The History of Art in Poland and the Holocaust. Introduction / Luiza Nader, Piotr Słodkowski ; Kazimierz Libin (1904-1944). A Painter from Tadeusz Pruszkowski's Circle : Life and Work / Magdalena Tarnowska ; Minor Remnants from Solna Street. Isaac Celnikier's Post-war Sketches and the Holocaust Experience / Zuzanna Benesz-Goldfinger ; Modernism in the Lodz Ghetto. A Tentative Interpretation of Forgotten ...

Ludwig Spangenthal (later Louis Spangenthal, 1916-2008) was born in Sontra, Germany to Robert (1886-1921) and Marianne (née Schönemann, 1883-1942) Spangenthal. He had one brother, Kurt (1918-1995). The family later moved to Kassel, Germany. Ludwig immigrated to the United States on board the SS Berengaria in 1936, and settled in Baltimore, Maryland with relatives. He worked at his relative’s business ...

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, ...

The Simon Langner papers contain primarily immigration and legal documents related to Simon Langner, a Holocaust survivor. Included are a World ORT machinist’s trade certificate, an identity card, an affidavit and testimony for Simon, and a court ruling for reparations. Also included are a copy of his brother’s Abram Langner’s birth certificate, and a photograph of Simon.

Vooreerst vermelden we de omvangrijke verzameling documenten in verband met voornamelijk Duitse maar ook Franse, Nederlandse, Italiaanse, Belgische, … concentratie-, vernietigings-, interneringskampen en gevangenissen. Het gaat o.a. om de kampen Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Natzweiler, Dachau, Mittelbau-Dora, Flossenburg, Lublin-Majdanek, Mauthausen, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück en Sachsenhausen. ...

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

Copyright Holder: Archives nationales (France)

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: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung

Somber looking men with flags. The bald man on whom the camera focuses and who gives the speech is Jozef Cyrankiewicz, head of the Polish Socialist Party and later head of the Polish government. An Auschwitz survivor, he had been active in the Polish resistance and was arrested in 1941. 06:18:47 Unidentified man speaking, crowd watches. 06:09:57 Tombstone uncovered, Cyrankiewicz places a medal on the ...

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 Chedwa Seliger-Kaufman photograph collection consists of photographs of Chedwa Seliger-Kaufman, family and friends, taken in Kolomyia, Poland (now Kolomyya, Ukraine), 1942-1952. The photographs include a photograph of Chedwa Seliger-Kaufman taken a day after she left the Majdanek concentration camp, August 1, 1942. A photograph of the daughter of Dr. Rousch, a family friend, Poland, October 22, ...

The collection primarily documents the pre-war lives of the Goldszer, Josefzohn, and Sztajner families. The photographs include depictions of Jadzia Josefzohn and Adek Brodza on their wedding day in Warsaw, Poland on 20 February 1938; David Sztajner; Tova's maternal grandmother; Feiga and Yakov Tzvi Goldszer; and Tova Goldszer at an internment camp in Cyprus in 1947.

Hirsch, born in 1907 in Krefeld, escaped Nazi Germany in 1937 and emigrated to Israel via Sweden. In 1949 he returned to Germany, where, as a life's task, he began to report on Nazi war crimes trials. Mentions the trial of Kurt Lischka and his two assistants, who were responsible for the deportation of 73,000 Jews, among them 4,000 children, from Drancy to extermination camps. The trial took place ...

Session 63. Attorney General introduces two more documents - speech by Himmler to senior SS, at Posen, Oct 1943 [T/1288]. Himmler states that all the Jews will be exterminated - that is the goal. Admits - Jewish belongings were turned over to the Reich. Himmler's chapter on discipline is read. 00:11:51 Yisrael Gutman's testimony (all of Gutman's testimony is also on Tape 2074). Active in Warsaw ghetto ...

Martha Michelson was the wife of a Nazi schoolteacher in Chelmno. She talks about the Sonderkommando, Jews killed in a church, the terrible smell that pervaded the town when bodies were burned, the Poles' attitude toward the Jews, and the operation of gas vans. She says that she told people in Germany about the extermination in 1942 or 1943 but they accused her of spreading atrocity propaganda. FILM ...

The collection primarily consists of a diary kept by Esther Born (née Wittlin), originally of Żółkiew, Poland (present-day Zhovkva, Ukraine), who survived the Holocaust in hiding. The diary is handwritten in Polish on loose sheets of paper, and included is a typed English language translation. It describes in detail the family’s flight from Żółkiew and their experiences while in hiding. Also included ...

Close-up of the Nuremberg Laws, as published in the Volkischer Beobachter. Aerial shots of rows and rows of tents at the Reich Party Day are followed by aerial shots of rows and rows of barracks at Auschwitz. Staged scene of a Nazi judge sentencing to death a Jew who violated the Nuremberg Laws. Biographical information on Wilhelm Stuckart, a Wannsee conference participant and his connection to Globke: ...

The Ministry of Information and Propaganda was created in 1944, Warsaw, Poland. The Ministry was working on public information and mass propaganda, information policy in Poland and abroad. In particular, these were the subjects of the daily press, periodical and occasional publications, press agencies, broadcasting, film and cinematography, and socio-civic education.

Based on recently-opened archives, analyzes the phases of annihilation of the Jews in the district of Lublin. The police, the Wehrmacht, and the civil administration cooperated with the SS in this project. Describes shooting of Jews, the establishment of ghettos, economic measures, forced labor, and deportation to Bełżec and Sobibór. Power in the district was in the hands of SS-and-police commander ...

When the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Thomas Toivi Blatt was twelve years old. He and his family lived in the largely Jewish town of Izbica in the Lublin district of Poland - a district that was to become the site of three of the six major Nazi extermination camps: Belzec, Sobibor, and Majdanek. Blatt's account of his childhood in Izbica provides a fascinating glimpse of Jewish life ...

Session 53. Witness Margit Reich is questioned by State Attorney Gavriel Bach. Bach asks about correspondence she received from her husband after he was sent to the Kistarcsa camp in Hungary. She reads from a postcard thrown from a train and a letter written on toilet paper that she received from him. Footage cuts to Session 62 at 00:10:44. Witness testimony from Leslie Gordon. The witness speaks in ...