Consists of documents and photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of Dr. Moses and Teofila Vorshirm Keitelman (later Marian and Teofila Kotlewski), originally of Mielec, Poland. The documents relate to the Keitelmans' pre-war education, including Moses' training as a doctor and Teofila's as a X-ray technician. Includes post-war documents related to the family's name change to "Kotlewski," ...

The Joseph Komito memoir is a typewritten memoir of Joseph Komito in which he describes life in Mielec, Poland, before and during the German occupation; his experiences as a forced laborer first in an unnamed airplane factory and later in Wieliczka, Auschwitz, Flossenbürg, and Leitmeritz concentration camps; and his postwar life in the United States.

The Mel Lichtig papers primarily consist of correspondence from Lichtig’s aunt, Hanke Lichtig, to her sister, Pearl Lichtig, in New York. The letters and postcards are addressed from Mielec during the war and Krakow and Stockholm after the war. Hanke’s letters and postcards relay greetings and wishes for good health and are occasionally joined by messages from Maks and Jozefina Lichtig. Some of the ...

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Collection of poetry includes "The Holocaust," "Hangman on the Rhine," "Burning memories," "Of Nazi vans," "Without tears," "Mielec," "Kristallnacht," "To kill the Jews," "The silent partners of the crime," "Man's jailer," "The worker," "The carousel," "Judah," "The stamped numerals," "Inquisition," "Of life and death," "Malka," "The Warsaw ghetto," "Shalom," "Without tears," "The ghetto lion," "Mother," ...

The collection contains i.a. items including German bills and public announcements; information on the establishment of the ghetto and forced labour for Jews; confiscations of property and its administration; death sentences; lists of deceased Jews for the years 1935-1942; an incomplete list of the Jews of Mielec (1941); lists of licences issued and tribute payments by residents in the years 1941-1943; ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

Papers of Francisco Wichter (born Faivel Wichter), Holocaust survivor. The collection consists of Wichter's correspondence, documents, newspaper clippings, certificates, and photographs related to his post-war experiences. He survived several ghettos, concentration and forced labor camps, including Bełżyce, Poniatowo, Budzyń, Mielec, and Wieliczka, and was chosen to work for Oskar Schindler's factory ...

<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.</strong></span></p><p>This collection of material describes, in the main, the fate of Polish Jewry during the Nazi era. It was extracted from Polish archives in London. In addition there is an extract from a captured German archive and a typescript account of a French ...

The collection consists of documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Herman and Bernard Jezower, and a wooden cover, metal box, toolbox, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Oscar Albert, who was deported from the Rzeszow ghetto and imprisoned Plaszow forced labor camp, Mielec slave labor camp, and Flossenburg concentration camp, after the war in a displaced persons ...

The photograph depicts Israel and Rachel Stroh standing in front of Beth Hamidrash in Sedziszów, Poland. Beth Hamidrash was burned along with Jewish occupants on Rosh Hashanah in 1939.

Copyright Holder: Ms. Claire Greenwald

The collection consists of correspondence, claim forms, documentation, banking statements, and receipts for payments to file paperwork illustrating the experiences of Claire (Klara) Salpeter Greenwald and her attempt to gain reparations from the German government in the 1950s and 1960s and Swiss banks in the 1990s and 2000s. The claims relate to her parents and sisters, including efforts to claim losses ...

The collection includes photographs depicting members of the Kirszenbaum family who perished during the Holocaust and two photographs depicting Lola and Noah Kamien during memorial services in Majdanek, Poland, on 21 September 1947. The family photographs were taken in Berlin, Germany, and Mielec and Domacyny, Poland.

Leo Sussman (born Lesor Süssman, March 18, 1901-1991) was born in Baranov, Poland to Josef and Cilli Sussman and had five siblings including Erna, Fanni, Helene, Regina (December 12, 1903-1991), and Moritz. Leo married Rachel Stroh (later Renee, 1915-2007) in 1934. Rachel was born in Mielec, Poland to Chanine Stroh and Sara (nee Berger) and had two siblings, Lazer and Sosia. They lived in Vienna where ...

Jan Sehn (1909-1965) was born in Tuszów Maly in former Austria-Hungary on April 22, 1909. He graduated high school in Mielec and became involved in the youth organization Legion Mlodych (Legion of the Youth) of President Józef Pilsudski. He then studied law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. After graduating in 1933, Sehn obtained a position first as a judicial clerk and later as an assessor ...

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Sessions 14, 20, 21 and 27. Witness Zyndel Grynszpan describes October 28, 1938; the Nazis came to his house and arrested his entire family. They were taken to the precinct and forced to sign a certificate for deportation. He and his family were deported to Poland: "The misery was great. We had no food, we had not taken any food since Thursday, we had not wanted to eat German bread anymore and we were ...

Haim Behrendt was born in Berlin in 1919. After the War began in 1939, Behrendt managed to remain in Berlin with the assistance of friends and acquaintances. In 1940, he got married and moved into the house of his wife's parents. At the end of October 1941, Behrendt and his wife received a missive from the district police instructing Behrendt to list the material contents of his house. Soon thereafter, ...

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Larry Rosenbach (born Eliezer Lajziu Rosenbach) and his family, originally of Leżajsk, Poland. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs depicting the Föhrenwald and Zeilsheim displaced persons camps in Germany, the Bielski partisans, and passengers on board the "Champollion" en route to Palestine. Also included are three postcards ...

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