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Replica of the type of sandals worn by Evelyn Romanowsky, her sister and her father in the forests around Lachva, Poland (now Lakhva, Belarus). They were called lapti and were made from the reed bark and worn over cloth bindings wrapped with strings and wound around the foot and leg.

Peter (Pesach) Kosskowsky (1872-1939) was born July 4, 1872 in Pinsk, Russia (now Belarus). He and his first wife, Gitel (d. 1913), had two daughters. Schifra Kossowsky was born in 1903 in Yekaterinoslav, Russia (now Dnipro, Ukraine). We do not know the name of their second daughter. The Kossowsky family relocated to Vienna while Schifra was young. After Gitel’s death in Vienna in 1913, Peter married ...

The collections consists of 13 photographs depicting members of the Lekach and Itman families, Rafal Lekach and other soldiers of the First Division of the Polish Army, Roza Lekach with the Belorussian partisan group of Denisow, and a visit to a monument memorializing the 3,200 Jews who perished in the ghetto in Dzisna, Belarus.

The Naum Roshal memoirs include a printed and bound copy of Book 1 of Naum Roshal’s memoirs, “My Memories,” covering the years 1926-1945 and describing Roshal’s childhood, the family’s 1941 evacuation from Kapcevičy, Ukraine to Ufa, Bashkir ASSR, and his experiences as a Jewish soldier in the Red Army from 1943-1945. The collection also includes a digital copy of Book 1 of Roshal’s memoirs along with ...

The Wehrmacht Commander in Ostland, based in Riga, was representative of the highest military authority in Ostland and was subordinate to the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht. He supervised the military forces which maintained the occupation and suppressed any resistance of the local population. Under his authority were commandant’s offices of the Sicherungsgebiet for Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, and Estonia ...

The collection contains pre-war photographs of the Eisenstadt family of Pinsk, Belarus, and post-war photographs of Boris Eisenstadt and his wife Rachel Eisenstadt (née Bak, later Burstein) of Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania and her son Alex in the Landsberg displaced persons camp in Bavaria, Germany. The documents are identification papers of Rachel from Landsberg and Israel. There is also a letter regarding ...

Feivel (Shraga) Solomiansky was born to Eliyahu and Haya Solominsky in 1909 in Iliya (now Ilʹi︠a︡). He hid during two shooting "aktions" in Ilʹi︠a︡ and survived World War II as a partisan in Belorussia. He returned to Ilʹi︠a︡ after the war, then went to Paris. In 1947, he left on the "Lanegev" for Palestine. He was detained for a year on Cyprus before finally being allowed to enter the newly formed ...

The Evreiskii Komitet Pomoshchi Zhertvam Voiny (EKOPO) (Jewish Committee for the Assistance to the War Victims) was established in Russia in 1914. This organization provided necessary assistance and relief to tens of thousands of Jewish families who were displaced by Russian Tsarist government from Lithuania and Belarus during WWI. After WWI, the organization (under the Polish name, the Krajowy Komitet ...

Wounded people, mostly children, are taken off a train that was intercepted on its way to Ozarichi, a concentration camp in Belarus. They are placed on a cart by Soviet soldiers. Soviet investigators inspect corpses lying in the snow. They perform an outdoor autopsy of sorts on a dead child. Shots of survivors at the camp. Liberated people struggle down the road. Interior scenes of the sick being treated ...

"Diaries, testimonies and memoirs of the Holocaust often include at least as much on the family as on the individual. Victims of the Nazi regime experienced oppression and made decisions embedded within families. Even after the war, sole survivors often described their losses and rebuilt their lives with a distinct focus on family. Yet this perspective is lacking in academic analyses. In this work, ...