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  2. The General Jewish Workers' Federation "Bund" in Lithuania, Poland and Russia Ogólnożydowski Związek Robotniczy „Bund” na Litwie, w Polsce i w Rosji (Sygn.334)

    This collection contains records of the activities of the the Central Committee of the Jewish Workers Federation "Bund" in Poland and abroad between 1945-1949. Includes circulars, reports, resolutions and conference papers. minutes of the meetings and plenum of the „Bund”. Also includes a list of Bund members, questionnaires of participants of the jubilee anniversary in 1947, general lists of members paying various types of contributions; documents of local departments from 42 cities, protocols, reports and correspondence of individual branches, there are also membership declarations filled...

  3. Selected records of the town Włoszczowa Akta miasta Włoszczowa (Sygn. 1809) : Wybrane materialy

    Correspondence concerning schooling and out of school education, emigration and re-emigration of refugees, minutes of sessions of the Municipal Government and Municipal Council, budgets and reports, population books of permanent inhabitants of town of Włoszczowa, and the list of people murdered by the Germans in Włoszczowa and Krasocin, 1941-1942. The list includes 105 people.

  4. Hand-colored glass slide

    1. Julien Bryan collection

    Polish refugees leave Warsaw on a horse-drawn wagon loaded with their personal property during the German siege of the capital.

  5. Selected records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Angers Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych w Angers (Sygn.768)

    Selected materials include protocols, speeches and transcripts of meetings I-XI of the National Council of the Republic of Poland in Angers, France in 1940. Part of speeches and presentations is related to the persecution of Polish and Jewish people in occupied Poland. One of the members and a participant in the meetings was Ignacy Schwarzbart, a prominent Polish Zionist.

  6. Mondschein family photograph collection

    The Mondschein family photograph collection contains five photograph albums relating to the Mondschein and Leniower families in Poland prior to the World War II, and their post-war time in the displaced persons camp near Steyr, Austria, 1946-1949.

  7. Anna Prager photographs

    1. Anna Friedman Prager collection

    The collection consists of photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Anna Prager (born Chana Frydman) and her family, originally of Chmielnik, Poland. Included are depictions of Anna as a child in Chmielnik, her maternal aunts and uncles, her father Ick Frydman in the Polish Army in August 1939, her family's escape to Siberia and later Uzbekistan, the Frydman and Sylman families in Kielce, Poland, on February 20, 1946, Anna and her family in in Sweden from 1946 to 1949, and Anna’s maternal grandmother and Aunt Chava.

  8. Lt. Col. George R. Snyder papers

    1. Lt. Col. George R. Snyder collection

    The collection primarily consists of postwar photographs taken between 1945 and 1947 by Lt. Col. George R. Snyder documenting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Landsberg prison, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Subjects include the Camp New Orleans, German and Polish POWs, refugees, landscapes, and destroyed buildings and towns. Also included is his passport and letters from George to his mother Louise Snyder, his son James, and his wife.

  9. Central Historical Commission : Post-War documentation (M.1.S)

    The collection contains 7793 questionnaires. Information for questionnaires were gathered by the The Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone, Munich) from a large number of Holocaust survivors. This data concern the estimated number of Jews before the war in their communities, the number of Jewish victims, destroyed and robbed Jewish property, slave labor, concentration camps, and the like.

  10. Die Moorsoldaten The Soldiers of the Moor

    1. "Music of the Holocaust" web exhibition

    The 5,000 inmates of the Börgermoor concentration camp, mostly political prisoners, labored in the wetlands near the Dutch border, extracting peat (a fossil fuel) from the marshy soil. To add to their ordeal, Nazi guards would force the prisoners to sing cheerful songs during their two-hour march to and from the moor. A group of prisoners retaliated by writing a song that truthfully reflected the workers' situation. Introduced in August 1933, The Soldiers of the Moor, with its catchy melody and evocative lyrics, became an immediate hit among camp inmates. The camp guards also enjoyed the so...

  11. Khotsh Though

    1. "Music of the Holocaust" web exhibition

    The song was written by Zelik Barditshever (1898-1937), an itinerant teacher, poet, and playwright from Belts, Bessarabia (present-day Bălții, Moldava). Collected by the Yiddish writer Leibu Levin, it first appeared in a volume of Barditshever's works published in Czernowitz, Romania (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine) in 1939.

  12. Friedrich and Ruth Frankenthal papers

    The Friedrich and Ruth Frankenthal papers consist of birth, marriage, and American naturalization certificates for Fred and Ruth Frankenthal; a German passport (stamped with a “J”) for Fred and Robert Frankenthal; and a photograph album with photographs and family trees tracing the Frankenthal family and their Frankenthal, Herz, and Ephraim ancestors from Moisling, Braunschweig, and Hamburg back to the beginning of the 19th century and tracing their Leon ancestors from Hagenow back to 17th century rabbi Abraham Abele Gombiner.

  13. Ebensee concentration camp (survivors and soldiers); Generals meeting

    (B-1205) Concentration Camp, Ebensee, Austria, May 8, 1945. MCU, body placed in furnace of crematorium. CU, naked corpse (pan of body from feet to head). MSs, CUs, men unloading cart of corpses, carrying bodies into crematorium on stretchers. Mountain range in BG. Two boys in uniforms sleeping on bench with luggage between them. MS, three men unloading bread from truck into building. LS, EXT, storage, former prisoners and Allied guards milling about, guarding door with guns. Priest talking to soldiers. LS, Vista/landscape. MS, CUs, several naked, starved inmates too weak to walk or move bei...

  14. Eva M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva M., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wroc?aw, Poland) in 1918, one of three sisters. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; attending private school; teaching in a Jewish kindergarten; one sister's emigration to South Africa in 1933; her other sister remaining in Berlin (she was protected as the wife of a non-Jewish judge); participation in Maccabi; her father and future husband's arrests on Kristallnacht; marriage after their release; her husband's emigration to Bolivia; traveling via Genoa to join him in December; her parents not emigrating b...

  15. Rita W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita W., who was born in Mukachevo, Czechoslovakia in 1924. Mrs. W. recalls living in a Czech colony in the Carpathian mountains with very few Jews; high school membership in a Zionist organization; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish measures; her father assisting Polish refugees; his arrest and return six months later; his stories of Hungarian brutality; ghettoization in April 1944 for four weeks; and deportation to Auschwitz. She recounts her arrival to an unknown place, but sensing danger; one sister giving her baby to their mother (that sister survived); another si...

  16. Gertrud K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrud K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1923. Mrs. K. recalls a comfortable life; strong Jewish identity; watching mass demonstrations when the Germans marched in; the plundering of her father's business two days later; ransacking of their home; and public humiliation of her father. She remembers Kristallnacht; her father and one brother's arrest; her other brother hiding; several weeks later her father's letter from Dachau; receiving permission to leave on a Kindertransport to Scotland; reluctance to leave with her father in prison; and begging a Gestapo offic...

  17. John M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John M., who was born in approximately 1932. He recalls his family's sense of being Austrian, not Jewish (he was baptized); knowing they were Jewish due to antisemitism; leaving Vienna six weeks after the Anschluss; being placed with his brother in hiding in a convent in Belgrade; living in Nice for several months; departing for England; attending many schools, sometimes with his brother, sometimes alone; seeing his mother infrequently (she provided important emotional support); harassment as Germans; changing their last name to their mother's maiden name (their fathe...

  18. Olga F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Olga F., who was born in Lwo?w, Poland in 1925. She recalls her family's move to Czernowitz in 1927; increasing antisemitism; summer visits to relatives in Lwo?w; an influx of Jewish refugees after the German invasion of Poland; their inability to sense the imminent danger; Soviet occupation; deportation of property owners to Siberia; German invasion; destruction of Jewish property; ghettoization; deportation to Ataki, then Transnistria by Romanian forces; moving to Mogilev, then Derebchin; food shortages and overcrowding; being hidden by her mother to avoid forced la...

  19. Victoria B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Victoria B., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1927. She recalls a peaceful life in a large, extended Turkish family in Antwerp; German occupation in 1940; fleeing with her family via De Panne to Marseille; her father's return to Antwerp to oversee his business; attending school in Marseille; returning to Antwerp; obtaining protection from the Turkish government to temporarily escape deportation; hiding in a convent in La Hulpe; returning to Antwerp; hiding in a castle in Les Avins-en-Condroz (she was given false papers), then with her English teacher in Antwerp; tr...

  20. Cypora G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cypora G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920, one of seven children. She recalls her family's extreme poverty; her mother's efforts to feed them; attending a Bund school; working from age ten to help support her family; her mother's death; studying theater on a scholarship; meeting her future husband; performing in many locations with a theater group; the emigration of three sisters; German invasion; her future husband having her smuggled to Bia?ystok; working in Yiddish theater; moving to Vilnius; traveling to Tashkent; living in Farghona; marriage; returning to...