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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 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 ...

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.

The photographs depict Eliezer Löwi's experiences after World War II in Belgium and Israel. The images consist of mostly portrait photographs of Eliezer Löwi as a young boy, at his Bar Mitzvah, and as a member of the Israeli Navy. Also included are a photograph of Mr. Löwi and his mother in Israel and a class portrait of schoolchildren in Antwerp, Belgium.

The collection documents the post-war experiences of Pauline Charatan (née Margulies), originally of Busk, Poland (Busk, Ukraine), who survived the Holocaust living in Gleisdorf, Austria under a false-identity, and Joseph Charatan, originally of Lwów, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine), who escaped the Janowska concentration camp and survived hidden in a bunker until his liberation in 1944. The collection includes ...

Consists of a memoir by Maksymilian Wolfsthal about his experiences in the ghetto in Lʹvov, Poland (now Lʹviv, Ukraine) and in Janowska, his deportation to Bergen-Belsen in 1943, and life in Bergen-Belsen. He began the diaries on October 3, 1945 after his emigration to Belgium. The memoir is in two volumes, with volume one covering June 21, 1941--September 1942, and volume two covering October 1942 ...