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1. Marcel Wolf Zyto papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.172.2
Date:
inclusive: 1926-2009
… the false identity “Marcel Benoît” and joined the resistance. His parents survived the war in hiding. Following the liberation of France in 1944, Marcel…
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 … Marcel Wolf Zyto, who survived the war living under the false name of Marcel or Pierre Benoît in France. Documents include pre-war personal documents…
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2. Mieczyslaw Cegielski papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.197
Date:
creation: 1944
…Zofia (Zosia) Cygielsztrajch was born in Warsaw on January 13, 1925. She lived in the Warsaw Ghetto and survived the mass deportations in the summer…
3. Majdanek: objects of former inmates
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Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2333 | Film ID: 895
Film Title:
Maidanek [Majdanek]
Date:
Event: 1944 July
Production: 1944
Duration:
00:06:43
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…,indicating prisoners from Poland, Holland, France and other countries. CUs, prisoners who survived. Ceremony for the dead. A monument is dedicated; a woman is…
4. Selma Engel papers
1999.A.0201 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 39
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0201
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-1946
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… family survived the war in hiding. Alida, Marthyn, Maurits, and his wife Betje all perished at Auschwitz. Selma avoided deportation to Auschwitz by hiding…
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 … occupation, and Selma's father died of natural causes in 1941. Her brother Abraham married and moved to Utrecht, where his family survived the war in hiding…
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  • Series 1: Selma Engel papers Circa 1926-Circa 1946
5. Sara Szrojt papers
2011.309.2 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2011.309.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1950
bulk: 1941
… railroad, and later worked in a kitchen. Sara survived the labor camp and after the war ended, settled in Wrocław, Poland with Mojżesz Mendel Szust, whom she…
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 … photographs concerning Sara Szrojt, a Polish Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust and detention in a Soviet Union forced labor camp, where she helped build…
6. Abram Bork papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.540.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1947
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… after the war that his uncle Mojsze Bork, and cousins Ichak Bork and Rachela Helfman all survived. The fate of his immediate family remains unknown.…
7. Ajbeszyc family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.171.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-circa 1960
… Sosnowiec ghetto in Srodula, Sura and Daniel were deported to Auschwitz and murdered there. Gerszon was able to survive in the ghetto until December 1943, at…
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 … were deported to Auschwitz and murdered there. Gerszon was able to survive in the ghetto until December 1943, at which time he was smuggled out of the…
8. Epstein family collection
2013.457.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2013.457.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1979
bulk: circa 1920-1947
… Carbonne, France. Though they hid separately throughout the war, both survived.…
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 … Epstein hid her young daughter in Carbonne, France. Though they hid separately throughout the war, both survived. Scope and content of collection The…
9. Forced labor badge worn by a Roman Catholic Polish youth
2014.469.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.469.2
Date:
use: 1944 August-1944 November
…. When the Polish army invaded in cooperation with Allied forces, Stanislaw joined them and eventually went to England, where he survived the war. He then…
10. Inscribed wooden box with painted lid bought by a Roman Catholic Polish former forced laborer
2014.469.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.469.3 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1944 November
…. When the Polish army invaded in cooperation with Allied forces, Stanislaw joined them and eventually went to England, where he survived the war. He then…
11. Organizacje Syjonistyczne (Sygn. 333)
Document | Accession Number: 2012.295 | RG Number: RG-15.254
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1950
Alternate Title:
Zionist Organizations
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
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 …, there is documentation of only some of the parties and organizations that operated in Poland after the war. The biggest collection that survived were…
12. Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Lublin (Sygn. 253)
Document | Accession Number: 2012.289 | RG Number: RG-15.248
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1944
Alternate Title:
Collection of documents from ghettos and camps in Eastern Europe. Lublin = Jewish Council in Lublin
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 … archive, where he was collecting official and private files to document the life of the Jewish quarter and its dwellers3. Survived documentation concerning…
13. Sabina Kurc collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.539.1
Date:
creation: 1926-1950
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 …, and two sons perished in the Holocaust. It is possible that their two daughters survived the war in hiding. 8. Photograph of Jakov Gruber in Warsaw…
14. Frank Siegel papers
2001.206.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2001.206.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1948
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 … Cudyk Zygielman married Erna Bialer in 1951. Bialer had survived Majdanek, Auschwitz and Bergen‐Belsen, spent some time in a displaced persons camp in…
15. Group portrait of Jewish DPs taken at a memorial service commemorating the anniversary of the murder of the Jews of Wlodawa.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 25479
Date:
Circa 1944 - 1948
… sitting in the second row from the bottom, fifth from the left. He was known as Yusha/Yasha, his Polish/Russian names and he survived the camps with his…
16. Thea Borzuk stands in a Lublin courtyard shortly after her liberation.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 45990
Date:
1944
… Kwasniewska. Leon, who had remained in the ghetto, was sent on a deportation train to Treblinka. He managed, however, to jump from the train. He survived the…
17. View of the Trawniki training camp showing two barracks and a watch tower.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 37684
Date:
1941 - 1944
… September 1942. These men included both those who volunteered and those who perceived it was their only chance for survival. Later, Streibel also selected…