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The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Larry Rosenbach (born Eliezer Lajziu Rosenbach) and his family, originally of Leżajsk, Poland. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs depicting the Föhrenwald and Zeilsheim displaced persons camps in Germany, the Bielski partisans, and passengers on board the "Champollion" en route to Palestine. Also included are three postcards ...

A diary of a journey made in summer 1996 by Gilbert, together with a group of his students from University College, London. They went to Berlin (including Wannsee), Prague and Theresienstadt, Slovakia, the Polish cities of Krakow, Lublin, Warsaw, Parczew, Piotrków, Konin, Łódź, and others, the Nazi camps Auschwitz, Bełżec, Majdanek, Sobibór, Treblinka, and Chełmno, and numerous other sites connected ...

Original typescript account of arrest in Vienna and incarceration in Dachau concentration camp in the immediate aftermath of Kristallnacht and other related papers

Selected materials related to concentration camps Bełżec, Treblinka, Chełmno, Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Płaszòw, and Gross-Rosen; ghettos in Warsaw, Siedlce, and Limanowa; and the labor camps for Jews in Poznań: testimony of witnesses and suspects, photographs, postcards, letters, certificates of death, travel passes, texts of prayers, staff lists, lists of ex-prisoners, documents of Poland’s military ...

This collection contains 201 maps and plans (some of them in several copies) from very different provenances and dates of origin, some are undated. The maps of the period prior to 1939 mostly include plans of the following towns: Biała, Częstochowa, and Otwock. The largest and most valuable parts of the collection consist of plans and maps of 1939-1945, including: 1. Plans of ghettos, e.g. Baranowicze, ...

Elias Dresner (1889-1942) was born in Krakow, Poland (former Austria) and married Gretel (née Cohn, 1896-1942) born in Greiz, Germany. They both lived in Leipzig, Germany until 1939 when they moved to Krakow. They were captured by the Gestapo in 1942. Elias was shot whilst in Gestapo custody in Tarnow. Gretel was sent along with Elias' brother Wladek to Belzec where they perished. Gretel's mother 'Oma ...

Operation Reinhard (1942-1943) was the largest single murder campaign of the Holocaust, during which some 1.7 million Jews from German-occupied Poland were murdered by the Nazis. Most perished in gas chambers at the death camps Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka. However, the tempo, kill rates, and spatial dynamics of these events were poorly documented. Using an unusual dataset originating from railway ...

The papers consist of documents and photographs relating to the experiences of the Horowitz family in Krakow before World War II, and their experiences in the Krakow ghetto and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during World War II. Also included are documents and photographs relating to their experiences in Belgium after liberation.

Ojser Salpeter (Oskar, b. 1884) was born on January 20, 1884 in Radomyśl, Poland (present-day Ukraine). Brunhilde Salpeter (Bronia/Breindl, née Issler, b. 1891) was born on April 28, 1891 in Radomyśl. Oskar and Brunhilde Salpeter married in Dortmund, Germany on August 26, 1919. They moved to Düsseldorf, Germany where their four daughters were born: Klara Salpeter (May 30, 1923- ), Rieka Salpeter (Rika, ...

Discusses the internment and annihilation of Jews in 18 camps during World War II: concentration camps Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dora, Flossenbürg, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen, Natzweiler-Struthof, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen, Stutthof; and extermination camps Auschwitz, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, Treblinka. Deals with the history and organization of the camps, based on ...