Feliks Karczewski was born on May 20, 1908 in Duisburg, Germany. He was arrested in Markstadt [now Gmina Mieścisko, Poland], on May 5, 1940 and imprisoned in Dachau on May 9, 1940. He was given prisoner number 9131.

Testyler describes his and his family's life in Sławków (Silesia) before the war, and their fate during the Holocaust. He was deported in 1942, as a 17-year-old boy, to a labor camp in Sakrau (near Sosnowiec), and later to Markstadt and Reichenbach. He settled in France after the war. 218 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

The Jacob Birnbaum papers consist of an identification card documenting Jacob Birnbaum’s status as a concentration camp survivor and letters Jacob wrote to Rose (Róża) Strzegowska (later Rose Rothschild), an inmate at the women’s camp, while both were imprisoned at Langenbielau concentration camp, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen, during the Holocaust. Birnbaum had been exchanging letters with Rose’s twin ...

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Deborah Katina was born as Dora Schwartz on May 16, 1927 in Chrzanow, Poland. Her father, Lev Schwartz, who was born in 1885, was a men’s clothing merchant and her mother, Rywka Regina Wasserteil Schwartz, who was born in 1900, took care of the children. Dora was the oldest of three daughters. Her twin sisters: Cesia and Andzia were born in 1929. The Schwartz family was traditional, kept kosher kitchen ...