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Isaak Jacob Topas (Icek Jakob Topas) was born to Szyme and Bejla Topas. His wife, Sura Etta Ferszt (1886-?) was born on March 18, 1886 in Warsaw, Poland, to Majer Ferszt and Jospe Zacharasiewicz. Isaak Topas and Sura Etta Ferszt married on January 16, 1903 in Warsaw, Poland. They had at least two children Avrahom Chaim Topas (November 14, 1904-1942) and Mietek Topas (Mordechai, 1908-1943). Avrahom ...

The Herman Taube papers consist of articles, manuscripts, poetry, presentations, and translations by Herman Taube, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, as well as correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Taube's career as a writer, journalist, and educator, which was often influenced by his own Holocaust experiences in Łódź, Siberia, and the Second Polish Army. The collection also includes ...

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 ...

Arthur Gross was born in 1925 in Andrychow, Poland. His father, Wilhelm (1888-1942), owned a shoe store and was an area distributor of Bata shoes, and his mother, Salomea Skibelski Gross (1887-1942) was a homemaker. Arthur had two older brothers: Daniel (b. 1912) and Aleksander (1915-1945). Daniel Gross studied medicine in France and during the war served in the French Foreign Legion. On Rosh Hashana, ...

Zalman Kagan was born in 1916 in Dukszty, Lithuania, as the son of Leib Kagan (b. 28/01/1888 in Dukszty, Lithuania) and Brajna Lewin (b. 1894 in Roubin, Lithuania). After Leib Kagan emigrated to Belgium in 1927, his wife, sons Zalman and Hirsz, and daughter Ida joined him in October 1932. The family settled in Brussels and oldest son Zalman Kagan became a tailor. On 9 February 1938, he married Tauba ...

Simon Breitstein (1917-1994) was born in 1917 to Szlama Breitstein (1888-1945) and Laja Sumrai Breitstein (1892-1936) in Łódź, Poland. Simon had 3 sisters, Edzia Fajn (1914-1945), Sala Szefner (1914-1945), and Gina Wyszegrodzki (1926-1988) and one brother, Beniek (1922-1945). Szlama Breitstein, a ladies tailor, was the proprietor of business on Czernika Street in which many of the Breitstein children, ...

Reports, correspondence, hearings of witnesses regarding the action of the Polish underground in Warsaw, materials about the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 - various information, studies, accounts, notes, list of executions, situational sketches and maps, list of commanders and military units; account of German crimes committed in September 1939; investigation materials against Erich von dem Bach, Heinz Reinefarth, ...

Kazimierz Jan Wilk was born in Nowy Targ, Poland, on February 8, 1916. His father was a district engineer and his mother was a high school teacher; all four of their children received university degrees. Kazimierz graduated from the Polytechnic in L'vov, Poland, in spring 1939, with a degree in civil engineering. After the German invasion in September 1939, Wilk was employed by the Technical Department ...

Clara Lefkowitz Kempler was born in 1920 in Užhorod, Czechoslovakia (later Ungvar Hungary, now Uzhhorod, Ukraine) to Chaim and Leah Lefkowitz. Clara was deported in spring 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp then to subsequent concentration and slave labor camps Gelsenkirchen (Gelsenberg-Benzin AG) and Sömmerda. She survived a seven week death march in spring 1945 and was liberated by Soviet ...

The collection contains personal documents, letters, certificates, diaries, poems, memoirs of internees and prisoners in Italian and German concentration camps and prisons; lists of internees, prisoners and deportees 1941-1945; certificates of German camps on the reception or release of internees 1941-1945 (Allach, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Flossenbürg, Dachau, Mauthausen, Natzweiler, Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen, ...