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Spuścizna Bernarda Marka (Sygn. S/333), 1939

(Legacy and Papers of Bernard Mark)

RG‐15.128M

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archive 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024‐2126

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Descriptive Summary Title: Spuścizna Bernarda Marka (Sygn. S/333) (Legacy and Papers of Bernard Mark) Dates: 1939 RG Number: RG‐15.128M Accession Number: 2007.255 Creator: Bernard Mark Extent: 8 microfilm reels (35 mm); 9,168 digital images (JPEG) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archive, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Languages: Polish, Yiddish, German, and Russian.

. Administrative Information Access: No restrictions on access. Reproduction and Use: Publication or copying of more than several documents for a third party requires the permission of the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny imienia Emanuela Ringelbluma. Preferred Citation: RG‐15.128M, Spuścizna Bernarda Marka (Sygn. S/333), 1939. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Washington, DC. Acquisition Information: Recived from the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela

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Ringelbluma, Poland. Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany. Accruals: Accruals may have been received since this collection was first processed, see the Archives catalog at collections.ushmm.org for further information. Custodial History Existence and Location of Originals: The original records are held by the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma, ul. Tlomackie 3/5, 00‐090 Warszawa, Poland. Tel. 011 48 22 827 92 21. More information about this repository can be found at: http://www.jhi.pl/en Processing History: Aleksandra B. Borecka Scope and Content of Collection Contains selected papers of Bernard Mark (1908–1966), a historian of Poland, publicist, communist activist, and director of the Jewish Historical Institute (JHI) from 1949 to 1966. Part I includes materials related to Marks’ career; the Part II, less organized, includes notes made during his archival activity, copies of documents, and some personal materials. There are also photographs and posthumous materials such as memoirs, obituaries, and condolences. System of Arrangement The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels. Arranged in two series: 1. (Reel 1‐3) Archival documents: testimonies correspondence and essays; 2. (Reel 4‐8) Research materials of Bernard Mark (No specific organization). Indexing Terms Mark, Bernard, 1908‐1966. Beck family. Szczecińska, Maria. Moll, Józef. Oppenheim, Antoni. Ferszt, Mieczsław. Żelaźnik, Brandel. Szternberg, Meir. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Jewish resistance‐‐Poland. Jewish socialists‐‐Europe, Eastern‐‐History. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Underground movements‐‐Poland. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust‐‐Poland. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Jews‐‐Rescue‐‐Poland. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Poland‐‐Sobibór. Jewish ghetto‐‐Poland‐‐Łódź. Jewish ghett‐‐Poland‐‐Będzin.



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World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Jewish resistance. Jews‐‐Europe, Eastern‐‐Politics and government‐‐20th century. Będzin (Poland) Łódź (Poland) Staszów (Poland) Biała Podlaska (Poland) Testimonies. Photographs. Poems. Posters.

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1 Series 1

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A note bu B. Mark regarding testimonies of Marcel Reich‐Ranicki and his work at the Judenrat [Jewish Council]. Undated (probably 1951), Polish language, typescript., 4 sheets. Work by Opracowanie Bernard Klein entitled "Judenrat" about Jewish councils in Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Undated, manuscript, in Yiddish, 60 sheets. Notes by A. Berman to the book of B. Mark „Walka i zagłada warszawskiego getta” ["Battle and annihilation of the Warsaw ghetto:"] copied by hand by Mark. Undated, handwritten, Polish language.12 pp. Summary of speech „Podziemne archiwa gett”, ["Underground ghetto archives"], Polish language, handwritten, 3 pp. + 2 pps.of pencil notations, 1958. Declaration by Henry Fox to the effect that mgr. pharmacist Stefan Sabiniewicz was a collaborator, San Francisco, 16 Sept 1957, Polish language, handwritten, 1 heet. Notation to the effect that Sabiniewicz wanted to exclude Jews from the Professional Pharmacists Association, including names of witnesses.Undated, handwritten, Polish language, 1 sheet.. Photocopy of notice from the "Polish Pharmacy" (October 1945) regarding motion by S. Sabiniewicz to enforce the rehabilittion procedure, printed matter, 1 sheet, Polish language. Notes on the activity of Bund in Warsaw during the last world war", probably a fragment of a larger work notebook A6 (identified as "Notebook 1") 10 full handwritten pages in Yiddish, regarding the



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activities of the Bund during the years 1939‐40. Undated.. Separate biographical note on Melech Rawicz, Yiddish language, as well as text of the literary work in Yiddish, handwritten, 10 pp.. Poems from the occupation – part in handwriting (various handwritings), part typewritten, together 28 pp, Polish language. One of the manuscripts shows the date „26 November 1944 Graeben Concentration Camp”. Posters/mottos of the weekly "Undzer Weg” ["Our Way"], Yiddish, 1933 (?), in print, 3 sheets. Der junger chawer” ["The young comrade"], a communist youth paper from Sosno–Będzin, mimeographed copy, Yiddish, 1926 (?), 4 pp., preserved in poor condition. Droga życiowa towarzysza Leblena (Lebele?)” [Life road of comrade Leblen (Lebele?"], memories put in writing by Fajga Licht under the pen name "Enie". Manuscript in Yiddish, 25 pp.. Personal statement attesting to the fact that "Enie was Fajga Licht's pen name, inYiddish, 1 sheet, dated 27 November 1953. Memoirs of an anonymous author – a communist from the small town of Zaręby Kościelne, inYiddish, handwritten, 6 pp., undated, handwritten corrections. Memoirs of communist Aszer Hersz Zajdenwar, pen name. „Grisza”, addressed to Szymon Zachariasz. Notebook A6, inYiddish, unnambered pages; text contains pencil underlinings. Notation at end of texts reads: "20 April 1948 Lublin". Leaflet by H. Aleksandrow „Badajcie wasze miasteczko!” ["Investigate your little town!"], published by the Institute of Bielarus Culture, Minsk 1928,.in Yiddish, p. 16, seals of the Jewish Theological Seminary in Wroclaw and Jewish Central Library in Warsaw. Miscellaneous material from the occupation period. A. Corespondence between the mayor of Lezajsk, German gendarmerie in Lezajsk, local Jewish Council and District Head in Jarosław regarding Jewish matters, notices and certificates, Polish and German languages, 1939‐40. Part of the documents bears official seals and notations. Some documents may be later copies. Work card (?) in the name of Josef Krant in 2 sections, German language. B. Unsigned letter to the "Brijus” institution in Otwock regarding additional allocation of quota items for the sick. Kraków 3 May 1941, Polish language (it may be a copy). C. „Annex 1. Jewish Council



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in Warsaw: Notice” (text dated 22 July 1942), „Joint declaration announced simultaneously on Dec 17th, 1942 in London, Moscow, Washington” – it looks like part of a larger collection of documents, in English, preserved in very poor condition. Circular regarding acceptance of Jewish residents to the Hitlerjugend, 2 April 1940, German language, printed matter, 3 pp. 1 frame of undescribed microfilm, (newspaper clipping?) Account of Stanisław Ślusarek about the camp in Płaszow. Wrocław 24 March 1955, Polish language, typescript., 4 sheets. Notation on men of letters in the ghetto [Warsaw]. Information from Zofia Kubarowa”, Polish language, 1 p., undated. Concerns primarily Gustawa Jarecka.. Johannes R. Becher „Kinderschuhe aus Lublin” ["Children's shoes from Lublin"], a poem in German, undated, 6 sheets, 2 typewriten copies.. Memoir of Abraham Wang on the escape from Sobibor, put in writing by Moshe Lewi, a „Fołks‐Sztyme” ["Voice of the People"] newspaper man,. Bydgoszcz 10 January 1952, in Yiddish, handwritten, 3 sheets + a letter from the editor to the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw 14 January 1952, handwritten, inYiddish, 1 sheet. 4 letters of Jakow (?) Kapłan from Tallin to B. Mark regarding Jews singled out in USSR for participating in opposition movement, June – September 1963, handwritten, in Yiddish language, 16 p..Enclosed 6 photographs and 2 copies of war correspondence – letter from B. Lurie of August 1941, Russian language, handwritten, and L. Papiernik of 6 January 1042, Russian language, typescript. Account of Mieczysław Krzemiński vel Mojżesz Flamenbaum about his war activities in the GL[?] and AL[?] handwritten by B. Mark, 5 May 1963, Polish language, handwritten, 3 sheets. Biographical notation about M. Krzeminski, undated, handwritten, Polish language, 1 sheet. Enclosed 3 photocopies of certificates of Krzeminski's underground fighting activities , 1945‐46, Polish and Russian language, handwritten, 3 sheets. Letter from Julian Haliński to ŻIH regarding confirmation of death of his brother Benek Halbreich, Kraków 19 August 1960, Polish language, 1 sheet, handwritten.. Letter from Maria Granatsztejn‐Tilleman to ŻIH regarding.



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Part I; File number 287

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confirmation of her membership in ZOB. Wrocław 25 May 1963, handwritten, Polish language, 1 pp. Letter from Edward Stulbach to ŻIH regarding Jewish fighting group of PPR in Krakowie; captions for photographs of places connected to the history of the said group. Kraków 15 April 1950, handwritten. Polish language, 2 pp. Account of Stanisław Dąbrowski of the partisan action in the Parysew congregation in Garwolin province in November 1942 as well as captions on three enclosed photos. 21 December1955, Polish language, typescript, 1 sheet. + 3 photos in the envelope. Letter from Stanisław Dąbrowski with information regarding participation of Jews in the partisant fighter group. Mińsk Mazowiecki 22 Dec 1955, Polish languge, typescript, 3 sheets. Letter with enclosed photo of the underground fighter group, 22 Nov 1955, Polish language, handwritten, 1 sheet + 1 photo in the envelope. Memoir of heroic fights of Jewish comrades who fought in the forces of GL and AL” written by Stanisław Dąbrowski. Mińsk Mazowiecki 21 Nov 1955, typescript, Polish language, 24 sheets.. Testimony of Stanisław Dąbrowski about events inder occupation. Warsaw 18 July 1955, 3 sheets., handwritten, Polish language. Remembrances of a fiery Revolutionary, Big Patriot and Internationalist" [Elek Mozes of KPP] written by Stanisław Dąbrowski. Mińsk Mazowiecki 25 July 1955, Polish language, typescript, 16 sheets. Report of an eyewitness from Trablinka (a doctor from Czechoslovakia), from the period of 10 Oct 1942 to 3 August 1943. Hanwritten (hard to read), 9 pp. + 2 pp. Loose, Polish language, undated. Account of Wacław Iglicki „Wacek” about Jewish groups in the Kilinski partisant division of GL and AL under the leadership of Serafim P. Aleksiejew, taken down by E. Markowa. Warsaw 27 Feb 1965, Polish language, typescript, 4 sheets. Letter from Józef Moll to ŻIH regarding resistence movement in Auschwitz. Katowice 28 Nov 1960, typescript, Polish language, 2 sheets. Account of living on the Aryan side of Warsaw and neighboring locations (author's signature illegible), taken down by R. Paktor in Bialystok(?). First sheet missing. Undated, typescript, Polish



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language, 3 sheets. Documents regarding Mieczysław Ferszt: account by Witold Rogali, 26 June 1962, handwritten, Polish language, 1 sheet. 4 sheets with personal photos signed „From the album of Mieczysław Ferszt” (altogether 12 photos) and 7 loose photos. Photographs of partisants from the Kilinski division. 6 photos – post‐war copies, described in Polish. Biography of Antoni Oppenheim, socialist activist in the ghetto (Warsaw) taken down by his wife, Janina Gorska. Warsaw 27 Aug 1959, handwritten, Polish language, 8 pp. Letter from Eliasz Kirszenbaum from Bielsko‐Biała to ŻIH concerning Jewish parashooters from England, 11 Jan 1963, in Yiddish, handwritten, 2 pp. Testimony of S. M. Rozenfeld about the Sobibor uprising, undated, Russian language, typescript, 1 sheet. Memoir of Eugeniusz Stup about Mojżesz Horowitz „Mundek”, PPR activist in Lwow. 10 Dec 1955, Polish language, handwritten, 9 sheets. + a separate sheet with Mrs. Stup's address, entered by hand by B. Mark. Buchungs‐Bericht” [Accounting report] of 7 July 1944, Printed form filled out through carbon paper. Letter from J. Kot from Argentine to ŻIH regarding partisant Paltiel Miler (?) from Białystok and others, in Yiddish, 3 sheets, 25 Jan 1951. Enclosed photo of P. Miler. Letter from M. Fajgenbaum from Israel to B. Mark about the ghetto in Biała Podlaska. Ramat‐Icchak 10 Dec 1959, in Yiddish, typescript, 1 sheet. Letter from M. Dworzecki from Tel Aviv to B. Mark regarding a Yiddish diary found in Auschwitz. 27 Feb 1962, in Yiddish, 1 sheet, typescript. Attached 4 photocopies of the handwritten text..

2 Series 1

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Telegram from CKRŻMP and ŻKN to National Council in London about the Warsaw ghetto uprising. 27 Apr1943, typescript, Polish language, damaged text(original? Copy?) Letter from Bund member Mosze Lederman addressed to



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Rafael/Rafał, containing accounts of the Lodz ghetto and about Auschitz. Czestochowa 25 Oct 1945, 4 sheets, typed. In Yiddish. Postcard from T. Kneler from Hrubieszow to Hejnoch Kneler in the Lodz ghetto; the date of 29 Jan or July appears in the text. 1 sheet. Germanized Yiddish in transliteration.. Letter from Liza Rybałowska de Babkes from Montevideo regarding her sister Fryda Rybalowska who perished in the ghetto, 5 Nov 1959 Montevideo, 4 pp. In Polish, handwritten. A poem „Żegnaj, moje dziecko” ["Farewell my child" by Rubin Rybałowski (Fryda's father), in Yiddish, 1 sheet, 23 Nov 1945, handwritten.. Address of Hela Stein in Montevideo with Mark's notation :for Liza Rybalowska", undated, 1 sheet.. Enclosed Fryda's photograph. Jakub Antoniuk's account of liquidation of the Jewish population in the Białystok region. It contains statistics of the percentage of Jews based on the overall population in specific localities. Handwritten, Polish language 8 pp., undated. Letter from Leon Rajski from Warsaw to B.Mark about the . partisan Bela Kaufman. Warsaw 23 Nov 1958, 2 pp., handwritten, in Yiddish. Aleksander Burski's account of PPR's contacts with the communists in Bialystok during the occupation, taken down by E. Markowa, January 1958, 2 typed sheets + 1 handwritten (same text), Polish language. Jewish resistance movement and martyrdom in the Bialystok region according to documents of the "Armia Krajowa" [Home Army] 1941‐44”, work of Władysław Żarski‐Zajdler at the request of ŻIH, Warsaw 15 Nov 1965, Polish language, ms. 50 sheets. Natan Janower's account about the ghetto in Zambrow and labor in Germany, taken down by F. Wajner. 8 sheets, inYiddish, typewritten, undated. Testimony about the annihilation of Jews in Brańsk and the creation there of the Jewish partisan division, given before the Jewish Historical Commission in Białystok (no name of witness given), taken by R. Faktor. 9 Dec 1946 Białystok, in Yiddish, typewritten, 4 sheets. Abram Zilberwajs' account of the ghettos in Lublin and Warsaw, taken by F. Wajner, 7 sheets, undated, in Yiddish, typewrriten. Raja Wajntraub's account of the ghettos in Skarzysko‐Kamienna, Szydłowiec/Szydłowce and Częstochowa, taken down by F. Wajner. Undated, in Yiddish, 9 sheets, typewritten.



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Icchak Waks's account of the ghetto in the little town of Stefan/Stepan, province of Kostopol, region of Równe, given in Wrocław 16 Feb1963, talem dpwm bu Fakwe; Wakmer. 11 sheets, in Yiddish, typewritten. Fajga Wolkowicz's account of her war time experiences in in Wiskic near Zyradow, Warsaw, Sochaczew. Given on 25 June 1963 in Dzierzoniow, taken down by F. Wajner. 12 sheets, in Yiddish, typewritten. Account by an unknown author from the Wilno ghetto, in Polish, typewritten, 19 sheets (pages 1 and 3, as well as the end, missing).Undated. Declaration made by Władysława Zajdler and Kazimierz Madanowski (Kalman Mendelsohn) about the help extended to Jews by Henryk Rolirad from Warsaw. Warsaw 21 June 1960, 4 pp., Polish languge, typewriteen. Stefan Sendłak's account about Zegota's activity 1942‐44, Warsaw 22 Apr 1955, 8 sheets, typewritten, Polish language. S. Sendłak's reply to ŻIH's inquiry, Łomianki 5 Aug 1956, 4 sheets, Polish language, typewritten.. Copy of account by Tadeusz Rek about Zegoc, 14 Dec 1954, 2 sheets, Polish language, typewritten.. Copy of letter from the newspaperman Julian Pelc to ZG TSKŻ about Jews hiding in a hollow of an oak on the estate of the family of Count Mycielski in Wiśniowa. Warsaw 23 May 1961, Polish language, 1 sheet. Testimomy of Ewa and Tadeusz Sarnecki about help extended to Jews within the area of Zegota, Polish language, typewritten, 6 sheets, undated. Copies of certifications issued to Grzegorz Żukowski by the Jews he saved: Michalina Riesa (New York), Janina Gosk (Łódź 6 May 1949), Mieczysław Karaffa‐Korbut (Warsaw 31 Aug 1953), 3 sheets. Polish language, typewritten. Copy of letter to Zukowski from the Jewish Society for Public Welfare with thanks for his gift. Warsaw 1941, 1 sheet, typewritten, Polish language. Letter from Leonia Grynberg‐Donat to B. Mark inquiring about the fate of her benefactor Stanisław Kapki. New York 7 July 1959, Polish language, 1 sheet.. ATTENTION: THIS SHOULD BE PART OF FILE 575. Little notebook with addresses of persons who helped Jews, written down by Mark, undated, Polish language, 3 sheets.



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Letter from Maksymilian Lenkiewicz (actually Maks Herz) to Mark about the action of taking Jews out of the ghettos in in GG and Galicia district by organized Jewish group of which he was a member. Łódź 22 May 1963, Polish language. 2 sheets, typewritten. Letter to Marek and declaration by Juliusz Wilczur Garztecki about help extended by the PLAN organization to the Warsaw ghetto. Warsaw June1963, Polish language, 2 sheets, typewritten. 2 separate letters in the same matter, with illegible signature. Warszawa 25 June 1963, 2 sheets, Polish language.. [statement?] by Edmund Komorowski from the village of Józefosław near Piaseczno about 10 Jews hiding in the Obory vicinity from 1942. 6 sheets, typewritten, in the Polish language, undated. Accounts from the occupation time by Brandel Żelaźnik, her son Seweryn and daughter‐in‐law Irena, who were hiding on the Aryna side in Włodzimierz Wołyński, with attached declarations of 2 witnesses, and a letter from Seweryn Żelaźnik do ŻIH. Szczecin, 10 Feb 1958, Polish language, handwritten, 7 pp. Declarations by Maria Matywiecka (from 8 Aug 1957) and Bronisława Kowalewska about the help extended to Jews by Maria and Mieczysław Lebioda as well as a medical certificate regarding treatment of Maria Lebioda for pulmonary tuberculosis, 13 Aug 1956. Handwritten, 4 pp, Polish language. Copy of declaration to the effect that Maria Szczecińska from Staszow saved 15 Jews, Staszów 21 Dec 1957, Polish language, typewritten, 1 sheet.. List of the saved individuals, handwritten, 1 sheet, Polish language. Letter from Marian Melman to B. Mark concerning honoring the family Beck for aiding Jews, Warszawa 12 Mar 1958, 1 sheet., Polish language, typewritten. Information given by Stanisław Gawroński from AL. About the leader of BCh "Osce"[?] division who stole Jewish properties during the war. 17 Apr 1951, 1 sheet, typewritten, Polish language. Ludwik Tyborowski's account about a Jewish cell in Pawiak in August 1943. Warsaw 21 Oct 1960, Polish language, 1 sheet, typewritten. Accounts of Russian prisoners of war, Wajspapir and Rozenfeld, of, among others, the uprising in Sobibor and letter from Tomin and Sinielnikow to Mark in which they send him several accounts, 3 Aug



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1962, Russian language, typewritten, together 20 sheets. Account of Kadisz Goldberg about his experiences during occupation (Prużany, Oświęcim [Auschwitz], Buchenwald). Warsaw 29 June 1959, in Yiddish, 4 sheets, typewritten. Testimony of Jan Pawlak from Otwock about the fate of the Jews during the occupation in Ryki andi Puławy. Handwritten, Polish language, 1 sheets, undated. Fragment of memoirs of occupation‐time experiences by Tadeusz Nowiński, „Cryptonim <Perła>”, regarding activities of a German agent, Seinfeld. Warsaw 3 Jul 1960, Polish languge, typewritten, 20 sheets. Travel permit, issued to Elisabeth Siskiewicz, a Pole, by the German command post in Białystok, 8 Sept 1944 (?), German language, printed item, 1 sheet, in 2 parts. Letter from Icchak Kornblum to B. Mark concerning Jehuda Feld. Tel Aviv 16 Dec 1959, Polish language, handwritten, 3 sheets. Accounts by Jakub Antoniuk of the activity of „Wschód” Fighting Organization in Białostok region and the attitude of peasants to the extermination of Jews. 12 May 1959, Polish language, handwritten, 6 pp. Chaim Lazar's letter from Tel Aviv to B. Mark regarding photos of the Warsaw ghetto fighters; attached two press photographs by D. Wdowiński. Tel Aviv (?), 3 Mar 1963 (?), in Yiddish, handwritten, 1 sheet. Letter from Zofia Kossak‐Szatkowska to B. Mark about the authorship of underground brochures published by FOP. Warsaaw 29 Jan 1958, Polish language, typewritten, 1 sheet. Letter from S. Brusa to B. Mark about Mordechaj Anielewicz. Wrocław 17 May 1953, Polish language, typewritten, 4 sheets. Letter from Rozalia Rotstein to B. Mark regarding her brother Adam vel Janek Szwarcfuks, Szczecin 26 May 1953, Polish language, typewritten, 2 pp. Two letters from Basia Kiejzman to B. Mark regarding her sister Szoszana‐Róża Praszkier. Łódź, 4 Nov 1955 and 28 Feb 1956, Polish language, handwritten, together 4 pp. Letter from H. (?) Zbrożyna to B. Mark about the records of the



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Warsaw Jewish Council. Warsaw 29 Aug 1955, Polish language, handwritten, 1 sheet. Letter from Margot Rozenbaum to the editors of „Fołks‐Sztyme” about, among others, M. Anielewicz and Sz. Bresław. Włoszczowa 1 Apr 1956, in Yiddish, 3 pp. Handwritten. Letter from Feliks Żołendowsk to B. Mark regarding testimonies for Wanda Urpsza, to the effect that she helped Jews from the Warsaw ghetto during the occupation, as well as a copy of a certificate issued by the Jewish congregation in Warsaw. Gdańsk 18 Nov 1957, Polish language, 2 sheets, typewritten. Letter from Zofia Kossak‐Szatkowski to B. Mark regarding her authorship of the brochure „W piekle” ["In hell"]. Warsaw 13 Jan 1958, Polish language, typewritten, 1 sheet. Notarial widowhood certificate of Irena Witkind: tetimonies of witnesses Leon and Janina Czesława Penczyn. Tel Aviv, January 1958, German language, 3 pp. Typewritten. Letter from Halina Lewkowicz from z Nahariya to B. Mark regarding her cousin Michał Rozenfeld from ŻOB. Nahariya 23 Dec 1958 (stamp's date on the envelope), Polish language, handwritten, 2 sheets. Letter from Sz. Breslauer to B. Mark regardimg her brother Michał. Bnei Brak 6 May1959, 5 sheets, handwritten, Polish language. Notarial widowhood certificate of Berta Fuksman from Ramataim, whose husband perished in Ponary; account of the widow and witnesses, Jozef and Helena Tran z Tel Aviv. Typewritten, 7 pp., Polish language, October 1959. Letter from Michał Wójcik from Grudziądz to B. Mark about rhe fate of Jews in Parczewo during the occupation. Grudziądz 23 Nov 1959, Polish language, typewritten, 2 pp. Letter from Halina Feffer‐Dror from Tel Aviv to ŻIH about the death certificate of her husband Józef Feffer, taken hostage in the matter of K. Kot. Tel Aviv 20 Dec 1959, Polish language, 2 sheets, typewritten. Letter fromGrzegorz Major (?) to B. Mark regarding the attitude to Jews among AK, as well as biography of the author. New York 10 Oct 1960, Polish. language, in Yiddish, handwritten, 11 pp.. Widowhood certificate of Rifka Schwarz, Tel Aviv 27 Nov 1960,



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German language, 1 sheet, typescript. Judgment of the Israeli court in this matter, Tel Aviv 11 Dec 1956, Hebrew language, 1 sheet., typescript, photograph enclosed.. Letter from Eliahu Goldenberg to B. Mark with enclosed documents regarding Dawid Folman, 6 Dec 1961, Hebrew language, 1 sheet., handwritten. Letter from Dawid Folman's daughter to B. Mark about memorializing at the ZIH her father who was the last secretary of the Judaistic Library in Tlomacko, Tel Aviv 6 Dec 1961, Polish language, handwritten, 1 sheet. Enclosed negative and a copy of D. Folman's photograph, 2 photocopies of letters from the Warsaw ghetto from 1942, as well as two different texts intended for placement under his portrait; in Polish and Yiddish, undated, handwritten, 2 sheets. Letter from Hubert Urbasik to B. Mark regarding registration of Jews murdered during the occupation in Katowice. Katowice 15 March 1962, Polish language, typescript, 1 sheet. Enclosed alphabetical list of victims compiled on the basis of death records in USC in Katowice. Katowice 13 Mar 1962, Polish language, typescript, 2 sheets. Letter from Wanda Płachtowa to B. Mark about help extended by her to Jews during the occupation and containig a request for financial aid. Leszno 6 April 1962, typed, Polish language, 3 sheets. Enclosed printed matter with the address of Herman Kos whom she saved, issued 22 Feb 1953 in Jerusalem by the Jewish Agency, 1 sheet, in English, ms. A little poem for a diary written to Ewa, daughter of W. Plachtowa by M. Hirschfeld, a woman teacher, a Jew, whom they were hiding. Rzeszów 10 June 1944, Polish language, handwritten, 1 sheet. Letter from Aliza Dora Gryngruz to B. Mark about her sister Rysia, who perished in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Charków 5 Sep 1962, Polish language, 4 pp. REMARK: TO BE ATTACHED TO "SYGN." 359. Letter from I. Cukierman to B. Mark, containing a reply to his quetions about the Warsaw ghetto. 17 May 1960, in Yiddish, typed. 3 sheets. Letter from Jerrzy Wiksel from Auschwitz to ŻIH about the fate of Bruno Winawer during the occupation. 26 May 1963, handwritten, Polish language, 2 pp. Letter from Prof. Marian Puchalik to B. Mark about the fate of Dr. Bruno Winawer. Rokitnica 3 June 1963, Polish language, 1 sheet, typed.. Letter from M. Trzesniewski from Lodz to B. Mark about his experiences during the occupation (in reply to a previous letter from



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Mark), 28 Nov 1963, in Germanized Yiddish, handwritten., 4 pp. Letter from Helena Gruenspan from New York to ŻIH about a sign left on the wall of Pawiak by her murdered sister, Regina Czajkowska. 25 Feb 1964, Polish language, typed,. 1 sheets. + copy. Letter from Aron Landau from Israel to B. Mark, about, among other items, his experiences during the occupation, 10 Dec 1963, in Yiddish, handwritten, 3 sheets, with a postscript by his wife(?) Irena on the last page. Letter from the Jewish Committee w Lubawka, prov. of Kamienna Góra to B. Mark regarding documents found in the area of the camp in Chelmsko Slaskie – texts of revolutionary songs, written down by Jewish prisoners from Vienna. Lubawka 24 Nov 1947, Yiddish, 1 sheet, handwritten..Enclosed 4 undated texts, Polish and Yiddish language, handwriten, 4 sheets. Correspondence (copies), mainly letters from B. Mark on various matters, (among them letter from presumed editor of „Dos Naje Lebn”, to CKŻP etc.), as well as letters from M. Szklar and others. 1948‐49, typewritten, in Yiddish and Polish, unnumbered pages. records of discussions at ŻIH of B. Mark's book, "Di churwes dercejln” Opinions, among others, of L. Najberg, J. Gitler‐Barski, N. Blumental, M.Edelman. Typed and handwritten, in Polish and Yiddish, May‐June 1948, presumably partly copies, no pagination.. Letter from Yad Vashem to B. Mark about issuance in Polish of letters from Dr Szyfman's daughters, 18 Mar 1963, typed, Polish language, 1 sheet. Enclosed copies of letters from years 1940‐1943, Polish language, typed, 24 sheets. Letter from Berta Owide‐Genendelman about her brother's estate. 23 Feb 1963, 2 pp., Polish language, handwritten.. Outgoing correspondence from B. Mark (copies) on various ZIH matters (publications, investigations, replies to questions, editorial plans etc.). Among addressees are R. Auerbach, H. Wasser, M. Edelman, J. Trunk, A. Berman. 1950‐1955, typewritten, in Yiddish and Polish.

3 Series 1

File number 1009

File number 1010a

File number 1010

As above, 1956‐59, in Polish and Yiddish, typed and handwritten., also a few letters to B. Mark. As above, B. Mark's incoming and outgoing correspondence. 1960, typewritten, handwritten, in Polish, Yiddish and English, 143 sheets.. As above, 1961‐66, typewritten, handwritten, in Yiddish, Polish,



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File number 1011

Russian, German, 506 sheets. Papers, reviews and other publictions taken from the correspondence of ZIH sekretariat 1950, 1958, 1961 (mostly undated), typewritten, handwritten, in Polish and Yiddish, 191 sheets.

4 Series 2

File number 5

File number 17

File number 20

File number 26

File number 27

File number 28

File number 30

File number 31

File number 32

File number 34

File number 36

Yugoslavia, World War II: group and individual photos of partisans – 12 photos, some with captions (in Serbo‐Croation? Poems and songs from the occupation. Typewritten, handwritten, in Yiddish and Polish (later copies). Documents concerning Perec Opoczyński, memoirs about him, bibliography, description of the estate held by ŻIH. Undated, in Polish, Yiddish, handwritten, ms. Materials dealing with Holocaust in Bielarus: accounts of Berta Kuper, Ajzyk Glazman, Jakub Szajnin, Roman Soszyn, Ajzyk Jarmowski, Michał Jezierski, Jakub Kramarski + copies of testimonies on underground activities of the latter. Handwritten, typewritten, in Yiddish, Russian, Polish. Materials dealing with Holocaust in Lithuania: accounts of Szmul Kuper, Josel Girkus, Fania Sołoducko, L. Sznajder, Raisa Mielnik, Joffa Sara Goldman, Chackel Bajder, Aleksander Sznajder, Lipa Ajnbinderaa, Liba Miler, Genia Stalaw, Genia Piernat, as well as copy (presumably) of a daily from Ponar. In Yiddish, typewritten, handwritten.. Letter from J. Kantor from Moscow to ŻIH containing texts of ghetto poems. Undated, in Yiddish, handwritten, 8 pp.. M. Szer's letter to BM about Jewish partisans in Estonia.. Tallinn 4 Feb 1965, 2 pp., in Yiddish + 2 for.[photos?] Handwritten. Jojne ben Mosze Cwi Rodionow: „Z ryskiego getta” [from the Riga ghetto"], edited by G. Kenig, in Yiddish, handwritten, 63 sheets. His memoirs addressed to BM, Ryga 22 Oct 1961, in Yiddish, handwritten, 52 pp. Bibliography of BM works. Printed matter from the Lodz ghetto (clean), form with information on place of residence, 1940, in Polish and German.



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File number 37

File number 40

File number 49

File number 50

File number 53

File number 60

Aron Hirsch's will, leaving his estate to the people who were hiding him – Rozalia and Michal Kus, as well as instructions for recuperating the hidden money. Demnia 14 June 1944, 4 pp., in Polish, Yiddish, Ukrainian, handwritten.. Letter from Aron Hirsch to his cousin Batia (?), Domnia 15 June 1944, Polish language, handwritten,, 1 sheet. Letter from Michał Kus to ŻIH in the matter of finding the family of Aron Hirsch, Różańsko prov. Myślibórz 1 May 1959, Polish language, handwritten, 1 sheet. A.M. Abramowicz's letter from th front to his sister Gitl, 21 Dec 1944, 4 pp., in Yiddish, manuscript. "Unser Vaterland”["Our fatherland"] nos. 10 and 11 from 1944, mimeographed copy, total of 8 sheets" German languiage, typewritten. 2 letters from Vojtech Berger from Bratislava to ŻIH, April 1959, 5 sheets, in Yiddish, manuscript with enclosed 2 photogrphs from wartime hanging execution. Letter from the Temporary Council for Help to Jews to the plenipotentiary of the country's government, 2 pp., typescript, in Polish, cancered text, appears to be original. Warsaw 29 Dec 1942, 2 sheets.. Second letter, also from Żegota, regarding punishment for denouncers and blackmailers; text quite damaged, typewritten, 1 sheet, in Polish, dated Warsaw 6 Apr. Letter from K. Mendelson (K. Madanowski) to BM about experiences during occupation, Warsaw 17 Dec 1959, in Polish, typewritten, 2 pp. Originals (mimeographed copies) of appeal of the French resistance movement regarding Jews. 1943‐44, in Yiddish, French, typescript.. Memoir of Meir Szternberg from Bucarest entitled „18 years after liberation of Transynistia”, in Yiddish, handwritten, 8 pp. + his letter to BM, 8 Apr 62 , handwritten, in Yiddish, 1 sheet.

5 Series 2

File number 62

File number 70

File number 77

File number 105

Paper (unsigned) on the partisan movement in Wilno. Typescript, in Yiddish, undated, 116 sheet. Texts of songs and poems from the ghetto (Lodz?) Part grouped for antology. Several originals from the occupation 1940 ). Typescript, manuscript, in Yiddish and Polish. Poetry from the ghetto: in Yiddish, handwritten (post‐war copies) undated.



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File number 108

File number 131

File number 132

file number 136

Part II; File number 138

File number 139

File number 143

File number 152

Account of Feliks Dziuba about collaboration with ŻOB in Krakow. Kraków 15 Jan 1961, copy, typescript, in Polish, 3 sheets. Lodz ghetto: Account of Samuel Erlich account (1946 and 1964), Paweł Rozdział (1964), Barbara Beatus (1948, 1965, 1961), R. Bojmelgrin (undated), Marian Librowski (undated) and Michał Chęciński (undated). Typescritpt, in Polish. Letter to Fajwisz Wajner from Szymon Szapiro from Zasław, 22 May1945, in Yiddish, handwritten, 2 pp. Letter from the editors of Stolica” with enclosed copy of letter from T.M. Sieroslawski regarding the Jewish resistance during the liquidation of the ghetto in Sloczow, Warsaw 14 May 1958, Polish language, typeswritten, 2 pp. 2 photographs of the Jewish population at the memorial for the dead in Brussels, 19 Apr 1946. Leaflet with images of Jewish partisans murdered during the war, issued by "Solidarite Juive" [Jewish Solidarity] in Brussels, 1945, French language. Satirical poem „Wojl iż der mejlech [Happy/good is the king]”, most probably about Rumkowski, signed with initials W.I.or M.I. Next to it is a caricature of Rumkowski (?) with headings „Weksler”and „I to wszystko jest moje” [And all this is mine]. Together 3 pp., in Yiddish, handwritten, undated.. Photo of „Diadii Miszy”, an engineer engineers' battalion, 2 May 1945 Berlin. Photos of a group of partisans on the ruins of the ghetto in Wlodaw, undated. Part of A5 notebook – memoirs from Sobibor written in form of a letter to a friend, in Yiddish, handwritten, 34 pp. + 2 pp. of a letter to friends, in Polish, undated, signed by Symek vel Szymek (judging by the contents, written shortly before the end of the war). Leaflet from "KC Poalej Syjon" dated November 1947, Polish language, 1 sheet, printed matter. Statement about partisan activities of Jakow Kozłowski, made by Bielarus Staff of the Partisan Movement, 23 Apr 1944, Russian language, printed, 1 sheet. + photograph of Kozłowski in the company of other partisans. Materials dealing with Jewish settlement in Lower Silesia: copy of letter to the Polish Republic's plenipotentiary for Lower Silesia from the Ministerial. Administration, 6 June 1945, Polish language, 1 sheet, typescript. Text by unknown author entitled "Spring 1945", 3 sheets., in Polish, typescript, b.d. Agenda of meeting of Jewish



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File number 174

File number 190

File number 194

File number 195

File number 196

committees in Lower Silesia, 26 Jan 1946, in Polish, 1 sheet., typescript, 2 copies. Budget estimates for January 1946, typescript, Polish language, 11 sheets. 4 sheets with maps and graphs of Lower Silesia as well as a postcard with Recovered Territories, in Polish. Minutes of meetings of Organizing Committee of Polish Jews at ZPP in Moscow, manuscript and typescript, in Polish and Yiddish., 1945‐1946, 23 pp. Photos of Jewish writers, sometime in the company of BM, many of them post war from the 40's. Photographs of various graves of those murdered, monumnts – early post‐war years. I. Kantor „Jews in the Red Army”, a paper, typewritten, 27 sheets, in Yiddish + the same text in handwriting, 21 sheets, undated. Miscellanious material regarding the resistence movement in Biełarus, containing accounts of: Zinaida Kremer about the Minsk ghetto and the guerrilla activites, undated, 12 pp., in Yiddish, typewrittenms. + 2 sheets of copies of certificates from 1944 and 1946 in Yiddish, handwritten; Leon Zamkowy about the ghetto in Nowogródek and guerilla activities, 18 pp, in Yiddish, handwritten, undated, + 3 sheets. of copies from 1944 and 1957, handritten, in Russian; memoirs or account of Icchak Alperowicz entitled„Two wars”, 17 pp. + 1 sheet, in Yiddish, handwritteln; report of Icchak Alperowicz about guerrilla activities, Szczecin 14 Apr 1959, 33 pp. + 2 pp., in Yiddish, handwritten; I. Alperowicz's letter to BM, Szczecin 14 Apr1959, 2 pp, in Yiddish, handwritten + 2 copies of certificatesfor partisan Maks Morduchowicz, 1944, in Russiah, handwritten, 2 sheets. Reports by: Jona Rodionow from Riga about the local ghetto, Ryga April 1957, in Yiddish, handwritten, 16 pp.; Ruben Want, recorded by F. Wajner, undated, in Yiddish, 16 sheets, typescript: Peteris Wigant about the camp in Salaspils (Latvia), undated, typescript, 3 sheets, in Russian..

6 Series 2

File number 234

File number 236

Report by Efroim Majerowicz from Częstochowa 14 Dec 1939 – 15 Aug 1940, undated, damaged text, 18 pp., Polish language, typescript. Report by Nella Rost (?) about a Jewish prison on the Security Post in Krakow, undated, in Polish, typescript, 9 sheets. Reports on help extended to Jews: Eugenia Wąsowska‐Leszczyńska, undated, typescript, 4 sheets, Polish language; Helena Gadomska, recorded by R. Pups, 10 June 1959, 3 sheets., Polish language,



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File number 237

File number 247

File number 250

File number 252

File number 254

File number 292

File number 325

File number 341

File number 342

File number 348

File number 350

typescript: Tadeusz Zuchowicz „Marek”, undated, 5 sheets, in Polish, typescript (2 copies). Testimony of Władysław Żarski‐Zajdler about extending help to Jews, Warsaw 3 Jan 1960, P)olish language, typescript,. 1 sheet. Report by S. P. Aleksiejew about Jewish guerrillas, 22 Dec 1961, 3 sheets., typescript, Russian language.. Documents relating to the case of Jozef Wulf before the Civic Court in Krakow: record from 25 Feb 1949 with depositions by Zygmunt Kaliński, copy of record of depositions by Roman Kaliński from 22 Feb 1949, record of depositions by Karol Gross from 10 Jan 1949, Polish language, typewritten, 5 pp. Letters from Jewish soliders to various institutions, 1944‐1946, among them to KOŻP in Moscow, a total of 10 letters, 28 pp., in Polish,Yiddish and Russian, handwritten.. Photographs of Jewish partisans (total of 18 photos). Letters from Róża Rojzenfeld vel Szoszana Breslauer regarding her brother Michal Rozenfeld, from ŻOB, Bnej Brak 2‐3 Apr 1959, total of 10 sheets, Polish language, handwritten. Correspondence to BM from Russian Jews, most letters in proper envelopes, some with attached photos and newspaper clippings, in Yiddish and Russian, handwritten, total of approx. 27 letters from the years 1961‐65. 2 photographs found inear the place of annihilation of Jews near Smolensk + information on the person who found them and the circumstances,.undated, 2 sheets, in Polish, typed. Copy of publication „Hechaluc Halochem” of the Militant Jewish Organization of "Chalutzim" Youth, of 27 Aug 1943, typescript, in Polish, 11 sheets., damages to text. Account of Dosia Szajkiewicz about the ghetto in Krzyżopol (?) written by M. Szer, undated, 4 sheets., Russian language, typescript. Bund's corespondence from the years 1946‐47, total of approx. . 27 letters, typewritten, handwritten,, in Yiddish + 3 printed invitations for events, in Polish, 10 Nov 1946 Legnica. Letter to BM from the Bund's archives in NYC, 27 July 1960, in Yiddish, 1 sheet, typed, + 1 photocopy.

Correspondence to BM from the 60's, mostly from USSR, together with 20 letters and post cards, typewritten, in Yiddish, Polish, Yiddish



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File number 353

File number 364

File number 396

File number 397

transliteration, Russin, some with envelopes. Lists of participants in conspiratorial activities in the Lodz ghetto, some letters with present addresses, undated, typescript, handwrittent, Polish lnguage, a total of 19 pps. Corespondence to BM from the 60's, variious senders, 15 letters and post cards, handwritten, in Yiddish + list of senders, 2 sheets, Polish language, handwritten. Corespondence to Abel Lew/Lewi from Grodno – 19 letters and postcards from the years 1914‐1947 (actually mostly prewar), in Yiddish, handwritten, typeritten, together approx. 26 pp. 4 small photos depicting the annihiliation of Jews, 3 described as „Ukraine 1942”, 1 as „Jew from the ghetto in Bochnia”, descriptions in German. Materials dealing with Arkadiusz Rozenkier: letter to BM from the TSKŻ department in Bydgoszcz, 12 Dec 1953, Polish language, typescript, 2 sheets; opinion from the workshop, Bydgoszcz 16 Dec 1953, handwritten, in Polish, 1 sheet.; fragment of report or memoir of Rozenkier, 1 May 1945, Polish language, 2 pp., handwritten. Corespondence to BM – from Aharon Landau, 22 Oct 1963, in Yiddish, handwritten, 3 sheets; from Józef Marszałek, Garwolin 5 Sept 1963, in Polish, typescript, 1 sheet. Paper by BM „Jews, soldiers and officers of the First Division fallen at Lenino” (list of names), undated, typescript, in Polish, 3 sheets. List of soldiers, Jews, on the Second Bielarus front, undated, 2 pp., in Polish and Russians, handwritten. Memoir of an unknown author about Abraham Szmulewicz, undated, in Polish, 4 pp, handwritten. Memoir from Lenino: one written by mgr. Maks Muszkat, undated, in Yiddish, 6 sheets, handwritten; theother by unknown author, undated, in Polish, handwritten, 2pp. Several handwritten notations by BM. Account of Luba Blum from the Warsaw ghetto (and the Aryan side?), handwritten, in Yiddish, undated, 11 pp.. Letter to BM from Jakub Putermilch from Tel Aviv, 30 July 1962, in Yiddish, handwritten, 5 sheets. Polish Jews Organizational Committee in Moscow: records Nos. 14‐26 from 1946, in Polish, handwritten, 16 pp. KOŻP Bulletin, Nos. 1‐2, 4, 5, 6, 9 from 1945 and 1946; they appear to be incomplete, in Yiddish, mimeograph. 1 bulletin in Polish from 1 Nov 1945, mimeograph. Minutes of KOŻP meeting which took place on. 18‐20 Nov (?) 1945 in Moscow, a clip, in Yiddish, typescript, 55 sheets. Appeal to Jews in camps in the British and American sectors, Wrocław 7 March 1947, in Yiddish, typed, 1 sheet. Text by unknown author „For the history of creation of settlements of Polish Jews in



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Lower Silesia”, in notebook A4, 6 pp., in Polish, handwritten, undated.

7 Series 2

File number 398

File number 403

File number 405

File number 417

File number 420

Poster „To the population of Lower Silesia ” on the 4th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, 1947, Polish language, 1 sheet. 2 letters to BM. Complete literary material intended for the Department of Culture of the Provincial Jewish Committee in Dzierżoniow (poems and reminiscences from the camps), in Polish and Yiddish, manuscript, typescript, some in copies + a list signed by Józef Nieznanowski, 2 Dec 1946, in Polish, typescript, 1 sheet. Unorganized corespondence to BM (mostly from the USSR) on various matters from tye years 1957‐1963, in Yiddish and Russian, handwritten and typewritten, 2 photographs. Attached list of senders, in Polish, handwritten, 7 sheets. Photographs of Jews from Wrocław (?), 1945 (5 photogs + 1 from Odessa 1956). Corespondence too BM, divided by years and senders, from 1957‐1964 (they may be earlier as well), typed, handwritten, in Yiddish, Russian, German and Polish.. Basic theses of the unification manifest of the Jewish Labor Party, Poalej‐Sjon of the Left, and th Jewish Socialist Labor Party " Poalej‐Sjon (C.S.)”, Warsaw 19 Oct 1947, print, Polish language, 1 sheet. Articles and papers on the Jews in Lower Silesia „General remarks” (regarding Jewish settlements in Lower Silesia), undated, typescript, in Yiddish, 6 sheets, author missing (2 copies). „First gathering of the leading workers in Lower Silesia”, author missing, Wrocław April 1948, typescript, in Yiddish, 6 pp. Hersz Smolar „Introductory word”, undated, in Polish, 2 sheets., typescript. J. Egit „Return to life”, a chapter from the book„Cu a naje lebn”[To new life], in Polish, typescript, 4 sheets, (ending missing). J. Egit „Jewish settlement in Lower Silesia”, undated, 5 pp., in Yiddish, typescript (+ 3 copies). Report from the meeting (? – page I missing), undated, in Yiddish, typescript, 3 sheets. Letters to Provincial Jewish Committees in Klodzk, Zary, Ziembice, 4 Mar 1949, 4 sheets., Polish language, typescript. Minutes of meeting No. 5 of Jewish PPR on 3 Aug 1945, 8 sheets, Polish language, typescript. Minutes of meeting of Jewish delegates of the committees in Lower Silesia in Rychbach, undated, Polish language, typescript, 8 sheets. Authorless article „Jews in Lower Silesia during World War II”, undated, in Polish, typescript, 2 sheets. Authorless article "Rebuilding of culture in new Poland”, undated, in Yiddish, typescript, 9 sheets. Authorless text „Two meetings”, undated, in Polish, typescript, 4 pp Agenda of the Regional Conference of Polish Jews in Rychbach, 17 June 1945, in Polish, typescript, 2 sheets. Minutes of regional conference of representatives of former hostages of concentration camps.,



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File number 422

File number 428

File number 430

File number 431

File number 434

File number 436

Rychbach 17 June1945, Polish language, typescript, 4 sheets. Invitation and program of the Conference on Jewish Culture in Lower Silesia, 8‐9 Dec 1946, in Polish and Yiddish, printed matter, 2 ciriculars on the conference, undated, together 3 pp., in Yiddisy.. J. Egit „Two years of Jewish settlement in Lower Silesia," undated, typescrip, Polish language, 4 sheets. Letters from WKŻ in the Lower Silesia to provincial committees, 4 March 1949, together 7 sheets, Polish language, typescript.. Life story or memoir of Guta Margolis, undated, handwritten, in Yiddish, 6 sheets, handwritten corrections. 8 letters, mostly to BM, from various years, in Polish and Yiddish, handwritten. 2 photograph – one not described, the other with an attached separate sheet handwritten by BM, in Polish. 4 photographs from the collection of Leon Błażejewicz + 1 photo from the collection of Seweryn Pregier, two dated as 1935..Letter from Leon Fudem to Edwarda Markowa about the family fate during the occupation. Wrocław 1 June 1967, Polish language, handwritten, 8 pp. Two letters to BM: from TSKŻ in Łodz 24 Sept 1958, handwritten, in Yiddish, 1 sheet, enclosing 2 pp found from the ghetto,.in Yiddish handwritten, undated, 2 sheets; and from Stanisław Tajtelbaum, Łódź 2 Sept 1960, Polish language, 3 pp., handwritten. Court record in the case of Naftali Prywes against Joint, 11 June 1960, Polish language, typescript, 50 sheets. Court record in the case of Naftali Prywes against Joint, 1 Sept 1959, Polish language, typescript, 26 pp, handwritten underlines.. Statement by Lucjan Dobroszycki, Władysław Młotecki and Artur Solarz about members of leftist underground organization in the Lodz ghetto, as well as list of leftist underground organization in the Lodz ghetto as well as list of members living and deceased, Warsaw 11 Nov 1958, in notebook A4, handwriten, Polish language, 10 pp. Photographs. 28 unorganized photos selected for microfilming, among them photos with attached BM's handwritten description. Dug out from under the ruins at Nowolipie 44 (one with dedication from Salek dated 10 Sept 1942); approx. 15 copies of portrait photographs or depicting soldiers or partisans, some photos with descriptions (Polish, Yiddish, Russian), undated.. In addition, 28 photos kept in an envelope addressed to Michalina Pajewska by Wanda Elster, showing the same persons (a part taken from an album). That same envelope contains also a school ID document of Szulamit Ances from 1939.from „Jehudyjah” high school, a monthly Warsaw ticket in the name of Srul Fedeuman (?); a post card to



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File number 445

File number 446

Michalina Pajewska from Dr R. Ben Shem, Giveat Shmuel 17 Oct 1947, Polish language, handwritten, letter addressed to Mila and Stasia from Basia and Michal regarding care of Bronka, 24 Jan 1945, Polish language, 1 sheet, handwritten. Lodz ghetto. List of members of the anti‐fascism organization, „Lewica Związkowa” [Organizational Left], undated, in Polish, typescript, 12 sheets. Roster of members of the Anti‐Fascism Organization prepared by Stefan Erlich, undated, 6 pp., in Polish, handwritten. Account of Maurycy Goldman, undated, in Polish, handwritten, 5 sheets. Account of Rozalia Klugman, undated, 32 sheets, in Polish, handwriten. Account of Barbara Beatus, Warsaw 1964, in Polish, typescript, 6 sheets. (Attention: text is in 5 copies, only one to be microfilmed!) Memoir of Wacław Iglicki „Wacek”, undated, 4 sheets, Polish language, typescript with corrections. Fragment of larger work by unknown author is about the battle at Lenino, undated, in Polish, typescript, 17 sheets (unfinished). Letter to the editors of an unidentified publication from S. A. Aleksiejew „Serafim”, 21 July 1960, in Polish, typescript, 7 sheets. Texst deals with World War II – it appears to be a reply to a survey; no mention of author, undated, in Yiddish, handwritten. 27 pp.

8 Series 2

File number 447

File number 448

Lodz ghetto. Account of Jerzy Flajszman, undated, typewrittent, in Polish, 7 sheets, 2 copies. „Fragments from letter from Sarka to the Homeland”, October‐December1965, fragment of a larger work, in Polish, typescript, 14 pp. Account of Michał Chęciński, undated, 12 sheets, in Polish, typescript, 2 copies. Account of Michał Chęciński, Warsaw 15 Nov 1961, in Polish, typescript, 6 sheets. Jw. Warsaw 22 Sept 1961, in Polish, typescript, 9 sheets. Fragments of memoir of unknown author, undated, in Polish, typescript, 4 sheets. Account of H. Solarz, undated, in Polish, 3 sheets, typescript. Fragments of memoirs copied from conclusions for ZboWiD[?] undated, in Polish, typescript, 10 sheets. Fragment of memoir of Arnold Mostowicz, undated, in Polish, typescript, 4 sheets, 2 copies. Letter from Nina Zachariasz to a Stefan, with names of active members in the leftist party in the Lodz ghetto, undated, in Polish, handwritten, 2 pp. Lists of active members (various handwritings) undated, in Polish, handritten and typed, 17 pp.. Letter from Sylwester (Symcha) Złotkowski too BM regarding the Bedzin ghetto, Będzin 8 Sept 1962, in Polish, handwritten, 2 pp. + fragment of letter from Clemens Sejfert with questions concerning the Będzin ghetto, undated, (clearly a Polish translation ), Polish language, 2 sheets, typescript. Two accounts of Jankew Szajnin – undated, in Yiddish, handwritten, 5 pp. + undated typescript, in Yiddish, 4 pp. + handwritten notation by J. Szajnin, in Yiddish, 2 pp.,



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File number 456

undated. Letter from Rywa Kwiatkowska‐Pinchasik to BM regarding writers in the Lodz ghetto, 16 Jan 1950, handwritten, in Yiddish, 3 sheets. List of creators of Jewish culture in the Lodz ghetto, undated, typescript with handwritten corrections, in Yiddish, 2 sheets. Copies of poems by Antoni Marianowicz from the years1941‐42, Polish language, typescript, 13 sheets.



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