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  1. Damashek family collection

    Contains a prewar school portrait photograph of Hela (Helena) Wadler (donor's mother), in Krakow, Poland, and six immediate postwar letters from Jacob Damashek (donor's father) in the United Kingdom to Hela Wadler in Poland.

  2. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Corrèze

    Contains selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Corrèze pertaining to French and foreign Jews fleeing the occupied zone and seeking refuge in the Corrèze, as well as the internment of Jews, and work brigades in the Corrèze.

  3. Moses Weiser collection

    Consists of a folder of information regarding the Holocaust experiences of Moses (born Moishe) Weiser, originally of Ganachuvka, Poland. Includes an English-language transcript of a Yiddish language oral history with Mr. Weiser, in which he describes his childhood, Jewish life in the town, his deportation in 1940 to the Premishlan ghetto, and subsequently to a series of small concentration camps before being deported to Janowska concentration camp in May 1941. He describes life at Janowska, where he was imprisoned until escaping in July 1944 and joining a group of Jews hiding in the woods n...

  4. Rosemarie Palliser collection

    Consists of two testimonies written by Rosemarie Palliser, originally of Berlin, Germany. Includes one testimony, 2 pages, entitled "Our Flight From Germany, 1939," in which Ms. Palliser describes her father's role as the director of a vocational school for Jewish boys and his determination to have all the children immigrate to safety. In August 1939, Ms. Palliser and her family, along with the boys from the school, were able to immigrate from Berlin to Harwich, England. Also includes a testimony, 4 pages, about the family's arrival in England, adjusting to new customs and reestablishing th...

  5. "Fighting the Nazis"

    Consists of a photocopy of testimony, 4 pages, entitled "Fighting the Nazis" by Simone Wormser Greenberg, originally of Besançon, France. In the testimony, she describes her family's escape into Vichy, France, her work as a member of the French underground, and the liberation of her town by the American Army.

  6. Polish Embassy in Moscow and Kuybyshev (USSR) Ambasada Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej w Moskwie i Kujbyszewie (ZSRR) (A.7)

    Contains selected records of the Polish Embassy of the Polish government-in-exile. The collection comprises records of activities of the Embassy of the Polish Republic in Moscow (and Kuybyshev after November 1941) from September 1941 through May 1943. The majority of files date from the tenure of Ambassador Stanisław Kot (1 Sept 1941- 13 Jun 1942), and the rest from the tenure of Dr. Tadeusz Romer (12 Oct 1942 - 5 May 1943). Documents include coded telegrams, reports and dispatches, instructions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of the ambassadors, documents of the representatives of t...

  7. Ministry of Internal Affairs Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrzych (A. 9)

    Consists of selected records of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Polish government-in-exile. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Polish government-in-exile between 1940-1949 was overseen by four ministers: Stanisław Kot (1940-1941), Stanisław Mikołajczyk (1941-1943), Władysław Banaczyk (1943-1944), Zygmunt Berezowski (1944-1949). These documents relate to the re-creation and reorganization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in France: correspondence, dispatches, notes and information received from diplomatic posts, emissaries and posts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, corres...

  8. Ministry of Information and Documentation Ministerstwo Informacji i Dokumentacji (A.10)

    Contains selected records from the Ministry of Information and Documentation, Division of National Minorities, mainly Jewish press, testimonies of the Jews from 1940 to 1945, reviews of the Jewish press 1941-1943, and Jewish matters 1940-1944. The Ministry of Information and Documentation of the Polish government-in-exile between 1940 and 1949 was overseen by three ministers: Stanisław Stroński (1940-1943), Stanisław Kot (1943-1944), and Adam Pragier (1944-1949).The collection also includes documentation of the situation in the eastern provinces of Poland under the Soviet occupation: witnes...

  9. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1918-1945. Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych (A.11)

    Contains selected records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Polish government-in-exile relating to the Polish Army in the USSR; Jews in the Polish Military Forces; desertions in Poland, USSR, North and South America, and Asia; Jewish refugees in Europe and other continents; exchange of Jews for Germans interned in the USA; Polish-Soviet relations; war crimes and criminals; medical experiments in Ravensbrück and Dachau; and the Congress of Polish Jews, organized in 1945. Documents also include correspondence of the intelligence service, encrypted dispatches, reviews of the Jewish pre...

  10. Polish Embassy in London Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie (A.12)

    Contains selected records of the Polish Embassy of the Polish government-in-exile in London relating to political relations with European countries, aid for the Warsaw ghetto uprising, deportation of Jews from the territories annexed by Germany, evacuation of Poles and Jews from the USSR, international aid for Polish civilians, situation in Poland under Soviet and German occupation, Polish prisoners of war, desertion of Jews from the Polish Army, 1944-1945, contacts with Jewish organizations in England, as well as other Jewish affairs. Documentation comprises correspondence, reports and spe...

  11. Polish Consulate General in Jerusalem Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Jerozolimie (A.16)

    Contains selected records of the Polish Consulate General in Jerusalem of the Polish government-in-exile.The Consuls General of the Polish Consulate General in Jerusalem were Witold Hulanicki (1936-1939), followed by Aleksy Wdziękoński (1939-1945).Includes records relating to deprivation of the Polish citizenship of Jewish soldiers in the Polish Army for desertion, activities within Jewish communities and contacts with different religious groups: Wolf Patron’s -- Jewish; Mustafa Alexandrowicz’s -- Muslim; Stanisław Funfstuk -- Christian. Also incorporates files of the Consul General, Hulani...

  12. Ministry of Labor and social Welfare Ministerstwo Pracy i Opieki Społecznej (A.18)

    Contains selected records of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare of the Polish government-in-exile. Collection includes correspondence relating to worldwide care and aid rendered to Polish citizens, mainly refugees (including Jews), evacuation and geographical population of Polish citizens (also including Jews) from 1942 to 1944. The collection also includes general files from 1940 to 1941, 1943, 1944 and 1945. The Minister of Labor and Social Welfare from 1939 to 1944 was Jan Stańczyk, followed by Tomasz Arciszewski (1944-1947).

  13. Ministry of Justice Ministerstwo Sprawiedliwości (A.20)

    Contains selected records of the Ministry of Justice of the Polish government-in-exile under Minister Bronisław Kuśnierz. Includes secret files of Katyń massacre, records related to Jewish affairs, communist actions (such as the pro-Soviet atmosphere in ghettos), cruelty of the USSR and German occupiers of 1939-1940, crimes of the Wehrmacht against civilians and Polish citizens interned in Palestine by the British authorities (mainly Jews). Contains the letter of the World Jewish Congress to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the abolition of the 1938 law depriving Jews in the Pol...

  14. Polish Consulate General in Dublin Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Dublinie (A.25)

    Contains selected records from the Consulate General of Poland in Dublin of the Polish government-in-exile. The Consuls of the Consulate were Wacław Dobrzyński (1929-1948), Ludwik Teclaff (1948-1952), and Zofia Zaleska (1952- ). These documents relate to studies of the deportation of Poles to the USSR during 1939-1941, and annexation of the Polish eastern territories to USSR entitled “Counting Polish citizens deported to USSR during 1939-1941” and “Soviet deportation of the inhabitants of Eastern Poland in 1939-1941”.

  15. Polish Consulate General in London Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie (A.42)

    Contains selected records of the Polish Consulate General in London of the Polish Government in Exile relating to deprivation of the Polish citizenship 1938-1944, deserters (mainly Jews), passport matters, Polish citizens in foreign armies (Foreign Legion), polices towards Jews in different countries, major Jewish political and social organizations in UK. Includes list of recruits (many Jews), lists of Polish citizens including Jews interned or imprisoned by the British, copies of dispatches, correspondence with the Polish Jewish Refugee Found, correspondence with the Rabbi Union and the Co...

  16. Polish Embassy in Vatican Ambasada Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej przy Watykanie (A.44)

    Contains selected records of the Polish Embassy in the Vatican of the Polish Government in Exile relating to persecutions of the Catholic Church in occupied Poland by Germans and Polish relationship with Vatican. Includes lists of Polish citizens in hospitals and concentration camps in Reich, the matters of Jewish minority considering visas, and emigration to Palestine. The Ambassador of the Polish Embassy in the Vatican was Kazimierz Papee (1939-1970).

  17. "The Rebirth"

    Consists of one memoir, 9 pages, entitled "The Rebirth" by Alfred Henick, who was a member of the United States Army stationed in Germany in 1946. In the memoir, he describes meeting members of his extended family who had survived the Holocaust, and his assistance in enabling them to immigrate to the United States.

  19. Ernest Sterzer memoir

    The Ernest Sterzer memoir consists of a copy of a memoir, 23 pages, untitled, by Ernest Sterzer, originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, which is in English, Mr. Sterzer describes his experiences as an insulin-dependent diabetic during the Holocaust, including his family's 1942 deportation to Theresienstadt (Terezin), and the lengths his family went to in order to obtain insulin. In October 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz, where he eventually went into the hospital because he didn't have insulin. He was deported to Heinkel, Germany, where he performed forced labor, sporadically obt...

  20. "Birkenau: The Camp of Death"

    Consists of one memoir, 111 pages, entitled "Birkenau: The Camp of Death" by Dr. Marco Nahon, originally written in June-July 1945 and translated in 1959. In the memoir, Dr. Nahon describes life in Demotika, Greece, after the German declaration of war in 1941, and his deportation to Auschwitz in May 1943 after a brief stop in Salonika. He gives a detailed description of life in Auschwitz, where, as a physician, he was employed at the hospital in Birkenau. In November 1944, he was taken to Stutthof, then to Echterdingen and to Ohrdruf. He was sent on a death march from Ohrdruf through Buchen...