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451. Oral history interview with Mayer Frenkel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.96 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0096
Date:
interview: 1996 September 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.…
452. Oral history interview with Samuel Makower
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.41 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0041
Date:
interview: 1988 August 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… September 1, 1939 with his family to Warsaw and then to Bialystok, Poland; life under the Russian occupation; being offered contracts to work in the Ural…
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 … restrictions Hol Arch D 810.J4 G7 no. 82 SUMMARY Samuel Makower, born January 6, 1922 in Przasnysz, Poland, where he attended a cheder and public school…
453. "Escape from Hitler's clutches"
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0210 | RG Number: RG-02.139
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.…
454. Bertl
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0217 | RG Number: RG-02.131
Subtitle:
a story of a unique Holocaust survival
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.…
455. Oral history interview with Isaac Sevi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1776 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1776
Date:
interview: 1981 November 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… near Athens; his subsequent deportation with his brother to Auschwitz in 1943; his three weeks in Auschwitz-Birkenau; his transfer to Warsaw, Poland to…
456. Ardal brand civilian gas mask placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.18 a-b
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1938-1939 September
…Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)…
457. Oral history interview with Yosef Schwartz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.215 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0215
Date:
interview: 1995 August 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Warsaw, Poland to meet this brother and escape to the Soviet Union; attempting to enter the Soviet zone with his brother via Siedlce; being captured by the…
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 … RG-50.120 #0215 2 Tapes SCHWARTZ, YOSEF [referred to here as Y] TAPE I 1.00.54 Y was born in Poland in 1921, in Lodz, to Yosef and Haya Schwartz…
458. Oral history interview with Mitchell Falenski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.16 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0016
Date:
interview: 1990 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Mitchell Falenski, born in Warsaw, Poland, describes his close-knit, middle-class family; his parents, brother, and sister; his father’s dry goods…
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 … Summary of Oral History Interview with Mitchell Falenski July 1990 Mitchell Falenski was born in Warsaw, Poland, into a close-knit middle class…
459. Recollections of a Polish Holocaust survivor
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0038 | RG Number: RG-02.075.01
Date:
creation: 1992
…Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.…
460. SS Totenkopf (Death’s head) ring taken from an SS officer by a liberator and later given to a Holocaust survivor
1992.206.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.206.1
Date:
issue: 1939 June 21
found: approximately 1945 April
received: 1992 October 24
…Benjamin Miedzyrzecki was born on February 19, 1918, in Warsaw, Poland, to Israel and Rivka Rybak Miedzyrzecki. He had three siblings: Stela, born…
461. Asynchronous motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.10
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1889-1942
…Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)…
462. Piece of scrap linoleum placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.48
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
…Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)…
463. Oral history interview with Dr. Kaja Finkler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.159.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0969
Date:
interview: 2018 May 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Dr. Kaja Finkler, born on January 4, 1935 in Warsaw, Poland, describes her family’s birth name traditions; her parents, Chaim and Golda; her family…
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 …Oral history interview with Dr. Kaja Finkler RG-50.030.0969 Summary Dr. Kaja Finkler, born on January 4, 1935 in Warsaw, Poland, describes her family…
464. Oral history interview with Simon Rajman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.25 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0025
Date:
interview: 1996 February 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Simcha (Simon) Rajman, born March 11, 1927 in Warsaw, Poland, describes his family’s emigration from Poland to France because of antisemitism; their…
465. Oral history interview with Leonard Zawacki
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0271
Date:
interview: 1994 September 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.…
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 … Trials was convicted, you know, to death and was hung. And the territory encompassed both Warsaw and Kokov(ph) and Lublin. It was the center of Poland and…
466. Large wooden workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.1
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
creation: 1939-1940
…Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)…
467. Oral history interview with Adam Starkopf and Pela Starkopf
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.396.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0221
Date:
interview: 1990 May 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Adam Starkopf and Pela Starkopf, both born in 1914 in Warsaw, Poland, describe their childhoods and families; Pela’s decision to study at a Warsaw…
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 … please? A: My name is Pela Starkopf. Q: Where and when were you born? A: I was born Warsaw, Poland, 1914, November 18th. A: My name is Adam Starkopf. I was…
468. Oral history interview with Jan Karski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.44 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0044
Date:
interview: 1988 February 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Escapes--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 … Poland. The American government withdrew its recognition of the government in exile through its recognition of the Warsaw regime. He stayed in the U.S. in…
469. Oral history interview with Alicja D. Urbańczyk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.316 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0316
Date:
interview: 2010 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Dęblin (Warsaw, Poland)…
470. Padlock placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
1992.240.26 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.26
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
…Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)…
471. Transmitter hardware placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
1992.240.3_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.3 a-gg
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
…Poland--History--German occupation, 1939-1945.…
472. Andrzej Bodek collection of Warsaw and Łódź documents and ephemera
Document | Accession Number: 2002.484
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1946
…Jews--Poland--Warsaw.…
473. Oral history interview with Tadeusz Kostana
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.236 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0236
Date:
interview: 2005 June 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Tadeusz Kostana, born in 1932 in Poland, describes the humiliation of Jewish workers during their forced labor in Warsaw-Rożnów and the murder of a…
474. Housing for WWI communications equipment placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.3
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: approximately 1914-approximately 1933
…Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)…
475. Frajda Tauba Birsztajn papers
2018.647.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 2018.647.2
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1960
…Frajda Tauba Birsztajn (Frida, later Frances Karp, 1897-1974) was born in Warsaw, Poland to Icek Birsztejn and his second wife, Aidla Berlandsztein…
476. Oral history interview with Sara Gelender
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.115 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0115
Date:
interview: 1992 September 23
interview: 
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sara Gelender discusses her childhood in Warsaw, Poland; her memories of the bombing and burning of Warsaw in September 1939; her family's flight to…
477. Large flange placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.7
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
…Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)…
478. Oral history interview with Zenek Maor
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.42 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0042
Date:
interview: 1987 October 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 … million people, refugees from all over Poland, all with the same thought—that in a large city like Warsaw, the capital of Poland, that the Germans wouldn…
479. Oral history interview with Lillian Lazar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.67 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0067
Date:
interview: 1992 January 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lillian Lazar (née Guzenfiter), born in Warsaw, Poland on June 16, 1924, discusses her family life in Poland prior to World War II; rebelling against…
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 …, good morning. Lillian: Good morning. Anthony: Where were you born? 002 Lillian: I was born in Warsaw, Poland, June 16, 1924 into a middle class Jewish…
480. Humanitarian Federation "Brotherhood B'nai B'rith" in Warsaw (Sygn. 674)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.55.1 | RG Number: RG-15.508
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1939
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… organization in Poland are Michel Zaki of Antibes and Witold Zyss of Paris.The Association is located in Warsaw, in the building of the Union of Jewish Religious…
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 ….aan.gov.pl Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych ul. Rakowiecka 20 Warsaw 02-517 Poland Tel. 011 48 22 565-46-00 e-mail: ndap@archiwa.gov.pl Web page…
481. Oral history interview with Abram Shnaper
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.523 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0523
Date:
interview: 1981 August 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… with Hashomer Hatzair; living in Warsaw, Poland from 1945 to 1948; living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp from 1948 to 1949; and immigrating to…
482. Oral history interview with Felicia Bryn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.253.186 | RG Number: RG-90.063.0186
Date:
interview: 2009
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Felicia Brtn, born in 1937 in Warsaw, Poland, discusses her experiences during the Holocaust.…
483. Oral history interview with Jack Wieder
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.51 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0051
Date:
interview: 1984 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being taken to Auschwitz and the death of his mother and six younger siblings; being sent with his father to Warsaw, Poland to work at clearing the…
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 … as we found out, we came to Warsaw, to Poland. Which wasn't far away from Auschwitz, because Auschwitz is in Poland, too. How many people were on the…
484. Sąd Apelacyjny w Warszawie (Sygn. 1602)
Document | Accession Number: 2016.336.1 | RG Number: RG-15.481
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1950
Alternate Title:
The Court of Appeal in Warsaw
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Justice, Administration of--Poland--Warsaw--History.…
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 … Warszawie‐‐History‐‐20th century. Genre/Form: Court records. Geographic Name: Poland‐‐History‐‐Occupation, 1939‐1945. Warsaw (Poland)‐‐History…
485. Oral history interview with Denise Sten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.179 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0179
Date:
interview: 1992 July 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors from Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, and…
486. Oral history interview with Sylvia Murawski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.96 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0096
Date:
interview: 1992 June 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sylvia Murawski, born July 10, 1928, describes growing up in Warsaw, Poland with her well-known and well-to-do, assimilated parents; the bombardment…
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 … school was old, 303 00:19:40,530 --> 00:19:47,520 very, very well known in Poland, in Warsaw for boys. 304 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:53,880 And after the…
487. Oral history interview with Sara Mitzenmacher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.333 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0333
Date:
interview: 1998 January 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… with partisans; going to Bialystok, Poland then to Warsaw, Poland; receiving help from Haikah (Hajka) Grosman; reuniting with her sister in Łódź, Poland…
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 … Warsaw and was helped by Haikah (Hajka) Grosman. After the war, she settled in Palestine where she married. 1:00:00 Sara Mitzelmacher was born in Kaunas…
488. Dana I. Alvi memoir
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0139 | RG Number: RG-02.105
Date:
1990
…Dana I. Alvi (nee Danuta Iza Bronska) was born on 22 Nov 1932, in Warsaw, Poland…
489. Oral history interview with Yanina Cywinska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.190 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0190
Date:
interview: 1993 February 01
interview: 1993 February 08
interview: 1993 March 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… older brother, Theodor; traveling a lot as a child; living mostly in and around Warsaw, Poland; attending ballet classes; being raised Catholic; her…
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 … was one year older. Her family was from the Ukraine, and Yanina remembers traveling a lot as a child; they lived mostly in and around Warsaw, Poland…
490. Oral history interview with Rubin Minsky
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.91.16 | RG Number: RG-50.493.0016
Date:
interview: 1992 September 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rubin Minsky, born on February 18, 1919 in Warsaw, Poland, discusses his sisters Tova, Leah, Hanna, and Luba; being the second oldest; his father who…
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 …RG-50.493.0016 Rubin Minsky, 13 September 1992 Interviewer: Howard A. Rosenberg Summary Rubin Minsky was born in Warsaw, Poland on 18 February 1919…
491. Hand tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.3
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
…Israel Yitzhak Miedzyrzecki was born on February 13, 1892, in Warsaw, Poland, to Berisch and Feiga Halberstadt Miedzyrzecki. He had 8 siblings and a…
492. Mary Hrabowska papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.247.1
Date:
1944-1948
…Jews--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century.…
493. Spuścizna Dr. Mikołaja Łąckiego (Sygn.1293)
Document | Accession Number: 2018.180.1 | RG Number: RG-15.612
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Alternate Title:
Legacies and papers of Dr. Mikołaj Łącki
…Medical personnel--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century.…
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 …--Medical aspects--Warsaw. Medical personnel--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century. Jews--Poland--Warsaw--Social conditions--20th century. Polish people…
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 …, Warszawa 12 XI 1939, 1939- 1940 38 Choroby „W” – sprawozdanie z działalności i Stacji Zapobiegawczo- Przeciwwenerycznej za rok 1938. Sprawozdanie za rok 1940…
494. Oral history interview with Irena Veisaite
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.738 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0505
Date:
interview: 2004 September 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Warsaw (Poland)…
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 … supposed to come from Warsaw. So -- so I got back and when -- and then my mother came also back. And this was fatal. Q: And then the war started in Poland. A…
495. Selected records from the French Diplomatic Archives Nantes : Embassies and Consulates
Document | Accession Number: 2019.423.1 | RG Number: RG-43.172
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1970
bulk: 1938-1946
…Warsaw (Poland)…
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 …) Tangier (Morocco) Tripoli (Libya) Warsaw (Poland) France--Politics and government--20th century. Genre Terms Correspondence. Photographs. Telegrams. https…
496. AEG motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.12
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1887-before 1943
…Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)…
497. Oral history interview with Joseph Kutrzeba
Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0339
Date:
interview: 1995 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Joseph Kutrzeba, born on October 11, 1927 in Łódź, Poland, describes his life until the war; being sent to the ghetto in Warsaw and joining…
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 … to go under my original name Kutrzeba. The name Kutrzeba has produced two famous persons in Poland. One was a revered history professor at the…
498. Oral history interview with Semyon Kolegayev
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.445.17 | RG Number: RG-50.653.0017
Date:
interview: 2010 May 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Warsaw (Poland)…
499. Oral history interview with Rosa Kresner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.158 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0158
Date:
interview: 1994 February 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors from Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, and…
500. Oral history interview with Vera Otelsberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.66 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0066
Date:
interview: 1989 November 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 …) Montevideo (Uruguay) Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Sochaczew (Poland) Uruguay--Emigration and immigration. Warsaw (Poland) https://collections…