The Lachter family photographs consist of twenty pre-war and post-war photographs documenting the Lachter family of Turobin, Poland. Prewar photographs depict Izak’s uncle Pesach Diamant in Turobin, Mottle Leichter’s extended family, a group from Turobin in a horse-drawn wagon, and Izak Lachter’s father, Moshe, wrapped in a winter coat and boots. Postwar photographs depict Holocaust survivors, including ...

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 ...

Copyright Holder: Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie

Pp. 32-85 present reports, testimonies, and documents on the fourth deportation of Jews from Frankfurt to Lublin in May 1942, the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto in April 1943, and the deportation of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz in June 1944. The booklet begins and ends with prayers and sermons held in Basel and Zürich in June-July 1944 on behalf of the persecuted Jews. 108 pages 21 cm

Two (2) letters written by Gerhard [Gershon] Hoffman (donor's father) from Hamburg, Germany in 1945. The first letter, originally written and sent to Herbert Mosheim in the United Kingdom in 1945, describes in great detail Gerhard's experiences during the war, beginning with the round-up of Jews in Hamburg in November 1941, and being sent with his family to the Minsk Ghetto, where he was a forced laborer ...

Title: "The Jewish Ghetto." Exquisite color footage of Jews in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw, EXTs, sunny day, on or near Nowolipki street, a commercial area. Steady pan of Jews mingling in the streets, milling about, shops line the streets in the BG, signs in Polish. Two men dressed in shambles sleeping on the curb. MS, group of old and young Jews, boys horsing around and teasing another with a large ...

The Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers include biographical material and photographs relating to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Wiera Baksztanska, Stanisław Sierpinski, and their families in Poland and Russia. The collection includes false identity papers and documents Wiera obtained while living in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding as well as correspondence and writings relating to Stanisław’s ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

Solomon (Shloime) Zynstein was born in Lublin, Poland to Leibel and Chaya Zynstein. An only child, Solomon’s parents were unable to care for him and placed him in an orphanage. He went to live with his aunt and uncle and, after they moved to Palestine, Solomon joined a kibbutz hachshara in Płońsk. He worked as a tailor and traveled reciting Yiddish poetry. During one of his performances, he met Rachla ...

Rose Mandelbaum Kessler (1922-2015) was born Rosa Mandelbaum, on 2 February 1922 in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of Herman and Celine (née Pines) Mandelbaum. In addition to Rosa, the Mandelbaums had two other children, Walter (1924-1944) and Wilhelm (later William Manning, 1928-2005). Herman Mandelbaum was born in Bielitz, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Bielsko-Biała, Poland) on 9 July 1896, ...

Basia “Betty” Zajaczkowska Rubinstein (née Zajaczkowska, Zajaczkowski, or Zakowski, 1926-2012) was born on 15 February 1926 in Kielce, Poland to Josef (1889-1942) and Ides or Ida (née Buchbinder, d. 1942) Zajaczkowska. She had five siblings: Mania, Leon (b. 1918), Tosia, Regina, and Rose. Basia and Morris were both deported to the Kielce ghetto in October 1939. They married there in November 1942. ...

<p>Documents including family correspondence describing the difficult living conditions for Jews in Berlin during the Second World War; Kurt Brent's papers collected in preparation for emigration such as school certificates, 'Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung', German passport and driving license, British army soldier's service and pay book, soldier's release book, Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen ...

Silver-colored finger ring made from a spoon by Leib Krycberg in Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, where he was an inmate from 1942-45. It is engraved with the initials and prisoner numbers, of Leib and Miriam Litman, another prisoner with whom he had fallen in love. He made a duplicate ring for Miriam. In January 1945, both Leib and Miriam were deported from Auschwitz to Mauthausen concentration ...

Small bronze statue cast from the figurine made by Vera Meisels from a bar of washing soap shortly after her liberation from Theresienstadt concentration camp in early May 1945. This figurine was cast in 2002 because the original was drying out and losing its original shape. The work is based upon Vera's memories of the concentration camp inmates called Musselmann, prisoners near death due to exhaustion, ...

The Dreier and Tarnowski families came from East and West Prussia and Pomerania. Martin Dreier was born in 1911 in Schokken (now Skoki, Poland) to Max Dreier (1879-?) and Netty Fuchs Dreier (1889-1944). Martin moved to England in 1939 and immigrated to the United States in 1944 or 1946. Max and Netty Dreier were both deported to the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1942 and to Theresienstadt that August. In ...

The collection consists of a photograph album with approximately 46 images documenting the early life of Robert Michael Gurdus (1938-1942; donor's son) who died in the Holocaust, as well as the kindergarten in Netanyah, Israel, dedicated to his memory by his parents (1978).

The Rywek Żytnik photograph collection consist of photographs of the Żytnik family in Sawin, Poland, and the surrounding area before and during the Holocaust as well as a photograph of a memorial to Jews killed by the Germans in Dashev, Ukraine, from 1941 to 1942.

One of the leaders of the revolt in Sobibor, Lerner talks about his knack for escaping from camps - he escaped from eight camps before arriving at Sobibor. He relates the Sobibor revolt in great detail, including his role in killing two Germans. Lanzmann found this interview so compelling that he used none of it in Shoah but instead made a separate film about Lerner, called "Sobibor, October 14, 1943, ...

The Nora Orchan collection includes a autograph book that Nora carried with her during her emigration with her siblings from Germany to Israel in 1938. Autographs and entries date 1935-1941 and include poems and drawings as well as diary entries, perhaps by Nora. The collections also includes pre-war photographs of Nora and her family.

The collection contains prewar photographs of the family of Bronia Cimmerman Bronkesh in Sarny, Poland (Sarny, Ukraine), including the Cimmerman and Passman families; postwar photographs in the Neu-Freimann displaced persons camp; and a "Certificate in Lieu of Identity" issued to Elka Zimmerman by the American Consulate General in Munich, March 7, 1947.

The Chil Turek papers primarily contain identification cards, employment and testimony documents, photographs, and restitution papers that document his time in displaced persons camps at Feldafing and Stuttgart, Germany from 1946-1948. The employment and testimony papers relate to Chil’s work as a locksmith instructor and his testimony that he was in concentration camps in Lublin, Radom, Auschwitz, ...

Wooden comb and paper case given to 21 year old Esther Dykman by a friend on December 27, 1944, when they were slave laborers in an AEG Factory in Kaiserwald concentration camp in Riga, Latvia. The friend found the comb on the side of the road and made the holder from materials taken from the factory where she and Esther worked. Germany invaded Soviet controlled Poland in June 21,1941, and three days ...

Nazi instructional (propaganda) film about measures to contain typhus, indicating the Polish-Jewish population is responsible for spreading typhus. Wehrmachtslehrfilm #347 [Army Instructional Film #347]. Reel 1: Narration/voiceover, maps of Poland, Russia, incl. Bialystok, Lublin, Warsaw, Łódź, Pinsk. 00:34:54 Jews, seen closeup, with and without clothes. Ghetto scenes. Crowd on rail platform, threatening ...

Swiss wrist watch with a contemporary band taken by 21-year-old Abraham Lewent, possibly from the body of a dead SS guard, around April 1945. After the collapse of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943, Abraham and his father Raphael were deported to Majdanek concentration camp where his father was killed. After two months, Abraham was transferred to Skarżysko-Kamienna slave labor camp, then to Buchenwald ...