Edith Mayer (1929-2017) was born Edith Moses on September 20, 1929 in Glan-Münchweiler, Germany, to Ludwig Moses (April 10, 1901-June 1947), a farmer, and Martha Heilbronn Moses (September 27, 1905-September 1942), a housewife. In March 1939, she was sent on an Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) children's transport to France and spent time in a children's home. Sponsored by the American Friends Service ...

This collection contains : a label from a can filled with the carrier of the poisonous gas Zyklon-B used in the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers ; a cap which was part of a uniform worn by an unidentified concentration camp inmate ; four objects from Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka, related to the mass murder of Jews and other prisoners at both camps, recuperated by Icek Chil alias Jacques Raffeld ...

This collection contains documents relating the post-war Dutch mission to identify missing persons during the German occupation (witness statements). Including are records on deportation of Jews during the so-called Cosel transports (today: Koźle (Poland) into forced labor camps of Blechhammer (Auschwitz IV), Bobrek, Neukirch, Seibersdorf, Schoppinitz (Szopienice, Katowice district, Poland), Ottmuth, ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Miriam F. Morris

The Simon Slivka photograph collection consists of eight photographs of the Śliwka family in Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland before and during the war.

The Aron Goldfinger collection consists of photographs of the donor's mother in Sosnowiec in 1946, of his paternal aunt, taken in the Dunkellhal slave labor camp, Czechoslovakia, in 1944; and of the donor's three children, all of whom were murdered in Birkenau, taken in Zawierce, Poland, in 1938. Also includes a former prisoner identification card issued in Buchenwald, Germany; and documents relating ...

Simon Slivka (1924- ) was born as Szymon Śliwka in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland on July18, 1924. He was the son of Majer Nussen (1883-1942) and Bajla Fuksbruner Śliwka (1887-1942) who owned a grain store in town. Szymon has an older brother, Moshe (b. April 8, 1920) and two sisters: Golda Śliwka Fuksbruner, (1912-1943) and Rywka Śliwka (September 16, 1916). Early in 1940 Moshe fled to the USSR together ...

Reel 2. Shows families (the Sommers, the Kleins, the Grosmans) in Humenne. Man greets the camera. Girls at play, dancing in a circle, including Zuzana Sermerova (b. 1924). Family group poses. CU sign, "Garage." Two men peel potatoes. Roof of garage building. Family members pose in front of gate. CU Judith Klein (sister of Bernard and Emery) in a baby carriage. Group of kids wave and walk to camera, ...

The photographs depict relatives and friends from David Beitner’s hometowns of Strzemieszyce Wielkie, Poland, and Sławków, Poland, before World War II and of David and his friends in the Preibitz DP camp in Germany after the war. Some of the photographs have captions in Yiddish and Polish.

Consists of color copies of the 1940 civil records book from Strezemieszyce Wielkie, Poland, documenting the births and marriages of members of the Rybsztejn family. Also includes post-war documentation of Jakub Rybsztejn (later Jacques Ribons), including his identification card as a displaced person and menus, identity documentation, and a postcard related to his 1947 immigration to the United States ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Miriam F. Morris

David Bajer (later Bayer) was born on September 27, 1922, in Kozienice, Poland, to Manes and Sarah Bajer. David was the second of four children: Rosa, born 1920, Joshua, born 1927, and Rachel, born 1930. The town, about fifty miles southeast of Warsaw, had a large Hasidic Jewish community of around 6000, nearly half the population. The family was religiously observant. His father operated a small shoe ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Miriam F. Morris

This class picture shows a group of girls around the age of six attending Tachkemoni school in Antwerp in 1939. The teacher on the right has been identified as Sura Breindel Schwarz.

Copyright Holder: Ms. Miriam F. Morris

Drawing created on June 21, 1947, by Walter Spitzer, and given to Hana Jane Barton in a cafe in Paris, France. The drawing depicts three children, sitting on the ground. According to the artist: “ the boy will grow up to be a criminal; the girl will become a bitter woman; and the child on the right will be an idiot - after all, what can you expect them to be, after what they experienced.” Each child ...

The Moshe Sheps papers consists of 52 photographs and a postcard relating to Moshe Sheps' family before and during World War II in Poland.

The Moshe Sheps photograph collection consists of photographs of members of "Hashomer Hadati" in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland; the "Kibbutz Buchenwald" in Gersfeld, Germany and in Italy awaiting immigration to Palestine; four family photographs from Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland; and three photographs of the Gorset family, Moshe Sheps' cousins.

Welek (William) Wolf Luksenburg was born on February 1, 1923, in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland. His father, Simcha (Simon David), was a wholesale meat merchant, born in Poland in 1896. His mother, Rozalia Feiner, was born in Sosnowiec in 1901. His brother Szlomo was born in 1917. The family was Orthodox and active in Zionist organizations. Szlomo trained to be a dentist. Welek attended a public school, ...