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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. Oral history interview with Adam Krakowski
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.4 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0004
Date:
interview: 1946 July 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Płaszów, Wieliczka, Flossenbürg, Colmar, Sachsenhausen, Braunschweig, Ravensbrück, and Ludwigslust concentration camps; his liberation by American troops…
4. Oral history interview with Mendel Herskovitz
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.8 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0008
Date:
interview: 1946 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… encounter with a Jewish-American soldier during Buchenwald's liberation; his brief time in Dachau concentration camp; and his life in France learning the fur…
5. Small leather wallet with buckle used by a teenage girl to hold her diary in a labor camp
2005.349.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.349.3
Date:
use: 1946-1949
…, 1945, by Russian forces. From Kratzau, Julia returned to Łódź and lived in the Helenowek children’s home operated by the American Jewish Joint…
6. Pencil sketch of an older man given to a Jewish refugee in a postwar orphanage
Object | Accession Number: 2005.349.2
Date:
use: 1946-1949
Artwork Title:
Portrait of a Man
…, 1945, by Russian forces. From Kratzau, Julia returned to Łódź and lived in the Helenowek children’s home operated by the American Jewish Joint…
7. Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Organizacji i Kontroli (Sygn. 303/II)
Document | Accession Number: 2013.254 | RG Number: RG-15.283M
Date:
inclusive: 1946-1950
Alternate Title:
Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP). Organization and Control Department
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
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 … assisted with legal emigration. A government-funded body, it was supported financially by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. System of…
8. 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…
9. 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…
10. 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…
11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Foreign press in Warsaw; printing press; film production in Łódź
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Film | Accession Number: 1997.134.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1216 | Film ID: 54
Film Title:
Hodgson's Poland
Date:
Event: October 8-18, 1947
Production: 1947
Duration:
00:09:56
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…JOURNALISTS (AMERICAN)…
12. 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…
13. 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…
14. Abe Fingerhut papers
2013.223.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2013.223.1
Date:
inclusive: 1946-1947
… distant cousins. He worked in a haberdashery. He Americanized his name to Albert Finger. He married in 1949 and had two children. The family settled in…
15. 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…
16. 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…
17. 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…
18. 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
… General Outdoor Advertising Company Inc., and settled in St. Louis, Missouri. The family became U.S. citizens and Americanized their surname to one “n…
19. 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
…, Tadek, and the girls waited for another boat bound for Palestine, but then unexpectedly received American visas. Steffa’s uncle, Rabbi Yisroel Spira, who…
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 …: ‐ I will go to the 'Gestapo" and will try to get him out. After all, he is an American citizen and this should mean something. (At the time, America was…
20. 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
… General Outdoor Advertising Company Inc., and settled in St. Louis, Missouri. The family became U.S. citizens and Americanized their surname to one “n…