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1. Konkowski and Blinbaum families papers
2012.473.1 Oversize Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.473.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1960
… hidden space at the back of the factory used by the resistance to produce false documents and store valuables and weapons. In late 1941, Menachem joined…
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 …, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Konkowski and Blinbaum families papers consist of photographs, resistance materials, and Selecta business records…
2. Herman Taube papers
1992.A.0081.2 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0081.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2012
… in nursing. He was called for duty as a medic in the Polish Army in August 1939. Germany defeated Poland by early October, the retreating Polish Army…
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 … Polish Army. The collection also includes biographical materials documenting Taube’s wife’s Czech stepmother, Marie Koreffová, who survived Auschwitz…
3. Charles Weingarten papers
2002.420.26 Box 10 Folder 6 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2002.420.26
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2009
… in 1904 in Leipzig, Germany, to a family of Belarusian and Polish furriers. She and her first husband, Karl Albert Foerst, left Germany for South…
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 … family of Belarusian and Polish furriers. She and her first husband, activist Karl Albert Foerste, left Germany in January 1933 and spent some time in…
4. Zyzniewski family papers
2014.451.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2014.451.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1957
… Catholic and active in the Polish resistance. The papers contain identification documents for Zygmunt Zyzniewski, Janina Zyzniewski, and their son Wiesław…
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 … World War II. The Zyzniewski family was Catholic and active in the Polish resistance. The papers contain identification documents for Zygmunt Zyzniewski…
5. Victor Bienstock papers
2016.499.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2016.499.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1984
bulk: 1938-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Polish…
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 …, Polish Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored offsite. Please contact the Reference Desk more than seven days prior…
6. Fonds David Diamant (CMXXV)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.20.1 | RG Number: RG-43.160
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1994
… executed. His family was active in the Polish Communist Party and he became a member in May 1925. When he emigrated to France in the late 1920’s, he…
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 …, into a family of 8 children, 4 of whom were deported or executed. His family was active in the Polish Communist Party and he became a member in May 1925…
7. Zbiór rękopisów (Sygn. 205)
Document | Accession Number: 2016.329.1 | RG Number: RG-15.484
Date:
inclusive: 1799-circa 1975
bulk: 1939-1961
Alternate Title:
Collection of manuscripts
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…. Citation of the materials in any publication must refer to the Museum and the Polish State Archives and must include the name of the archival group and…
8. Fela and Chaim Perelman papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.432.1
Date:
inclusive: 1919-2001
… Défense des Juifs to protect them from deportation. Her book Dans le ventre de la baleine describing her resistance work was published in 1947. After the…
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 … printed materials documenting the work of Drs. Fela and Chaim Perelman on behalf of the resistance during World War II, aiding refugees after the war, and…
9. Warsaw Ghetto photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2002.221.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
… released after his mother paid a substantial bribe to a Polish policeman. She claimed that her son had only entered the ghetto in order to retrieve a ball…
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 … arrested during a raid. The Jews were executed, but Jan was released after his mother paid a substantial bribe to a Polish policeman. She claimed that her…
10. Hana Wieder collection.
Document | Accession Number: 2000.406.1
Date:
creation: 1929-1956
… Birnbaum. The family was very orthodox; in 1906 they settled in Berlin, but remained Polish citizens. In October 1938 the Germans expelled Chaim Birnbaum…
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 … his date of induction into the Polish military has been postponed on condition that his permanent residence will remain outside of Poland and his stay…
11. Alexander Bachnár papers
2004.104.2 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2004.104.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-2002
… resistance with partisans, awards he received for his wartime service, and his work as a journalist after the war. Biographical materials include…
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 … the Nováky labor camp for Jews, his participation in armed resistance with partisans, awards he received for his wartime service, and his work as a…
12. Selected records from State Archives in Warsaw and its branches in Otwock, Mława, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Pułtusk and State Archives in Płock
Document | Accession Number: 2015.48 | RG Number: RG-15.349M
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1950
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…. Citation of the materials in any publication must refer to the Museum and the Polish State Archives and must include the name of the archival group and…
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 …, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Languages: Polish Scope and content of collection Contains selected records from the State…
13. Stanisław Dobosiewicz collection
Document | Accession Number: 2018.183.1 | RG Number: RG-15.615
Date:
inclusive: 1927-2005
…Stanisław Dobosiewicz (1910-2007) graduated from Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw, before the war he worked as a teacher. Dobosiewicz was…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Languages: Polish German Scope and content of collection Private collection of Stanisław Dobosiewicz. Includes…
14. Sylvia and Abram Kolski photographs
1990.93.64 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 1990.93.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1970
… Polish countryside until liberation in January 1945. She returned to Tarczyn before relocating to Łódź, where she met and married Abram Kolski. The…
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 … families; the individuals who hid with Sylvia and her father in a bunker in Krushev during the Holocaust; the Polish woman Bronislawa Witosinska who hid them…
15. Polityczne ugrupowania w kraju w okresie okupacji-zbiór akt (Sygn. 1332)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.143.1 | RG Number: RG-15.801
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
Alternate Title:
Political groups in the country during the occupation-collection of records
…. Citation of the materials in any publication must refer to the Museum and the Polish State Archives and must include the name of the archival group and…
16. Regina and Halina Goldwag papers
2014.426.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.426.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1895-2008
bulk: 1944-1949
… Halina Orlowska, and lodged in the house of her employer, who happened to work with the Polish underground resistance. Regina was able to rent a room…
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 … women survived the war under the false identities of Polish non-Jews Jadwiga and Halina Orlowska. Documents of Halina Goldwag include wartime documents…
17. Zyga Butler papers
2016.507.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.507.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1979
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… distributor. He fought with the Polish Army during the Soviet invasion in September 1939. He was taken prisoner by the Russians at Lwów and taken to Russia…
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 …, medical, and military records documenting Butler’s family, his military service in the Polish Army (Anders Army) during the war, the loss of his wife and…
18. Simcha Dimant papers
1993.34.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.34.13
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1945
… established on April 9, 1941. Symcho was involved in the underground resistance in the ghetto. Symcho escaped the ghetto. Because he spoke German, he was able…
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 …), a Polish Jew. The papers contain a letter written by Simcha Dimant to Hela and Karl Wargon in New York describing the fates of various family members…
19. Zbigniew Antonii Piotrowski papers
2014.469.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2014.469.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1983
… overhead. Within days, the German military marched down their street with no Polish military resistance. Two or three weeks later, Stanislaw and a friend…
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 …s. Languages: Polish, English, German, French Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored offsite. Please contact the Reference…
20. Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers
2004.331.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.331.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1969
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… high school in 1937. She studied architecture at the Noakowski College for women until 1939. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish…
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 … Stanisław’s work as a physician in the Polish underground. Languages: Russian, Polish, German Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use…