Melania Fogelbaum (1911-1944) was a poet and painter born to Cyla Fogelbaum (b. 1874) in Łódź, Poland. In 1940 Melania and her mother were forced into the Łódź ghetto where Cyla died on February 25, 1942. Melania served as a spiritual and cultural leader to a group of youths in the ghetto. They gathered in a small room in her attic where they listened to music and recited poems. Melania became afflicted ...

Copyright Holder: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau

In der Nummernkartei (x.x.x.5) wurden alle Hinweiskarten der Konzentrationslagerbestände nach Häftlingsnummern sortiert, es sind Duplikate der Namenkarten der ZNK Datenbank, die durch Ordnernummer und Seitenzahl den Bezug zum Dokument herstellen. Die Nummernkartei enthält sehr viele Dokumente ohne Namen. Durch die Nummernkartei sind die Dokumente nach Häftlingsnummern der verschiedenen Konzentrationslager ...

The Moshe Sheps photograph collection consists of photographs of members of "Hashomer Hadati" in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland; the "Kibbutz Buchenwald" in Gersfeld, Germany and in Italy awaiting immigration to Palestine; four family photographs from Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland; and three photographs of the Gorset family, Moshe Sheps' cousins.

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 ...

Lucyina Cuker (later Lea Berkman) and her twin sister Irka Cuker was born on September 1, 1923 in Radom, Poland to Shmuel and Freida Cuker. Their father owned a shoe store in Radom. They also had a younger brother, Tuvia, born in 1927. The family was very Zionist and religiously observant. Their grandfather was a shochet (ritual slaughterer). Lucyina and Irka attended a private Jewish school as well ...

Michael Markheim (1915-1961) was born Michal Markheim on 12 November 1915 in Kraków, Poland to Salomon Hausman Markheim (b. 1882) and Estera Markheim (née Herz, b. 1881). Michael had six siblings: Rebeka (later Rebeka Schnür, b. 8 September 1908), Natan (Nathan, 25 August 1910-24 January 1945), Yanek (born Jakob Hausman, also referenced as Jean Marks, b. 30 March 1913), Dolek (born Dawid, b. 22 July ...

The collection consists of original and copy print photographs relating to Hadassah Goldreich's family in Poland before World War II and after the war in Landsberg DP camp.

The Aron Goldfinger collection consists of photographs of the donor's mother in Sosnowiec in 1946, of his paternal aunt, taken in the Dunkellhal slave labor camp, Czechoslovakia, in 1944; and of the donor's three children, all of whom were murdered in Birkenau, taken in Zawierce, Poland, in 1938. Also includes a former prisoner identification card issued in Buchenwald, Germany; and documents relating ...

The collection consists of four photographs taken by the Red Cross at Bergen-Belsen at the time of liberation, one photograph of a memorial at Bergen Belsen, and one photograph of Dr. Erich Cohn testifying at the trial of Dr. Fischer.

Collection of documents of Dutch inmates in German camps outside the Netherlands, 1933-1945, including documentation of the Red Cross, until 1950
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 Lists of survivors and lists of inmates who perished in Dachau, Mauthausen, Gross Rosen, Theresienstadt and Natzweiler camps during 1940-1945;
 
 Testimonies of Dutch survivors, regarding their ...

Following the Second World War trials with Nazi criminals and their collaborators were organized on the territory of restored Czechoslovakia just like in many other European countries of those days. Three-tier retributive justice system was established in the Slovak part of post-war Czechoslovakia by the Regulation of the Slovak National Council no. 33/1945 on the Punishment of Fascist Criminals, Occupants, ...

Reports, correspondence, hearings of witnesses regarding the action of the Polish underground in Warsaw, materials about the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 - various information, studies, accounts, notes, list of executions, situational sketches and maps, list of commanders and military units; account of German crimes committed in September 1939; investigation materials against Erich von dem Bach, Heinz Reinefarth, ...

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 Michael V. Roth photograph collection consists of photographs of relating to the Holocaust experiences of Michael (Miklos) Roth of Ricse, Hungary. The pre-war photographs include photographs of children in Ricse, Hungary, Michael Roth as a child, and members of the Roth family. The post-war photographs include the exterior of the Kloster Indersdorf children’s home and a group of children at the ...

Kazimierz Jan Wilk was born in Nowy Targ, Poland, on February 8, 1916. His father was a district engineer and his mother was a high school teacher; all four of their children received university degrees. Kazimierz graduated from the Polytechnic in L'vov, Poland, in spring 1939, with a degree in civil engineering. After the German invasion in September 1939, Wilk was employed by the Technical Department ...

The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Fritz Wissbrun, his future wife Edith Kahn, and their families in Amsterdam, including Fritz’s deportation to the Herzogenbusch concentration camp (Vught). Included is correspondence written by Fritz in Herzogenbusch to Edith in Amsterdam, as well as letters to Edith from Fritz’s mother, Melanie Wissbrun, who was deported to the Westerbork concentration ...

The collection consists of 5 photographs depicting Jewish children, including Mira Frenkel (née Menzer), performing in a play while imprisoned in the Nováky forced labor camp in Slovakia in 1944.

Hitlerowskie obozy koncentracyjne i więzienia: Buchenwald: zaświadczenia, rezolucje, odezwy, gazetki, listy więźniów, 1942 - 1945, sygn. 212/I, t.1, 2, Dachau: listy więźniów, blankiety przekazów pocztowych, 1942, sygn. 212/I, t.3; Gotha: protokóły zebrań, korespondencja, karty rejestracyjne, 1945, sygn. 212/I, t.4; Gross-Rosen: listy więźniów, 1944, 1945, sygn. 212/I, t.5; Gusen: listy więźniów, 1944, ...

The Dora Pollak family correspondence consists primarily of letters Dora and Richard Pollak received from family and friends in Czecholovakia, England, and Switzerland during and after the war. Wartime correspondence relates family news, documents efforts to emigrate from Czechoslovakia, describes preparations for deportation to Theresienstadt, and relays thanks for care packages delivered to Theresienstadt. ...

Violin crafted in 1890 by Guadagnini, a master Italian instrument maker in Turin. Henry Rosner bought it in Vienna in 1928. It was his constant companion for 66 years, excepting a brief separation near the end of the war. Rosner played the violin professionally in well-known cafes, hotels and resorts all over Europe until Poland fell to the Nazis in 1939. Three years later, Rosner, his wife Manci -- ...

The photographs depict relatives and friends from David Beitner’s hometowns of Strzemieszyce Wielkie, Poland, and Sławków, Poland, before World War II and of David and his friends in the Preibitz DP camp in Germany after the war. Some of the photographs have captions in Yiddish and Polish.

Henry (Chaim) Eisenman (1919-2005) was born July 29, 1919 in Wierzbnik, Poland, to Menachem (Mendel) Eisenman (Aizenman, Ajzenman, circa 1893-1944) and Ethel Binsztok (Bięsztok) Eisenman (circa 1897-1944). His family moved to Łódź when he was two years old, and he had a younger sister and two younger brothers: Deborah, Joseph, and Abraham. Henry’s father was a musician who played with the Łódź symphony ...

Consists of color copies of the 1940 civil records book from Strezemieszyce Wielkie, Poland, documenting the births and marriages of members of the Rybsztejn family. Also includes post-war documentation of Jakub Rybsztejn (later Jacques Ribons), including his identification card as a displaced person and menus, identity documentation, and a postcard related to his 1947 immigration to the United States ...