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The collection consists of document, correspondence, and photographs regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of Gerszon Ajbeszyc and his wife Adela Ajbeszyc (née Fiszel). Included are false-identity identification papers used by Gerszon and Adela, birth certificates, marriage documents, restitution paperwork, and family photographs.

219 pages maps, diagrams 24 cm.

Akta osobowe więźniów z lat 1940-1942, sygn. 1. Akta dotyczące działalności służbowej nadsekretarza Alfreda Fritscha z lat [1932] 1939-1944, sygn. 2.

Stefania Glat (born Stefania Mischel, 1915-1991) was the daughter of Chana Mischel and lived in Dolina. She had two siblings: Arnold and Masia (Miriam?). Stefania studied medicine in Lvov before the war. Her first husband was murdered by Ukrainians during the July 1941 pogrom in Lvov. She escaped Lvov with the retreating Soviet forces in June 1941 and worked as a nurse. She met Bernard Glat (1904-1968, ...

The Hemar family papers includes a 1940 postcard from Helena Kalwari in the Warsaw ghetto to her friend Tosia Stryk in Chicago, birth certificates purchased by Alice and Władek Hemar to secure identification cards under false identities, false identification cards and marriage certificate under the couple’s assumed names, a birth certificate for Ryszard Hemar under his false name, and photographs of ...

The collection consists of a self-portrait and photographs relating to the experiences of Zvi Weinstadt and his family from Łódź, Poland before the war, and after the war in Stuttgart displaced persons camp, a British internment camp in Cyprus, and in Israel, and of Ester Steinkeller (later Weinstadt) and her family from Katowice, Poland, before the war, and after the war in Austria, Italy, and Is ...

Amalie Noher (1889-1941) was born on 16 May 1889 to Simon and Bertha (née Hertzfeld) Noher in Poland. She had eight siblings, Ella, Salo, Bruno, Leo, Charlotte, Trude, Bernhard, and Selma. Amalie married Chaim Ajzyk Feldman (1896-1942?), a dentist born in Będzin, Poland. Chaim had at least one brother, Wolf, who immigrated to the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II. Their daughter Ruth ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Jungdeutsche Partei in Polen war eine 1931 in Bielitz gegründete Vereinigung der deutschen Minderheit im polnischen Staat. Seit 1932 war sie in Oberschlesien tätig, seit 1934 auch in Großpolen, Pommerellen und in Lódz. Sie entwickelte sich mit ihrem stark von nationalsozialistischen Einflüssen aus dem vom deutschen Reich geprägten Kurs rasch zur stärksten Partei ...

Contains information about the activities of the police in Sosnowiec, Czeladź , and Katowice, Poland; air raid defense; and treatment of Jews by police forces.

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

THe collection consists of photographs, documents and blankets illustrating the experiences of Lola Rewitz, born in Katowice, Poland and Menachem Mozes, born in Goworowo, Poland. Lola was deported from Bochnia in 1943 with her mother and sent to Plaszow, Auschwitz, marched on foot and then transferred by train to Ravensbrueck then Malhoff. On a death march from Malhoff, they were liberated by Russian ...

Selected files of the Policja Województwa Śląskiego (Silesian Voivodeship Police). Consist of orders and ordinances of superior authorities, situational reports, searching, investigations and detentions of criminals, information about various manifestations of social and political life. Included are records related to “Volksdeutsche" communities, German minority, communist movement, political parties ...

Roman Antoniak was born in Lwow, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine) on 10 May 1926. Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Antoniak was hired as an apprentice at the Ostdeutsche Email und Metall Werke in Lwow in January 1942, and was enrolled in the Ukrainische Hilfskomitee in October of that same year. He was arrested by the Germans at some point in 1944 and transferred by the Gestapo in Kattowitz ...

The collection contains selected records from the files produced by the Head Command of the Police of Region of Silesia and some of the County Police Commands. They cover the following matters: orders and resolutions of the superior authorities, situation reports, searches, inquiries and arrests of the delinquents, information about the social and political events, especially relating to the German ...

Copyright Holder: Dr. Zwi Barnea

Foto van Herman Samuel Menco (Winterswijk, ‎17 september 1925 - Amsterdam, ‎24 december 2002). Verzetsdeelnemer en Holocaustoverlevende. Herman Menco groeide op in Winterswijk als enig kind van Harri Menco (1896-1945) en Hildegard Stern (1904-1975). In de herfst van 1941 moesten Joodse leerlingen verplicht naar een Joodse school. Die was er niet in Winterswijk, dus ging Herman bij kennissen in Den ...

Archief van Herman Samuel Menco (Winterswijk, ‎17 september 1925 - Amsterdam, ‎24 december 2002). Verzetsdeelnemer en Holocaustoverlevende. Herman Menco groeide op in Winterswijk als enig kind van Harri Menco (1896-1945) en Hildegard Stern (1904-1975). In de herfst van 1941 moesten Joodse leerlingen verplicht naar een Joodse school. Die was er niet in Winterswijk, dus ging Herman bij kennissen in Den ...

The fonds contains documents of the Police Headquarters in Brno from the period of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, inter alia material concerning transports to the concentration camp in Auschwitz, in the year 1942–1944; searches for persons accused of crimes, for escaped Soviet and English prisoners of war, also material concerning escapes of prisoners and escapes from Labour camps – establishment ...

A collection of 18 testimonies collected by the author, a journalist, in interviews with Jews in Israel and non-Jews in Poland, relating the fate of Jews in Poland during the Holocaust. Emphasizes the role of Gentile rescuers who risked their lives in order to save Jews. Describes, also, the activities of members of Jewish youth movements after the liquidation of the ghettos of Zagłębie and Katowice, ...

Ladder used by Michael Goldmann (later Goldmann-Gilead), Chanan Ansbacher, and Eli Heilman to hide in Konrad and Regina Zimoń’s hayloft in January 1945, in Rybnik, Poland. The men had escaped from a forced march after Auschwitz concentration camp was evacuated. They hid for a week, during which time the Zimoń’s oldest daughter, Stefania, regularly brought them food. In summer 1939, fearing a German ...

Two albums, containing reproductions of correspondence to the donor’s aunt, Regina Bader, and her mother and other family members, 1942-1943. The letters that are copied in this album were sent to Bader while she was interned during World War II in the Bernsdorf forced labor camp, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen, and her family were mostly living in a ghetto in Sosnowiec, German-occupied Poland. Translations ...

Akta zbiorcze do ksiąg USC, testamenty, akta personalne

<p>This collection contains the restitution and indemnification claim papers relating to properties previously owned by the Altmann family in Frankfurt, Kattowitz (Katowice, Poland) and Beuthen (Bytom, Poland).</p>Compensation and indemnification papers.&nbsp;