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1. Helena Minzer letters
2011.255.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2011.255.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1945
…Helena Minzer was born in 1925 in Lwów, Poland (now L’viv, Ukraine). In 1941, Helena, a Jew, was forced to live in the Lwów ghetto. There she…
2. Ekspozytura Urzedu Emigracyjnego we Lwowie (Fond 422, opis 1)
Document | Accession Number: 2009.229 | RG Number: RG-31.104M
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1933
Alternate Title:
Lwòw branch office of administration for emigration
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Lviv (Poland)…
3. Records of the regional headquarters of the Jewish Youth Organization "Hanoar Hazioni" (Fond 337, opis 1)
Document | Accession Number: 2009.58 | RG Number: RG-31.079M
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1939
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…The collection contains correspondence of the Jewish Youth Organization " Hanoar Hazioni” in Warsaw with the Zionist organizations in Poland and…
4. Oral history interview with Marek Herman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.259 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0259
Date:
interview: 1995 November 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marek Herman, born in L'viv, Ukraine in 1927, describes being the oldest of four children; his family's poverty; attending a Jewish school…
5. Kleinberg family papers
2011.136.2 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2011.136.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1946
bulk: 1939-1941
… photography studio, the Kleinberg family was spread throughout Poland at the time of Nazi occupation in 1939. Nearly the entire family perished in the Holocaust…
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 … children, their spouses, and children. Originally from Krakow, Poland, the family was living separately throughout Poland at the time of Nazi occupation in…
6. Oral history interview with Kristine Keren
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.349 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0520
Date:
interview: 2007 October 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kristine Keren (née Krystyna Chiger), born in 1935 in Lwów, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine), describes her childhood; her family’s history and their…
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 … 28, in Lvov. At that time the city belonged to Poland, and during the -- from ’39 to ’41, the city wa -- were under Russian government. Then from ’41…
7. Oral history interview with Lucia Fink
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.211.12 | RG Number: RG-90.133.0012
Date:
interview: 2016 October 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lucia Fink, born on August 27, 1929 in Lwow, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine), discusses her four brothers, who were taken to camps and did not survive the…
8. Selected records related to the history of the Jewish communities of the Lʹviv region
Document | Accession Number: 2013.11 | RG Number: RG-31.118
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1928
…Selected records related to the history of the Jewish communities of the Lʹviv region…
9. Oral history interview with Philip Helbling
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0092
Date:
interview: 1991 June 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Philip Helbling, born in 1925 in Lwów, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine), describes his family and childhood; the Russian invasion of Lwów in 1939 and moving…
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 … Stanislawow... Q: Well, let me back up a bit. When Germany invaded Poland, and when they got to Lwow, were you still living in Lwow at the time? A: No, no. That…
10. Oral history interview with Lou Pohoryles
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.281.8 | RG Number: RG-50.009.0008
Date:
interview: 1989 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lou Pohoryles, born in L’vov, Poland (present day L'viv, Ukraine) in 1937, describes his family; how his father was a highly ranked tennis player…
11. Brick from a Polish ghetto manufactured by the Heiss brick factory
2017.357.1 3/4 view front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.357.1
Date:
use: 1941 November-1943 June
…Brick from the Lwów ghetto in L’viv Ukraine (formerly Lvov, Poland). The brick is from the area that the Lvov Judenrat building was located and is…
12. Oral history interview with Clara Ma'ayan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.96 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0096
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; working in the ghetto and the Judenrat; escaping to Lvov (Lviv), Ukraine, and reuniting with other youth movement leaders from all over Poland; going to…
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 … a leader of the "Hano'ar Hatziony" youth movement in Poland before the war. In the years 1938-1939 studied education at Warsaw and worked in the…
13. Oral history interview with Gerda Seifer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1450 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1450
Date:
interview: 1983 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… her father's store by the Soviets; her family's decision to move to Lwow, Poland (now L'viv, Ukraine); the changes she experienced when the Germans took…
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 … Gerda Krebs Seifer. Q. And you were born in 10 A. was born in Shlemissha Poland in 1927. 11 Q. And were you in the ghetto there 12 A. spent just short…
14. Oral history interview with Laura Freedman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.143 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0143
Date:
interview: 1989 August 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Laura Freedman (née Wachs), born September 15, 1916 in Lwow, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine), describes her family before the war; the German invasion of…
15. Oral history interview with Rubin Furgang
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.144 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0144
Date:
interview: 1989 April 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Rubin Furgang, born September 22, 1923 in Lwow, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine), describes his family before the war; his time in the Lwow ghetto; being…
16. Oral history interview with Hedva Zeliger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.178 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0178
Date:
interview: 1991 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hedva Zeliger, born in Marienbad, Czechoslovakia (Mariánské Lázne, Czech Republic), discusses her family life; growing up in Przemysl, Poland; pre…
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 …, Poland, she was freed along with Poles from Majdanek. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
17. Oral history interview with Norman Salsitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.88 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0088
Date:
interview: 1987 April 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Norman Salsitz (né Naftali Salsitz), born in 1920 in Kolbuszowa, Poland, describes his childhood; antisemitism in secular school; his religious…
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 … accuracy. 105 00:06:06,820 --> 00:06:10,770 I was a very big Polish patriot. 106 00:06:10,770 --> 00:06:16,720 Because I said, if I live in Poland, I want to…
18. Oral history interview with Dora Iwler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.11 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0011
Date:
interview: 1989 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… concentration camp (Janowska) near Lwów, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine);being assigned to a wheat field; witnessing the murder of 1,000 people one day and 2,000 the next…
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 … - 1939 0:00-6:45 Dora was born Dora Zuer in 1923 in Chodor¢w, Poland, near the city of Lw¢w. She was the second of four children in a tenth - generation…
19. Oral history interview with Irena Noskovicz and Shimon Noskovicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.64 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0064
Date:
interview: 1987 June 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Irena (born in L'viv, Ukraine) and Shimon Noskovicz describe the Germans closing down schools in Warsaw, Poland; Irena having to finish her high…
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 … although her mother stayed home a lot. 08:00 She finished high school in the Underground in Poland. She was forced to study secretly because German officials…
20. Oral history interview with Lidia Siciarz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.9 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0405
Date:
interview: 2000 January 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… several weeks with the head nurse Sister Jadwiga; going to an orphanage in Lwów, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine), where she hid in the orphanage as a Polish…
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 … every summer, and she -- when the war started, we actually went to Pinsk because it was on eastern border of Poland, and we were hoping the German will…