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  1. Jan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jan B., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Sásová, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1924, one of twelve children. He recounts his family's poverty; attending school; a local priest and teacher taking an interest in him; continuing school in Banská Bystrica; persecution of Romanies after the formation of the Slovak state; forced labor with his father building roads under harsh conditions; threat of deportation by the Hlinka guard; commiserating with the Jews; observing their deportations; his family hiding a Jewish girl; her discovery; joining the partisans; b...

  2. Jan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jan B., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Klenovec, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1931. He recalls a relatively good life during the Czechoslovak period; persecution once Slovakia was established; harassment and beatings by the Hlinka guard, their youth movement, and his teacher; prohibitions on train and bus travel; hiding in a forest during German shootings; Hlinka guard taking Jews away; improvements during the Slovak uprising; Hlinka guards searching for partisans and weapons and vandalizing their houses; and decreased discrimination against Romanies by ...

  3. Jan C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jan C., a non-Jew, who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1922. He recalls being raised by his grandparents in Herentals after his father's death; his mother's remarriage; attending school in Turnhout; working in his stepfather's bakery; military conscription in 1940; posting to Gravelines, France; returning to Herentals; involvement with the Resistance; distributing pamphlets, tracking troop movements, and minor sabotage; arrest; imprisonment in Antwerp, then St. Gilles; harsh interrogations; admitting nothing; being condemned to death; deportation to Esterwegen, Börg...

  4. Jan Ciechanowski collection Kolekcja Jana Ciechanowskiego (Kol. 82)

    Contains correspondence and other documents of the Polish Embassy in the USA, 1939-1945. Includes records relating to aid for refugees from USSR, relations with the USSR, arresting of the staff of the Polish Embassy in USSR, help rendered by the USA to the USSR, the conference Churchill-Roosevelt, U.S. attitude toward the war, policy of FDR towards Poland, the Ambassador’s reports to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, evacuation of Polish children from USSR, denouncing Polish Citizens to Germans by the Vichy Government, Jewish affairs: mass extermination of Jews in the German occupied ...

  5. Jan de Jong: diaries

    This collection consists of the translated diaries of Jan de Jong, a Dutch Jew who went into hiding during the Nazi-German occupation of the Netherlands. He later perished at Sobibor extermination camp. The diaries document his life in hiding in the Netherlands, where he frequently moved to avoid arrest, and comments on the worldwide political and military developments. There were originally 11 diaries of which the first five were lost. Diaries number 6 to 11 were hidden in the attic of family friends in Arnhem. The last one was badly damaged and destroyed. The original documents include ne...

  6. Jan Dubsky letter

    The letter was written from Jan Dubsky as a child in the ghetto in Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czechoslovakia, in 1941 to his grandmother in Slovakia. recto: in pencil, rough translation, "Dear Grandma/Thank you for your letter and kisses. We are waiting to see you. Grandma come to us./Jenda"

  7. Jan Emil Karpiński collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust experiences of Jan Emil Karpiński. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  8. Jan Etrich Limited Partnership, Trutnov

    The fonds contains records of the Jan Etrich Limited Partnership, Trutnov. These include reports of receivables from and liabilities to Germany with supporting documents (inter alia, relating to the Gross-Rosen sub-camp at Bernartice) from the years 1945–1946; undated time sheets for work done by Jewish female prisoners between 27 September and 10 October at the company's works in Hostinné; a card file of POWs and forced labourers working at the company between 1940 and 1945; weekly time sheets for work done by employees at the spinning mill (including by POWs and Russian labourers) between...

  9. Jan F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jan F., who was born in Trnava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1930, an only child. He recalls his family's assimilated lifestyle; attending public school in Piešt̕any; passing the admissions exams for gymnasium, but finding Jews were barred; attending a Jewish school; deportation of his mother's family in 1942 by the Hlinka guard; moving to Bratislava; hiding with non-Jews; composing crossword puzzles, for which he was paid; his father arranging for their conversion to evangelical Christianity in August; attending an evangelic school; hiding during the Slova...

  10. Jan Gorecki papers

    The Jan Gorecki papers consist of four identification cards documenting Jan Gorecki’s status as a stateless conscripted Polish laborer in Germany, former prisoner of war, member of the Polish Combatants Association, and member of Catholic Caritas for Poles in the British Zone. The papers also include an International Refugee Organization processing card and a World Health Organization vaccination certificate for Gorecki’s son, Stanislaw.

  11. Jan Istvan memoir

    The Jan Istvan memoir consists of information about the experiences of Roma Holocaust survivor Jan Istvan in various concentration camps, such as Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dora, and his personal philosophy about racism.

  12. Jan Jozef Gasior papers

    The collection consists of an identification card and certificate issued to Jan Josef Gasior, originally of Dukla, Poland, confirming that he was a persecuted Pole who was imprisoned in Auschwitz and Buchenwald from 1942-1945. A photograph of Gasior and his second wife, Maria Grzesik, is also included.

  13. Jan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jan K., a Romani, who was born in Dúbravy, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1929. He recalls harassment by Hlinka guard youth; joining partisans in the hills; good relations among ethnic groups in the partisans; capture by Germans during the uprising; being forced to carry ammunition for the Germans in Hriňová; incarceration in the synagogue in Detva; truck transport toward Germany; escaping with others in Zvolen; hiding with family friends in Očová; returning home; observing that all the men in the village had been rounded up; hiding in the hills; returnin...

  14. Jan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jan K., a non-Jewish Pole, who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1914. He recalls working as a diplomatic courier for the Polish government in exile during the war; receiving messages from Jewish leaders who wanted the Polish government in London and the Allies to know what was happening to Jews in Poland; secretly entering the Warsaw ghetto with Leon Feiner, a Bund leader, as his guide; returning a second time; Feiner arranging for him to be smuggled into a camp; traveling to a village via Lublin; being provided with a guard's uniform by his guide; becoming overwhelmed b...

  15. Jan Karski

    Jan Karski tells of his capture and torture by the Gestapo when he was a courier for the Polish underground. He also describes his clandestine visit to the Warsaw ghetto and his meeting with Szmul Zygielbojm, six months before Zygelbojm's suicide. See pages 491 - 494 of the English translation of Lanzmann's memoir The Patagonian Hare (March 2012) for a description of his interactions with Karski after filming this interview. FILM ID 3133 -- Camera Rolls #1-5 -- 01:00:33 to 01:32:10 Karski tells of his first missions as a courier for the Polish Government in Exile. [No visual until 01:01:56]...

  16. Jan Karski Collection

    The documentation in the Collection: Correspondence, memos, government documentation, bulletins, reports, research, texts of speeches, printed matter, photographs, newspapers and newspaper clippings, journals and microfilm regarding the events and the living conditions in occupied Poland during World War II, the German occupation and the Soviet occupation, the attitude towards the Jews and activities of the Polish underground.

  17. Jan Karski Papers

    Correspondence, memoranda, government documents, bulletins, reports, studies, speeches and writings, printed matter, photographs, clippings, newspapers, periodicals, sound recordings, videotape cassettes, and microfilm, relating to events and conditions in Poland during World War II, the German and Soviet occupations of Poland, treatment of the Jews in Poland during the German occupation, and operations of the Polish underground movement during World War II. Includes microfilm copies of Polish underground publications. Of particular importance are 26 reels of microfilm of Polish underground...

  18. Jan Komski papers

    The Jan Komski papers consist of a copy of three identification photographs; a photostat of notice alerting officials to the escape of four individuals (including Jan Komski) from Auschwitz concentration camp; photograph taken immediately after the escape of the four prisoners from Auschwitz; black and white image of a watercolor painted by Jan Komski, who was commissioned by the SS to paint it; two letters written on official form from Auschwitz; and a postcard depicting a man tied to a totem pole with Native Americans dancing around him.

  19. Jan Kostański collection

    The collection consists of images of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II and the post-World War II period, a certificate from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland, and a coin from the Litzmannstadt ghetto in Poland.

  20. Jan Niebrzydowski papers

    Papers consist of a postcard sent by Adolf Hettich, SS-Sturmmann serving in Gusen II, a sub camp of Mauthausen, located in Sankt Georgen in Austria. This postcard was sent on March 16, 1943 to Irena Bielicki in Pabianice, Poland. The reverse side of the postcard shows the dining hall for the SS in the Mauthausen concentration camp.