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.
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Polish Communist Party. Central Jewish Office…
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…Page 1 Komunistyczna Partia Polski (KPP). Centralne Biuro Żydowskie (Sygn.158) Polish Communist Party. Central Jewish Office RG-15.342 United States…
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Posters, ordinances and proclamations issued and disseminated in Poland, dating from the inter-war period, the German occupation and the Communist…
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…‐2126 Abstract: Posters, ordinances and proclamations from the inter‐war period, German occupation and the Communist regime. Languages…
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Contains a variety of records of the Soviet governmental and Communist Party regional administration on Jewish communities of the Vinnytsia region…
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… administration (Soviet and Communist Party) related to the history of the Jewish communities of the Vynnitsia (Vinnitsa) region, including most of its districts…
… underground and partisan group activities, persecution and extermination of Polish Jews, activities of communists, situations on the war front, and situations…
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… underground and partisan group activities, persecution and extermination of Polish Jews, activities of communists, situations on the war front, and situations…
… executed. His family was active in the Polish Communist Party and he became a member in May 1925. When he emigrated to France in the late 1920’s, he…
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…, into a family of 8 children, 4 of whom were deported or executed. His family was active in the Polish Communist Party and he became a member in May 1925…
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Szymon Zachriasz (1900-1970) was a Polish-Jewish communist, politician and author, a member of the Po'alei Zion since 1918. In the years 1927-1938…
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… Union of Jewish Workers--Po Folks-Sztyme. Jewish communists--Poland--History--20th century. Political parties--Poland--History--20th century. Communism…
Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5038 | Film ID: 3376, 3377, 3378, 3379, 3380, 3381, 3382
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Hersh Smolar
Date:
Event: September or October 1979 Production: 1985
Duration:
01:54:00
…-speaking Communist groups in Moscow. Smolar served as a Comintern agent in Poland from 1928 to 1939; twice arrested, he spent six years in prison. After…
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