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  1. 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...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Ship launching at Swedish harbor; Red Cross ships with POWs

    1021 V (09:06:25): Managing Director Heden in office. Gothenburg ship-building and launchings: Tug attending launching. Bows of ship. LS, stern of ship and harbor. Deck of a newly-built ship, waiting to be put to sea since the outbreak of war. View along the deck. Ship entering floating dock. Ship-building yard showing lower deck plates of ship. Director Heden and his wife ascending stairs prior to launching. Ship's side with flag decorations. Launching platform with ship's bows. View of shipyard. MS, launching platform. Mrs. Heden coming down steps with bouquet. Launching of the ship. Gene...

  3. 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).

  4. 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...

  5. 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”.

  6. Nazi leaders meet justice

    Issue 159, Part 2: Trial of Vidkun Quisling. Arrest of post-Hitler Nazi government in Plainsberg, Germany. Death of Himmler by suicide in Luneberg, Germany.

  7. Oral history interview with Oscar Cukierman

  8. 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...

  9. Zarnicer family collection

    Document issued on behalf of Esther Zarnicer [donor’s maternal grandmother], living in Camp de Gurs [Ilôt L Baraque 14], granting permission for her daughter, Ruth, to be removed from Camp de Gurs for the purpose of immigration to the United States of America. Dated 21 November 1941 and signed by “Ester” and stamped by the camp director. Includes a photograph of Ruth’s parents, Esther and Robert Zarnicer [who died in 1932]. Ruth and her her brother Hugo were placed in the Chabannes children's home before later going into hiding under false names. Esther was deported and killed.

  10. 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).

  11. "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.

  13. Stefan Petri collection

    The collection consists of a workbench and over forty tools, machines, and machine parts, relating to the experiences of Stefan Petri, who with his first wife, Janina, concealed a Jewish family, Kaufman, Ela, and their sons Marek and Jerzy Szapiro, in two hiding places he built in his home in Warsaw, Poland, from spring 1942 to September 1944.

  14. Chava Edelman collection

    Contains 16 photographs pertaining to the experiences of the Weineirman family in Transnistria between 1941-1944.

  15. 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...

  16. Gabriella Mueller Fogel collection

    The collection consists of a handkerchief, a tablecoth, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Irena and Ignác Mueller and their children, Erich, Gabriella, and Tibor, in Czechoslovakia before and after the Holocaust during which Irena, Gabriella, and Tibor were imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp, Ignác in Buchenwald concentration camp, and Erich was a slave laborer.

  17. "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...

  18. Testimony regarding Nesvizh (Nieswiez), Poland

    The Testimony Regarding Nesvizh (Niewswiez), Poland is an eyewitness report of the destruction of the Jewish community of Nesvizh (Nieswiez), Poland, written by Moshe Lachowicki in Jerusalem in 1948. He describes the Nazi raid on the village of October 29, 1941, life in the ghetto subsequent to that, and the panic that accompanied a second raid, from which Mr. Lachowicki escaped by hiding. He was able to escape into the forest, where he joined the partisans.

  19. Civil Chancellery of the President of the Polish Republic Kancelaria Cywilna i Gabinet Wojskowy (A.48)

    Contains selected records of the Civil Chancellery of the President of the Polish Republic of the Polish Government in Exile relating to various Jewish matters, war refugees and displaced persons 1944-1947, and national minorities. Includes dispatches and reports from occupied Poland, a political report of Jan Karski, October 1940-February 1943, a speech of Prof. Olgierd at the New Zionist Organization, accusation of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency from Kuybyshev (Samara) in Russia for discrimination toward Jews by Polish military authorities, a negative respond toward the dismissal of Jews f...

  20. Harold B. Conlan collection

    The collection consists of a yarn doll, seven pieces of currency, a pennant, and a soap bar relating to the experiences of Harold B. Conlan, a soldier in the 701st Company D, US Army, which assisted in the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in April 1945.