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  1. Records of the commune Gortatowice County Rawski Akta gminy Gortatowice powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1102)

    General correspondence of the commune Gortatowice, includes registration of teachers, intelligentsia, firemen, Jewish inhabitants, orders of relocation of Jewish families to Nowe Miasto, and the order to Polish inhabitants prohibiting them from helping Jewish people, with the threat of punishment by death for doing so. Also includes statistics about local properties, farms, agricultural property and household goods.

  2. Records of the commune Wałowice County Rawski located in Niwna Akta gminy Wałowice powiatu Rawskigo z siedziba w Niwnej (Sygn.1106)

    General correspondence of the commune Wałowice, including the registration of Jewish inhabitants, regulations related to Jewish families deported from Germany and Warsaw, and statistics of local properties, farms, and household goods. Also includes registers of Polish people murdered and arrested.

  3. Records of the commune Marianów, County Rawski Akta gminy Marianów powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1104)

    Contains correspondence, registration books and names lists from the commune of Marianów: inclues a list of inhabitants receiving government grants, a list of patients with typhoid, correspondence concerning the treatment of Jewish patients and Jewish hospitals, and registration books of population of the commune Marianów.

  4. Records of the commune Regnów, County of Rawa Mazowiecka Akta gminy Regnów powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1105)

    The collection contains vital records of the commune Regnów, County of Rawa Mazowiecka. Includes reports, police announcements and orders regulating registration of people who had migrated to that region, name lists of firemen, correspondence relating to military cemeteries, and government support of Jewish families after World War II.

  5. County Department in Rawa Mazowiecka Wydział Powiatowy w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1076)

    Contains minutes of meetings related to the organization of public life after World War II in Rawa Mazowiecka. Includes documents about the selection of members of the City Council, the organization of libraries, schools and hospitals, the care of cemeteries, protection of farmers, livestock, the removal of unexploded munitions from the war, and the establishment of budgets and taxes.

  6. Eugene and Elizabeth Franklin collection

    Photographs, documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Eugen Friedmann (donor), born in Kravany, Czechoslovakia in 1921. Documents his family's pre-war life in Kravany, his forced labor in Slovakia, and eventual deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, and Muhldorf concentration camps in Poland and Germany. Includes a postwar identity card illustrating the experiences of Alzbeta Weiss (donor), born in Chust, Czechoslovakia [present day Ukraine] in 1929; card for the United Kingdom issued to Alzbeta, who survived multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz and Berge...

  7. Print

    Print from a set of eight reproductions of lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.

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    Print from a set of eight reproductions of lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.

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    Print from a set of eight reproductions of lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.

  10. Print

    Print from a set of eight reproductions of lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.

  11. Print

    Print from a set of eight reproductions of lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.

  12. Print

    Print from a set of eight reproductions of lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.

  13. Print

    Print from a set of eight reproductions of lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.

  14. Print

    Print from a set of eight reproductions of lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.

  15. Irvin Boring testimony

    Consists of two essays (2 pages and 5 pages) written by Irvin Boring, a scout with the 26th Infantry Division, describing his experiences discovering and liberating a small concentration camp for women in the area of Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg, Germany, and his experiences discovering the site of a mass grave, possibly the victims who could not continue during a death march.

  16. Oral history interview with Samuel Kessel

  17. Jan and Helena Bodakowski photographs

    Consists of three photographs Jan and Helena Cenkar Bodakowski in the Wildflecken and Schwarzenborn displaced persons camps. Includes photographs of the couple's June 6, 1946 wedding in Schwarzenborn, and a 1948 photograph of Jan Bodakowski chopping wood at Wildflecken.

  18. Oral history interview with Alfred Stern

  19. Yank, the Army Weekly (New York, New York) [Magazine] The Army Weekly

    Freedom and Food cover story with a photographic image of woman standing in front of barbed wire fence, holding a box of rations.

  20. Gusen liberation photographs

    Consists of 12 photographs taken after the liberation of the Gusen concentration camp. The photographs depict the burial of corpses in mass graves, the burning of barracks, a soldier standing in front of the sign for the Gusen cemetery, and the painted corpse of former commandant Franz Ziereis impaled on a barbed wire fence.