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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Jagiellonian University collection

    This collection contains unpublished studies by Michała Weichert, the Chairman of the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna, ŻSS (Jewish Social Self-Help) in the Generalne Gubernatorstwo (Generalgouvernement) during the war, biographical documents, as well as other documents from the Head Office of the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna in Kraków. These records refer to many Jewish communities on the territory of the Generalne Gubernatorstwo. Also included are newspaper clippings, studies by Wincenty Stypuła about the history of Jews in Kraków, and by Zygmunt Felczyński about the Jewish hospital in Przemy...

  2. Jahrzeits und Trauer-And Achtsbuch

    Contains a book entitled "Jahrzeits und Trauer-And Achtsbuch," which includes a family history and lists of family members who perished in concentration camps written by Irma Spitzova.

  3. Jake Fersztand collection

    Contains 15 photographs pertaining to Jake Fersztand's family during the the Holocaust

  4. Jakob Altaras papers

    The Jakob Altaras papers consist of one copy print of a photograph of Jakob Altaras with a group of Jewish refugee children in Split, Croatia just before their departure for Italy in April 1943, two copy prints of a photograph identified as a synagogue in Laubach in 1936, and one copybook that appears to contain copies of business letters written by Max Stein and H. Hirsch Nachfolger in Ruppertsberg (near Laubach) between 1900 and 1920.

  5. Jakob and Fania Heifetz family collection

    Documents, photographs, correspondence, and oral testimonies illustrating the experiences of Jakob Chajfec born in Lachwa, Poland and Fania Luczki born in Pohost Zagorodskiy.

  6. Jakob and Maria Winkler collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase and wooden crate that belonged to the family of Jakob (Jack) Winkler and Maria (Margie) Winkler.

  7. Jakob and Zofia Dymant collection

    The Jakob and Zofia Dymant papers document Jakob Dymant’s escape from Poland during the Holocaust and survival in Japan, China, and India; Zofia Dymant’s wartime work for Walther C. Többens in Warsaw under her Christian alias; and the Christian aliases of some of Zofia’s relatives. Jakob Dymant records include identification papers, receipts, permits, immigration records, and an immunization certificate documenting his prewar life in Warsaw and escape to Vilna and then, with a Chiune Sugihara visa, to Japan, China, and India. This folder also includes a postcard Dymant sent from Bombay seek...

  8. Jakob Ascher papers

    The Jakob Ascher papers contain biographical material, correspondence, emigration and immigration documents, school records, and photographs relating to Jakob Ascher and his family’s pre-war life in Breslau, Germany and Jakob’s immigration to the United States. The collection includes report cards, poems, an athletic certificate, and essays relating to his daughter, Esther Ascher’s schooling as well as photographs depicting the Ascher family before the war and Esther during her time at a Hachshara in Germany and Palestine. The collection also includes biographical material such as identific...

  9. Jakob Glantz collection

    The collection consists of a painting, correspondence, documents, and identity cards related to the experiences of Jakob Glantz, originally of Szaszvar, Hungary, who fled Vienna Austria after Kristallnacht with his wife and daughter, to Shanghai, where he passed away in 1948.

  10. Jakob Künzler and Elisabeth Künzler-Bender on a roof terrace in Beirut

    Jakob and his wife Elisabeth Künzler in Beirut. Jakob Künzler was an eyewitness to the Armenian Genocide. He was a Swiss pharmacist who helped provide for thousands of Armenian orphans and the sick and wounded in his hospital in Urfa, Turkey. Elisabeth holds a baby. Jakob plays with the baby’s ears, hands, and cheeks. Elisabeth points at the camera. Jakob talks to the baby. The baby holds onto the woman’s ears. Shot of the couple sitting and talking. They smile at the camera. They balance a book on their knees and read it, looking up at the camera. They pose for the camera on a balcony with...

  11. Jakob Lapides papers

    The papers consist of a commemorative card given to Jakob Lapides as recognition for his contribution in the students' self-government in the orphanage in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland. Also included in the collection is a newspaper published on Aug. 1, 1941, in the Łódź ghetto

  12. Jakob Lewkowicz collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket, pants, and cap and two publications relating to the experiences of Jakob Lewkowicz in forced labor camps and Blechhammer, Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald, and Schörzingen concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  13. Jakob Widawski photographs

    Two photographs: depicting Jakob Widawski (donor’s father) born on May 21, 1921 in Wieruszow, 55 miles WNW from Czestochowa, together with seven other survivors of the town in which 2,400 Jews lived before the war. Jakob Widawski survived the forced labor camp near Poznan, the Auschwitz concentration camp, where his prisoner number was 141687, and a death march to Gleiwitz, Langebilau camps from which he managed to escape.

  14. Jakov Davetsky collection

    Collection includes postcards (1940-1941) from Tsilya Zhidovetskaya to Dina Zhidovetskaya regarding the situation for Jews in Russia, family photographs, a memorial book for the victims of the Babi Yar massacre, a newspaper commemorating the 50th anniversary of Babi Yar, and identification cards identifying Anatoli Oliker as a veteran of World War II.

  15. Jakub Bukowski memoir

    Consists of one memoir, in Polish, consisting of Mr. Jakub Bukowski's memories of his childhood and pre-war life in Wloclaw, Poland; and what happened to the inhabitants of the town during the Holocaust.

  16. Jakub Gutenbaum collection

    Consists of nine photographs depicting the donor and his family before the war in Warsaw and Rytro, Poland; a registration certification, issued in Prague, Czechoslovakia on 12 June 1945, by the Czechoslovak Repatriation Office, stating that the bearer, Jakub Gutenbaum, born 7 Aug.1929 is returning to Warsaw, Poland, traveling from the Buchenwald Concentration camp; and a certificate, issued by a hospital in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on 6 June 1945, stating that Jakub Gutenbaum was free of infectious disease and lice.

  17. Jakub Müller papers

    The papers consist of two photographs of images of Jakub Müller's cousins in Nowy Sad, Poland, and two newspapers that relate to Müller's life before and after the Holocaust.

  18. Jakub Poznanski papers

    The papers consist of three diaries written by Jakub Poznański in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, between 1943 and 1945.

  19. Jakubowicz family photographs

    Consists of 26 pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Jakubowicz family, originally of Wieluń, Poland. Of the seven siblings in the Jakubowicz family, three perished, two survived in hiding, one survived Auschwitz, and Mania Jakubowicz Gryniewicz, the donor, fled with her husband to the Urals. Each photograph has been described by the donor.

  20. Jakubowicz family portrait

    Contains a photographic portrait of the Jakubowicz family taken circa 1929 in Wielun, Poland. Standing in the back row, from left are: Chaja-Ita; Ester Szykman; Victor; Pola; Juda Idel and Mania. Sitting in the front row from left are: Chana Stawski Jakubowicz, holding Tuwia in her lap; Rachel Holtz Jakubowicz; and Herszl, Awram Zysman and Kalman Jakubowicz.