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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Jack Garfein collection

    Documents, papers, photos, poster, correspondence, and objects related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Jack Garfein and his family, originally of Mukachevo.

  2. Jack Goldman collection

    The collection consists of Łódź ghetto scrip relating to the experiences of Jack Goldman in Poland after the Holocaust.

  3. Jack H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack H., who was born in Ruscova, Romania in 1929, one of eight children. He recalls his family's affluence and orthodoxy; his father and four siblings emigrating to Palestine in 1935; his father's return with his youngest brother in 1938; attending public school and a cheder; Hungarian occupation; German invasion; ghettoization in Vis?eu de Sus; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; his parents' selection for gassing; remaining with three brothers; interactions with Jews from many countries; their transfer to Do?rnhau, then a slave labor camp in Silesia; beatings and st...

  4. Jack K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack K., who was born in Poland in 1925. Mr. K. recounts German invasion; deportation with his brother to Gross-Masselwitz; slave labor; a German anti-Nazi guard suggesting he damage goods on the loading dock; sharing food with his brother; burying dead prisoners in the Wroc?aw Jewish cemetery; transfer with his brother to Klettendorf; an SS man from his hometown protecting him and his brother; transfer to Gross-Rosen; a public hanging; transfer to another camp; a death march; liberation by United States troops in Feldafing; his brother's return to Poland; traveling t...

  5. Jack K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack K., who was born in Novogrudok, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1929. He recalls a close relationship with his extended family; increasing antisemitism beginning in 1935; attending a Tarbut school; belonging to Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; being sent to his grandparents in Korelichi; returning home; finding their house and possessions destroyed; anti-Jewish restrictions; a mass killing of about fifty men; forced labor; ghettoization including those from surrounding towns; a mass shooting of all Jews except skilled workers; livi...

  6. Jack K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack K., who was born in Zakroczym, Poland in 1920, the oldest of three children. He recounts his family's poverty and orthodoxy; attending cheder and public school; antisemitic laws resulting in financial hardships; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; leaving school at fourteen due to his family's poverty; moving to Warsaw; living on the street until he found a job at a grocery store; enlisting in the Polish military in 1938; German invasion; being wounded and captured as a POW; release; finding his family in P?on?sk; smuggling food to his uncle in the Warsaw ghetto; ...

  7. Jack K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack K., who was born in Poland in 1920, the oldest of three brothers. He recounts his family moving to Trier in 1925; attending school; antisemitism beginning in 1932; moving to Barcelona, then Palma de Mallorca; moving to Marseille, then Paris in 1936 due to the Spanish Civil War; participating in Betar; organizing illegal emigration to Palestine; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation with his father and brothers to Pithiviers in May 1941; his mother's visit; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June 1942; obtaining a privileged office position because...

  8. Jack K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack K., who was born in Wieliczka, Poland in 1924, the oldest of seven children. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews until 1936; attending yeshiva and public school in Krako?w until 1939; German invasion; ghettoization and formation of a Judenrat; finding his father's body after a mass murder; the influx of Jews from Krako?w to Wieliczka; forced labor at degrading tasks; transfer to Pustko?w; daily hangings; escape to Wieliczka; hiding; and working to obtain food for his siblings. Mr. K. recounts incidents in the Krako?w ghetto, Wieliczka, P?aszo?w, and anothe...

  9. Jack L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1910. In an unusually detailed testimony, he recounts his musical education; emigration to Amersfoort, Holland; his musical career; activities in the Dutch underground; deportation to Westerbork, then Auschwitz; and witnessing atrocities. Mr. L. recalls transfer to Monowitz; work for I.G. Farben; teaching accordion to a German officer resulting in extra food and privileges; giving food to a boy whom he took home with him after the war; the influx of Hungarian Jews and acceleration of killing; work in the musicians unit; and ...

  10. Jack L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack L., who was born in Vysná Rybnica, Czechoslovakia in1921. He recalls the family move to Goronda; living in his maternal grandfather's home; learning to be a tailor in Svali︠a︡va; Hungarian occupation; living briefly in Budapest; returning home; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in Püspökladány in February 1942; transfer to Hajdúhadház and Reghin; an appendectomy in Debrecen; returning home to recuperate; learning one older brother was in another battalion and the other in the Soviet Union; returning to his battalion; hearing that his parents and ...

  11. Jack L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack L., who was born in Źuromin, Poland in 1924, one of eight children. He recalls his family's impoverishment; anti-Jewish boycotts; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish violence; his family's forced relocation to several towns; living in a ghetto; his escape; traveling to Praga; hiding with a non-Jew; traveling to other towns; capture and escape; returning to the ghetto; a public hanging; forced labor; deportation to Birkenau in November 1942; sighting his sister; transfer with his brother to Buna/Monowitz; hospitalization; transfer to Auschwitz; surgic...

  12. Jack LaPietra photograph collection

    The collection consists of sixteen photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation.

  13. Jack M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack M., who was born in Szyd?owiec, Poland in 1913. He recalls attending cheder, then public school; visiting his grandmother in Chlewiska; apprenticeship as a tailor at age fourteen; working in Warsaw; military service in Skierniewice from 1937 to 1939; German invasion; one brother fleeing to the Soviet zone (he perished); slave labor in Jo?sefo?w; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; his family's deportation; incarceration in Wolano?w, Skarz?ysko-Kamienna, Sulejo?w, Laura, Dachau, Buchenwald, and Allach; slave labor in HASAG factories; liberation from an evacuat...

  14. Jack M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack M., who was born in Poland in 1924. He recalls antisemitic harassment in public school; learning to be a tailor; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation to a labor camp in 1941; transfer to another camp; return home; escaping from the town's last deportation in 1943; returning to the labor camp; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Buna/Monowitz; slave labor; hospitalization for an injury; assistance from a prisoner doctor in avoiding selection; public hanging of a friend; transfer to Gleiwitz, Oranienburg, Flossenbu?rg, then Plattling in winter 1945; Allied...

  15. Jack M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack M., who was born in Gdan?sk, Poland in 1927 and grew up in Gdynia. He recalls a pleasant childhood in an affluent family; his father sending the family to Dzia?oszyce (his father's hometown) in August 1939; German invasion; his sister joining relatives in another town; moving with his mother and brother to S?awko?w; substituting for other people's forced labor to earn money; and separation from his family during a round-up in 1942. Mr. M. describes his experiences in Blechhammer, Gross Masselwitz, Dyhernfurth, Brande, Bad Warmbrunn, and Doernhau; forced labor in ...

  16. Jack M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack M., who was born in 1924, the youngest of eight children. He recounts living in Miecho?w, Poland; his family's orthodoxy and Zionism; recovering from polio in 1935; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization in 1941; the role of the Judenrat; forced labor making German uniforms; smuggling out to get food; round-up to a train in 1942; a Polish neighbor bringing him water; he and two brothers arriving at Prokocim; slave labor; transfer with one brother to P?aszo?w, Oskar Schindler's factory, Wieliezka, then ba...

  17. Jack Marchick papers

    The Jack Marchick collection comprises letters and photographs collected by Jack during and after his deployment with the United States Army in Europe. The letters are written between 1945 and 1948 by Raymond Weinstein, a former prisoner of the camp Jack Marchick liberated, and discuss the economic and political situation in post-war France. Raymond writes of his struggles to obtain and keep work; his family; his health; and his progress in gaining back his weight after years of malnutrition. Among the 26 photographs are images of a concentration camp, likely Buchenwald, immediately after l...

  18. Jack Milgrom collection

    Consists of photographs, identification card, postcards, certificates, receipts, telegrams, a flyer, envelope, letters, documents, and permits relating to Gertrude Hoffer (later Gertrude Milgrom), and her family's experiences in Vienna, Austria; Zagreb, Yugoslavia; London, United Kingdom; Bielsko, Poland, Landsberg displaced persons camp, Germany; and her immigration to the United States.

  19. Jack Morse papers

    Identity cards, black-and-white photographs of St. Lô and Buchenwald, and video tape made by Jack Morse [donor] (memoir).

  20. Jack Moses papers

    The Jack Moses papers consist of correspondence, identification papers, and photographs documenting Jack Moses, his family’s immigration to the United States, his military service during and after World War II, and the fate of relatives who remained behind in Europe. The bulk of the collection is comprised of Nazi-era newspapers and booklets. The collection also includes an SS membership booklet and a Nazi Party membership booklet for unrelated men.