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 ...

The camera fades in on Eichmann's empty booth. Defense counsel Dr. Robert Servatius is visible in the foreground. The camera cuts to the lawyers' tables. Servatius is seated in the foreground and Attorney General Gideon Hausner, Assistant State Attorney Gabriel Bach, and Assistant State Attorney Ya'akov Bar-Or are seated in the background. Eichmann enters the booth (00:01:53). He sits and cleans his ...

Abraham (Abram) Winiger (1905-1993) was born December 21, 1905 in Nadwórna, Poland (now Nadvirna, Ukraine) to Israel and Sarah Winiger. Mina Winiger (1913-1979) was born May 5, 1913 in Majdan Górny, Poland to Markus and Sobel Händel and moved to Nadwórna. The couple were married in 1938, and their son Jakob (Jankl) was born March 1, 1941. Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a ghetto ...

Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

The Morris and Lala Fishman papers consist of identification papers, photographs, and printed materials documenting Lala Fishman’s displaced persons status after the Holocaust, her life in the Hasenhecke and Möncheberg displaced persons camps, Morris Fishman’s work as JDC director of the displaced persons camps in the Kassel, Passau, and Regensburg regions, and their marriage. Identification papers ...

Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

Bożena Irena Werbart was born on November 18, 1948 in Katowice, Poland to Józef Wieczorek and Stefania Szajndla Sztorchan Wieczorek (Stefa). Stefa (1919-2006) was born on July 25, 1919 in Sosnowiec, Poland. She was the youngest daughter of Abram and Golda Eugenia Rakoszynska Sztorchan and had an older brother Julian Joel, born on February 10, 1913 and an older sister, Lola Sztorchan Erlich, born in ...

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Wydział Ogólny: zarządzenia, okólniki, sprawy graniczne, personalne, podział prowincji, szkolenie policji, obcokrajowcy, sprawy kościelne i szkolne, podatki, robotnicy obcokrajowcy, związki i organizacje, sprawozdania sytuacyjne, kontrole cen, taryfy wynagrodzeń, nielegalny handel, nadzór nad przemysłem, handlem, czynsze, opłaty komunalne z lat 1936-1945, sygn. 1-816, 2a, 20a-i, 22a, 36a, 53a, 84a, ...

Primo Levi was born on July 31, 1919 in Turin, Italy, son of Cesare Levi and Ester Luzzati Levi. His sister Anna Maria was born in 1921. As a child, Levi had a basic Jewish religious education, and was Bar Mitzvahed at age 13. He became passionate about chemistry at age 14, focusing his high school studies on science. In October 1937, he enrolled as a chemistry student at the University of Turin, graduating ...

The collection consists of pre-World War II, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Csengeri family, originally of Hungary. The photographs depict twin sisters, Lea and Yehudit Csengeri, who survived experiments performed by Josef Mengele in Auschwitz. Includes photographs sent by their mother, Rosalia, to their father, Zvi, while he was in a labor camp in Ukraine.

Henryk Tabaksblat was born as Chaim (Heniek) Tabaksblat on May 3, 1922 in Łódź, Poland. His father, Mordka Tabaksblat (1896-1967), was a painter and his mother, Hendla Korn Tabaksblat (1896-1942), took care of the children: Josef Tabaksblat (1919-1941); Henryk Tabaksblat (b. 1922); Rajzla Roza Tabaksblat (1924-1943); and Ruchla Tabaksblat (1927-1943). The family lived at 25 Gdanska Street in Łódź, ...

Po zajęciu polskiego Górnego Śląska przez Niemców, władzę ustawodawczą i wykonawczą na tym terenie wykonywał "Chef der Zivilverwaltung - Grenzschutz-Abschnitts-Kommando". Trwała ona od 4 września do 26 października 1939 roku. W dniu 26 października 1939 roku została utworzona Rejencja Katowicka, która od 1 kwietnia 1940 roku został powiększona o miasta wydzielone Bytom, Gliwice i Zabrze oraz powiaty ...

Wydział Personalny i Administracyjny: sprawy organizacyjne, sprawozdawczość i kontrola urzędu, sprawy administracyjne i osobowe z lat 1939-1945, sygn. 1-623 Wydział Ogólny i Prawny: sprawy organizacyjne i ogólne w zakresie zarządzania powierniczego i przejmowania majątku Polaków i Żydów pod zarząd komisaryczny z lat 1936-1945, sygn. 624-1454 Wydział Rewizyjny: kontrola przedsiębiorstw i zakładów znajdujących ...

The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Sulamita Simenauer Konar’s mother Chana Pomerancblum Simenauer and grandmother Mina Zalcman Pomerancblum, both of whom survived in hiding under false identities in Jeleśnia, Poland. Included are a registration form (Meldebestaetigung) issued to Chana under her false identity of Maria Kolodziejczyk, and two occupancy registration forms (anmeldung) ...

Isaak Jacob Topas (Icek Jakob Topas) was born to Szyme and Bejla Topas. His wife, Sura Etta Ferszt (1886-?) was born on March 18, 1886 in Warsaw, Poland, to Majer Ferszt and Jospe Zacharasiewicz. Isaak Topas and Sura Etta Ferszt married on January 16, 1903 in Warsaw, Poland. They had at least two children Avrahom Chaim Topas (November 14, 1904-1942) and Mietek Topas (Mordechai, 1908-1943). Avrahom ...

Contains documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the Wachs and Liebesmann families. Salomea Lusia Liebesmann Wachs, donor’s mother, b. 1909 had three brothers: Benjamin and Mendel, engineers who survived in France and Abraham, physician, who was saved by a German officer and his wife in Stanislawow.; Lusia Wachs and her husband Artur Wachs, b. 1901, an engineer, lived in Stryj and worked ...

Stephen Joseph Fraenkel (born Stefan, 1917-2002) was born on 28 November 1917 in Berlin, Germany to Max and Martha Fraenkel. His father Max (born Sali, 1878-1944) was born in Zülz, Upper Silesia (Biała Prudnicka, Poland) to Simon (1830-1882) and Anna (née Kaufmann, 1840-1919) Fraenkel. He had three sisters, Rosa (b. 1861), Klara (b. 1864), and Hedwig (b. 1869). Max was a banker and moved to Berlin. ...

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Location filming in Warsaw, Poland for SHOAH. Scenes include the ghetto, Mila 18, the cemetery, the railway station, and archival documents and photographs. FILM ID 4709 -- White 39A Varsovie La Gare VAR 61-66 Ticket counter in Warsaw's train station. (00:34) The train schedule. (3:36) A sign that reads: “Gornik. Warszawa WSCH. Częstochowa-Katowice- Gliwice.” The sign is on a train moving out of the ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

Wilhelm Beigel was born on May 18, 1927, in Vilna, Poland, (Vilnius, Lithuania) to Ferdinand, born on June 25, 1899, in Lemberg, Austria (L’viv, Ukraine), and Liza Kowarsky, born on October 20, 1904, in Vilna. Ferdinand was an officer in the Polish Army. Liza’s parents, Zelik (d. 1935) and Musia Kowarsky owned the Hotel Bristol, the largest hotel in Vilna. The Beigel family lived there with 14 extended ...

Adolf Frankl (1903-1983) was born to Josef (1871-1944) and Esther (nee Nasch, 1876-1933) in Pozsony, Austria-Hungary (which became Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1919, and is now in Slovakia). Josef was a respected businessman with an interior design store. He had three brothers, Ignatz (1901-1945), Alexander Simson (1905-1993), and Leo (1907-1942), and a sister, Stefanie (later Reisner,1916-2009). ...

The Irena Bloch papers primarily consists of photographs documenting the Hecht and Bloch families before the war in Żółkiew, Delatyn, Orlow, Sopot, and Gdynia, Poland as well as Rachela Hecht’s marriage to Dziunek Dawid Zimand in Warsaw, Poland. The papers also include a marriage permit, ketubah, false work papers, school certificates, a diploma, and a letter Irena’s best friend Ruth Zeimer Czaczkes ...