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Hersch Mozes Cohen was born in Antwerp, Belgium, on 14 June 1905 as the son of Mozes Cohen and Hilletje Pollak. Hersch was raised in the port city, but when, in 1914, the First World War broke out his family fled to the Netherlands, the country of birth of both Hersch’s parents. In June 1919 the Cohens returned to Antwerp and settled at Grammestraat 33. However, Hersch again lived in Amsterdam from ...

Raul Hilberg is the author of the seminal book, "The Destruction of the European Jews." In this interview with Claude Lanzmann for SHOAH, Hilberg discusses several aspects of his research, including the culpability of the German railways in the deportation process of European Jews, as well as the significant roles Adam Czerniakow and Rudolf Kasztner played in the genocide of the European Jews. Hilberg ...

Stainless steel tablespoon with scratched initials used by Hans Finke while imprisoned in Auschwitz and several subcamps: Gleiwitz, Sachsenhausen, Flossenbürg, and Bergen Belsen. Hans carried the spoon, a crucial piece of property, in his shoe during transfers, including a death march, from March 1943 until liberation in Bergen-Belsen in April 1945. Hans, his parents and his sister Ursula lived in ...

Paula Dash (b. Paula Garfinkel, 1920-2007) was born in Łódź, Poland, to Aron Itzhak and Chaja Cypra Garfinkel. Paula had three siblings, Leon, Sala (1922-1942), and Henry. Aron was an architect and owned a furniture store. The family lived in a second floor apartment with a corner balcony in the nice part of the city. Paula and her siblings belonged to Gordonia, a Zionist group that believed in humanistic ...

The Klapholc and Shoval families photograph collection consists of twenty-four family photographs depicting the Klapholc family from Oświęcim, Poland and of Henryk Heniek Wasserlauf from Kraków and after the war in Wrocław.

Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World War I veteran from Schlabendorf, Germany. Ella was born on April 9, 1893, in Berlin. Alice's brother Heinz Alfred was born on June 9, 1923. The family considered themselves Germans who were Jewish. They celebrated high holidays, irregularly attended synagogue, ...

Tarnów is a city in southern Poland, 45 miles east of Kraków (Cracow). Before World War II, about 25,000 Jews lived in Tarnów. Jews—whose recorded presence in the town went back to the mid-fifteenth century—comprised about half of the town's total population. A large portion of Jewish business in Tarnów was devoted to garment and hat manufacturing. The Jewish community was ideologically diverse and ...

The Herzog family papers include photographs, correspondence, and a birth certificate documenting the Herczog family from Érsekújvár (now Nové Zámky, Slovakia, formerly in Czechoslovakia and Hungary) and from Nagybörzsöny, Hungary. The collection includes correspondence and postcards written to Tibor (Avigdor) Herczog in the Hungarian forced labor camps in Köszeg and Ripinye (now Repenye, Ukraine) ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00496 at Kazerne Dossin

The district governor's office in Příbram was established in 1850 for the judicial districts of Příbram and Dobříš. In 1855 it was changed into the district office with mixed political and judicial powers for the judicial district of Příbram. Dobříš was an independent district in 1855-1868. By order of the Ministry of the Interior, in 1868 the district office was again changed into the district governor's ...