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1. Halina Olomucki portrait of a resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 1989.330.3
Date:
creation: 1947
Artwork Title:
Combattant dans le Ghetto de Varsovie, Poland, 1947
Alternate Title:
Fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, 1947
…Halina Olomucki portrait of a resistance fighter…
2. Charles Kotkowsky papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0106 | RG Number: RG-10.045
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1985
…Charles Kotkowsky is a native of Piotrków, Poland. He participated in underground resistance while living in the Piotrków ghetto and was a victim…
3. Warsaw Ghetto photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2002.221.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
… Kostański, both of whom were involved with resistance activities, including hiding three members of the Wierzbicki family. Included with the collection is a…
4. Rose Galek Brunswic papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.285.1 | RG Number: RG-10.061.01
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1989
… a member of the Polish resistance, Brunswic's deportation as a compulsory laborer to Germany and her life working in Germany under an assumed identity…
5. Abraham Lewent papers
1989.242.32 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1989.242.32
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1950
… Ghetto Uprising began. Armed Jews fought deportations, but the Germans crushed the resistance after a month. Abraham and Raphael stayed hidden and saw the…
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 …, and observations about Jewish life in Warsaw, the ghetto, and antifascist resistance. Most are in Yiddish and some are in Polish. System of arrangement…
6. Metal mezuzah found postwar and used by a Polish Jewish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1993.11.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945 January
use: 1945-approximately 1980
… Poland. The city was bombed and the family hid in the basement. Warsaw resisted occupation until September 29. Israel’s son Benjamin got bread from the…
7. Brown tefillin pouch used by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.1
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
… Poland. The city was bombed and the family hid in the basement. Warsaw resisted occupation until September 29. Israel’s son Benjamin got bread from the…
8. Hand tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.3
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
… Poland. The city was bombed and the family hid in the basement. Warsaw resisted occupation until September 29. Israel’s son Benjamin got bread from the…
9. Head tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.2
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
… Poland. The city was bombed and the family hid in the basement. Warsaw resisted occupation until September 29. Israel’s son Benjamin got bread from the…
10. Antoni Stefan Koper and Sophie Koper papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.268.6
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1999
… with the Polish Army after Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. After Warsaw was occupied he joined the Polish Resistance where he helped publish…
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 …: The collection documents the wartime and post-war experiences of Antoni Stefan Koper, an active member of the Polish Resistance during the German…
11. Selected records from State Archives in Warsaw and its branches in Otwock, Mława, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Pułtusk and State Archives in Płock
Document | Accession Number: 2015.48 | RG Number: RG-15.349M
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1950
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…-Jewish land; Gostynin district, lists of the fallen Soviet soldiers and their graves; Resistance in Generalgouvernement (GG),1943-1944; Correspondence and…
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 … the fallen Soviet soldiers and their graves; Resistance in Generalgouvernement (GG),1943-1944; Correspondence and statements of casualties in the…
12. Dedication of the Rapoport monument to the Warsaw ghetto uprising
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Film | Accession Number: 2004.715.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4334 | Film ID: 2746
Film Title:
Rocznica Getta
Date:
Event: 1948 April
Duration:
00:09:30
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… resistance, stands behind the speakers. The monument is unveiled; more speeches follow, including from a man in a Polish military uniform and Sydney Silverman…
13. Memorial ceremony in Warsaw; probably dedication of the Rapoport monument to the Warsaw ghetto uprising
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Film | Accession Number: 2004.715.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4455 | Film ID: 2746
Film Title:
Rocznica Getta
Date:
Event: April 1948?
Duration:
00:02:36
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… Grosman, a Jewish woman from Bialystok, who was active in the resistance and who after the war became a member of the Central Committee of Polish Jews. The…
14. Brick rubble recovered from the Warsaw Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.294.1
Date:
recovered: after 1945 May-circa 1990
commemoration: 1940 October-1943 May
… inside the ghetto. On April 19, 1943, Jewish resistance groups within the ghetto fought back against the scheduled liquidation, using hundreds of…
15. Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers
2004.331.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.331.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1969
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, Mr. Essweig rented a house in Bielany for his employees, and Wiera and Frida each got a room. A member of the underground resistance, Dr. Avigdor…
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 …, Mr. Essweig rented a house in Bielany for his employees, and Wiera and Frida each got a room. A member of the underground resistance, Dr. Avigdor…
16. Ada Feingold papers
2002.56 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2002.56
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1957
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 …)--Poland--Warsaw. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland--Warsaw. Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943. http://collections…
17. UJA/JDC appeal for relief for Jewish DPs
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Film | Accession Number: 2000.621.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2632 | Film ID: 2296
Film Title:
Battle For Survival
Date:
Event: 1945
Production: 1946
Duration:
00:59:02
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…RESISTERS/RESISTANCE…
18. Ritz of Paris lipstick case used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.16 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.16
Date:
use: 1940-1947
… Berlin, along with her aunt. She was assigned to work in the Schwartzkopf ammunition factory. In September 1944, Irena joined the underground resistance…
19. Red plaid handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.5
Date:
use: 1940-1947
… Berlin, along with her aunt. She was assigned to work in the Schwartzkopf ammunition factory. In September 1944, Irena joined the underground resistance…
20. Red drawstring pouch used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.6
Date:
use: 1940-1947
… Berlin, along with her aunt. She was assigned to work in the Schwartzkopf ammunition factory. In September 1944, Irena joined the underground resistance…