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  1. Jakob Widawski photographs

    Two photographs: depicting Jakob Widawski (donor’s father) born on May 21, 1921 in Wieruszow, 55 miles WNW from Czestochowa, together with seven other survivors of the town in which 2,400 Jews lived before the war. Jakob Widawski survived the forced labor camp near Poznan, the Auschwitz concentration camp, where his prisoner number was 141687, and a death march to Gleiwitz, Langebilau camps from which he managed to escape.

  2. Jakob Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jakob Z., who was born in Sochaczew, Poland in 1918. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; German invasion; the family move to Warsaw; ghettoization; their move to P?on?sk; his father being taken away; deportation with his family to Birkenau in December 1942; separation upon arrival (he never saw them again); slave labor; contact with the camp underground; reassignment to the Sonderkommando; moving corpses from the gas chamber to the crematoria; wanting to commit suicide the first night; a rabbi dissuading him; becoming accustomed to horrendous work; burning corpses in o...

  3. Jakob Zelnik collection

  4. Jakov D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jakov D., who recounts moving to Belgrade from Sarajevo in 1937; attending school; briefly fleeing when Belgrade was bombed in April 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; his parents obtaining documents as non-Jews from Serbian friends; hiding most of the time; Serbian friends suggesting they leave due to pending deportations; traveling with his parents and sister to Niš; a Serb official providing them and two other Jewish families with an apartment, new identification documents, and food; moving to Donji Matejevac in 1944 to escape severe bombings; local peasants caring f...

  5. Jakov Davetsky collection

    Collection includes postcards (1940-1941) from Tsilya Zhidovetskaya to Dina Zhidovetskaya regarding the situation for Jews in Russia, family photographs, a memorial book for the victims of the Babi Yar massacre, a newspaper commemorating the 50th anniversary of Babi Yar, and identification cards identifying Anatoli Oliker as a veteran of World War II.

  6. Jakov T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jakov T., who was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia in 1925, the oldest of three children. He recounts participating in Tchelet Lavan; his parents' divorce in 1934; their remarriages; remaining in Ostrava to attend school when his parents and sisters moved; joining his mother in 1938; briefly attending boarding school in Karlovy Vary; joining his mother in Rokycany; joining his father in Prague after Slovak independence and alliance with Germany; his bar mitzvah; registering for a Kindertransport to England, which never left due the outbreak of war on September 1, 1939;...

  7. Jakub Bukowski memoir

    Consists of one memoir, in Polish, consisting of Mr. Jakub Bukowski's memories of his childhood and pre-war life in Wloclaw, Poland; and what happened to the inhabitants of the town during the Holocaust.

  8. Jakub G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jakub G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1929. He describes his assimilated family; German invasion in 1939; his father fleeing east (he never saw him again); ghettoization; crowding and starvation; working as an errand boy for the Judenrat; hiding with his mother and brother in an attic overlooking the Umschlagplatz during round-ups; moving when they were seen; hiding in a bunker during the ghetto uprising; deportation to Majdenek after they were discovered; separation from his mother and brother during selection (he never saw them again); hiding to avoid useless ...

  9. Jakub Gutenbaum collection

    Consists of nine photographs depicting the donor and his family before the war in Warsaw and Rytro, Poland; a registration certification, issued in Prague, Czechoslovakia on 12 June 1945, by the Czechoslovak Repatriation Office, stating that the bearer, Jakub Gutenbaum, born 7 Aug.1929 is returning to Warsaw, Poland, traveling from the Buchenwald Concentration camp; and a certificate, issued by a hospital in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on 6 June 1945, stating that Jakub Gutenbaum was free of infectious disease and lice.

  10. Jakub Müller papers

    The papers consist of two photographs of images of Jakub Müller's cousins in Nowy Sad, Poland, and two newspapers that relate to Müller's life before and after the Holocaust.

  11. Jakub Poznanski papers

    The papers consist of three diaries written by Jakub Poznański in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, between 1943 and 1945.

  12. Jakub R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jakub R., who was born in 1926 in ?o?dz?, Poland. He describes his father's active participation in the Bund; good personal relations with Germans and Poles despite public, antisemitic incidents; German invasion in September 1939; synagogue burnings and round-ups; formation of the Judenrat headed by Mordecai Rumkowski; ghettoization in spring 1940; belonging to a group which tried to sabotage work done for Germans; his father's death; relationships between national groups; hiding during round-ups; deportation with his family to Birkenau as part of a Siemens factory; s...

  13. Jakub Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jakub Z., who was born in Nowy Sącz, Poland in 1928 and raised in Košice. He recounts Hungarian occupation in 1938; German invasion in spring 1944; assistance from a non-Jewish neighbor; ghettoization; deportation with his parents to Birkenau; separation from his mother upon arrival (he never saw her again); learning of selections and gas chambers, which he describes as a new reality; volunteering with his father for agricultural work; his father's hospitalization from a severe beating; his own hospitalization; his father visiting and bringing him extra food; being ...

  14. Jakubowicz family photographs

    Consists of 26 pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Jakubowicz family, originally of Wieluń, Poland. Of the seven siblings in the Jakubowicz family, three perished, two survived in hiding, one survived Auschwitz, and Mania Jakubowicz Gryniewicz, the donor, fled with her husband to the Urals. Each photograph has been described by the donor.

  15. Jakubowicz family portrait

    Contains a photographic portrait of the Jakubowicz family taken circa 1929 in Wielun, Poland. Standing in the back row, from left are: Chaja-Ita; Ester Szykman; Victor; Pola; Juda Idel and Mania. Sitting in the front row from left are: Chana Stawski Jakubowicz, holding Tuwia in her lap; Rachel Holtz Jakubowicz; and Herszl, Awram Zysman and Kalman Jakubowicz.

  16. James A. Romberger collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of James A. Romberger, a soldier in the United States Third Army in France and Germany in World War II, during which he participated in the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp.

  17. James and Hedy Reeds collection

    Consists of two large original pre-war portraits, one each of Esther Laub Neumann and of Markus Neumann, the parents of Hedy Neumann Reeds. The Neumanns perished in the Holocaust. Also includes copies of 35 pre-war photographs, some on album pages, of the Neumann family in Poland, and one copy of a photograph of James Reeds, who was part of the "Monuments Men," who investigated and discovered Nazi-looted art. In the photograph, Dr. Reeds is seen examining a discovered painting. He received a 2007 National Humanities Medal as a member of that group.

  18. James Baker photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting Nordhausen concentration camp at liberation in 1945. Handwritten captions in English are on verso.

  19. James Boalick collection

    Consists of three pages of typed testimony written by James G. Boalick, a member of Company B of the 45th Armored Medical Battalion of the 3rd Armored Division of the Third Army. He was a replacement on the front line in the Battle of the Bulge and, in the spring of 1945, participated in the liberation of Nordhausen, where he administered first aid to survivors. Also includes a copy of his honorable discharge and his separation record.

  20. James D. Newton collection

    The collection consists of two identification badges found postwar at Dachau concentration camp.