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1. Kamerman family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.72.1
Date:
1944
… her mother was assigned to work as a slave laborer, dated 1944 in Katowice, Poland.…
2. Justizbehörden außerhalb des Gebietes der Bundesrepublik - Stammlager Sosnowitz (BA R137V)
Document | Accession Number: 2008.136 | RG Number: RG-68.107M
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1946
Alternate Title:
Legal authorities beyond the area of the Federal Republic of Germany – cadre camp Sosnowitz
…Katowice (Poland)…
3. Helen Preiss collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0578 | RG Number: RG-10.174
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1945
…Sosnowiec (Katowice, Poland)…
4. The Narrow Bridge
Document | Accession Number: 2015.377.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 2014
Subtitle:
Remembrance of a Jewish Childhood during the Second World War
…Dr. Zwi Barnea was born Herbert Zwi Chameides on September 16, 1932 in Katowice, Poland, to Rabbi Kalman and Trude (née Koenigshoefer) Chameides. He…
5. Justizbehörden ausserhalb des Gebiets der BRD (R 137 V)
Document | Accession Number: 2002.69 | RG Number: RG-14.048M
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1945
…Katowice (Poland)…
6. Theresa Cahn-Tober papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.45.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1946
…Katowice (Poland)…
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 …. Geography: Lʹviv (Ukraine) Warsaw (Poland) Munich (Germany) Katowice (Poland) Genre/Form: Identification documents. Report cards. PRELIMINARY INVENTORY…
7. Ester and Zvi Weinstadt photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.426.1
…Ester Edzia Steinkeller (Sztajnkeller) was born on October 18, 1930, in Katowice, Poland, to Abram and Rebeka Ryfcia Stapler Steinkeller. Both Abram…
8. Urząd wojewódzki śląski w Katowicach (Sygn. 27)
Document | Accession Number: 2007.269 | RG Number: RG-15.131M
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1939
Alternate Title:
The office of the region of Silesia in Katowice
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Jews--Katowice (Poland)--History.…
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 … Katowice, Poland. Tel. 011 48 32 208 78 01. More information about this repository can be found at www.katowice.ap.gov.pl. Processing History…
9. Ruth Reed family papers
2016.510.2 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 2016.510.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-2016
… on 8 December 1920 in Katowice, Poland, and Amalie and Chaim divorced in 1928. Ruth’s parents both remarried, and her father had a son, Ignatz (1939…
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 …, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection primarily contains pre-war photographs of Ruth Reed (née Feldman) and her family in Katowice, Poland, along…
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  • Series 1: Biographical materials 1945-2016
    • File 3: Reed, Ruth 1945-Circa 2010
      • Pages: 1
  • Series 3: Photographs Circa 1910-1977
    • File 14: Reed, Ruth: Childhood 1921-1935
10. William Herskovic papers
1991.211.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1991.211.3
Date:
inclusive: 1942-circa 1995
…Concentration camp escapes--Poland--Pyskowice (Katowice).…
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 …) Jawischowitz (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Slovakia. Jewish photographers‐‐Belgium‐‐Antwerp. Concentration camp escapes‐‐Poland‐‐Pyskowice (Katowice…
11. Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Katowicach
Document | Accession Number: 2010.16 | RG Number: RG-15.160M
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1949
Alternate Title:
District Commission in Katowice to Investigate the Nazi Crimes
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Criminal investigation--Poland--Katowice--History--20th century.…
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 … “Hermann Göring” Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Investigations. Criminal investigation--Poland--Katowice--History--20…
12. Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers SS - SD Leitabschnitt Kattowitz (Katowice) (Sygn.169)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0072 | RG Number: RG-15.025M
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
…Katowice (Poland)…
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 … and the military--Germany--History--20th century Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Katowice (Poland) Reports. CONTAINER LIST Reel File Description…
13. Ajbeszyc family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.171.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-circa 1960
…’s daughter daughter Ilana was born in Katowice on February 19, 1946. In 1950 the Ajbeszyc family left Poland and immigrated to Israel.…
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 … Katowice on February 19, 1946. In 1950 the Ajbeszyc family left Poland and immigrated to Israel. Adela Fiszel was born on August 15, 1913 in Sosnowiec…
14. Oral history interview with Manoss Diamant
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.32 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0032
Date:
interview: 1993 February 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Manoss Diamant, born in 1921 in Katowice, Poland, discusses his family and childhood; his education; being in a Zionist youth group; escaping to…
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 …), Protection copy 3 videocassettes (VHS), User copy SUMMARY: Born in 1922 in Kattowitz (Katowice), in Zaglembia. A member of a youth movement, he also joined a…
15. Railroad rails, fishplates, bolts, nuts, and washers from railroad tracks leading to Treblinka death camp
Object | Accession Number: 1989.225.2 a-cx
Date:
manufacture: 1910
…Katowice (Poland)…
16. Policja Województwa Śląskiego (Sygn. 38/0)
Document | Accession Number: 2007.268 | RG Number: RG-15.130M
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1939
Alternate Title:
Selected records of the police of the region of Silesia
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Katowice (Poland)--Ethnic relations.…
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 … Katowice, Poland. Tel. 011 48 32 208 78 01. More information about this repository can be found at www.katowice.ap.gov.pl. Processing History: Aleksandra B…
17. Roza Krzesiwo photographs
2000.431.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2000.431.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1950
… 1938 in Działoszyce (Poland) and his friend Josef Szlam in 1945 in Poland; and a Bund youth demonstration in 1946 in Katowice (Poland).…
18. Rejencja Katowicka (Sygn.119/0)
Document | Accession Number: 2007.267 | RG Number: RG-15.129M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Alternate Title:
Regierung Kattowitz
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Jews--Katowice (Poland)--History.…
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 … held by the Archiwum Państwowe w Katowicach, ul. Józefowska 104, 40-145 Katowice, Poland. Tel. 011 48 32 208 78 01. More information about this…
19. Oral history interview with Leon Blatt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.19 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0019
Date:
interview: 1991 December 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Leon Blatt, born in 1919 in Katowice, Poland, discuses his family; moving to Będzin, Poland at the start of the war then Sosnowiec, Poland; his…
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 …BLATT, Leon RG-50.120* 0019 5 Videotapes Abstract Leon Blatt was born into a well-to-do family on April 1, 1919 in Katowice (Kattowitz, Stalinogród…
20. Oral history interview with Pajak Wilibald
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.38 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0038
Date:
interview: 1998 July 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Wilibald Pajak, born in 1922, discusses living in Katowice, Poland during World War II; becoming a member of the underground; being arrested and sent…
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 ….ushmm.org Contact Reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection 4 Katowice, jest trzydzieści parę kilometrów i myśmy tu podjeżdżali nawet po…
21. Oral history interview with Marian Plackowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.300 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0300
Date:
interview: 2010 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Katowice (Poland)…
22. Gray wood and metal ladder used while in hiding by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2018.9.1
Date:
use: 1945 January 20-1945 January 26
…Michael “Miki” Goldmann (later Goldmann-Gilead, born 1925) was born in Katowice, Poland, to Naftali (1892-1942) and Esther Erna Goldreich Goldmann…
23. Oral history interview with Herman Malvet
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.223.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0971
Date:
interview: 2018 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Herman Malvet (né Majerovic), born on January 1, 1935 in Bardejov, Slovakia, discusses growing up in both Bardejov and Katowice, Poland; his father…
24. Oral history interview with Ruth Hillman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.311 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0311
Date:
undated: 
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ruth Hillman, born in 1923 in Katowice, Poland, discusses her early life and family; life in the Sosnowiec ghetto; education efforts in the ghetto…
25. Oral history interview with Menashe Lorenzy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.95 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0095
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… marched out of Birkenau to the forest where they were liberated by the Russian Army; going to Katowice, Poland, and was taken with Italian prisoners of war…
26. Oral history interview with Irene Weber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0337 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0247
Date:
interview: 1989 September 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Katowice (Poland)…
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 …: And where is that? A: And that is western Poland. It's near Katowice, which is a quite famous name, famous city in Poland -- one of the major cities. Q…
27. Oral history interview with Henry Lubell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.78 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0078
Date:
interview: 1992 March 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Poland--Katowice.…
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 … was Poland and my father had there a job as hazan and shochet(mohel). In what town? The town, first it was a little town Rawicz and later on in Katowice…
28. Oberpräsident der Provinz Oberschlesien, Kattowitz (Fond 1232)
Document | Accession Number: 2002.553.4 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.68
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1945
Alternate Title:
Head of the province of Upper Silesia, Katowice
…World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Katowice.…
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 …-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Katowice. World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Poland--Silesia. Germans--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland…
29. Zarząd Prowincjonalny Górnego Śląska w Katowicach (Sygn. 118)
Document | Accession Number: 2018.54.1 | RG Number: RG-15.582M
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1945
Alternate Title:
Provinzialverwaltung Oberschlesien in Kattowitz
Selected records of the Provincial Government of the Upper Silesia in Katowice
…Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--Katowice--20th century.…
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 … status, laws, etc.--Poland--Silesia--20th century. Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--Katowice--20th century. Germans--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland…
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 … RG-15.582M 2018.54.1 Zarząd Prowincjonalny Górnego Śląska w Katowicach (Sygn. 118) Provinzialverwaltung Oberschlesien in Kattowitz: Selected Records…
30. Oral history interview with Jack Miller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.63 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0063
Date:
interview: 2012 March 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Katowice (Poland)…
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 … Ravensbruck in cattle cars. Jack saw through the window that they had passed Auschwitz without stopping, and arrived in Katowice. Jack was happy that they were…
31. Organizacje Syjonistyczne (Sygn. 333)
Document | Accession Number: 2012.295 | RG Number: RG-15.254
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1950
Alternate Title:
Zionist Organizations
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Katowice (Poland)…
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 … Syjon in Katowice, in 1884, delegates all partitions of Poland took part. On the territory of the Russian partition of Poland, the movement was initially…
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 …., l., s. 66. Ichud. Katowice. Komitet Wojewódzki. Akta organizacyjne. Okólniki – Okręg Śląsko-Dąbrowski, protokoły, sprawozdania, wykazy imienne…
32. Miodownik family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.24.1
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1947
undated: 
…Katowice (Poland)…
33. Missie tot Opsporing van vermiste personen tijdens de bezettingstijd (getuigenverklaringen) (Fond 244)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.12 | RG Number: RG-41.014
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1951
Alternate Title:
Mission to identify missing people during the German occupation (witness statements)
… IV), Bobrek, Neukirch, Seibersdorf, Schoppinitz (Szopienice, Katowice district, Poland), Ottmuth, Niederkirch, Gross-Sarne, Laurahütte, Malapane…
34. Oral history interview with Max Haber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.393.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0089
Date:
interview: 1990 May 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Germany and working as a businessman there until 1933, when he moved to Kolomyia, Poland to live with his brother and sister; moving to Katowice, Poland…
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 … that nobody should even know. So what should I do? I remembered I lived in Katowice. And when you live in Poland or in Germany, within 24 hours you have…
35. Regina Bochner Schweid papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.099 | RG Number: RG-10.027
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1940
… family moved from Frysztak to Beuthen in Upper Silesia (now Bytom, Poland) then to Oświęcim, Poland, and then to Katowice, Poland. Some members of the…
36. Karliner family papers
1999.3.32 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1999.3.32
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-1951
…Peiskretscham (Katowice, Poland)…
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 … Château-le-Masgelier France. Germany. Mirebeau (Vienne, France) Paris (France) Peiskretscham (Katowice, Poland) Trier (Germany) Gene / Form: Correspondence…
37. Oral history interview with Leo Korona
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.349 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0349
Date:
interview: 1981 August 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Poland--Katowice.…
38. Records of the Staatliche Polizei Verwaltung Sosnowitz O/S, 4 Revier Czeladź (Sygn. 171)
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0034 | RG Number: RG-15.033M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
…Contains information about the activities of the police in Sosnowiec, Czeladź , and Katowice, Poland; air raid defense; and treatment of Jews by…
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 … Contains information about the activities of the police in Sosnowiec, Czeladź, and Katowice, Poland; air raid defense; and treatment of Jews by police forces…
39. Oral history interview with Walter Morgenbesser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.337 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0337
Date:
interview: 1998 February 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… with his father and another from the Russians and going to a refugee camp in Katowice, Poland; going to Košice, Slovakia, which was where his parents…
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 … Russians and ended up in a refugee camp in Katowice, Poland. Shortly thereafter they went on to Košice, Slovakia, which was where his parents had been raised…
40. Oral history interview with Edmund Potok
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.315 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0538
Date:
interview: 2009 March 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Poland--Katowice.…
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 …POTOK, Edmund RG -50.030.0538 1 CD-ROM In Polish March 3, 2009 Abstract Edmund Potok was born on March 6, 1929 in Katowice, Poland. His father, Marek…
41. Bank Spółdzielczy dla Prodyktywizacji Żydów w Warszawie (Sygn. 242)
Document | Accession Number: 2016.333.1 | RG Number: RG-15.496
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1950
Alternate Title:
Cooperative Bank with limited shares for the Productivity of Jews in Warsaw
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Katowice (Poland)…
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 …. Financial records. Minutes. Registers. Reports. Statistics. Geographic Name: Warsaw (Poland)--History--20th century. Katowice (Poland) Łódź (Poland)--Politics…
42. Oral history interview with Henry Kronberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.5 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0005
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Henry Kronberg, born in April 1920 in Breslau, Germany, describes growing up in Katowice, Poland; apprenticing as a young man in a material goods…
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 …Henry Kronberg for Virtual Book Henry Kronberg was born in April 1920 in Breslau, Germany but he grew up in Katowice, Poland. As a young man he was…
43. Oral history interview with Fredka Mazia
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.102 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0102
Date:
interview: 1991 February 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… help Jews escape; the death of her husband in August 1943; being arrested on a train to Krakow, Poland and imprisoned in Tchebinia then Katowice, where…
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 … videocassettes (VHS), User copy SUMMARY: Fredka Mazia - a member of Hanoar Hazioni in Zaglembie, Poland. Gives accounts about events in Bedzin and Sosnowiec…
44. 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
…Jews--Poland--Katowice.…
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 … The Zyga Butler papers are arranged as a single series. Indexing terms Butler, Zyga (1903-?) Jews--Poland--Krakow. Jews--Poland--Katowice. https…
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  • Series 1: Zyga Butler papers 1939-1979
    • File 4: Diary 1943-1944
45. Oral history interview with Mayer Glickman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.25 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0025
Date:
interview: 2015 November 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Katowice (Poland)…
46. Oral history interview with Renate Mann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.276.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0229
Date:
interview: 2013 October 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Renate Mann (née Wollstein), born in Berlin, Germany on April 4, 1927, describes moving to Katowice, Poland in 1931 when her parents divorced; having…
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 … because my parents divorced. My mother went back to Poland, to Katowice -- I don't know if you're familiar with that part of the country. Q: Okay. A: And…
47. Oral history interview with Frances Kornmehl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.37 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0037
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jewish Russian taking them into town and giving them clothes; walking in groups to Katowice, Poland; the Russians sending them by train to Kraków, Poland…
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 … took it, and you ate to keep up, till you came to a city in Poland, Katowice. Then we saw houses. We saw people, street cars. It was just a miracle…
48. Justizministerium : Akten der Staatsanwaltschaften. Verschiedene Angelegenheiten
Document | Accession Number: 2010.37 | RG Number: RG-17.033M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Alternate Title:
Justice Ministry : Files of the State Public Prosecutor's Offices ; miscellaneous matters
… Reich. A preponderance of documents in this collection were issued by the Prosecutor's Office in Katowice, Poland (Kattowitz) in regard to prisons and…
49. Oral history interview with Pablo Dukes
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.17 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0017
Date:
interview: 2011 May 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… death march from Auschwitz to Katowice, Poland; being transported by train to an empty hangar and then to Flossenbürg, Germany; evacuating the camp; the…
50. Oral history interview with Paul Monka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.42 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0042
Date:
interview: 1989 May 17-1989 June 09
interview: 1989 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… solitary confinement in a Gestapo prison in Katowice, Poland; his time in the hospital after surviving solitary confinement and meeting Yanek; his acceptance…
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 … took over Paul's father's business let the family work there. Paul was arrested and sent to Katowice, Poland. He survived solitary confinement in…