The Museum’s Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more. Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center.
…Pabianice is a town in central Poland with 66,265 inhabitants. Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship, it is the capital of Pabianice County. It lies about…
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… for researchers or other institutions requires a written permission of the General Director of the State Archives of the Republic of Poland. Publication…
…Alexander Bartal was born Aleksander Ziser Bicz in 1927 in Pabianice, Poland, to tailor Abram Bicz (b. 1902) and his wife Rozka Rajzl Halberg (b…
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… in Poland and after liberation in Germany, Italy, and Israel. The papers also include photocopies of 1970s correspondence about Folke Bernadotte, Count…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.397.1 | RG Number: RG-90.013.0001
Date:
interview: 1997
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Helen Laks discusses her prewar life with her family in Poland; her experiences in Auschwitz, Ravensbrük, Mauthausen, and Bergen-Belsen concentration…
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… Poland was divided. Ali – were both brothers in the Polish Army. Helen – No, only one brother was in the army. The two other brothers when the war broke…
Judenrat in Pabianice Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty
…Source of acquisition is the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma Poland, Sygn. 262. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
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… Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma Poland, Sygn. 262. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.12 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0012
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… only child; her family being deported to Poland in 1938 because her father had Polish citizenship; living in the Pabianice ghetto and then the Łódź…
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… an only child. Because her father had Polish citizenship, the Nazis deported her family to Poland in 1938. She ended up in the Pabiance ghetto and then…
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…) Court of the First Instance in Pabianice Dates: 1945-1950 Accession number: 2017.268.1 Creator: Poland. Sąd Grodzki w Pabianicach Extent: 353 digital…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.26 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0026
Date:
interview: 1992 April 23 interview: 1992 June 24 interview: 1991 December 19 interview: 1991 November 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Bernard Broclawski, born January 27, 1917, describes his childhood in Pabianice, Poland; how he began to work at 13 to support his family; his…
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…/1991, 4/23 & 6/24/1992 Summary: Four interviews. The first covers his life from birth to the German invasion of Poland in 1939. The second begins with…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.22 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0022
Date:
interview: 1995 December 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sam Pick, born October 27, 1924 in Pabianice, Poland (near Łódź), describes his family’s Orthodox background and his father’s prosperous textile…
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…Interview of Sam Pick Melbourne Holocaust Centre RG-50.407*22 12/27/1995 Sam Pick was born October 27, 1924 in Pavlitze(ph), near Lodz, Poland. Sam…
…Rita Kerner Hilton, born on July 22, 1926 in Warsaw, Poland, discusses her family and childhood; moving to Pabianice, Poland as a young child and…
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… in reformed Judaism, which did not exist in Poland as such. They never kept a kosher home. We did observe holidays. We observed Passover, and he used…
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