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THe collection consists of photographs, documents and blankets illustrating the experiences of Lola Rewitz, born in Katowice, Poland and Menachem Mozes, born in Goworowo, Poland. Lola was deported from Bochnia in 1943 with her mother and sent to Plaszow, Auschwitz, marched on foot and then transferred by train to Ravensbrueck then Malhoff. On a death march from Malhoff, they were liberated by Russian ...

Selected files of the Policja Województwa Śląskiego (Silesian Voivodeship Police). Consist of orders and ordinances of superior authorities, situational reports, searching, investigations and detentions of criminals, information about various manifestations of social and political life. Included are records related to “Volksdeutsche" communities, German minority, communist movement, political parties ...

The fonds contains documents of the Police Headquarters in Brno from the period of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, inter alia material concerning transports to the concentration camp in Auschwitz, in the year 1942–1944; searches for persons accused of crimes, for escaped Soviet and English prisoners of war, also material concerning escapes of prisoners and escapes from Labour camps – establishment ...

The collection contains selected records from the files produced by the Head Command of the Police of Region of Silesia and some of the County Police Commands. They cover the following matters: orders and resolutions of the superior authorities, situation reports, searches, inquiries and arrests of the delinquents, information about the social and political events, especially relating to the German ...

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 ...

Consists of one typed memoir, 631 pages, entitled "The Narrow Bridge: Remembrance of a Jewish Childhood during the Second World War," written in 2014 by Dr. Zwi Barnea (born Herbert Zwi Chameides), originally of Katowice, Poland. In the memoir, Dr. Barnea describes going into hiding under the direction of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and the Metropolitan's brother, Klement Sheptytsky, head of the ...

A collection of 18 testimonies collected by the author, a journalist, in interviews with Jews in Israel and non-Jews in Poland, relating the fate of Jews in Poland during the Holocaust. Emphasizes the role of Gentile rescuers who risked their lives in order to save Jews. Describes, also, the activities of members of Jewish youth movements after the liquidation of the ghettos of Zagłębie and Katowice, ...

Ladder used by Michael Goldmann (later Goldmann-Gilead), Chanan Ansbacher, and Eli Heilman to hide in Konrad and Regina Zimoń’s hayloft in January 1945, in Rybnik, Poland. The men had escaped from a forced march after Auschwitz concentration camp was evacuated. They hid for a week, during which time the Zimoń’s oldest daughter, Stefania, regularly brought them food. In summer 1939, fearing a German ...

Two albums, containing reproductions of correspondence to the donor’s aunt, Regina Bader, and her mother and other family members, 1942-1943. The letters that are copied in this album were sent to Bader while she was interned during World War II in the Bernsdorf forced labor camp, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen, and her family were mostly living in a ghetto in Sosnowiec, German-occupied Poland. Translations ...