Examines the destruction of Warsaw by the Nazis during September 1939 and the efforts of the Polish underground to rebel. Warsaw under siege in 1939 cityscape smoke rising. Germans shelling. People running through scarred city street. VS of destruction. German troops and vehicles advance along road. Smoke rising from city square. Dead horses on their sides, men cutting meat off of horses, horse skeletons ...

Doba-Necha Cukierman was born on January 9, 1910, to Abram (Lejbale) and Rywka (born Garfinkiel) Zajfsztajn, in Lublin. She was the oldest of seven children: Doba-Necha, twins Chaim and Boruch, Mojsze, Mordechai (Motale), Cyrla, and Devorah. The family owned an apartment building and managed the tenants. Abram formed a neighborhood organization that fed the poor every week. The family was religious, ...

Jules Schelvis is driemaal langdurig geïnterviewd. Zijn uitgebreide levensverhaal is in drie delen geslagen. Op 1 juni 1943 wordt Jules Schelvis met zijn vrouw en schoonfamilie vanuit Westerbork op transport gesteld naar Sobibor. Nietsvermoedend neemt hij zijn gitaar mee. Jules verblijft enkele uren in vernietigingskamp Sobibor om daarna in werkkamp Dorohucza turf te steken. Na een kort verblijf in ...

Franz Grassler was assistant to Heinz Auerswald, the Nazi commissioner of the Warsaw ghetto. Lanzmann tries to get him to talk about the ghetto, but he claims that he remembers very little.. Lanzmann asks about Adam Czerniakow and his suicide, typhus, the black market, the ghetto wall, filming in the ghetto, and more. Grassler conveniently remembers things when he thinks they might be documented in ...

Contains photocopies of wartime newspaper clippings from the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Milwaukee Journal, and the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle. The clippings specifically relate to each newspaper's coverage of Kristallnacht, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the liberation of Lublin-Majdanek, and the Nuremberg war crimes trials. The clippings were used in the 1989 writing of "Press coverage of the Holocaust, ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Irene Skolnick

Consists of documents and four photographs related to the Lindenbaum family, originally of Siedlec, Poland. Includes photographs of Dora Lindenbaum, who passed away in the Siedlac ghetto, of Genia Lindenbaum, who disappeared with her husband and child from Mezrich, Poland, of Adolf Lindenbaum, who disappeared with his wife from Lublin, Poland, and of Victor Lindenbaum and Hersh Grynberg. Also includes ...

<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.</strong></span></p><p>This collection of material describes, in the main, the fate of Polish Jewry during the Nazi era. It was extracted from Polish archives in London. In addition there is an extract from a captured German archive and a typescript account of a French ...

Haim Behrendt was born in Berlin in 1919. After the War began in 1939, Behrendt managed to remain in Berlin with the assistance of friends and acquaintances. In 1940, he got married and moved into the house of his wife's parents. At the end of October 1941, Behrendt and his wife received a missive from the district police instructing Behrendt to list the material contents of his house. Soon thereafter, ...

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

Consists of photographs of the Jaworski family, including of Maria Teicher, the donor's mother, in the Polish and Soviet Armies, 1942 - 1946; in the Szczebrzesyn ghetto in 1941; and after the war in Sopot and Lublin, Poland. Al;so includes a six-pointed yellow star patch, with "Jood" printed in the center in in black ink; on the verso is a Nazi emblem of an eagle with extended wings holding a wreath, ...

Original documents collected by the Main Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Poland: materials on Joseph Meisinger (chief of Einsatzgruppe IV, than chief of Sipo and SD in Warsaw), materials on the crimes committed in Zamość region (“Zamojszczyzna”), files on the children's camp Dierżężnia near Łódź, reports of gendarmerie in Biłgoraj county, District Lublin, materials regarding Major Henryk “Hubal” ...

Contains announcements and orders of Stadthauptmann, Kreishauptmann, SS-und Polizeiführer, Geheime Staatspolizei, the Älteste der Juden (Elder of the Jewish Council) of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto (Łódź Ghetto), and other offices. Most concern registration of property, identity papers, establishment of ghettos, and population transfers. Announcements refer to the entire Generalgouvernement as well as ...

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Session 26. Witness Adolph Avraham Berman testifies. Dr. Berman talks about the numbers of children in Warsaw. The Judges ask him questions. He says that there was help for Jews from the Polish underground, especially for the children. He says that Jewish children were smuggled into the Aryan section of Warsaw, and then lists the Polish underground organizations, including Janusz Korczak, that helped. ...

M.41.GABr - Documentation from the State Archive of the Brest Region&#x0D; &#x0D; History of the State Archive of the Brest Region:&#x0D; &#x0D; The State Archive of the Brest Region was created on 11 February 1940 as part of the system of the People's Commissariat for Interior Matters. The Archive stores the documentation of the Polish state institutions and organizations that were active in the Polesie ...

Israel Yitzhak Miedzyrzecki was born on February 13, 1892, in Warsaw, Poland, to Berisch and Feiga Halberstadt Miedzyrzecki. He had 8 siblings and a large extended family. Israel was a tanner. He married Rivka Rybak, who was born on May 30, 1896, in Warsaw. They had four children: Stela, born 1916; Benjamin, born February 19, 1918; Mordecai, born 1922; and Genia, born May 21, 1934. Israel and Rivka ...

Copyright Holder: Deborah Schifter

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the youngest of three daughters of a Jewish family from Breslau, Silesia, managed to survive Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen along with her sister Renate, arriving at relatives in London together in 1946. Their other sister, Marianne, had emigrated to England in 1938. Their parents were transported to Izbica, near Lublin, in 1942 where they were almost certainly murdered.<br><br>Having ...

Rudi Steinbach was a German Jew who emigrated from Germany to Palestine in 1939. He later immigrated to the United States.

The collection consists of ten photographs, an identification card, a certificate, and one newspaper relating to Sam and Celia Feldman and their families' experiences during the Holocaust.

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 ...

Moses Temczyn (Michael Temchin), was born on August 5, 1909, in Pinsk, Poland, now Belarus. He received his medical degree from the University of Warsaw in 1937. He was mobilized by the Polish Army when the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939. Temczyn was captured and sent to Stalag LA, a prisoner of war camp. In October 1940, he was sent to Biala Plaska POW camp and released in November. He lived ...

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Rachel Zonszajn (later Rachel Benshaul) and her mother Cypora Zonszajn, originally of Siedlce, Poland, including Rachel’s survival as a hidden child with the efforts of Cypora’s childhood friends Zofia Glazer and Irena Zawadzka. The collection consists of three photographs of Rachel Zonszajn with her mother, father and her maternal grandmother ...