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

  1. Zvi Zedak letter

    Contains a four-page letter written by Zvi (Hirsch) Zedak (1907-1944) on July 15, 1944, while hiding in a bunker in the Kovno ghetto with his wife.

  2. Zweigenthal family collection

    Contains of letters, black and white photographs, a Sauf Conduit pass for Robert Zweigenthal, and 8 legal documents pertaining to the escape of Robert Zweigenthal, his wife, Elizabeth Aigner Zweigenthal, and her mother, Caroline (Carolina) Aigner, from France through Portugal to the United States. Includes copies of two letters written in 1941 by Sara Delano Roosevelt, the mother of President Franklin Roosevelt, requesting that assistance be given to members of the Aigner family. The photographs depict life on the ship traveling from Portugal to the United States.

  3. Związek Żydów Byłych Uczestników Walki Zbrojnej z Faszyzmem (Sygn. 318)

    Contains documents relating to activities of the Union of Jews-Former Participants of Military Combat with Nazism. Mostly correspondence, circular letters, minutes of meetings, resolutions, addresses, plans of ceremonies, invitations, personal files of the staff and combatants.

  4. Zwieberge-Malachit death certificates and related records

    Contains exhibit material relating to war crimes case 000-50-9, including approximately 600 death certificates sent from the Buchenwald Aussenkommando Malachit to the camp physician’s office. Also included is “Tagebuch 6,” approximately 200 pages of prisoner personal data, including whether or not the prisoner was alive or dead.

  5. Zydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma collection

    The collection consists of seventy-eight pieces of scrip and sixteen coins issued in the Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto in German occupied Poland, one bar of soap, and one flight logbook from the Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps used during World War II.

  6. Zyga Butler collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, prayerbook, diary, and artifacts illustrating the experience of Zyga Butler.

  7. Zygfryd Baginski papers

    Collection contains one album of official photographs of Dachau post-liberation, appears to be published by the International Information Office for the Former Concentration Camp Dachau; one photocopied typed manuscript of the Holocaust remembrances of Zygfryd Baginski [donor]; one set of photocopies of passport pages for Military Exit permit, issued Sep. 1948; one concentration camp information form, entitled "Outlet by Death."

  8. Zygielbaum family collection

    Contains a certificate issued to Ruven Zygielbaum allowing him to immigrate to Palestine, issued in Italy on October 31, 1945; a photograph portrait of Rivka Zygielbaum, daughter of Szmul Artur Zygielbaum, who was murdered in the Warsaw ghetto; a photograph of an unidentified boy; correspondence relating to naming a street in Petach-Tikva, Israel and a park in Cote St. Luc, Canada in memory of Arthur Zygielbaum; and a photograph depicting Holocaust Memorial Day in Johannesburg, South Africa, where Ruven Zygielbaum was the Yiddish speaker during the ceremony, dated c. 1970.

  9. Zygielbojm bibliographic and research materials

    Consists of photocopies, translations, speeches, and articles about the life, death, and memory of Shmuel "Artur" Zygielbojm, a member of the Polish government-in-exile in London, who committed suicide in 1943 in hopes of bringing the world's attention to the plight of the Jews of Poland. Dr. Aliza Kolker of George Mason University compiled this research, originally intended as a bibliography of work done on Zygielbojm.

  10. Zygmund L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zygmund L., who was born in Rokitno Szlachekie, Poland in 1903, one of eight children. He recounts his family's World War I experiences; moving to ?azy; marriage; the births of two children; German invasion; fleeing east; sending his wife and children home; traveling toward the Soviet Union; encountering Germans in Wodzis?aw; turning toward home; brief incarceration in Zawiercie; returning home; hiding during round-ups; deportation with his brother to Ottmuth; receiving packages from his wife; transfers to Fu?nfteichen and Marksta?dt; a death march to Gross-Rosen; tra...

  11. Zygmunt G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zygmunt G., who was born in Kopychynt?s?i, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1923. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending public and Hebrew schools; Soviet occupation; attending a Russian school; German invasion; a massacre of Jews; deportation to the Tarnopol ghetto; slave labor; returning home; incarceration in a prison in Chortkiv, then in Kamionka; escaping; returning home; round-up of his parents (his mother was killed, his father escaped); hiding in surrounding fields; returning to Kopychynt?s?i; escaping again with his father and other relatives; hiding with...

  12. Zygmunt G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zygmunt G., who was born in Lwo?w, Poland in 1911. He recounts hardships during World War I; attending Polish school; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; draft into the Soviet military in 1941 (he never saw his family again); German invasion; fleeing toward Russia with other soldiers; incarceration in labor camps in the Urals; learning in 1945 that his entire family had been killed; being allowed to return to Wroc?aw, Poland in 1946; traveling illegally to Vienna to escape antisemitism; living in a displaced persons camp, then Linz; emigrating to the United Sta...

  13. Zygmunt Gemel papers

    The papers consist of a note written by political prisoner Zygmunt Gemel to his father Franciszek Gemel and thrown from a train while Zygmunt was being deported to Auschwitz III-Monowitz (Buna) in 1944, and a subsequent letter Zygmunt to his father from the camp dated 23 April 1944.

  14. Zygmunt Jastrzębski postcard

    Zygmunt Jastrzębski wrote the postcard in Buchenwald concentration camp addressed to his sister, Hania Jastrzębska. In the postcard he writes that he is well and asks for news.

  15. Zygmunt Kaminski memoir

    Contains a memoir, 49 pages, about Zygmunt Kaminski's Holocaust experiences.

  16. Zygmunt L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zygmunt L., who was born in Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland in 1922, the oldest of three children. He recounts attending public school; celebrating his bar mitzvah; secondary education in Bielsko-Bia?a; German invasion; fleeing with one sister and other relatives to Chrzano?w; his parents and other sister fleeing to L?viv; returning home; living with his uncle and sister; forced labor cleaning streets; ghettoization in Wadowice; receiving food from his father's non-Jewish associate; deportation to Gogolin, Gross Masselwitz, Annaberg, Brande, then Ludwigsdorf; slave labor...

  17. Zygmunt Wieczorek collection

    Contains documents, photographs, identity cards, letters, and immigration paperwork for Zygmunt Wieczorek (b. 27 November 1912 in Argemunde, Berlin) who lived in Drążek, Poland. A Roman Catholic who served in the Polish military in Poznan, Wieczorek was captured an interned as a POW in forced labor at Probst shoe factory in Hettstedt, Germany. Includes a postwar letter from the factory owner trying to obtain assistance and detailing conditions in the Soviet Zone in Germany.

  18. Zylberszac family collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of the Zylberszac family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  19. Zyna K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zyna K., the youngest of seven children. She recalls the emigrations of three siblings; her mother's death in 1939, before the war; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; a futile attempt to flee to the Soviet Union; ghettoization; mass killings and burials; and liquidation of the ghetto. Mrs. K. recounts transport to Ri?ga; working in an ammunition factory; transfer after six months by ship with her sister to Stutthof; learning of her father's death; forced labor in Torun?; a death march in 1944; and liberation. She tells of being cared for by a Jewish family in...

  20. Zyndorf and Rosenbaum family collection

    Collection of photographs, correspondence and document (Registration/Identity Card) of the Zyndorf and Rosenbaum families in Bedzin and Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland before the war, during the war in the Srodula ghetto, in the Bobrek concentration camp a sub-camp of Auschwitz, ILAG XVVII in Austria, and after the war in the Landsberg displaced persons camp. Fela Zyndorf (donor's mother) was imprisoned in the Bedzin ghetto, the Bobrek forced labor camp, and in the Peterswaldau forced labor camp. Szlamek Rosenbaum (donor's father) survived nine forced labor and concentration camps, including Buche...