… of Wieslaw Zyzniewski (Wesley Zineski) and his family, Polish Catholics, originally from Łódź, before, during and after World War II, during which…

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… World War II. The Zyzniewski family was Catholic and active in the Polish resistance. The papers contain identification documents for Zygmunt Zyzniewski…

…Bronislaw Zajbert, born April 18, 1933 in Łódź, Poland, describes his childhood in Łódź; being part of a secular Jewish middle-class family; speaking…

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… (married name) Brother: Ignacio (born 1939). He describes his childhood in Lodz; being part of a middle-class family with had a non-religious (traditional…

… Germany; her mother, who was born in Germany but lost her citizenship when she married; her younger sister; her family being active in the Jewish community…

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…'t help his illness either. And the ghetto-- But he did get better. The ghetto in Warta was the local Polish Jews-- Also, I have to tell you this. While we…

… marched in. The entire family, among other Polish refugees, were shipped to Siberia. Toward the end of 1941 most Polish refugees were allowed to leave…

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… gathering place of people. And they were also friends, very close friends, to our family. Their name was Schachner. Schachner. How do you say bar in Polish…

…Abraham Chelminsky, born in 1926 in Villa Cecilia (Ciudad Madero), Mexico, discusses his Jewish family; his Polish father and Ukrainian mother…

…Stanley Kiersnowski, born on August 17, 1926 in Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania), discusses his family’s well-to-do background; the history of and…

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… well, with my family, my grandfather was everything he want. He was a banker. He was a ship builder. He was sort of organizator of Polish [POLISH…

…German prisoner of war identification tag worn by a Jewish soldier in the Polish Army…

…Harry Markowicz, born on August 9, 1937 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his Polish parents; his older siblings; a family friend who was a policeman and…

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… Poland shortly after World War I. This photo shows Harry's mother's family around 1914 in Widawa, Poland. Harry's mother is the second from the left in the…

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…; his older sister Madeleine; his family’s move to Paris in 1938; the German invasion of France in May 1940; fleeing with his family to Issoudun; his…

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…. His father was a traveling salesman and his mother was trained as a Hebrew teacher. The family moved to Paris in 1938. When the Germans invaded France…

…; his Polish father, who moved to Paris, France in 1918 to have more opportunity as a painter; his mother’s Palestinian family and how she lived in an…

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… you can remember. Let me start with my family. Please. I was born in Paris, France, but two sisters, one older than me-- two years older and one younger…

… week. The family soon learned that Andrzej was alive in Hamburg. The Polish army sent Jan there, escorted by a couple of soldiers, and brought Andrzej…

…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…

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… my family, what happened with them. I went to my neighbors of the home where I lived from 1930 to 1939. There are some neighbors, some Polish people…

…Perla Hauszwalb Nunez (born in Pulawy, Poland on January 6, 1928) discusses growing up in an Orthodox Jewish family; moving to Paris, France in 1933…

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… God, but after the Shoah, she lost her faith. The Hauszwalb family had been hatmakers in Kazimierz Dolny for several generations. Her father, Moszek…

…Oral history interviews of the Polish Witnesses to the Holocaust Project…

…Harry Markowicz, born on August 9, 1937 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his Polish parents; his older siblings; a family friend who was a policeman and…

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… after World War I. This photo shows Harry's mother's family around 1914 in Widawa, Poland. Harry's mother is the second from the left in the back row with…

…; his older sister Madeleine; his family’s move to Paris in 1938; the German invasion of France in May 1940; fleeing with his family to Issoudun; his…

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… France, then Germany, then France. After World War I it was part of France but it was very close to the border. Alex's family had emigrated to Strasbourg…

… ghetto in 1942; being hidden with a number of Polish families until the end of the war and only learned he was Jewish later; life after the war; his mother…

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… Polish. It's just speaks more to a more integrated family, one that was more secular than, let's say, someone who was from a small village, and it was a…

…Harry Markowicz, born on August 9, 1937 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his Polish parents; his older siblings; a family friend who was a policeman and…

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… third from the left in the back row. On this map of Germany the arrow points to Berlin, where Harry and his family lived when he was born. In 1938 when…

… 1940; his father’s work as a teacher and exile to Siberia with his family when he refused to become a Russian citizen; his mother’s family and their…

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… family history. In 1946, the 4 Borenstein’s returned to Poland and then made plans to immigrate to Israel. Alec thinks that it was the Jewish Joint…