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Language of Description: Polish

  1. Selected records from the State Archives in Łowicz

    Records created during the WWII by the German occupation authorities, and after the war by the Polish municipal authorities. Contains selected files of town Łowicz, communes (Bolimów, Kiernozia, Bielawy, Jeziorko), county in Łowicz, Prison in Łowicz, as well as the files of School Office (Schulamt) in Łowicz. Includes a rich collection of German posters and flyers, records related to anti-Jewish orders, forced labor, lists of inhabitants of Jewish origin (in Łowicz and Bolimie, from 1940), lists of children evacuated from Warsaw located in individual villages 1944, and German ordinances of ...

  2. Selected records from the State Archives in Płock

    Contains selected records from towns (Płock, Gąbin, Gostynin, Sierpc, Raciąż and Wyszogród), and counties (in Gostynin, Płock and Sierpc) in voivodeship Mazowieckie (Poland), both those group of records are from the pre-war, and post-war period. Records from the pre-war period include: minutes of sessions of the Town Hall, budget books, reports and various matters of social and economic character, as well as minutes of sessions of the Jewish Religious Community Council in Płock from1932-1933, and reports from the sessions of the Rabbinical Judgement in Drobin. Records from the period of 193...

  3. Polizeipräsident in Stettin Prezydium Policji w Szczecinie (Sygn. 93)

    Records created by the General Department and Department on Foreigners of the Police President in the province of Pomerania (Stettin), which supervised lower level entities: including regencies and counties. This collection contains orders and correspondence of the Gestapo related to foreigners, and records of the Department on Foreigners with the card files of foreigners, mainly Polish and Jewish people. Includes regulation for Germans how to behave towards Polish workers, name lists of Polish workers, indexes of private firms employed Polish workers, a list of foreigners sought by the Ges...

  4. Kurt Fisch collection

    The collection consists of archival papers and three rubber stamps captured from the Hermann Goering Division in Italy.

  5. Otto and Monna Weinmann papers

    The collection consists largely of correspondence between Otto and Monna Weinstein during their courtship and after their marriage, while Monna was living in London and Otto was serving with the 2nd Armored Regiment, 3rd Squadron of the Czech forces under British command. While the bulk of the collection consists of their personal correspondence, Otto was very careful to keep any information about his work or location away from enemy hands; therefore, their correspondence with each other is largely personal. Also includes pre-war and wartime correspondence between Otto and his uncle Paul in...

  6. Annette and Franz R. Hollo collection

    Consists of two videotaped oral histories with Franz Robert Hollo, originally of Vienna, Austira, and Annette Drechsler Hollo, originally of Paris, France. Also includes short descriptions of the wartime experiences of Franz Robert Hollo, originally of Vienna, Austria, and Annette Drechsler Hollo, originally of Paris, France. The Hollos both spent part of the war in hiding--Franz in Hungary in 1944 and Annette in France from 1942-1944--as well as a photograph of Franz and his sister Veronica in 1939 and a copyprint of Annette, ca. 1941.

  7. Robert Alden collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Robert Alden as a soldier in the United States Army during World War II when he participated in the liberation of concentration camps in Germany.

  8. Eva Biro Slott family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and a memoir relating to the experiences of Eva Biro Slott and her family during the Holocaust in the ghetto and in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, as well as two identification tags relating to the experiences of her cousin, Arie Kadar, as a prisoner of war in a German stalag.

  9. Andrew and Rose Hausman collection

    The collection consists of a set of tefillin, documents, drawings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Adolf Hausman in Hungary during and after the Holocaust and of documents relating to Rose Hausman after the Holocaust.

  10. Gunther Rice memoir

    Consists of one typed memoir, 42 pages, entitled “A New Letter to my Children” written by Gunther Rice, originally of Hamburg, Germany, as a letter to his children. In the memoir, he describes the lives of his large family in Hamburg, his childhood, and education. He describes his memories of the family’s arrest and deportation to Zbaszyn on the border of Poland in October 1938, since his parents were Polish citizens. In the summer of 1939, Gunther left his parents and traveled to England as part of a kindertransport, first living with a foster family in Cardiff and later in London.

  11. Ahlyce Kaplan collection

    Consists of two pre-war photographs taken at Sacre Coeur in Paris: one of Elyse and Yolanda Goldman with relatives George and Juliette Epstein, and a photograph of Rose Waldman Korn, who later perished at Auschwitz. Also includes four letters written by Elyse Goldman, three written in 1939 when she was evacuated from Paris in anticipation of the outbreak of fighting, and one written in 1942 while living under a false name in Bueil, France.

  12. Presentation by Arthur Sheridan

  13. Eva and Zvi Schloss collection

    The collection consists of a French lottery ticket and one 50 kronen Theresienstadt scrip, as well as documents relating to the experiences of Meier Schloss while imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp in Germany before the Holocaust.

  14. Oral history interview with George L. Rockwell

  15. Oral history interview with Bela Pomeranc Friedman

  16. Esther Weisz Grun oral history collection

    Includes a CD-ROM of audio interviews with Esther Weisz Grun conducted from December 15, 2005 until May 8, 2006 and a DVD of a video testimony recorded at Pace University in Pleasantville, NY ca. 2009.

  17. Oral history interview with Hillel Schwartz

  18. Oral history interview with Magda Auerbach

  19. Doll vest

    Julia Schor played with the doll vest while in hiding during the Holocaust.