The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Anne Miodownik and her mother Bina Miodownik, both of whom survived the Holocaust in hiding after escaping the Srodula ghetto in Sosnowiec, Poland. Papers include documents regarding Erich Siudmok and his wife Gertruda Siudmok, Polish citizens who helped Anne and her family; a document certifying that Bina was a victim of fascism; passenger ...

Photographs: depicting the Allerhand family before the war in Krakow; students in the elementary school Alexander attended in 1935/1936; portraits of family members sent to Leopold Allerhand imprisoned in Oflag IIc Wollenberg and postwar images of the family. Photographs of Wohlfeiler family before the war in Katowice and in Krakow after the war; wedding photograph of Olek and Krysia Allerband in Krakow ...

Roza Krzesiwo was born in 1915 in Darabani, Romania to baker Lejba Stoleru and his wife Sara Kohn Stoleru. She relocated to Lipkany in Bessarabia (Lipcani, Moldova) in July 1940. She left in June 1941 and made her way to an agricultural cooperative called “Kolkhoz Dzierzynski” in the Fergana region of Uzbekistan. After about a year at the kolkhoz, she moved to Shurab in the Isfara district of Tajikistan ...

Copyright Holder: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau

Siegfried Halbreich (1909-2008) was born in Dziedzice, in the Upper Silesia region of Poland. After his graduation from high school, he served briefly in the Polish Army from 1930-1932, before attending the University of Krakow to become a pharmacist. He practiced pharmacy in Katowice, Poland from 1935-1939 before the outbreak of World War II. At the outbreak of war, Halbreich was drafted back into ...

Regina Bochner Schweid (d. 1988) was born in Frysztak, Poland. She was the daughter of Samuel and Dina Bochner and was one of at least ten children in the family. She became engaged to Naftali Chaim Schweid in 1921, and they married after immigrating separately to the United States. The Bochner family moved from Frysztak to Beuthen in Upper Silesia (now Bytom, Poland) then to Oświęcim, Poland, and ...

Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

Selected records of Polish courts and commissions researching Nazi crimes. Consists of protocols and reports examining the area of the former Chełmno concentration camp (Kulmhof am Nehr); investigative files of crimes in Siedlce and the surrounding area; witness testimonies; materials about Nazi perpetrators from the Krosno county; the case file against K. Heinemeyer; sentences for persons cooperating ...

Consists of administrative orders and internal reports pertaining to prisons and incarceration facilities in Polish territories occupied by the Third Reich. A preponderance of documents in this collection were issued by the Prosecutor's Office in Katowice, Poland (Kattowitz) in regard to prisons and incarceration facilities in Bielsko Biala (Bielitz) and the Prosecutor's Office in Wrocław (Breslau) ...

LS of a zinc mine/refinery, labeled in Julien Bryan's original notes as "Catowicz, Silesia - Giesche Zinc Mine." MS, workers in uniform, wearing caps, masks around their necks, on break outside the refinery. VS of the mine and refinery, the machinery in operation inside the refinery: ovens, molten metals, the workers stoking the furnaces, etc. VS, of women sorting pieces of zinc on a conveyor belt ...

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Theresa Cahn-Tober (born Theresa Licht) and her parents Stephen Lighton (previously Szymon Licht) and Elizabeth Lighton (previously Esther Licht), all of whom survived the war in Warsaw under false-identities and lived in the München Neu Freimann displaced persons camp after liberation. Included are false-identity documents, identification papers, ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

1. Ogólne akta organizacyjne 1944-1947: - statuty, rozporządzenia, okólniki, protokoły, plany pracy, - sprawozdania, materiały propagandowe, - akta personalne, - finanse, - korespondencja; 2. Sprawy wydawnicze; 3. Instrukcje, ankiety, kwestionariusze; 4. Materiały historyczne: - zaświadczenia, protokoły, - wykazy osobowe, - inwentarze, - relacje, wspomnienia, - dokumenty, odpisy dokumentów, - opracowania, ...

Esther Karpman was born Esther Goldfinger in Warsaw, Poland on February 18, 1918. Her father, Moshe Aron, had a wholesale glove business at 37 Nalewki Street. Her mother, Chava Nelkenbaum Goldfinger, took care of the children. Esther had four siblings: Josef Lejb, b. 1910; Ryfka, b. 1912; Masza, b. 1914 and Chana, b. 1916. The family, who was observant and sent Esther to a religious school “Havatzelet,” ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

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, ...

EXT, VS depicting daily life in south central Poland, near the town of Katowice. Young children, women and men in traditional central Polish dress with large hoop skirts, head scarves, and woven blankets/shawls. The women walk down a dirt road in the village past rows of small houses. The men gather together, talk, and smoke, etc. The men harness their horses to a cart, an old woman gets in the cart, ...

Leo Weinrieb (1917-2011) was born in what was then the Russian Empire, in present-day Poland (in a village between Sosnowiec and Katowice), in 1917. Following his birth, but before the formation of the Polish state in the wake of World War I, his parents decided it would be better to live in Germany, and immigrated there, where his father initially found work as a coal miner in western Germany. Later, ...

Jecheskiel Lewin (1897-1941) was born in Rohatyn in 1897. His father was Rabbi Natan Lewin, rabbi of Rohatyn and Rzeszów. His brother was Aaron Lewin (1879-1941). Jecheskiel Lewin was a doctor of philosophy and served as rabbi in Katowice (1925-28) and Lviv (1928-1941). He married twice, and had three sons, Kurt I. Lewin, Natan Lewin, and Leib Lewin. Jecheskiel Lewin was murdered by the Germans in ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

Harry Deutsch was born in 1938 to a German family living in Katowice. He immigrated to the United States in April 1939 with his mother, Stella Deutsch (1901-1997), twin sister, Helga Meta, and older brother, Hans Günther. His father followed later. Stella Deutsch's parents, Berthold and Sophie Storch, had been living in Čeladná. In September 1942 they were deported from Ostrava to Theresienstadt. ...

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

Der Polizeipräsident in Kattowitz /Prezydent Policji w Katowicach/ z lat 1939-1945, sygn. 1-19. Polizeiamt Kőnigshütte /Urząd Policyjny Chorzów/ z lat 1940-1945, sygn. 20 27 Polizeirevier Schlesiengrube /27 Rewir Policyjny Chropaczów/ z lat 1940-1941, sygn. 21. 28.Polizeirevier Hohenlinde /28 Rewir Policyjny Łagiewniki/ z lat 1940-1941, sygn. 22. 35 Polizeirevier - Zweigstelle Godulahütte /35 Rewir ...