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David Davidowitz donated the interview with his mother Sara Dawidowicz (née Lubnitzki) to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 2021. David Davidowitz produced for the interview for his documentary film "55150." https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/bib278542

Consists of two photographs: one a prewar image of Ania Szymkiewicz Engel (donor) and her mother, Regina, walking in the street in Łódź, Poland; the second an image of Hana Engel in Tel Aviv, dated 1948. Ania attended Abba Gymnasium before the war and the ghetto high school. In August 1944, she and her mother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Regina was murdered. Hana was liberated in May ...

Cywia (Sylvia) Perelmuter was born on January 20, 1935, to Isak, born in 1903, and Chaja Wolfman in Łódź, Poland. She joined older sister, Dora (Doris), who was born in 1927. Her father worked in a wholesale flour and sugar cooperative. On September 1, 1940, Germany invaded Poland. Łódź was occupied and renamed Litzmannstadt. In February, the Jews were forced into a small section of the city that was ...

Hyman Lader was born Chaim Lajdor in Łódź, Poland on July 24, 1906, to Herschel and Mary (née Fuks) Lajdor. He was the eldest child and older brother to Fay (Fayga, b. June 19, 1908), and Irving (Itche, b. June 17, 1910). Hyman attended the local Cheder and trained in the violin, with the encouragement of his father Herschel, who made his living as a musician. During World War I, the family moved temporarily ...

Bluma Krzepicka was born Blima Kawałek on March 15, 1927 in Zduńska Wola, Poland. Her father, Szaja Mojsze Kawałek, owned a butcher shop and her mother, Iska Markowicz, took care of the children. Krzepicka had a younger brother, Zalman Josef (b. 1930) and a younger sister, Chaja (b. 1934). The family was forced into the Zduńska Wola ghetto, and in July 1942 Krzepicka was deported to the Łódź ghetto. ...

The papers consist of pre-war and post-war photographs of Marek Nunberg and his family in Poland as well as documents relating to Marek Nunberg's service in the Polish Army during the war.

Contains an identity card ("Kennkarte"), a yellow card marked on front with "J," issued to Chana Bajla Filozof, born in Łódź, Poland, on January 15, 1922; photograph of bearer affixed. Includes an "Arbeitsausweis" (worker identification card), an employment certificate of "Organisation Todt," dated circa 1944, issued to Carlo Michelutti, born 23 May 1888. Also includes an official letter printed on ...

Contains a letter and recommendations, dated October 1, 1938, written by Friedel Tykoschinski (b. September 26, 1914 in Trier, Germany) who moved in 1926 together with her parents Hersch Hermann (b. 1887) and Rosa (b. 1885), and younger brother Erwin to Berlin. She asked Mrs. Cohen (donor's mother) to send her a secondary affidavit, supporting that of Friedel's uncle in New York. Friedel and Erwin ...

Contains correspondence addressed to and from Sol Rubinstein, Cleveland, OH, to family members of Łapy and Łódź, Poland, describing actions being taken against the Jewish populations. Other letters include those written by Sol Rubinstein addressed to a friend in Sokoli, Poland, as well as letters from family members in Haifa and from Nathan Zahavi about attempts to save his Aunt Fradl. Also contains ...

Contains a copy of one report, 15 pages, written by Dr. Peter Ostwald, a psychiatrist at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco on January 18, 1966, to Mr. Klaus Hoefel, a consular officer at the Federal Republic of Germany consulate in San Francisco, regarding the mental health of Mrs. Guta Strykowski (later Cohen, born Weintraub), originally of Vlostrova, Poland. Dr. Ostwald ...