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Originally published as: 'The Janowska road'. - New York : Macmillan, 1963; London : Cape, 1966. xii, 307 p. : maps, plan ; 22 cm

Contains a memoir, 212 pages, entitled "I Never Left Janowska," written by Christine Kaplan in 1987. The memoir, which is a typed manuscript with handwritten corrections, describes her life in Boryslaw under Russian occupation, living in the Lwow ghetto, forced labor in Janowska and Drohobycz. Using papers identifying her as a non-Jewish Pole, Ms. Kaplan escaped the ghetto in Lwow and traveled to Oberammergau, ...

The Janowska camp complex in Lwów, which was responsible for the murder of at least 80.000 Jews, is of particular interest due to its hybrid nature as slave labor camp, transit camp, and dedicated killing site. This article details and analyzes these connected functions, arguing that this unique combination of activities reveals many new insights into our typology of camps as well as the role of Janowska ...

The Leon Weliczker Wells notebooks consists of fourteen volumes and two pages written by Wells during his second period of imprisonment in the Janowska concentration camp and while in hiding in the basement of the Kalwinski family following his escape. Wells describes the work of Sonderkommando 1005 in the Janowska camp, his escape, and his hiding place on the Kalwinski family’s farm. These notebooks ...

Consists of a folder of information regarding the Holocaust experiences of Moses (born Moishe) Weiser, originally of Ganachuvka, Poland. Includes an English-language transcript of a Yiddish language oral history with Mr. Weiser, in which he describes his childhood, Jewish life in the town, his deportation in 1940 to the Premishlan ghetto, and subsequently to a series of small concentration camps before ...

Herman (Hersh) Lewinter (1907-1999) was born in Seretecz, Poland (now Seretets, Ukraine) to Emanuel Greensaid and Rosa Lewinter. He grew up in Markopol (Markopil') and Zloczow (Zolochiv). Lewinter worked as a photographer in Zloczow, and he and his wife Clara had a son named Manek. The Lewinter family was forced into the Zloczow ghetto during the German occupation. Lewinter was later transferred to ...

Brick from the Lwów ghetto in L’viv Ukraine (formerly Lvov, Poland). The brick is from the area that the Lvov Judenrat building was located and is marked with the name of the Heiss brick factory, which was owned by a Jewish family. Before World War II, the Jewish population in Lvov was 110,000. In September 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded, occupied and partitioned Poland and Lvov came under ...

The collection consists of two prisoner food bowls collected after the Holocaust by Eric Hauser, in the former Janowska concentration camp in Lwow where his family was prisoners.

Consists of family trees and genealogical information regarding the Goldstein and Gimpel/Enis families of Lwow, Poland, from 1586 to the present day. Includes photocopies of government registries in which the names of family members appear. Mr. Maximillian Goldstein, who perished with his family in the Janowska concentration camp in 1942, was a renowned collector of Judaica and the owner of the "Goldstein ...

Translation of: I︠A︡novskiĭ lager.́ 31 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Describes Marcel Lubash’s (b. 1922 in Rzeszow, Poland) experiences in the Lwów ghetto and Janowska concentration camp; death of his parents; activities he undertook for the Polish Underground Army; internment in Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen, and Sachsenhausen; a death march; his liberation and immigration to Israel in 1949; and his testimony at a trial in Chicago of an SS guard, named Kulle, at Gross-R ...

Testimony, five pages, handwritten, of author's experiences in Lwow, Ukrainian pogrom after occupation, interment at Janowska camp, escape, travel to Poland with Polish (non-Jewish) identification, times as forced laborer near Warsaw and in Breslau and Berlin-Neukoelln (Krupp), liberation.