Emil Herzog was born in 1884 in Jaroslaw, Poland. He married Antonia Biern Herzog, who was born in 1890 in Spiska Stara Ves in Slovakia. Emil was a traveling salesman, selling chocolate. The couple had four children: Henry Armin Herzog (b. April 27, 1917); Fela Herzog (b. July 13, 1919); Szymek Herzog (b. 1920); and Natan Herzog (b. 1924). They settled in Krakow in 1920 and lived on 11 Kolataja Street. ...

Copyright Holder: Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku

Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Lwow region, 1944-1946
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 Documentation of the municipal committee of the city of Stanislawow, collected in the context of the work of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of Jews in Stanislawow, 03 August 1941-05 May 1943, according to testimonies of ...

Examines the policies, administration, and personnel which carried out the Final Solution in Eastern Galicia. Under Soviet rule (1939-1941), Jewish property had been nationalized, communal organizations abolished, and "enemies of the state" deported. Ukrainians were also persecuted by the communists (among whom were many Jews). After the German invasion, they took revenge by massacring Jews, encouraged ...

The Roman Haar collection contains documents from Roman’s childhood, growing up in Poland. The photographs in the collection are mainly of Roman, but some show him posing with his father Salo, and his mother Erna, and his half-brother Joachim Fritsche. The larger photograph taken in 1943 is of Roman while he was hiding in Rzeszow, and one photograph from 1946 is of Roman, Erna, and Joachim. Another ...

Sally Korn (born Salomeja Frankel, b. 1926) was the daughter of Samuel (b. 1890) and Chaja Gitel (b. 1900) Frankel. She was born on July 17, 1926 in Mikolajow, Poland where her father was a machinist. During the war Sally worked in a farm affiliated with a slave labor camp in Kurowice not far from Lvov. The farmer took relatively good care of the Jewish workers assigned to him. In 1943 an order was ...

The collection includes photographs depicting members of the Kirszenbaum family who perished during the Holocaust and two photographs depicting Lola and Noah Kamien during memorial services in Majdanek, Poland, on 21 September 1947. The family photographs were taken in Berlin, Germany, and Mielec and Domacyny, Poland.

Hanukiyah used in the Tarnow ghetto between March 1941 and September 1943. This Hanukiyah is an industrial menorah similar in design and composition to several made by Johannes Rominger in Stuttgart, Germany. A Hanukkah candelabrum holds eight candles for the eight nights of Hanukkah; the ninth candle is the Shamash [attendant] that is used to light the other candles. Because of their religious significance, ...

Parade with elaborate floats and crowds of spectators. CU, three children and their elders. Toddler with bowlegs. MS, portraits of families outside village homes (still in Krosno?). 00:12:55 Polish troops marching in the street. Banner in Polish above the street. A man with white beard and hat holds a Torah scroll behind gentlemen in formal dress. The American visitors and friends wave at the camera. ...

Abraham (Abram) Winiger (1905-1993) was born December 21, 1905 in Nadwórna, Poland (now Nadvirna, Ukraine) to Israel and Sarah Winiger. Mina Winiger (1913-1979) was born May 5, 1913 in Majdan Górny, Poland to Markus and Sobel Händel and moved to Nadwórna. The couple were married in 1938, and their son Jakob (Jankl) was born March 1, 1941. Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a ghetto ...

Selma Schwarzwald was born on September 2, 1937, in Lvov, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine), to Daniel and Laura Litwak Schwarzwald. Her father had a successful timber export business. Her mother had studied economics at the Lvov Academy of Commerce before her marriage. Lvov was in eastern Poland which was occupied by the Soviet Union in September 1939. It was then occupied by Germany following their invasion ...

Handknit, green, short sleeve sweater worn by 7 year old Krystina Chiger when she lived in hiding in the sewers of Lvov, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine), from June 1943 to July 1944. Krystyna had watched her paternal grandmother knit the sweater in the home they shared before the German invasion of Poland in 1939. After the German occupation of Lvov in June 1941, Krystyna watched from hiding as this grandmother ...

Emil Knebel was a cinematographer known for Andante (2010), Adam (1973), and Wild Is My Love (1963). He was one of the cameramen who recorded daily coverage of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem (produced by Capital Cities Broadcasting Corp and later held academic positions in Israel and New York teaching filmmaking at universities. Refer to CV in file.

<div><div><div>Irena Hanna Wittek (1917-2005) was born in Vienna. She and her two brothers, Roman and Eugeniusz, grew up in Lwów, Poland (now L'viv, Ukraine). Their parents were Maurycy and Helena Roth. Maurycy was a lawyer from a modest family background in Eastern Galicia. The Reitmann family hired him as a tutor for their daughter Helena, who he married. Helena's family was part of the&nbsp;Jewish ...

Pillowcase that belonged to Helena Amkraut Lusthaus, embroidered with the initial's of her maiden name. She used the pillowcase while she and her daughter, Elzbieta, lived in hiding under assumed identities as Catholics in Milanowek in German occupied Poland. When the war began in 1939, Helena and Elzbieta were living in Tarnow in German-occupied Poland with Helena's mother, Sophie Lieberman Schiff. ...

Hersch Mayer Weinberg was born on January 1, 1920 to Schaja (b. 1885) and Chaia (nee Barber, b. 1887) Weinberg. He had three older siblings: Mordechai, Liftcha, Ester Malka (b. 1913), and four younger ones: Tzina, Rachel, Raizel (b. 1933), Shlomo (b. 1935). Before the war Mordechai had married Minda and had two boys Yitzchak (b. 1938) and Alter (b. 1940). Ester Malka married Yizchok Stiel, from Hungary; ...

Walter Reed (born Werner Rindsberg, 1924-2016) is the oldest son of Siegfried and Rika Rindsberg. He was born on February 27, 1924 in Mainstockheim, a rural village in Bavaria where his father was a wine merchant. His family had lived in the village for about twenty-five years and his parents were third cousins. Werner had two younger brothers Herbert (b. 1926) and Kurt (b. 1928). Following the Nazi ...

Szymon (Simon) Mahler (1893-) was one of thirteen siblings. His parents, Wolf and Bascha Mahler, owned a butcher shop in Krosno, Poland. Simon left Krosno for New York in 1912. He married Eva Schoenwetter (1894-) in 1921. Their children were born in New York: Jack (b. 1922), Blanche (b. 1924), and Charles (b. 1926). Many of Simon's family members in Krosno were murdered during the Holocaust. The Jewish ...

In 2013, the lawyer Hans Fertig (1929-2015) transferred his written pre-death legacy with extensive records regarding his occupation as a counsel at several proceedings regarding Nazi violent crimes (NSG-Verfahren) from the 1960s to the 1980s to the Fritz Bauer Institute. Hans Fertig was born on February 4, 1929 in Amorbach in the Forest of Odes where he passed his Abitur in 1949. He then studied law ...

<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.</strong></span></p><p>This collection of material describes, in the main, the fate of Polish Jewry during the Nazi era. It was extracted from Polish archives in London. In addition there is an extract from a captured German archive and a typescript account of a French ...

Ruth Diamond was born Rywka Mam on 29 September 1926 in Białystok, Poland to Szolem and Keila (née Kalmanowicz) Mam. She had two sisters, Chaja (later Helen Weinrib, b. 1919) and Malka, and one brother, Moishe. Ruth and Helen were forced into the Białystok ghetto in August 1941. In September 1943 they were deported to Blizyn and Majdanek, Kraków-Płaszów in July 1944, Auschwitz in July 1944, Mühlhausen ...

Copyright Holder: Bundesarchiv (Germany). Außenstelle Ludwigsburg

M.52.DAIFO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region&#x0D; &#x0D; History of the Archives:&#x0D; &#x0D; The Archives was established in December 1939 and was called the Regional Historical Archives of Stanislawow until 1941. Before its establishment, all of the documentation was kept in institutions of the authorities and in public institutions. This documentation began ...

Leon Weliczker Wells was born in Stojanow near Lvov, Poland on March 10, 1925. At the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, Wells was in Lvov. In July 1941, the Ukrainian police who were working with the SS arrested Wells and his father. The police officers took Wells to the police station; they were severely beaten, and taken to Pelczynska Street, where other Jews were assembled. Wells and the other ...