Interview with Meier Ziss (Lublin 15 November 1927). Ziss arrived in Sobibor in June 1942. At first he worked as a barber, later he became 'Brandmeister' and had to burn the documents left behind by the people who had just arrived on a transport. In the camp he heard that his parents had been killed and he 'wanted to be dead together with them'. When he joined the partisans after the uprising he felt ...

Marco de Groot is in 1939 in Amsterdam geboren en opgegroeid. Hij heeft nog herinneringen aan zijn ouders die zijn opgepakt. Zijn hoogzwangere moeder is verraden en weggehaald van het onderduikadres waar zij en haar zoontje Marco op dat moment samen verblijven. Marco speelt juist even bij de buren. Marco’s vader, ook ondergedoken, zoekt een ander onderduikadres in Amsterdam voor de kleine Marco. Vanaf ...

Interview with Regina Zielinski (Siedliczcze 2 September 1924). Zielinski was taken to Sobibor in a horse-drawn cart together with her fellow-villagers just before Christmas 1942. She was selected to knit socks and later had to sort ammunition. On arrival in the camp she heard her little brother say: Let's say farewell to the night, because we won't see the sun rise again.? She was born Riwka Feldman. ...

Interview with Stanislaw Szmajzner (Pulawy 13 March 1927). Szmajzner arrived in Sobibor at age fifteen. He was a goldsmith and had to make signet rings and other jewellery for the guards. During the uprising he managed to get hold of three rifles wrapped in blankets. He shot one of the Ukrainian guards in the watchtower: 'That was the first time in my life I fired a gun'. Apart from making gold jewellery ...

The Nazi Germans used Izbica, the Polish village where Philip Bialowitz was born, as a transitory ghetto for Jews on their way to the destruction camps in Eastern Poland. In Izbica Philip Bialowitz survived a fire squad as a young boy. He was deported to Sobibor in 1943 and selected for forced labour upon arrival. Philip's elder brother, Simkha, took care of him wherever possible. Philip was involved ...

Interview with Samuel Lerer (Zolkiewka 1 October 1922). Lerer was one of the first prisoners to arrive in Sobibor. He was ordered to look after the horses and this gave him access to much of the camp. During the uprising both his brothers were killed. Etched in his mind is 'how my father went to the gas chamber naked'. In the camp he also had to fatten up ducks for SS officer Frenzel. After the war ...

Interview with Alexander 'Sasja' Pechersky (Kremenchuk, 22 February 1909). Pechersky was a lieutenant in the Red Army, was taken prisoner in the autumn of 1941. When a medical examination revealed he was Jewish, he was transported to Sobibor on 22 September 1943. Over a period of three weeks he drew up a detailed plan to escape from the camp with all the prisoners. About his captivity and his part ...

Collectie 281: Leeuw, A.J. van der Oorlogsmisdrijven Onderzoek naar oorlogsmisdrijven

Simcha Bialowitz (1912) grew up in the shtetl of Izbica, a small Jewish community in eastern Poland. The Bialowitz family was observant. Simcha attend the Polish school, which had a few Jewish teachers. In the morning he would be in school, in the afternoon he would work in the local pharmacy and drugstore. When the Germans invaded, Izbica changed into a transitory ghetto. His father was murdered in ...

Collectie 248-A2471: Dossier - Querido, Emanuel Stukken betreffende de nalatenschap van Emanuel Querido en Jane Querido-Kozijn

Esther Raab was born in Chelm (Poland). Having grown up in a middle-class Jewish family, she remembers a "comfortable" childhood. Her father had many non-Jewish clients, with whom he could get on well. One of them helped Esther and her brother hide from the Nazis during the last year of the war. Esther had worked in a number of labour camps before she arrived in Sobibor in December 1942. In Sobibor, ...

Arkady Wajspapir (Arkadii Weisspapier) was born in 1921 in the Ukrainian village of Bobrovyy Kut, then a Jewish community. He had an elder brother and a younger sister. The family lived together with the grandfather from his father's side - and his second wife plus a few relatives - in a house divided for the purpose. Arkady had had ten years of school when he enrolled in the Red Army in 1939. He was ...

Regina Zielinski was born on 2 November 1925 in Siedliczcze (Poland). She has good memories of her father, mother, brothers and sister, and of life before the war. Before the German occupation, anti-Semitism seemed absent in her hometown; contacts between the family and their Polish neighbours and friends were good. After the German invasion the situation for the Polish Jews worsened dramatically. ...

Semion Rozenfeld was born and grew up in Ternivka, a shtetl in Ukraine. He had two sisters, his father was a taylor. Semion graduates from secondary school before enlisting in the Soviet army at age eighteen. He was wounded during heavy fighting and was made POW by the German army. After a stay in a concentration camp in Minsk he was deported to Sobibor, where he was elected for forced labour. Semion ...

Collectie 804: Onderzoek - Vernietigingskamp Sobibor 8. Aanvullingen

In het Nederlands. Bevat ook beelden van een maquette van Sobibor en een plattegrond van het getto Radom met uitleg van Jules Schelvis.

Collectie 245: Erelijst van gevallenen - aanvraagformulieren 4. Ondersteunende Documentatie

Collectie 248-A2496: Dossier - Kersten, C.J.A., en J.B.S.M. Kersten

działy: Finansowo-Budżetowy - budżet gminy, księga kasowa wójta gminy, dochody budżetowe sumy przechodnie, dziennik główna z lat 1938-1944 (sygn. 1-6); Gospodarki Gminnej - akta komsacji - Uhrusk, Zastawie z lat 1937-1939 (sygn. 7)działy: Ogólno-Organizacyjny - sprawy organizacyjne, skargi i zażalenia, sprawy osobowe, zebrania i urzędowanie - korespondencja, protokoły z sesji rady, uchwały rady, protokoły ...