Rivka Radzinski was the daughter of Miriam Twersky and Dawid Radzinski of Warsaw, Poland. Her father, an activist in the Zionist labor movement and a founder of the Keren Kayemet (Jewish National Fund), refused to leave Warsaw when World War II began. Rivka, who was attending a teacher's college in Palestine, was in Poland for the summer and was unable to leave. Her younger brother, Josef, was deported ...

Ivan (John Demjanjuk was a U.S. citizen of Ukrainian origin, who had immigrated to the United States in the immediate aftermath of World War II, and was later found to have served as a guard at the Treblinka extermination camp in German-occupied Poland. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) began investigating Demjanjuk in 1975 and filed denaturalization proceedings against him in 1977, alleging that ...

This collection contains records of Prof. Dr. Willem Albert Wagenaar who in 1987 received the request to testify as an expert witness within the court process that the state of Israel had started against Ivan Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk was born in 1920 in Ukraine and immigrated as John Demjanjuk in 1952 to the United States. He was recognized by several people as "Ivan the Terrible" in connection with the ...

Consists of material related to the Holocaust experiences of Rudolph Heller and Ilona Neumann Hellerova and their son, Ota Karel (now Charles Ota) Heller, originally of Kojetice u Prahy, Czechoslovakia. Includes images of family members and of the family company, Firma Gustav Neumann. Includes a handwritten family history written by Gustav Neumann prior to his deportation to Theresienstadt and death ...

Map van wit karton met tien foto's, die in zwart-wit verkleind gereproduceerd zijn. Deze tonen monumenten die in concentratiekampen in Polen zijn opgericht. Met op de omslag: 'Pamieci kudzkiej tragedii' en een Poolse tekst, begeleidend schrijven in het Pools, Engels, Duits en Frans (incompleet). Gereproduceerd zijn tien foto's van verschillende fotografen, voorstellende: Chelmn on Ner, Sobibor, Stutthof, ...

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Rose Schwartz was born Rivke Fiszbaum in 1924 in Kozienice, Poland to shoemaker Shmue Matisl (1896-1970) and Basia Serla Fiszbaum (1899-1940). She had two older brothers, David Baruch (b. 1919) and Itzhak (1922-1975), and two younger sisters, Sara Scendle (1926-1976) and Chanah Broocher (1933-1937). Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Rose's family was confined to the ghetto in 1940, and Rose worked cleaning ...

Copyright Holder: Professor Fabian Gerson

Архив - Еврејска заедница на Република Македонија

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

A diary of a journey made in summer 1996 by Gilbert, together with a group of his students from University College, London. They went to Berlin (including Wannsee), Prague and Theresienstadt, Slovakia, the Polish cities of Krakow, Lublin, Warsaw, Parczew, Piotrków, Konin, Łódź, and others, the Nazi camps Auschwitz, Bełżec, Majdanek, Sobibór, Treblinka, and Chełmno, and numerous other sites connected ...

The papers consist of documents relating to the Jewish ghetto and the Judenrat (Jewish council) in Kozienice, Poland. The documents include a full list of the inhabitants of the Kozienice ghetto, lists of Jews registered as able-bodied, a list of Jewish children born in the ghetto during the years 1939 to 1941, and other reports written by the employees of the Judenrat to the German authorities. Kozienice ...

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, ...

The first part of the book (pp. 7-76) describes the activities of Walter Caspar Toebbens, a German who made a fortune running the largest factory in the Warsaw ghetto, producing uniforms for the German army. Jews who worked for him could buy a temporary postponement of deportation by giving him their sewing machines in addition to large sums of money; eventually the Jews were handed over to the SS. ...

Compilation of footage and interviews documenting the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust, which was responsible for the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and celebrating its 20th anniversary in the year 2000. Production was screened during a Museum public program. Elie Wiesel leads the Presidential Commission as they travel to Auschwitz, Treblinka, Warsaw, and other locations ...

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Copyright Holder: Ms. Rita Yurow

The collection includes a diary written by Cypora Zonszajn while living in the Siedlce ghetto. The diary recounts Cypora's flight from her family home in the ghetto to an attic above the ghetto police command post with her daughter Rachel while part of the ghetto was forcibly evacuated in August 1942, including Rachel's paternal grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Through information received ...

Collectie 270c: Proces Eichmann

The papers consist of a Jewish identification card ("Kennkarte") issued to Ilse Sara Waldheim in Köln (Cologne), Germany; a worker's book ("Arbeitsbuch") issued to Ilse Sara Waldheim in Cologne, Germany, and stamped by Federnfabrik Bernhard Stübecke; a change of address report ("Abmeldung") issued by the police to Ilse Sara Waldheim in Hemer, Germany; and a tax document ("Lohnsteuerkarte") issued ...

M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground 
 
 The archive gets its name from Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff, who set up the archive in early 1943, and Zvi Mersik, one of Mordechai Tenenbaum's outstanding aides, who continued to maintain the archive after Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff's death.
 
 Most of the documentation, which was ...

Архив - Еврејска заедница на Република Македонија

Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs from Bernhard Storch. Includes photographs of the Krause family of Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland, many of whom perished in Treblinka. Includes several photographs of Ruth Krause, who survived the war in Siberia, including a photograph which her husband, Bernhard Storch, carried with him as a member of the First Polish Infantry Division, as ...

Copyright Holder: Samuel Stammer