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The Special Court (Sondergericht) was established on Sept. 22 1939, when the first group of judges arrived in Łódź, headed by the Director of the national court, Dr. Artur Welz. The Sondergericht judged economic cases, political cases (e.g. possession of a weapon, criticism of the Nazi regime, radio monitoring, contacts with P.O.W.s, assistance to the persecuted), as well as crimes against good morals. ...

Photographs of Kaufman and Gliklich family members before the war in Łódź, Poland and after the war in the Wels DP camp. Includes photographs of Braun family members in Berlin, Germany before they immigrated to Palestine in 1937. Also includes a Polish passport issued in Sweden to Shmuel Kaufman in 1948 and a copy of the marriage certificate of the donor's parents.

Three photographs. One taken approximately 1936 of five school girls who attended Hochstein Gymnasium in Łódź, including from left, Mina Reiss Colton, Bronka Rheingold, Marysia Sheinberg, Mira Poznanska and Bela Ginzburg. One group portrait of women released from Ravensbrück concentration camp and brought to Sweden for recuperation taken in Annaberg, May 1945. One group photo of donor's brother Natek, ...

Simon Goldman (1929-2010) was born on April 1, 1929 in Łódź, Poland to Jacob and Rachel Ksztan (d. 1939), who were observant Jews and probably also from Łódź. He had three brothers and one sister: Yechiel, Manya, Wewel, and Abram. Simon was briefly located in Siedlce after World War I started. He managed to be hired as a cow hand and passed as a gentile on a farm from the end of 1941 until liberation ...

Minna Wiwiecka Wosk was born in Darmstadt, Germany on April 19, 1922. Her father, Maylech Wiwiecka, her mother, Rywka Schottland Wiwiecka, and her younger sister were Polish citizens, and in 1938 they were forced to leave Germany. They joined their relatives in Łódź, Poland and in 1940 were forced into the Łódź ghetto. In August 1944 Minna and her family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where ...

The collection consists of three photographs and one photographic postcard of staff at the Jewish hospital in the ghetto of Łódź, Poland. The postcard shows three rows of doctors and nurses standing outside the hospital. The remaining three photographs are individual portraits of survivors who worked at the hospital. Included among these portraits are Bronislawa Lewkowicz, wearing a nurse's uniform; ...

Document entitled ‘guidelines for the handling of the property of Jews sent to Litzmannstadt', containing specific instructions on how the property of Jews must be handled, quoting the authority of several laws and ordinances 

Contains one memoir, 13 pages, entitled "Dina's Story," written in 1994 by Dina Littman, originally of Zgierz, Poland. In the memoir, she describes the confiscation of goods, life in the Łódź ghetto, forced labor in Shwachsztrom. In 1944, she was deported to Auschwitz and from there, to Bergen-Belsen and to forced labor in Salzwedel, where she was liberated. She briefly returned to Łódź, married a ...

The Margalit Bar-On collection consists of copies of typed and handwritten poems, some with modern photographs included, and photocopies of photographs of the Mydlarz family, originally of Łódź, Poland. The poems were written by Margalit Mydlarz Bar-On between 1973-1989. The poems describe her experiences in the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, Harburg, her liberation from Bergen-Belsen, and time in Sweden ...

Memoirs of a Polish Jew (1929-1993), born near Łódź, who was the only survivor of his family. Relates the life story of his sister, Bronia, and his own experiences in the Holocaust. In April 1940 the family was interned in the Łódź ghetto. The parents died from starvation and cold. Eichenbaum, his brother, and his sister were deported to Auschwitz in 1944. Bronia survived several camps; however, ...