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1. A sign bearing the motto of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski: "Our only path [to survival] is [through] work!" in German and Yiddish.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 65721
Date:
1940 - 1944
…A sign bearing the motto of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski: "Our only path [to survival] is [through] work!" in German and Yiddish.…
2. Jakubowicz family photographs
2004.466 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 2004.466
Date:
1937-1948
… Jakubowicz family, three perished, two survived in hiding, one survived Auschwitz, and Mania Jakubowicz Gryniewicz, the donor, fled with her husband to the…
3. Tenzer family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.149.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2020
…, later Melvin Tenzer) and Lea (16 June 1901-19 January 1980, née Telerman, later Lillian Tenzer) Tenczer. The family survived the Holocaust in the Łódź…
4. John and Barbara Helman papers
2006.165.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2006.165.2
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1951
…, Laja (married name Pakin), survived the war. He traveled to the Bergen‐Belsen displaced persons camp to find his sister and also found Bronia Wiewióra…
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 … biographical materials and photographs documenting the Helman and Wiewióra families from Łódź, John and Barbara’s survival of the Łódź ghetto, John’s survival of…
5. Anatol and Alexandra Gorko papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.610.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1948
… Auschwitz. Anatol and his brother-in-law survived selection, but his mother, wife, child, and sisters all perished at Auschwitz. In September 1944 he was…
6. 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
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… laborer. The surviving members of the family traveled around Europe and eventually settled in the Düppel displaced persons camp near Berlin. There, Fryderyk…
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 …. The surviving members of the family traveled around Europe and eventually settled in the Düppel displaced persons camp near Berlin. There, Fryderyk met…
7. Michal Salomonczyk photographs
Document | Accession Number: 1998.167.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1946
… daughters: Lili Markowicz Brun and Mira Markowicz. Paweł Markowicz perished in Treblinka. His two daughters survived in hiding. 2. Herman Salomończyk, born…
8. Lena Lipchiz papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.445.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1946
…’s half brother Isaac survived forced labor in Russia and spent time in the UNRRA displaced persons camp at Grugliasco after the war.…
9. Ruth Eldar photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2005.304.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1946
…-Birkenau concentration camp. She was immediately separated from her family and survived a bout of typhus. In the fall of 1944, Rutka was transferred to…
10. Ruth Eldar photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2005.313.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1954
…-Birkenau concentration camp. She was immediately separated from her family and survived a bout of typhus. In the fall of 1944, Rutka was transferred to…
11. Dorota Grinberg papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.214.1
Date:
inclusive: 1911-1947
… South Africa, before the war. Wolf and his wife, Karola, survived the war in the USSR. Arthur survived the war in hiding, but his first wife, Sala, and…
12. 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
13. Krieger and Frankel families photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2016.313.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1958
… left for dead, but survived thanks to a villager that found her and treated her wounds. After the war was over, Nacha went back to Łódź, where she was…
14. Jerzy and Zofia Flajszman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.155.1
Date:
1920-1950
… forced into the Łódź ghetto. His father, Symcha, escaped to the Soviet Union where he survived World War II. Czarna Chawa and Chaja Sura Flajszman…
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 … he survived the war. Chana Kolczycka, perished in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. Marcus Kolczycki died in Łódź, Poland in 1932. Lisa…
15. Akta Miasta Łodzi Zarząd Miejski. Wydział do Spraw Getta (Sygn. 221)
Document | Accession Number: 2007.255 | RG Number: RG-15.127M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Alternate Title:
Records of the Stadtverwaltung Litzmannstadt, Ghettoverwaltung
Records of the Łódź City Council Ghetto Administration
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Source of acquisition is the Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi, Sygn. 221. Documents of the Ghettoverwaltung Litzmannstadt survived thanks to the fact that…
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 … Państwowe w Łodzi, Sygn. 221. Documents of the Ghettoverwaltung Litzmannstadt survived thanks to the fact that Łódź was not considerable damaged during the…
16. Bella and Benjamin Herson papers
1999.106.27 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1999.106.27
Date:
inclusive: circa 1907-2006
… liberated by the Red Army. Benjamin returned to Łódź, where he found no surviving family members. He met Bella Sztajnhorn, who was from Zdunska Wola. They…
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 … Łódź ghetto in March 1940. Bella and her sister Róza survived the Łódź ghetto where Bella worked in the Marysin orphanage and then the Schwachstrom…
17. 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
… Heinrich, a tinsmith, born in 1864 in Kobiernice, and Sophie Rosenblum, born in 1856 in Czaniec. He lived in a modest home with three surviving siblings…
18. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
2007.45.43 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.45.43
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
found: approximately 1944 July
… army and, through them, cabled Bolivia to tell Gustav’s sisters that they had survived. Prior to the war, his sister, Gerda, had married Dr. Robert…
19. Yellow cloth Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center
2007.45.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.45.14
Date:
found: approximately 1944 July
… army and, through them, cabled Bolivia to tell Gustav’s sisters that they had survived. Prior to the war, his sister, Gerda, had married Dr. Robert…
20. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
2007.45.30 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.45.30
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
found: approximately 1944 July
… army and, through them, cabled Bolivia to tell Gustav’s sisters that they had survived. Prior to the war, his sister, Gerda, had married Dr. Robert…