Documents of the Holocaust - Poland

Document 73

Instructions by Heydrich on Policy and Operations Concerning Jews in the Occupied Territories, September 21, 1939

Document 74

Identifying Marks for Jews in the Government-General, November 23, 1939

Document 75

Ban on Changes of Place of Residence by Jews Within the Area of the Government-General, December 11, 1939

Document 76

Supplementary Regulations for the Ban on Changes of Residence by Jews in the Government-General, October 15, 1941

Document 77

Ban on the Use of the Railroads by Jews in the GovernmentGeneral, January 26, 1940

Document 78

From a Discussion on the Compulsory Evacuation of the Jewish Population of the Wartheland to the Government-General, January 30, 1940

Document 79

Attack on the Jews of Wloclawek Following the German Occupation

Document 80

From a Report on the Situation of the Jews in Warsaw after the Occupation

Document 81

Escape of Jews from Poland to the Soviet Union at the Beginning of the War

Document 82

Establishment of Judenraete (Jewish Councils) in the Occupied Territories, November 28, 1939

Document 83

Report by Uebelhoer on the Establishment of the Ghetto in Lodz, December 10, 1939

Document 84

Directives Issued by the Head of the Department for Jewish Affairs on Policies Concerning Treatment of Jews in the Government-General, April 6, 1940

Document 85

From a Speech by Frank on the Need to Remove the Jews from Cracow, April 12, 1940

Document 86

Himmler on the Treatment of Ethnic Groups and Jews in the East, in a Secret Memorandum to Hitler, May 25, 1940

Document 87

Jewish Memorandum to the Authorities on the Economic Situation of the Jews Following the Occupation

Document 88

Extracts from the Warsaw Ghetto Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan, 1940

Document 89

Extracts from the Warsaw Ghetto Diary of Avraham Levin, 1942

Document 90

Activities of the Judenrat, reflected in the Gazeta Zydowska, 1940

Document 91

Activity of the Joint in Occupied Poland

Document 92

Jewish Self-help in Warsaw

Document 93

The Work of a Jewish Political Party, from an Underground Publication, 1940

Document 94

The Aims of Jewish Youth at the Present Time, from an Underground Publication, 1940

Document 95

Educational Problems in the Underground Youth Movement in the Ghetto

Document 96

Official Definition of the Term "Jew" in the GovernmentGeneral, July 24, 1940

Document 97

The Madagascar Plan, July 1940

Document 98

From a Speech by Frank on the Madagascar Plan, July 12, 1940

Document 99

Regulation for the Ban on Jewish Emigration from the Government-General, November 1940

Document 100

Order by Fischer on the Establishment of a Ghetto in Warsaw, October 2, 1940

Document 101

From a Lecture on the Steps Leading to the Establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto, January 20, 1941

Document 102

The Smuggling of Food into the Warsaw Ghetto

Document 103

Extract from the Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan on the Warsaw Judenrat, 1941

Document 104

Appeal Not to Go to Labor Camps, from an Underground Publication

Document 105

The Dilemma of Jewish Self-help

Document 106

Goering Orders Heydrich to Prepare a Plan for the "Final Solution of the Jewish Problem," July 31, 1941

Document 107

Ringelblum on Cooperation Between Jewish Political Parties in the Underground

Document 108

"Oneg Shabbat," the Jewish Underground Archives in the Warsaw Ghetto

Document 109

Address by Rumkowski to the Officials of the Judenrat in Lodz

Document 110

Appeal for Contributions by the Judenrat in Bialystok

Document 111

The Girl Couriers of the Underground Movement

Document 112

Some Ghetto Thoughts on Rescue and Revenge

Document 113

Letters from the Jewish Underground Youth Movement

Document 114

From a Report by Auerswald, Commissar of the Warsaw Ghetto, September 26, 1941

Document 115

From a Speech by Frank at Berlin University, November 18, 1941

Document 116

From a Speech by Frank on the Extermination of the Jews, December 16, 1941

Document 117

Protocol of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942

Document 118

From a Protocol of a Session of the Judenrat in Bialystok on April 4 and 5, 1942

Document 119

Celebration Session on the First Anniversary of the Establishment of the Judenrat in Bialystok, June 29, 1942

Document 120

From the Diary of Adam Czerniakow, Chairman of the Judenrat in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942

Document 121

Protocol of General Meeting of the Judenrat in Lublin on March 31, 1942

Document 122

Proposal for the Sterilization of 2-3 Million Jewish Workers, June 23, 1942

Document 123

Signed Obligation by SS Men Taking Part in an Extermination Operation to Observe Secrecy, July 18, 1942

Document 124

Order by Himmler on July 19, 1942, for the Completion of the "Final Solution" in the Government-General

Document 125

Call to Armed Self-defense, from an Underground Publication

Document 126

The Jewish Population Disbelieves Reports of the Extermination

Document 127

From the Diary of Adam Czerniakow on the Eve of the Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942

Document 128

Announcement of the Evacuation of the Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto, July 22, 1942

Document 129

Rumkowski's Address at the Time of the Deportation of the Children from the Lodz Ghetto, September 4, 1942

Document 130

Notes by a Jewish Observer in the Lodz Ghetto Following the Deportation of the Children

Document 131

Memorandum by General von Ginant to the General Staff of the Wehrmacht in Reaction to the Removal of the Jews from Industrial Production, September 18, 1942

Document 132

Response by Himmler to the Memorandum from General von Ginant

Document 133

Security Police Plans to Allow 30,000 Jewish Workers to Remain in Bialystok, February-March 1943

Document 134

Himmler Orders the Destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, February 16, 1943

Document 135

From a Report of the Jewish Fighting Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto on Its Activities

Document 136

From Notes by Hersh Berlinski on the Aims of the Jewish Fighting Organization

Document 137

The Discussion on Fighting Aims by the Activists of the Bialystok Members of the Dror Movement, February 27, 1943

Document 138

Call to Resistance by the Jewish Fighting Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto, January 1943

Document 139

Call for Resistance by the Jewish Military Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto, January 1943

Document 140

Response of the Commander of the AK to the Jewish Request for Arms

Document 141

Appeal of the Jewish Fighting Organization to the Polish Underground, Asking for Arms

Document 142

Survey of Problems of Jewish Resistance by an AK Officer in Charge of the Jewish Affairs Department

Document 143

SS General Stroop on the Battles in the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt Final Report from the German Battle Diary, April-May 1943

Document 144

Daily Report from the German Battle Diary

Document 145

The Last Letter from Mordecai Anielewicz, Warsaw Ghetto Revolt Commander, April 23, 1943

Document 146

Extract from a Report by the Delegatura to London on the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt

Document 147

Frank on the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt

Document 148

Extract from Goebbels' Diary on the Ghetto Revolt

Document 149

"The Last Battle in the Great Tragedy," from the Polish Underground Press on the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt

Document 150

"The Greatest Crime in the World," from the Polish Underground Press on the Ghetto Revolt

Document 151

"The Heroic Resistance of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto," from the Polish Underground Press

Document 152

"Ghetto Resistance Seen Correctly," from the Polish Underground Press

Document 153

Messenger from the Polish Underground on Talks with Jewish Underground Leaders in Warsaw

Document 154

The Last Letter from Szmul Zygielbojm, the Bund Representative with the Polish National Council in Exile

Document 155

Appeal by the Polish Underground Association for Aid to the Jews, Zegota, Asking for Help in Hiding Jews and for the Punishment of Traitors

Document 156

Extract from a Polish Woman's Diary in Warsaw

Document 157

"Shmaltsovnikes" Exploitation of Jews Living in Disguise as Polish Christians

Document 158

SS Statistics on the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question," March 23, 1943

Document 159

From the Final Report by Katzmann, Commander of the SS and Police in the District of Galicia, on "The Solution of the Jewish Problem" in Galicia

Document 160

Hitler Bans Public Reference to the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question," July 11, 1943

Document 161

From a Speech by Himmler Before Senior SS Officers in Poznan, October 4, 1943

Document 162

Letter from Greiser, Gauleiter and Governor of Wartheland, to Pohl, Concerning the Fate of Lodz Ghetto, February 14, 1944

Document 163

From Notes Made by Kurt Gerstein, an Engineer Working for the SS, on the Extermination Camp at Belzec

Document 164

Extract from Written Evidence of Rudolf Hoess, Commander of the Auschwitz Extermination Camp

Document 165

Extract from the Written Evidence by Jacob Wiernik on the Extermination Camp at Treblinka

Document 166

The Revolt at the Sobibor Extermination Camp

Document 167

Extract from Evidence Given at the Nuremberg Trials on the Auschwitz Extermination Camp

Document 168

"The Face of the Future," Editorial from the Newspaper of a Jewish Underground Youth Organization In Cracow

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