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  1. Rosa Cook papers

    Contains an identification card, ration card, cigarette pack, a cookie package wrapper, one memoir, eleven black and white photographs, and one photocopy of a picture of Rosa Cook's childhood home.

  2. Eva Bergstein papers

    Contains one memory book and three school booklets from Eva's school years in Poland and one Hebrew book from Schmirmiek, France. These booklets contain information pertaining to Eva Bergstein's experiences in hiding in Poland and post war life in France.

  3. I was a slave worker in Siberia

    Contains a memoir about Boleslaw Niederhoffer's Holocaust experiences in Siberia and told to Gerald L'ange.

  4. Ruth's Story

    Contains a memoir about Ruth Kissel's birth in a small town, Niedermendig, Germany, escaping from Germany to Belgium, journeying from Antwerp to Rio de Janero and her eventual return to Niedermendig, Germany.

  5. David Pollack Hervey papers

    Contains newspaper articles, booklets, photographs, and letters pertaining to David Pollack Hervey's work as defense counsel for officers and guards in the Mauthausen concentration camp and work with the reparations, delivery, and restitution of the occupied forces.

  6. Partisan activity in Lithuania

    The collection includes memoirs, personal files of Jewish and non-Jewish partisans in various detachments of the partisan effort, and reports by Soviet Army soldiers and Lithuanian-Soviet activists regarding the early war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Also included are records of Lithuanian citizens seeking to enlist in the Lithuanian division of the Red Army.

  7. Records relating to Jews in Amsterdam

    The collection consists of records relating to the situation for Jews in Amsterdam, Netherlands, including: German anti-Jewish measures; Jewish schools and education during the German occupation; hospitals and health; transportation; expulsion of Jews from the civil service; Jewish market traders; Aryan declarations and refusals to sign; registration of Jewish property; files on Jews in the Amsterdam population registry; Amsterdam Police records (including documents on collaboration on Jewish deportation); documents from the Mayor of Amsterdam relating to Jews; Jewish-German refugees; the g...

  8. Joanna Raplewska collection

    Consists of an autograph album kept by Joanna Raplewska from circa 1941 to 1943 in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland; a tag, given to the donor’s maternal aunt, Bronka Zawadzka, by German authorities in the Łódź ghetto, September 1944, authorizing her to stay in the ghetto after its liquidation; photographs depicting the donor, her father, and her paternal uncle before the war and during the war in the Łódź ghetto; and a postcard and a letter written to Bronka Zawadzka in the Łódź ghetto.

  9. Goldfarb family papers

    The Goldfarb family papers document the experiences of Polish-born Leopold Goldfarb, his Belgian-born wife Jenny, and their daughter Nina; as they sought to escape Belgium following the German invasion in 1940, and immigrate to the United States, by way of Portugal, Jamaica, and Cuba, following Jenny’s death in France. The papers contain identification and immigration documents, correspondence, including over a dozen postcards sent to Leopold Goldfarb by members of his extended family in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940-1941, family photographs, and correspondence related to Goldfarb’s efforts to ...

  10. Home Army Armia Krajowa (Sygn.1326)

    Contains various documents of the Polish Underground Army (Home Army), a military organization of the resistance movements during World War II. Established in February 1942 as a successor to the November 13, 1939-established Zwiazek Walki Zbrojnej (Union for Armed Combat), it became a part of Polish Armed Forces under the control of the Polish Government-in-Exile. The Home Army’s long-term aim was to prepare for a general uprising at the moment of Germany’s defeat; its operations culminated in the 63-day Warsaw Uprising in the summer of 1944.

  11. Warsaw uprising underground press Prasa konspiracyjna Powstania Warszawskiego

    Contains an underground press collection of 106 titles issued during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, mostly by resistance organizations. Among other publishers are the Armia Krajowa (Home Army), the Armia Ludowa (People’s Army), the Polska Partia Socjalistyczna (Polish Socialist Party), and the Stronnictwo Narodowe (National Party).

  12. Concentration camps: Collection of documents Obozy koncentracyjne-Zbiór akt (Sygn.1333 )

    Contains correspondence, lists of prisoners, and memoirs concerning different ghettos, concentration camps, and death camps in Poland.

  13. National Armed Forces. High command Narodowe Siły Zbrojne: Dowództwo (Sygn.1329)

    Contains records of the Narodowe Sily Zbrojne (NSZ), a Polish military organization established in September 1942 as a union of some underground groups including Narodowy Zwiazek Wojskowy (National Military Union) and Zwiazek Jaszczurczy (The Lizard Union). One component of the NSZ joined the Armia Krajowa (Home Army) as a result of an agreement made on March 7, 1944; another component of the so-called Brygada Świętokrzyska (The Holy Cross Brigade) moved to Western Europe with German permission. Some groups of NSZ remained active after the war, fighting against the new Communist regime.

  14. Diaries, chronicles, memoirs Dzienniki, kroniki, pamiętniki (Sygn.1349)

    Contains diaries, chronicles, and memoirs pertaining to World War II and the Holocaust. Includes a diary written by Ludwik Landau, distinguished economist and social researcher. His manuscript contains notes written over approximately 1600 days from 1939 to 1944. The notes relate to the political and economic situation of Poles and Jews in Poland under Nazi occupation as well as comments about the German press.

  15. Collection of files relating to Nazi crimes in Poland Zbiór materiałów dotycza̧cych zbrodni hitlerowskich w Polsce (Sygn. 1348)

    Contains various documents related to the activities of the Polish Courts and the Main Commissions for Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland after World War II. The documents supplement records kept in the Archives of the Instytut Pamieci Narodowej (Institute of National Remembrance) in Warsaw, Poland.

  16. Amy Rose papers

    Contains information about Dr. Morton Rose, a Jewish U.S. Army battalion surgeon, and liberator of the Colditz concentration camp (a sub-camp of Buchenwald). Includes testimonies and translations of Colditz survivors.

  17. Johannes Lehrbach papers

    Contains documents pertaining to the Lehrbach family's Holocaust experiences.

  18. David and Myrna Rymer family papers

    Contains correspondence and documents pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of the family of David and Myrna Rymer who fled Warsaw, Poland, to Lithuania, migrated to Russia, received visas signed by the Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara, and journeyed to Japan. Documentation includes visas and booklets issued to Mirjam and Mojzesz Rymer, correspondence between 1939-1941, and materials related to the family's arrival in Japan in 1941, including tourist postcards, hotel receipts, and a pocket translator.

  19. Das General-Gouvernement

    One issue of "Das Generalgouvernement," 3. Jahrgang, 1943, Heft 2.

  20. Rafal Malec collection

    The collection consists of photographs documenting the pre-war lives of Rafal Malec and his family in Grodno, Poland (Hrodna, Belarus).