The papers consist of photographs of Janina Birenstam as a teacher at a boarding school for Polish and Polish-Jewish children in Ili, Kazakhstan, during World War II, certificates from her days as a student at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, before the war, and letters of recommendation from the director of the Polish school in Kazakhstan, Edward Kofler.

The Sheiman family photographs consist of three photographs depicting pre-war Jewish life in Radziejów, Poland. Included are a studio portrait of unidentified Sheiman relatives, and two group portraits, the first of pupils and teachers of a local cheder, and the second depicting the Jewish community of Radziejów gathered at the ground breaking of a new synagogue in 1938.

Moniek Rozen (1922-2020) was born November 10, 1922, in Czestochowa, Poland, but grew up in Dabrowa Gornicza, an industrial town in the western region. His mother was Golda Chaja (nee Warszawska). His father, Jakub, owned a general store and the only government license to sell tobacco locally. Moniek had a sister, Bluma (b. 1926), and a brother, Josek (b. 1924). He had eight half-brothers and sisters ...

Reports, correspondence, hearings of witnesses regarding the action of the Polish underground in Warsaw, materials about the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 - various information, studies, accounts, notes, list of executions, situational sketches and maps, list of commanders and military units; account of German crimes committed in September 1939; investigation materials against Erich von dem Bach, Heinz Reinefarth, ...

Location filming in Warsaw, Poland for SHOAH. Scenes include the ghetto, Mila 18, the cemetery, the railway station, and archival documents and photographs. FILM ID 4709 -- White 39A Varsovie La Gare VAR 61-66 Ticket counter in Warsaw's train station. (00:34) The train schedule. (3:36) A sign that reads: “Gornik. Warszawa WSCH. Częstochowa-Katowice- Gliwice.” The sign is on a train moving out of the ...

A pair of tefillin with cardboard covers and pouch, owned by Max Zuckerman, a Polish Jewish immigrant who left Poland in 1923. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. One of eleven siblings born in the town of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Max left to escape growing antisemitism, violent pogroms, and persecution by ...

Striped concentration camp uniform jacket, winter issue, provided to 31 year old Mania Ganzweich in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and worn from 1943 to 1945 in Birkenau, Ravensbrueck, Malchow, and Taucha concentration camps. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Mania and her second husband, Szlama Ganzweich, moved from Czestochowa to her hometown Sosnowiec, joining her daughter from her first marriage, ...

Moniek Rozen (1922-2020) was born November 10, 1922, in Czestochowa, Poland, but grew up in Dabrowa Gornicza, an industrial town in the western region. His mother was Golda Chaja (nee Warszawska). His father, Jakub, owned a general store and the only government license to sell tobacco locally. Moniek had a sister, Bluma (b. 1926), and a brother, Josek (b. 1924). He had eight half-brothers and sisters ...

Moniek Rozen (1922-2020) was born November 10, 1922, in Czestochowa, Poland, but grew up in Dabrowa Gornicza, an industrial town in the western region. His mother was Golda Chaja (nee Warszawska). His father, Jakub, owned a general store and the only government license to sell tobacco locally. Moniek had a sister, Bluma (b. 1926), and a brother, Josek (b. 1924). He had eight half-brothers and sisters ...

Moniek Rozen (1922-2020) was born November 10, 1922, in Czestochowa, Poland, but grew up in Dabrowa Gornicza, an industrial town in the western region. His mother was Golda Chaja (nee Warszawska). His father, Jakub, owned a general store and the only government license to sell tobacco locally. Moniek had a sister, Bluma (b. 1926), and a brother, Josek (b. 1924). He had eight half-brothers and sisters ...

Set of tefillin rescued by Yaakov Apelovitch, a 15 year old Jewish inmate in Auschwitz concentration camp, after the Soviet Army liberated the camp in January 1945. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn on the arm and the head by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. Yaakov took the pair from the Canada warehouse where confiscated belongings were stored. ...

The Workers' Society of Friends of Children (Robotnicze Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Dzieci), a socialist organization of childcare, was founded in 1917 in Warsaw by the Polish Socialist Party as the Worker's Department of Children's Education and Care. The association operated in the Kingdom of Poland, engaged in orphans, half orphans, poor and homeless children. It organized clubs, care and education centers, ...

P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976
 
 In the collection there are files from the private archive of Dr. Nathan Eck. 
 
 Description of the collection:
 
 The documentation mainly deals with research on various aspects of the Holocaust period in Poland and France. There are research papers, testimonies, newspaper clippings, correspondence ...