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1. Irene Engelman correspondence
2003.3 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 2003.3
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1946
…The Irene Engelman correspondence includes letters to Engelman and her husband in New York from her parents, sister and brother-in-law, and…
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 …‐1941 and 1946. The collection includes letters to Irene Engelman and her husband in New York from her parents, sister and brother‐in‐law, and…
2. Irena Cymerman Wojcik collection
Document | Accession Number: 1991.229.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1933-1961
… because it was already within the confines of the ghetto. In June 1941 Irena and her sister Ala snuck out of the Warsaw ghetto and went to Ala's in-laws in…
3. Zofia Wróblewska photograph collection
2000.616.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2000.616.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1960
… her sister, Sabina Rozental Wójcikiewicz (1916-1941). Photographs include pre-war family portraits, copies of documents related to her brother-in-law…
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 …). Photographs include pre‐war family portraits, copies of documents related to her brother‐in‐law, Ludwik Wójcikiewicz, who was killed in the Warsaw ghetto…
4. German occupation records from the Archive of New Records, Poland (Syg 1335)
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0032 | RG Number: RG-15.008M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
… the ground of the Act on National Archival Records and Archives of July 14, 1983, Journal of Law, (Dziennik Ustaw) No 38, 1983.07.19 with later changes…
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 … “Jewish Question,” anti‐Soviet propaganda, resistance movements, executions, and the special handling of Jews. System of Arrangement The system of…
5. 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
… statements of casualties in the Ciechanowskie region, the lists of burned villages; Files relating to Romanies, Russians and Jews; Lists of victims of Nazism…
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 … Ciechanowskie region, the lists of burned villages; Files relating to Romanies, Russians and Jews; Lists of victims of Nazism (Full details of the victim; briefly…
6. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.22.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1911-1983
bulk: 1930-1948
… earned a law degree from Warsaw University in 1937. While he lived in Warsaw, Ilutovich was active in the Zionist movement. After the German invasion of…
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 … Jankiel and Lea (née Plotycher). He graduated from the University of Poland in 1932 and earned a law degree from Warsaw University in 1937. While he lived…
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
…‐law Charlotte Lam, children at the Jewish orphanage where her mother worked in Chorzów after the war. This series includes Mauthausen mug shots of Lila…
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 … mother Dorota, her brother Henryk, her cousin Hugo, Dorota’s sister‐in‐law Charlotte Lam, children at the Jewish orphanage where her mother worked in…
8. Urząd Śledczy M. St. Warszawy (Sygn.1642)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.153.1 | RG Number: RG-15.378
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1948
Alternate Title:
Selected records of the Investigation Office of the Capital City of Warsaw
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…The collection contains approximately two thousand personal files of Jews suspected or accused of various crimes (e.g. thieves, crooks, forgers, etc…
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 … two thousand personal files of Jews suspected or accused of various crimes (e.g. thieves, crooks, forgers, etc.) listed by the Investigation Office in…
9. 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
…Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--History--19th century.…
10. Ike Diamond papers
2009.107.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2009.107.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1946
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, persecution of Jews, Star of David armbands, poverty and starvation in the ghetto, charitable efforts within the ghetto, liquidation, the Warsaw ghetto uprising…
11. Kim family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.360.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1983
bulk: 1929-1941
… early 1930s Max joined the Berliner Zionistiche Vereinigung (The Berlin Zionist Association) with his brother-in-law Chaim Korngold. In 1936 Max…
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 … Jews who lived in Berlin, Germany with their daughter Betty before immigrating to the United States in 1937. Included are biographical materials…
12. Sąd Wojewódzki dla Województwa Warszawskiego (Sygn. GK 318)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.41 | RG Number: RG-15.346M
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1959
Alternate Title:
Provincial Court for Warsaw Province
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… committed against Jews by Germans, Poles, and other nationalities during the Nazi occupation.…
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 …. Jews--Crimes against--Poland--Warsaw--Registers. Polish people--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland- Warsaw (Poland)--Politics and government--1945-1980…
13. 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
… only Jews at their public school, and they experienced some antisemitism. Although she learned about Jewish history in school, she did not receive a…
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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…
14. Tabaczyński and Asz families papers
1999.312.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.312.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1947
…. She and other Jews hiding in the bunker, altogether 25 people, were able to escape from the ghetto on April 30 by bribing a German soldier. Gina and…
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 … concealed in a bunker built by her boyfriend, Bolesław Szenfeld, on the grounds of the Schultz factory. She and other Jews hiding in the bunker, altogether 25…
15. Leonard Lief correspondence
1995.A.0304 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 50
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0304
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1947
undated: 
… included sister-in-law Mina Liwszyc, nephews Motek Szkolnikow and Ryszard (Rysza) Liwszyc, niece Irena (Irka) Ryger, and her husband Dawid Ryger. All are…
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 … in Warsaw included sister‐in‐law Mina Liwszyc, nephews Motek Szkolnikow and Ryszard (Rysza) Liwszyc, niece Irena (Irka) Ryger, and her husband Dawid…
16. Lindenbaum and Landau families collection
2006.226.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2006.226.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1945
… deportation by holding a raincoat and standing between Lutek’s sister Renia and brother-in-law Michal Landau. Three days later, on September 9, 1942, Rutka gave…
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 … ghetto. Despite being nine months pregnant Rutka avoided deportation by holding a raincoat and standing between Lutek’s sister Renia and brother-in-law…
17. 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
…, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, and authorities throughout the country quickly began suppressing the rights of Jews and boycotting their…
18. Szliferstejn and Mitelsbach family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.486.1 | RG Number: RG-10.248
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1943
…Jews--Persecutions--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 … “Dear Jozek!” from “Your devoted brother and brother-in-law D. Szliferstein,” Warsaw, 26 December, 1940. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference…
19. White handkerchief pouch with gnomes carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.8
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, and authorities throughout the country quickly began suppressing the rights of Jews and boycotting their…
20. Konspiracyjne archiwum getta Warszawskiego : Archiwum Ringelbluma
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0229 | RG Number: RG-15.079M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1943
Alternate Title:
Underground archives of the Warsaw Ghetto : Ringelblum Archives
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… archives were the "Notes," chronicles of events written by Ringelblum from Sept. 1939. On the basis of that documentation, a great history of Polish Jews…
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 … shtetl, author’s wife, son, and father-in-law perished, 4.09.1939), return to Piotrków, repressive actions against Jews (mass executions, thefts, beating…