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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple
Country: United States

  1. Zionist Organizations Organizacje Syjonistyczne (Sygn. 333)

    Contains documentation of the Zionist parties and organizations that operated in Poland after the war. Includes organizational files, protocols of council meetings, correspondence, applications for emigration, personal files, materials for publication, bulletins, and files of regional branch offices of the following organizations: the Ichud, Ha-Noar Ha-Cijoni, WIZO-Women`s International Zionist Organization, Organization of General Zionists (Organization of General Zionists– Hitachdut Cijonim Klaliim) and Ha-Owed Ha-Cijoni, Jewish Zionist-Socialist Labor Party Poalej Syjon C.S. Hitachdut, G...

  2. Zionist pamphlet

    Contains an illustrated four page booklet published by the first Zionist Congress held after World War II.

  3. Zipora V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zipora V., who was born in Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary in 1928, the youngest of seven children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; anti-Jewish restrictions; draft of two brothers into Hungarian slave labor battalions; learning one was killed; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; round-up with her family; the escape of two sisters; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; separation from her parents; slave labor with her sister sorting deportees' belongings; burying jewelry she found as an act of sabotage; being beaten for throwing food over a fence to a cousin; tr...

  4. Zipporah S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zipporah S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1938. She tells of German occupation; her family's move to the Bochnia ghetto; her father buying false papers; being smuggled into Hungary with a paid guide; registering as Christian Polish refugees; receiving help from a Hungarian woman (she did not know they were Jews); moving to Budapest; the woman arranging for her, her sister, and cousin to live in a Swedish convent while her parents remained in hiding (no one knew they were Jews); liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with her parents; moving to Prague; emigrating t...

  5. Zisha S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zisha S., who was born in Poland in 1928. He recounts attending local public school with his twin brother; antisemitic harassment; transfer to the school in Gorlice; attending cheder; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions, including closing the school; his bar mitzvah; forced relocation with his family to Biecz; hiding with his parents and sister during a round-up in 1942 (his twin brother was taken); mass shooting of Jews; their escape to the forest; encountering his grandfather and aunt; discovery by Germans; deportation with his father to Prokocim (he never saw...

  6. Ziskind family correspondence, 1929-1939

    Correspondence from the Ziskind family in Krewo, Poland (today in Belarus) to Sadie Nechama Ziskind, later Alpert, in Chicago, IL. The letters are written in Yiddish, between 1929-1939. In most of the letters the Ziskind family asks for additional correspondence and some financial support. Sadie Ziskind left Krewo in 1915 just being 16 years old. She married William Alpert and they had three children: Edith, Jean, and Louis.

  7. Zitta Christiansen Stubstad collection

    Collection consists of photographs and a document pertaining to Zitta Christiansen Stubstad and her mother in Copenhagen during the war. Permit issued to Zitta Christiansen, donor's mother, which enabled her to go to work at the telelphone exchange in Copenhagen, Denmark; dated September 15, 1943. Also includes two photographs of the telephone exchange in Copenhagen circa 1943 and one photograph of Zitta and her friend in pre-school, which was bombed by the British AF in March 21, 1945 by mistake.

  8. Ziuta G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ziuta G., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1927, the younger of two children. She recounts her family's affluence; her father's architectural business; attending a Polish school; speaking and reading German at home; vacationing in Zakopane; an Austrian cousin living with them after the Anschluss; increasing tension in 1939; her parents sending her brother to England; vacationing in Muszyna in the summer of 1939; returning home in late August when her father was drafted; his rejection and return; German invasion on September 1; her father fleeing with his three broth...

  9. Zlata G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zlata G., who was born in Kostopol, Poland in 1921. She recalls the German invasion in September 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; fleeing with her brother upon the advice of retreating Soviet soldiers; finding her sister at the Soviet border; traveling to Voronezh where they had a cousin; two months later traveling east by freight train to escape the advancing German army; her sister and brother-in-law leaving the train in Kzyl-Orda due to their son's illness; living with her brother in Samarqand; extreme deprivation; a typhus epidemic; her brother-in...

  10. Zlatke fun Rogatke | Der rebe mit di talmidim

    Yiddish performance of "Zlatke fun Rogatke" (A Side) and "Der rebe mit di talmidim" (B Side). Performers: Elvira Boczcovska and Shimon Nussbaum, vocals. Recorded in Paris, circa 1947; reissued in Argentina early 1950s.

  11. Zlatko V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zlatko V., who was born in Sus?ak, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy(presently Croatia) in 1914. He recalls moving to Zagreb after World War I; attending school; participating in Maccabi athletics; working in a factory; his parents' deaths in the mid-1930s; antisemitic harassment beginning in 1938; German invasion in 1941; arrest by the Ustas?a on June 21, 1941; deportation to Pag Island; gruelling slave labor, starvation, and beatings; a speech by a camp official, Vjekoslav Luburic?, informing them of their evacuation in August; transfer to Krapje; slave labor building levee...

  12. Zlota Gloger oral history interview and transcript

    Consists of one typed oral history transcript, approx. 53 pages, ca. August 28, 1988, and one videocassette tape of an oral history interview, ca. March 4, 1990. The transcript and the tape both contain testimony by Zlata Gloger, originally of Kostopol, Poland (now Kostopil, Ukraine). In the oral history, Gloger, describes her family's 1941 evacuation into the Soviet Union, and their lives in Kzyl-Orda (now Qyzylorda, Kazakhstan).

  13. Zoe R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zoe R., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1925, an only child. She recounts her parents' divorce when she was three; attending the school of a Neolog synagogue; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation; antisemitic legislation; German invasion in spring 1944; round-up with her mother to a building with thousands of other Jews; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); fellow prisoners holding her when she fainted during an appell; frequent selections; transfer to Frankfurt; slave labor for Organisation Todt;...

  14. Zofia Chorowicz Burowska collection

    The collection consists of a doll, teddy bear, book, postcard, letter, and three photographs relating to the experiences of Zofia Chorowicz and her parents Isydor and Rachela before and during the Holocaust in Krakow and Wolbrom, Poland, and of Zofia after the war when she returned to Krakow following her liberation from slave labor.

  15. Zofia D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zofia D., who was born in Brzeziny, Poland, in 1923. Mrs. D. recalls her extended family; living with her aunt and uncle when her family moved to Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki; receiving anti-Semitic threats as the only Jew in school in Koluszki; a volksdeutsche girlfriend who later joined the Gestapo; German occupation; angering police by trying to conceal her yellow star; buying her uncle out of a Gestapo jail; and joining her parents in Tomaszo?w. She relates ghetto conditions; execution of the Judenrat head and his sons (one of whom was her boyfriend); escape with her aunt...

  16. Zofia Glazer and Irena Zawadzka collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Rachel Zonszajn (later Rachel Benshaul) and her mother Cypora Zonszajn, originally of Siedlce, Poland, including Rachel’s survival as a hidden child with the efforts of Cypora’s childhood friends Zofia Glazer and Irena Zawadzka. The collection consists of three photographs of Rachel Zonszajn with her mother, father and her maternal grandmother in the Siedlce ghetto, dated Spring 1942; a photograph of Rachel with her rescuers, Zofia Glazer, Sabina Zawadzka, and Krystyna Zawadzka with her son, Stefanek, dated 1945, location, Siedlce, P...

  17. Zofia Herbach's report cards

    The collection contains two report cards belonging to Zofia Herbach of Grybów, Nowy Sącz County, Poland. Zofia likely perished during the Holocaust around 1942.

  18. Zofia Wróblewska photograph collection

    Photographs of the extended family of Zofia Wróblewska (1920- ), originally of Warsaw, Poland, depicting her parents and sisters, and the family of her sister, Sabina Rozental Wójcikiewicz (1916-1941). Photographs include pre-war family portraits, copies of documents related to her brother-in-law, Ludwik Wójcikiewicz, who was killed in the Warsaw ghetto, including a copy of a letter he wrote while in the ghetto, October 1942; photographs of the grave of Sabina Wójcikiewicz, who committed suicide during the German occupation of Warsaw; and postwar photographs of Wróblewska, her husband Micha...

  19. Zohn M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zohn M., who was drafted into the United States Army and served in the 103rd Infantry Division, 409th Regiment in World War II. He recounts liberating slave labor camps in Bavaria; entering Landsberg concentration camp; stacks of corpses; encountering a group of camp prisoners being evacuated; describing them as walking skeletons; entering Dachau after its liberation; a former prisoner guiding him through the camp; and screening refugees moving into displaced persons camp. He shows photographs and items from the camps, a book about his regiment, and reads from a lette...

  20. Zoladz, Goldfeld and Albeck families papers

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to the Zoladz (Zoland), Goldfeld, and Albeck families during the Holocaust and afterward. Consists of correspondence, identification documents, restitution papers, photographs, mostly related to the experiences of Mendel Albeck and Lonia (Goldfeld) Albeck and their families. Includes about 50 photographs; correspondence sent from France, Poland (including from Warsaw Ghetto), and Germany (mainly post-war DP camps); and a 1984 testimony by Lonia Albeck about her experiences. Some of Polish correspondence has English translations.