David Klajman is the son of Majer Nusyn and Rywka (Rusinek) Klajman. He was born December 11, 1918 in Bedzin, Poland, where his father owned a factory that produced agricultural tools. David had three siblings: Avraham (b. 1911), Shlomo (b. 1914) and Franya (b. 1922). Immediately after the German invasion of Poland, David fled northward but soon returned to Bedzin and worked in the family's factory. ...

Traces the development and organization of the Nazi concentration camp system through its several phases. From 1942, with the arrival of mass transports of Jews, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek became mainly extermination camps for Jews, whereas other camps became reservoirs of forced labor mostly for non-Jews. In April 1944, because of the exigencies of war production, Hitler ordered that concentration ...

Salomon Ringer was born on 7 October 1917 in Antwerp. His parents - Chaskel Ringer (born on 15 August 1886 in Krakow, Poland) and Zipora Kalfuss (born on 30 May 1883 in Bochnia, Poland) - were married religiously in Krakow. Salomon’s three eldest siblings were all born in Podgorze, Poland: Israel on 23 December 1907, Chana on 24 April 1909, and Sara on 19 Augustus 1910. In December 1910, Salomon’s ...

Josef Grotte (born Feliks (Felek) Roman) was born in Czestochowa. Poland on August 11, 1923 to Abram and Leja Biber Roman. His older brother, Leon Roman, was born in 1916 and his younger sister, Rita, was born in 1929. The Roman family resided on 8 I-st Aleja in Czestochowa. Abram Roman owned a bus line serving the route from Czestochowa to Praszka, on the German-Polish border. In 1935 the Roman family ...

The papers consist of documents and 21 photographs relating to the experiences of Jehuda and Pola Stopnicki (donors' parents) during and after the Holocaust. Includes restitution papers and correspondence; testimonies of Jehuda and Pola Stopnicki's and their families' experiences; poems written by Jehuda Stopnicki shortly before her wedding; and family photographs from before World War II, while living ...

Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

The Lenneberg and Brünell families papers consists of a diary, photographs, and documents relating to Ursula Lenneberg and Siegmund Brünell’s families' pre-war life in Germany and their wartime and post-war experiences in various concentration camps and DP camps. The diary was written by Ursula while in the Deggendorf DP camp. In the diary she describes her experiences interned in several camps including ...