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The collection consists of a photograph of Mendel Finkelsztajntaken in 1946; a photograph of Mendel Finkelsztajn and his wife, Malka Sztajnberg, taken in Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland, on September 18, 1938, before their marriage; and a photograph of Malka Finkelsztajn and his son, Jurek Finkelsztajn on February 25, 1946, in Wrocław, Poland.

Manuscript memoir, in Yiddish, 120 pages, describing David Newman's experiences in the Skarżysko-Kamienna forced labor camp in Poland during the German occupation, and his subsequent imprisonment at Buchenwald, written by Newman in 1988. An English translation by Miriam Beckerman, from 2006, is also included. The text begins with an account of the pre-war history of the Jewish community in his hometown ...

Contains a memoir, 37 pages, regarding the Holocaust experiences of Helen Sztajnberg. She was born in 1919, in Skarzysko Kamienna, Poland. After the German invasion she and her son Jurek were forced into a ghetto, where she attempted to obtain false papers as Helena Andrzejczak. She traveled from town to town throughout the war and was liberated in April 1945. Her parents and brothers perished in Treblinka ...

William Eisen (1920-2008) was born Wolf Ajzowicz on 25 July 1920 in Książ Wielki, Poland to Symcha and Miriam Ajzowicz. He grew up in Miechów, Poland and had four brothers: Alter, Israel, Lemuel, and Maier; and one sister, Sara. William was a survivor of camps in Kraków, Plaszow, Skarzysko, Czestochowa and Buchenwald. His entire family perished during the Holocaust. He immigrated to the United States ...

Contains documents and photographs illustrating the post-war experiences of Lola Fuchs [Fuks], born in Szydlowiec, Poland and deported to slave labor and concentration camps including Skarzysko Kamienna, Częstochowa, Bergau, Bergen-Belsen, and Allach; and Leon Mazliach [Masliach], born in Saloniki, Greece and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau-Muehldor. The couple met and married after the Holocaust ...

Copyright Holder: Pauline Buchenholz

Alec Ward was born Abram Warszaw on January 3, 1927 in Parysów, Poland to Szmul Mosze Warszaw and Chaja Ester Warszaw (née Dudkiewicz). His mother died in childbirth. His father remarried Sara Bronstein. Alec Ward had one sister, Lea Warszaw, and three half-brothers, Laib Warszaw, Herszel Warszaw, and a baby (name unidentified). Alec Ward also lived in Łaskarzew, Poland and Magnuszew, Poland. Szmul ...

Memoir, typescript, 732 pages, written in 1945-1947 by Mojżesz "Mietek" Pachter (donor’s paternal uncle) during his recuperation in a tuberculosis sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland. In the memoir, Mietek described the Pachter family life in the Warsaw ghetto; forced labor by his older brother Wilek Wolf and himself and smuggling of food for the parents: Pinchas and Rywka and their youngest brother Sewek ...

Wanda Rotbart (formerly Natka Kronenberg and Wanda Levenkopf), was born to Moishe and Chava Kronenberg in Warsaw, Poland where Moishe worked as a furrier. There, she attended school until the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, when she had to suspend her education during her second year of high school. A year later in 1940, Wanda and her family moved into the Warsaw Ghetto. 1942 Wanda’s mother and sister ...

Consists of documents related to Josef and Bela Grojsmitz Klajnburd from the displaced persons camps of Regensburg, Lager Lechfeld, Giebelstadt, and Vilseck, which they collected in preparation for immigration. The documents date between 1947 and 1950.

Morris Gastfreund (1916-2010) was born on 2 February 1916 in Wodzisław Śląski, Poland. He was the survivor of several camps including Dachau, Buchenwald, and Skarzysko-Kamienna. He was liberated from Theresienstadt in May 1945 and lived in the Landsberg displaced persons camp for several years. He later immigrated to the United States.