The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket, pants, and cap and two publications relating to the experiences of Jakob Lewkowicz in forced labor camps and Blechhammer, Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald, and Schörzingen concentration camps during the Holocaust.

Contains a memoir, 69 pages, by Jules Fainzang about his deportation from Drancy, France, on August 28, 1942, to Metz, Cosel (Poland), Sacrau, Shemianowitz, Blechhammer, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald. He was liberated on April 13, 1945.

The collection consists of one etching, eleven drawings and six paintings created by David Friedmann (from 1960, Friedman) after the war based upon his experiences during the Holocaust in the Łódź (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto in Poland from October 1941 - August 1944 and as a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz I, and Blechhammer concentration camps from August 1944 until his liberation soon after a ...

Contains a photocopy of a brief history of Martin Shlanger's hometown in Velke Kapusany, Slovakia.

Consists of a typed memoir, 130 pages, marked "Property of Dr. Wollenberg, Berlin," dated 1947. The memoir describes the experiences of Dr. Hans-Werner Wollenberg, a Jewish physician who worked as a doctor while imprisoned in several concentration camps, including Drancy, Johannsdorf, Brande, Blechhammer-Ehrenforst, Faulbrück, and Langenbielau. The memoir was later published as .".und der Alptraum ...

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1920 in Berlin. In 1933 she and her family (the Bernhards) immigrated to Belgium; in 1939 her parents were arrested, together with their elder son, and interned in Gurs and Saint-Cyprien. In 1942 her father died of a stroke, in Drancy, while her mother and brother were deported to Auschwitz. Lilli fled with her younger brother from Belgium to France in August 1942, and in December ...

Contains a photograph album which belonged to Harry Bergman (donor's father), who was born in Kraschen, Germany (today Krosnice, Poland) on March 1, 1909. He lived in Berlin and was married to Alice Simon; he was an athlete and hoped to compete in the 1936 Olympics. They moved to Brussels, Belgium to escape persecution, but on September 12, 1942 they were both deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau; Harry ...

Osobną część dokumentacji archiwalnej stanowią różne dokumenty dotyczące funkcjonowania niektórych podobozów KL Auschwitz. Zachowały się one w bardzo zróżnicowanym stopniu dla poszczególnych podobozów. Stosunkowo najwięcej oryginalnych akt ocalało w przypadku podobozów Jawischowitz w Jawiszowicach oraz Janinagrube w Libiążu. W zbiorach Muzeum znajdują się dokumenty dotyczące następujących podobozów ...

Consists of one memoir, 16 pages, entitled "My Holocaust Memoirs," by Nathan Ben-Brith (Bundheim), originally of Hamburg, Germany (born Leonhard Nathan Bundheim). He describes his experiences under the pre-war Nazi regime, his family's escape to Belgium after Kristallnacht, his arrest and imprisonment in St. Cyprien and Gurs, his release from Gurs in 1941, his deportation to Drancy in 1942 and experiences ...

Consists of 68 post-war photographs from the collection of Jacques Ribons (Jakub Rybsztain), originally of Strzemieszyce, Poland. Jacques, along with his brother Bernard, was sent to Blechhammer concentration camp from the Strzemieszyce ghetto, while their mother and sister were deported to Auschwitz, where they perished. Their father had died earlier after being shot on the streets of the ghetto. ...

Collection of photographs depicting the Cymberknopf family before the war in Bedzin, Poland as well as photographs taken during the war or given during the war in the Bedzin ghetto. Includes an essay written by Rosa Cymberknopf (donor) in which she describes her feelings of desperation because of death of loved ones; a letter from Rosa to her friend Basia in Palestine asking for her assistance in finding ...

Photographs (99) of the Borger family in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia: Alfred Borger, Hermina Geduldig Borger and their children Karel (b. 1925) and Edith (b. 1929). In July 1939 Karel and Edith were sent to the UK by their parents on the Kindertransport organized by Sir Nicholas Winton. Both parents and Hermina's mother Ruzena Geduldig were deported to Theresienstadt on September 30, 1942; Alfred and Hermina ...

Collection of documents, photographs, drawings, writings, newspaper clippings relating to Klara and Michal Mirski (donor's grandparents). Klara Mirski was born in 1901 as Chaja Fichman and grew up in Warsaw; she was a teacher. Michal was born in 1905 in Kowel as Mosze Tabacznik; he was a teacher and principal in Jewish schools before the war. Due to his Communist activity, he was incarcerated in Bereza ...

The Max Vielgut papers consists of documents and correspondence related to Max Vielgut, a musician originally from Vienna, Austria. The papers include his correspondence from pre-war Vienna, from the period after his escape to Belgium, as well as in France, where he was interned in various concentration camps, including Saint-Cyprien and Gurs.

Josek alias Joseph Kichka was born in Skierniewice, Poland, on 15 March 1900. He held Polish nationality and became a tailor. During the First World War he was held at a detention camp for civilian prisoners in Havelberg, Germany. In November 1918, Josek clandestinely fled from Germany to Belgium. When he was tracked down by the immigration authorities in Brussels in February 1919, Josek was transferred ...

Two albums, containing reproductions of correspondence to the donor’s aunt, Regina Bader, and her mother and other family members, 1942-1943. The letters that are copied in this album were sent to Bader while she was interned during World War II in the Bernsdorf forced labor camp, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen, and her family were mostly living in a ghetto in Sosnowiec, German-occupied Poland. Translations ...

Reel 1. Multiple sequences showing the entire family (including the visiting Louis and Harry Sommer, Hermann Klein, and Jacob Grossman) posing for the camera, probably in Humenne, Slovakia. Family members (well-dressed) take turns walking towards the camera in a street/alley. Dark shots in a field. Man holds up his pocketwatch. More posed shots around an automobile. 00:03:50 The children play near ...

Louis Sommer was born in Izbugya, Hungary and emigrated to the United States in 1899. He settled in Omaha, Nebraska where he owned a grocery business at the intersection of Dodge Street and 49th Street. Louis and his brother Harry visited their father Barnath and extended family and friends in Humenne, Slovakia in March 1932. They recorded Jewish families and businesses with a movie camera. Bernard ...

Reel 5. Brief pan of Budapest (gray, repeated in RG-60.1451). Intertitle: "Humenne -- My Home Town, A Typical Slovakia Village." Trains, people board and deboard. Train station. Boy on peasant cart with cows and a wagon in the main square of Humenne. People gathered in the town square for market days (on Mondays and Fridays). Lots of people, carts, wagons, activity, shops, and houses in BG. Hotel, ...

Louis Sommer was born in Izbugya, Hungary and emigrated to the United States in 1899. He settled in Omaha, Nebraska where he owned a grocery business at the intersection of Dodge Street and 49th Street. Louis and his brother Harry visited their father Barnath and extended family and friends in Humenne, Slovakia in March 1932. They recorded Jewish families and businesses with a movie camera. Bernard ...

Henryk Glucksman was born on June 30, 1923 in Wadowice, Poland. His father, Joachim Glucksman was a butcher and his mother, Franciszka Schanzerow Glucksman took care of the children. Henryk had four siblings: Szymon (b. December 22, 1912), Regina (b. April 2, 1914), Berta (b. March 3, 1916), and Felicja (b. June 20, 1930). In 1940 the Glucksman family was forced into the Wadowice ghetto. In September ...

Reel 3. Marketplace in Humenne with tents and shops. The Klein family's shop was located across from this market. Peasants from the local villages traveled to Humenne on Mondays and Fridays to sell their wares. Local policemen pose for the camera with one of the American relatives (Louis or Harry Sommer in a dark suit and hat). Cousins stand before their leather goods shop owned by uncle Jacob Grossman. ...

Reel 4. Women and children from the Sommer and Klein families in alley and doorway of house; they walk towards the camera. Some gather in BG (VQ: fuzzy). Children and women in a group. CU, children slowly walk towards camera. 02:00:43 Pan (left to right), men posing (all in suits, hats, overcoats), glimpse of an automobile next to them. Women and children at family's storefront; pan (left to right) ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Regina Corush