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George Barlaz (born Gershon Mendel Barlaz, 1905-c.1970) was born in Szepetowka, Russia (currently Shepetivka, Ukraine) to Shmuel Barlaz (1865-1937) and Chaia (Chaya) Hinde Bailey (1869-1942) and had several brothers and sisters including Jacob, Elihu (1896-1959), Avraham (1907-1942), Dora (1894-1942), and Adela (1915-1942). George moved to Dubno, Poland (currently Dubno, Ukraine) in 1918 or 1919 and ...

Edithe Fullenbaum-Cukierman was born on 20 February 1942 in Antwerp, Belgium. She is the daughter of Malka Rojza Licht and Saul Cukierman. Malka is the daughter of Isak Majer Licht and Silka Fajga Koreusztajn and was born on 23 January 1914 in Osiek, Poland. Saul Cukierman was born on 2 September 1906, and was a tailor. Malka was in Belgium since 1932, but didn't meet Saul until a few years later. ...

Speculum used by Dr. Bruno Lambert, who immigrated to the United States from Nazi Germany in 1938, and served in the United States Army Medical Corps during the war. Bruno attended medical school in Germany from 1932-1937, but was not allowed to receive a diploma as a Jew under the Nazi regime. He transferred to a university in Switzerland, and earned a Doctorate of Medicine in July 1938. With the ...

The Sendzischew and Mottes family papers primarily contain biographical papers, restitution claims, and photographs of Holocaust survivors David and Sala Sendzischew of Sosnowiec, Poland. The biographical papers are chiefly identification papers, marriage certificates, and immigration and naturalization documents. Also included is a testimonial statement from Sala, and letter to her from a soldier ...

Letter, photocopied, addressed to Louis Schubert of Cleveland, OH, from Chaim Schubert of Lwow (postmarked in Komarno, USSR), from early June 1941 (when Soviets still occupied Eastern Poland and Ruthenia, as that would be where Komarno would be). Letter in Yiddish, but not in Hebrew script.

"The Soviet Union was the largest state in the twentieth-century world, but its repressive power and terrible ambition were most clearly on display in Europe. Under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union transformed itself and then all of the European countries with which it came into contact. This volume considers each aspect of the encounter of Stalin with Europe: the attempt to create ...

Bernard Makover (1869-1946) was born in Plock, Poland to Aaron Makover and Rachael Lowenberg (d. 1930) and had seven siblings including Mina (b. 1872 in Warsaw), Joachim, Thomas (b. 1890?), Francine (later Grossbarg), and Regina. Bernard immigrated to the United States in 1890 and became a naturalized citizen in 1892. He married Rose Sworzga (1878-1936, born in Poland to Morris and Annie) in 1895 and ...

"During the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War, from 1941 to 1945, as many as 24 million of its citizens died. 14 million were children ages fourteen or younger. And for those who survived, the suffering was far from over. The prewar Stalinist vision of a 'happy childhood' nurtured by a paternal, loving state had given way, out of necessity. What replaced it--the dictate that children be prepared to ...

Consists of copyprints and photographs from the collection of Sarah Schneider Ben-Ami Radzeli. Includes a copyprint of a portrait of Moishe Radzeli taken around the period of World War II and a copyprint of a portrait of Moishe's wife Ita with her grandchildren (Louis's niece and nephew Yankel), all of whom perished during the war. Also includes a pre-war portrait of the family of Esther (Adler) and ...