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1. Dita Sperling photographs
Document | Accession Number: 1995.98
… school, five months before the start of the war. In the ghetto she and Yehuda lived with her mother, grandfather, brother and aunt. Dita smuggled food…
2. Jürgen Stroop statement
2019.234.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2019.234.1
Date:
creation: 1946 April 26
… and served as a SS commander in occupied Poland. He was charged with overseeing suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 during which he…
3. Krisnapoller family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.27.1
Date:
approximately 1942
… Stanisławów and the Warsaw Ghetto, in addition to photocopies of documents.…
4. Elkhanan Elkes letter
Document | Accession Number: 1999.86
Date:
creation: 1943 October 18-1943 November 11
… in the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto. Born in Kalvarija, Lithuania, Elkes received his medical degree in 1903 in neurology and internal medicine. In 1912, he…
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 …Elkhanan Elkes to his children, 19 October 1943 Translation by Moshe Dor, with corrections by Dr. Joel Elkes, 1997 At Viliampoli Ghetto (Kovno…
5. Felicia Bryn collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.137.1
Date:
inclusive: 1934-circa 1946
… found refuge in the Warsaw ghetto. Bluma's sister, Frajdla Frania Gliksman joined them there. On 22 December 1941 Bluma died of typhus and was buried in…
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 … reads: “To my dear uncle and aunt from Felusia”; dated: c. 1941; location: Warsaw ghetto, Poland .2 Photograph; studio portrait of Jakub Jurek Braun; the…
6. Leszek Grzywaczewski photographs
Document | Accession Number: 1992.38
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1946
…Leszek Grzywaczewski was a firefigher in Warsaw, Poland. He and his unit were called to the burning Warsaw ghetto, but were not allowed to intervene…
7. Szklaniewicz family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2018.295.1
…Contains correspondence and postcards from Aaron Lazar and Manya Szklaniewicz [donor's grandparents] in the Warsaw ghetto to their son Naftali…
8. Mary Berg collection
2014.405.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 2014.405.1
… Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, the family relocated to Warsaw, where they were later forced into the Warsaw Ghetto. Prior to the liquidation of the…
9. Feliks Puterman and Janet Rogowsky collection
Document | Accession Number: 1992.213.4
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1992
bulk: 1939-circa 1944
… experiences. Feliks and his family were forced into the Warsaw ghetto after it was established in October 1940 by the occupying German army. While in the ghetto…
10. Irena Veisaite photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.107
Date:
creation: 1943-circa 1949
…. In August 1941, Irena, her grandparents and an aunt were imprisoned in the Kovno ghetto. With the help of family friends, the Strimaitis family, Irena…
11. Warsaw Ghetto photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2002.221.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
…Warsaw Ghetto photographs…
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 … surrogate grandparents. When the Germans built the Warsaw ghetto wall in 1940, the apartment house at 9 Mirowski Square was divided in two, with the…
12. Hana Wieder collection.
Document | Accession Number: 2000.406.1
Date:
creation: 1929-1956
…; Chaim and Itta Birnbaum in a Soviet labor camp near Konosho, Archangelsk district, USSR; and an aunt, Stefanie Leschizer, in Izbica Lubelska ghetto…
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 … whom she shares her apartment. 10. Postcard written by Stefanie Leschnizer in the Izbica Lubelska ghetto, to her brother Konrad Bodzanowski in Brussels…
13. Michael Garber photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.418.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1916-1940
…Warsaw Ghetto (Warsaw, Poland)…
14. Kielce Ghetto Jewish Welfare Committee photograph album
Document | Accession Number: 2002.473.1
Date:
creation: 1942 January 01
…Kielce Ghetto Jewish Welfare Committee photograph album…
15. "The Story of the Szwarcbard, Cyterszpiler, and Minc Families"
Document | Accession Number: 2010.26 | RG Number: RG-02.240
Date:
publication/distribution: 2009
… the family were able to immigrate, while others were sent to the Warsaw ghetto. Some survived the ghetto, while others either perished in the ghetto or…
16. Oral history interview with David J. Selznick
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.447.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0211
Date:
interview: 1990 September 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; returning to Kaunas in 1936 because he was worried about his mother and sisters; his deportation to the Kaunas ghetto in 1941; performing forced labor until…
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 … ability to survive depends on me only. After a while, the rule came out to go into Kovno ghetto. I, on the other hand, the minute when I heard what happened…
17. Nina Gitler poem
Document | Accession Number: 2014.369.1
Date:
creation: 1942 February
…Consists of one typed poem, dated February 1942, entitled "Kadysz," written by Nina Gitler in the Warsaw Ghetto. In the poem, Gitler, who was sixteen…
18. Michal Klepfisz collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.109
Date:
creation: 1944
… her, Michal, and his family. On October 12, 1940, the Germans established a Jewish ghetto in Warsaw. Michal, Rose, Gina, and their parents were forced…
19. Emanuel Scherer papers
2018.395.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.395.1
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1963
… member of the Bund in Warsaw, Poland, and of Jewish people in Germany and Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, Czechoslovakia, during the Holocaust.…
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 … on the participation of the Jewish Bund in the 1944 Warsaw ghetto uprising by Tomasz Arciszewski (Socialist, Roman Catholic, Prime Minister of Poland…
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20. Ada Feingold papers
2002.56 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2002.56
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1957
…Ada Feingold (1923-2012) was born in Warsaw to Chaim and Ethel Kołodzianska. She survived the Warsaw Ghetto, escaping just before the uprising…
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 …, Washington, DC 20024-2126. Abstract: The Ada Feingold papers include two drafts of her memoirs describing the Warsaw ghetto and uprising, correspondence with…