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The collection consists of a rubber stamp, and an employment book, or Arbeitsbuch, issued to Anton Wilda, a Polish worker of German ancestry in Katowice, Poland, during the Holocaust.

56 pages illustrations (maps) 4 plates on 2 leaves 21 cm.

DW 738/1944 (October 25, 1944) Men of the Volkssturm march down the street. Posters and newspaper articles about the Volkssturm (People's Assault), which was the militia activated near the end of the war to defend Germany from the approaching Allies. The Volkssturm consisted of those males previously considered unfit for military service, including boys younger than 16 and men up to age 60. Shot of ...

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.