Thursday, June 18, 2026

1942 WWII: List of those punished for illegal trade

 The list is from the Polish Genealogical Society:

Masovian Voivodeship, Warsaw Municipality; State Archives in Warsaw

https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/id4608-sy278-se


Click on each link, above to get to pages of lists. There are 156 names. Most seemed to have financial punishments; some were sent to Treblinka as well.

The information is in German. The form is filled in with handwritten German.

The title & column headings translate to English, as follows:


     


Here is a careful column‑by‑column translation into English:

  1. Lfd. Nr. – Serial no. / running no.

  2. Tgb. Nr. – Register no. (literally “diary number,” i.e., case file number)

  3. Name des Täters – Name of the offender

  4. Wohnung – Residence / address

  5. Halt – Status (likely marital or personal status; exact nuance depends on context and is not fully clear from the snippet)

  6. Haftentlassung – Release from custody

  7. Datum des Strafbescheides – Date of the penal order / judgment of punishment

  8. Strafgrund – Reason for punishment / grounds for penalty

  9. Geldstrafe – Monetary fine

  10. Ersatzhaft – Substitute imprisonment (imprisonment in lieu of unpaid fine)

  11. Kosten – Costs (court/legal costs)

  12. Geldstrafe eingegangen – Fine received (payment of the fine recorded)

  13. Ersatzhaft von / bis – Substitute imprisonment from / until

  14. Bemerkungen – Remarks / comments

The large title Strafliste at the top means “penalty list” or “list of punishments.”


Page #1: https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=pg&id=4608&se=&sy=278&kt=&plik=001.jpg








Sunday, June 14, 2026

MARTYROLOGY OF THE VITEBSK JEWS: Book of Memory

https://mishpoha.org/martirolog/martirolog.pdf

[edited by Arkady Podlipsky, Arkady Shulman]


 " This book contains the names of Vitebsk Jews who died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War [WWII], were tortured by the Nazi invaders and their collaborators in the ghettos of Vitebsk and other cities, were victims of political repression, and died since 1940 and are buried both in Vitebsk and beyond."

This book is written in printed Russian Cyrillic (273 pages). As needed, use your favorite translation tool.

Image 5 (i.5): 

Vitebsk Jews who died in battles against Nazism in 1941-45

Examples (translated, alphabetical): 




Image 98:

Jews who died in occupied Vitebsk 1941-44


Image 132:

Vitebsk Jews of politcal repression


Images 153-154:

Key to Abbreviations

Vitebsk Jews: Died in Vitebsk


Image 249:

Vitebsk residents who died outside of Vitebsk














Saturday, June 6, 2026

1916 JEWISH RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY OF LODZ: INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONNAIRES OF THE WOMEN'S SECTION: Assessing Poor Families & Children


https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/11314559

Held in the Polish State Archives in Lodz.

 Fond: "1916 Jewish Religious Community in Lodz". Ref.: 39/228/0/-/54.


Some of these are difficult to read because the writing is so light.










Here is the translation for the second page of the questionnaire.





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