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Róża Zyto was born Róża Plac on October 10, 1922. She was the only child of Juda Idł Plac and Gitla Ganc Plac. Idł Plac was a labor activist in Warsaw. On October 15, 1939 Róża Plac with her parents escaped Poland for Lvov, which was under the Soviet administration. In June 1940, the Soviets exiled them to the Ural Mountains, in Komi USSR. In 1946 the Plac family was allowed to return to Poland. Róża ...

Testimony, 20 pages, typescript, written by Jerry Tepperman, of Thornhill, Ontario, Canada, in which he researches and reconstructs the experiences of his father, Leib Tepperman, who died when Jerry was 16 and never spoke about his Holocaust experiences. The elder Tepperman survived the Łódź ghetto, but the documentation compiled by his son focuses on his time at Dachau and Kaufering in 1944-1945. ...

The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Kalman and Pauline Pajes Barakan in Poland during and after the World War II, including their repatriation and lives in Łódź until 1968, when they again became refugees and immigrated to the United States.

The collection consists of a comb, scrip, tags, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Josef Rosenberg and Ruth Wolman, both born in Poland and interned in Łódź ghetto, various concentration camps, and liberated in Bergen-Belsen, where they met, married and had their daughter Bella.

The collection consists of one etching, eleven drawings and six paintings created by David Friedmann (from 1960, Friedman) after the war based upon his experiences during the Holocaust in the Łódź (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto in Poland from October 1941 - August 1944 and as a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz I, and Blechhammer concentration camps from August 1944 until his liberation soon after a ...

Multi-colored image of a woman standing at the open door of a building holding a dish with children standing in front of her; inside the building are a man and woman seated at a table

Consists of one certificate from the Camp Office of Dachau marked June 12, 1945, certifying that Mr. Lejzer Najfeld, originally from Łódź, was detained in and subsequently liberated from the concentration camp of Dachau. It is stamped by the International Prisoners' Committee, Dachau Concentration Camp.

Consists of eight pre-war photographs of the family of Mendel and Hynda Szczukowski, originally of Łódź, Poland. Of their seven children in Poland (an eighth, Esther, emigrated to Poland in 1916), five perished during the Holocaust, as did Mendel. Hynda passed away in 1932. Also includes post-war photographs of Mojzesz Szczukowski in a displaced persons camp in Hofgeisman, Germany, participating ...

Collection consists of newspaper clippings, documents and photocopies of ID cards. Includes copies of work identification cards issued to Bajla and Boruch Grzywach [no relation to donor] in the Łódź ghetto and correspondence and clippings documenting a trial of former SS officers in 1965-1966 who were in Tarnopol, Poland. Pawel Peisach Adler [donor] was called as a witness for this trial; in German, ...

<u> Brief biography of Itzhak Katzenelson</u><br> Poet, author, playwright, teacher, and educator, Itzhak-Yechiel Katzenelson was born in 1885 or 1886 in Karelicze, Minsk district, Belorussia. In 1887 his family relocated to Lodz. Katzenelson’s literary, dramatic, and pedagogical talents were recognized at an early age, he wrote plays, poems, and stories for children. In Lodz in 1912, he founded the ...