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, ...

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1923 in Kraków. He was arrested in 1940 and deported to the Krzeszowice labor camp. He managed to escape, returned to Kraków, and went into hiding. In January 1941 his parents and brother left for Nowy Targ in southern Poland; Stein joined them there. In fall 1941 they were taken for forced labor. In August 1942 many Jews were shot, including Stein's father, and 2,000 Jews ...

Copyright Holder: Eliane Ungar

Selected materials related to concentration camps Bełżec, Treblinka, Chełmno, Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Płaszòw, and Gross-Rosen; ghettos in Warsaw, Siedlce, and Limanowa; and the labor camps for Jews in Poznań: testimony of witnesses and suspects, photographs, postcards, letters, certificates of death, travel passes, texts of prayers, staff lists, lists of ex-prisoners, documents of Poland’s military ...

Copyright Holder: Archives nationales (France)

Helen H. Waterford is a native of Offenbach, Germany, and a survivor of Auschwitz. Waterford and her first husband were hidden by non-Jews in Amsterdam, Netherlands, during most of the Nazi occupation but were discovered by the Gestapo and taken to Auschwitz where her husband died. She was later moved to Kratzau (a.k.a. Chrastava) concentration camp. After liberation, Waterford and her daughter emigrated ...

Minasz (Menashe) Sankiewicz was born in Warsaw in 1924. He worked as a tailor. His parents were Smul and Fajga Sankiewicz (née Abramovicz). He was deported from Warsaw ghetto to Majdanek concentration camp and on to camps in Jaworzno, Sachsenhausen and later Buchenwald. Minasz was transferred from Gross-Rosen camp to Buchenwald concentration camp in February 1945. He worked at Stein labour camp. According ...

Copyright Holder: Madelyn Levy

The Jacob Birnbaum papers consist of an identification card documenting Jacob Birnbaum’s status as a concentration camp survivor and letters Jacob wrote to Rose (Róża) Strzegowska (later Rose Rothschild), an inmate at the women’s camp, while both were imprisoned at Langenbielau concentration camp, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen, during the Holocaust. Birnbaum had been exchanging letters with Rose’s twin ...

Contains information about various concentration and labor camps in Europe from 1939 to 1945. The bulk of the collection contains lists of prisoners who were transported between concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Dachau, Flossenbü̈rg, Gross Rosen, Dora-Mittelbau, Mauthausen, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück and Buchenwald. These lists contain information about the place and date of birth, occupation, ...

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 ...

The collection includes an identification photograph of Helena Zymler taken in Łódź, Poland, in 1946.

The collection consists of photographs documenting German-occupied Oświęcim, Poland, circa 1940-circa 1941, and refugees living in the Münchberg, Germany, displaced persons camp, circa 1946. The photographs of Oświęcim include depictions of buildings, Jewish men forcibly having their beards and sidelocks (peyot) cut off, street scenes, and Jews clearing snow under the presence of a German soldier. ...

Rose Kaplovitz was born Rózia Zaks (Saks) on September 6, 1930 in Sosnowiec, Poland, to Mendel and Hindel (Helen) Zaks. Her parents owned a grocery store, and Rose had six siblings: Regina (later Rosenman), Cesia (later Kaiser), Tola (later Gilbert), Romek, Mania (Maria, Malka, later Ullman), and Cyma (Cymusia). The children attended the Jewish public school on Ostrogórska Street in Sosnowiec. When ...

Michael Honey was born Michael Honigwachs on September 3, 1929 in Nový Jicín, Czechoslovakia. He lived in Valasske Mezirici before the Holocaust. He survived the Theresienstadt ghetto and the Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Gross Rosen, and Gunskirchen camps before liberation. He immigrated to England in 1945 and then to Israel in 2002. Honey developed a method of drawing parallel family trees he ...

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Instytut Higieny Waffen-SS i Policji w KL Auschwitz (Hygiene Institut der Waffen-SS und Polizei Auschwitz O/S) powstał jesienią 1942 r. jako filia Głównego Urzędu Higieny SS, który podlegał Głównemu Urzędowi Sanitarnemu SS (SS-Hauptsanitäramt) w Berlinie. Do wiosny 1943 r. siedzibą Instytutu Higieny SS był obóz macierzysty KL Auschwitz I w Oświęcimiu. Następnie placówkę przeniesiono do Rajska, gdzie ...

Olga Rosenberger (later Horak) was born on August 11, 1926, in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia), to Hugo and Piroška Rosenberger. In the fall of 1939, the western powers and Nazi Germany made an agreement, the Munich Pact, to permit Germany to annex the Czech Sudetenland border region. In March 1939, in violation of that pact, Germany took control of the provinces of Bohemia and Moravia. Other ...

The collection consists of pre-war photographs of Bracha Plotnik with family and friends in Bedzin, Poland, several wartime photographs, and postwar photographs from various displaced persons camps including the Weiden and Beyruth DP camps.

Copyright Holder: Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku

The introduction to the first part of this volume, "Sachsenhausen - Stammlager" (pp. 17-72), by Hermann Kaienburg, describes the construction and functioning of the camp at Sachsenhausen. In 1937, ca. 50 Jews were imprisoned there, in 1938 - 900, and during the "Kristallnacht" pogrom 6,000. Those who survived were released after several weeks or months. At the end of 1939, ca. 1,300 prisoners were ...

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