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Contains photocopies of clippings and other documents relating to the actions of Mary Barys Szul (b. 1928) who was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1982 (Case Number 3233).

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 ...

Suzanne Tarica was born Suzanne Mayer in Nice in 1940 to Daniel and Renée Mayer. Daniel Mayer was the youngest of eight children of Salomon (1865-1932) and Babette Mayer (1863-1942) of Bollendorf. His brothers and sisters were Moritz (Maurice), Paula, Netta, Max, Julius, Salli, and Berta. Moritz lived in Malmedy and Liège with his wife Mimi and son Carlo. He died at Auschwitz in 1943. Paula lived with ...

Tarnów is a city in southern Poland, 45 miles east of Kraków (Cracow). Before World War II, about 25,000 Jews lived in Tarnów. Jews—whose recorded presence in the town went back to the mid-fifteenth century—comprised about half of the town's total population. A large portion of Jewish business in Tarnów was devoted to garment and hat manufacturing. The Jewish community was ideologically diverse and ...

The collection consists of correspondence, claim forms, documentation, banking statements, and receipts for payments to file paperwork illustrating the experiences of Claire (Klara) Salpeter Greenwald and her attempt to gain reparations from the German government in the 1950s and 1960s and Swiss banks in the 1990s and 2000s. The claims relate to her parents and sisters, including efforts to claim losses ...

Based on recently-opened archives, analyzes the phases of annihilation of the Jews in the district of Lublin. The police, the Wehrmacht, and the civil administration cooperated with the SS in this project. Describes shooting of Jews, the establishment of ghettos, economic measures, forced labor, and deportation to Bełżec and Sobibór. Power in the district was in the hands of SS-and-police commander ...

When the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Thomas Toivi Blatt was twelve years old. He and his family lived in the largely Jewish town of Izbica in the Lublin district of Poland - a district that was to become the site of three of the six major Nazi extermination camps: Belzec, Sobibor, and Majdanek. Blatt's account of his childhood in Izbica provides a fascinating glimpse of Jewish life ...

Memoirs of two Jews, an uncle and his nephew, relating the fate of their villages, Kosów and Żabie (now Kosov and Verkhovina in Ukraine) in the Holocaust. Pp. 11-108, by Jehoschua (Kosów, 1886-Israel, 1972), describe life in the "Shtetl" from the end of the 18th century, and relate events in October 1941 when the Gestapo, with the assistance of Ukrainians, murdered 2,200 Jews in Kosów. Several ...

Consists of photographs, identification cards, certificates and other documents relating to Wolf Finkelman's internment in Mauthausen and his time in the Bindermichl displaced persons camps and his emigration to the United States in 1946.

Gerstein (1905-1945), conservative and nationalist, was ambivalent toward Nazism but opposed its anti-Church policy and was associated with the Confessing Church. His writings contain antisemitic passages. He was twice imprisoned, and his career advancement as a mining engineer was obstructed. Partly, perhaps, as a way out, partly, as he later said, to bear witness, in March 1941 he joined the SS and ...