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1. Head tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.2
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
…Head tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding…
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2. Hand tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.3
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
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3. Brown tefillin pouch used by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.1
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
…Brown tefillin pouch used by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding…
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4. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 … ghettos--Europe. Jewish ghettos--Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj) Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Będzin. Jewish ghettos…
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5. Ratafia family papers
2005.198.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.198.1
Date:
inclusive: 1871-2011
bulk: circa 1930-1964
…. Lazarz Ludwig Ratafia (1915-1984) was born in Warsaw, Poland to Kopel and Elka Ratafia. He had one brother, Gaston, and one sister, Zosia. Lazarz…
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 … States. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland. Geography: Vilnius (Lithuania) Warsaw (Poland) Paris (France) Genre/Form: Photographs. CONTAINER LIST Series…
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6. 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
… Germans decreed the establishment of a Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, and required all Jewish residents from the city and surrounding towns relocate there by…
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 …. Rosenberg, Halina, 1918-2013. Corporate: Marine Flasher (Ship) Topical Subject: Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945…
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7. Lila Lam Nowakowska papers
1991.102.21 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1991.102.21 | RG Number: RG-09.079
Date:
inclusive: circa 1933-2007
bulk: circa 1933-1952
…, brother, and uncle, and they escaped the Stanislawów ghetto in 1942. Using false papers, Lila went to Warsaw, Poland, and lived under an assumed identity…
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 …’k. Jewish ghettos‐‐Ukraine‐‐ Ivano‐Frankivs’k. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Ukraine. Identification cards‐‐Forgeries‐‐Poland. Hiding places‐‐Poland…
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8. Joan Kent Finkelstein family papers
2009.376.1 front
Document | Accession Number: 2009.376.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2013
… Jerzy’s family in Poland also perished, including 37 first cousins. Nadzieja’s eldest brother, Leon, died of disease in the Warsaw Ghetto in August 1940…
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 …)  Series 3: Photographic materials, approximately 1920‐1941 Indexing terms Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw‐‐Correspondence. Jewish…
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  • Series 1: Biographical materials 1928-Approximate 2013 [On Campus Only]
    • File 2: Klein, Nadzieja, University of Warsaw diploma 1928 [On Campus Only]
      • File 3: Klein, Nadzieja, material accompanying University of Warsaw diploma Approximate 2013 [On Campus Only]
      9. Herman Taube papers
      1992.A.0081.2 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 9
      Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0081.2
      Date:
      inclusive: 1934-2012
      … attended, exhibits at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, and Warsaw, Poland. Printed material includes clippings about Herman Taube, reviews of his work…
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       … Generation to Generation, approximately 1995 3.19 Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - 57 years later, 2000 3.20 In Commemoration of the Murdered Jewish…
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      10. Julius Kühl collection
      1988.003 Box 6 Folder 23 Image 1
      Document | Accession Number: 1988.003 | RG Number: RG-27.001
      Date:
      inclusive: 1929-1982
      … Hungary; the Jewish resistance in France; the life of internees in camps; the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; Auschwitz; and Jewish rescue efforts. The postwar…
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       … include detailed descriptions of Jewish life in Poland, Romania, and Hungary; the Jewish resistance in France; the life of internees in camps; the Warsaw…
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      11. Adam and Roma Zandel papers
      2005.545.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 1
      Document | Accession Number: 2005.545.1
      Date:
      inclusive: 1906-1985
      bulk: 1920-1946
      … at Warsaw University. In September 1939, at the time of the German invasion of Poland, the Kleczewska’s and their extended family drove in several…
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       … assimilated Jewish family, and later studied archeology at Warsaw University. In September 1939, at the time of the German invasion of Poland, the Kleczewska…
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      12. Radzinowicz family papers
      2014.213.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
      Document | Accession Number: 2014.213.1
      Date:
      inclusive: 1926-1984
      …, however, they were forced to move into the newly-constituted Jewish ghetto, where Zofia was assigned to work as a seamstress in a factory making uniforms…
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       … wartime correspondence from Zofia Radzinowicz’s sister, Estera Rozenberg, sent from the Warsaw ghetto and from a French internment camp. Languages…
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      13. Dark brown whetstone used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
      2004.523.6 front
      Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.6
      Date:
      use: 1928-1980
      … retrieved the items and returned to the camp. The family was deported to Warsaw and told they must move into the ghetto. Simon refused and the family took a…
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      14. Richard Schifter family papers
      2016.502.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 17
      Document | Accession Number: 2016.502.1
      Date:
      inclusive: 1909-1994
      bulk: 1939-1948
      …?) Schifter, both of whom were originally from Poland. Paul, who was from Stanisławow (modern day Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine), originally had citizenship in the…
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       … and later in Poland. When he was stationed in Lublin in 1916, he met Bajla (Balbina) Blass, whose parents had previously owned a farm near Warsaw prior…
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      15. Straight razor with an offwhite plastic handle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
      2004.523.5 closed
      Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.5
      Date:
      use: 1928-1980
      … retrieved the items and returned to the camp. The family was deported to Warsaw and told they must move into the ghetto. Simon refused and the family took a…
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      16. Salomon Slowes papers
      2002.477.10 Oversize Folder 2 Image 8
      Document | Accession Number: 2002.477.10
      Date:
      inclusive: circa 1900-2003
      … Tauba Czarny. After the German invasion, her family was forced into the Warsaw ghetto. Mira escaped in 1943 and survived the war in the Aryan side of…
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       … tag (2002.477.2), a British 8th Army sleeve badge worn by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps (2002.477.3), a Heroes Warsaw badge (2002.477.4), a…
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      17. Norbert Wollheim papers
      Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
      Date:
      inclusive: circa 1900-1998
      …Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
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       … Digest, 1951 18.21 World Jewish Congress Press Surveys, 1951-1979 18.22 World Jewish Congress – Isaac I. Schwarzbart, The Story of the Warsaw Ghetto…
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      18. Frederick Weinstein papers
      2008.321.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 2
      Document | Accession Number: 2008.321.1
      Date:
      inclusive: 1940-1999
      bulk: 1944-1947
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      …Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.…
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       …‐‐Poland‐‐Łódź. Holocaust survivors‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw. Jewish ghettos‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw. Hiding places‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945…
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      19. Lista Family papers
      2017.522.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 9
      Document | Accession Number: 2017.522.1
      Date:
      inclusive: circa 1910-1992
      bulk: 1945-1956
      … II, his sister Shoshana immigrated to Palestine. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the family briefly went to Warsaw before returning to…
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       …. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the family briefly went to Warsaw before returning to Góra Kalwaria. They were deported to the Góra Kalwaria…
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      20. Charles Kotkowsky papers
      Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0106 | RG Number: RG-10.045
      Date:
      inclusive: 1940-1985
      …Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.…