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Consists of a collection of letters written to Roman Ryterband by members of his family in Poland between 1938 and 1943. Mr. Ryterband spent the war in Switzerland, and received letters from his parents, Abram and Golda Riterband (Ryterband), who were deported from Łódź in 1939, imprisoned in the Nowy Sacz ghetto and deported to a death camp in 1942. Also includes letters from other members of his ...

White upright storage cabinet used to store goods at Dzierzazna prison camp for Polish children in a district of Łódź, (Litzmannstadt), Poland, circa March 1943 - July 1944. The prefabricated wardrobe was manufactured in Germany and put together using assembly instructions. Dzierzazna opened on January 12, 1943, as a subcamp of the Polish Juveniles Camp of the Security Police. The SS had a Lebensborn ...

Contains a portrait photograph of Dr. Max Hess and Paula Fleischer Hess, taken in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1939. This portrait was sent to donor’s grandparents who received it en route to New Zealand, on the ship "Oronsay" in Port Said on May 3, 1939. Max and Paula Hess were deported from their hometown, Prague to the Theresienstadt camp and on October 21, 1941, they were deported to the Łódź ghetto ...

Contains documents and photographs relating to the Trommer and Geldmann families from Copenhagen; documents include marriage certificate of Moses Diament of Copenhagen, Denmark and Pesa Geldmann of Łódź, Poland, issued in Zbaszyn, Poland on April 22, 1939; Ketubah of Josef Geldmann and Kaja Diament, dated October 27, 1935 in Copenhagen. Josef, son of Moses Geldmann (donor's grandfather) was born on ...

Documents and photographs illustrating the post-war experiences of Simon Lenczycki, his wife Sara Glatter Lenczycki and their son Henryk [donor] in the displaced persons camps in Feldafing and Fuerth, Germany: included are drivers licenses and identity cards for Fuerth, and an identity card issued to Simon who was interned in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Landshut and Muhldorf concentration camps. Documents ...

The papers consist of two manuscripts written by Bronka Grynglas Rezak [donor] for her grandsons, Avi and Ronnen Gruber, and a newspaper article. In the manuscript, titled "The History of our family," she describes the history of her family in Poland before World War II, their experiences in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and various concentration camps during World War II, and their immigration to ...

The collection contains prewar photographs of Chaim Yaakov Ciechanowiecki and Hinka Miller, and their families in Poland; postwar photographs in a displaced persons camp in Cremona, Italy; and modern color photographs of family members.

Simone Brand Birndorf (born Simonka Brand) was born in 1938 in Łódź, Poland to Stefzca and Izak Brand. At the age of three, Simone was sent to live with her paternal uncle, Felix Brand, and his wife Irka Brand, who were living in Poland under falsified papers. Her parents perished in the Holocaust. After the war, the Brand family, with Simone’s surviving paternal grandmother lived in the Zeilsheim ...

Ray Kaner was born as Rachela Bryk on December 10, 1927 in Lodz, Poland. She was the youngest child of Nechemia and Dwojra Tauba Bryk. The family resided on 16 Zawadzka Street. Rachela had four older siblings: Josef (b. 1913) who died before the war; Szprynca Tauba (Sala, b.1920); Levy (Lajwo, b. 1922) and Eliasz (Elus, b. 1924). Nechemia had a contract for supply of provisions to different institutions. ...

Testimony, handwritten, 4 pages, experiences in Łódź ghetto and Bergen Belsen.