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1. Zakłady karne w Łodzi (Sygn.198)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.40 | RG Number: RG-15.345M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Alternate Title:
German prisoners in Łódź
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… one, and whether a prisoner was released or executed). The files relate to the following prisons: 1. Police Prison (Gestapo) on 16 Sterlinga St…
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 … such data as the first and last name, date of arrest, relocation from one prison or camp to another one, and whether a prisoner was released or executed…
2. Joanna Raplewska collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.303.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1944
…, Schwind, a deputy to the administrator of the ghetto, ordered a roll of the labor camp. Worried there would be an execution, Julian used his key to the…
3. Wolf Baumgarten papers
1999.116 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.116
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1969
… his parents and four brothers: Izak, Mosze, Benzion, and Jakub. His fifth brother, Szlomo, moved to the Soviet Union where he was executed in 1937…
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 … Łódź with his parents and four brothers: Izak, Mosze, Benzion, and Jakub. His fifth brother, Szlomo, moved to the Soviet Union where he was executed in…
4. White patch with prisoner number 82609 worn by German Jewish inmate
1995.A.0274.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0274.2
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1945 May
… and Latvians took their belongings. They lived 10 to a vermin infested room with no food. There were frequent selections for mass executions. Hermann…
5. Mendel Grossman photograph collection
2005.214.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 57
Document | Accession Number: 2005.214.2
Date:
inclusive: 1919-circa 1970
… secretly photograph and document the daily lives of ghetto inhabitants, including starving families, deportations, Zionist youth movements, executions, and…
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 … movements, executions, and the overall worsening conditions of the camp. He printed and distributed as many prints as he could. Shortly before the ghetto was…
6. Nachman Zonabend papers
1993.143.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1993.143.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1946
… Germans, forced to walk to Pszczyna, escaped execution, returned to Łódź , and was forced into the ghetto in 1940. He worked in the ghetto post office and…
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 … in 1936. He tried to escape to Warsaw in 1939, but he was captured by Germans, forced to walk to Pszczyna, escaped execution, returned to Łódź , and…
7. Pen and ink drawing by David Friedmann of Jews hauling waste in the Ghetto given postwar to a fellow former resident
1993.126.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.126.1
Date:
depiction: 1942
creation: 1942
received: 1950 June 16
Artwork Title:
1942 Ghetto Łódź
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
8. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of two Jewish couples and their children huddled on a Ghetto street
1993.165.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.165.2
Date:
creation: 1963
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Hunger im Łódźer Ghetto 1941 - 1945
Alternate Title:
Hunger in Łódź Ghetto
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
9. Small white bag with a button saved from the coat of a young Jewish girl deported to Auschwitz
1993.27.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.5
Date:
use: 1940-1942
received: 1945 June
… day, a Belgian girl was caught trying to escape. All the inmates were called to see her execution by hanging; someone slipped her a razor blade and she…
10. Radzinowicz family papers
2014.213.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2014.213.1
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1984
… retreat. Anatol, knowing that such prisoners would likely be executed when their work was finished, managed to narrowly escape from the prison—shot by the…
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 … Germans to hide the evidence of these atrocities before their retreat. Anatol, knowing that such prisoners would likely be executed when their work was…
11. Autobiographical tempera painting by David Friedmann of two men pumping water in the Łódź Ghetto
1988.173.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.1 a-c
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1941 October-1944 March
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Pumping Water in Łódźer Ghetto
Alternate Title:
Two Łódź Ghetto Inmates On A Water Pump
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
12. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a mother with two children in Lodzer Ghetto
1988.173.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.3
Date:
creation: 1964 January
depiction: approximately 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Mother with Two Children
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
13. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of newcomers to the Łódź Ghetto pulling a carriage
1988.173.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.4
Date:
creation: 1964 January 04
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Newcomers to the Ghetto
Alternate Title:
2 Horseman pulling a carriage in Lodzer Ghetto
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
14. Nachman Zonabend collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.152 | RG Number: RG-67.019M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
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 … responsible for “orderly execution of anti-epidemic measures in the Jewish quarter.” The disinfection equipment should be kept in working order. 1940 Apr. 10…
15. Przełożony Starszeństwa Żydow w Getcie Łódzkim
Document | Accession Number: 2000.126 | RG Number: RG-15.083M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
Alternate Title:
Der Aelteste der Juden vom Litzmannstadt-Getto
The elders of the Jews in the Łódź ghetto
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
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 … groups (chronicle of Zionist youth group), “Chzit Dor Boej Midlar.” Minutes from meeting, “Hanhagi” Hanjaga‐Executive‐Legistlative Insitute…
16. Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Schrimm (Sygn.72)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0081 | RG Number: RG-15.012M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
inclusive: 1939-1945
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 … concerning the sale of alcoholic beverages. 1942 - 1943. 34 pages. 51 Orders and instructions concerning execution of control of measuring instruments. 1942…
17. Szyfra Majranc papers
2005.218.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 36
Document | Accession Number: 2005.218.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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 … not only the executioner who is the murderer but also the one who puts the victim in his hands…Please understand. Marysia was sobbing quietly. I told…
18. Polizeipräsident Litzmannstadt (Sygn. 891)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.59 | RG Number: RG-15.370
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1951
Alternate Title:
Prezydent Policji w Łódzi
Selected records of the Police President Office in Łódź
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
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 … executive organs of the Polizeipräsidium Litzmannstadt were: the protection police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) and the auxiliary police (Hilfspolizei, Hipo), also…
19. Records of the Gestapo in Łódź
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0037 | RG Number: RG-15.002M
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1944
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
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 …) (Defenders of Poland) organization; goals and instructions included. Lists of arrested and executed 18 members of the OP during 1940-1941. Copies of the OP…
20. Hans Biebow, the German head of the Lodz ghetto administration, at his birthday celebration.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 74504A
Date:
December 1942
… to Germany. After the war he was tried by a Polish court in Lodz, sentenced to death and executed in 1947.…