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Miniature teapot, sugar bowl, pitcher, teacup, and tray given to Elzbieta Lusthaus by her maternal grandmother, Sophie Lieberman Schiff, when they were living in Tarnow, Poland, which was occupied by Germany in September 1939. On June 11, 1942, the Germans came to the house searching for Jews to deport to the concentration camps. Four year old Elzbieta hid, but her grandmother was taken by the Germans ...

Contains 258 transcripts of interrogations related to KL Lublin, KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, death camps in Sobibór, Bełżec and Treblinka, labor camps in Kalilow and Budzyń, Janów Lubelski and other Nazi camps and prisons. The interrogations were taken of former prisoners of KL Majdanek by the Polska Misja Wojskowa w Berlinie (Polish Military Mission), Prokurator Wojewódzki w Warszawie (Provincial Prosecutor), ...

Emil Herzog was born in 1884 in Jaroslaw, Poland. He married Antonia Biern Herzog, who was born in 1890 in Spiska Stara Ves in Slovakia. Emil was a traveling salesman, selling chocolate. The couple had four children: Henry Armin Herzog (b. April 27, 1917); Fela Herzog (b. July 13, 1919); Szymek Herzog (b. 1920); and Natan Herzog (b. 1924). They settled in Krakow in 1920 and lived on 11 Kolataja Street. ...

Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Lwow region, 1944-1946
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 Documentation of the municipal committee of the city of Stanislawow, collected in the context of the work of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of Jews in Stanislawow, 03 August 1941-05 May 1943, according to testimonies of ...

Examines the policies, administration, and personnel which carried out the Final Solution in Eastern Galicia. Under Soviet rule (1939-1941), Jewish property had been nationalized, communal organizations abolished, and "enemies of the state" deported. Ukrainians were also persecuted by the communists (among whom were many Jews). After the German invasion, they took revenge by massacring Jews, encouraged ...

The Roman Haar collection contains documents from Roman’s childhood, growing up in Poland. The photographs in the collection are mainly of Roman, but some show him posing with his father Salo, and his mother Erna, and his half-brother Joachim Fritsche. The larger photograph taken in 1943 is of Roman while he was hiding in Rzeszow, and one photograph from 1946 is of Roman, Erna, and Joachim. Another ...

Sally Korn (born Salomeja Frankel, b. 1926) was the daughter of Samuel (b. 1890) and Chaja Gitel (b. 1900) Frankel. She was born on July 17, 1926 in Mikolajow, Poland where her father was a machinist. During the war Sally worked in a farm affiliated with a slave labor camp in Kurowice not far from Lvov. The farmer took relatively good care of the Jewish workers assigned to him. In 1943 an order was ...

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.

Hanukiyah used in the Tarnow ghetto between March 1941 and September 1943. This Hanukiyah is an industrial menorah similar in design and composition to several made by Johannes Rominger in Stuttgart, Germany. A Hanukkah candelabrum holds eight candles for the eight nights of Hanukkah; the ninth candle is the Shamash [attendant] that is used to light the other candles. Because of their religious significance, ...

Parade with elaborate floats and crowds of spectators. CU, three children and their elders. Toddler with bowlegs. MS, portraits of families outside village homes (still in Krosno?). 00:12:55 Polish troops marching in the street. Banner in Polish above the street. A man with white beard and hat holds a Torah scroll behind gentlemen in formal dress. The American visitors and friends wave at the camera. ...