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  1. Lucy Lipiner papers

    The Lucy Lipiner papers includes mounted photographs with captions indicating they depict the brewery where the Sucha ghetto was located and the deportation of Jews from Sucha to Auschwitz in 1942; a photocopy of a list of people in Sucha who made charitable donations, including Lipiner’s grandmother Frymet Mandelbaum; a photocopy of a detailed typewritten account in Polish of what happened to the Jews and Polish Partisan sin Sucha and the surrounding area during the war; and two lists of students who attended Jewish religious classes in the Austro-Hungarian school system in 1909-1910 and 1...

  2. Branch of the Temporary State Board for the Jędrzejów county in Jędrzejów Sąd Grodzki w Jędrzejowie (Sygn. 1699)

    Court files in civil and criminal matters in which one of the parties was a person of Jewish origin. Post-war materials regarding real estate owned by Jews, applications for correction or reconstruction of birth, death or other documents.

  3. Zelig Wasser diary

    Consists primarily of handwritten diary pages that were kept by Sidney "Zelig" Wasser, a survivor from Kielce, Poland, while he was living in hiding in the woods after his escape from Henryków Arbeitslager, a forced labor camp, in May 1944. The diary pages were hidden in glass bottles and a majority were recovered after the war. The collection also includes correspondence, an illustrated map of Henryków with an identification key, Wasser's various translations of the diary and transcriptions of notes in both English and Polish, and a timeline capturing his experiences from when war broke ou...

  4. Sygn. 511, County Starosty in Końskie Sygn. 511, Starostwo Powiatowe Koneckie

    Situation reports of the Starosty containing information on, inter alia, the state of public safety, public assemblies, legal and illegal political organizations.

  5. District Court of the Land Sąd Okręgowy Ziemski (Sygn. 105)

    Official correspondence regarding land for the expansion of Jewish cemeteries in the towns Nowa Słupia, Kępa Nagnajewska and Szydłów.

  6. Eric D. Meier collection

    Includes the typewritten testimony of Holocaust survivor Eric D. Meier

  7. Sąd Grodzki w Końskich (Sygn. 704) Court of the First Instance in Końskie

    Files of civil cases from the period of World War II of people of Jewish origin (inheritance and division of property).

  8. Rudolph Ferdinand Kurz collection

    Letters sent to Dr. Rudolph Ferdinand Kurz (donor’s maternal grandfather), a physician in Cincinnati, OH, from three different Jewish Viennese families, all with the last name Kurz, pleading for financial support and assistance in immigration to the United States. Ultimately, one family made it to Australia and the other two families made it to New York.

  9. Lobsenz family papers

    Consists of correspondence between extended Lobsenz (formerly Lubzens) relatives in Poland, the Warsaw ghetto, and Łódź ghetto, and loved ones in the United States, including the donor's father, Jack Lobsenz, who immigrated to the US from Lipno, Poland in 1920. Also includes a photo in a portfolio, photographic postcards, a money order receipt, an envelope, and a certificate.

  10. Court of Peace in Miechów Sąd Pokoju w Miechowie (Sygn. 177)

    Files of court cases concerning various disputes in which one of the parties was a person of Jewish origin. The cases concerned, among others, payment of debt, rent, division of inheritance, compensation, termination of the contract and other disputes.

  11. 1933 Reichstag election material

    A bound collection of printed, German-language materials relating to the March 5, 1933 Reichstag election in Germany. The dated materials range from January to March 5, 1933, though many are undated. They include portions of text from newspapers and magazines, as well as some advertising materials and smaller propaganda pieces. At the back, an oversize propaganda poster has been folded numerous times to make it fit within the book. All the pieces are bound between hard, black covers, and the front cover bears a handwritten label, “Material Reichstagswahl 5. Marz 1933”.

  12. Ferdinand Lange collection

    The collection consists of a handwritten German-language diary, as well as a typed, English-translation and transcription. The original diary was written in Kurrentschrift, type of cursive script, by Ferdinand Lange, a German Jewish refugee in Manila, Philippines, during World War II (1939-1945). The diary discusses everyday life, family members, and attacks on the town and escaping from the resulting fires. The first entry is from late August 1944, and the final entries recount events from February 1945.The diary is made up of 19 total, loose, half-sheets, the first seven pages of which ar...

  13. Katz family photograph collection

    Comprised of photographs, photographic postcards, and copy prints documenting the experiences of Chaim (Sam), Miriam, and Bella Katz during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Chaim and Miriam survived multiple concentration camps, while their daughter Bella survived living in hiding with Gerard and Teuntje Satduwe, Dutch resistors living in Hilversum, Holland.

  14. Hannah Berkowitz collection

    Includes family photos and documents, travel documents, restitution-related papers, and a transcript of an oral history with Eva Berkowitz, the donors' mother, that captures Eva's experiences in the ghetto in Irshava and then in Auschwitz, where she was incarcerated until July 1944, and then sent to work in German ammunition factories in Gelsenkirchen and Essen.

  15. Selected records from the Central State Archives of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Documentation, Tashkent, Uzbekistan related to the evacuation of civilians during WWII.

    The collection contains documents of the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan and medical hospitals, Tashkent Medical Institute, medical reaserch centers and other state medical agencies active on the territory of Uzbekistan during WWII. It includes records related to the medical assistance given to evacuees, the improvement of the sanitary condition of places where evacuees are resettled, and the measures taken by local medical personnel to maintain and improve the health of the evacuated population. Among the records are financial reports, statistical information, and annual presentations abo...

  16. Drypoint etching created by David Friedman of Jewish Prisoners in KZ

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn737794
    • English
    • pictorial area: Height: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) | Width: 8.880 inches (22.555 cm) overall: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm)

    Drypoint etching depicting Jewish prisoners in a concentration camp by David Friedman.

  17. Pair of candlesticks given to a neighbor in Antwerp for safekeeping

    A pair of candlesticks that originally belonged to the paternal grandparents of the donor’s father, Leon Messer. They were given to a neighbor in Antwerp for safekeeping during the war. Leon survived multiple camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sachsenhausen, and the candlesticks were returned to him after the war.

  18. Drawing,"Because They Were Jews" created by David Friedman

    Pencil drawing by David Friedman.

  19. Johann Przyborowski letter

    Comprised of correspondence sent by Dachau prisoner Johann, "Jan" or "Janek," Przyborowski (b. 1905), a non-Jewish Polish prisoner of Dachau, to his family in Poland concerning the lack of mail he received that year from his loved ones. It also includes guidance not to send parcels since Przyborowski was not permitted to receive them. He also writes that during the recent holidays his thoughts were with his wife and children. Przyborowski was arrested in Łódź in 1940 and sent to Dachau that same year. He was ultimately liberated at Dachau in 1945.

  20. Court of the First Instance in Włoszczowa Sąd Grodzki w Włoszczowie (Sygn. 1847)

    Court files in civil and criminal matters in which one of the parties was a person of Jewish origin. Post-war materials regarding real estate owned by Jews, applications for correction or reconstruction of birth, death or other documents.