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1. Józef V. Czarski collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0171 | RG Number: RG-02.149
Date:
creation: circa 1993
…Victor Penzer (1919-1999, false identity Józef Czarski) was born on July 18, 1919 in Kraków, Poland to Jozef Penzer and Rosalia Penzer (née Feldblum…
2. Selinger family papers
2008.227.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 47
Document | Accession Number: 2008.227.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 1950
…Kay (Krystyna) Selinger (later Nabel) was born on October 20, 1922, in Krakow, Poland, to Wilhelm and Henryka Lewinger Selinger. She had a sister…
3. Anna Grun manuscript
2007.474.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2007.474.1
Date:
creation: 2001
…Anna Grun (born Schmidt or Gleitman) was born in Kraków, Poland. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Anna's family temporarily moved to…
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 … głębokie dołeczki ukazywały się na buzi. Podczas wojny jak cała rodzina matki oni tez opuścili Kraków i w Dąbrowie Tarnowskiej podczas drugiej akcji zostali…
4. Oral history interview with Eugene Ginter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2023.164.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1174
Date:
interview: 2023 July 25
interview: 2023 December 01
interview: 2023 December 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kraków.…
5. Henry Dressler papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.379.11
Date:
inclusive: 1915-2009
undated: 
… that some family members lived in Krakow, Poland and the family was welcomed there by the Wasserberger family. They had a large house and converted the…
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 … family members lived in Krakow, Poland and the family was welcomed there by the Wasserberger family. They had a large house and converted the gym into a…
6. Michael Silberg Holocaust experiences
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0016
…Contains a photocopy of a memoir (34 pages) which relates to the Holocaust experience of the donor in Krakow, Poland.…
7. Henry Weil testimony
Document | Accession Number: 2014.330.1
Date:
creation: 1995-2001
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Kraków--Personal narratives.…
8. Schächter family papers
2000.407.2 Box 1 Folder 23 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2000.407.2
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1998
bulk: 1938-1947
…, but one sister, Jeanette, died of typhus in Krakow ghetto in 1941. His parents were shot in a German aktion in 1942. Postwar Poland was controlled by…
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 … control following the September 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Filip was born on June 23, 1914, in Krakow, to Joseph (b. 1885…
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9. Letter from Janusz Schwieger to Leopold Infeld
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0103 | RG Number: RG-10.057.01
Date:
creation: 1945 August 15
…Kraków (Poland)…
10. Oral history interview with Bernard Offen
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.719 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0719
Date:
interview: 1992 December 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Bernard Offen discusses his childhood in Krakow, Poland; his early experiences with antisemitism; the events he witnessed during the German invasion…
11. Oral history interview with Leopold Page
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.22 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0022
Date:
interview: 1992 March 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kraków.…
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 … over the Poland in Lodz, Warsaw, Czestochowa, Krakow particular was very, very known for the hospitality to those people. We accepted a family who stayed…
12. Ada Abrahamer papers
2015.442.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.442.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1989
bulk: 1941-1948
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Kraków, Poland when Germany invaded in 1939. Her father, Gustaw, fled east under the common assumption that only men were in danger. Ada, her mother and…
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 … include several pictures taken in Kraków, Poland during the war, displaced persons camps in Austria, and the Abrahamers on the USS General Black…
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13. Oral history interview with Norman Salsitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.119 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0119
Date:
interview: 1992 November 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Krakow ( Poland)…
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 … Poland were not helped by the Polish government. From Krakow, Norman was transferred to Breslau where he was Head Security for the city. Norman and his…
14. Lob family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.168.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2015
bulk: 1939-1954
… transit camp and in October 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was liberated by the Soviet Red Army in January 1945. He went to Krakow, Poland…
15. Edward Haven collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.156.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-circa 1956
… Warsaw and Krakow, Poland. Included are pre-war and wartime photographs of the donor’s family; postcards depicting images of Warsaw, circa 1956; the donor…
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 …Edward C. Haven Collection 2002.156.1 preliminary inventory Edward Haven was born in Warsaw, Poland, on October 28, 1933 as Edward Karol Rechtszafen…
16. Bernard Rechnitz memoir
1993.A.0008 Book Enclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0008 | RG Number: RG-02.069.01
Date:
inclusive: 1946-1947
undated: 
Special Collection:
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…Kraków (Poland)…
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 …, 1939-1945--Personal narratives. Kraków (Poland) Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Diaries. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm…
17. Berland family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.188.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1948
…Krakow ( Poland)…
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 …. Photograph of Andrzej Urbanczyk and Jadwiga Urbanczyk, two Polish children whom Felicja Berland cared for while living under false papers in Krakow, Poland…
18. Friedberg family papers
2016.540.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 43
Document | Accession Number: 2016.540.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1993
…Kraków (Poland)…
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 … Jaroslaw and Rzeszów and after the war in Kraków, Paris, and New York. The photo album primarily includes postwar photographs from Poland and France. System…
19. Hedy Tugendhaft Rosen photographs
2002.155.2 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2002.155.2
Date:
creation: circa 1929-1987
…Hedy Rosen was born Jadwiga Wisia Bat Sheva Tugendhaft in Krakow, Poland on September 27, 1936 to businessman Moshe David Max Tugendhaft and Mania…
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 … Tugendhaft, in Poland (Rudnik, Krakow, and Jaslo) before the war; Mania, Hedy, and Jewish children at the Sacred Heart convent in Przemyśl during the war…
20. Renée Fodor Schwarz writings
1991.A.0095 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0095
Date:
inclusive: 1984-1994
…Renée Fodor Schwarz (1918-2000) was born Ryfka Issler in Zasów, Poland, not far from Krakow. She was the second youngest of ten children and lost…
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 … poems by Schwarz in which she remembers and reflects on her childhood in Poland, her confinement in the Krakow ghetto and at Auschwitz, and her new life…