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Tamar Lazerson-Rostovsky (born Tamara Lazerson) was born in 1929 in Kovno, Lithuania to Wolf and Regina Lazerson and had two brothers, Rudolph (b. 1925) and Victor (b. 1927). She grew up in an assimilated Jewish household where they spoke Lithuanian and celebrated Christian holidays. Following the German invasion of Lithuania, her father and brother, Rudolph, were captured by Lithuanian nationalists. ...

Hadassah Bimko (later Rosensaft) was born on August 26, 1912, in Sosnowiec, Poland. In 1935, Hadassah received her doctorate in dental surgery and began a career as a dentist. In September 1939, she was living with her family in Sosnowiec, Poland, when Nazi Germany invaded and occupied the country. In 1943, Hadassah, her 5.5 year old son, and her parents were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. Her ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00091 at Kazerne Dossin

Fani Birnberg Ross was born on November 11, 1922 in Gwozdziec, Poland (now in the Soviet Ukraine) Her father, Josef Birnberg was a farmer and businessman and her mother, Frieda Greenberg Birnberg worked as a housewife. In 1939 attended college in Lvov, Poland. After the Nazis invaded the territory in 1941 she returned to her family in Gwozdziec. There she was hidden during the deportations of Jews. ...

The Council of Ministers was the most important executive authority in Hungary before and during the Holocaust. It was composed of Ministers who could be substituted by leading Ministry officials. It was presided by the Head of State (Regent Horthy until 1944) or, in his absence, the Prime Minister. The Council of Ministers tended to hold its sessions once a week but occasionally more often than that. ...

Jiri Weiss assembled this documentary footage which he brought from Czechoslovakia to Britain after fleeing German occupation. Film shows images of agriculture, people in folk costumes, and a church Sunday. The narrator describes Czechoslovakia as a "nation of freedom and peace" for nearly 1,400 years. Scenes of Prague during narration about the development of a Czechoslovak democracy in 1918 under ...

Consists of photocopies of photographs taken during April and May of 1945 of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly after liberation by the 2nd British Army. Included are photos of camp survivors, burial of dead prisoners by the SS guards of the camp, the burning of several barracks by the British, and several groups of women in the camp.

Selected records of the various units of municipal offices in Radom city and its district, the Radom District Court, School Inspectorate, Association of Polish Teachers, and the banks and credit unions. Included is also the private collection of documents of Lejbuś, Judek Perl. Records of the municipal offices in Radom city and district consists of correspondence, German announcements, statistics of ...

Contains selected records of the Polish Embassy of the Polish government-in-exile. The collection comprises records of activities of the Embassy of the Polish Republic in Moscow (and Kuybyshev after November 1941) from September 1941 through May 1943. The majority of files date from the tenure of Ambassador Stanisław Kot (1 Sept 1941- 13 Jun 1942), and the rest from the tenure of Dr. Tadeusz Romer ...

Consists of letters and other documents (some originals and some photocopies) relating to the seizure of foodstuffs and Jewish possessions from the S. S. Dromit in 1949. Included among the documents is a German-language "statement of witness" submitted to the British Civil Police Unit in November 1949 by Josef Rosensaft.