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1. Studio portrait of Hieronim (Flora) Sabala, a member of the Polish resistance.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 80913
Date:
1939
…Studio portrait of Hieronim (Flora) Sabala, a member of the Polish resistance.…
2. Members of the Zoska battalion of the Armia Krajowa in action during the 1944 Polish resistance uprising.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 80908
Date:
1944 August 05
…Members of the Zoska battalion of the Armia Krajowa in action during the 1944 Polish resistance uprising.…
3. Identification card photograph of Wladyslaw Swietochowski, a Polish resistance fighter with the Armia Ludowa [People's Army], who helped Lodzia Hamersztajn reach Jewish partisans in the Wyszkow Forest.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 17912
Date:
1944
…Identification card photograph of Wladyslaw Swietochowski, a Polish resistance fighter with the Armia Ludowa [People's Army], who helped Lodzia…
4. In memory of the Polish Jews
1988.185 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.185 | RG Number: RG-03.002.01
Date:
creation: 1983
…In memory of the Polish Jews…
5. Luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish survivor
2014.426.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.4
Date:
use: 1946 May 10-1946 May 20
… August 1, 1944, the Polish Home Army (also known as the underground resistance) began fighting against the German occupiers, in a battle that became known…
6. Forced labor badge worn by a Roman Catholic Polish youth
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Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.4
Date:
use: 1944 August-1945 May 03
…Forced labor badge worn by a Roman Catholic Polish youth…
7. Luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish survivor
2014.426.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.5
Date:
use: 1946 May 10-1946 May 20
… Halina Orlowska, and lodged in the house of her employer, who happened to work with the Polish underground resistance. Regina was able to rent a room…
8. Forced labor badge worn by a Roman Catholic Polish youth
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Object | Accession Number: 2014.469.2
Date:
use: 1944 August-1944 November
… overhead. Within days, the German military marched down their street with no Polish military resistance. Two or three weeks later, Stanislaw and a friend…
9. Our Lady of Czestochowa medal given to a Polish Jewish woman hiding as a Catholic laborer
1988.154.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.154.2
Date:
received: 1943 June
commemoration: 1932
… Polish Catholic named Maria Kowalczyk from the Polish underground. Jan Majewski, a resistance member, hid Raszka in his refugee camp for displaced Polish…
10. White cloth armband worn by a Roman Catholic Polish firefighter in Warsaw
2014.450.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.3
Date:
use: 1939 September 27-1944 August 07
…White cloth armband worn by a Roman Catholic Polish firefighter in Warsaw…
11. Envelope fragment with two stamps acquired by a Roman Catholic Polish youth
2014.450.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.5
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May
issue: 1943 September 01
…Envelope fragment with two stamps acquired by a Roman Catholic Polish youth…
12. Table knife with a swastika given to a Polish Jewish girl during forced labor farm service
1988.154.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.154.1
Date:
manufacture: 1938
received: 1945 April
… resistance member, hid Raszka in his refugee camp for displaced Polish people. In June, she was sent to Karl Beck's farm in Krummhardt for forced labor. As…
13. 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
… overhead. Within days, the German military marched down their street with no Polish military resistance. Two or three weeks later, Stanislaw and a friend…
14. Public transport pass and identification tag issued to a Roman Catholic Polish youth
2014.450.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.2
Date:
issue: 1944 July
…Public transport pass and identification tag issued to a Roman Catholic Polish youth…
15. German Rentenbank, 1 Rentenmark note, acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor
2014.426.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.3
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
… Halina Orlowska, and lodged in the house of her employer, who happened to work with the Polish underground resistance. Regina was able to rent a room…
16. Forced laborer identification badge worn by a Polish Jewish woman using a false identity
2014.426.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.2
Date:
use: 1944 December 15-1945 April
… Halina Orlowska, and lodged in the house of her employer, who happened to work with the Polish underground resistance. Regina was able to rent a room…
17. Polish Order of Virtuti Militari 5th Class Silver medal awarded posthumously to a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising hero
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Object | Accession Number: 1994.109.1 a-b
Date:
issue: 1944 February 18
received: 1946
…Medals, Polish (lcsh)…
18. Recollections of a Polish Holocaust survivor
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0038 | RG Number: RG-02.075.01
Date:
creation: 1992
…Contains information about the early life of Mieczyslaw Paul Makowski (a Polish Christian) in Poland; his participation in the Polish resistance…
19. Maria Rose memoir
2014.66.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 109
Document | Accession Number: 2014.66.1
Date:
inclusive: 1986-1987
… invading forces. In September 1941, Maria was forced into the Bialystok ghetto, where she joined the resistance. In early 1942, Maria heard from her father…
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 … extended family and school friends, as well those as in the Communist Association of Polish Youth, of which she was a member. She describes her pre‐war…
20. Oral history interview with Ted Martin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.159.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0792
Date:
interview: 2015 January 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ted Martin (né Tadeusz Rapczynski) describes being a Polish resistance fighter in the Warsaw ghetto; a soldier in the Home Army (Armia Krajowa); and…