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This collection includes a memoir written by Bernard Rechnitz from 1946-1947. In the memoir Bernard records his thoughts on what happened during the Holocaust and recounts his family’s experiences from 1939-1943. Bernard writes about life before the war, moving his family from Katowice to Kraków, the German invasion, confiscation of Jewish property, and their imprisonment in the Płaszów labor camp. ...

The collection consists of document, correspondence, and photographs regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of Gerszon Ajbeszyc and his wife Adela Ajbeszyc (née Fiszel). Included are false-identity identification papers used by Gerszon and Adela, birth certificates, marriage documents, restitution paperwork, and family photographs.

219 pages maps, diagrams 24 cm.

Akta osobowe więźniów z lat 1940-1942, sygn. 1. Akta dotyczące działalności służbowej nadsekretarza Alfreda Fritscha z lat [1932] 1939-1944, sygn. 2.

Stefania Glat (born Stefania Mischel, 1915-1991) was the daughter of Chana Mischel and lived in Dolina. She had two siblings: Arnold and Masia (Miriam?). Stefania studied medicine in Lvov before the war. Her first husband was murdered by Ukrainians during the July 1941 pogrom in Lvov. She escaped Lvov with the retreating Soviet forces in June 1941 and worked as a nurse. She met Bernard Glat (1904-1968, ...

The Hemar family papers includes a 1940 postcard from Helena Kalwari in the Warsaw ghetto to her friend Tosia Stryk in Chicago, birth certificates purchased by Alice and Władek Hemar to secure identification cards under false identities, false identification cards and marriage certificate under the couple’s assumed names, a birth certificate for Ryszard Hemar under his false name, and photographs of ...

The collection consists of a self-portrait and photographs relating to the experiences of Zvi Weinstadt and his family from Łódź, Poland before the war, and after the war in Stuttgart displaced persons camp, a British internment camp in Cyprus, and in Israel, and of Ester Steinkeller (later Weinstadt) and her family from Katowice, Poland, before the war, and after the war in Austria, Italy, and Is ...

Amalie Noher (1889-1941) was born on 16 May 1889 to Simon and Bertha (née Hertzfeld) Noher in Poland. She had eight siblings, Ella, Salo, Bruno, Leo, Charlotte, Trude, Bernhard, and Selma. Amalie married Chaim Ajzyk Feldman (1896-1942?), a dentist born in Będzin, Poland. Chaim had at least one brother, Wolf, who immigrated to the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II. Their daughter Ruth ...

Contains information about the activities of the police in Sosnowiec, Czeladź , and Katowice, Poland; air raid defense; and treatment of Jews by police forces.

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Jungdeutsche Partei in Polen war eine 1931 in Bielitz gegründete Vereinigung der deutschen Minderheit im polnischen Staat. Seit 1932 war sie in Oberschlesien tätig, seit 1934 auch in Großpolen, Pommerellen und in Lódz. Sie entwickelte sich mit ihrem stark von nationalsozialistischen Einflüssen aus dem vom deutschen Reich geprägten Kurs rasch zur stärksten Partei ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...