Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Activities of the Partisans, Soldiers, Pioneers Organization(PCh"Ch) 
 
 The Partisans, Pioneers, and Soldiers Organization (PCh"Ch) began its activityin liberated Poland in 1945, and continued its activities in Germany, Austria, Italy and Cyprus until the members of the organization made aliya to Eretz Israel. The organization archives were brought ...

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Collection consists of video recordings and supporting documents related to interviews with Jewish underground fighters who fought in the forests of Poland, Lithuania, and Belorussia between 1941 and 1945, gathered for the film "Resistance: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans." Supporting documentation includes interview lists, newspaper articles, research and production notes, shooting logs, correspondence, ...

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Met lit. opg. 114 p. : ill., portr. ; 24 cm.

Reel 3: Boy watering oxen near well; street scene showing total destruction to row of houses; horse-drawn carts moving along streets. LSs, MSs, church in Bingula destroyed. Peasant walking across his destroyed barn and house; peasant living in wooden shack; more destroyed houses. Boy and girl, woman and man, peasants of the village of Bingula. Women walking with farm tools. In Mangelus, man with team ...

Lit. opg.: p. 393-396. - Met reg. XVIII, 418 p., [8] p. pl. : ill., krt. ; 25 cm.

Copyright Holder: Rossiiskii tsentr khraneniiai izucheniia dokumentov noveishei istorii

Before the Great War : changes in the officer corps. - Forging a wartime mentality: the impact of World War I. - Bridging two Hells: the 1920s and 1930s. - Invasion and occupation: Yugoslavia, 1941. - Islands in an insurgent sea: the 704th Infantry Division in Serbia. - Settling accounts in blood: the 342d Infantry Division in Serbia. - Standing divided: the independent state of Croatia, 1942. - Glimmers ...

Titles: "Soviet Newsreel / 83-84 / Moscow / December 1942 / Directed by M. Fidelevoy"/ "Partisan-Glory" Coverage of ceremony extolling support of partisans in the war effort. 02:21:22 Title: "Defenders of the Caucuses" Gun workshop. CUs and MSs of workers putting together rifles and other guns. Tracking shot of cannon factory. Close shots of cannon maintenance. 02:23:10 Title: "Film-reporting from ...

Black Sunday in Krakow. Footage shot from behind a fence (?) shows people being loaded into the back of trucks by German soldiers. Pedestrians look as they pass on the street. Streetcars passing by. People being arrested. Amateur footage, considerable camera movement. Footage probably shot clandestinely. 00:03:25 Home Army partisan group "Kamienczyk". Young boys wearing military-style caps in the yard ...

Documentation from the Aid and Welfare Department in the Mogilev Municipal Council regarding the families of soldiers and partisans, 1944-1948
 
 The Collection contains decisions reached by the Aid and Welfare Department regarding the allocation of financial aid and pension payments to the families of those serving in the Army.

Titles: "Soviet Newsreel / 20 / Moscow / March 9, 1942 / Directed by M. Fidelevoy"/ "To work with strengthened determination" Long pan across factory workers feeding large furnaces. Workers are silhouettes, backlit by furnaces. Pan stops, lingers on one group of workers. Coverage from different angles. Close view of furnace. Cuts between CUs of various workers shoveling and CU of furnace. 01:30:23 ...

Titles: "Soviet Newsreel / 35 / Moscow / April 23, 1942 / Directed by M. Fidelevoy" / "Through the front-line of Leningrad" Angled ELS of procession of partisans in horse drawn sleds moving through the woods. LS of men conferring on skis. Procession passing through collective farm. Title: 01:41:10 "Award of the homeland" Coverage of ceremony where Commander Zhukov greets and decorates partisans. LS ...

Selected records related to the Nazi occupation of the Smolensk region during WWII such as correspondence files of the regional administration regarding evacuation of civilians; statistical information about population; records (orders) of the partisan detachments active on the occupied territory; a list of partisan detachments; personal records of partisans; Nazi propaganda and anti-Nazi Soviet propaganda ...

Low aerial shots of the Arno river with destroyed bridges and houses. People walk along the river and cross the Ponte Vecchio, which was the only remaining bridge over the Arno. Civilians walk along a street. A sign reading "Curfew for all troops 21:00 hours" appears on a brick wall. Italian police check the papers of several people as they walk from "no man's land" into Florence (from the dope sheet). ...

A collection of Soviet partisan documents pertaining to the partisan warfare in 1941-44 in the prewar Baranovichi region in western Belarus. Ch. 4 (pp. 183-220), "Jüdische Partisanen", deals with Jewish partisans. Jews were the third greatest ethnic group among the Soviet partisans in the Baranovichi region. The two greatest Jewish partisan units of World War II - those headed by Bielski brothers ...

Shmuel Rahamin Mizrahi was born in 1920, in the Macedonian region of Yugoslavia. His parents were Rahamin and Rena, and Shmuel had four brothers and sisters. As a young man, Shmuel was active with the communist party and Hashomer Hatzair, a Zionist youth movement that taught Jews skills such as farming and other types of work that would be useful when Jews resettled Israel. On April 6, 1941, Germany ...

Polish Army uniform issued to Moses Temczyn after the end of World War II in 1945 when he served as chief of surgery at a military hospital in Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Temczyn was mobilized into the Polish Army following the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany on September 1, 1939. He was captured, imprisoned in Stalag LA, and released after 18 months. In 1942, he escaped during deportation from Grabowiec ...

Khona Padison was born in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania to an Orthodox Jewish couple, Perets and Rakhel Kronik Padison. He had one sister, Kheina-Maia (Hena). His mother Rakhel was born in approximately 1900, in Vilno, Russia (Vilnius, Lithuania), to Itzik and Kheina Kronik. His father Perets was born in 1903, in Ukmerge, Russia (now Lithuania), to Mordekhai and Sara Padison. Perets had one brother, Shmuel. ...

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/

Jeep with Russian officers going through cheering crowd. Yugoslav partisan army. Russian army and partisan leaders, proclamation from stage. Marshall Josip Broz Tito reviewing partisan troops. Allied observers present. Wounded partisans in the parade. Russian tanks through outskirts of Belgrade. Street fighting. Carrying wounded on stretcher. Russian artillery advancing through streets of Belgrade. ...

Leo Gerskovic (1910-?) was born in Bucje, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia). He worked as an attorney in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, and was married to Inge, with whom he had a child. In 1936, he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY). Leo was arrested by the police later in the year for his communist activities, but he was released due to lack of evidence. On April 6, 1941, Germany and Italy, supported ...

P.24 - Dov Levin Collection - Partisan and Holocaust researcher
 
 Dov Levin was born in Kaunas, Lithuania on 27 January 1925. His parents were Zvi Hirsh Levin and Bluma (Vigoder) Levin. Dov Levin died in Jerusalem on 03 December 2016. He received a Zionist education, and was fluent in Slavic languages, Lithuanian, English and Hebrew.
 
 Levin studied at the "Schwab" Hebrew high ...