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1. Pauline Kra papers
1996.67.26 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1996.67.26
Date:
inclusive: circa 1928-1955
… Bartkowska, an American Foreign Service application for non‐immigrant visa for Natalia and Paulina Skornicka, and Polish, Venezuelan, and American…
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 … materials include a Tomaszów Mazowiecki identification card for Natalia Skornicka’s mother Tauba Bartkowska, an American Foreign Service application for non…
2. Joffe family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.183.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1990
… work in his relatives' grocery story. He married Helen Jaffe. Sam Jaffe joined the American military in 1942 and served as part of the occupation of…
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 … United States, where he joined the American Army and spent the last months of the war as part of the American occupation of Paris, France. Includes…
3. A memoir relating to experiences in Łódź, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Neustadt
1995.A.0772 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0772
Date:
creation: 1945 June
… laber at the Sackisch subcamp of Gross-Rosen in an airplane factory. She thanks the American military and all who have been so kind to her after her…
4. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 20 mark note, given to a US soldier by a refugee
2004.660.4 back
Object | Accession Number: 2004.660.4
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 May 15
received: 1945 April
…, with other American and British troops, soon smashed through the Siegfried Line defenses into Germany. Under the command of Major General Emil F…
5. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note, given to a US soldier by a refugee
2004.660.1 back
Object | Accession Number: 2004.660.1
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
received: 1945 April
…, with other American and British troops, soon smashed through the Siegfried Line defenses into Germany. Under the command of Major General Emil F…
6. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 50 mark note, given to a US soldier by a refugee
2004.660.5 back
Object | Accession Number: 2004.660.5
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 May 15
received: 1945 April
…, with other American and British troops, soon smashed through the Siegfried Line defenses into Germany. Under the command of Major General Emil F…
7. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note, given to a US soldier by a refugee
2004.660.2 back
Object | Accession Number: 2004.660.2
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 May 15
received: 1945 April
…, with other American and British troops, soon smashed through the Siegfried Line defenses into Germany. Under the command of Major General Emil F…
8. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 [zehn] mark note, given to a US soldier by a refugee
2004.660.3 back
Object | Accession Number: 2004.660.3
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 May 15
received: 1945 April
…, with other American and British troops, soon smashed through the Siegfried Line defenses into Germany. Under the command of Major General Emil F…
9. 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
…. They could hear combat a few miles away. On April 13, 1945, they were liberated by African American soldiers. Herman was taken back by jeep to the now…
10. Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludności Żydowskiej w Polsce przy Centralnym Komitecie Żydow w Polsce (TOZ), Sygn. 324
Document | Accession Number: 2005.34 | RG Number: RG-15.107M
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1950
Alternate Title:
Health Care Organization of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… financed by OZE and American Joint Distribution Committee (a welfare organization), as well as by many private funders. The president of TOZ was Gerszon…
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 ….ushmm.org 4 krajowymi i zagranicznymi. Z tych ostatnich należy wymienić Unię OSE (Oeuvre de Secour aux Enfants) i Joint (American Joint Distribution Committee…
11. Jerzy and Zofia Flajszman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.155.1
Date:
1920-1950
… Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and in November 1944 she was transferred to Elsing (a sub-camp of Buchenwald). Zofia was wounded during an American…
12. Centralny Komitet Żydow Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Ziomkostw (Sygn. 303/XIX)
Document | Accession Number: 2005.32 | RG Number: RG-15.105M
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1950
Alternate Title:
Central Committee of Jews in Poland. Department of Jewish Compatriot Association
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
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 …. Wydział Ziomkostw American Joint Distribution Committee. Holocaust survivors‐‐Legal status, laws, etc.‐‐Poland. Jews ‐‐ Poland ‐‐ Societies, etc…
13. Concentration camp jacket with a prisoner ID patch worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1990.113.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.113.1
Date:
use: 1944 August-1945 May
… American forces on May 2, 1945, near Bad Tolz, Germany. Benjamin and Leib were reunited with Abram, Anita, and Henrik. They lived in Markt Oberdorf…
14. Max and Sala Webb papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.537.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1961
undated: 
… of his immediate family, only Lola and Isaac survived the Holocaust. Max and Nathan fled the Soviet Occupation Zone for the American Zone. They went…
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 … survived the Holocaust. Max and Nathan fled the Soviet Occupation Zone for the American Zone. They went to the displaced persons camp in Münchberg, Germany…
15. Chaim Kozienicki papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.297.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-1948
… Baltic Sea to Neustadt, Germany. Chaim was liberated there by the American Army in May 1945. He was hospitalized and found to have tuberculosis. The Red…
16. Violin, bows, case and accessories recovered from Łódź ghetto and played in DP camps by a Polish Jewish musician
2010.472.1_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.472.1 a-t
Date:
use: before 1944 August-after 1945 May
recovered: after 1945 February
… milk and food. Henry and four others found a farm and the farmer provided food and shelter. After a few weeks, they left for the American controlled…
17. Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Ziomkostw (Sygn. 303/XIX)
Document | Accession Number: 2013.253 | RG Number: RG-15.282M
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1950
Alternate Title:
Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP) "Landmannschaften" Department
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
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 …-funded body, it was supported financially by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. System of arrangement The system of arrangement of the…
18. 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
… obtain visas from the American Consulate. They left for America in January 1939. Kahn served in the United States Army near the end of World War II. His…
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 … obtain visas from the American Consulate. They left for America in January 1939. Kahn served in the United States Army near the end of World War II. His…
19. 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
… hospital where she worked as a nurse and that Rysia was killed in 1945 during the American Air Force bombing of Berlin, where she was working as a forced…
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 … where she worked as a nurse and that Rysia was killed in 1945 during the American Air Force bombing of Berlin, where she was working as a forced laborer…
20. Violin, bows, case and accessories recovered from Łódź ghetto and played in DP camps by a Polish Jewish musician
2010.472.2_g front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.472.2 a-u
Date:
use: before 1944 August-after 1945 May
recovered: after 1945 February
… milk and food. Henry and four others found a farm and the farmer provided food and shelter. After a few weeks, they left for the American controlled…