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<p><strong style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration-color: initial;">Readers need to book&nbsp; a reading room terminal to access this digital content</strong><br /></p><p>Gerta and Rudolf Pollak were assimilated Jews from Prague, a middle class family, relatively well off and not particularly religious. Their two sons, Felix and Arnost, managed to flee to Great Britain on one of the Kindertransporte. ...

Manuscript: written by Wieslaw Dobrowolski (birth name: Izaak Dreiman) [donor's father] in 1964 in Walbrzych, Poland. Translated into English from the original Polish "Five Years in the Crosshair" describing his experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, Lublin ghetto, Majdanek concentration camp, his many escapes and life on false papers as Wieslaw Dobrowolski.

Helena Piasecka (1914-2006) was born Helena Karolewska on October 2, 1914 in Żuromin, Poland to Helena (née Baranski) and Jakub Karolewski. She had two sisters: Władysława Karolewska (later Władysława Łapińska), and Henryka Karolewska (later Henryka Szawarin). She was Roman Catholic, and married to Edward Piasecki. After Germany and Russia invaded Poland in September 1939, Helena and her husband were ...

Jakob Sporrenberg presided over <i>Aktion Erntefest</i> in which 42,000 unarmed civilians were killed in 14 hours.

The collection contains i.a. a large quantity of documents of Referat do spraw żydowskich (Referat Judenfragen, Office for Jewish affairs, units 270-809) and Wydział administracji i pracy (Abteilung Innere Verwaltung und Abteilung Arbeit, Department of Administration and Labour), including lists of transports. These reference Lublin and many other places in the district, including Biłgoraj, Krasnystaw, ...

Gabryela Bromberg was born on August 27, 1938 in Lublin, Poland. She was the only daughter of Rachela Epsztajn Bromberg and Michał Bromberg. In 1939 the Bromberg family moved to Zamość, Poland. During the liquidation of the Zamość ghetto, the Jewish population was forced into transit camp in Izbica. At that time Gabryela’s parents were already deported to Sobibór concentration camp, where they both ...

Selected records of pre-war, wartime, and postwar files of various offices in Zamość: prewar and wartime (into 1943) tax office records (including real estate); the (Jewish) schools inspectorate; social welfare (lists of employees, work books), including some material from the occupation; files from the towns of Szczebrzeszyn, Tomaszów Lubelski, and Zamość (including municipal council minutes, registries ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Durch Führererlass vom 12.10.1939 Errichtung der Regierung des Generalgouvernements in den militärisch besetzten polnischen Gebieten, soweit nicht ins Deutsche Reich eingegliedert, mit Sitz in Krakau. Die zur Hauptabteilung Wissenschaft und Unterricht gehörende Hauptverwaltung der Bibliotheken unter Leitung von Dr. Gustav Abb hatte die Aufgabe, zunächst alle wissenschaftlichen ...

Translation of: Zagłada Żydów w obozie koncentracyjnym na Majdanku. [88] pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : 40 illustrations ; 24 cm

Majdanek after liberation. Sign acknowledging the L. Rechkemmer firm of Warsaw for providing the heating and plumbing facilities at the camp. Human skulls in the grass. Eyeglasses, shoes, hairbrushes, other personal belongings. Soviets inspecting the camp, walking across a huge pile of shoes. Crowds line the streets, greeting returning Polish army. Man standing on a tank speaks to crowd.