Basia Garfinkel was born in Będzin, Poland, on November 2, 1927 to Josef Garfinkel (b. 1889) and Jochewed Beitner (b. 1886). Josef owned a general store and a workshop where holiday frocks were sewn. He was a very observant man and follower of the Radomsk Rabbi. The family spoke Yiddish at home and lived at Modrzejewska 44, a building where most of the residents were Jewish, including the Weinstein, ...

Colman Steuer (born Kalman Sztajer, 1920-2007) was born on 24 December 1920 in Sosnowiec, Poland to Nachum and Shprinza (née Berlinsky) Steuer. He had one sister, Julia, and two brothers, Aaron and Henry. Colman was raised in a Zionist home and was active in Hanoar Hatzioni. He met his future wife Jean Steuer (Genia Eckstein) in Sosnowiec prior to the war. After the German invasion of Poland in September ...

Aron (Arek) Chuna Zolty was born on August 7, 1926 in Łódź, Poland to Szlama Zolty (March 6, 1886-August 20, 1942) and Dina Zolty (née Korn, June 13, 1889-July 3, 1940), . His father worked as a tailor. Aron had two older siblings, Elka Zolty (later Elka Pawigon December 20, 1915-1945) and Abram Hersz Zolty (February 15, 1920- January 1945). The family was forced to move into the Łódź ghetto. On July ...

Alexander Bartal was born Aleksander Ziser Bicz in 1927 in Pabianice, Poland, to tailor Abram Bicz (b. 1902) and his wife Rozka Rajzl Halberg (b. 1905). His brother Izak Icus was born in 1931. The family was confined to the Pabianice ghetto in 1940. When the ghetto was liquidated in 1942, Alexander’s family was sent to the Łódź ghetto, and when the Łódź ghetto was liquidated in 1944, they were sent ...

Mouwloze bodywarmer van gewatteerd katoen, verticaal gestreept in blauw en wit, in een diagonaal patroon gestikt, met zes zinken knopen. Gedragen door Bouke Koning (geboren Akkrum 1915 – overleden Ophemert 1998) tijdens een ‘dodenmars’. Koning groeide op in ‘een rood nest’: vader en moeder waren socialistisch georiënteerd, waarin Bouke hen volgde. Op 19-jarige leeftijd weigerde hij de dienstplicht ...

Ruth Diamond was born Rywka Mam on 29 September 1926 in Białystok, Poland to Szolem and Keila (née Kalmanowicz) Mam. She had two sisters, Chaja (later Helen Weinrib, b. 1919) and Malka, and one brother, Moishe. Ruth and Helen were forced into the Białystok ghetto in August 1941. In September 1943 they were deported to Blizyn and Majdanek, Kraków-Płaszów in July 1944, Auschwitz in July 1944, Mühlhausen ...

The papers consist of documents and 21 photographs relating to the experiences of Jehuda and Pola Stopnicki (donors' parents) during and after the Holocaust. Includes restitution papers and correspondence; testimonies of Jehuda and Pola Stopnicki's and their families' experiences; poems written by Jehuda Stopnicki shortly before her wedding; and family photographs from before World War II, while living ...

Siegfried Halbreich (1909-2008) was born in Dziedzice, in the Upper Silesia region of Poland. After his graduation from high school, he served briefly in the Polish Army from 1930-1932, before attending the University of Krakow to become a pharmacist. He practiced pharmacy in Katowice, Poland from 1935-1939 before the outbreak of World War II. At the outbreak of war, Halbreich was drafted back into ...

Copyright Holder: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu

17:57 The witness, Mr. Stourdze, describes the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945 on foot to Gleiwitz, and then by coal train to Mauthausen and Oranienburg; the witness was then sent to Flossenburg, where there were inmates of several concentration camps; they were forced under scalding water for 20 minutes, and then made to stand outside naked in the bitter cold for three hours; the witness stayed ...

Mendel Grossman (1913-1945) was born in in Staszów, Poland to Shmuel Dawid (1882-1942) and Chana Ruchla (1887-1942) Grossman. He grew up in Łódź, Poland with three sisters, Rut, Rozka (b. 1918), and Feiga (b. 1910); and one brother, Jakub. His sister Rut immigrated to the United States in 1919, and his brother Jakub died of appendicitis before the war. Prior to the war, Mendel was a prolific artist ...

This collection contains a Polish passport issued to Marjem Wyszegrodzka in 1937. Marjem Wyszegrodzka, born on 20 August 1908 in Łęczyca, Poland, moved to Belgium and married Leibisch Goldfischer. She had been in Belgium since 22 August 1927, working at a clothing shop in Brussels. On 7 October 1942, both Marjem and Leibisch were registered at the Dossin Barracks for deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau ...

White peasant style blouse worn by Ludwig Frydman. 21, when he married Lili Lax, 22, on January 27, 1946, in Celle displaced persons camp in Germany. Lili told Ludwig that she had always dreamed of getting married in a white dress, so he obtained a white rayon parachute from a former German airman for 2 pounds of coffee and cigarettes. Lili used her cigarette rations to hire a seamstress, Miriam, to ...

Amalie Noher (1889-1941) was born on 16 May 1889 to Simon and Bertha (née Hertzfeld) Noher in Poland. She had eight siblings, Ella, Salo, Bruno, Leo, Charlotte, Trude, Bernhard, and Selma. Amalie married Chaim Ajzyk Feldman (1896-1942?), a dentist born in Będzin, Poland. Chaim had at least one brother, Wolf, who immigrated to the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II. Their daughter Ruth ...

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13:36 President Cerdini calls the session to order; asks that the accused present himself; Barbie refuses to appear; Cerdini calls on the bailiff to compel the accused to appear 13:37 The bailiff reads the names of the witnesses scheduled to give testimony in the session 13:39 Cerdini suspends the session while the bailiff goes to Barbie to compel him to appear 14:02 Cerdini calls the session to order; ...

Ana (Hannah) Waldner, born 1900, was married to Chaim Waldner, who was born in 1895 in Chelmek to Tvi and Dubi Waldner. They were one of only ten Jewish families in Chelmek, where Chaim was the town butcher. The couple had three children, Dorotha (Dora), born on September 25, 1926, and two younger sons, Karpeck, born ca. 1929, and Beneck, born ca. 1931. The family kept kosher and observed Shabbat and ...

Sally Chase (1928-2017) was born Sala Silberstein to Daniel (1885/87-1942) and Estera (nee Hochberg, 1890-1942) Silberstein in Radom, Poland. She had seven siblings: Abraham (?-1942), Jakob (known as Jack, 1909-1989), Moses (1912-1943), Joshua (1915-1943), Pinchas (?-1944), Hadassa (later Helen Kaluski, 1922-1981), and Rosa (later Eisenberg, b. 1924). The family lived in a nice, three-room apartment, ...

Pendant that originally belonged to Magda Lowy. She received it before the beginning of World War II in 1939 and entrusted it to her aunt, Jolie, for safekeeping. Jolie survived the Holocaust by living in hiding in Belgium. In June 1944, 21 year old Magda and her family were deported from Satu Mare, Hungary (Romania) to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in Poland. She and her sister, Elizabeth, were ...

Drawing created on June 21, 1947, by Walter Spitzer, and given to Hana Jane Barton in a cafe in Paris, France. The drawing depicts three children, sitting on the ground. According to the artist: “ the boy will grow up to be a criminal; the girl will become a bitter woman; and the child on the right will be an idiot - after all, what can you expect them to be, after what they experienced.” Each child ...

Rose Gelbart (born Rozia Grosman) is the only child of Jozef Grosman and Sabina Stella Langner. She was born in January 3, 1935 in Leszno Poland, where Jozef owned a shoe store. The family lived in Kalisz, which housed in the rear of the home a workshop which had ten employees. In October 1939, after the Nazi invasion of Poland, the Grosman family moved to Rzeszow. In December of that year, the ghetto ...

Hirsch (later Henry) Kolber was the oldest child of Markus and Leona (nee Mandelberg) Kolber. Hirsch was born on June 6, 1923 in Przysietnica (Kracow, Poland) where his father owned a lumber yard and his mother operated a grocery store and inn. His brother Aaron was born in Przysietnica in 1925. Soon after his birth the family moved to Barcice near the Czech border, where his three sisters were born: ...

Hirsch (later Henry) Kolber was the oldest child of Markus and Leona (nee Mandelberg) Kolber. Hirsch was born on June 6, 1923 in Przysietnica (Kracow, Poland) where his father owned a lumber yard and his mother operated a grocery store and inn. His brother Aaron was born in Przysietnica in 1925. Soon after his birth the family moved to Barcice near the Czech border, where his three sisters were born: ...

15:51 President Cerdini calls a civil party, Mrs. Alice Arnault, née Zohar, to the stand; the civil party presents herself to the court 15:52 Mrs. Arnault describes her arrest in July 1944, by a member of the Gestapo; he explained to her that she had been denominated by someone called 'Le Boiteux,' and that there was a 5,000 franc prize on her head; she was quickly transferred to Montluc, and then ...