalowka, Wolkowysk, Malkinia and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

7 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Leib Aronson regarding his experiences in Jalowka, Wolkowysk, Malkinia and other places Deportation of Jews including the witness from Jalowka to the Wolkowysk camp, 02 November 1942; transfer to Malkinia by train, 02 December 1942; deportation to Treblinka; selection; forced labor in a camp in the Malkinia area under the supervision of Ukrainian collaborators; murder of women and children in the gas chambers and crematorium in Treblinka; escape from a pile of corpses; hidden by a farmer; transfer to Kosow Lacki; transfer to Bialystok.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות , מס' 1084/19]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="483">Crematoria</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="499">Gas chambers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Ukrainian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="411">Selection</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wolkowysk,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Malkinia,Ostrow Mazowiecka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kosow Lacki,Sokolow,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714572</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"In Hiding": Testimony of Y. L-n</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

26 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["In Hiding": Testimony of Y. L-n The life led by approximately 50 Jews in hiding in the Bialystok (?) Ghetto including the crying of children, the coughing of the elderly and the fear of discovery of the hiding place. Memoirs of Rabbi Halperin from Orla regarding Orla in the Bielsk Podlaski area; a written comment by Mordechai Tenenbaum: "Taken out of Bialystok, February 1943".]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות , מס' 1084/20]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject>Redemption of children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="599">Shearing of beards</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Orla,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714573</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Noach Bokholuski regarding his experiences in the Grodno Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

25 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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 railroad cars; attempts by Jews to escape from the railroad cars; deportation of the Jews to the Bialystok Ghetto, March 1943.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית-לוחמי הגיטאות 1084/21]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="204">Grodno,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714574</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of an unknown woman, the sole survivor from Daugai, Lithuania, regarding the fate of the Jews of Daugai and Alytus</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

35 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of an unknown woman, the sole survivor from Daugai, Lithuania, regarding the fate of the Jews of Daugai and Alytus Occupation of Daugai by the German Army; activities of the "Smaugikiai", Lithuanian collaborators, against the Jews; riots against the Jews of Alytus; murder of Jews of Alytus and the surrounding area; attitude of the Lithuanian population towards the Jews; forced labor; arrest of Jews by Germans; receiving information regarding the murder of Jews from Kaunas in the Forts; murder of Jews by Lithuanian partisans; deportation of men from Daugai and the surrounding area seemingly for forced labor, 12 August 1941; murder of the men; concentration of the Jews of Daugai in a "Beit Midrash" (religious study hall), 31 August 1941, and their execution in a forest near Alytus; escape of 30 men from Daugai; the fate of the Jews who escaped; murder of the remaining Jews of Daugai and the villages in the Alytus area by Lithuanians, 07 September 1941.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות ,1084/22]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject>Murder of Jews by Lithuanians</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards Jews - Lithuania and the Lithuanian population</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Alytus,Alytus,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Kaunas,Kaunas,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Daugai,Alytus,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Ljuta,&lt;&gt;,Carpathian Ruthenia,Czechoslovakia</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714575</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of an unknown witness regarding his experiences in the Bogusze camp, Korycin, Jasinowka and Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

10 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of an unknown witness regarding his experiences in the Bogusze camp, Korycin, Jasinowka and Bialystok Escape from the Bogusze camp to Korycin, transfer to Jasinowka; deportation of Jews to Treblinka; jumping from the deportation train by several Jews; jumping from the deportation train by the witness, including methods of jumping, 30 January 1943; transfer to Bialystok.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות ,1084/23]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="304">Refugees during the war</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bogusze,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Korycin,Sokolka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Jasinowka,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714576</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Memoirs of an unknown woman regarding the fate of the Jews in Wolkowysk, Horodok, Michalowo, Choroszcz and other places, 30 January-02 February 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

20 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Memoirs of an unknown woman regarding the fate of the Jews in Wolkowysk, Horodok, Michalowo, Choroszcz and other places, 30 January-02 February 1943 30 January 1943: liquidation of the Wolkowysk camp; transfer of approximately 1,700 Jews to the railroad station; rumors regarding the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto; events connected to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; influence of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on the fighting spirit of the Jews of Bialystok; fighting of Jews as partisans; 01 February 1943: Photographs and documents regarding freight trains loaded with clothing, Torah scrolls and religious objects belonging to the Jews of Horodok who were murdered; deportation of approximately 750 Jews fro Michalowo, November 1942; rescue of 50 Jews thanks to the efforts of the Bialystok Judenrat; life in Michalowo under the Nazi occupation including levying of a forced contribution, robbery of property and forced labor; attitude of the local population in Michalowo towards the Jews; 02 February 1943: Deportation of the Jews of Choroszcz to Treblinka, November 1942; escape of Jews from the transport to Treblinka, November 1942; "Aktion"; deportation of approximately 420 Jews to a camp in the Treblinka area; abuse of the Jews by Polish policemen including Kalinowski, the policeman.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות 1084/24]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>Warsaw Ghetto Uprising</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1215">Partisans</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject>Contribution</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject>Desecration of religious articles</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Michałowo,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wolkowysk,Wolkowysk,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="1106">Warszawa,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Choroszcz,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Horodok,Ghetto</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Memoirs</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714577</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony from an anonymous witness regarding the deportation of Jews from Grodno and its surrounding area</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

54 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony from an anonymous witness regarding the deportation of Jews from Grodno and its surrounding area Deportation of the Jews of Sokolki, 24-25 April [?] 1943; forced labor in industry in the Bialystok Ghetto by order of the German Army; arrival of refugees from deportation trains to the Bialystok Ghetto; false promises made by members of the Grodno Judenrat regarding the deportation of the ghetto Jews to forced labor camps; execution of Jews during "Aktions"; fate of the Jews of Krinki after the "Aktion", November 1942; deportation of the Jews of Jasinowka; opposition of the Jews of Marcikany (?) by shooting at the Germans and escaping into the forests; murder of Jews in the Kielbasin camp; refusal of Aharon Rubinczik, the head of the Jewish police in Grodno, to carry out Gestapo orders during the "Aktion"; activities of Brawer, the head of the Grodno Judenrat, on behalf of the ghetto Jews; escape of Jews from Grodno to Vilna, 29 January 1943; Bialystok [?].]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות , 1084/25]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2410">Kiełbasin,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Sokolki,Sokolka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Krinki,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="204">Grodno,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Jasinowka,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Vilna,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714578</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Zecharia Yuten regarding his experiences in Lukiszki, the Vilna Ghetto and the Lida Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

25 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="deu" encodinganalog="3.4.3">German</language>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Zecharia Yuten regarding his experiences in Lukiszki, the Vilna Ghetto and the Lida Ghetto Deportation of his family from Vilna to prison in Lukiszki; deportation of approximately 5,000 Jews to the prison in Lukiszki; registration of professionally skilled workers in the prison; transfer of professionally skilled workers to the Vilna Ghetto; the witness' term of office as a member of the Judenrat in the Vilna Ghetto; escape to Lida with other Jews, 01 November 1941; life in Lida including forced labor, abuse and murder of Jews; arrest of Judenrat members; arrest of Jewish policemen; "Aktion"; murder of the elderly and the sick; robbery of Jewish property; execution of 52 Jews, including three women, 08 March 1942; second "Aktion", 05 August 1942 [should be 08 May 1942]; selection; murder of approximately 5,000 Jews; stoning of Gestapo men by Jews beside the killing pit; wounding of Gestapo men; escape of Jews from the pit into the forests; move of the escapees back to the Lida Ghetto; approximately 1,500 Jews out of 7,600 remain after the "Aktion" in Lida; escape of Jews from Zoludek into the forests; escape of Jews from Szczucin into the forests; escape of Jews from Iwie into the forests; escape of Jews from Woronowo into the forests; resistance activity of the escapees against Belorussian policemen; murder of Belorussian policemen by Jews who escaped from the killing pit.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות, 1084/27]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="599">Shearing of beards</subject>
          <subject>Sick people</subject>
          <subject>Skilled workers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Woronowo,Glebokie,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zoludek,Szczuczyn,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Iwie,Lida,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="537">Lida,Ghetto</geogname>
          <geogname>Szczucin,Dabrowa,Krakow,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714579</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Survey regarding the Bialystok Ghetto including events during the "Aktion",15 January-17 February 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

27 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="heb" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Hebrew</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Survey regarding the Bialystok Ghetto including events during the "Aktion",15 January-17 February 1943 Sealing of the boundaries of the city, November 1942; deportation of Jews to concentration camps; transfer of Jews from concentration camps to Treblinka; execution of Jews in Treblinka; reduction of the boundaries of the Bialystok Ghetto without affecting the Jews; "Aktion" under the command of the Gestapo officer, Fritz Friedel, 05 February 1943; Jews in hiding throughout the "Aktion"; refusal of the Jewish police to participate in carrying out the "Aktion"; killing of a German by members of the underground; execution of 120 Jews as retaliation for the killing of the German; continuation of the "Aktion", 06 February 1943; discovery of hiding places of Jews; hunger; distribution of food to Jews in hiding by members of the Jewish underground; execution of approximately 1,000 Jews who had been in hiding; Judenrat activities during the "Aktion"; turning himself in to the Gestapo by Melamed, the Jew, after killing a German; execution of Melamed by hanging, 08 February 1943; Friese's visit in the Bialystok Ghetto and his promise not to hurt factory workers; execution of 700 other people; discovery of the hiding places of hundreds of Jews; deportation of the Jews who had been in hiding to Treblinka, 09 February 1943; betrayal of hiding places by Jews; Jewish underground activities including acts of revenge against the Germans; refusal of the Jewish police to cooperate with the Germans during the "Aktion"; rescue of Jews by Jewish policemen; end of the "Aktion", 17 February 1943.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: M/Turek

submitted by: מ/טורק,עו"ד- מנהל הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב- Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="834">Food rationing</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000751">Friedel Fritz</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714580</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Personal documents and a lading label with the caption "Bialystok-Treblinka" from a railroad car</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

מקור וקסרוקס

30 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="deu" encodinganalog="3.4.3">German</language>
            <language langcode="lit" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Lithuanian</language>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Personal documents and a lading label with the caption "Bialystok-Treblinka" from a railroad car Work card in the name of Rachela Grynberg issued by the Judenrat in the Bialystok Ghetto, 31 March 1942; three certificates in the name of Moses Goldberg issued in Grodno, 1941-1942; four certificates in the name of Hirsch Mersik [Hersz Mersyk] issued in Vilna, 1941; identity cards in the name of Ruwin Laznik, issued in Bialystok, 11 August 1939; report card and certification of completion of third grade in the name of the pupil, Aryeh Rubensztein from School Number I in the Bialystok Ghetto, for the 1941-1942 academic year; Wagenladung (lading label) Number 170808, from a railroad car that transferred five tons of clothing of those murdered in Treblinka to Bialystok, 22 January 1943, to be processed by the textile industry in the Bialystok Ghetto, including an explanation written by Mordechai Tenenbaum; identity card in the name of Beila Fischman issued in Ciechanowiec, 1940; identity card in the name of Riva Goldsztein issued in Grodno, 25 June 1940.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודי ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="578">Work certificates</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1134">Schools</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="132">Holocaust victims</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject>Clothes</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000406">Tenenbaum (Tamaroff), Mordechai (1916-1943)</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grodno,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Ciechanowiec,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Vilna,Wilno,Wilno,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1137">Personal documents</genreform>
          <genreform>Identity card</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714581</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Protocol of a meeting of representatives of the Bialystok Jewish community with representatives from the Belorussian community regarding cooperation and culture, 01 April 1945</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Protocol of a meeting of representatives of the Bialystok Jewish community with representatives from the Belorussian community regarding cooperation and culture, 01 April 1945]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה ההסטורית היהודית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="672">Culture</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="872">Jewish communities</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Protocol</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714582</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Shmuel Wasserstein regarding the murder of Jews in Jedwabne</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-04-05 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Shmuel Wasserstein regarding the murder of Jews in Jedwabne Occupation of Jedwabne by the German Army, 23 June 1941; life in Jedwabne including riots; murder of men, women and children including Chaya Kovchansky by Polish collaborators; names of the Polish collaborators including Shliezinsky, Karaliak, Barawiok, Metiek Watzelow, Kazlowsky and Geniak; abuse of Jews before their murder; murder of the Jews of Jedwabne by fire, 10 July 1941.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="825">Women</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Jedwabne,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714583</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Joint testimony of Fishel and Toiveh Kushnir regarding the fate of the Jews in Trzcianne, 15 April 1945</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-04-17 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Joint testimony of Fishel and Toiveh Kushnir regarding the fate of the Jews in Trzcianne, 15 April 1945 Riots including injuring of Jews in Trzcianne by Polish collaborators, 15 April 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Trzcianne,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714584</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of E. Shteiman, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, regarding the liberation of women from a camp, 20 April 1945</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-04-29 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of E. Shteiman, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, regarding the liberation of women from a camp, 20 April 1945 Death march of women from an unnamed camp; camp life including hunger; escape of the Germans from the camp; liberation of the women by the Red Army, 20 April 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Death Marches</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="506">Women's Camps</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714585</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Report (by radio) of Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the life of the Jews and the Jewish underground in the Warsaw Ghetto in honor of the second anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1945</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-04-20 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Report (by radio) of Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the life of the Jews and the Jewish underground in the Warsaw Ghetto in honor of the second anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1945 Life of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto including "Aktions", hunger and executions, 1942-1943; deportation of Jews from the ghetto to Trawniki; deportation of Jews from the ghetto to their deaths in the gas chambers in Treblinka; establishment of the underground Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB - Jewish Fighting Organization) in the ghetto; Jewish underground activities including fighting against the Germans; killing of Germans by underground fighters; "Aktion" against the insurgents under the command of Odilo Globocnik from Lublin; help from the Polish Socialist party (PPS - Polska Partia Socialstyczna) to the underground fighters; help from the Polish Workers' party (PPR - Polska Partia Robotnicza) to the underground fighters; fighting by the underground members for approximately six weeks; murder of approximately 30,000 Jews who remained in the ghetto; suicides of fighters.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורקוב,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="499">Gas chambers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Warsaw Ghetto Uprising</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="217">Suicides</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname>Globocnik, Odilo</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Lublin,Lublin,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="569">Trawniki,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="1106">Warszawa,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Warszawa,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Survey</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714586</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Protocol of the annual memorial service marking the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising held in Bialystok, 22 April 1945</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-04-25 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Protocol of the annual memorial service marking the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising held in Bialystok, 22 April 1945]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="716">Memorial sites</subject>
          <subject>Warsaw Ghetto Uprising</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="1106">Warszawa,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Protocol</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714587</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony regarding the burial of the statues of Engels, Marx and Stalin in Bialystok including filming by the Germans, 30 July 1941</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-04-25 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony regarding the burial of the statues of Engels, Marx and Stalin in Bialystok including filming by the Germans, 30 July 1941 Note: The testimony was taken down by Dr. Szymon Datner.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה ההסטורית היהודית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="746">Burial</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="001765">Engels Friedrich</persname>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="001203">Marx Karl</persname>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="001129">Lenin</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714588</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Shmuel Wassersztejn, born in Jedwabne, Poland, regarding the experiences of the Jews in the Wizna area, 1945</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-04-26 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Shmuel Wassersztejn, born in Jedwabne, Poland, regarding the experiences of the Jews in the Wizna area, 1945 Battles of Faberovich, the Jew, against fascist gangs in a village in the Wizna area after the liberation, 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Wizna,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714589</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Fishel Kushnir regarding the experiences of the Jews of Trzcianne</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-05-03 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Fishel Kushnir regarding the experiences of the Jews of Trzcianne Occupation of Trzcianne by the German Army, 28 June 1941; life under the German occupation including robbery of Jewish property, rape, abuse of women and children and murder of Jews; burial of those murdered in a common grave; the Jews' demand for vengeance.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject>Redemption of children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="825">Women</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="606">Rape</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Trzcianne,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714590</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Protocol of a General Meeting held by Kibbutz Dror in the Bialystok Ghetto, 27 February 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

10 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-02-27 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Protocol of a General Meeting held by Kibbutz Dror in the Bialystok Ghetto, 27 February 1943 Discussion in the General Meeting after the first "Aktion" in the ghetto regarding Jewish underground methods of action including armed resistance in the ghetto, removal of Jews [from the ghetto] to the forests and fighting as partisans.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Warsaw Ghetto Uprising</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="242">Underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1215">Partisans</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="212">Resistance</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Protocol</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714591</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Protocol from a meeting of the Bialystok Partisans and Fighters' Organization, 07 May 1945</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-05-08 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Protocol from a meeting of the Bialystok Partisans and Fighters' Organization, 07 May 1945 Speech made by Dr. Szymon Dantner regarding the fighting of the partisans, the political situation and Red Army victories; the surrender of the Germans; the end of the war.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית בBIALYSTOK ,]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="212">Resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714592</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Lullaby": Poem/Song by Shmerke Kaczerginski, written in the Vilna Ghetto, about the killing site in Ponary, 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-05-07 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Lullaby": Poem/Song by Shmerke Kaczerginski, written in the Vilna Ghetto, about the killing site in Ponary, 1943 The roads leading to the killing site in Ponary; hope for liberation and freedom.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ. טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1321">Killing pits</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Ponary Area,Murder Site,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714593</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Poem/Song by an unknown author from the Vilna Ghetto about longings for the home that was and is no more</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-05-07 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Poem/Song by an unknown author from the Vilna Ghetto about longings for the home that was and is no more]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714594</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Michel Majk, born in Sokoly, Poland, regarding the fate of the members of the Sokoly Judenrat, 1942</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-05-14 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Michel Majk, born in Sokoly, Poland, regarding the fate of the members of the Sokoly Judenrat, 1942 Order given by the Amstkommissar in Sokoly that the Judenrat members must report to the Judenrat building on Pesach (02 April) 1942; abuse of the Judenrat members including beatings; transfer of the Judenrat members to the prison because so few Judenrat members reported in; abuse of the Judenrat members in the prison; release of the Judenrat members from detention three days later; mention of what happened in Rutki, Tiktin and Tykocin.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Tiktin,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Tykocin,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Sokoly,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Rutki,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714595</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Avraham Kantorowski, born in Sokolki, Poland, regarding his experiences in Sokolki, Kielbasin, Treblinka, the Grodno Ghetto and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Typewritten copy

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-05-22 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הועה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="499">Gas chambers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Janow,Janow Lubelski,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2410">Kiełbasin,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Sokolki,Sokolka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="204">Grodno,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714596</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Mark Michal regarding his experiences in Sokoly</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-05-24 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Mark Michal regarding his experiences in Sokoly Life in Sokoly under the German occupation including robbery of Jewish property and forced labor; Judenrat activities; arrest of Beryl Kroshevski; execution of Beryl Kroshevski by hanging in the market street, 1942.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודיתההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="652">Imprisonment</subject>
          <subject>Hangings</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Sokoly,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714597</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Daniel Sladinow regarding the fate of the Jews of Sluck</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-05-31 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Daniel Sladinow regarding the fate of the Jews of Sluck Jewish community life in Sluck before the war. Occupation of Sluck by the German Army, 05 July 1941; life under the German occupation including forced labor; "Aktion" with help from Lithuanian collaborators, November 1941; establishment of two ghettos, January 1942; liquidation of the ghettos, May 1942 and 07 November 1942; resistance by Jews during the liquidation of the ghetto; execution of Jews; escape of Jews; escapees join the partisans.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Lithuanian collaborators</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Sluck,Slutsk,Minsk,Belorussia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714598</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Binyamin Ratzlow regarding the fate of the Jews of Suprasl</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-06-01 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="338">Badge of shame</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="498">Extermination camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Suprasl,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714599</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Berl Wassersztejn regarding the establishment of a partisan unit in the Bialystok Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-06-05 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Berl Wassersztejn regarding the establishment of a partisan unit in the Bialystok Ghetto Establishment of a resistance organization in Bialystok, December 1941; disbanding of the organization after the "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 05 February 1943; establishment of the United Partisan Organization; organization activities including smuggling weapons into the ghetto; transfer of youth to forests in the Suprasl area; liquidation of the ghetto, 16 August 1943; fighting by the members of the Jewish underground in the Bialystok Ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה ההסטוריתהיהודית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="868">Jewish organizations</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Suprasl,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714600</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Gedalia Basak, born in 1916, regarding his experiences as a partisan</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-06-10 - 1945</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Gedalia Basak, born in 1916, regarding his experiences as a partisan Acquiring weapons; joining the partisans to fight the Germans; partisan activities in Slonim, Ruda Jaworska, Nowogrodek and Kozlowszczyzna, March 1942-14 July 1944; execution of approximately 12,000 Jews in an "Aktion" in the Slonim Ghetto; acts of revenge carried out by the partisans; murder of Jews; killing of Germans who participated in the murder of Jews; escape of approximately 1,000 Jews during the liquidation of the Dereczyn Ghetto, July 1942; some of the escapees join the partisans; arranging for camps for the women and children.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהדית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="207">Family camps in the forest</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="824">Children</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="825">Women</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="248">Partisans - Jews</subject>
          <subject>Smuggling weapons</subject>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Dereczyn,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Slonim,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Ruda Jaworska,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Nowogrodek,Nowogrodek,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Kozlowszczyzna,Slonim,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714601</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Letter sent by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff from Bialystok to his sister, Tamar, in Eretz Israel regarding his experiences in Warsaw, February 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Handwritten copy

Original

Typewritten copy

14 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-02 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Letter sent by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff from Bialystok to his sister, Tamar, in Eretz Israel regarding his experiences in Warsaw, February 1943 Life in the Warsaw Ghetto; deportation of their mother to Treblinka on the tenth day of an "Aktion" in Warsaw; deportation of friends to Treblinka; life outside the ghetto as a Jewish underground activist; cooperation with the Polska Partia Robotnicza (PPR- Polish Communist Workers' Party) including obtaining weapons and combat together with the partisans; the murder process in the gas chambers in Treblinka; rescue of his girlfriend Tamar (Tema) Schneiderman by the underground; Tema's activities as a courier between the Cherut movement in Lithuania and the Dror movement in Ukraine; Tema's activities as a courier on the Aryan side after the establishment of the ghetto; Tema's move to Warsaw in order to help the Jews obtain food; Tema's death in Warsaw; the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; mention of names such as Itzhak Katzenelson and Yitzhak and Zivia (Lubetkin) Zuckerman; information regarding the Treblinka extermination camp. Note: Copy of the original material dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד טורעק מ., מנהל הועדה ההיסטורית ב-Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>The Aryan side</subject>
          <subject>Warsaw Ghetto Uprising</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="499">Gas chambers</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="214">Rescue</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1215">Partisans</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname>Zuckerman, Yitzhak “Antek”</persname>
          <persname>Lubetkin, Zivia</persname>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000209">Katzenelson ItzhakYehiel (1886-1944)</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="2032">Treblinka,Extermination Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="1106">Warszawa,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="843">Letter</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714602</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Awigdor Nelawitzky regarding his experiences in Wizna</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-06-10 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Awigdor Nelawitzky regarding his experiences in Wizna Occupation of Wizna by the German Army, 24 June 1941; riots against the Jews by Polish gangs; "Aktion" carried out by SS men, 26 June 1941; execution of 16 men; escape of Jews to Lomza, Bialystok and Jedwabne; murder of the Jews of Wizna in Jedwabne; murder of Jews in the Bialystok area, from 01 November 1942; forced labor in the Wizna area for farmers by using Aryan documents; criminal activity of Polish partisans against Jews; liberation of Wizna by the Red Army, 22 May 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="329">Antisemitism - partisans</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="183">Aryan documents</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1215">Polish partisans</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Jedwabne,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wizna,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714603</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Zippa Goldberg, born in Zareby Koscielne, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Zareby Koscielne, Czyzew, Lomza and Stutthof</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-06-12 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Zippa Goldberg, born in Zareby Koscielne, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Zareby Koscielne, Czyzew, Lomza and Stutthof Occupation of Zareby Koscielne by the German Army, 22 June 1941; deaths of approximately 100 Jews from air-raids; life in Zareby Koscielne including robbery of property and abuse; deportation to Czyzew, 12 August 1941; murder of Jews en route to Czyzew; throwing the bodies of those murdered into the killing pit; "Aktion" conducted by Germans and Polish policemen; escape of Jews, including the witness, from the "Aktion"; hidden by Poles; arrest; deportation to the prison in Lomza; deportation to Stutthof; life in Stutthof; liberation, January 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו'ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="518">Deportations</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
          <geogname>Zareby Koscielne,Ostrow Mazowiecka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Łomża,Lomza,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Czyzew,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714604</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Joint testimony of Rachel Alshak, born in Zareby Koscielne, Poland, 1918, and Mina Alshak, born in Zareby Koscielne, Poland, 1920, regarding their experiences in Zareby Koscielne and Ciechanowiec</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-06-14 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Joint testimony of Rachel Alshak, born in Zareby Koscielne, Poland, 1918, and Mina Alshak, born in Zareby Koscielne, Poland, 1920, regarding their experiences in Zareby Koscielne and Ciechanowiec Occupation of Zareby Koscielne by the German Army, 22 June 1941; abuse of Jews by Polish policemen; deportation of the Zareby Koscielne Jews to a killing pit, 02 September 1941; murder of the Jews; throwing the bodies into the killing pit; escape of Jews from Zareby Koscielne; hiding of the Jews who escaped by farmers; rescue of 14 Jews from Zareby Koscielne including the witnesses; work in the Ciechanowiec area; liberation, 08 August 1944.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק , יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1321">Killing pits</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Ciechanowiec,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zareby Koscielne,Ostrow Mazowiecka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Ostrów Mazowiecka,Ostrow Mazowiecka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714605</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Letter sent by Lichtensztejn from the Bialystok Ghetto to Dr. Drozdowski, the Pole, regarding his desire that his son emigrate to Eretz Israel, 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-06-18 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Letter sent by Lichtensztejn from the Bialystok Ghetto to Dr. Drozdowski, the Pole, regarding his desire that his son emigrate to Eretz Israel, 1943 The letter was intended for his son, a Red Army soldier in the Soviet Union; Lichtensztejn's desire was that his son emigrate to Eretz israel in the future.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="203">Emigration after the War</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="227">Search for relatives</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,British Mandate for Palestine</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="843">Letter</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714606</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Poem/Song written by Mina Zilberberg (an 11-year old girl), born in Warsaw, Poland, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-05-31 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Poem/Song written by Mina Zilberberg (an 11-year old girl), born in Warsaw, Poland, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof and other places Jewish police activities in the Lodz Ghetto; deportation of Jews from the surrounding villages to the Lodz Ghetto) "Aktion"; escape of Jews during the "Aktion"; deportation of approximately 11,000 elderly and sick Jews and Jewish children; deportation to Auschwitz; life in Auschwitz; transfer to Stutthof; transfer with other children from Bialystok to Katowice, 31 May 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו "ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Sick people</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="599">Shearing of beards</subject>
          <subject>Jewish children</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
          <geogname>Lodz,Lodz,Lodz,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="513">Lodz,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Katowice,Katowice,Slask,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714607</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Beggar": Poem/Song written by Chana Chajtin in the Siauliai Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-06-05 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Beggar": Poem/Song written by Chana Chajtin in the Siauliai Ghetto Life in the Siauliai Ghetto including distribution of food and hunger; deportation to Stutthof; liberation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="834">Food rationing</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="567">Camps</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="1054">Siauliai,Ghetto</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Lithuania</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714608</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Collective testimony of Moshe Chertok, born in 1901, and Shmerl Grinshtejn, born in 1892, regarding their experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Lublin and Auschwitz</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-05-14 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Collective testimony of Moshe Chertok, born in 1901, and Shmerl Grinshtejn, born in 1892, regarding their experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Lublin and Auschwitz Work as firefighters in Bialystok, 01-24 August 1943; work burying bodies of Jews in pits which had been dug beforehand; resistance of members of the Jewish underground to the deportation; shooting directed at Germans by members of the Jewish underground; deaths of Germans; deaths of Jews; burning of houses in the ghetto; orders given by the Jewish police to dig pits for burial of murdered Jews, 17 August 1943; participation of Chertok and Grinshtejn in digging the pits; end of the "Aktion" under Friedel's command, 24 August 1943; approximately 3,000 Jews remain in the small ghetto including Barash, the Judenrat chairman, approximately three weeks before the liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to Lublin; transfer to Auschwitz; liberation by the Red Army, 24 March 1945.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1321">Killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000751">Friedel Fritz</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Lublin,Lublin,Lublin,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="0">Auschwitz,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714609</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"Next to the Ghetto Gate": Poem/Song by an unknown author regarding the Kaunas Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-06-19 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["Next to the Ghetto Gate": Poem/Song by an unknown author regarding the Kaunas Ghetto Forced labor in the Kaunas Ghetto; Jewish policemen; smuggling food through the ghetto gate.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, הוועדה ההסטורית היהודית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Smuggling food</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="874">Kaunas,Ghetto,Lithuania</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714610</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Yaakov Fabritzky regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and the forests in the Briansk area</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
          <subject>Jewish Police</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>Railroad cars</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714611</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Letter sent by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff from Bialystok to his friends in Eretz Israel regarding the fate of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, April 1943</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

Typewritten copy

26 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="heb" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Hebrew</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Letter sent by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff from Bialystok to his friends in Eretz Israel regarding the fate of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, April 1943 Dror activities in Poland, 1941-1943; German policy regarding the Jews; life in Warsaw and in the ghetto including the economic and social situation; the Ringelblum Archives; the various parties in the ghetto; preparations for the uprising; the fate of Tema Schneiderman; negotiations with the Armia Krajowa (AK) and the Polska Partia Robotnicza (PPR- Communist Workers Party). Note: Copy of the original material from the ghetto archive dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: מ.טורק,עו"ד , מנהל הועדה ההסטורית ב Bialystok]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="816">Economic life</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="212">Resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1203">Youth movements</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="958">Political parties</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Jewish archives</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000406">Tenenbaum (Tamaroff), Mordechai (1916-1943)</persname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Warszawa,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="1106">Warszawa,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="843">Letter</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714612</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Yaakov Fabritzki regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and in the forests in the Briansk area</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">xerox

32 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1947-06-25 - 1947</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Yaakov Fabritzki regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and in the forests in the Briansk area Liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 16 August 1943; concentration of the Jews in a street in the ghetto; resistance attempts by members of the Jewish underground in the ghetto; transfer of the Jews to trains; chasing after Jews who had escaped by gendarmes; in hiding in the forests in the Briansk area with five young people; help from farmers in providing food; liberation.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation - Red Army</subject>
          <subject>Jewish underground</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="246">Jewish resistance</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1124">Gendarmerie</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="815">Attitude towards the Jews - Poland and the Polish population</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Briansk,Bryansk,Orel,Russia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714613</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Menachem Finkielsztejn regarding the fate of the Jews of Radziwilow</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-06-27 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Menachem Finkielsztejn regarding the fate of the Jews of Radziwilow Sabotage in Radziwilow against the Soviet authorities, 1939-1941; rioting against the Jews by gangs of Polish collaborators, 07-10 July 1941; robbery of Jewish property; murder of Jews by Polish collaborators; life [of the Jewish community] in Radziwilow until the liquidation; being hidden by farmers.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="346">Pogroms and riots</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Radziwillow,Dubno,Wolyn,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grajewo,Grajewo,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714614</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Gedalyahu Abramowicz regarding his experiences in Baranowicze</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-06-27 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Gedalyahu Abramowicz regarding his experiences in Baranowicze Occupation of Baranowicze by the German Army, 1941; abuse of Jewish men by Gestapo men approximately two weeks after the German occupation; murder of Jews; throwing the murder victims into pits; throwing live Jews into pits; injury; return to the Baranowicze Ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; joins the partisans.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק , יו"ר הוועדה היהודית הסטורית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1215">Partisans</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1321">Killing pits</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
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          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="170">Baranowicze,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Baranowicze,Baranowicze,Nowogrodek,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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          <unitid>3714615</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Leib Padlowski, born in 1899, regarding his experiences in Suprasl, Bialystok and as a partisan</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Leib Padlowski, born in 1899, regarding his experiences in Suprasl, Bialystok and as a partisan Life in Suprasl including forced labor, abuse, hunger and murder of Jews; extermination of the Suprasl Jewish community, 02 November 1942; concentration of the Jews in the Suprasl market square; deportation of the Jews to a camp in Bialystok; deportation of approximately 12,000 Jews from Wysokie Litewsk, Michalowo, Wasilkow, Knyszyn, Choroszcz, Sokoly, Briansk and Bielsk to the camp in Bialystok; deportation of Jews from the camp, late November 1942; escape from the railroad car to the forests; joins the partisans in the Suprasl area.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית בBIALYSTOK ;]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject>Jewish combat</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="567">Camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="522">Deportation trains</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from deportation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Forests</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="569">Hunger</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Belorussia (USSR)</geogname>
          <geogname>Choroszcz,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bielsk Podlaski,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Michałowo,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Knyszyn,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>David Horodok,Luniniec,Polesie,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wasilkow,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Suprasl,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Sokoly,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
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        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
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        <did>
          <unitid>3714616</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Miriam Robinson, born in Vilna, Lithuania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Stutthof and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-06-30 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
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          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Miriam Robinson, born in Vilna, Lithuania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Stutthof and other places Concentration of the Jews of the Vilna Ghetto on Rasa [?] Street in anticipation of the liquidation of the ghetto; liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, 29 March 1943; selection by Gestapo men; execution of three members of the Bund: Abrasha Chwojnik, Asia Bik and Yankiel Kaplan; deportation to Stutthof; transfer to other camps; call for revenge upon the Germans.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק , יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="567">Camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="857">Stutthof,Camp,Free City of Danzig</geogname>
          <geogname>&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714617</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Leahkeh Zhultak regarding her experiences in the Czyzew Ghetto, in hiding, in Warsaw, and on the Aryan side of Czyzew</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-07-02 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Leahkeh Zhultak regarding her experiences in the Czyzew Ghetto, in hiding, in Warsaw, and on the Aryan side of Czyzew Liquidation of the Czyzew Ghetto, November 1941; escape; being hidden by farmers in the Czyzew area; in hiding in the forest; transfer to Warsaw, 23 December 1942; obtains Aryan documents; transfer back to Czyzew; life in Czyzew including working for Germans; liberation. Life in Bialystok.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ. טורעק, יו"ר הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
          <subject>The Aryan side</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding in the villages</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from the ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="183">Aryan documents</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Czyzew,&lt;&gt;,&lt;&gt;,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Warszawa,Warszawa,Warszawa,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714618</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Zalman Kalesznik, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1908, regarding the burning of the Jews Quarter and the synagogue in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

2 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-07-02 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק ,יו"ר הוועדה היהודיתההסורית בBIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Polish collaborators to be deleted</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="573">Liberation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="508">Labor camps</subject>
          <subject>Desecration of religious articles</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="646">Burning of synagogues</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Konigsberg,Tekov,Slovakia,Czechoslovakia</geogname>
          <geogname>Dzialdowo,Dzialdowo,Pomorze,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714619</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Mojsze Gierszuni, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Bialystok</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

4 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-07-15 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[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.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק , הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape to forests</subject>
          <subject>Exhumation</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="265">Hiding place</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="539">Mass graves</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="120">Nazi criminals</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="669">Prisons</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="223">Ukrainian collaborators</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Augustów,Augustow,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Grodno,Grodno,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714620</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"People Or Jackals": Testimony of Zofia Zarnowiecka, the Christian, born in Lublin, Poland, 1900, regarding the fate of Jews in the Vilna Ghetto</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

3 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-07-15 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["People Or Jackals": Testimony of Zofia Zarnowiecka, the Christian, born in Lublin, Poland, 1900, regarding the fate of Jews in the Vilna Ghetto Life of the Jews in the Vilna Ghetto including forced labor and abusive acts; murder of Jews by the Germans and Lithuanian collaborators.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,הוועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="540">Mass murders</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3714621</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">"How Far Am I And How Close?": Poem/Song written by the Christian woman, Zofia Zarnowiecka, born in Lublin, Poland, 1900</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

1 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1945-07-19 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="pol" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Polish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA["How Far Am I And How Close?": Poem/Song written by the Christian woman, Zofia Zarnowiecka, born in Lublin, Poland, 1900 The life of the Jews in the Vilna Ghetto including abuse and murder.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק,יו"ר הוועדה היהודת ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject>Abuse</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="319">Vilna,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Poem/song</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3762380</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Testimony of Dawid Lew, regarding his experiences in Ciechanowiec, Bransk, in hiding, in Czyzew, Zambrow and other places</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">xerox

9 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1943-04 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Testimony of Dawid Lew, regarding his experiences in Ciechanowiec, Bransk, in hiding, in Czyzew, Zambrow and other places Occupation of Ciechanowiec by the German Army; establishment of two ghettos; term of office of Wolf Kagan as Judenrat Chairman; employment of Jews at various crafts jobs including welding, carpentry and shoemaking; deportation of Jews from Czyzew and Zarembi-Koshchelne to the ghettos in Ciechanowiec; "Aktion"; murder of approximately 700 Jews; arrests of Jews; deportation of the Ciechanowiec Jews to Treblinka; escape to Bransk; "Aktions" in the nearby villages including Bielsk Podlaski, Mazowieckie, Wysokie and Czyzewo; hidden by a farmer; betrayal of the Jews he was hiding to the Germans by the farmer; deportation to Czyzew; deportation to Zambrow; approximately 17,000 inmates in the camp; appointment of representatives of the villages from which the Jews were deported to the camp as Judenrat members; liquidation of the camp; transfer of the Jews to Treblinka; escape to the Bialystok Ghetto.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: בית לוחמי הגיטאות, מס'1084/13]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="567">Camps</subject>
          <subject>Aktions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="262">Hiding</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="545">Ghettos</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="549">Workshops</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="579">Judenrat</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="204">Escape from camps</subject>
          <subject>Deportation to camps</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="556">Forced labor</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="541">Executions</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="552">גטאות וגטואיזציה*</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Ciechanowiec,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="851">Ciechanowiec,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Czyzewo,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Wysokie,Wysokie Mazowieckie,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Bransk,Bielsk Podlaski,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zambrow,Camp,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname>Zarembi Koshchelne,Ostrow Mazowiecka,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="687">Testimony</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="file">
        <did>
          <unitid>3945381</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Article by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the liquidation of the Jewish community in Bialystok commemorating of the murder of 200,000 Jews from Bialystok and the vicinity</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Original

22 pages/frames</physdesc>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1946-07-26 -</unitdate>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="yid" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Yiddish</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Article by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the liquidation of the Jewish community in Bialystok commemorating of the murder of 200,000 Jews from Bialystok and the vicinity Outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 22 June 1941; mass escape of young Jews towards the East from the threat of the Germans; success of just a few in escaping to the Soviet Union; deaths of most of the escapees as a result of German shelling; occupation of Bialystok by the German Army, 27 June 1941; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation, robbery of property and murder of Jews; concentration of Jews in the Great Synagogue; setting the synagogue on fire together with 800-1,000 Jews who were inside; opening of an escape door from the burning synagogue by Jozef Bartoszko, the Polish guard at the synagogue; rescue of 19 Jews who escaped from the synagogue by Bartoszko; names of the Jews who were burned in the synagogue; "Aktions" in the Bialystok Ghetto; deportation of Jews from the ghetto over the course of approximately two years; murder of Jews in the ghetto over the course of approximately two years; liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto and ghettos in the vicinity, 16-23 August 1943.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[submitted by: עו"ד מ.טורעק , יו"ר הועדה היהודית ההסטורית ב-BIALYSTOK]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="660">Theft of Jewish property</subject>
          <subject>"Aktions" in the Ghettos</subject>
          <subject>Rescue by Poles</subject>
          <subject>Fire</subject>
          <subject>Edicts</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="536">Murder of Jews</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="719">Jewish culture</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="551">Liquidation of a ghetto</subject>
          <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="646">Burning of synagogues</subject>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <geogname>Bialystok,Bialystok,Bialystok,Poland</geogname>
          <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="129">Bialystok,Ghetto,Poland</geogname>
        </controlaccess>
        <controlaccess>
          <genreform>Article</genreform>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
    </dsc>
    <controlaccess>
      <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="240">Underground organisations</subject>
      <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="243">Underground archives</subject>
    </controlaccess>
    <controlaccess>
      <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000406">Mordekhai Tenenbaum</persname>
    </controlaccess>
    <controlaccess>
      <geogname source="ehri_ghettos" authfilenumber="204">Grodno</geogname>
      <geogname source="ehri_camps" authfilenumber="1193">Bialystok</geogname>
    </controlaccess>
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