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1. Rosenzweig and Ringelheim families papers
2000.226.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2000.226.1
Date:
inclusive: 1903-1995
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Polish.…
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 …. Anders Army. Jews--Poland--Kraków. Jews--Poland--Jarosław. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Polish. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations. Kraków…
2. 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
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Polish.…
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 …://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection https://collections.ushmm.org World War, 1939-1945…
3. 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
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Polish.…
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 … collection https://collections.ushmm.org Jews--Poland--Kraków. Forced labor--Soviet Union. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Polish. World War, 1939-1945…
4. Oral history interview with Stanley Blake
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.68 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0068
Date:
interview: 1991 June 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Polish.…
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 … something is brewing. We, of course, we didn't know much about. Me, in 1939, I turned 17. By that time, we already know that it's going to be war, but we didn…
5. Oral history interview with Konrad Bogacki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.36 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0036
Date:
interview: 1985 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Polish.…
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 … and was reorganized. And he pulled all the nation behind him. This was a fantastic psychological change. And I think when the war started in 1939, there…
6. Oral history interview with Henryk Prais
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1280.18 | RG Number: RG-50.225.0018
Date:
interview: 1995 May 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Polish.…
7. Oral history interview with Stefan Czyzewski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0064 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0387
Date:
interview: 1998 April 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Polish.…
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 … rest. And he looked at his watch, he had a Polish watch that he stole during 1939 campaign, said “polsky chasy.21” Polish watch runs well. “Go and cut…
8. Oral history interview with Simon Aufschauer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.144 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0144
Date:
interview: 1982 May 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Polish.…
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 … into the Polish army in 1937 and he fought briefly against the German Army when they invaded Poland in 1939. He was captured and then escaped from a…
9. Oral history interview with Leopold Koslowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1280.21 | RG Number: RG-50.225.0021
Date:
interview: 1995 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Polish.…
10. Polska Partia Robotnicza. Komitet Centralny i Obwody (Sygn. 1314)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.141.1 | RG Number: RG-15.800
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1945
Alternate Title:
Polish Workers' Party. Central Committee and Districts
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Communist.…
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 … Akt Nowych 1314. Polska Partia Robotnicza. Komitet Centralny i Obwody (Sygn. 1314 190/I - 5 Sprawozdania z obwodów, I 1944 - 22 I 1945, 98 stron, polski…
11. Poland military patch worn by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.12
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
12. Oral history interview with Philip Helbling
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0092
Date:
interview: 1991 June 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
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 … Germans, you know, the the the...in 1939 the war was, and Poland was divided. You know, Ger...Po...Russia took this south...the the west...western...and the…
13. Oral history interview with Sol Sadek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.137.79 | RG Number: RG-50.010.0079
Date:
interview: 1979 March 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
14. 1939-1945 Star medal, ribbon and box awarded to a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.19_a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.19 a-c
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
received: 1990
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
15. 5th Kresowa Infantry bison shoulder patch worn by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.9
Date:
use: 1943-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
16. Drawing of the Warsaw Mermaid, emblem of Warsaw, and of the 2nd Polish Corps by a Jewish soldier
2012.471.86 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.86
Date:
creation: 1944
Artwork Title:
Warsaw Mermaid
…World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Russia. Polish.…
17. Oral history interview with Julian Bussgang
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2002.368 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0473
Date:
interview: 2002 December 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
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 … September first, 1939, when the war broke out and bombs start falling, this must have been, even though you expected it, still a shock because the experience…
18. Portfolio of architectural drawings of Italy done by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.167 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.167
Date:
creation: 1946
Series Title:
Italia 1946
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
19. Defence Medal issued for service in the British Army during World War II
2000.226.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.226.3
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.…
20. Oral history interview with Jack Fruchtengarten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0449.2 | RG Number: RG-50.090.0002
Date:
interview: 1994 May 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
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 … before World War I, and I didn't think they did anything to the town after that. It was still the same, just no running water, just no, no plumbing at all…
21. Oral history interview with Daniel Muller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.123 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0123
Date:
interview: 1996 April 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
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 … [1939] started the war. And I go in the war. This was when the Russians come. And I go in the army, the Russians took off all of us from the battle all of…
22. Oral history interview with Joseph Bach
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.440.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0858
Date:
interview: 2015 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
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 … you already in Lvov on September 1st, 1939? That’s when the war started. A: So I was in Lvov. Q: You were in Lvov? A: Yeah, well, right away that letter…
23. Oral history interview with Anna Szyller Palarczyk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0418 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0376
Date:
interview: 1996 August 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.…
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 … the address of a notorious Gestapo prison during World War II in Kraków. TRANS. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
24. Eyewitness drawing of troops advancing near Monte Cassino by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.87 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.87
Date:
creation: 1944 May 31
Artwork Title:
Advancing Toward Monte Cassino, May 31, 1944
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
25. Poland uniform patch worn by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2009.23.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.23.2
Date:
use: 1941-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
26. Oral history interview with Georges G. Bossak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.47 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0047
Date:
interview: 1984 March 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
27. Monte Cassino Commemorative Cross
2000.226.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.226.2
Date:
commemoration: 1944 May
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.…
28. Oral history interview with Sophie Barold
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.40 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0040
Date:
interview: 1982 November 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.…
29. Autobiographical drawing of a forced laborer at a hydroelectric plant by a young Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.74 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.74
Date:
creation: 1944
depiction: 1941 August 27
Artwork Title:
This was a serious affair I, August 27, 1941, Soviet Union
…World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Russia. Polish.…
30. Oral history interview with Barbara J. Syska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.297.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0770
Date:
interview: 2014 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.…
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 … when the war starts. A: Yes, when the war st – Q: That means 1941, or 1939? A: ’39. Q: ’39. So – A: ’39. Q: Okay. A: My daughter had the plane to – she…
31. Oral history interview with Chaim Engel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.425.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0066
Date:
interview: 1990 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
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 … the Polish army, for almost one and a half year. My time expired. You -- after one and a half year would have been on September the 15th, 1939, and the…
32. Italy Star 1943-1945 medal, ribbon, and box awarded to a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.18_a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.18 a-c
Date:
commemoration: 1943 June 11-1945 May 08
received: 1990
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
33. Poland military patch worn by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.11
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
34. Oral history interview with Sonia Orbuch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.242 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0242
Date:
interview: 1994 December 06
interview: 1995 January 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.…
35. British 8th Army sleeve badge worn by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.14
Date:
use: approximately 1944 May-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
36. Red gift box owned by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.16 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.16
Date:
use: after 1942 August
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
37. Oral history interview with Efraim Fishman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.290 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0290
Date:
interview: 1996 August 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
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 … practically independent from his family whom he visited only during holidays. In 1939, the Russians took over the schools, canceling Hebrew, thus limiting his…
38. Autobiographical drawing of a forced laborer at a hydroelectric plant by a young Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.76 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.76
Date:
creation: 1944
depiction: 1941 August 27
Artwork Title:
This was a serious affair III, August 27, 1941, Soviet Union
…World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Russia. Polish.…
39. Watercolor of the Ponte Vecchio, Florence by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.103 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.103
Date:
creation: 1945-before 1946 October
Artwork Title:
Ponte Vecchio at Twilight II
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
40. Oral history interview with Rivka Freed
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.40 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0040
Date:
interview: 1992 November 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.…
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 … join the father who had come 5 years earlier. 1.04.43.10 1939 War started – no more school, studies or work for Jews. 1.09.21.11 1940 Occupation…
41. Oral history interview with Judd Nissanov and Magda Nissanov
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.10 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0010
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
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 … capable of when they shot hundreds of Jews in the first two weeks they occupied his area of Poland in 1939. The Soviet Union took over his region and stayed…
42. Oral history interview with Henry Kaswiner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.157 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0157
Date:
undated: 
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
43. Oral history interview with Leon Rytz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.553.7 | RG Number: RG-50.998.0007
Date:
interview: 2017 April 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.…
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 … to Czestochowa and then Leon came to Buchenwald. Then there was deportation to Dora-Nordhausen, where he remained until February / March 1945 when the…
44. Portfolio of drawings of Edinburgh by a Jewish veteran, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.171 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.171
Date:
creation: 1947 October 03-1947 October 08
Series Title:
Edinburgh 1947
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
45. Drawing of a donkey with pack and guide in the mountains created by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.78 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.78
Date:
creation: 1944
depiction: 1942 February
Artwork Title:
Donkey and Driver in Blagoveshchenskoye, February 1942
…World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Russia. Polish.…
46. Pastel drawing of the Ponte Vecchio, Florence by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.104 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.104
Date:
creation: 1945-before 1946 October
Artwork Title:
Ponte Vecchio at Twilight I
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
47. Oral history interview with Eugenia Grudzinska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0113.6 | RG Number: RG-50.059.0006
Date:
interview: 1991 June 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.…
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 … was Polish. My father was a Russian, an officer in the Czar's army. He later left the service and, because he was a business school graduate, he worked…
48. Polish paratrooper badge given to a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.8
Date:
received: after 1945-before 1967
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
49. Drawing of a shaggy camel with pack created by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.26 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.26
Date:
creation: 1942 February
Artwork Title:
A Shaggy Camel in Kyrgyzstan, February 1942
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
50. Oral history interview with Simone Horowitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.87 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0087
Date:
interview: 1999 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.…
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 … Holocaust - Jewish (1939-1945) France World War, 1939-1945 - French Jews Military occupation - France World War, 1939-1945 - Underground movements Brzezinka…