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Language of Description: Polish

  1. Irena and Antoni Wittek: Personal papers

    Personal papers and photographs of Irena Wittek documenting her life and medical career in Poland, France, Northern Rhodesia and the UK, as well as similar material about her husband Antoni Wittek. There are also audio recordings (in Polish) of Irena Wittek talking about her life in France leading up to the German occupation, her escape to England and life in London during the war.

  2. Irena and Manes Wysoki papers

    Repatriation identification: issued to the Drimmer family from Drohobycz, allowing them to leave the USSR for Poland, as Polish citizens. They arrived in Walbrzych, Poland on January 13, 1946. Collection of photographs: images of the Wysoki family after their escape from German occupied Poland to Magnitogorsk, Soviet Union and after the war in Walbrzych, Poland. Report card: issued to Manes Wysocki in the USSR for the year 1944-1945 and 1945-1946; two letters written by the niece of Perla Wysoki, who survived the Auschwitz death camp, dated 1947

  3. Irena B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irena B., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1923, the youngest of three sisters. She recounts visits to her grandfather's farm in Borek Fałęcki; attending a Polish school, then a Jewish gymnasium; German invasion; her father, sister, brother-in-law, and their child fleeing to Lʹviv (she never saw them again); anti-Jewish restrictions; completing a nursing course; eviction; joining an uncle with her mother and sister in Borek; her sister's marriage; working as a German teacher; receiving postcards from her father who had been deported by the Soviets to Samarkand; ass...

  4. Irena Bloch papers

    The Irena Bloch papers primarily consists of photographs documenting the Hecht and Bloch families before the war in Żółkiew, Delatyn, Orlow, Sopot, and Gdynia, Poland as well as Rachela Hecht’s marriage to Dziunek Dawid Zimand in Warsaw, Poland. The papers also include a marriage permit, ketubah, false work papers, school certificates, a diploma, and a letter Irena’s best friend Ruth Zeimer Czaczkes wrote on February 27, 1943 while in hiding with her son Rysio in Tarnow, Poland prior to their denunciation and subsequent murder. Photographs document the Hecht, Zimand, and Bloch families' pre...

  5. Irena Cymerman Wojcik collection

    The collection includes photographs relating to Irena Wojcik (born Irka Cymerman) and her relatives during the Holocaust and in hiding in Sadoleś, Poland; her rescuer and future husband Władysław Wojcik; life before the war at a public school in Węgrów and during the war in Poland; and their daughter visiting the site of the former death camp of Treblinka circa 1960. Additional individuals depicted in the photographs include Irena’s brother-in-laws Mietek Rubinsztajn and Franciszek Wojcik, her sister Henia, and her friend Jadwiga Worowicz. The collection also includes an affidavit issued by...

  6. Irena D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irena D., who was born in Warsaw, Poland. She describes her family; religious life in prewar Warsaw; her ambivalence toward Judaism and Christianity; German invasion; her father's unsuccessful attempt to flee; living with her family in the Warsaw ghetto; starvation; her father arranging for her, her mother, and sister to escape; using false papers to hide with a Polish woman; working as a Polish maid; learning of the ghetto uprising and her father's death; participating in the 1944 Warsaw uprising; deportation as a non-Jew to Pruszko?w; meeting her aunt; working in a ...

  7. Irena K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irena K., who was born in Velykyĭ Bereznyĭ, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1918, one of seven children. She recalls attending a Czech school; Hungarian occupation; three brothers moving to Budapest; ghettozation with her parents and sister in Uz︠h︡horod; one brother joining them; their deportation to Auschwitz six weeks later; separation from her family with her sister; working in the hospital; defying regulations by allowing visitors; Dr. Gisella Perl giving her life-saving medication when she was ill; her cousin giving birth; the immediate "disappearance" o...

  8. Irena Peritz papers

    The Irena Peritz papers include her autograph book, diary, and memoir documenting her friendships in Lvov and Borysław and her family’s experiences in the Borysław ghetto and labor camp and in hiding. The papers also include letters from Janka and Niuta Teicher documenting their experiences in the Drohobycz labor camp and Dachówczarnia brick factory. The autograph book includes signatures, poems, and drawings by Irena Peritz’s friends in Lvov and Borysław. Correspondence consists of letters written by Janka and Niuta Teicher in the Dachówczarnia labor camp in Drohobycz to Irena Peritz in Bo...

  9. Irena S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irena S., who was born in approximately 1941. She recounts learning at age twenty-seven that she may have been born in Poland; being left in Slovakia in September 1943 when she was very ill (she speculates her biological parents were attempting to escape to Hungary); a Jewish man taking her and promising to send her to her parents when she recovered; the town doctor placing her with a Jewish couple; obtaining false papers through her foster mother's sister; bonding with her foster parents within a month; learning Germans were approaching; the adults deciding to hide i...

  10. Irena Schwarz collection

    Consists of a rosary and cross and an autograph album and invitation, dated circa 1942-1945, relating to the donor's experiences as a hidden child in Poland. Also includes photographs depicting the donor, her birth family before the Holocaust and her war time rescuer, Janina Sycz. Irene (Irena) Schwarz is the author of "A Holocaust Love Story," published in Israel in 2000.

  11. Irena Urdang de Tour family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and a photograph relating to the experiences of Irena Ehrlich vel Sluszny (now Urdang de Tour) and her family in Warsaw and the Warsaw ghetto in Poland before and during the Holocaust, to Irena's experiences in a slave labor factory in Berlin, and in Bindermichl displaced persons camp in Linz, Austria, after the Holocaust.

  12. Irena W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irena W., who was born in Nová Bystrica, in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia), in 1909. She recalls living in Stará Bystrica; attending Hungarian, then Czech schools; studying in Žilina and Bratislava; working in Petržalka; relocation of her company to Bratislava due to anti-Jewish measures; deportation to Žilina in 1942; escape with assistance from a guard she knew; hiding in Bratislava with assistance from a policeman, then in Ružomberok; marriage; deportation exemption because her husband was a doctor; working as an accountant; hiding her hus...

  13. Irene Adler memoir

    Contains one memoir, 87 pages, written by Irene Adler. In the memoir, she describes her childhood in a north-eastern village of Hungary in the 1930s, hiding in Budapest during the Holocaust, her escape from a death march in late 1944, her life and liberation in the Budapest ghetto, and her ailyah to the newly-founded state of Israel. She also describes the experiences of her husband, Mr. Bernard Adler, who was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz and was liberated in Ebensee.

  14. Irene and Henry Frank family collection

    The collection consists of patches, scrip, stamps, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Henry and Irene Silberstein Frank and their relatives in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland before and during the Holocaust, and in Germany and the United States after World War II.

  15. Irene B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene B., a twin, who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926. She recalls her father's position as a district attorney; attending a Catholic school; her father's dismissal from his job due to the Nuremberg laws; expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; no longer having servants, although one, an anti-Nazi, continued to work for them; their chauffeur warning her father to leave; men coming for him; his return a week later; seeing damage after Kristallnacht; placement with her sister on a kindertransport; arrival in London in January 1939; attending a Jewish board...

  16. Irene B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene B., who was born in Soko?o?w Podlaski, Poland in 1930. She recalls her parents' non-Kosher butcher business; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; ghettoization; working on a farm with her parents and siblings; her parents arranging for her to stay on the farm; the ghetto's liquidation in 1942; her father and brother escaping to the farm; her sister's deportation; her mother remaining in the ghetto, sorting clothes and possessions of deported Jews; her mother arranging for her to hide with a Polish woman; persuading the woman also to hide her brother; liberat...

  17. Irene B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1922. She recalls Hitler's warm reception during the Anschluss; expulsion from school; her parents sending her younger sister to relatives in Czechoslovakia; Nazis vandalizing their apartment during Kristallnacht; her father's incarceration in Dachau; she and her mother moving in with relatives; emigration to Palestine with a Youth Aliyah group; a painful parting from her mother; living on a kibbutz; contacts with Henrietta Szold; visiting her parents and sister in the United States in 1947; serving in the Magen DavĚŁid ado...

  18. Irene Borchardt collection

    Contains documents and correspondence regarding the experiences of Irene Borchardt, born January 31, 1929 in Berlin, Germany. Irene was able to immigrate from Berlin to the United Kingdom in 1939. Includes letters from her family [mother Franziska, sister Lilli, father Jaques, brother Helmut]; to Mrs. Shaxson, with whom Irene lived in England; and to aid organizations from Franziska asking for help getting Lilli out of Germany. Includes a Red Cross letter dated October 14, 1942 from Franziska to Irene stating “I am going with Lilli to Papa and Helmut. Stay healthy and brave. God will receiv...

  19. Irene Bourla Modianot collection

    Watch face worn and used by Riquetta (nee Simha) Bourla and through her hiding experience in Athens, Greece with her husband Isaac. Photographs of Isaac and Riquetta Bourla, dated early 20th century, and a photgraphic portrait mounted on porcelain.

  20. Irene Engelman correspondence

    The Irene Engelman correspondence includes letters to Engelman and her husband in New York from her parents, sister and brother-in-law, and grandfather documenting her family members' lives in the Łódź and Warsaw Ghettos and their emigration efforts. Additional letters from a family friend describe her grandfather's death, her parents' transport to Auschwitz, and her sister and brother-in-law's unknown fates.