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1. When the living envied the dead
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0258 | RG Number: RG-02.165
Date:
undated: 
… reunion with her sister in Poland; their escape to the American Zone of Occupation of Germany; the Feldafing displaced persons camp; and their emigration to…
2. 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…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. Celia Rothstein Elbaum collection
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0185
… journey by cattle car to Berlin, Germany, from which she and a few other prisoners escaped during an American bombing raid. She lived in the woods until…
6. Israel Berkenwald memoir
1995.A.0683 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0683
… transferred on through the camp system and was imprisoned at various satellite camps of Neuengamme. In May 1945 Israel was liberated by American forces at the…
7. Olga Lax papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.349.1
…, 1945, by Russian forces. From Kratzau, Julia returned to Łódź and lived in the Helenowek children’s home operated by the American Jewish Joint…
8. 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…
9. 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…
10. Lewinski and Rubin families photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2003.216.1
… and got divorced. She met an American man while in Israel and remarried. They immigrated to the United States and her mother Tola joined them in 1982.…
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. 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…
14. 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…
15. 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…
16. Bernard Lee papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0039 | RG Number: RG-10.064.01
… barracks, and then hiding amongst other prisoners. The American army liberated him on May 8, 1945. After a few days, he went on his own to Munich and…
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. 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…