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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Ivano-Frankivsk State Oblast Archives records

    Contains correspondence, financial records, questionnaires, applications, list of residents, House Registry Book, census documents, inventories of confiscated Jewish property, autobiographies, list of people confined in ghettos, Ukrainian police lists and reports, and other documents pertaining to Holocaust-related issues in the district of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine (Stanisławów, Poland). Records include documents of the Kolomyia District Chief, Snyatin City Administration, Zaluche District Administration, Stetseva District Administration, and Ivano-Frankivsʹk City Administration.

  2. Ivano-Frankovsky Regional Museum records

    Contains statements, reports, photographs, and articles relating to the German and Hungarian occupation of Ukraine; atrocities committed against Jews and Soviet citizens in the region; statistics for executions; names of Gestapo leaders suspected of crimes; and the Tabor Smertii "death camp" at Stanislav, Ukraine (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine).

  3. Ivar S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ivar S., who was born in Klaipeda, Lithuania, in 1930. He recalls his sheltered life as an only child in a close family; the city's de facto unification with East Prussia in 1939; his family's departure for Lithuania; and several relocations to small towns. He tells of the Soviet and German occupations; moving to Kovno; ghettoization; a German Jewish member of the Judenrat who hid them from round-ups; training as a machinist in an ORT school; and his bar mitzvah in the ghetto in 1943. He describes the ghetto's liquidation; deportation with his parents to Stutthof; sep...

  4. Ivona F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ivona F., who was born in 1923. She recalls living in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia; her close family's focus on education; rumors of events in Germany; cordial relations with non-Jews; a demonstration against the Yugoslav/German pact; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; moving with her parents and brother to Budapest; their return without her; losing contact in January 1942; learning they had been murdered in a mass killing; briefly returning to Novi Sad; German occupation in March 1944; obtaining false papers as a non-Jew; arrest on April 28; imprisonment; transp...

  5. Ivy B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ivy B., who was born in Australia in 1919. She speaks of studying child development psychology in London in 1946; working from 1947 onward at the Anna Freud Centre with children liberated from concentration camps; Anna Freud's staff; and the organization of the Centre. Mrs. B. relates stories of the children undergoing individual psychological treatment; the effects of concentration camps on children; their hoarding of food and food fights; language difficulties; sleep disturbances and night horrors; individual fears related to their experiences; the effect of separat...

  6. Izaak Reifer collection

    Contains personal narratives describing the experiences of Izaak Reifer. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  7. Izaak Schachter. Collection

    This collection contains : two photos of Izaak Schachter ; a photo of his non-Jewish wife Annie Deneu ; a photo of his non-Jewish stepdaughter Jeanne Somers with her children Raymond and Lucienne Naudt ; a postcard sent by Izaak Schachter to his wife Annie Deneu in Amsterdam, while internet at the Dossin barracks in 1943.

  8. Izabela Biezunska-Malowist false identification card

    The identification card ("Kennkarte") was issued to Izabela Biezunska-Malowist under the alias "Janina Truszcynska" by the Polish underground.

  9. Izac Holcman papers

    The Izac Holcman papers document Izac Holcman’s military career and biographical background. Documents pertaining to his military career include his Armed Forces passport and a translation of the contents within. These materials described Izac’s various assignments, posts, and ranks within the military. Also included are two testimonies, one in lieu of oath because he could not obtain a birth certificate from Warsaw and the other a statement regarding the disappearance of his wife and son. Also included is Izac’s declaration of the intent to obtain American citizenship and a handwritten tim...

  10. Izak and Marthe Weber collection

    Documents, correspondence, photographs and an oral history illustrating the experiences, primarily of Izak Weber, born in Skole, Poland in 1910, who studied medicine in Paris and remained there through WWII. Included in the collection are numerous documents surrounding Izak's medical education and intern work in Paris, his eventual internment in Drancy transit camp in December 1942 near Paris from which he escaped, marriage documentation and identification cards for Izak and his wife Marte, as well as documentation to practice medicine in Argentina after the war and correspondence from fami...

  11. Izak and Pepi Altenhaus Letter

    Contains a letter written by Izak and Pepi Altenhaus (donor's parents) in Belgium, stating that they were being transported. The letter was thrown from train and picked up and posted by someone else. Also includes a scrap of return address and note in envelope.

  12. Izak and Rachel Herzhaft collection

    Contains photographs illustrating the experiences of Rachel Moskowitz, born in the small Carpathian town "Behutz" in Hungary/Czech area of Slovakia and Izak Herzhaft from Rutke, Poland (Galicia). Izak escaped and ended up in Budapest. Rachel moved to Budapest and both were on the Kasztner train in Bergen-Belsen then Switzerland, eventually moving to Palestine where they married.

  13. Izak and Rywa Manski and Gitl Rozenzweig families collection

    The collection consists of a fork, knife, spoon, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Izak and Rywa Manski and their three children during the Holocaust when they left Lida, Poland, and via Japan, finally reaching Seattle, Washington, on May 7, 1941, and documents, a photograph, and a prayer book relating to the experiences of Gitl Rozenzweig in Lida, Poland, and Israel.

  14. Izak Fridman biography

    The Izak Fridman biography is an internet printout, in Hebrew, about Izak Fridman, originally of Włodawa, Poland. Fridman was born in 1925 and served as a partisan during the Holocaust. He died in 1948 during the Israeli War of Independence. The biography includes wartime photographs and copies of postcards.

  15. Izak Lewkowicz papers

    The papers consist of eight photographs of Izak Lewkowicz and others (some wearing Star of David armbands or badges), two identification cards issued to Izak Lewkowicz in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and a "D.P. Index Card" issued by the Allied Expeditionary Force to Izak Lewkowicz.

  16. Izak Rosenblat collection

    The Izak Rozenblat papers contain photographs and documents relating to Izak “Izy” Rosenblat, a Polish tailor who lived in the Radom ghetto and whose wife and child were deported to Treblinka in 1942. Izy continued to work forced labor for the Germans until his liberation in 1945. Included in the collection are photographs, identification papers, and documents related to restitution from the German government.

  17. Izak Rozenwasser collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Izak Rozenwasser and his family before and during the Holocaust in Poland.

  18. Izak Sznaper photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of the Izak Sznaper’s parents Abraham and Basia (née Bleiweiss) Sznaper and four of their 8 children; a photograph of Basia Sznaper and Izak’s grandmother, aunt, and uncle; a photograph of Izak’s cousins Frieda and Moriz Press; and a photograph of the Izak’s sister, Salka, and brother Mojsze. All of the photographs were taken near Wojnilów, Poland (Voynyliv, Ukraine).

  19. Izaks Berels papers

    Contains one black and white photograph and letter written from Riga.

  20. Izba Przemysłowo-Handlowa Okręgu Rzeszy Gdańsk-Prusy Zachodnie Ekspozytura w Bydgoszczy

    • Industrie- und Handels-Kammmer Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreußen, Zweigstelle Bromberg

    Zaopatrzenie zakładów w materiały i surowce - wnioski o przydział, kontrola cen, stan gospodarki w różnych dziedzinach na terenach wschodnich włączonych do Rzeszy-opracowania, analizy