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Guide to the Papers of Julian (Yehiel) Hirszhaut (1908-1983) 1921-1988, 2001-2004 (bulk 1939-1945) RG 720

Processed by Felicia Figa, Leah Oler and Markus Nowogrodzki. Additional processing by Rachel S. Harrison in 2013. Described and encoded as part of the CJH Holocaust Resource Initiative, made possible by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany.

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Collection Overview

Title: Guide to the Papers of Julian (Yehiel) Hirszhaut (1908-1983) 1921-1988, 2001-2004 (bulk 1939-1945) RG 720

Predominant Dates:(bulk 1939-1945)

ID: RG 720 FA

Extent: 5.0 Linear Feet. More info below.

Arrangement:

A Yiddish card catalog for the testimonies was created by Felicia Figa. The correspondence listing was compiled by Leah Oler. The addendum was processed by Markus Nowogrodzki. The complete Yiddish card catalog was translated and additional processing was completed in 2013. Described and encoded as part of the CJH Holocaust Resource Initiative, made possible by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany.

This collection is arranged by topic and document format. The Testimonies and Correspondence series are arranged alphabetically according to the Hebrew alphabet, even when the materials are in a language that uses the Latin alphabet. The Writings and Printed Materials series is arranged alphabetically according to the Latin alphabet even when the materials are in Yiddish. The addendum is arranged by document type. The addendum correspondence and newspaper clippings are arranged chronologically and the Di Zukunft submissions are arranged alphabetically according to the Latin alphabet.

Yiddish writings have been transliterated and translated and Polish and German writings and publications have been translated. Yiddish personal names have been transliterated according to YIVO standards except when the individual is known in English by another spelling. Additionally, if the name appeared in Latin letters anywhere within the folder, that spelling was used rather than a standard transliteration.

The names of geographical locations indicating places of birth and ghettos listed within the testimonies have been spelled according to what that location was called in its respective country in 1939, without diacriticals. Russian place names have been transliterated. For concentration camp names, the German wartime spelling has been used. Thus a person may have been born in Oswiecim but interned in the Auschwitz camp. Within German-occupied Poland, the Generalgouvernement, the Germans mainly used the Polish spellings without the diacriticals. This system has been followed for forced labor camps for Jews and prisoner of war camps, although the testimony descriptions do not differentiate between the types of camps. In the German-occupied Soviet Union and some of the more eastern parts of Poland, as well as for some of the states allied with Nazi Germany, including Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, and others, the Germans often developed their own more Germanized spellings of town names although they were not always consistent in this. These names, when clear from the testimonies, have been used although, when the Germanized name is not clear, the 1939 name has been used.

The collection is organized into three series and an addendum, some of which have been further divided into subseries.

Languages: Polish, Yiddish, German, English, French, Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian

Abstract

This collection contains the papers of Julian Hirszhaut, a Yiddish journalist and author of several works about the Holocaust in Poland. He collected a great number of historical documents on this topic, including hundreds of eyewitness accounts, which make up an important part of this collection. The materials in this collection relate to Hirszhaut’s important work gathering documents and testimonies of the Holocaust, as well as to his other professional activities as a journalist.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection relates mainly to Hirszhaut’s collecting of Holocaust materials, which he began soon after the war. There are also materials relating to his involvement with publishing and writing articles for various Yiddish and Polish newspapers. A major part of this collection consists of hundreds of eyewitness Holocaust testimonies, as well as newspaper clippings, correspondence, printed material, and photographs relating to Jews in Poland under Nazi occupation. The eyewitness testimonies were collected ca. 1945 by local Jewish historical commissions in Bialystok, Katowice, Krakow, Lublin, Lodz, and Warsaw. The testimonies are in Polish, Yiddish and German.

Materials relating to the Lodz ghetto include photographs, ghetto money, printed announcements by Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski, and a handwritten Zionist newspaper from the ghetto edited by Dawid Joskowicz. There are also newspapers from the Polish underground and from other ghettos, and miscellaneous materials from Jewish organizations in post-war Poland, such as Ichud and the Central Jewish Historical Commission.

The collection also contains manuscripts and typescripts of articles by Hirszhaut and other writers, many of which are unattributed, and a great deal of correspondence. Correspondents include Abraham Golomb, Chaim Grade, Freed Weininger, Herschel Weinrauch (Grigory Vinokur), Hinde Zaretski, Israel Silberberg-Cholewa, Jacob Zipper, Shea Tenenbaum, Saul Maltz, Jacob Maitlis, Avram Sutzkever, Moishe Ettinger, Arnold Posy, Menke Katz, Rokhl Korn, Joseph Kermish, Isaac Rontch, William Shore, and Mordkhe Schaechter, among others.

Additionally, there is an addendum containing supplementary materials, mostly from the 1970s and 1980s, including submissions to Di Zukunft , of which Hirszhaut was the editor, correspondence, papers of Hanka Hirszhaut, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous writings.

Historical Note

Biographical Note Julian (Yehiel) Hirszhaut was born on September 2, 1908 in Drohobycz, Poland, near Lwow. He graduated from LwowUniversity with a Master’s degree in jurisprudence and political economics and simultaneously graduated from the Hebrew Pedagogical Institute, also in Lwow, in 1933. Following his graduation, Hirszhaut worked as the legal advisor to a large bank, first at the Lwowbranch and later at the main office in Warsaw. He was also involved in Zionist activities in Western Galicia, and wrote about Zionist problems in both Polish and Yiddish periodicals. He first published his work in the Polish monthly Narod (Nation, Warsaw) in 1929 and continued to publish in Polish and Yiddish until the beginning of World War II. Among the publications he wrote for were Der emes (The Truth, Warsaw), Der nayer veg (The New Way, Paris, later London), Haynt (Today, Warsaw), Der kampf (The Struggle, Lwow), and Di naye velt (The New World, German, Vienna). He also contributed to the Polish daily Chwilie (Moment, Lwow).

From 1939-1942 Hirszhaut was in hiding in Warsaw before he went to live with his brother and sister-in-law who were living with Aryan identity papers. Hirszhaut obtained false identity papers and even got a job working for a local hardware wholesaler for several months. He was arrested and sent to Pawiak Prison in Warsaw on July 8, 1943 where he stayed for a year before escaping on May 30, 1944. Hirszhaut’s brother was also sent to Pawiak Prison, where he died in November 1943. After escaping, Hirszhaut went into hiding, where he was able to survive until the end of the war. His wife, daughter and entire family perished in the Holocaust.

Hirszhaut helped to build the postwar Yiddish press in Poland, founding and editing the periodicals Ichud (Union, Lodz, 1945, Polish and Yiddish), Opinia (Opinion, Lodz, 1945) and Życie Warszawy (Life of Warsaw, 1945), for which he used the name Michal Dobiecki. He was also the honorary President of the Jewish Committee in Warsaw after the war and, as part of this office, he was instrumental in organizing local Jewish historical committees in Bialystok, Katowice, Krakow, Lublin, Lodz, and Warsaw to collect eyewitness Holocaust testimonies. Hirszhaut also wrote extensively on the Holocaust period in Poland and bought and collected historical documents and photographs on this topic, many of which he later sent to Yad Vashem. Hirszhaut married Hanka Hirszhaut, another survivor, in Lodz in July 1945.

The Hirszhauts moved to France in June 1946 on the invitation of the French Zionist Organization. There they helped ensure that illegally arriving Jews got temporary visas to stay in France and provided help and clothing. As an emissary of the French government, Julian Hirszhaut went to Poland to distribute 500 visas for Jewish survivors. He also continued to be involved in publishing while in France. He was the editor of Di tsionistishe shtime (The Zionist Voice, 1946), Videroyfboy (Reconstruction, 1946-1947), which was published through the Union of Polish Jews in France, Undzer veg (Our Way, 1946-1951), and Undzer vort (Our Word, 1946). He also wrote a series of essays for Kiyum (Existence) in Paris: on the history of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1948-1949), about Holocaust literature among the Germans (April 1950), and about politics and Jews (1950-1951).

In February 1951 the Hirszhauts settled in New York, where once again Julian Hirszhaut involved himself in publishing and writing about the Holocaust. He edited Amerikaner (The American, 1951-1952), YIVO bleter (YIVO Pages, 1954) and Di Zukunft (Future, 1976-1983). He also served as the President of the Yiddish PEN Club and the executive director of the Congress for Jewish Culture in New York.

Among his books and writings are Finstere nekht in Pawiak (Dark Nights in Pawiak), published by the Central Union of Polish Jews in Argentina in 1948, later published as Jewish Martyrs of Pawiak in 1982; Yidishe Naft Magnatn (Jewish Oil Magnates, 1954); “Dr. Ignacy Schipper – His Life and Works” in Fun noentn ever (From the Recent Past), published by the World Jewish Culture Congress in 1955; and “Meir Balaban” in Dortn (There, 1959), among others.

Julian Hirszhaut died in New York on March 20, 1983. He was survived by his wife, Hanka, and two daughters, Betty Lee Hirszhaut and Dr. Vivian Hirszhaut Swartz.

Subject/Index Terms

Administrative Information

Alternate Extent Statement: 12 5" boxes

Access Restrictions: Permission to use the collection must be obtained from the YIVO Archivist.

Use Restrictions:

Permission to publish part or parts of the collection must be obtained from the YIVO Archives. For more information, contact:

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011

email: archives@yivo.cjh.org

Acquisition Method: The materials were donated to YIVO by Julian Hirszhaut in several accessions between 1975-1978. Additional materials were donated by Julian Hirszhaut’s widow, Hanka Hirszhaut in 1983, 2001 and 2004.

Separated Materials: There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically separated or removed.

Original/Copies Note: There is a card catalog for Series I: Eyewitness Testimonies, a handwritten Yiddish list of correspondents and a guide to the addendum.

Related Materials: The YIVO, AJHS and LBI Library and Archives have a wealth of materials about World War II, the Holocaust, concentration camps, survivor testimonies, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Lodz ghetto, and many other topics found in the Hirszhaut Papers. There are also many collections in the YIVO Archives relating to Yiddish newspapers and journals and Yiddish newspaper publishing. The YIVO Library has several of Hirszhaut’s books, including Jewish Martyrs of Pawiak , Finstere nekht in Pawiak , Der nign fun nekhtn , In gang fun der geshikhte: monografyes un eseyen , and Yidishe naft-magnatn .

Preferred Citation: Published citations should take the following form:Identification of item, date (if known); Papers of Julian (Yehiel) Hirszhaut; RG 720; box number; folder number; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.


Box and Folder Listing


Browse by Series:

Series 1: Series I: Eyewitness Testimonies, 1940-1946,
Series 2: Series II: Writings and Printed Materials, 1930-1978, undated,
Series 3: Series III: Correspondence, 1970-1982,
Series 4: Series IV: Addendum, 1921, 1944-1948, 1963, 1974-1988, 2001-2004, undated

Series I: Eyewitness Testimonies
1940-1946
This series consists of hundreds of eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust collected by local Jewish historical committees in Bialystok, Katowice, Krakow, Lublin, Lodz, and Warsaw. While most of the testimonies are undated, the majority date from 1945, with some as early as 1944. The testimonies are written mostly in Polish and Yiddish, with a few in German. Many follow a format of giving basic biographical information about the eyewitness, followed with his or her wartime experience, often in rough chronological order, focusing mainly on time spent in ghettos, in various camps, in hiding, and with the partisans.
Folders: 349
Subseries 1: Polish Testimonies
1944-1946
This subseries contains the majority of the Holocaust testimonies that were collected soon after the war under the auspices of Hirszhaut in his position as the honorary President of the Jewish Committee in Warsaw. Most of the testimonies are in Polish, although there are also a few testimonies in German, which are indicated in the notes.
Folders: 275
Folder 1: Abraham, Salomon
undated

Born 1919 in Amsterdam

Was in Conrad in Orelysen , Holland ; Westerbork ; Sachlau ; and Blechhammer camps

1 pg.

Folder 2: Ausuebel, Dawid
undated

Was in Plaszow camp

1 pg.

Folder 3: Auerbach, Maks
undated

Born 1919 in Tarnopol

Was in Belzec camp

1 pg.

Folder 3A: Urwicz, Filip
undated

Born 1908 in Kowno

Tells about the partisans in Belarus

4 pgs.

Folder 3B: Ajdelman, Genia
18-May-45

Born 1924 in Lubartow

Was in Belzyce , Budzyn , Pustkow , Majdanek , and Birkenau camps

3 pgs.

Folder 4: Altman, Salomon
undated

Born 1929 in Czestochowa

Was a partisan in Pilica

1 pg.

Folder 5: Alster, Israel
undated

Born 1915 in Czechoslovakia

Was in Rymanow , Plaszow , and Wieliczka camps

2 pgs.

Folder 5A: Alfiner, Dawid
undated

Born 1929 in Oksza

Was a partisan

1 pg.

Folder 6: Amiel, Szymon
undated

Born 1907 in Bialystok

Was employed in digging up the victims from mass graves

2 pgs.

Folder 6A: Anonymous
undated

Was a partisan

2 pgs.

Folder 6B: Anonymous
undated

Tells about the activities of the United Partisan Organization (Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye-FPO) in Wilno

2 pgs.

Folder 7: Anonymous
undated

Tells about the liquidation of the orphanage in Lublin

2 pgs.

Folder 8: Anonymous
undated

Tells about the liquidation of 140 Jews in Tyniec nad Skawina

1 pg.

Folder 9: Anonymous
undated

Memoirs of the Warszawa ghetto

4 pgs.

Folder 10: Anonymous
undated

On the Danzig Jewish community in the years 1920-1945

German

2 pgs.

Folder 11: Anonymous
15-Apr-45

On the situation of the Jews in Upper Silesia after 1939

1 pg.

Folder 12: Anonymous
20-Aug-44

On the liquidation of the ghetto in Staszow

27 pgs.

Folder 13: Anonymous
undated

Interview from Warszawa

Was in the Warszawa ghetto

Tells how Jewish children used to use the sewers to exit the ghetto and receive food from Polish families

1 pg.

Folder 14: Anonymous
undated

About the camp in Zschachwitz where, among others, there were 450 Jews who were employed in the Muehlen Industrie A.G. factory producing tanks

1 pg.

Folder 15: Anonymous
undated

Chronicle of the Zionist Youth Organization in the Lodz ghetto, Hazit Dor Bnei Midbar

19 pgs.

Folder 16: Anonymous
undated

Interview from Warszawa

1 pg.

Folder 17: Anonymous
30-Jun-44

Exhumation of Jewish bodies in Zbaraz

German

1 pg.

Folder 18: Anonymous (Bejlin, Stefa Zebrala)
undated

Was living near Warszawa with Aryan identity papers

Relates an episode of her life

3 pgs.

Folder 19: Akerman, Lea
undated

Born 1924 in Kowno

Was in Kowno and Riga ghettos and Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps

Describes the Judenrat in the Kowno ghetto, the Jewish police and the Lithuanian military and police

11 pg.

Folder 19A: Boguszewska
undated

Tells about the Jewish children's home in Lublin

3 pgs.

Folder 20: Bouscholbe, Dorita
undated

Born 1910 in The Hague

Was in Westerbork and Birkenau camps

1 pg.

Folder 20A: Bakalczuk, Mejlach
undated

Tells about the heroic fight of the Jews in the shtetls Lachwa and Szczuczyn

2 pgs.

Folder 21: Barasz, Chana
undated

Her journey from Warszawa to Treblinka

Later was in the forest near Szepietowka

3 pgs.

Folder 22: Boruchowicz, Maksymiljan
18-May-45

Born 1909 in Krakow

Describes the situation of the Jews in Lwow in the time of the German occupation

3 pgs.

Folder 23: Bart, Marta
8-Aug-45

Born 1907 in Mir

Was in Swierzen camp

Was later a partisan in the Belarus forest

2 pgs.

Folder 24: Borenstein-Affenkraut, Gusta
14-May-45

Born 1917 in Krakow

Was in the Tarnow ghetto and Plaszow , Auschwitz-Birkenau and Lichtwerden camps

3 pgs.

Folder 25: Borensztein, Joel
undated

Was in Auschwitz

2 pgs.

Folder 26: Bojm, Mojsze
undated

Born 1908 in Radom

Tells about the Jewish community in Radom in the years 1939-1945

4 pgs.

Folder 27: Buksztein, Szymon
undated

Born 1906 in Kutno

Was in the Kutno ghetto and Leczyca , Gniezno , Inowroclaw , Posen , Andrzejow , and Auschwitz camps

1 pg.

Folder 27A: Biber, Lejbisz and Fejga
undated

About the Biber family during the time of the German occupation in Ostrorog

5 pgs.

Folder 28: Biezuner, Estera
undated

Was in the Warszawa ghetto

2 pgs.

Folder 28A: Bielski, Anatol (Tuvia)
undated

Born 1906 in Stankiewicze

Tells how he organized partisan groups in the Naliboki Forest

2 pgs.

Folder 29: Birenbaum, Michal
undated

Born in Lipsko

Was in Auschwitz camp

4 pgs.

Folder 30: Birenbaum [Tenebaum], Mordka
1-Jun-45

[Last name appears to be Tenebaum]

Born 1918 in Warszawa

Was in Auschwitz-Birkenau camp

2 pgs.

Folder 31: Blut, Tadeusz
undated

Born 1925 in Jaslo

Lived with Aryan identity papers

1 pg.

Folder 32: Blezowska-Turek, Bronislawa
undated

Born 1922 in Karpilowice

Was a partisan

1 pg.

Folder 33: Berand, Matys
10-Jul-45

Born 1910 in Lodz

Was in the Danzig and Lodz ghettos and in Auschwitz , Watenstedt , Ravensbrueck and Ludwigslust camps

German

2 pgs.

Folder 34: Bergman, Szyja
undated

Worked in a military factory in Rzeszow during the occupation

1 pg.

Folder 35: Berman, Sara
13-Jul-45

Born 1922 in Kowno

Was in the Kowno ghetto and Stutthof camp

German

2 pgs.

Folder 36: Berkowicz, Berko
undated

Born 1888 in Stolpce

Was in the Stolpce ghetto and Baranowicze camp

Escaped from the camp and hid in the Naliboki Forest

Tells how the Soviet partisans killed the Jews who hid in the forest

6 pgs.

Folder 37: Bratspiel, Fryderyka
undated

Born 1929 in Lwow

Was in the Lwow ghetto

3 pgs.

Folder 38: Broner, Hersz
undated

Born 1930 in Krasnik

Was in the Krasnik ghetto and Budzyn camp

Was later a partisan

3 pgs.

Folder 38A: Brejzel, Aron
undated

Born 1907 in Goraj , Bilgoraj County

Was in the Zolkiewka ghetto

Was later a partisan

2 pgs.

Folder 39: Goldberg, Izak
undated

Born in Rozan

Was in Wolkowysk and Auschwitz-Birkenau camps

2 pgs.

Folder 40: Goldfand, Fima
undated

Born 1925 in Berezow

Was a partisan

2 pgs.

Folder 40A: Goldberg, Szymon
16-Jul-45

Born 1914 in Warszawa

Was in the Czestochowa ghetto and Treblinka camp

Was later a partisan

4 pgs.

Folder 41: Goldfinger
undated

Born in Brzesko

Was in the Montelupich Prison in Krakow

2 pgs.

Folder 42: Goldsztajn, Dr.
undated

Born in Pruzana

Was in the Pruzana and Naleczow ghettos

4 pgs.

Folder 43: Goldszmit, Zygmunt
undated

Born in 1908 in Dubienka

Was in the Krakow ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau camp

Tells about the round-up in December 1939 in the Kazimierz quarter of Krakow

2 pgs.

Folder 44: Gorodejskaja, Estera
9-Aug-45

Born 1888 in Kryniczna

Was in the Belarus forest

3 pgs.

Folder 45: Gutman, Mojzesz
18-May-45

Born 1913

Was a partisan in the forest near Kozy and Bujakow

3 pgs.

Folder 45A: Gusser, Walter
undated

Was in the Wilno ghetto

Was later a partisan

10 pgs.

Folder 46: Glod, Piotr
25-Jul-45

Born 1877 in Grochowice

Tells about Jewish partisans to whom he gave food and arms

1 pg.

Folder 47: Gewuerz, Anni
26-Jun-45

Born 1924 in Leipzig

Was in the Riga ghetto and the Stutthof and Kokoschken camps

German

2 pgs.

Folder 47A: Gerliczanski, Icchok
undated

Born 1908 in Sandomierz

Tells about the situation of the Jews in Sandomierz in 1939

4 pgs.

Folder 48: Gielczynska, Romana
undated

Born 1921 in Warszawa

Lived with Aryan identity papers

21 pgs.

Folder 49: Gertler, Leonka
21-Jul-44

Born 1923 in Krakow

Tells about the destruction of the Jews in Debica

7 pgs.

Folder 50: Gerszunio, Mojsze
15-Jul-45

Born 1910 in Bialystok

Was in the Bialystok ghetto

Was employed in digging up the victims from mass graves

6 pgs.

Folder 51: Grabel, Chaim
undated

Was in the Belzyce ghetto, Wieliczka Salt Mine, and Budzyn and Flossenbuerg camps

3 pgs.

Folder 52: Gross, Naftali (Natan)
undated

Lived with Aryan identity papers in Krakow , Warszawa and various small towns

Describes the situation of the Jews on the Aryan side

33 pgs.

Folder 53: Gruber, Mieczyslaw
undated

Born 1913 in Podhajce

Was a prisoner of war in Stalag XII-A in Langwasser [the POW camp at Langwasser-Nuremberg appears to have been Stalag XIII-D], Stalag V-A in Ludwigsburg , Stalag VIII-A in Goerlitz , and in Lublin

Was also a partisan

11 pgs.

Folder 54: Gruber, Nuta
6-Nov-44

Born 1888 in Dubienka

Was in the Kamien Koszyrski and in the forest

2 pgs.

Folder 55: Gryn [Meryn] Family
undated

[Last name appears to be Meryn]

See also folder 136

Whole family was born in Bedzin

Family spent the period of the occupation in Bedzin

11 pgs.

Folder 56: Gruenbaum, Emil
undated

Born 1912 in Cieszyn

Was in the Jaworzno ghetto

3 pgs.

Folder 57: Grinsberg, Jakob
undated

Born 1928 in Radziwillow

Was in the Radziwillow and Brody ghettos

1 pg.

Folder 58: Grynszpan, Chana
undated

Born 1922 in Wilno

Was in the Wilno ghetto, Kaiserwald camp in Riga and Stutthof camp

4 pgs.

Folder 59: Grynszpan, Mojsze
undated

Born 1911 in Kielce

Was in Skarzysko Kamienna and Czestochowa camps where he worked in HASAG ammunitions factories

Describes the last days of one of the camps and gives names of Nazi murderers

2 pgs.

Folder 59A: Dabrowski, Benjamin
undated

Born 1916 in Dereczyn

Tells about the ghetto in Dereczyn and about the partisans in the Dereczyn region

9 pgs.

Folder 60: Holaender, M.
undated

Describes the evacuation of the Jews from Wieliczka

3 pgs.

Folder 61: Honigman, Hela
8-Jul-45

Born 1920 in Bedzin

Was in the Bedzin ghetto and Gleiwitz camp

6 pgs.

Folder 61A: Harndorf, Feliks
undated

Born 1915 in Krakow

Tells about the activities of the Polish Workers' Party (Polska Partia Robotnicza, PPR) in the Krakow ghetto

3 pgs.

Folder 62: Horniak, Marian
undated

Born 1899 in Bursztyn

Was in Tarnow during the occupation, helped to rescue Jews

2 pgs.

Folder 63: Hirsz, Paulina
undated

Born 1902

Lived with Aryan identity papers in Wieliczka , Krakow , Lwow , and Warszawa

2 pgs.

Folder 63A: Hirszhaut, Hanka
Mar-46

Was in the Warszawa ghetto

Tells about the round-ups in September 1942 on Mila Street in Warszawa

4 pgs.

Folder 64: Hecht, Bodo
25-Jun-45

Born 1922 in Danzig

Was in the Neugarten Prison

German

1 pg.

Folder 65: Hecht, Jozef
undated

Born 1920 in Lapanow

Hid with Poles in various villages

2 pgs.

Folder 66: Heller, Martin
undated

Born 1895 in Lehota , Slovakia

Was transported to Hungary , then to Trzebinia

1 pg.

Folder 66A: Hering, Itka
undated

Born 1924 in Zamosc

Was in the Zamosc ghetto

Was later a partisan

3 pgs.

Folder 67: Wowsi, Lila
undated

Born 1898 in Subala , Latvia

Was in camps in Riga , Stutthof , and Torun

4 pgs.

Folder 68: Wojtysiak, Stanislaw
undated

Born 1909 in Kutno

Was a driver for the police in the Kutno ghetto

1 pg.

Folder 68A: Wolfgang, Adolf
undated

Was in the Szebnie camp

Was later a partisan

2 pgs.

Folder 69: Wassersztein, Szmul
undated

Born 1923 in Jedwabne

Tells about the liquidation of the Jews in Jedwabne

1 pg.

Folder 70: Wargon, Uszer (Aleksander)
undated

Born 1926 in Warszawa

Was in the Warszawa ghetto

Later lived with Aryan identity papers

1 pg.

Folder 71: Wahrhaftig, Salomon
undated

Born 1912 in Lublin

Was a partisan in Belarus

2 pgs.

Folder 72: Wasilewski, Jerzy
undated

Was forced to dig mass graves in the Ponary Massacre and to burn the bodies of the victims

1 pg.

Folder 73: Wulf, Jozef
undated

Was in the Krakow and Bochnia ghettos

1 pg.

Folder 73A: Wittelson, Chaim
14-Jul-45

Born 1914 in Sosnowiec

Was in the Zloczow ghetto, afterwards he hid

2 pgs.

Folder 74: Wajcman, Antoni
1-Jun-45

Born 1885 in Warszawa

Tells how he hid Jews

2 pgs.

Folder 75: Weinheber, Elza
undated

Born in Krakow

Was in Vienna , the Riga ghetto, and Stutthof and Baumgarten, East Prussia camps

2 pgs.

Folder 76: Wejcberg, N.
20-Jul-45

Conducted sabotage through the Jews in concentration camps in Maslowice and Goerlitz

2 pgs.

Folder 77: Wettman, Salomon
undated

Born 1924 in Czestochowa

Tells about the Jewish Fighting Organization in Pilica (ZOB)

1 pg.

Folder 78: Vera, Berta
undated

Born 1923 in Berechowo, Hungary

Was in the Berechowo ghetto and Auschwitz and Beizenburg camps

1 pg.

Folder 79: Werbliner, Tauba
undated

Born 1905 in Kowno

Was in the Kowno ghetto and Stutthof , Baumgarten , Lubicz and Cieszyn camps

3 pgs.

Folder 80: Wroblewski, Stanislaw
undated

Born 1901 in Czestochowa

Tells about American identity papers for Jews in the Hotel Polski in Warszawa

1 pg.

Folder 81: Zawistowska/Sonnabend
undated

Born 1918 in Warszawa

Tells about the liquidation of the Warszawa ghetto

1 pg.

Folder 82: Zamsztejn, Zofia
undated

Born 1923 in Warszawa

Was in the Warszawa ghetto, Pawiak Prison and Gesiowka camp, a camp for Greek, Hungarian and French Jews

14 pgs.

Folder 82A: Zakuski, Icek
12-Nov-45

Born 1918 in Ossowa

Was a partisan

3 pg.

Folder 83: Zarecki, Lejzor
undated

Born 1881 in Stolpce

Was in the Stolpce ghetto

Was later a partisan

2 pgs.

Folder 84: Siegman, Joanna
undated

Born 1927

Was in Sosnowiec ghetto and Neustadt and Gruenberg camps

1 pg.

Folder 85: Zylberberg, Jakob and others
undated

Born in Tuczyn

Was in the Tuczyn ghetto

8 pgs.

Folder 86: Seidner, Jakub
undated

Born 1899 in Bedzin

Was in Reigersfeld and Blechhammer camps

2 pgs.

Folder 87: Zarnowiecka, Zofia
undated

Born 1910 in Lublin

Tells about the execution of Jews in a shtetl not far from Wilno

3 pgs.

Folder 88: Zurawski, Mieczyslaw
undated

Born 1910 in Klodawa

Was in the Lodz ghetto and Chelmno camp

5 pgs.

Folder 89: Zmigrod, Helena
undated

Tells about Jews employed in German workshops

2 pgs.

Folder 90: Ziemianski, Jan
undated

Tells about Pustkow , a training camp for the SS and SS-Gallizien divisions

After 1942, it was a camp for Jews and Poles

4 pgs.

Folder 91: Tabaksblat, Izrael
undated

Was in the Lodz ghetto

5 pgs.

Folder 92: Taubenblatt, Rena
undated

Born 1922 in Krakow

Was in Plaszow , Skarzysko Kamienna and Leipzig camps

5 pgs.

Folder 93: Tauber, Hirsch
undated

Born 1917 in Chrzanow

Was in the Krakow ghetto, Montelupich Prison , and Auschwitz-Birkenau camp

3 pgs.

Folder 94: Taustein, Benjamin
undated

Born 1896 in Boryslaw

Was a prisoner of war in camps in Hungary and Germany , including Nagykanizsa , Zalaszentgrot , Mosdos , Namesmikola , Szombathely , Esterhase , Kaisersteinbrueck , and Luckenwalde

2 pgs.

Folder 95: Tarlaga, Dr. Jan
undated

Tells about the situation of the Jews in Mielec in the time of the German occupation

2 pgs.

Folder 96: Tell, Leib
undated

Born 1899 in Rutki

Was in the Rutki ghetto

Was later in the forest near Grodek Jagiellonski

2 pgs.

Folder 96A: Tempelhof, Basia
undated

Was in the Czestochowa ghetto

6 pgs.

Folder 97: Tesse, Marceli
undated

Born 1936 in Tarnow

Was in the Tarnow ghetto and Plaszow , Gross Rosen and Auschwitz-Birkenau camps

4 pgs.

Folder 98: Terkel, Anna
undated

Born 1918 in Tarnopol

Was in the Tarnow ghetto

Later lived with Aryan identity papers

2 pgs.

Folder 99: Truskier, Eugenia
undated

Born 1914 in Warszawa

Was in the Warszawa ghetto and in a prison, although she does not say which prison

Describes the organization and activities of the Jewish police in the Warszawa ghetto, the activities of the Judenrat and the liquidation of the Jews until the uprising of 19 April 1943

8 pgs.

Folder 100: Trenczek, Hans-Wolfgang
undated

Born 1924 in Bytom

Was in Bytom

Was later in a camp in France , although he does not say which one

German

1 pg.

Folder 101: Czapnik, Bernard
undated

Born 1908 in Krakow

Was in the Bochnia ghetto and Jaslo and Auschwitz camps

2 pgs.

Folder 101A: Czerwonka, Leon
undated

Born 1933 in Warszawa

He and his parents were partisans

1 pg.

Folder 102: Jablot, Marcel
undated

Born 1924 in Paris

Was in a camp in Paris , Auschwitz and Fuerstengrube camps

1 pg.

Folder 103: Janowski, Bryskier
undated

Describes the situation in Warszawa during the German occupation

10 pgs.

Folder 104: Janczewski, Stefan
undated

Born 1905 in Kutno

Tells about the ghetto in Kutno

1 pg.

Folder 105: Janiszewska, Michalina
undated

Tells how she hid a Jewish child

2 pgs.

Folder 106: Josilewicz, Monus
undated

Born 1924 in Nowy Swierzen

Was in the Nowy Swierzen ghetto

Was later a partisan in the Belarus forest

1 pg.

Folder 107: Josefson, Guta
undated

Born 1927 in Warszawa

Was in the Warszawa ghetto and in Majdanek , Skarzysko and Czestochowa camps

2 pgs.

Folder 108: Joskowicz, Dawid
undated

Poems, articles and a handwritten newspaper written in the Lodz ghetto

Photographs

30pgs.

Folder 109: Jakubowicz, Luzer
undated

Born 1903 in Kutno

Was in the Kutno ghetto and Zychlin and Auschwitz camps

1 pg.

Folder 109A: Kahane, Dawid
undated

Born 1917 in Rzepiennik

Was in Rzepiennik , not far from Goerlitz

2 pgs.

Folder 110: Cholawski, Szulim
undated

Born 1914 in Nieswiez

Was in the Nieswiez ghetto

2 pgs.

Folder 110A: Chorzko, M.
5-Oct-44

Tells about the conditions in the Treblinka camp

2 pgs.

Folder 110B: Charchas, Szloma
undated

Born 1918 in Mir

Tells about Oswald Shmuel Rufeisen, an interpreter with the Mir German police

7 pgs.

Folder 111: Chryzman, Ilie; Feinstein, Marek; Fenigstein, Henryk; Gruberg, Aleksander
undated

"The Fate of the Jews After Their Displacement from Warsaw, April 1943"

4 pgs.

Folder 112: Lachowiecki, Mojsze
undated

Born 1882 in Holowno

Was in the Nieswiez ghetto

2 pgs.

Folder 113: Landsman, Anna
undated

Born in Jaroslaw

Lived with Aryan identity papers

1 pg.

Folder 114: Lahrhaft, Leonard
undated

Born 1924 in Oswiecim

Was in Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg camps

2 pgs.

Folder 115: Lubasz, Marceli
undated

Born 1922 in Rzeszow

Was in the Lwow jail and Janowska , Gross Rosen , Mauthausen , and Oranienburg camps

8 pgs.

Folder 116: Lieberman, Erwin
undated

Born in Bielsko

Was a partisan

1 pg.

Folder 117: Lederman, Jerzy
14-Sep-44

Born 1904 in Warszawa

Was in the Warszawa ghetto

Later lived with Aryan identity papers

4 pgs.

Folder 118: Lewinski
May-45

"The First Attack," about April 19, 1943 in the Warszawa ghetto

1 pg.

Folder 119: Leslau, Ida
undated

Born 1894 in Bedzin

Was in Bedzin and Sosnowiec

4 pgs.

Folder 120: Lejman, Marja
undated

Born 1895 in Krakow

Tells how her Jewish husband died

1 pg.

Folder 121: Lesniowska, Bronislawa
1-Aug-45

Born 1926 in Tarnow

Tells about the conditions in the Nordwerk Factory where Jewish women worked

2 pgs.

Folder 121A: Mozdzierz
undated

Born in Tomaszow

Tells how he helped Jews in Krakow

1 pg.

Folder 122: Maczak, Chil (Yehiel)
undated

Born 1901 in Konskowola

Was in the Belchatow ghetto, worked for the Ollendorf firm in Wrzesnia and Gutenbrunn , and in Birkenau camp

7 pgs.

Folder 123: Mansdorf, Josek
May-45

Born 1931 in Tarnow

Was in the Tarnow ghetto

He Later was in hiding

5 pgs.

Folder 124: Mass, Anna
undated

Born 1922 in Przemysl

Hid in a bunker

2 pgs.

Folder 125: Markus, Eugeniusz
undated

Tells about the Bloody Sunday in Bydgoszcz , September 1, 1939

There was no ghetto in Bydgoszcz , some Jews were killed and some were displaced

1 pg.

Folder 126: Markiewicz, Chaja
undated

Born 1920 in Grodzisk

Was in the Warszawa ghetto and Treblinka camp

Later escaped from the camp and hid

1 pg.

Folder 127: Moszkowicz, Zenek
undated

Born 1923 in Wloclawek

Was in the Wloclawek ghetto

1 pg.

Folder 128: Munk, Benedykt
1-Jun-45

Was in the Lwow ghetto

Later lived with Aryan identity papers in Warszawa and in Grodzisk Mazowiecki

5 pgs.

Folder 129: Miodownik, Bina
undated

Born 1915 in Sosnowiec

Was in the Sosnowiec ghetto

Escaped the ghetto and hid in a bunker in the mountains, then returned to the ghetto, ran away and hid again

1 pg.

Folder 130: Miodowski, Jakub
undated

Born 1921 in Warszawa

Was in the Pawiak Prison

3 pgs.

Folder 131: Mitlak, Kuba
13-May-45

Born 1926 in Warszawa

Was in Majdanek camp

1 pg.

Folder 131A: Majzels, Greta
undated

Born 1924 in Bielsko

Was in Freiburg , Schlesin , Egelsdorf , Friedeberg , and Kratzau camps

4 pgs.

Folder 132: Munzer, Efroim
undated

Born 1928

Was in Krakow and Stalowa Wola camp

1 pg.

Folder 133: Miszczak, A.
undated

Tells about the killed Jews from Poland and other countries in the forest near Chelmno

2 pgs.

Folder 134: Mejor, Jozef
5-Aug-45

Born 1925 in Lodz

Was in the Lodz ghetto and Dresden camp

3 pgs.

Folder 135: Meri, Moszek
10-May-45

Born 1914 in Bedzin

Hid in a bunker and an attic in Bedzin during the occupation

1 pg.

Folder 136: Meryn Family
undated

See also folder 55

Whole family was born in Bedzin

Family hid in Bedzin and the surrounding area

Tells about the displaced Jews in Bedzin and experiences of the Jews hidden in bunkers and with Poles

12 pgs.

Folder 137: Metz, Zelda
undated

Born 1925 in Siedliszcze

Was in Siedliszcze and Staw ghettos and Sobibor camp

Describes the Judenrat in Siedliszcze

5 pgs.

Folder 138: Neuman, Aleksander
undated

Born 1907 in Gorlice

Was a prisoner of war at the Varmos-Skola ? camp in Hungary

1 pg.

Folder 139: Nieser [Wieser], Gina
31-May-45

[Last name appears to be Wieser]

Born 1916 in Boryslaw

Was in the Boryslaw ghetto and Kratzau camp, a subcamp of Gross Rosen

7 pgs.

Folder 140: Najberg, Leon (Marjan)
undated

Fragment of a book of memoirs, titled "Gruzowej 16 April 1943-26 September 1943"

22 pgs.

Folder 141: Najdra, Jan
29-May-45

Tells about a house search carried out by the Gestapo in the Jewish quarter in Krakow 5-6 December 1939 (document says 1929)

1 pg.

Folder 141A: Suzan, Szymon
16-Nov-45

Born 1911 in Wilno

Was a prisoner of war in East Prussia , and was in camps in Biala Podlaska , Konskowola , Budzyn , Wieliczka , Flossenbuerg , and Mauthausen-Gusen

2 pgs.

Folder 142: Stuczynska, Lucja
26-Jun-45

Born 1926

Was in the Kutno ghetto and in camps in Konstancja , Strzegowo , Plock , and Gabin

8 pgs.

Folder 143: Strykowski, Gerszon
undated

Born 1922 in Piotrkow Trybunalski

Was in camps in Pionki , Cieszanow and Gliwice

3 pgs.

Folder 144: Setner, Jozef
undated

Born 1908 in Niepolomice

Was in the Montelupich Prison in Krakow and Auschwitz-Birkenau , Mauthausen , and Dachau camps

2 pgs.

Folder 145: Skoczylas, Eljasz
undated

Born 1916 in Strzemieszyce

Was in the Bedzin ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau camp

2 pgs.

Folder 146: Sragowicz
2-Jul-45

Born 1898 in Nieswiez

Was in Baranowicze and Koldyczewo camps

2 pgs.

Folder 147: Edelman, Zalman
undated

Was in the Bialystok ghetto

1 pg.

Folder 148: Ettinger, Wilhelm
undated

Born 1903 in Debica

Was in Lwow , in the Montelupich Prison in Krakow and in the Pustkow and Oranienburg camps

6 pgs.

Folder 148A: Etkin, Szloma
undated

Was in the Wilno ghetto

Organized underground resistance in Warszawa and Bialystok

4 pgs.

Folder 149: Epsztejn, Estera
undated

Born 1921 in Lodz

Was in the Lodz ghetto and Stutthof camp

3 pgs.

Folder 150: Fabiszewicz, Wolf
23-Jul-45

Born 1924 in Lodz

Was in the Lodz ghetto and Auschwitz , Braunschweig , Ravensbrueck and Ludwigslust camps

3 pgs.

Folder 151: Podchlebnik-Podchmielnik, Salomon
15-Nov-44

Born 1907 in Kolo Poznanskie

Was in Kolo Poznanskie and the Izbica ghetto

Ran away from the ghetto and hid in the forest and with Poles

In the Izbica ghetto were Jews from Holland , Belgium , Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia

5 pgs.

Folder 152: Poller, Herman
undated

Born 1921 in Przemysl

Was in Szebnie , Auschwitz-Birkenau , and Fuerstengrube camps

3 pgs.

Folder 153: Popiol, Motek
10-May-45

Born 1923 in Zuromin

Was in the Ciechanow ghetto and Auschwitz camp

3 pgs.

Folder 153A: Pacanowski, Szmul
undated

Belonged to the leadership of Hashomer Hatzair in Lwow during the German occupation

6 pgs.

Folder 154: Potzenbaum [Petzenbaum], Abraham
undated

[Last name appears to be Petzenbaum]

Born 1895 in Kalwaria

Was in the Krakow ghetto and Liszki , Plaszow , Gross Rosen , Langenbielau , Reichenbach and Fuenfteichen camps

3 pgs.

Folder 155: Pinczuk, Izrael
undated

Born 1909 in Glinny , near Rokitno Lubartowskie

Was a partisan

2 pgs.

Folder 156: Pinczewska, Basia
11-Aug-45

Born 1911 in Stolpce

Was in the Stolpce ghetto

Was later a partisan

2 pgs.

Folder 157: Pinkus, Oskar
undated

Poems that express sadness for the murdered Jews, including a poem about the uprising and death of the Warszawa ghetto

21 pgs.

Folder 158: Pejsach, Hanka
13-May-45

Born 1923 in Czestochowa

Was in the Czestochowa ghetto and Gleiwitz camp

Later lived with Aryan identity papers

1 pg.

Folder 159: Perlowicz, Borys
undated

Born 190? in Rokitno

Was a partisan

2 pgs.

Folder 160: Perelman, Nuchem
undated

Born 1907 in Parczew Lubelski

Was in the Parczew ghetto

Escaped to Sokolow where he received Aryan papers from the Polish Socialist Party (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna-PPS)

Was in the Stargard Szczecinski and, briefly, Pilica ? work camps

Tells of the liquidation of Jewish prisoners of war in a forest not far from Parczew

2 pgs.

Folder 161: Fuchs, Ignatz
undated

Born 1887 in Bytom

Sent on a work transport to Bielsko , Ostwald and Rositz

German

1 pg.

Folder 162: Fingel, Johanna
undated

Born 1924 in Krakow

Was in Aschersleben , not far from Magdeburg

2 pgs.

Folder 163: Finger, Michal
undated

Born 1916 in Jaroslaw

Was in Lammersdorf , Brzeg , Gleiwitz , and Majdanek camps

1 pg.

Folder 164: Fiszgarten, Daniel
undated

Born 1909 in Busko

Was in the Busko ghetto and Kielce , Skarzysko , Flossenbuerg , and Mauthausen camps

4 pgs.

Folder 165: Fajgenbaum, Mojsze Josef
undated

Born in Biala Podlaska

Was in the Biala Podlaska ghetto and Treblinka camp

Describes the conditions of the Jews in Biala Podlaska and also the shtetl Lomazy

5 pgs.

Folder 166: Fajerajzen, Szulim
13-May-45

Born 1919 in Sedziszow

Tells how he escaped from the transport when he was being moved from a camp to Germany

1 pg.

Folder 167: Ferri, Luigi
21-Apr-45

Born 1932 in Milan

Was in Auschwitz with his grandmother, who was of Jewish descent

8 pgs.

Folder 167A: Frandowa, Helena
8-May-45

Was in the Krakow ghetto and Plaszow and Ravensbrueck camps

3 pgs.

Folder 168: Frosz, Mendel
undated

Was in the Lodz ghetto

Describes the activities of the police, the General Curfew (Allgemeine Gehsperre) campaign of September 1942 and the liquidation of the ghetto

12 pgs.

Folder 169: Fruch[t]feld, Izak
undated

Born 1919

Was in Warszawa and Lublin , Deblin and Czestochowa camps

5 pgs.

Folder 169A: Frydman, Henryk
26-Aug-45

Portraits of the Warszawa ghetto

3 pgs.

Folder 170: Fridman, Fajwel
22-May-45

Born 1922 in Radom

Was in Radom , in the forest around the city, and in Belzyce and Ciechanow camps

3 pgs.

Folder 171: Frejszer [Flejszer], Juljan
undated

[Last name appears to be Flejszer]

Describes the camp in Rozwadow

11 pgs.

Folder 172: Cudzinowsa, Estera
undated

Born 1924 in Dzialoszyce

Hid during the occupation

1 pg.

Folder 173: Zwergel, Sussmann
undated

Describes the Jewish community in Katowice during the German occupation

German

3 pgs.

Folder 174: Cygler, Tamara
undated

Born 1935 in Bedzin

Hid with Poles

2 pgs.

Folder 175: Zimmler, D.
17-May-45

Born 1913 in Warszawa

Was in the Warszawa ghetto

Later was in hiding

3 pgs.

Folder 176: Zierer, Edyta
undated

Born 1923 in Katowice

Was in the Wieliczka and Krakow ghettos and Bierzanow , Plaszow , Skarzysko and Czestochowa camps

1 pg.

Folder 177: Kahan, Rachel
undated

See also folder 179

Born 1903 in Mielec

Was in the Kolomyja and Bedzin ghettos and Eichtal camp

3 pgs.

Folder 178: Kowalski, Roman
31-Jul-45

Born 1907 in Lodz

Was in Warszawa during the occupation

Tells how he provided arms for the Warszawa ghetto and how he led the leader of the Bund and others out through the sewers

2 pgs.

Folder 178A: Kaufman, M.
undated

Tells about the execution of the representative of the Jewish Committee in Belchatow

3 pgs.

Folder 179: Kahan, Marcel [Rachel]
undated

[First name appears to be Rachel]

See also folder 177

Born 1903 in Mielec

Was in Eichtal camp

1 pg.

Folder 180: Konopinski, Zygmunt
13-May-45

Born 1925 in Sosnowiec

Was in the Cosel camp

1 pg.

Folder 181: Konopko, Judel
undated

Born 1878 in Nowy Dwor

Was in Woronowo

2 pgs.

Folder 182: Kalach, Ozjasz
undated

Was in Tarnobrzeg (Dzikow) and Sandomierz , and Rozwadow , Debica , Flossenbuerg , Colmar , Gamel , and Oranienburg camps

Tells about the situation of the Jews in Tarnobrzeg in October 1939

3 pgs.

Folder 182A: Kos, Nachum
undated

Was a partisan

2 pgs.

Folder 183: Kapota, Jakob
7-Jul-45

Born 1894 in Wloclawek

Was in the Krakow ghetto and in Montelupich Prison

1 pg.

Folder 184: Koppel, Jizchak
undated

Born 1925 in Moers

Was in Neudorf and Auschwitz camps

2 pgs.

Folder 184A: Katz, Szlojme
undated

Was a partisan

1 pg.

Folder 185: Korn, Nachman
undated

Was in the Lublin ghetto and Ostrowiec and Czestochowa camps

8 pgs.

Folder 186: Kosinski, Jozef (non-Jewish)
undated

Born 1905 in Krakow

He was involved with anti-German activites and was connected with Jews

1 pg.

Folder 187: Kubowitzki, Moris
undated

Born 1909

Lived in Belgium

Was in Malines , Birkenau , Guenthergrube , and Gleiwitz camps

Describes the situation of the Jews in Belgium

3 pgs.

Folder 187A: Kurek, Marta
undated

Born 1902 in Witamowice

Tells about the district magistrate Siegfried Schmidt

1 pg.

Folder 188: Kirszt, Wolf
undated

Born 1915 in Belzyce

Was in Budzyn , Majdanek , Auschwitz , and Gleiwitz camps

1 pg.

Folder 189: Kisielewski, Mieczyslaw
undated

Born 1910 in Kutno

Was in Kutno for the whole time of the occupation

Tells about the situation of the Jews in the city

1 pg.

Folder 190: Klugman, Aleksander
21-Jul-45

Born 1925 in Lodz

Tells about the conditions in the Kaufering camp in the Landsberg district

3 pgs.

Folder 190A: Kleinman, Jankiel
10-Sep-44

Born 1928 in Kozienice

Was in the Lodz ghetto and in Turbin

Was later a partisan and the Polish National Armed Forces (Narodowe Sily Zbrojne-NSZ)

4 pgs.

Folder 191: Kleinman, Mordechaj
undated

Born 1930 in Ludwipol

Hid with Poles

Was later a partisan together with 15 other Jewish children

2 pgs.

Folder 192: Klein, Marta
1-Sep-44

Was in the Wilno and Bialystok ghettos

Later was in hiding

1 pg.

Folder 193: Knap, Ludwika
undated

Born 1911 in Rotterdam

Was in Amsterdam and Westerbork and Birkenau camps

1 pg.

Folder 194: Rozmaryn, Maksymiljan
undated

Born 1924 in Siemianowice

Was in Bedzin ghetto and Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen camps as a medical experiment

2 pgs.

Folder 195: Rozen, Izrael
24-May-45

See also folder 199A

Born 1913 in Dabrowa Gornicza

Was in the Dabrowa Gornicza ghetto and Auschwitz and Guenthergrube camps

Tells about the liquidation of the ghettos in Dabrowa Gornicza , Bedzin and Sosnowiec

4 pgs.

Folder 196: Rozenbaum, Tuwia
10-Jun-45

Born 1905 in Skala

Was in the Sosnowiec ghetto and Sakrau camp

Escaped through Lwow and Hungary to France

Deported to Malapane and Blechhammer camps

2 pgs.

Folder 197: Rozenblat, Henryk
undated

Born 1919 in Siewierz

Was in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Lagisza camps

2 pgs.

Folder 198: Rozenberg, Ela
undated

Born 1924 in Warszawa

Was in the Warszawa ghetto can Treblinka camp

2 pgs.

Folder 199: Rozencwajg, Jan
undated

Born 1916 in Bedzin

Was in the Bedzin ghetto

Tells about the founding of a Jewish firemen's organization

5 pgs.

Folder 199A: Rozen, Izrael
24-May-45

See also folder 195

Born 1913 in Dabrowa Gornicza

Was in Dabrowa Gornicza and Sosnowiec ghettos and Auschwitz camp

4 pgs.

Folder 200: Rotman [Retman], Jakub
undated

[Last name appears to be Retman]

Born 1916 in Bedzin

Was in the Bedzin ghetto and Gruenberg and Kittlitztreben camps

2 pgs.

Folder 201: Rotner, Eliasz
undated

Born 1898 in Stryj

Was in Krakow , Lwow and Warszawa

3 pgs.

Folder 201A: Rotenberg, Symcha
undated

Handwritten chronicle of the town of Staszow in 1939-1945

13 pgs.

Folder 202: Ros, Jerzy
undated

Born 1919 in Warszawa

Was in the Warszawa ghetto and Auschwitz camp

5 pgs.

Folder 202A: Ratzer, Chaim; Kartuz, Dudek; Solonojcowna, Tamara
undated

Were in the Wilno ghetto

2 pgs.

Folder 203: Rubin, Efraim
undated

Born in Przemysl

Describes the destruction of the Jews in Rabka

2 pgs.

Folder 203A: Rozycka, Maryla
undated

Tells about the activities of the Anti-Fascist Committee in Bialystok

7 pgs.

Folder 204: Ruf, Helena
undated

Born 1928 in Kety

Was in Freiburg , Sucha , Wieprz , Egelsdorf , Rohrdorf , and Kratzau camps

2 pgs.

Folder 205: Rusinek, Estera
undated

Born 1918 in Pilica

Was a partisan

3 pgs.

Folder 206: Rydlewicz, Gedali
undated

Born 1901 in Janow Podlaski

Was in Biala Podlaska

Later was in hiding

Tells how the Jews of Biala Podlaska and Parczew were destroyed

3 pgs.

Folder 207: Ryczko, Anna
undated

Tells how the Germans deported the Jews from Czechoslovakia through Cieszyn

1 pg.

Folder 208: Ringowa, Janina
undated

Was in Warszawa and Pruszkow , Ravensbrueck and Neubrandenburg camps and a Berlin factory

2 pgs.

Folder 209: Ringel, Joanna
undated

Born 1917 in Krakow

Was in Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen camps

7 pgs.

Folder 210: Reak, Eugeniusz
undated

Born 1877 in Prague , Czechoslovakia

Worked as a doctor in Auschwitz

1 pg.

Folder 210A: Rezniok, Nison
undated

Was in the Wilno ghetto

Was later a partisan

9 pgs.

Folder 211: Reznik, Samuel
undated

Born 1908 in Janow near Pinsk

Was in the Janow ghetto

Was later a partisan

4 pgs.

Folder 212: Schafler, Felicja
undated

Born in Brzesko

Was in the Brzesko and Krakow ghettos

Tells how the Brzesko ghetto was liquidated

4 pgs.

Folder 212A: Szwarcblat, Boruch
10-Jul-45

Born 1912 in Rafalowka , Sarny Province

Was a partisan

3 pgs.

Folder 213: Szarf, Henryk
11-Sep-44

Born in Zywiec

Was in Warszawa

Escaped the Warszawa ghetto and lived with Aryan identity papers in a small town Koprzywica near Sandomierz

Tells how the Jews from the town were killed

There is also a letter from Szarf's sister, who was in a camp

1 pg.

Folder 214: Szwarc, Izaak
undated

Born 1924 in Buczacz

Was in Buczacz

Later was in hiding in the neighboring forest

6 pgs.

Folder 215: Steinberg, Maria
undated

Describes the Judenrat in Busko

5 pgs.

Folder 216: Steinberg, Menachem
undated

Born 1916 in Riga

Was in Riga

Later deported to Berlin

Was forced to translate parts of the Talmud into German

1 pg.

Folder 217: Strassberg, Henryka
20-May-45

Born 1912 in Krakow

Was in Lwow , Wisniez , Krakow , Plaszow , Tarnow , Auschwitz , and Lichtwerden

1 pg.

Folder 218: Szczucinska, Dwojra
4-Sep-44

Tells about so-called "hotel" swindle in Warszawa

1 pg.

Folder 219: Siwoschinsky, Ewa
16-May-45

Born 1926 in Berlin

Was in Paris and Drancy (manuscript says Grancy ) and Auschwitz-Birkenau camps

4 pgs.

Folder 220: Szajn, Estusia
undated

Born 1933 in Turka

Was in the Sambor ghetto

Lost her parents and was hidden by others

2 pgs.

Folder 220A: Szlang, Dawid
undated

Tells about the conditions of the Jews in Krakow during the time of the German occupation, 1939-1945

3 pgs.

Folder 221: Szlesinger, Werner
undated

Born 1924 in Bytom

His father was Jewish, his mother was German

Did forced labor in Hamburg , Dessau and Rositz

1 pg.

Folder 222: Szmaragd, Tauba
undated

Born 1926 in Lodz

Was in the Lodz ghetto and in Auschwitz camp

3 pgs.

Folder 223: Szmukler, Pinkus
undated

Born 1919 in Rejowiec

Was in Rejowiec and Krychow and Auschwitz , Jaworzno and Blechhammer camps

6 pgs.

Folder 223A: Sznajman, Icchok
14-Sep-44

Was in the Warszawa ghetto and then in the forest

3 pgs.

Folder 223B: Siedlecki, Efraim
undated

Tells about the heroic battle of 400 Jews in Minsk Mazowiecki , 1943

2 pgs.

Folder 224: Szenberg, Jozef
undated

Born 1899 in Bedzin

Was in Blechhammer camp

Describes the conditions in the camp

3 pgs.

Folder 225: Szeftel, Abram
undated

Born 1914 in Niwka

Was in Markstadt camp near Oppeln

2 pgs.

Folder 226: Szekaly, Ivan
undated

Born 1920 in Vrisac , Yugoslavia

Tells about pogroms against Jews in Slovakia and Hungary

1 pg.

Folder 227: Szerman, Szyja
undated

Born 1914 in Ostrowiec

Was in Ostrowiec ghetto and Blizin , Auschwitz , Bedzin and Gleiwitz camps

8 pgs.

Folder 228: Szpannberg, Rywa and Cypa
9-Jun-45

Born in Aleksandria , Volhynia

Were in a ghetto

Later was in hiding with Poles

2 pgs.

Folder 229: Spiewankowicz, Kazimierz
undated

Born 1890 in Kutno

Spent the entire occupation in Kutno

Tells about deportations of Jews from Zychlin , about the Jews in Kutno and Jews who were brought from Lodz

1 pg.

Subseries 2: Yiddish Testimonies
1940-1945
In addition to the Yiddish testimonies, this subseries contains Lodz ghetto money and photographs, official printed announcements by Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski, the Nazi-appointed leader of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) in the Lodz ghetto, and some items from other ghettos as well, including pictures of the German occupations of Warsaw, Wegrow, Zdunska Wola, and others.
Folders: 74
Folder 230: Ayzikovitsh, Bella
undated

Born 1931

Was in the Wilno ghetto and Vikonia , Narva , Krivioli , and Azeri camps in Estonia

1 pg.

Folder 231: Ayzenfeld, Betty
undated

Born in Mir

Was in the Mir ghetto

Was later in the forest

"A Jew - A German Commander", a fragment of a larger work about Oswald Shmuel Rufeisen, an interpreter with the Mir German police

13 pgs.

Folder 232: Alpern [Alfred], Chaim
undated

[Last name appears to be Alfred]

Born 1908 in Lodz

Lived in France since 1927

Tells about a young woman from Poland , Helen, who died heroically in France in the resistance movement

3 pgs.

Folder 233: Alfiner, Dawid
undated

Born 1929 in Okna

Was in Okna

Tells about the campaign in the village and the liquidation of the local Jews

9 pgs.

Folder 234: Anonymous
undated

"On the History of the Jewish Extermination by the Germans in Czestochowa "

13 pgs.

Folder 235: Basak, Gedalia
10-Jun-45

Born 1916 in Dereczyn

Was a partisan 1942-1944

8 pgs.

Folder 236: Burak, Zlate
undated

Born 1909 in Zofiowka

" Zofiowka in the Time of the German Occupation"

8 pgs.

Folder 237: Burshteyn, Pesakh
undated

Born 1909 in Bialystok

Was in the Bialystok ghetto and Auschwitz camp

Tells about the final liquidation of the Bialystok ghetto

10 pgs.

Folder 238: Bayshenboym, Rafael
Apr-45

Born 1905 in Lublin

Was in the Siemiatycze ghetto

Escaped from a transport and hid

10 pgs.

Folder 239: Beserman
undated

Tells about the Monowitz-Buna camp, a sub-camp of Auschwitz

22 pgs.

Folder 240: Braun, Lida (Ida)
undated

Born 1932 in Glebokie

Was in the Glebokie ghetto

Was later a partisan

Tells about the liquidation of the Glebokie ghetto

16 pgs.

Folder 241: Goldshteyn, Peretz
5-Jul-44

Born 1896 in Korzec

Tells about the fate of the Jews in Korzec and in the surrounding shtetls during the time of the German occupation

8 pgs.

Folder 242: Goldszer, Boruch
undated

Born 1910 in Lomazy

Was in Lomazy

Was later a partisan

3 pgs.

Folder 243: Gerstenman, Reyzel
undated

Born 1909 in Lublin

Was in the Lublin ghetto

Later was in hiding

3 pgs.

Folder 244: Grinshpan, Shimon
undated

Born 1908 in Sokolow Podlaski

Was in Sokolow Podlaski and Treblinka camp

10 pgs.

Folder 245: Handlman, Yakov; Goldberg, Boruch
7-Sep-45

Born 1912 and 1908, respectively, in Warszawa

Were in Buchenwald and Dachau camps

30 pgs.

Folder 246: Vasershteyn, Berl
5-Jun-45

Born 1915 in Radzilow

Was in the Bialystok ghetto

Tells about the partisan movement in the Bialystok ghetto

14 pgs.

Folder 247: Vasershteyn, Shmuel
5-Apr-45

Born in Jedwabne

Lived in Jedwabne

Later was in hiding with 6 other Jews with a Polish woman

3 pgs.

Folder 248: Vinitzer, Avram
11-Aug-45

Born 1914 in Goringrod

Was in Rowno and was a partisan

Tells about the massacre of the Jews in Rowno and in the surrounding shtetls

12 pgs.

Folder 249: Vaynshteyn, Efraim
4-Jun-45

Born 1909 in Wachock

Was in Starachowice camp

Was later a partisan

3 pgs.

Folder 250: Zamashtovsky [Zamashkovsky], Henrik
27-Jul-45

[Last name appears to be Zamashkovsky]

Born 1899 in Radom

Tells about the swindle with the Hotel Polski in Warszawa during the German occupation

5 pgs.

Folder 251: Torontshuk [Barantshik], David
9-Jul-45

[Last name appears to be Barantshik]

Born 1928 in Zoludek

Was a partisan

22 pgs.

Folder 252: Tvardagure, Ber
undated

Born 1910 in Krasnik

Was in Krasnik , Mauthausen and Linz work camps

10 pgs.

Folder 253: Taykhman, Golde
20-Apr-45

Born 1920 in Starachowice

Was in Starachowice , Auschwitz , Ravensbrueck , Malchau , and Leipzig camps

1 pg.

Folder 254: Jakobskind, Lejzer
undated

Born 1899 in Warszawa

Was in the Warszawa ghetto and in Treblinka camp

7 pgs.

Folder 255: Lazavzl?, Yerachmiel
undated

Born 1933 in Bielice

Was in Bielice , Dworzec ghetto

Later was in hiding in the forest

6 pgs.

Folder 256: Likhtenberg, Yitzhak
undated

Born in Wlodawa

Was in Wlodawa and Lachwa at the time of the German occupation

Tells about the partisans in the region of Lachwa ( Pinsk Circle)

16 pgs.

Folder 257: Likhterman, Yakov
undated

Was in the Warszawa ghetto and Majdanek camp

Tells how he met with Dr. Ignacy (Isaac) Schipper, the historian, in Majdanek

5 pgs.

Folder 258: Levin, Feyge
undated

Born 1915

Was in the Wilno ghetto and Riga , Stutthof and Torun camps

Describes the situation in Riga and Torun

1 pg.

Folder 259: Lewinsohn, Majer
undated

Born 1914 in Zanitole ?, Garwolin County

Hid during the occupation

11 pgs.

Folder 260: Lerner, Shmuel and Esther
undated

Born 1922 in Zolkiewka and Belz , respectively

Was in Zolkiewka and Sobibor camp

Tells about the situation of the Jews in Zolkiewka , in the Sobibor death camp and about the uprising

Among the organizers of the uprising was Leon (Leybl) Feldhendler, the son of the Zolkiewka rabbi

16 pgs.

Folder 261: Leszcz, Yehiel
undated

Born 1902 in Ostrow Mazowiecka

Describes the situation of the Jews in Radom during the occupation

15 pgs.

Folder 262: Mazowiecki, M.
undated

Tells about the big raid in July 1943 in the Naliboki Forest

4 pgs.

Folder 263: Maik, Mikhl
14-May-45

Born in Sokoly

"Lashes of the Judenrat in Sokoly "

3 pgs.

Folder 264: Mandel
undated

Born 1893 in Malinec

Describes the Lodz ghetto and camp

26 pgs.

Folder 265: Montan [Togman], Karl
undated

[Last name appears to be Togman]

Born in Warka

Was in the Warka ghetto and Treblinka camp

4 pgs.

Folder 266: Milikanski, Yankel
16-Jul-45

Born 1926 in Stary Gaj

Was in 9 camps, including Stutthof and Buchenwald

6 pgs.

Folder 267: Mintzberg, Simkhe
undated

Born 1891 in Ostrowice

In the time of the occupation, he was head of the Judenrat in Starachowice

Tells about the camp in Starachowice

3 pgs.

Folder 268: Majerowicz, Stefan Froim
undated

Born 1914 in Warszawa

Describes the situation in the Lodz ghetto

Was briefly in Czestochowa

Was sent to work in Hrubieszow

Tells about the liquidation of the Noworadomsk ghetto

65 pgs.

Folder 269: Suchowolska/Suchalawska, Yente
5-Dec-45

Born 1910 in Parczew

Was in the Belzec , Budzyn , Majdanek , Auschwitz , Bergen-Belsen , and Raguhn camps

10 pgs.

Folder 270: Sladinov, Daniel
31-May-45

Born in Sluck

Was in Sluck ghetto

Later was in hiding in the forest

2 pgs.

Folder 271: Elman, Yosef
undated

Born 1922 in Pruzana

Was in the Pruzana ghetto

Was later a partisan

30 pgs.

Folder 272: Elman, Shmaryahu
undated

Born 1919 in Pruzana

"Diary of a Partisan"

36 pgs.

Folder 273: Pudlowski, Leyb
26-Jun-45

Born 1899 in Belebashov ?

Was in Bialystok ghetto

Was later a partisan

4 pgs.

Folder 274: Fabritzky, Yakov
28-Feb-45

"The First Phase of the Liquidation of the Bialystok ghetto"

7 pgs.

Folder 275: Falasetzka, Mala
undated

Born 1927 in Adamow

Hid during the time of the occupation

14 pgs.

Folder 276: Feinfeld, Fishl
20-Sep-45

Born 1905 in Bialystok

Was in Blizin and Auschwitz camps

Tells about the 72 murdered heroes of the uprising of the Bialystok ghetto

4 pgs.

Folder 277: Finkler, Abraham
undated

Born 1907 in Radoszyce

"The Jewish Community in Szydlowiec in the Time of the German Occupation"

12 pgs.

Folder 277A: Feldshen, Ben Tzion
undated

Tells about the murder of the Lanowice Jews

5 pgs.

Folder 278: Frenkel, Wolf
undated

Born 1922 in Grodzisk Mazowiecki

Hid in Grodzisk and in Warszawa

6 pgs.

Folder 279: Rabinovitsh, Chaim
13-Jul-45

Born 1922 in Romania

Was in Mir during the the time of the German occupation

Was later a partisan

12 pgs.

Folder 280: Rozenblat, Yehuda
undated

Born in Ignatowka

Tells about Ignatowka and Zofiowka in the time of the occupation

8 pgs.

Folder 281: Rolnik, Mordechai
undated

Born 1927 in Iwaniec

Was in Ignatowka

Was later a partisan

14 pgs.

Folder 282: Romanowski, Moshe Wolf
12-Jun-45

Born in Lachwa

Tells how the Lachwa ghetto was liquidated

2 pgs.

Folder 283: Raykhman, Raya
28-May-45

Born 1916 in Wilno

Was in the Kowno ghetto and Klooga camp in Estonia

12 pgs.

Folder 284: Reznik, Yitzhak
18-Aug-45

Born 1918 in Spak ?, Russia

Escaped from being a prisoner of war

Was later a partisan

Was in several camps, including Auschwitz

23 pgs.

Folder 285: Reketowicz, Majer
undated

Born 1910 in Bledow

Was in the Lodz ghetto

3 pgs.

Folder 286: Kagan, Dora
undated

Born 1923

Lived in Kowno until the war

Was in the Kowno ghetto

Tells about heroes of the Kowno ghetto

3 pgs.

Folder 287: Kagan, Yosef; Shvartz, Isser
undated

Born 1905 in Iwie and 1908, respectively

Were in Iwie ghetto

Later was in hiding in the forest

16 pgs.

Folder 288: Kovensky, Elyahu
23-Jul-45

Born 1909

Was in the Zdzieciol and Nowogrodek ghettos

Escaped the ghetto and was a partisan

Distinguished himself in fighting the Germans

Exploded 14 German troop transports

12 pgs.

Folder 289: Koniecpoler, David
undated

The extermination of the Jews in Czestochowa

"The Last 24 Hours of HASAG"

10 pgs.

Folder 290: Katz, Yakov
undated

Born 1914 in Lida

Was a partisan

10 pgs.

Folder 291: Kleinman, Judel (Yehuda)
undated

Born 1888 in Pilica

Was in the Pilica ghetto

6 pgs.

Folder 292: Krongoltz/Kronzaltz, Jerzy
11-Jan-45

Born 1918 in Radom

Describes the situation of the Jews in Radom and in the Ostrowiec camp

13 pgs.

Folder 293: Krajchman, Izak
undated

Born 1918 in Sokolow Podlaski

Was in the Lodz ghetto

3 pgs.

Folder 294: Tzukerman, Yehuda
7-Apr-45

Born 1911 in Lodz

Was in Grunow , Christianstadt , Fuerstenberg , Auschwitz , and Gleiwitz camps

6 pgs.

Folder 295: Shapiro, Israel
20-Apr-45

Reports about the murder of Jewish prisoners of war by the Germans in Parczew , February 22, 1940

2 pgs.

Folder 296: Shlaykher, Israel
Apr-45

Born 1928 in Jozefow , Lublin Province

"Narrative of a Child"

Was in Jozefow , Lublin camp, Zolkiewka ghetto, and in the forest

8 pgs.

Folder 297: Shper, Yosef
undated

Born 1877 in Hrubieszow

Tells about the situation of the Jews in Hrubieszow and how he survived for 2077 days

14 pgs.

Folder 298: Lodz ghetto photographs
undated
Made by Grosman
Folder 299: Lodz ghetto money
1940
1 50 Mark bill and 5 50 Pfennig bills
Folder 300: Announcements from Chaim Rumkowski
1943-1944
German, Yiddish
Folder 301: Photographs
1941-1942, undated

Warszawa ghetto martyrs

Warszawa ghetto campaigns

Warszawa ghetto ruins

Wegrow executions, 1942

Zdunska Wola executions, 1941

Miscellaneous photos of occupations

Folder 302: Glass photographic negatives
undated
Series II: Writings and Printed Materials
1930-1978, undated
This series is made up of typescripts and manuscripts of writings by Hirszhaut and by others, many of which are unattributed, and various printed materials. Among these are printed and handwritten papers from the organization Ichud in Wroclaw, Poland, newspaper clippings and a poster from the Jewish Central Historical Committee in Poland, a dozen single issue newspapers of the Polish underground from 1940-1945 in Yiddish, German and Polish, clippings from Polish, Yiddish and Nazi newspapers, meeting minutes of a hachshara Zionist youth group in the Lodz ghetto, wartime photographs and postcards, and some chronologically organized correspondence from 1950-1978.
Folders: 67
Folder 303: A yidishe melukhe in lublin un madagaskar (A Jewish Government in Lublin and Madagascar )
December 1953-January 1954

Yiddish

12 pgs.

Folder 304: About J. Hirszhaut
undated

Also about Israel Liberman, an oil entrepreneur from Boryslaw. Request for a photograph of Liberman to be used in a publication

Yiddish

1 pg.

Folder 305: About Joseph Perluk, member of Hashomer Hatzair
undated

Polish

3 pgs.

Folder 306: Aktualne Wiadomosci (Current News)
Dec-42

Underground brochure

Polish

8 pgs.

Folder 307: Appeals
1944

Mainly about the Polish National Council (Communist)

Polish, German

8 pgs.

Folder 308: Armia Ludowa (Folk Army)
Feb-44

Brochure

Polish

8 pgs.

Folder 309: Bibliographical notes
undated

Yiddish, Polish

Notecards

Folder 310: Bibliographical notes
undated

Yiddish, Polish

Notecards

Folder 311: Biuletyn informacyjny (Home Army information newsletter)
December 1942, July 1944

Polish

24 pgs.

Folder 312: Der breyshes fun flisendiken gold (The Creation of Liquid Gold)
undated

Part of Yidishe naft-magnatn

Yiddish

7 pgs.

Folder 313: Bulletin about military campaigns
10-Dec-42

Underground military leaflet

Polish

2 pgs.

Folder 314: Dr. Chaim Zhitlowskys Natzional-Religieze Hashkofe (Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky's National-Religious View)
undated

Yiddish

2 copies, 12 pgs. Each

Folder 315: Dr. Ignacy (Isaac) Schipper
undated

Yiddish

73 pgs.

Folder 316: Dziennik Radiowy (Daily Radio)
Nov-44

Polish

5 pgs.

Folder 317: Excerpts from Majer Balaban monograph
undated

Yiddish, Polish, German

100 pgs.

Folder 318: Fragments of articles
undated

Polish

12 pgs.

Folder 319: Fun der geshikhte fun yidn in poyln (From the "History of Jews in Poland ")
c.1920

Excerpts, notes

Yiddish, Polish

19 pgs.

Folder 320: Gazeta Polska (Polish Newspaper)
Nov-44

Mimeographed

Polish

2 pgs.

Folder 321: Glos Warszawy (Warsaw Voice)
1943-1944

Underground publication

Polish

Folder 322: Gwardzista (The Guardsman)
25-Dec-43

Leaflet of the People’s Guard

Polish

4 pgs.

Folder 323: Ichud Zionist youth movement materials
1943-1946

Polish, Yiddish

75 pgs.

Folder 324: Insurekcja (Insurrection)
November-December 1942

Polish

16 pgs.

Folder 325: Janusz Korczaks kinder-republik (Janusz Korczak's Children's Republic)
undated

Yiddish

Incomplete

3 pgs.

Folder 326: Jewish Frontier
Oct-57
English
Folder 327: Kultura (Culture)
1965-1966
Polish
Folder 328: Mayn bobe Chaya Dvoras hoyz (My Grandmother Chaya Dvora's House)
undated

Yiddish

10 pgs.

Folder 329: Meeting minutes of a hachshara Zionist youth group in the Lodz ghetto
1940-1941

Polish

50 pgs,

Folder 330: Miecz i Plug (Sword and Plow)
November-December 1942

Polish

Issues 19, 20

12 pgs.

Folder 331: Monograph on Dr. Majer Balaban
1958

Yiddish

126 pgs.

Also handwriten notes

12 pgs.

Folder 332: Mysl Narodowa (National Thought)
February 1930, April 1939

Polish

30 pgs.

Folder 333: Na Oczach Swiata (Before the Eyes of the World)
1943

Polish

3 copies

10 pgs.

Folder 334: Narod i Wojsko (Nation and Military)
Dec-42

Polish

16 pgs.

Folder 335: Nazi newspapers with anti-Jewish articles
1940-1942

Deutsche Algemeine Zeitung, 1941

Das Reich, 1941-1942

Warschauer Zeitung, 1940-1941

Krakauer Zeitung, 1941

Folder 336: Nowa Epoka (New Age)
August-September 1945

Paper of the Democratic Party

Polish

12 pgs.

Folder 337: Odrodzenie (Revival)
August 1945, September 1945, July 1946, August 1946, July 1947, August 1947
Polish
Folder 338: Pamieci Grupy Lwowskiej Hanoar Hacjoni (In Memory of the Lwow Group of Hanoar Hatsiyoni)
undated

Polish

2 pgs.

Folder 339: Photographs
undated
Folder 340: Plans of the Belzec and Sobibor concentration camps
undated
Folder 341: Polish newspapers
July 1939, September 1944, July 1945, September 1949, August 1965
Folder 342: Polityka (Politics)
Dec-42

Polish

2 copies

24 pgs.

Folder 343: Polska Zyje (Poland Lives)
November-December 1942

Polish

16 pgs.

Postcards from the series " Warsaw Accuses"
undated
Folder 345: Przeglad Katolicki (The Catholic Review)
Mar-36

Polish

10 pgs.

Folder 346: Publications about the "Pawiak Action"
1946, 1958, 1965-1967
Polish
Folder 347: Rada Narodowa (The National Council)
January-February 1944

Polish

16 pgs.

Folder 348: Rok w Treblince (Year in Treblinka)
1944

By Jankiel Wiernik

Polish

23 pgs.

Folder 349: Studien und Quellen zur Frenkisten Bewegung in Polen (Studies and Sources for the Frankist Movement in Poland)
undated

Yiddish, German, Polish

12 pgs.

Folder 350: Tam gdie smierc byla ulga (Where Death Was a Relief)
undated

Polish

15 pgs.

Folder 351: Di tragedie funem poylishn komunizm (The Tragedy of Polish Communism)
undated

Yiddish

2 pgs.

Folder 352: Tzentrale yidishe historishe komisye (Central Jewish Historical Committee), Lodz
1945

Supplement to Dos Naye Lebn

Yiddish

Folder 353: Un G-t hot bahaltn zayn ponem (And G-d Hid His Face)
undated

Yiddish

By Abraham Weisbrod

17 pgs.

Folder 354: Urywki z mego zycia z okresu okupacji niemieckiej (Fragments from My Life in the Time of the German Occupation)
undated

Polish

3 pgs.

Folder 355: Der veg firt oyf mayrev (The Road Leads to the West)
undated

Yiddish

60 pgs.

Folder 356: Vos fara grus brengt ir fun di yidn fun mayrev eyrope? (What Sort of a Greeting Do You Bring from the Jews of Western Europe?)
undated

Yiddish

8 pgs.

Folder 357: Wiadomosci Codzienne (Daily News)
November-December 1942

Polish

74 pgs.

Folder 358: Wiadomosci Otwockie (Otwock News)
Sep-44

Polish

2 pgs.

Folder 359: Yiddish newspapers
August 1945, April 1948, June 1948, January 1978
Folder 360: Yidishe naft-magnatn (Jewish Oil Magnates)
undated

Yiddish

Handwritten

196 pgs.

Folder 361: Yidishe naft-magnatn (Jewish Oil Magnates)
undated

Yiddish

Typed

256 pgs.

Folder 362: Z Otchlani (From the Abyss)
1944

Polish

Booklet of poems

23 pgs. and 2 loose pgs.

Folder 363: Zaloga (Crew)
Dec-42

Polish

8 pgs.

Folder 364: Zycie Warszawy (Warsaw Life)
November 1944-January 1945

Polish

16 pgs.

Folder 365: Miscellaneous
undated

Notes, announcements, calendars, newspaper clippings

Polish, Yiddish, German, Ukrainian

Folder 366: Correspondence
1950, 1956, 1971, 1973-1975
Yiddish, Ukrainian, Polish
Folder 367: Correspondence
1976
Yiddish, Hebrew, English
Folder 368: Correspondence
1977
Yiddish, English
Folder 369: Correspondence
1978, undated
Yiddish, French, Polish
Series III: Correspondence
1970-1982
This series contains Hirszhaut’s correspondence with various Yiddish literary personalities and scholars, as well as with a few organizations and publications, mostly from when Hirszhaut was the editor of Di Zukunft. This correspondence is almost entirely in Yiddish and thus is arranged alphabetically by individual or organization according to the Hebrew alphabet even when the correspondence is in English or Russian. There is also correspondence from Julian Hirszhaut.
Folders: 155
Folder 370: Abish, S.
1982
Folder 371: Okrutny, Yosef
1981
Folder 372: Agranovitsh, B.
1972
Folder 373: Izban, Shmuel
1972-1982
Folder 374: Ayzenberg, Yitzhak
1978
Folder 375: Indelman, Elkhanon
1978-1981
Folder 376: Altusky, Hirsh
1982
Folder 377: Elkhanon, Hirsh
1979
Folder 378: Olitzky, M.
1981
Folder 379: Amerikaner Farband fun Yidish Profesorn (American Association of Professors of Yiddish)
1978
English
Folder 380: Opalek, Zvi
undated
Folder 381: Apter, Shimshon
1979
Folder 382: Akselrod, Pearl
1978
Folder 383: Okrutny, Yosef
1978-1979
Folder 384: Aratz, Meir
1979-1981
Folder 385: Baumwol, Rokhl
1978-1982
Yiddish, Russian
Folder 386: Birnboym, Y.
1981-1982
Folder 387: Beller, Jacob
1982
Folder 388: Berger, A.
1977-1978
Folder 389: Berger, Borukh
1970
Folder 390: Berger, L.L.
1978-1982
Folder 391: Berkman, Yonah
undated
Folder 392: Bractwo Polskie z Warszawy (Polish Brotherhood of Warsaw)
1981
Anti-semitic pamphlet
Folder 393: Golomb, Abraham
undated
Folder 394: Goldberg, Yitzhak
1979
Folder 395: Goldene Keyt (Golden Chain)
1978
Folder 396: Goldkorn, Isaac
1981-1982
Folder 397: Garrin, Stephen H.
1979
English
Folder 398: Gurkin, Israel
1981-1982
Folder 399: Goodman, Leib
1982
Folder 400: Goodman, S.L.
1979
Folder 401: Gutman, Meir Ber
1981
Folder 402: Gutkovitch, Y.
1981
Folder 403: Goldberg, Reuven
1972
Folder 404: Glicksman, Wolf
1977-1982
Folder 405: Gelehrter, Menachem
1981-1982
Folder 406: Gershonovitsh, M.
1977
Folder 407: Grade, Chaim
1977
Folder 408: Grossman, J.
1978-1981
Folder 409: Gross, Noah
1977-1982
Folder 410: Dorftink
1977
Folder 411: Hage, Borukh
1978-1979
Folder 412: Hofer, Hana
1978
Folder 413: Hacken, Vera
1981
Folder 414: Horn, Yosef (Jose)
1981
Folder 415: Heller, Binem
1977-1980
Folder 416: Wolpe, D.
1979
Folder 417: Wasser, H.
1977-1978
Folder 418: Weininger, Freed
1979-1982
Folder 419: Weinrauch, Herschel (Vinokur, Grigory)
1978, 1981
Also photocopies of earlier materials from 1950-1963
Folder 420: Vainsenker, I.
1976
Folder 421: Zak, Avram
1978
Folder 422: Zaretski, Hinde
1977-1982, undated
Folder 423: Silberberg-Cholewa, Israel
1979-1981
Folder 424: Zipper, Jacob
1979
Folder 425: Zeltzer, Chaim
1979
Folder 426: Hasid, M.
1978-1981
Folder 427: Halmish, Mordechai
1979
Folder 428: Top, S.
1981
Folder 429: Telesin, Ziame
1978-1982
Folder 430: Tenenbaum, Shea
1978-1982
Folder 431: Trunk, Zvi
1982
Folder 432: Tchechanovsky, I.
undated
Folder 433: Janasowicz, Isaac
1978-1982
Folder 434: Jacobson, Sol
1979
Folder 435: Yakir, Manya
1978-1982
Folder 436: Yungman, Moshe
1981
Folder 437: Cohen, Berl
1981
Folder 438: Lowin, Jacob
1981
Folder 439: Londinsky, Helen
1977-1982
Folder 440: Lokiec, Moshe
1982
Folder 441: Lusk, Irene
undated
Folder 442: Lusky, Shimon
1982
Folder 443: Layserovich, Avigdor (Victor)
1980
Folder 444: Lipshitz, I.
1978
Folder 445: Lewin, Samuel
undated
Copy of 1959 obituary and list of published works
Folder 446: Levenberg, S.
1979-1982
Folder 447: Lempel, Blime
1978
Folder 448: Leftwich, Joseph
1978-1981
Folder 449: Lermer, Arthur
1980-1982, undated
Folder 450: Matis, David
1981-1982
Folder 451: Maltinsky, Chaim
1979-1982
Also Hebrew newspaper clipping
Folder 452: Maltz, Saul
1978-1982
Folder 453: Mann, Harry
undated
Folder 454: Maitlis, Jacob
1977-1982
Folder 455: Milkovsky, Yitzhak
1979
Folder 456: Mlotek, Yosl
1977
Folder 457: Medek, Ivan
1982
English
Folder 458: Nadich, Judah
1982
English
Folder 459: Sapoznikow, Gershon (Gregorio)
1972
Folder 460: Sarna, M.
1978-1982
Yiddish, English
Folder 461: Sudit, Shalom
1978-1979
Folder 462: Sutzkever, Abraham
1979
Folder 463: Simchovitch, S.
1975
Folder 464: Serebrenick, Shlomo (Salamao)
1979
Folder 465: Ettinger, Moishe
1978-1981
Folder 466: Emiot, Israel
1976, undated
Folder 467: Eck, N.
1982
Folder 468: Fogel-Mamlak, Gershon
1978
Folder 469: Povzea, Mordecai (Murray)
1981
Folder 470: Posy, Aryeh (Arnold)
1977-1978
Folder 471: Fuks, Chaim Leib
1978-1981
Folder 472: Fuhrman, Herbert
undated
Folder 473: Fain, Yonia
1980
Folder 474: Fayn, Yitzhak
1982
Folder 475: Plotkin, Chaim
1978-1982
Folder 476: Friedlaender, Joseph
1981-1982
Folder 477: Fregers, D.
1979
Folder 478: Tsanin, M.
1982
Folder 479: Tzitrin, Nesiah
1977-1978
Folder 480: Tzenatum ??
1979
Folder 481: Kahn, Isaac
1978-1982
Folder 482: Kazdan, H.S.
1978-1979
Folder 483: Kaplan, Ozer
1982
Folder 484: Katz, Menke
1978-1982
Folder 485: Karmiol, W.
1978-1979
Folder 486: Korn, Rokhl
1981
Folder 487: Korenchandler, Yekhezkel
1978-1979
Folder 488: Koifman, Mordecai (Marcos)
1978-1979
Also an article on the first anniversary of Isaac Lipsky's death, 1982
Folder 489: Kiel, Chonon
1979
Folder 490: Klinger, Sholem
1971, 1979
Folder 491: Klepfisz, Heszel
1978-1982
Folder 492: Kesler, S.
1981
Folder 493: Kermish, Joseph
1982
Folder 494: Keshev, S.
1977-1979
Folder 495: Kresel, G.
1979
Folder 496: Rogel, Joseph
1979-1981
Folder 497: Rosenthal-Schneiderman, Esther
1975-1981
Folder 498: Rothenberg, Joshua
1979-1982
Also photocopy of Biuletyn Zydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego w Polsce, 1974
Folder 499: Rontch, I.E.
1978
Folder 500: Rak, Meir
1979
Folder 501: Rackovsky, Isaiah
1979
Folder 502: Rubinstein, E.
1977-1981
Folder 503: Rudman, B.
1975
Folder 504: Roytman, Shlomo
1978
Folder 505: Riz, Yaakov
1978-1979
Folder 506: Shabbetai, R.
undated
Folder 507: Shalit, Louis
1979-1980
Folder 508: Shafir, M.M.
undated
Folder 509: Shore, Wolf (William)
1979
Folder 510: Schwarts, Herschel
1980
Folder 511: Shvartz, Shlomo
1978-1982
Folder 512: Shulvass, Moses A.
1979
Folder 513: Shulman, Avram
1978
Folder 514: Shtern, Israel
1981
Folder 515: Sternfeld, Harry
1979
Folder 516: Shukhman, V.
1982
Folder 517: Snyder, Wolf
1979
Folder 518: Shedletzky, E.
1982
Folder 519: Schaechter, Mordkhe
1981-1982
Folder 520: Schaechter-Gottesman, Bella
1981-1982
Folder 521: Shklifer, Moshe
undated
Folder 522: Toren, Haim
1975
Folder 523: Unidentified correspondents
1978
Folder 524: Correspondence from J. Hirszhaut
1970-1981
Yiddish, English, Hebrew, French, German
Series IV: Addendum
1921, 1944-1948, 1963, 1974-1988, 2001-2004, undated
The addendum is made up of disparate materials donated by Julian Hirszhaut’s widow, Hanka Hirszhaut. These include correspondence, submissions to Di Zukunft, various writings by Hirszhaut, personal items of Hanka Hirszhaut, miscellaneous newspaper clippings, and some poetry and other materials on the Holocaust.
Folders: 33
Subseries 1: Correspondence
1974-1983
The correspondence in this subseries has been arranged chronologically. Some of the correspondents in this subseries are also represented in other parts of the collection.
Folders: 6
Folder 1: Correspondence
1974-1979
Folder 2: Correspondence
1981
Folder 3: Correspondence
1982
Folder 4: Correspondence
1982
Folder 5: Correspondence
1983
Folder 5A: Correspondence
undated
Subseries 2: Submissions to “Di Zukunft”
1975-1988
The materials in this subseries have been arranged alphabetically by author according to the Latin alphabet although the submissions are in Yiddish. The type of submission is indicated after the author’s name.
Folders: 17
Folder 6: A
1982
B. Agranovitz-poems
Folder 7: B
1979-1988

Rokhl Baumwol-poems, 1982

Jacob Beller-stories, essays, 1979-1988

Lili Berger-stories, 1982

Folder 8: D
1982, undated

Moshe Dlushnovski-stories

Abraham Dubelman-stories, 1982

Folder 9: E
undated

Israel Emiot-poems, stories

Moishe Ettinger-poems

Folder 10: F
undated
Chaim Leib Fuks-poems
Folder 11: G
1979-1982

Menachem Gelehrter-essays, 1981

Isaac Goldkorn-poems, 1979-1981

J. Grossman-essays, 1981

Meir Ber Gutman-poems, 1982

Folder 12: H
undated
Jose Horn-essays
Folder 13: K
1980-1982

Menke Katz-poems, 1982

Chaim Keniger-poems, 1982

Kehos Kliger-poems, 1981

Miriam Krant-poems, 1980

Folder 14: M
1975-1983, undated

Chaim Maltinski-poems, 1975-1983

Aleksey Mamzer-stories

Peretz Miranski-poems

Folder 15: O
1980-1982
Joseph Okrutny-stories, essays
Folder 16: P
1977
Bernardo Leon Pecheny-stories
Folder 17: R
1979-1983

Leizer Ran-essays, 1983

Chaim Rapoport-essays, 1980-1982

David Rappoport-poems

Joseph Rogel-poems, 1979

Shlomo Roitman-poems, 1982

Isaac Elhanon Rontch-poems, 1981

Esther Rosenthal-Schneiderman-essays, 1982

Folder 18: S
1980-1983, undated

Herschel Schwarts-stories, 1983

J. Shpigl-poems

Israel Shtern (Ish Yair)-poems, 1980

Meir Shtiker-essays

Shlomo Shvartz-poems, 1982

Folder 19: T
1981-1982

Ziame Telesin-poems, 1982

Samuel Top-poems, 1981-1982

Florence Trafimow-Freedman-poems

Folder 20: Unidentified authors
undated
essays, poems
Folder 21: V-W
1979-1982, undated

Raisa Velednitski-poems, 1979

Eli Verblun-poems, 1982

Avram Wajc-poems

Shneour Waserman-poems, 1980

Leib Wasserman-poems

Freed Weininger-poems, 1980

Charles Wise-essays, 1979

Folder 22: Z
1981-1982, undated

Hinde Zarecki-poems, 1981-1982

Rachela Zeitlin-poems

Feivel Zygielbojm-stories

Subseries 3: Miscellaneous Writings and Reports
1963, 1983, undated
Materials in this subseries include a manuscript draft for an issue of Di Zukunft , notes for another issue of Di Zukunft, copies of a book chapter by Hirszhaut, and galley proofs of the Bibliography of the History of Jews in Poland, by Majer Balaban and arranged by Hirszhaut.
Folders: 4
Folder 23: Manuscript for a complete issue of "Di Zukunft"
198?
Folder 23A: Notes for Feb. 1983 issue of "Di Zukunft"
1983
Folder 24: Polish translation of one chapter of Hirszhaut's book "Poland Without Jews"
1963
Also a copy in Yiddish
Folder 25: Bibliography of the History of Jews in Poland
undated
Galley proofs of Majer Balaban work, arranged by Hirszhaut
Subseries 4: Hanka Hirszhaut Papers
2001-2004, undated
These materials include Hanka Hirszhaut’s autobiography, a copy of the newsletter for Holocaust survivors that she published, a report about Pawiak prison, and the memoirs of Heniek Rajchman (Henryk Romanowski).
Folders: 2
Folder 26: Hanna (Hanka) Hirszhaut personal papers
2001-2004

Autobiography

Survivors' Chronicle, 2004

Secret report from Pawiak Prison (copy), 2001

Folder 27: Memoirs of Heniek Rajchman (Henryk Romanowski)
undated
Subseries 5: Newspaper Clippings
1944-1948
These newspaper clippings were either written by Julian Hirszhaut, or appeared in periodicals which he published. He sometimes published under the name of Michal Dobiecki in the Polish newspapers.
Folders: 3
Folder 29: Miscellaneous clippings
1944-1947
Polish, Yiddish
Folder 28: Miscellaneous clippings
1946-1948
Polish, Yiddish
Folder 30: Miscellaneous clippings
1947-1948
Yiddish
Subseries 6: Miscellaneous
1921, undated
This subseries consists of two poems, “After the Death of J.Ch. Brenner”, published in 1921 in Yiddish and “Sciana Placzu”, an undated Polish poem by Marian Hemar.
Folders: 1
Folder 31: Miscellaneous
1921, undated

After the Death of J.Ch. Brenner, 1921, Yiddish

Sciana Placzu (The Wall of Tears), Polish poem by Marian Hemar


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