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Contains documents relating to Kalman Karl Kornfeld (donor's uncle by marriage), including a provisional identification card for a civilian internee of Mauthausen; a Polish identity certificate; a Polish passport; notice of registration in Cuba; a US certificate of naturalization; a US passport; and a photocopy of his death certificate.

Rose Schwartz was born Rivke Fiszbaum in 1924 in Kozienice, Poland to shoemaker Shmue Matisl (1896-1970) and Basia Serla Fiszbaum (1899-1940). She had two older brothers, David Baruch (b. 1919) and Itzhak (1922-1975), and two younger sisters, Sara Scendle (1926-1976) and Chanah Broocher (1933-1937). Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Rose's family was confined to the ghetto in 1940, and Rose worked cleaning ...

The papers consist of documents relating to the Jewish ghetto and the Judenrat (Jewish council) in Kozienice, Poland. The documents include a full list of the inhabitants of the Kozienice ghetto, lists of Jews registered as able-bodied, a list of Jewish children born in the ghetto during the years 1939 to 1941, and other reports written by the employees of the Judenrat to the German authorities. Kozienice ...

Documents related to the post-war experiences of Jacob Silvermintz (aka Jakob Silberminz), originally of Szkosin, Poland; issued while he was living as a displaced person in and around Munich, Germany, 1945-1949. Includes identification cards, including those certifying that he had previously been a prisoner at Buchenwald; residence permits; health documents; and letters of reference related to his ...

This collection contains 201 maps and plans (some of them in several copies) from very different provenances and dates of origin, some are undated. The maps of the period prior to 1939 mostly include plans of the following towns: Biała, Częstochowa, and Otwock. The largest and most valuable parts of the collection consist of plans and maps of 1939-1945, including: 1. Plans of ghettos, e.g. Baranowicze, ...

Identity cards, documents, certificates and scrip from before, during, and after the Holocaust for Bozena Grunhut (nee Belska) and Abraham Gajer (later Gayer) [donor's parents] and their first spouses Robert Israel Kauders-Kuhe (later Jaros) and Nelli Hammer, and Robert's mother Adrienne Kauders-Kuhe. In addition to identification paperwork, the collection contains DP camp materials, immigration and ...

Prosecutions in the Soviet-Occupied Zone of Germany (subsequently German Democratic Republic) against perpetrators of Nazi-era crimes. Victims were Jews, the mentally ill, prisoners of war, and other groups in ghettos, partisan areas, camps, and killing centers. Perpetrators were in the SS, the Einsatzgruppen, police battalions and regiments, the euthanasia program, the court system, ghetto and camp ...

Records relating to German war criminals, descriptions of crimes, description of everyday life in concentration camps in the Third Reich, territories incorporated to the Reich and in the General Government (Poland). Includes file cards of orphan children of Polish parents murdered or missing during World War II, as well as individual and collective photographs of children - depicting the help of Polish ...

Concentration camp uniform dress worn by Leopoldine “Poldi” Langer in Leipzig-Schoenfeld concentration camp from August 4, 1944, until she was on a death march in late April 1945. On March 15, 1939, Germany annexed the region of Czechoslovakia, including Orlau, where Poldi lived with her husband Hans. Hans was arrested in April, escaped after two days, and the couple fled to Prokocim, Poland, near ...

Simona G. Frajndlich (1921-2006) was born Gita Witorz in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. Her family owned a factory in Łódź where she attended school. During the war, Gita and her family were forced into the Piotrków Trybunalski ghetto until its liquidation in 1942. During the liquidation, Gita was saved by her father’s friend. Throughout the remainder of war, she was transported to several slave labor ...