Contains 'Vestorbene entlassene Uberstellte oder geflohene reichsdeutsche haftlinge des KL Auschwitz I 19 Januar bis 19 August 1942," "Reichsdeutsche im Transport von 1500 Judischen Haftlingen von Auschwitz nach Dachau, als Zugange unter dem 10. Oktober 1944 registriert," by Joachim Neander," Reference to all Reichsdeutsch Auschwitz Prisoners (incl. Jews and Roma) mentioned in USHMM Archives RG-06.005.07M-US ...

Copyright Holder: Instytut Polski i Muzeum im. Gen. Sikorskiego w Londynie

Copyright Holder: Mr. Sol Graf

Copyright Holder: Instytut Zachodni im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego

Location filming of Auschwitz and Birkenau in winter for SHOAH. FILM ID 3451 -- Auschwitz 48D-64B / Birkenau int. camp (white label 69) -- 01:00:13 to 01:14:25 Museum sign on Auschwitz-Birkenau grounds in four languages regarding the cremating pits, mass transports, and extermination. WS sign, remains of crematorium in BG, guard-tower. WS building remains, sign regarding the destruction of the crematorium ...

The collection consists of two documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Janeta Gościcki (born Janeta Wulkan), originally of Ostrowsko, Poland. The first document is a forged identification card (Kennkarte) of Janeta’s issued on 15 October 1942 in the name of Helena Kochanowicz. The document states that she was born on 7 March 1914 in Wegierka, near Jaroslaw in the Lvov district and that she ...

Gaynor I. Jacobson (1912-1999) was born Israel Gaynor Jacobson in Buffalo and worked for numerous Jewish and aid organizations in Rochester before joining the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in 1944 as a country director in Italy, Greece, and Czechoslovakia. Over the next six years, he used his diplomatic skills to persuade various governments to take in survivors of the Holocaust. He was ...

Getto w Łodzi utworzono 8.02.1940 a ostatecznie zlikwidowano między 2 a 30.08.1944 r., wywożąc pozostałych Żydów do Auschwitz- Birkenau i Stutthofu (we wcześniejszych akcjach do ośrodka zagłady w Chełmnie nad Nerem). Przed wojną mieszkało w mieście 223 tys. Żydów. W getcie znalazło się 160 tys. mieszkańców Łodzi, a wraz z przesiedlonymi z Austrii, Czech, Luksemburga, Niemiec i miasteczek Kraju Warty ...

Contains a letter written by a prominent Admor near the end of WWII; a notation on the back of the letter states (in translation) "Erev Shabbos Kodesh, Vayakhel, in the morning 8:00, Tel Aviv." The author describes the deaths of his forefathers, family members, and friends, and his troubles during the Holocaust including the many attempts on his life and times he was saved from certain death. The back ...

Copyright Holder: Mrs. Arlene Erlebacher

The Lászlό Erős papers include an English translation of his joint memoir with his wife, I Will Never Let Go of Your Hand! The memoir covers the period from 1940-1946 and consists of three parts: Blanka’s experiences with deportation and concentration camps, a diary account of Lászlό’s escape from his labor battalion and his eventual reunion with Blanka, and an account of how the survivors from Gyergyόszentmiklόs ...

Na uwagę zasługuje dokumentacja ikonograficzna: fotografie, negatywy i mikrofilmy. Do najcenniejszych należą: • oryginalne negatywy fotografii obozowych więźniów (39 000); • kolekcja fotografii prywatnych, przywiezionych przez Żydów z Będzina do obozu (2400); • zdjęcia wykonane przez esesmanów na rampie w Birkenau podczas selekcji przeprowadzanych wśród nowo przywiezionych Żydów z Węgier w 1944 roku; ...

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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 ...

Samuel and Margaretha Swaap surreptitiously found hiding places for their grandchildren, Wilhelmina (age 2) and Maarten (age 8 months) in August 1942. The children's parents, Louis de Kadt, 29 (born May 13, 1913), and Sonja Rita de Kadt-Swaap, 22 (born October 8, 1919), were murdered in Auschwitz on August 10, 1942. They were rounded up from their home in Amsterdam, forced to gather in the Hollandsche ...

A large group is gathered outdoors in winter to watch skiers; a horse pulls several people on a sleigh, including Sonja de Kadt; close-up of Willie in her stroller and on a rocking horse

The Norbert Wollheim papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Wollheim’s prewar family life in Europe, his efforts to receive restitution for his slave labor at I.G. Farben, his immigration to the United States, and his continued work with other Holocaust survivor organizations such as the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Survivors, the Auschwitz/Buna Memorial, ...

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Wspomnienia Jana Nowickiego z pobytu w obozach koncentracyjnych w Auschwitz i Sachsenhausen

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Peter Gingold was born in Aschaffenburg on March 8, 1919. His family was Polish and Jewish and he grew up in Frankfurt (Main). There, he completed a commercial apprenticeship at a big music retail business in 1930. He joined the union Zentralverband Deutscher Angestellter (ZDA) (Central Association of German Employees) and in 1931, the Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands (KJVD) (Communist Youth ...

Consists of one memoir, 77 pages, split into two parts. Part I, entitled, "Auschwitz and Freudenthal," was written by Hella Wartski, originally of Uszhorod-Ungvàr, Hungary. She writes about her life in Hungary, her 1994 deportation to Auschwitz, and her transfer to Freudenthal, where she was liberated in 1945. Mrs. Wartski and two of her sisters were the only survivors of her family. Part II of the ...

The Karl Targownik papers consist of biographical materials and restitution files documenting Targownik’s partially successful efforts to receive compensation for damages he suffered during his internment in the Bochnia ghetto, Płaszów labor camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, and Dachau. Biographical materials include birth certificates, tracing materials, continuing medical education documentation, ...