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1. Luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish survivor
2014.426.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.5
Date:
use: 1946 May 10-1946 May 20
…Halina Goldwag (later Rosenberg, 1918-2013) was born in Warsaw, Poland, to Regina (née Rivka Zak, later Epstein, 1900-1972) and Moses Goldwag. Halina…
2. Feliks Puterman and Janet Rogowsky collection
Document | Accession Number: 1992.213.4
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1992
bulk: 1939-circa 1944
…, Poland. In 1937 he moved to Paris, France to attend the École des Beaux-Arts. In September 1939 Feliks was visiting his parents in Warsaw, when Germany…
3. Luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish survivor
2014.426.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.4
Date:
use: 1946 May 10-1946 May 20
…Regina Goldwag (née Rivka Zak, later Epstein, 1900-1972) was born in Warsaw, Poland, to Chana (nee Kurlander, ?-1939) and Moshe Zak (?-1923). Moshe…
4. Drafting kit with 18 drawing implements used by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.4 l-q front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.4 a-s
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
… Holocaust. Ina’s father, Victor, had been transported to the Warsaw ghetto sometime after his deportation to Poland. Ina’s mother, Hannah, and her grandmother…
5. Chil Turek papers
2015.462.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.462.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1978
bulk: 1946-1978
…Chil Turek (1903-1971) was born in Warsaw, Poland to Isaac and Cypojra (née Goldberg) Turek. He had two brothers, Mendel and Jakov, and one sister…
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 ….462.1 Creator: Chil Turek (Warsaw :Poland) Extent: 0.5 linear feet (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg…
6. Poster stamp commemorating the Warsaw Uprising
2018.233.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.233.12
Date:
publication/distribution: 1944 August
commemoration: 1944 August 01-1944 October 02
Title:
Remember Warsaw
…Warsaw (Poland)…
7. Oral history interview with Richard Staar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.295.5 | RG Number: RG-50.957.0004
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Warsaw (Poland)…
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 … birth? January 10, 1923. OK. And here, I wasn't quite clear-- when your family went to Poland when you were 12 years old, I guess, they didn't go to…
8. Ita Dimant papers
1998.A.0258.2 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 63
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0258.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1998
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 …s Indexing terms Person: Dimant, Ita, 1918-2010. Topical Subject: Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives. Geography: Warsaw…
9. Berkowicz family collection
1995.A.0128 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0128 | RG Number: RG-10.313
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1942
… that same year, named Rita. Joseph owned and managed a canning company in Warsaw, Poland, named Fabryka Konserw “Original.” His business exported…
10. Henryk Chęciński photograph collection
2016.397.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 2016.397.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1940
…Henryk Chęciński (1915-1944) was an amateur photographer from Warsaw, Poland. He was arrested during a random round up around 1941-1942. He was sent…
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 …-1940 Accession number: 2016.397.1 Creator: Chęciński, Henryk (Warsaw :Poland) Extent: 2 folders (45 photographs) Repository: United States Holocaust…
11. Golodetz family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.629.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
… branches in London, New York, and Hamburg. The family moved to Warsaw, Poland in 1920 to be near Wita’s family. In 1934 the business was accused of tax…
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 ….629.1 Creator: Golodetz (Family : Warsaw, Poland) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
12. Oral history interview with Gail Jablon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1211 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1211
Date:
interview: 1985 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 … Jablon was Gusta Chapnik when she was born April 8, 1922 in Białołęka, Poland, a small town near Lublin and was raised in Warsaw. She was one of four…
13. Bianca Perlmutter papers
2018.580.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2018.580.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Bianca Pearlmutter (later Lerner, 1929-2013) was born in Warsaw, Poland to Arnold Perlmutter, an affluent entrepreneur, and Stefania Perlmutter (née…
14. Warsaw liquidation photographs
2005.470 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2005.470
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1945
…Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw.…
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15. Oral history interview with Wanda Wos Lorenc
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.81.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0698
Date:
interview: 2013 May 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Wanda Wos Lorenc describes joining the resistance in Warsaw, Poland at age 15 and her experiences; taking part in the Warsaw Uprising; helping…
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 … had brothers and sisters. A: Yes. I bor – I was born in Warsaw, Poland i-in 6-22-20 – 1928. Q: So June 26 – A: Yes. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact…
16. Vladimir Lewin papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.361.2
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2018
…Warsaw (Poland)…
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 …, 1939-1945--Veterans--Soviet Union. Geography: Pinsk (Belarus) Warsaw (Poland) Genre/Form: Photographs, Identification cards. Personal narratives…
17. Fanny Auerbach papers
1995.A.0365 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0365
Date:
inclusive: circa 1934-circa 1985
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 …‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw. Holocaust victims. Jews‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
18. Oral history interview with Andrew Garczynski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.88.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0705
Date:
interview: 2013 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family’s escape from Warsaw, Poland at the beginning of the war; their deaths due to a bomb; his older brother’s imprisonment at Auschwitz in the beginning…
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 … the last time in Poland. 242 00:11:32,300 --> 00:11:36,860 I went with my niece and her husband. 243 00:11:36,860 --> 00:11:41,240 We went to see my one…
19. Panel discussion with Holocaust survivors and members of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.27 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0027
Date:
interview: 1988 January 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 … for spelling or accuracy. I am not an American, I am a naturalized Canadian. I came to Canada from Holland in 1951. I was born in Warsaw and attended…
20. Oral history interview with Eva Elson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.495.5 | RG Number: RG-50.061.0005
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 … children who they sent to religious training; Eva describes her Holocaust experiences of hiding with the children in Warsaw’s Big Ghetto when selections are…
21. Klara Salamon papers
2007.23 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2007.23
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Klara Samuels (1927-) was born in Warsaw, Poland to Moses and Rosza Salomon. Moses, a physician, graduated from the University of Kharkov in 1912…
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 …) was born to Moses and Rosza Salamon in Warsaw, Poland. There, Moses worked as a physician and Klara attended a private Jewish girl’s school. Upon the…
22. Antoni Stefan Koper and Sophie Koper papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.268.6
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1999
…Antoni Stefan Koper (1906-1990) was born on 6 September 1906 in Warsaw, Poland. He received a degree from the University of Warsaw and he worked for…
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 … Biographical note Antoni Stefan Koper (1906-1990) was born on 6 September 1906 in Warsaw, Poland. He received a degree from the University of Warsaw and he…
23. Oral history interview with Marann Rockocz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.495.21 | RG Number: RG-50.061.0021
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 … business. Did you brother meet him in Poland, in Warsaw-- In Warsaw, in Warsaw. --after he left? Yes, in 1940. Because then he wasn't admitting it-- In 1940…
24. Donald Norton Pitts papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.547.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1950
… Department internship program. He joined the Foreign Service in February 1950, and his first post was at the embassy in Warsaw, Poland where he managed…
25. Blake and Anna Schiff papers
2018.407.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2018.407.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1999
…Blake Schiff (born Borys Szyff, 1920-2006) was born on 10 October 1920 in Warsaw, Poland to Nikodem (d. 1929) and Salomea (née Zajfen). He had one…
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 … Schiff (born Borys Szyff, 1920-2006) was born on 10 October 1920 in Warsaw, Poland to Nikodem (d. 1929) and Salomea (née Zajfen). He had one sister…
26. Stanislaw Aronson papers
2013.432.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2013.432.1
…Stanislaw Staszek (Shlomo) Aronson is the son of Waldemar Aronson and Helena Kaffeman. He was born in Warsaw, Poland on May 6, 1925. The couple…
27. Oral history interview with Sarah Rozenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.30 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0030
Date:
interview: 1988 January 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 … beautiful weather. I'm a Canadian from Edmonton, Alberta. And my address is 8512 Buena Vista Road. And I was born in Warsaw, Poland, April 23, 1928. And I…
28. Leonard Lief correspondence
1995.A.0304 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 50
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0304
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1947
undated: 
…Jews--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 … terms HIAS (Agency) Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich. American Red Cross. International Committee of the Red Cross. Jews‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw. Jewish…
29. Oral history interview with Abraham Munk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2022.11.1 | RG Number: RG-90.225.0001
Date:
interview: 1994 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.…
30. Krystyna Linden photograph collection
2006.122.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 2006.122.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1947
…Warsaw (Poland)…
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 …. Warsaw (Poland) Gene / Form: Photographs. CONTAINER LIST 1 of 1 Lindenbaum and Kuniegis family photographs, circa 1935-1947 https://collections…
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  • File 1: Lindenbaum and Kuniegis family photographs Approximate 1935-Approximate 1947
31. Maria Rose memoir
2014.66.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 109
Document | Accession Number: 2014.66.1
Date:
inclusive: 1986-1987
…Maria Rozengarten Rose was born in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland, to Matias Rozengarten (1877-1942, originally of Siedlce) and to Golda Keis (1875-1941…
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 …, Poland, and edited by her son Julian (Julek). In the memoir, she describes her childhood, education, and family life in Warsaw, noting the fates of her…
32. Oral history interview with Benjamin Meed
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.356.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0152
Date:
interview: 1990 March 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Benjamin Meed, born on February 19, 1922 in Warsaw, Poland, describes his family; traveling with a friend in 1939 to Russian territory to escape Nazi…
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 … born under the name of Benjamin. Q:Tell us where you were born. I was born in Warsaw and...uh...the city where I lived, in the apartment...I...in those…
33. Topas family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0112.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1946
…, 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…
34. Mirjam Zelwer Papers
2015.235.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 49
Document | Accession Number: 2015.235.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1947-1952
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Warsaw (Poland)…
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 … the Polish army. Marie, Eta, Sam, and her aunt Zoszia fled Poland to the Soviet Union through Warsaw. They struggled to find refuge in small towns and…
35. Oral history interview with Julian Kulski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.238.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0769
Date:
interview: 2014 September 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Julian Kulski, born on March 3, 1929 in Warsaw, Poland, discusses his prominent family’s background and childhood; his Jewish ancestry, but being…
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 … and independent Poland. In what part? What was the town or village or city? I was born in Warsaw, Poland. A big village, yes? Yes. You were born in…
36. Mary Berg diary publication papers
2017.371.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.371.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-2009
… studied at Warsaw University, and following that, worked as a journalist, serving as Paris correspondent for a number of Jewish daily newspapers in Poland…
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 … invasion of Poland in 1939, the family relocated to Warsaw, where they were later forced into the Warsaw Ghetto. Prior to the liquidation of the ghetto, the…
37. Regional Palestine Bureau, Lwów branch (Fond 332, Opis1)
Document | Accession Number: 2008.120 | RG Number: RG-31.066M
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1939
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Warsaw (Poland)…
38. Oral history interview with Ted Martin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.159.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0792
Date:
interview: 2015 January 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.…
39. Oral history interview with Estelle Laughlin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.372.4 | RG Number: RG-50.856.0004
Date:
interview: 2014 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Poland--Warsaw.…
40. Oral history interview with Henia Hendler Aitchison
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.253.23 | RG Number: RG-90.063.0023
Date:
interview: 2011 November 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Warsaw (Poland)…
41. Oral history interview with Stanislaw Soszynski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0343 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0217
Date:
interview: 1990 October 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Stanislaw Soszynski, born on February 24, 1931 in Warsaw, Poland, describes his neighborhood in Warsaw on Swietojerska Street; the destruction of…
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 … recording. A:Yes. My name is Stanislaw Soszynski. I was born on February 24, 1931, in Warsaw. I lived in Old Town through my whole childhood. This is the…
42. Minna Aspler papers
1999.267.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.267.2
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1946
…Warsaw (Poland)…
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 … Holocaust survivors--Germany. Geographic Names Landsberg am Lech (Germany) Warsaw (Poland) Genre Identification cards. Photographs. ITEM LIST Item 1…
43. Oral history interview with Frances Zatz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.144 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0144
Date:
interview: 1992 April 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Frances Zatz, born in May 4, 1932 in Warsaw, Poland, describes her early childhood in Poland before World War II; the siege of Warsaw by German…
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 … Poland; the siege of Warsaw by German troops; the outbreak of the war; the building of the Warsaw ghetto and subsequent hardships there; her mother…
44. Rev. Stanley Dabrowski papers
1995.A.1132 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1132
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1995
…Reverend Stanley Dabrowski (1913-1995) was born Stanislaw P. Dabrowski in Warsaw, Poland to Wladyslaw Dabrowski and Antonina Zagorski. He had a…
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 … Stanley Dabrowski (1913‐1995) was born Stanislaw P. Dabrowski in Warsaw, Poland to Wladyslaw Dabrowski and Antonina Zagorski. He had a brother and a sister…
45. Interviews of survivors of the battle of the Warsaw ghetto
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.35.1 | RG Number: RG-50.744.0001
Date:
publication/distribution: 1963 April 14-1963 April 21
Alternate Title:
"The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto"
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 … before and after Germany’s invasion of Poland and then examines life in the Warsaw Ghetto up to and including the Uprising. Several survivors give their…
46. Oral history interview with Solomon Radasky
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0305
Date:
interview: 1995 January 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Solomon Radasky, born on May 17, 1910 in Warsaw, Poland, describes specializing in the selling of furs; being forced to make coats for the Germans…
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 … and raised in Poland, in Warsaw. My birthday is May 17, 1910. All my life I was in Warsaw, the whole family. I come from eight people, six children…
47. Oral history interview with Alexander Ehrmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0089.14 | RG Number: RG-50.155.0014
Date:
interview: approximately 1983 May 13
publication/distribution: approximately
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Warsaw (Poland)…
48. Oral history interview with William J. Lowenberg
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0139
Date:
interview: 1993 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… transfer to Warsaw, Poland, where he worked with a unit responsible for demolishing buildings in the former ghetto after saving whatever could be re-used by…
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 … go to Warsaw together and also to Dachau. So he was my big brother, so-called. He was protective. Q: Did he see you before you were tattooed? A: About…
49. Ada Feingold papers
2002.56 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2002.56
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1957
… Central Jewish Committee in Poland, a 1945 Berlin train ticket, registration certificates documenting Ada’s postwar presence in Łódź, Warsaw, Białystok, and…
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 … of surviving Jews in Warsaw as of June 5, 1945 compiled by the Central Jewish Committee in Poland, a 1945 Berlin train ticket, registration…
50. Oral history interview with Renia Britstone
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.9 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0009
Date:
interview: 1993 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 …, 1927, in Lodz, Poland. Besides her mother and father, she had an older and younger brother. Neither survived the war. She had a happy childhood until…