1. Maria Segal collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn512953
• English
• 2003
• folder 1
• Updated 6 months ago

Contains a manuscript written by Maria Segal describes her family before World War II in Okuniew, Poland; their experiences in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland; her escape from the ghetto; her hiding in Okuniew; her return to Warsaw; her expulsion to Pruszków; her liberation; and her fate after World War II.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn506770
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 6 months ago

The diary, "Escape from Hitler's clutches," (dated 06 September 1939 - 08 May 1945), describes Theodore Diesenhouse's experiences in Nazi-occupied Poland.

1. Bernard Nissenbaum collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502874
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 6 months ago

The testimony describes Bernard Nissenbaum's deportation from France and his imprisonment in several concentration and labor camps during the Holocaust. The testimony includes detailed descriptions of conditions in the Trzebinia camp, the status and treatment of wealthy Jews as compared with other inmates, the division of various nationalities of prisoners in the Birkenau camp, the situation of the "Muselmänner" in various camps, the relationships between Kapos and inmates, and conditions in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, prior to the uprising. Bernard wrote the testimony around 1945-1946, ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503621
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 6 months ago

Relates to the early life of Mala Goldrat Brandsdorfer (née Liss) in Poland; life for Jews under German occupation; experiences and observations in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, and Auschwitz-Birkenau; evacuation from Auschwitz; incarceration at Neustadt-Glewe; and liberation.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn38388
• English
• 2009
• folders 2 1 CD-ROM,
• Updated 6 months ago

Consists of one memoir, on CD-ROM, entitled "The Story of the Szwarcbard, Cyterszpiler, and Minc Families" by Jerzy Kubowski. The memoir, which is in Russian, Polish, and English, includes excerpts from various family members' memoirs, letters, and copies of photographs and drawings. Members of the family were able to immigrate, while others were sent to the Warsaw ghetto. Some survived the ghetto, while others either perished in the ghetto or in the Treblinka extermination camp.

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• 65862
• English
• 1962
• Updated 1 year ago

1. Stefan Petri collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn6808
• English
• overall: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)
• Updated 6 months ago

11 mm pipe cutter placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had...

1. Stefan Petri collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn6809
• English
• overall: Height: 10.625 inches (26.988 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)
• Updated 6 months ago

13.5 mm pipe cutter placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek h...

1. Muzeum Wojska Polskiego collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn5889
• English
• overall: Height: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Diameter: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm)
• Updated 6 months ago

Remains of a 75 mm artillery shell, found among ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto in the 1960s. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and Warsaw on September 29, after subjecting the city to heavy artillery bombardment. Warsaw had the largest Jewish population in Europe before the war. On October 12, 1940, German authorities in Warsaw decreed the establishment of a 1.3 square mile Jewish ghetto and required over 400,000 Jews from the city and nearby towns to relocate there. Between July 22 and September 12, 1942, approximately 265,000 Jews were deported from Warsaw to Treblinka killing cent...

1. Muzeum Wojska Polskiego collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn5888
• English
• overall: Height: 7.625 inches (19.368 cm) | Diameter: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm)
• Updated 6 months ago

Remains of a 75 mm artillery shell, found among ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto in the 1960s. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and Warsaw on September 29, after subjecting the city to heavy artillery bombardment. Warsaw had the largest Jewish population in Europe before the war. On October 12, 1940, German authorities in Warsaw decreed the establishment of a 1.3 square mile Jewish ghetto and required over 400,000 Jews from the city and nearby towns to relocate there. Between July 22 and September 12, 1942, approximately 265,000 Jews were deported from Warsaw to Treblinka killing cent...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521466
• English
• 1945-1950
• folders 6
• Updated 6 months ago

The Abraham Lewent papers include biographical materials, correspondence, immigration materials, poems, and personal narratives documenting Abraham Lewent, the concentration camps he survived during the Holocaust, his refugee and displaced person status and job training after liberation, and his immigration to the United States. Biographical materials include a list of the places Lewent was incarcerated, a certificate documenting his detention in Dachau, an identification card from the Feldafing displaced persons camp, a membership card for the Council of Warsaw Jews in the American Zone of...

1. O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 10572272
• English, Hebrew
• Typewritten
• Updated 5 years ago

Abstract of memoirs, testimonies and diaries, regarding help given to Jews by Poles and, in particular, to Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II Abstract of memoirs, testimonies and diaries, regarding help given to Jews by Poles and, in particular, to Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, based on materials found in the Archive of the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny - ZIH (Institute of Jewish History) in Warsaw; the abstract is based on the memoirs of Tatiana Bernstein, Irena Sendlerowa, Aurelia Wylezynska, Janina Dunin-Wasowiczowa, Wladyslaw Smolski and Witold Dobrzanski; so...

1. O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 10573734
• English, Hebrew
• Typewritten
• Updated 5 years ago

Abstracts of bibliographic surveys regarding the Jews of Warsaw during the Holocaust period Survey reports regarding excerpts from testimonies, memoirs and essays written during the Holocaust including while in hiding on the Aryan side during the time of the Warsaw Ghetto, some of the reports having been published in booklets produced by the Archive of the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny - ZIH (Institute of Jewish History) and in books; brief survey reports regarding the Lodz Ghetto and the Czestochowa Ghetto.

1. O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 10572161
• English, Hebrew
• Typewritten
• Updated 5 years ago

Abstracts of testimonies and memoirs written by physicians and public figures who were involved in the care of children, published in part by the Central Historical Committee during the first years after the war - Abstracts of testimonies and memoirs written by physicians and public figures who were involved in the care of children, published in part by the Central Historical Committee during the first years after the war, including the testimonies and memoirs of Anna Kubiak, Adolf Berman, Janina Kosciuszkowska, Anna Seeman, Hans Hacher, Otto Wolken, Stanislawa Lesczynska, Maria Matuszczak,...

1. Zeugenschrifttum
2. A

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• ZS 1971 / 1
• German
• 1969
• 8 Bl.
• Updated 9 years ago

Schreiben an Röder und Hoch, 09. November 1969 betreffend Aufenthalt und Kampf in den Ghettos Warschau, Wilna, Bialystok und im Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen; Ausreise in die Schweiz.

• Beit Lohamei Haghetaot Archives/ בית לוחמי הגטאות
• BERMAN.COLL.
• English
• 1943
• 714 files
• Updated 9 years ago

The Adolf Abraham Berman collection contains underground press and publications and official press printed after the failure of the Polish uprising; official and forged personal documents; overviews, reports, correspondences, radio broadcasts transcripts, operation and work plans, orders, order of battle and casualty lists; diaries, memoirs, testimonies, speeches, essays and manifestos; aid requests and financial support confirmations and receipts. The collection also contains material related to the Kielce pogrom of July 1946.

1. Stefan Petri collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn6791
• English
• overall: Height: 12.750 inches (32.385 cm) | Width: 23.750 inches (60.325 cm) | Depth: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm)
• Updated 6 months ago

Electric motor placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had es...

1. Stefan Petri collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn6834
• English
• overall: Height: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) | Width: 5.625 inches (14.288 cm) | Depth: 18.500 inches (46.99 cm)
• Updated 6 months ago

Air compressor tank placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek h...

1. Alicia Fajnsztejn Weinsberg collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn510346
• English
• 1940-1948
• folder 1
• Updated 6 months ago

The papers consist of a Russian affidavit for Jakob Fajnsztejn (donor's grandfather), seven postcards from the Warsaw ghetto, one letter and envelope from ghetto, one Red Cross letter from the ghetto, two identification cards, three "official" false birth certificates, and one letter from the American Consul General in Sweden.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn548909
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 6 months ago

The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors photographs consists of 21 photographs, primarily post-liberation images of Jews in Poland, exhuming burial sites, conducting memorials, and related subjects. The photographs were brought from Europe to the United States in 1945 by Jacob Patt who made an official trip to Poland as a representative for an American Jewish organization.