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

  1. Zygmunt Kaminski memoir

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

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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...

  5. Zyroff family collection

    Oral history interview with Holocaust survivor Sonia Zyroff recorded in 1986; a video recording of Sonia Zyroff's presentation to students, ca. 1987; and video recording of her return to Ukraine in 1992

  6. Zyskind Talisman family collection

    Manuscript: titled "Stolen Years," handwritten by Sara Plager Zyskind, in Hebrew, published in Israel in 1977 and in English in 1981; two Manuscripts: titled "Struggle," typed, written by Sara Plager Zyskind in Hebrew, published in Israel in 1985 and in English in 1989; 38 photographs including images of the Zyskind family in Brzeziny Poland before the war, Plager family in Łódź before the war, images of Sara and Eliezer in Łódź immediately after the war, in Germany in a DP camp and in Israel 1948-1955; membership card issued to Itzhak Finkelkraut from the He’chalutz Zionist organization, W...

  7. Zyzniewski family collection

    The collection consists of a watercolor portrait, correspondence, documents, photographs, photo albums, and publications relating to the experiences of Wieslaw Zyzniewski (Wesley Zineski) and his family, Polish Catholics, originally from Łódź, before, during and after World War II, during which Wesley and his mother Janina were arrested for their political activities and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.

  8. Државен Архив на Република Македониjа Selected records from the Archives of Macedonia

    Contains selected records from two collections: The Jewish Community of Skopje, 1915-1961; and Management of the Jewish Question, 1942-1964. Also contains photocopies of records of district administration of Skopje and Bitola, police records and names lists concerning Jewish population, financial documentation and declarations on Jewish assets, records from Trade (Mercantile) industrial bank “Vardar” and Bulgarian credit bank, Sofia, branch Skopje.

  9. Еврейская тематика в Государственном архиве Ровенской области Records of the Jewish community of the Rivne Region, Ukraine

    Contains records of the regional court related to Jewish-owned property in Rivne, including issues of land ownership and testaments, as well as lists of the owners of real property, listed by street. Also includes records from the regional district prosecutor's office consisting of criminal files and correspondence with local administration and police regarding the political activities of Jews in Rivne. Records from the years of the German occupation include correspondence with German officials about matters pertaining to the local population.

  10. Министерство на вътрешните работи и народного здраве Selected records from the collection of the Ministry of Interior and Public Health of Bulgaria Ministerstvo na vŭtreshnite raboty i narodnogo zdrave

    Contains records relating to adoption of the “Defense of the Nation Act”, the creation of concentration camps, the deportation of Jews from Macedonia and Thrace, and the People’s Courts documentation of postwar trials. Includes correspondence with the Jewish community of Sofia and the Police Department; and reports regarding Jewish owned enterprises and Jews hiding in Rila Monastery, etc.

  11. Поименни декларации на лица от еврейски произход, съгласно чл. 26 от Закона за защита на нациата Bulgarian People's Bank, Sofia (Fond 285K, Opis 7). Personal declarations of financial accests and property submitted by Bulgarian Jews.

    Personal declarations of financial assets and property submitted by the Bulgarian Jews in accordance with the Law for the Defense of Nation. Each file consists of detailed questionnaire providing information about person's financial assets, property etc. declared in accordance with the Law for the Defense of Nation effective from 23 January 1941 to 27 November 1944.