Card index of requests to issue identity cards for Jews in the Radom Ghetto from 1941

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Joseph Feingold was born Jozef Fajngold, on 23 March 1923, in Warsaw, Poland, the son of Aron (1891-1961) and Rachel Leah (nee Jakubowski, 1901-1942?). In addition to Joseph, the Fajngolds had two other sons, Alexander (born 1924) and Henry (1929-1942?). Around 1932, the family moved to Kielce, where Aron practiced his trade as a woodworker. After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, Joseph, ...

Basia “Betty” Zajaczkowska Rubinstein (née Zajaczkowska, Zajaczkowski, or Zakowski, 1926-2012) was born on 15 February 1926 in Kielce, Poland to Josef (1889-1942) and Ides or Ida (née Buchbinder, d. 1942) Zajaczkowska. She had five siblings: Mania, Leon (b. 1918), Tosia, Regina, and Rose. Basia and Morris were both deported to the Kielce ghetto in October 1939. They married there in November 1942. ...

Consist of a copy of a handwritten memoir by Samuel Gerstenfeld. The memoir describes his experiences of antisemitism in pre-World War II Poland, discrimination against Jews in business and education, his life in the Kielce ghetto, and his escape from the Blizyn camp. The memoir also contains detailed information concerning the Gerstenfeld family genealogy.

Collection of photographs and documents, with photographs depicting Basia Rubinstein Zajaczkowska (donor's mother) in Solberga, Sweden where she was recuperating after surviving the Kielce ghetto, Pionki forced labor camp and Ravensbrück concentration camp. Documents include two telegrams, one of them regarding the house in Kielce, sent to the New Palestine DP camp in Austria and the other sent to ...

Heinrich and Zdenka Pollatschek lived in Vienna until they were taken by the Nazis to Kielce, Poland, which soon turned into a ghetto. Their son, the donor's father, was able to escape to Great Britain in late 1938, having been sponsored by a non Jewish family. Their daughter, Lisl, was able to stay in Vienna, having married a non Jew in March 1938. The vast majority of the correspondence was sent ...

Jose Mayerson was born Jozef (Yosele) Majersohn to David and Chaja Sura (Hanna) Majersohn in Kielce, Poland on July 14, 1907. He had eight siblings, and his father was a rabbi. Felicia Majerson (1916-2007) was born Fela (Faigele) Bursztyn to Gershon and Leah Weiss Bursztyn in Warsaw, Poland on January 16, 1916. She had at least two sisters: Anna and Gittel. Jose’s and Felicia’s first son, Richard (later ...

The papers consist of an identification card issued to Abram Kolersztajn in the ghetto in Końskie, Poland, and one post-period publication describing the atrocities committed during the Holocaust.

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The collection consists of a knit bag and photographs relating to the experiences of Bernard, Cesia, and Jurek (Gerald) Kaiser and their family before and during the Holocaust in Kielce Ghetto, Chlewice, Lipnica labor camp, and Sosnowiec, Poland, and in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp after the war and of the Wlodek family in Lvov and Wegleszyn, Poland. Some of these materials may be combined ...

Lola Byron was born on September 16, 1943 in as Iza Papierbuch, daughter of Regina Pomerancblum Papierbuch and Jakob Papierbuch. Her mother named her Iza after her own father, Izak Pomerancblum, who was a liquor merchant in Warsaw, but called her Lala (a doll in Polish). Both her parents lived in Warsaw before the outbreak of the war. Regina was born in Kielce and had two sisters: Krysia and Dorka, ...

Posters, ordinances and proclamations issued and disseminated in Poland, dating from the inter-war period, the German occupation and the Communist regime. There are proclamations, ordinances, and posters related to Jews, including those of the establishment of the ghetto in Końskie, as well as the proclamation of 1946 condemning the Kielce pogrom.

Rose Gelbart (born Rozia Grosman) is the only child of Jozef Grosman and Sabina Stella Langner. She was born in January 3, 1935 in Leszno Poland, where Jozef owned a shoe store. The family lived in Kalisz, which housed in the rear of the home a workshop which had ten employees. In October 1939, after the Nazi invasion of Poland, the Grosman family moved to Rzeszow. In December of that year, the ghetto ...

PK 666 camera in Krakow and on the eastern front. PK 666 filmed in the Lublin ghetto. 02:44 Propagandakompanie armband. Target practice, camp Potsdam. 06:23 Poland "Kielce", winter. 08:25 Krakow: Jewish quarter. Tram "Not for Jews". Sign on Jewish shop. 11:48 Camera of the PK unit, Jewish quarter, Jews waiting in line, armbands, Polish police. 14:15 Narrow-gauge railway, "Zagnansk", at locomotive "Radom". ...

The papers consist of documents and 21 photographs relating to the experiences of Jehuda and Pola Stopnicki (donors' parents) during and after the Holocaust. Includes restitution papers and correspondence; testimonies of Jehuda and Pola Stopnicki's and their families' experiences; poems written by Jehuda Stopnicki shortly before her wedding; and family photographs from before World War II, while living ...

Mieczyslaw (Mitchell) Lewicki was born on April 30, 1923, in Kielce, Poland, to Catholic parents. His father owned a shoe factory in Radom (Grojec). Mitchell worked for his father at the factory. Poland was occupied by Germany in September 1939. The Lewicki’s employed Jews at the factory, and they were permitted to keep them as employees even after the Germans forced all Jews to live in a ghetto. In ...

Records from the legal office of Mr. José Moskovits, a Holocaust survivor and attorney in Buenos Aires. This collection contains the personal documents and obituaries of Maximiliano Lipsitz (Menajem Mendl bar Gitma) published in the "Registro civil de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Familia." Buenos Aires, 1947. He was a Jewish survivor, a leader and activist in Jewish community in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...

Clara and Azriel (Yacob) Wiznitzer of Kołomyja, Poland (now Kolomyia, Ukraine) had five children: Rose (Ruzhia), Frieda (Frima/Vishka), Julia (Yula, 1922‐2012), Rachel (Ginia), and Abraham (Bumek, 1933‐ ). Following the German occupation, Clara and Azriel were arrested, Rose and her husband were killed by Ukrainian nationalists in January 1942, and Frieda, Julia, Rachel, and Abraham were forced into ...

Hans Prause was an engineer with the German Reichsbahn who was stationed in Warsaw, Radom, Lvov, and Malkinia. He talks about the good relations between the German and Polish railroads, preparing trains before the invasion of the USSR, the situation in Lvov, hostile relations between the Poles and the Jews, and visiting the Warsaw ghetto. He defends the fact that he signed orders by saying that the ...