[Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]
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Creator(s)
- קאמיטעט צו זאמלען מאטעריאלן וועגן יידישן חורבן אין פוילן 1939
- Committee for collecting material about the destruction of the Jews in Poland, 1939
- נ., ק, 1922-
Scope and Content
Testimony of N. K., 17 year old student from Warsaw. He describes the repressions and orders on Jews after the German occupying forces entered Warsaw; Jews had to give up their radios, and were forbidden from having more than 2000 zloty in their possession. Monetary fines were imposed and a curfew set in place punishable by shooting. The Jews were forbidden to live in certain streets, and restricted from purchasing new housing in others. He describes seizures of Jews for forced labor and the resulting deaths and physical damage as a consequence, as well as the closing of Jewish businesses, schools and restaurants.Protocol No. 39 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1939 they formed a committee to collect evidence on the condition of the Jews in Poland under Nazi occupation.
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Mode of access: WWW
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Many corrections and erasures in text
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Electronic text and image data. Jerusalem : Yad Vashem 2015
Title viewed 31.12.17
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Poland
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland--History--20th century
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Archival resources
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives
- Jewish refugees--Lithuania.
Places
- Warsaw (Poland : Ghetto)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.