Kazimierz Jan Wilk was born in Nowy Targ, Poland, on February 8, 1916. His father was a district engineer and his mother was a high school teacher; all four of their children received university degrees. Kazimierz graduated from the Polytechnic in L'vov, Poland, in spring 1939, with a degree in civil engineering. After the German invasion in September 1939, Wilk was employed by the Technical Department ...

Consists of photographs from the Loeb family, as well as three documents: a death certificate from 1915; a notice from the military informing of the battlefield death of a son, 1915; and notice of recognition of WWI service of David Loeb, 1934.

Contains applications, death notices, petitions, and various other documents relating to general administration matters in Radom, Poland, handled by the Kreishauptmann including applications of businessmen to serve German military personnel, permission for telephone lines, and petitions to send money to prisoners in Auschwitz; death notice for Józef Deugoszek, a partisan shot by the SS; death notice ...

Contains photocopies of transport notice and name list, labor camp call-up notice, name list from a publication, and Mauthausen death certificate, all relating to the fate of Ludwig Jacob [donor] and his family during the Holocaust.

Photocopy of a Sterbeurkunde (death certificate) for Paul Reiss issued from the Standesbeamte des Sonderstandesamt Arolsen on July 24, 1963. Includes Paul Reiss' date and place of birth, date and place of death, and similar information for his wife, Rosalie Reiss.

It includes notices, decisions in newspapers for death sentences, executions committed by the Germans, Nazi orders for the Greek Jews and articles on the arrival of Holocaust survivors in Thessaloniki.

(black and white) LS of a POW (?) camp surrounded by wire fencing, inmates moving about, a watch tower is visible in FG. Camp is located in a large open field with mountains in BG. Planes fly overhead. On nearby road, two women in civilian dress walk along carrying luggage. Notice the camp's proximity to the main road. Two US soldiers along road get out of a "HQ1" vehicle and look at destroyed railway ...

Contains documents about Inge M. Rosenthal's escape to Germany on a Kindertransport, letters from Alfred and Margarete Sachs (1939-1943), deportation notice for Alfred and Margarete Sachs, death notice for Alfred and Margarete Sachs, documents related to Max and Herta Moser's emigration from Germany to Shanghai, transcribed letters from Carl Heinrich Mayer, and 21 black-and-white photographs. An accretion ...

Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski was born on February 27, 1877, in Ilino, Russia, to Reuven Rumkowski. His brother, Josef, was born on August 8, 1884. He relocated to Łódź, Poland, in the early 1900s, and worked as a merchant and velvet manufacturer before beginning a career as an insurance salesman. In the early 1920s, with funding from the Joint Distribution Committee and other business entities, he opened ...

Letters from donor's stepmother's brother from Moabit Prison in Berlin (a.k.a. Berlin-Moabit) to his father in Vienna, dated December 1939 to April 1941; letter from Zuchthaus Ebrach, written by Kurt König; receipts acknowledging money being received by König while imprisoned; Kurt König's death notice from the Gestapo.

Notifications about the deaths of Poles imprisoned in concentration camps (including KL Lublin, KL Auschwitz, KL Ravensbruck), prisoner-of-war camps and prisons (prison in Lublin).

Documentation, mainly of the Gestapo, regarding Soviet and Polish foreign laborers in Germany from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1941-1943
 
 Most of the files in the collection are files from the Duesseldorf Gestapo and its neighboring branches (Krefeld and Moenchen-Gladbach) relating to specific foreign laborers for whom Gestapo intervention was requested.
 
 - File of the Krefeld ...

Consists of a newspaper notice of the death of Mary Dorrit Krattner and a copy of the words spoken by priest Alistair Bate at Ms. Krattner's funeral in 2006. During the service, Bate described Ms. Krattner's experiences as a child in Vienna, her departure on a Kindertransport to Edinburgh in 1939, life with the McKinley family during the war, and her post-war life in Scotland.

<p>The <em>Stiftung Hilfswerk</em><span style="color: #ffffff;">&nbsp;</span><em>20. Juli 1944</em>&nbsp;(now <em>Stiftung</em>&nbsp;<em>20. Juli 1944</em>) was founded on the initiative of survivors and relatives of the German resistance as well as Theodor Heuss, the President of West Germany, with the intention of providing material support to the widows and orphans of those that took part in the ...

Contains lists of new prisoners entering Auschwitz concentration camp in 1941, and Sterbeurkunde (death notices) for primarily Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox prisoners dating from 1940 to 1944, with the bulk of them dating from 1943. All of the records relate to the main camp, Auschwitz I.

Adela Tichová (1882-1968) was born Adela Traplová in Dalečín, Czech Republic. She married Vilém (Wilhelm) Ticho (1879-1946) who was born in Lomnice, Czech Republic to Josef and Luise Ticho. The couple had three children: Luisa Josefa (Lili, later Bock, 1910-1996), Rudolf (1913-1942), and Josef (Pepik, 1923-1943). Rudolf perished in Lublin and Josef at Auschwitz.

Copyright Holder: Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku

Diary of William Guy Rosenthal used while fighting overseas, prior to his death in July 1943. Book of European postcards sent to the family via Scotland by W. G. Rosenthal. Newsclippings of death notice, Yiddish. Newsclippings of letters to the editor written by W.G. in Yiddish, published 1943. Fragile Canadian naturalization certificate of W.G. and donor's paternal grandfather, 1913. Photograph of ...

Contains documents relating to Kalman Karl Kornfeld (donor's uncle by marriage), including a provisional identification card for a civilian internee of Mauthausen; a Polish identity certificate; a Polish passport; notice of registration in Cuba; a US certificate of naturalization; a US passport; and a photocopy of his death certificate.

Copyright Holder: Mr. H. R. Levy

The Emil Oettinger papers consist primarily of correspondence and photographs documenting the family of Emil Oettinger from Hamburg, Germany, and his plans to emigrate with his wife Käthe in 1939. The collection also includes biographical materials documenting their parents as well as emigration and immigration files including some of the records they needed to prepare in order to emigrate. Biographical ...

Files of the Amstergericht (Magistrates Court) of the Charlottenburg neighborhood in Berlin&#x0D; &#x0D; Included in the files are:&#x0D; &#x0D; Official correspondence regarding the handling of the estates of Jews (some of the files include lists of the property in the estate); files related to Jewish owned companies and the bankruptcy (Konkurs) of Jewish owned companies; files related to declarations ...