Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma

Chronicles the history of the Final Solution in Eastern Galicia (Western Ukraine): pogroms by Ukrainians in June 1941; massacres by the Einsatzgruppen throughout 1941; deportations to Bełżec in March-December 1942; more massacres after Belzec closed down. In the interim, Jews were partially ghettoized; those who were fit were sent to forced labor camps, where most died. Medical personnel and workers ...

Consists of memoir, 66 pages, entitled "My Life-Story," by Ruth Marks (Roma Glowinski). Originally from Kalisz, Poland, Ruth spent the war in hiding as Vislava (Viesha) Serafinska in Pruszków, Poland. Her parents and sister were deported from the Sandomierz ghetto in 1942 and perished in Belzec. Ruth Marks emigrated to Israel in 1947.

Consists of one CD-ROM containing a scanned copy of the book, "L'extermination des juifs en Pologne," originally published in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1944. Contains a forward by Dr. A. Silberschein and detailed information regarding the camps of Belzec, Tremblinki (Treblinka), Lublin, Majdanek, and Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Zugl.: Bochum, Univ., Diss., 2014 301 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. 21 cm

The Gertrude Laufer collection include an identification card and a letter. The identification card (Foreigners' Resident Certificate) was issued to Gertrude Brück upon her arrival in Shanghai in 1939 from Vienna. The letter written by Margarethe Braun Mittler (Gertrude Laufer’s aunt) from the ghetto in Opole, Poland to a friend in Vienna, Austria, in November 1941 and describes the poor health and ...

Interview with Esther Raab (Chelm 11 June 1922). Raab, together with Regina Zielinski and Hella Weiss, was taken to Sobibor just before Christmas 1942 in a horse-drawn cart. They saw such atrocities that she sometimes thought that "going to the gas chambers was easier than being exposed to all the horror". After her escape she went into hiding on a farm where she was reunited with her long lost brother. ...

Dorota Dola Kestenbaum (1908-1991) was born in Przemyśl, Poland on February 15, 1908. She was the daughter of Majer Kestenbaum and Judyta Haber Kestenbaum. She had four siblings: Filip, Jakub, Dawid and Lucia. Both of Dola’s parents and all of her siblings were forced into the Przemyśl ghetto. Her parents and Dawid were deported to the Belżec death camp on July 27, 1942. Lucia, Jakub and Filip were ...

Consists of an autobiographical sketch of the early life of Anne Kelemen (Anne Kelemen Robitscher), originally of Vienna, Austria. She describes the lives of her extended family, including her parents, who perished at Belzec in 1942. Ms. Kelemen was sent to England on a Kindertransport in May 1939, and reunited with her sister, who was in England working as a domestic. She became a Zionist and tried ...

In the 1950s, the policy of the West German law courts was to limit the number of Germans who could be prosecuted for crimes against humanity during the Nazi era, thereby preserving the old state elites who had been accomplices to the Nazi regime, among them the judiciary, 90% of whom had been Nazi party members. The number of Nazi criminals prosecuted in West Germany dropped throughout the 1950s. ...

Jack Zimmermann (born Janek Zimmermann) was born on April 16, 1932 in Przemyśl, Poland and had a sister, Cesia (b. 1929). His father, Wilhelm Zimmermann was a salesman and his mother, Malwina Schechter Zimmermann, took care of the children. Przemyśl was under Soviet administration from September 1939 until June 28, 1941. A ghetto was established in Przemyśl in July 1942 and more than 12,000 Jews were ...

Jan Karski tells of his capture and torture by the Gestapo when he was a courier for the Polish underground. He also describes his clandestine visit to the Warsaw ghetto and his meeting with Szmul Zygielbojm, six months before Zygelbojm's suicide. See pages 491 - 494 of the English translation of Lanzmann's memoir The Patagonian Hare (March 2012) for a description of his interactions with Karski after ...

Brick from the Lwów ghetto in L’viv Ukraine (formerly Lvov, Poland). The brick is from the area that the Lvov Judenrat building was located and is marked with the name of the Heiss brick factory, which was owned by a Jewish family. Before World War II, the Jewish population in Lvov was 110,000. In September 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded, occupied and partitioned Poland and Lvov came under ...

Testimony, circa 60 pages, typescript, titled "From the Abyss to Freedom: The Story of a Survivor of the Death Camps, 1939-1945," by Moshe Goldschmidt, composed in Hebrew. Describes pre-war life in Bialystok, invasion and occupation by Soviets, then Germans; life in Bialystok ghetto, then a succession of camps (Belzec, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Gusen). Accompanying account of Miriam Goldschmidt (95 pages, ...

Mojżesz Michał Olczak (1907-1971) was born Mojżesz Rajzman on January 24, 1907 in Zamość, Poland to Gula Bajtel Rajzman (née Bajtel) and Zachariasz Rajzman. Mojżesz and his two sisters, Sabina (born 1912) and Osnas (born 1920) lived in Zamość, Poland. Their father, Zachariasz Rajzman, worked for his father-in-law, Urys Bajtel, in grain wholesale business. Sabina and Osnas Rajzman were publically hanged. ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer

Consists of one memoir, 1 page, in English, by Ernest Abraham, who lived in Łódź and Krakow before the war. In the testimony, he writes about the deportation of his parents and sister to Belzec, his own forced labor in Płaszów, where he worked in a shoe factory, his deportatation to Starachowice, to Buna-Monowitz, and his eventual liberation from Buchenwald. Mr. Abraham also briefly describes his ...

Die Sammlung enthält: Auszug aus der Emigranten-Monatsschrift "KULTURA", darin: Liste der gefallenen Verteidiger des Warschauer Ghettos (Nachkriegsaufstellung); Aussagen ehemaliger Häftlinge, Unterlagen betr. Errichtung des Konzentrationslagers und Abbruch des Ghettos, Unterlagen betr. „Groß-Aktion“ im Ghetto (Durchsuchungen, Erschießungen u.a.) Geschichte des Ghettos und Konzentrationslagers Warschau: ...

Henry Galler was a Russian concentration camp prisoner. At the end of 1941, he volunteered to be a soldier in the Polish Army to fight the Germans. He started as a gunner and was promoted to the Commander of Battery with the rank of Lieutenant and received the Medal of Bravery Eva Vogel Galler was born in Oleszyce, Poland. She survived as a Christian under an assumed name in Germany. On her way to ...

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Norman Salsitz (1920-2006) was born Naftali Saleschutz in Zabrze, Poland, to Isak and Esther Saleschutz. He grew up in Kolbuszowa and had eight older siblings: Avrum (b. 1901), Bluma (Gela, b. 1903), Leibush (b. 1904), Malcia (b. 1907), Liba (b. 1908), Matla (b. 1911), David (b. 1913), and Rachel (b. 1917). Avrum immigrated to the United States in 1919, and David immigrated to Palestine in 1933. The ...

Zwierzyniec is a town on the Wieprz river in the Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. It has 3,324 inhabitants (2004). Zwierzyniec is the northernmost town of the Roztocze National Park. The park comprises some of the last remaining sections of the primordial forest of Central Europe, especially spectacular stand of ancient beech trees (Bukowa Gora). It also is a rail junction, located along ...

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