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1. Return to life
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0212 | RG Number: RG-02.128
Date:
creation: 1985
… Auschwitz and in a camp in Kraków, Poland, and her liberation.…
2. Anna Grun manuscript
2007.474.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2007.474.1
Date:
creation: 2001
…Anna Grun (born Schmidt or Gleitman) was born in Kraków, Poland. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Anna's family temporarily moved to…
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 … głębokie dołeczki ukazywały się na buzi. Podczas wojny jak cała rodzina matki oni tez opuścili Kraków i w Dąbrowie Tarnowskiej podczas drugiej akcji zostali…
3. Gina Rappaport memoir
2010.50 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2010.50 | RG Number: RG-02.251
Date:
inclusive: 1939 December-1945 April
…Gina Rappaport (later Leitersdorf, 1921-2012) was living with her family in Kraków, Poland, when Germany invaded in September 1939. Gina and her…
4. My story
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0052 | RG Number: RG-02.049
Date:
circa 1986
…Rosa Shoshana Taubamn Budick (later Shoshana Budick) was born in Kraków, Poland, on 29 December 1921. She immigrated to Israel after World War II…
5. "Hidden in broad daylight"
Document | RG Number: RG-02.169
…Describes the author's life in Kraków, Poland; her hiding inside and liquidation of the ghetto in Tarnów, Poland; her separation from family…
6. Józef V. Czarski collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0171 | RG Number: RG-02.149
Date:
creation: circa 1993
…Victor Penzer (1919-1999, false identity Józef Czarski) was born on July 18, 1919 in Kraków, Poland to Jozef Penzer and Rosalia Penzer (née Feldblum…
7. Leo Bach collection
2010.159 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2010.159
Date:
creation: 1973-2009
…Leo Bach (born Leo Silberhach) was born in Krakow, Poland on May 21, 1927 to Jacob and Gitla Silberbach. He had two siblings, Hana Silberbach (Anna…
8. Pauline Buchenholz memoirs
1994.A.0198.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 45
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0198.1
Date:
inclusive: 1983-1991
…Pauline Buchenholz (1913-2001) was born in Przemyśl, Poland to David and Helene Schneider. She lived in Kraków with her parents and her brother…
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 … Buchenholz (1913‐2001) was born in Przemyśl, Poland to David and Helene Schneider. She lived in Kraków with her parents and her brother Henry (b…
9. A memoir relating to experiences in Kraków
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0714
…Rosa Shoshana Taubamn Budick (later Shoshana Budick) was born in Kraków, Poland, on 29 December 1921. She immigrated to Israel after World War II…
10. Zyga Butler papers
2016.507.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.507.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1979
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Zyga Butler was born Zygfryd Berntein in 1903 in Kraków, Poland to Wilhelm and Gustawa (Herzog) Bernstein. He lived in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine…
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 … Schweitzer, February 2018 Biographical note Zyga Butler was born Zygfryd Bernstein in 1903 in Krakow, Poland to Wilhelm and Gustawa (Herzog) Bernstein. He…
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  • Series 1: Zyga Butler papers 1939-1979
    • File 4: Diary 1943-1944
11. "The Life of Alexander Perlberger before, during, and after the Second World War"
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0082 | RG Number: RG-02.040
Date:
creation: 1985
… two sons in a strict Hasidic Jewish family. Her parents owned and operated a small grocery. Her family was in the middle of moving to Kraków, Poland…
12. Itzhak Nachmani papers
2013.491.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 77
Document | Accession Number: 2013.491.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1967
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Itzhak Nachmani was born Ignacy Krzepicki in Krakow, Poland, in 1909. Following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, Krzepicki and his…
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 … Schweitzer, February 2018 Biographical note Itzhak Nachmani was born Ignacy Krzepicki in Krakow, Poland, in 1909. Following the German invasion of Poland in…
13. Henry Weil testimony
Document | Accession Number: 2014.330.1
Date:
creation: 1995-2001
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Kraków--Personal narratives.…
14. Peter Gersh testimony
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0042 | RG Number: RG-02.076.01
Date:
1985
…Kraków (Poland)…
15. Relacje, wspomnienia i materiały żołnierzy Batalionów Chłopskich
Document | Accession Number: 2018.184.1 | RG Number: RG-15.616
Date:
inclusive: 1939-2010
Alternate Title:
Accounts, memories and materials of soldiers from the Peasant Battalions
…Kraków (Poland)--History--20th century.…
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 … Podkarpaciu, Kraków, 1966; II. Major "Ster" - "Lewica Podkarpacka w walce z okupantem" (1939-1944); III. Wybór wierszy Podkarpacie 1939- 1944 no maszynopis…
16. Renée Fodor Schwarz writings
1991.A.0095 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0095
Date:
inclusive: 1984-1994
…Renée Fodor Schwarz (1918-2000) was born Ryfka Issler in Zasów, Poland, not far from Krakow. She was the second youngest of ten children and lost…
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 … poems by Schwarz in which she remembers and reflects on her childhood in Poland, her confinement in the Krakow ghetto and at Auschwitz, and her new life…
17. Bernard Rechnitz memoir
1993.A.0008 Book Enclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0008 | RG Number: RG-02.069.01
Date:
inclusive: 1946-1947
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Kraków (Poland)…
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 …, 1939-1945--Personal narratives. Kraków (Poland) Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Diaries. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm…
18. Erna Fridman manuscript, "The Long Way Home"
2010.426 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2010.426
Date:
creation: 1995
…Erna Fridman was born Ester Shpegtner in 1929 in Kraków, Poland to Moshe (b. in Kraków) and Rachel Shpegtner (b. 1911 in Brzesko). Following the…
19. Eva Baumohl papers
2007.190.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.190.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-2007
…Kraków (Poland)…
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 …) Kraków (Poland) Tel Aviv (Israel) Photographs. CONTAINER LIST Series 1: Biographical materials, approximately 1941‐2007 Box Folder Title…
20. Sam Kornhauser papers
2005.538.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2005.538.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1998
…Jews--Poland--Kraków.…
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 … terms Dachau (Concentration camp). Jews--Poland--Krakow. Jewish ghettos—Poland--Bochnia. False certification--Poland. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945…