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Anna Grun (born Schmidt or Gleitman) was born in Kraków, Poland. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Anna's family temporarily moved to Dąbrowa Tarnowska, Poland before returning to Kraków. While in the Kraków ghetto, her family went into hiding in an effort to escape deportations. In 1942, Anna was deported to Plaszów concentration camp and began working at Oskar Schindler's enamel factory. ...

Roman Antoniak was born in Lwow, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine) on 10 May 1926. Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Antoniak was hired as an apprentice at the Ostdeutsche Email und Metall Werke in Lwow in January 1942, and was enrolled in the Ukrainische Hilfskomitee in October of that same year. He was arrested by the Germans at some point in 1944 and transferred by the Gestapo in Kattowitz ...

Includes letters exchanged between the Sam Jung family and J. A. Fox, a non-Jewish prisoner of war, and Fox's sister, E. A. Fox. The letters were written by Fox and his sister in order to inform Jung's family of his well being and whereabouts. Also included is a 1940 postcard from Maurice Jung to his brother Sam Jung; a recent letter from Leo Young to his children, nieces, and nephews telling the story ...

Consists of one memoir, 7 pages, entitled "The Reminiscences of a Young Holocaust Survivor" written by Yuri Prizov, with copies in English and Russian. In the memoir, Mr. Prizov describes his childhood, initially in Zaysan, Kazakhstan, and later near the Polish border, as well as his memories of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the family's escape east, to the region of Karachay-Cherkassia, ...

Examines the destruction of Warsaw by the Nazis during September 1939 and the efforts of the Polish underground to rebel. Includes scenes of Warsaw before and after the German invasion, including views of the Jewish ghetto. Under siege in 1939 cityscape smoke rising. Germans shelling. People running through scarred city street. VS of destruction. German troops and vehicles advance along road. Smoke ...

This collection comprises a school leaving certificate dated 1939, of Risa Elizabeth Novak, Pavel Novak's wife; a certificate from the Jewish Refugees Committee in London about her arrival from Austria in May 1939; and a certificate from a group of Austrian Trade Unionists in Great Britain, confirming the identity of her father and the fact that he was arrested for anti-fascist activities in 1934 and ...

Paul Blank (1923-2011, some records place his birth on 2 July 1925) was born Pajasch Blank on 2 July 1923 in Bełżyce, Poland to Berek Blank and Gita Feld. He had two sisters and two brothers. After the German invasion of Poland he was likely in the Bełżyce and Bedzin ghettos. He was deported to the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, and sent to the Flossenbürg concentration camp on 4 August 1944. He ...

1942 map of Litzmannstadt (Łódź), Poland with an alphabetical street directory. The city had been occupied and annexed by Nazi Germany one week after the September 1, 1939, invasion. The Germans renamed the city Litzmannstadt, after the General Karl Litzmann, who had conquered the city during World War I. Łódź had the second largest Jewish population in Poland and, in February 1940, they were relocated ...