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Nathan Sadik (1917-2010) was born Nachman Mendel Sadyk on 17 June 1917 in Mława, Poland to Josef Dowid and Ruchla (née Appelmann) Sadyk. Nathan had three younger sisters: Golda, Chaya Rivke, and Gitel. His father worked as a shoemaker and the family was Orthodox. After completing grammar school he worked in a flour mill to help support the family. After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, ...

1941-1944 Armaments specialists at conferences and weapons demonstrations, including Armaments Minister Albert Speer, Hitler, Himmer, military and industrial leaders. Reel 2: Events of 6 and 7 June, 1943, in Hillersleben, Germany. Participants in front of the conference building, talking to each other and posing for the camera. Goebbels, Speer, others, exit the building. Conference participants watch ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

Esther Karpman was born Esther Goldfinger in Warsaw, Poland on February 18, 1918. Her father, Moshe Aron, had a wholesale glove business at 37 Nalewki Street. Her mother, Chava Nelkenbaum Goldfinger, took care of the children. Esther had four siblings: Josef Lejb, b. 1910; Ryfka, b. 1912; Masza, b. 1914 and Chana, b. 1916. The family, who was observant and sent Esther to a religious school “Havatzelet,” ...

Franz Zürni (born 1912) was a chauffeur. Zürni worked as a driver for 40 years for the moving firm Welti-Furrer. From 1939 to 1945 he served in the Swiss compulsory military service (“Aktivdienst”). In the aftermath of World War II, Zürni delivered care shipments by truck on behalf of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to the Prisoner of War (POW) and former concentration camps. Zürni ...

The Lila Lam Nowakowska papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting Lila’s assumed identity in Warsaw during the Holocaust, her internment at Mauthausen and forced labor in Steyr and Znojmo, her postwar reunion with her mother, and the Jewish orphanage where her mother worked in Chorzów after the war. Biographical materials include identification and work papers ...