Contains records of the Jewish community in Bielsko-Biała, Poland. Most valuable is the cemetery book with entries of all funerals since the day of the opening of the graveyard in 1949. Also contains original statutes of the Jewish organizations from Bielsko-Biała, Jewish birth registers, Jewish diaries, name lists of Jewish soldiers, name lists of Jewish survivors, lists of Jewish properties, photographs ...

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Photographs illustrating the experiences of Zbiegnew [Samuel/Steven] Rotter, born in Bielsko Biala, Poland in 1917 and interned in multiple concentration camps, including Mauthausen and its subcamp Gusen in Austria, and Aida Weinberg [alias Eugenia Domanska] born in Miedryzec, Poland in 1921 on false papers and their child Marian, born in the Degerlach displaced persons camp in Stuttgart, Germany in ...

Postcards and envelopes addressed to Gustaw Karter (donor's grandfather) and his daughter Ruth Karter (donor's mother) in Cincinnati, Ohio from various people in Tarnopol and Bielsko Biala, Poland in 1939 and 1940; and postwar letters from Tola Ueberfuhrer and Stella Feiler, displaced persons in Gliwice, Poland and Salzburg, Austria. Also includes envelopes, empty and postmarked, sent from Edmund Wasserberger, ...

1. Podatki majątkowe, obrotowe, dochodowe oraz protokoły kontroli finansowej prywatnych przedsiębiorstw, fabryk i wolnych zawodów w Bielsku, z lat 1939-1945, sygn. 1-113

Fred S. Gichner (1870-1956) was born in Bielitz, Austria (now Bielsko-Biała, Poland) and was trained in ornamental ironwork in Vienna. He immigrated to the United States in the late 1880s, and established the Fred S. Gichner Iron Works in Washington, D.C. During the late 1930s and early 1940s he provided affidavits and financial assistance to help relatives in Europe immigrate to the United States ...

Consists of two memoirs, entitled "KZ Spaichingen and the march to...liberty" and "The Voyage of the Olim of the 'Biria,'" written by Meir Eldar, originally of Biala-Bielsko, Poland. In the "KZ Spaichingen" memoir, Mr. Eldar describes the forced march from the Spaichingen concentration camp to Steingaden, Germany from 17-27 April 1945. He includes articles and correspondence with historians and with ...

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Karl Akiva Schwarz was born on 21 August 1921 in Vienna Austria to Erich Josef (1895-1949) and Erna (née Flessig, 1896-1942?) Schwarz. His father was a veterinarian. Karl had one brother, Heinrich (1924-1942?) and one sister, Henrietta (1919-1944?). After graduating from middle school Karl became an apprentice in a metal factory and simultaneously attended a vocational school for two and a half years. ...

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, ...

Shlomo Adler (born Stanislaw Salek Adler) was born on June 16, 1930 in Bolechow, Poland (now Bolekhiv, Ukraine) to Abraham Dolek Adler and Sara Adler. Dolek owned a leather factory and Sara was a WIZO (Women's International Zionist Organization) activist and took care of the household. Salek's older sister, Miriam (Musia, b. 1924) was born in 1924. In September 1939, after the Soviet annexation of ...

Consists of administrative orders and internal reports pertaining to prisons and incarceration facilities in Polish territories occupied by the Third Reich. A preponderance of documents in this collection were issued by the Prosecutor's Office in Katowice, Poland (Kattowitz) in regard to prisons and incarceration facilities in Bielsko Biala (Bielitz) and the Prosecutor's Office in Wrocław (Breslau) ...

The Hertha Spier collection consists of a short booklet, in English, entitled "Hertha Speir, KZ A-21646; Płaszów-Auschwitz e Bergen-Belsen" which contains a letter written by Hertha Spier in which she describes her Holocaust experiences. Originally from Bielsko, Poland, she describes the German invasion of Poland and being sent to the Kraków ghetto in 1940. She details her experiences in the Płaszów ...

Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma

The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Sulamita Simenauer Konar’s mother Chana Pomerancblum Simenauer and grandmother Mina Zalcman Pomerancblum, both of whom survived in hiding under false identities in Jeleśnia, Poland. Included are a registration form (Meldebestaetigung) issued to Chana under her false identity of Maria Kolodziejczyk, and two occupancy registration forms (anmeldung) ...