The collection is organized into two parts: originals, including 25 testimonies, 52 protocols of Judenrat meetings, and 434 announcements of the Judenrat; and copies, including personal papers, testimonies, diaries, correspondence, and documents found in the clothing of Jews murdered in Treblinka. Also included are the diary, letters, and other writings of Mordechaj Tenenbaum-Tamaroff; and personal ...

Dr. Julius Kühl (Juliusz, Yehiel, 1913-1985) was born in Sanok, Poland (Galicia at the time). He moved to Switzerland and studied economics and the University of Zurich. At the outbreak of World War II he received a position at the Polish legation, which remained loyal to the Polish government-in-exile and was supervised by Aleksander Ładoś. Kühl was charged with aiding Polish soldiers in Swiss internment ...

A pair of tefillin with cardboard covers and pouch, owned by Max Zuckerman, a Polish Jewish immigrant who left Poland in 1923. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. One of eleven siblings born in the town of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Max left to escape growing antisemitism, violent pogroms, and persecution by ...

The collection's contents are described in two inventories. The inventories are arranged structurally and by document type. The collection contains documents of concentration camps and POW camps (arranged for the most part in alphabetical order by camp name. regulations, instructions, daily reports on the prisoner population, lists, summaries, journals, personnel files, card files, questionnaires, ...

"Dit boek omvat een speurtocht naar 'de maat der dingen' in drie delen. Het eerste deel beschrijft de dramatische lotgevallen van een Joodse man uit de Utrechtse wijk Oog in Al, die in1943 samen met zijn vrouw en zoontje in het vernietigingskamp Sobibor om het leven werd gebracht. Dick de Mildt, die in dezelfde wijk heeft gewoond, kwam hem bij toeval op het spoor. Het tweede deel bevat een nader onderzoek ...

The Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers include correspondence, writings, genealogical materials, newspaper clippings, cardboard tags, and photographs documenting Joseph and Margaret Weiss’s immigration to the United States from Vienna via Czechoslovakia, France, and England in 1939 and their efforts to help their mothers emigrate from Prague and Vienna. Most of the correspondence is between the ...

Edith Jacoby was born in Worms, Germany, ca. 1899. She married Kurt Jacoby in the 1920s. Instead of attempting to emigrate to the US, the Jacobys fled into Poland to avoid Nazi persecution. The two Jacoby children, Klaus and Irene, were sent by children's transport to live in England. Kurt Jacoby died shortly thereafter and Edit Jacoby was deported to the Warsaw Ghetto. She was later killed at Tre ...

Operation Reinhard (1942-1943) was the largest single murder campaign of the Holocaust, during which some 1.7 million Jews from German-occupied Poland were murdered by the Nazis. Most perished in gas chambers at the death camps Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka. However, the tempo, kill rates, and spatial dynamics of these events were poorly documented. Using an unusual dataset originating from railway ...

This collection contains 201 maps and plans (some of them in several copies) from very different provenances and dates of origin, some are undated. The maps of the period prior to 1939 mostly include plans of the following towns: Biała, Częstochowa, and Otwock. The largest and most valuable parts of the collection consist of plans and maps of 1939-1945, including: 1. Plans of ghettos, e.g. Baranowicze, ...

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

The collection consists of 5 pdfs containing 251 pages of documents and correspondence with and on Abram Wolraich regarding his care after arriving in Britain, as well as a presentation for schools on Abram’s life.

Copyright Holder: Madelyn Levy

Consists of copyprints of photographs, copies of postwar and wartime correspondence, original and copies of wartime personal documents, and typed family histories, related to the Holocaust experiences of Pessa Fogelman (Pessia Fogielman, Pessy Fogielman, now Pola Spitzer). In 1943, Pola was secretly taken by Natalia Pisula, a Polish Catholic woman, from the ghetto in Radomsko. Pola later received false ...

Eugene Miller (1923- ) was born Eugeniusz Rozenblum in Merecz (Merkinė), Lithuania, to Marcus (Mordechai) and Ida Rozenblum, but his parents registered his birth and raised him in Łódź. His family was forced into the Łódź ghetto in 1940. He continued to attend school until the ghetto school closed, and then he worked in the ghetto's labor, economic, and fire departments. Both of his parents perished ...

Discusses the internment and annihilation of Jews in 18 camps during World War II: concentration camps Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dora, Flossenbürg, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen, Natzweiler-Struthof, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen, Stutthof; and extermination camps Auschwitz, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, Treblinka. Deals with the history and organization of the camps, based on ...

Bergen-Belsen was the first Nazi camp liberated by the British army. The shocking, horrific scenes beheld by the British soldiers who entered the camp received wide press coverage and reinforced the conviction that Britain was waging a just war. At the same time, the "Belsen myth" - that Belsen was a death camp on a par with Birkenau and Treblinka - was born. Describes briefly the history of the Belsen ...

Ruth Terner was born Ruth Cohn in 1923 in Berlin to Werner Cohn (1887-approximately 1942) and Frieda Deutschkron Cohn (1894-approximately 1942). Ruth left Germany in 1939 on a Kindertransport to England, where she met Charles Terner (1916-1998). Charles Terner was born Karl Terner in Lublin to Isidore (Israel) Terner and Fanny (Feiga) Schächter Terner. The family moved to Vienna when Charles was very ...

"Genocide and Victimology examines genocide in its diverse features from different yet connected perspectives, to offer an interdisciplinary, victimological imagination of genocide. It will include in its exploration, critical and cultural victimologies and criminologies of genocide, accompanied by, and recognising, the rich scholarship on genocide in the fields of religion and history, theatre studies ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

The Werner Isenberg papers include biographical materials and correspondence documenting Werner Isenberg’s family from Dortmund, their emigration from Nazi Germany to South Africa and the United States, and relatives murdered in the Holocaust. Biographical materials include passports for Lina and Simon Isenberg as well as certificates required for emigration. This series also includes a list of relatives ...

Contains a studio portrait of Chaim Aron Kaplan (on left wearing bow tie and glasses) [donor's paternal great uncle], Sarah Kaplan Trobovich [donor's paternal great aunt, half-sister of Chaim and Harry], and Harry Kaplan [donor's paternal grandfather and brother of Chaim]; dated 1921; Brooklyn, NY.

Copyright Holder: Mrs. Lola Tanzer

Bielawski describes his experiences during the war, including survival of the "Aktion" of 22 September 1942 (when the Jews of Węgrów and other small towns in Poland were sent to Treblinka) by hiding behind a false wall in the attic. With the exception of a brief respite when the Nazis allowed a few Jews to live in Węgrów for utilitarian reasons, most of the time the family was hidden in many different ...

<p>Thea Wessley (née Deuches) was the only child of Siegfried and Fanny Deuches from Vienna. She was sent to England in March 1939 when she was 15 years old. Thea stayed with a family in Hastings.&nbsp;</p><div>Her parents were separately deported to concentration camps in Poland. In 1940 her father writes from Lwow (Lemberg) whilst her mother is still in Vienna. Fanny was deported to Opole concentration ...