Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma

This collection consists of selected records created before and during the WWII in Częstochowa, Poland by the President and executive authorities of the Town Hall (1918-1939), and by the Municipal Government (Stadtverwaltung) headed by the Municipal Starost (Stadthauptman) (1939-1944). Consists also of books listing information about the inhabitants of Częstochowa (1870-1930). The pre-war records refer ...

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

This collection contains 3,794 personal files of prisoners. Included are arrest forms containing personal details such as the last name, first name, date and place of birth, nationality, religious denomination, occupation, education, last whereabouts, marital status, when brought before the court (date), reason of accusation (the main reason was: politics or leaving the ghetto, hiding and helping Jews, ...

Contains one copyprint of a poem, written in Yiddish, entitled "The shtetl is burning," by Mordechai Gebertig; photograph of the common grave, in Czȩstochowa, Poland, commemorating the deaths of Jewish resistance fighters in March 1943; photograph of message written on a wall by a resistance fighter in Czȩstochowa immediately before his death; one book regarding the Czȩstochowa ghetto, written by ...

The collection primarily consists of Holocaust-era photographs of the Orbach family, originally of Częstochowa, Poland. Includes depictions of Elias and Dobra Orbach, their sons Heniek (in the center) and Cadok. The photograph of Cadok (on the left) was taken in France shortly after he was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp. Also included is Zeev Orbach’s Association des Anciens Prisonniers ...

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Copyright Holder: Eliane Ungar

The Ita Dimant papers include correspondence, photographs, personal documents, a diary, and memoirs relating to Ita Dimant’s experiences in hiding under false papers and in a labor camp in Germany. The collection includes false identification documents, correspondence between Ita and her family and wartime and post-war correspondence with the Brust family, who helped protect Ita. Also included are ...

Copyright Holder: Professor Fabian Gerson

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Sucher Rubin (later Sol Rubin, 1922-2017) was born on 14 February 1922 in Radom, Poland to Jacob and Chaja (née Wolanowska) Rubin. He had one brother Gedalja. After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, Sucher was sent to the Dęblin ghetto. He was sent to a forced-work camp in Dęblin until October 1942 when he was transferred to the Częstochowa ghetto. In July 1944 he was deported to the ...

The Simcha Dimant papers relate to the Holocaust and immediate post-war experiences of Simcha Dimant, a Polish Jew. The papers contain identification documents including a provisional identification card issued by the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Buchenwald concentration camp, April 1945; a Haftlings-Personal-Karte (Prisoners-Personal-Card); a Mandat-Karte (Mandate Card), July 1945; and a fragment ...

Copyright Holder: Joe Gelber

The collection consists of diaries, eyewitness accounts, testimonies, essays, official and underground publications, documents from the Jewish councils (Judenrats). The materials pertain to Jewish communities, ghettos, labor camps and to Jews living illegally on the "Aryan side." Materials on the Warsaw Ghetto include a manuscript diary and other notes by Emanuel Ringelblum. Essays by other members ...

Zwi Rosenwein (Cwi) was born to Moshe Baruch (b. 1884, Czestochowa) and Hinda Devorah Rosenwein (née Dudek, b. 1887, Klabuzke) on December 6, 1918 in Czestochowa. The family was very religiously observant. Zwi spent much of his early childhood in a hospital due to various illnesses, but did well in school and joined the Gordania organization. After the German invasion in 1939, he joined a group of ...

Memoir, typescript, 732 pages, written in 1945-1947 by Mojżesz "Mietek" Pachter (donor’s paternal uncle) during his recuperation in a tuberculosis sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland. In the memoir, Mietek described the Pachter family life in the Warsaw ghetto; forced labor by his older brother Wilek Wolf and himself and smuggling of food for the parents: Pinchas and Rywka and their youngest brother Sewek ...

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Testimony, 7 pages, typescript, titled "An Account of the Holocaust," by Sam Seif (Shlomo Zaif). Account of author's family during German invasion of Poland (they lived in Kalisz), transport to ghetto at Rzeszow, then at Płaszów camp, then as forced laborer in or near Czestochowa. Account appears to have been written by one of Seif's children.

Sophie Zajd Berkowitz photograph collection consists of nine photographs documenting the experiences of Zofia Zajd Berkowitz and of Cecia Berkowitz (Zofia's niece) during the time period surrounding the Holocaust dated 1930-1946. Zofia Zajd Berkowitz survived the war working forced labor at the Hasag labor camp in Czestochowa. Her niece Cecia Berkowitz survived in hiding with the assistance of Genowefa ...

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Contains announcements and orders of Stadthauptmann, Kreishauptmann, SS-und Polizeiführer, Geheime Staatspolizei, the Älteste der Juden (Elder of the Jewish Council) of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto (Łódź Ghetto), and other offices. Most concern registration of property, identity papers, establishment of ghettos, and population transfers. Announcements refer to the entire Generalgouvernement as well as ...

Stella Kane (née Szajndla Koniecpolski) describes the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland; fates of family members; deportation to the concentration camps of Majdanek, Hasag-Skarzysko, and Czestochowa; and her liberation and immigration to the United States in 1954.