TR. 15 - Protocols and historical documentation from the Demjanjuk Trial, 1986-1988
 
 In 1987, Ivan Demjanjuk was placed on trial in Jerusalem in accordance with the Nazi and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law. Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian who immigrated to the United States and was extradited to Israel, was accused of serving as a guard in the Treblinka extermination camp during the war. The ...

The story of the Nazis, their extravagant spectacles, and their extreme cruelty. Includes information about: Auchwitz -- Ludwig Beck -- Werner von Blomberg -- Martin Bormann -- Walther von Brauchitsch -- Eva Braun -- Wilhelm Canaris -- Otto Dietrich -- Adolf Eichmann -- Erich Fellgiebel -- Hans Frank -- Wilhelm Frick -- Werner von Fritsch -- Friedrich Fromm -- Walther Funk -- Gestapo -- Paul Joseph ...

Testimony, typescript, 6 pages, describing childhood in Bialystok, Soviet and then German occupation, deportation to Treblinka and Auschwitz, forced labor.

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 three photographs documenting the ghetto in Łosice, Siedlce Region, Lublin District, Poland, 1942. The three photographs are captioned by hand on back: "Łosice". One of the photographs is also captioned "Siedlce St. during the deportation 1942". On the eve of World War II (1939-1945), approximately 2,900 Jews lived in Łosice, Poland, roughly three fourth of the town's population. In December ...

Contains a typescript copy of a memoir entitled, "Aron Levenstein June 1930 - May 1975," and typescript poems titled "Little Boy Don't Cry," "Untitled," "For the Land That is us Dear," "Forget It," "The Flame," "Elaine's Lullaby," "The Shoe Shine Boy," "The Men on the Line," "The Bird," "Come Back and I'll Say That I'm Sorry," "The Messiah," "Debra," "The March to Eternity," "Land Where My Children ...

Levi Itzhak (Lewek) Szabason (now Lewis Shabasson, 1914-2006) was born on 10 March 1914 in Kozienice, Poland to Ezra Zelig Szabason (b. 1881) and Faigal Laja Gruman Szabason. Lewek had four older siblings -- Chaja (b. 1901), Jakub (b. 1903), Motl Mordechai (b. 1908) and Etel (b. 1912), and one younger sister Ruchl (Rosa, b. 1919). His father owned a saw mill and a small construction business. He was ...

Halutzka or peasant blouse with embroidered flowers made by Shoshana Galicki Feizensztajn, about 16 years old, as a parting gift for her sister Chava when she left their hometown of Siedlce, Poland, for Palestine in 1933. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in September 1939. Siedlce was in Soviet controlled territory. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. German forces occupied ...

The collection contains prewar photographs of Chaim Yaakov Ciechanowiecki and Hinka Miller, and their families in Poland; postwar photographs in a displaced persons camp in Cremona, Italy; and modern color photographs of family members.

The original letters and documents (some of which have been either translated or summarized) from the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigration Aid Society of America and the International Committee of the Red Cross document the status of and experiences of members of Joel Citron's family from Poland. Most letters are from family in Poland asking for help from family members living in the United States. Among ...

Die Sammlung enthält: Auszug aus der Emigranten-Monatsschrift "KULTURA", darin: Liste der gefallenen Verteidiger des Warschauer Ghettos (Nachkriegsaufstellung); Aussagen ehemaliger Häftlinge, Unterlagen betr. Errichtung des Konzentrationslagers und Abbruch des Ghettos, Unterlagen betr. „Groß-Aktion“ im Ghetto (Durchsuchungen, Erschießungen u.a.) Geschichte des Ghettos und Konzentrationslagers Warschau: ...

Relates Simon Wiesenthal's biography and the most prominent of his activities. Wiesenthal was born in Galicia, and during the Second World War went through a number of labor and concentration camps. Disappointed by the laxity of American military authorities, he founded his own Documentation Center in Austria to trace Nazi war criminals. Wiesenthal played a key role in tracking down Eichmann, Mengele, ...

THe collection consists of family papers of Albin Goldschmied and Louise Ohs Goldschmied, their daughter Renée, and their parents Leopold and Katarina Pick Goldschmied, and Bernhard and Rosa Loewnthal Ohs. Includes correspondence, documents, photographs, books and publications, an autograph book, a notebook, a silk textile fragment, a cardboard box and related materials. Date range is late 19th century ...

The Sylvia and Abram Kolski photographs document Sylvia and Abram Kolski and their families in Poland before and during the Holocaust and in France and the United States after World War II. Photographs depict Sylvia and Abram Kolski; Sylvia’s parents parents, brothers, and cousins; Frymet’s brother Abram Borenstein, her sister Laia Karpman, and their families; the individuals who hid with Sylvia and ...

Consists of one memoir, on CD-ROM, entitled "The Story of the Szwarcbard, Cyterszpiler, and Minc Families" by Jerzy Kubowski. The memoir, which is in Russian, Polish, and English, includes excerpts from various family members' memoirs, letters, and copies of photographs and drawings. Members of the family were able to immigrate, while others were sent to the Warsaw ghetto. Some survived the ghetto, ...

Consists of poetry and songs in Russian relating to German and Stalinist camps from the 1930s to the 1950s. The individual songs and poems were written by camp survivors in Yiddish. In the 1980s they were compiled and translated to Russian by Roman Kaminsky. The compilation includes personal accounts of eight Holocaust survivors which describe what role music and poetry played in their daily life and ...

<p>Ronald Hertzmann, the donor, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA in 1945. His father, Otto Hertzmann, was born in Krefeld, Germany, in 1906 and died in London in 1976. He had emigrated to the USA on 9 August 1937, where his father's sister, Adele lived and where he met his wife. Then together with his wife, Isabelle, the family moved to London in 1950.</p><p>Otto's father, Hugo Herzmann ...

Consists of three articles from the "Forward" newspaper (New York), circa 1947, written by Sam Streitman. The articles relate to the fifth anniversary of the destruction of the Jewish community in "Ostrowce," Poland (apparently a reference to Ostrowiec). Also included is a photograph (black-and-white with partial coloring added) of Chawa and Frieda Borensztein, sisters of the donor's father. Both women ...

An account of the Holocaust experiences of Jankiel (Jack) Klajman, who was born in Warsaw in 1931. Describes life in the ghetto, where his parents died. A brother and sister were deported to Treblinka and perished; another brother, hiding on the "Aryan side", was denounced and killed. Klajman, with his non-Jewish appearance, snuck in and out of the ghetto, smuggling food; he also was a messenger for ...

Collection of documents, photographs, and correspondence relating to Dorrit Wasservogel Wellerson (donor’s late wife), born in Vienna, Austria in 1923, and her parents Marcel and Klara Wasservogel. The Wasservogel family left Austria on August 20, 1939 for India. On September 1, 1939 the war broke out and they were trapped in Naples, Italy not being able to proceed. They later moved to Rome, but in ...

Contains eyewitness accounts of pogroms; printed excerpts from Vasilii Grossman's war diary; copies of articles, reports, and manuscripts by Grossman; Russian translation of Yankel Vernik's "A Year in Treblinka; " typed journal of D. I. Zaslyavskiy from 1943; protocol of conversation with the writer A. A. Bek; letters to the radio program "Naiti Cheloveka" from persons seeking information on relatives ...

Arthur I. Kessler was born on December 12, 1900 in Szczakowa, Poland. His daughter, Margit (Gita) Hammerschlag was born on July 27, 1935 in Prague Czechoslovakia. On September 12, 1942 Margit was deported from Praha, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt. On October 22, 1942, she was deported from Theresienstadt to Treblinka, where she perished. Arthur I. Kessler died in 1977.

A short video highlighting overseas interviews with witnesses, collaborators, and perpetrators created as part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Oral History program. The 12 minute video combining excerpts of four interviews, three in Polish and one in Lithuanian with a convicted member of a killing squad, has had a wide and powerful impact. 1. Stefan Kucharek, Polish engine driver, ...

Philip Chaleff was born in Poland in 1910. He immigrated to the United States in 1923.