Guide to the Territorial Collection, Poland,
1939-1945

RG 116. Poland 2

• General Brandt:
• Establishment of concentration camp on the territory of the destroyed ghetto, 2/4/1943.
• Concerning the use of police security in the former ghetto, 6/11/1943.
• Correspondence with the police commander, 6/21/1943.
• Concerning the destroyed Warsaw ghetto and German propaganda, 7/23/1943.
• General Kerber:
• “Moscow - The Cradle of Bolshevism in Our Hands”-a photo.
• Concerning 53 Polish Jews who were probably killed.
• Re: Polish criminals.

• Governor Hans Frank:
• About mineral resources in Poland, 1/23/1940, 6/27/1940.
• Structure of the German government in Poland, 9/13/1940.
• Forced labor for the Jews, 10/26/1940.
• The wearing of yellow patches by Jews, 11/23/1940.
• Prohibition against Jews using public transportation, 2/20/1941.
• General Krueger:
• Decrees regarding governance in Polish cities.
• Monetary fines for Warsaw residents.

• Confiscation of Jewish property
• Directives concerning gypsies and their places of residence.

German reprisals against Poles for assisting Jews. The extermination of Warsaw’s Jews from “The Black Book of Polish Jewry.”

Lists of streets in Warsaw that are forbidden to Jews and those that are permitted to them.

• Notes on mortality among the Jews.
• Ration cards for October 1941.
• The stigma of typhus among Jews.
• Aid for orphans.

• Starvation related illnesses in the Warsaw ghetto: a joint research project of Jewish physicians in the ghetto.
• A description of a photo, which depicts the shelter for deportees on Pawia Street no. 6, summer 1941 (photo missing).
• A note about a Jewish child to be handed over to a Polish neighbor, signed by the child’s parents, Moszek and Bella Adler, 4/30/1943.
• A Bundist’s account of how he fled Warsaw during Germany’s seizure of power.

Conditions in Warsaw as related by Dr. Rosenblatt from Łódź.

• Lists of perished Jewish writers, journalists, and artists) in Warsaw.
• A report by Adolf Berman and Emanuel Ringelblum on the cultural work in the Warsaw ghetto-includes lists of murdered Jewish educators, teachers, artists, conductors, painters, sculptors, musicians, rabbis, poets, journalists, and social activists, 3/1/1944, (copy, Polish; original in DSV).

• A diary by a Polish prisoner, 1/14/41-5/15/44.
• Daily reports about the number of prisoners.

• Biography of Henryk Rublinlicht-date of birth: 9/14/1901.
• Farewell letter, 1943-from Francsizka and Henryk Rubinlicht.
• First liquidation of Jews 3/21/1943-first day of spring.
• Personal documents and death notice of Francizka.

Newspaper clippings

• Published articles in clandestine Bund press.
• List of murdered Bundists.
• Minutes of a clandestine group, 1/8/1942

• How the Jewish Fighting Organization (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa-Z.O.B.) came into being.
• Preparations for the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
• “The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto” by Morton Wishnegrad.
• Correspondence between two ghetto fighters bearing pseudonyms.

• “The First Fights in the ghetto”.
• Account by “Kazik,” Symcha Ratajzer, a ZOB fighter.
• Print materials to be used for lectures re: the Warsaw ghetto uprising.

• A short Yiddish biography (photocopy).
• The last letter from M. Anielewicz.
• Eyewitness account of a Pole, Stanislaw Stefanski (a native of Radom, date of birth: 4/30/1898), who witnessed firsthand the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
• “Our Comrades are Fighting”-A letter from Israel, 5/3/1943.
• “Khurbn Varshe,” first page of a manuscript, August 31, 1942 (photo), author unknown.
• A letter to the Jewish Fighting Organization (Z.O.B.) from Poniatowa, 9/15/1943 (photocopy).

German poster: “Das betreten des ghettos ... (verboten)"

Essay by Noe Gruss about Jewish dentists in Bełchatów being forbidden to practice their profession. Attached is correspondence between the mayor of Bełchatów and the German authorities on this subject

• “Arbeitskarte”-German work card for Berel Levitas, 4/19/1944
• Copy of a statement indicating that Israel Golub handed over furs and other articles of clothing to the Germans

Letters in Yiddish to J. Harrison in NY

• Copy of an appeal written by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff, leader of the Białystokghetto uprising to the Polish underground.
• Letter from M. Tenenbaum (Tamaroff) to his sister in Israel

Personal letters incl. messages from a smuggler written on the reverse side of a family photograph

Newspaper clippings about the Białystokghetto uprising

• On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Białystokghetto uprising, 1943-1948-A Holocaust commemoration ceremony held 8/16/1948.
• BiałystokJews in different concentration camps in Europe.
• Jews registered in Bialystok.
• Białystok Jews in different cities in Europe, 1946

A family letter sent from parents to their children in New York

Family letters sent to Philadelphia

• Appeal to all Jewish survivors of Chelm re: publishing a Chelm memorial book, made by Jewish survivors of Chelm residing in Paris.
• An invitation (in French) to a memorial service on 6/24/1956

• “These are the last days of our life…” a letter written in Chełmno by the last remaining Jews there.
• “Landsberger lager tsaytung” (newspaper generated in the Landsberg DP camp), Rosh Hashana, 1946 re: Chełmno Yiddish written in Latin characters

• Election of a Ciechanów survivors’ committee, Łódź 11/1/1946.
• An announcement from the Ciechanów survivors committee

United Ciechanów Relief Committee, New York. Records

• Correspondence between B. Appel in Philadelphia and H. Klein, 12/5/1949.
• Handwritten articles by B. Appel: “Dedicated to My Youngest Daughter, Born in Warsaw, 9/22/1939, Died in Auschwitz, 11/15/1942.”
• “Dedicated to My Beloved Wife and Three Children—Tragically Perished in Auschwitz, 11/15/1942.”
• “The 30th of April 1945—Dedicated to the Day of My Liberation.”
• Newspaper clippings.
• Photograph: A monument to the Old Synagogue in Ciechanów

• Copy of a document issued to Maria Gliksman, born 4/17/1885, issued 8/28/1942.
• Announcement to the Jewish population re: relinquishing their property, 5/7/1940
• Statistical Tables:
• Table #27: “The Jewish Population in the City,” 7/31/1940.
• Table #28: “The Movement of the Jewish Population in the Year 1940.”
• “Changes in the Jewish Population, 1938-1941.”
• “Free Professions in the Częstochowa Ghetto, 1941.”
• “Weddings Among Jews in 1941.”
• Letters from the ghetto, 2/28/1943, 3/26/1943 in Polish, translated into Yiddish by M. Gliksman.
• Title page of the Judenrat’s annual, published in the ghetto in 1940.

• “The Destruction of Częstochowa’s Jewish Community” - L. Brenner.
• Notice from the Bund re: opening a restaurant.
• David Koniecpoler-“Her Last Minutes.”
• Cwi Rozenwajn-“The Destruction of Częstochowa Jewry.”
• Advertisement for the book, “Khurbn Tsenstokhov” (“The Destruction of Częstochowa”) by B. Orenstein.
• Newspaper clippings

Photostat of a letter written to a Jewish woman before execution (Russian).

List of Glubokoye Jews murdered by the Nazis, Tel-Aviv

Glubokoye memorial book

Photograph of a Jewish woman (~70 yrs. old) murdered by the Nazis

Clippings

Copy of letter dated 2/20 (no year), written by A. Muravchik to relatives and former residents of Horodok in America re: the arrest of Nazi collaborators who participated in anti-Jewish pogroms

Eyewitness account and diary of Icchak Platt who survived in hiding by being aided by Poles

Letters from resident of town to relatives in America

Newspaper clipping

Newspaper clipping

• Letter from the son of the Kielce rabbi in Amsterdam re: rescuing his father from a Kielce prison, 2/20/1940.
• Letter from the Vilna rabbi, Ch. O. Grodzienjki on behalf of the Kielce rabbi.
• Letter from Boruch Rapoport, son of the Kielce rabbi, to former residents of Kielce re: his father, 1/6/1940.
• “The Murder of the Kielce Jews” by A. Rutkowski, “Folks-shtime,” 8/21/1957

Confirmation given by the country inspector that Isak Platt is approved as a technician in Horodenko

Letter from a lawyer in Ludwigsburg, Germany re: a document and photos from Kolomyja from Sh. Bikel in Yiddish, which he is unable to comprehend and needs help translating

Concerning where one may find information about Konin under German occupation

Clippings

• Handwritten article from Rabbi Freilich, Brooklyn, NY: “The Destruction of Kozienice: The Stronghold of Hasidism”.
• “When the Jews of Kozienice Were Murdered” by A. Rutkowski, “Folks-shtime” no. 1, 1957.

• Decree from Kraków municipality re: “yellow patches” for Jews, 11/15/1939.
• Information and business documents about Julian Mielniczuk-includes photocopy of a photo ID card (“kennkarte”) issued in Warsaw, 5/18/1943.
• Letter from Kraków to Ignacy Aleksandrowicz, a former resident of Kraków, now residing in NY, 1946.
• “A Letter Concerning Hanka Aleksandrowicz,” “Unzer tsayt”

Newspaper articles

• Excerpts from “Umgekumene Levartover” (“Murdered Residents of Lewartow”)-includes names, dates of death, photos.
• “Khurbn Levartov” (“The Destruction of Lewartow”) issued by “Friends of Lewartow” in Paris, 1947

“How Lida Was Destroyed” by Leizer Engelstern, “Der tog”

“The Melody of Our Town Lipno” by Walter Covadlo.

• Personal questionnaire issued by NSDAP (German)
• An order to the German troops to be alert after the dark.
• Letter from “Boruch” to his family, 8/27/1947 (Hebrew).

Correspondence between American Embassy re: dues owed the Singer Sewing Machine Company for its services in the Łódź ghetto.

Personal documents of Jews in the Lublin Concentration Camp, 1943: Fabrykant, Hersz; Fabrykant, Majer Dawid; Faingold, Abram; Fajer, Azriel; Falc, Jakob; Fersztman, Moszek; Finger, Berko; Finger, Moszek; Fiszer, Icak; Fersztman, Berek; Frydman, Lewin; Frydman, Szajne; Weisman, Nuta

• “For Three Days the Cry, “Hear o Israel” Was Heard from a Mass Grave in Luck”
• “An Interesting Type of Jewish Woman of Valor,” “Tog,” 12/4/1943.
• “The Ashes of Polish Jews…,” “Tog,” 11/14/1944.
• “Jewish Survivor … Retrieves Burnt Torah Scrolls from German Synagogue,” “Tog,” 12/13/1947.

• “Die Schwarze Juden-Mord-Chronik von Lemberg (Lwów)” by Dr. Manfred Reifer.
• “Z Lwówskiego ghetta” by Zofia Kozarynowa, “Wiadomosci” no. 682, 1958.
• Photostats of ID cards issued by the Lemberg “Arbeitsamt” (“Office of Labor”) for Bronislawa and Dr. Marek Redner.
• Family letters from Lwów bearing Nazi censor’s stamp, sent to A. Goldring in Brooklyn, NY, 4/12/1940, 6/20/1941.

Notes about the ghetto by I. Trunk

“Our Commemorations for the Dead—Minsk-Mazowiecki” by A. Winter, “Folks-shtime” no. 197

A postcard from Mława written to an uncle in Brooklyn.

A list of Jews who perished during the Holocaust

Copy of a letter (a will) from a concentration camp in Nowogródek, 5/12/1943, meant to be delivered to family members in Tel-Aviv. Copy of a letter sent to the family members, 4/12/1945

A letter from a Polish mail carrier who delivered mail to former Jewish residents of Olszanica re: the events that took place during the German occupation.

“A Day in Ostrów Mazowiecka” by Y. Emiot, “Folks-shtime”

• Newspaper clipping from undated and unknown source on “The Destruction of Ostrowiec”.
• Article re: the destruction of the Jewish communities of Bodzanow, Ostrowiec, Nieśwież and Sandomierz, “Forverts,” 12/4/1945.
• “Ausweis/Przepustka” (identity cards) valid until 4/30/1942.

Eyewitness account

• “The Otwock Line,” “Dos naye lebn” no. 62.
• Correspondence from S. Symchowicz in Wroclaw, 1947 re: testimony from Otwock.
• “The Destruction of Schools … and Cemeteries: Otwock”.
• “Powstanie getta w Otwocku” by Noe Gruss.

“The death of 670 Jewish War Prisoners”

“How I Rescued Six Jews,” a Polish woman’s eyewitness account

• Decree issued by the gubernator concerning the registration of Jewish property, 1/24/1940
• Notice to all Jewish men born during the years 1914-1923, who registered for forced labor on 3/14/1940 must submit their income from 1939.
• Newspaper clippings.

Postcards sent from Płock and Płońsk to NY.

“At the Memorial Monument of the Mass Grave of 1,200 Jews of Rabka” by M. Rympel, “Folks-shtime” no. 50

• Photocopies of postcards including photographs.
• Letters sent from Radom, and other places to Arthur Mosoff (a brother) in New York

• Prosecution of Joseph Wilhelm Blum, SS deputy commander for the Radom district 1942-1944, 7/29/1947 (Polish).
• “What Transpired in the City of Radom?”, materials concerning the annihilation of Radom Jews-a fragment of a larger work by Gabriel Weisman (Yiddish).
• Newspaper clippings

“The Destruction of Jewish Life in Radomsk” by A. Rutkowski, “Folks-shtime”

• Identity card for I. Korman, 8/10/1940.
• Memorial (“Yizker”) document dedicated to the murdered Jews of Rawa Mazowiecka

“The First Slaughter in Rowne-6 November 1941” by N. Gris, “Mishmar,” Tel- Aviv.

Postcard of “Yizker-Rypin” issued by the Rypin Jewish Committee in Germany

Plea issued by the Jewish community of Rzeszów to the Jewish community of Paris re: the whereabouts of Bernard, Abram, and Binem Szymkiewicz.

• Notice issued by the Siedlce Judenrat re: a prisoner’s work status, 10/26/1940 (German).
• Former Jewish residents of Siedlce in Argentina-memorial sign for the Jewish victims of Siedlce including photographs of the Siedlce ghetto.
• Introduction to the Siedlce memorial book.

Newspaper clippings

• The account of a Slonim resident, J. Slonim re: his experiences during the German occupation in Slonim and as a partisan.
• “Tragedia Slonimska” by S. Szlakman, murdered during the Holocaust.

• Prospect of the Memorial book for the Jewish community of Sokołów Podlaski, published by the Organization of Sokołów Podlaski Former Residents in Israel, Tel-Aviv, 1959 (Yiddish).
• “Our Commemorations for the Dead-Sokołów Podlaski,” “Folks-shtime,” 2/8/1957.

• Letter to Russia, 3/23/1941.
• Account of former resident of Sosnowiec now residing in Israel (Polish).
• “That Tragic Wednesday in Zaglebie,” “Folks-shtime,” 8/14/1957.

• “How the Jewish Community in Stanisławów Was Murdered,” “Dos naye lebn” no. 107 by I. Borenstein.
• “The Murder of the Last Jews in Stanisławów,” “Folks-shtime,” 2/20/1957

“The Destruction of Staszów,” “Letste nayes”

Work documents (copies) of Chaim Milchman

Partially filled ID cards of Jews from Suwalki murdered in Biala-Podlaska

“The Murder of the Jews of Szydlowiec,” “Folks-shtime”

• A notice verifying that the Jewish woman bearing ID number 301114 is currently employed, 9/11/1942.
• A letter (copy) addressed to a brother and a Gentile Polish friend who saved the life of the author’s daughter.

A letter from the Tarnow Judenrat to the UGIF of Paris certifying that a woman and her two daughters reside in Tarnow.

• A Polish newspaper bearing a description of the commemoration ceremony held at the Kraków Jewish cemetery for the murdered Tymbark Jews.
• A letter to a deputy in the Polish Sejm re: the Jewish cemetery of Tymbark.

“The Murder of the Jews of Troki,” “Folks-shtime”

Newspaper clippings

“The Destruction of Zakrzowek,” a testimony.

• Statement signed in Vienna by three former residents of Zawiercie claiming that a given Jew collaborated with the Gestapo, 8/4/1946.
• Statements by other individuals vouching on behalf of this same Jew, August 1946.

Memoirs of L. Kaplinski

Photocopy of a testimony given by World War II survivor, Leon Peczenik in Straubing, Germany.

Letters from the local Jewish community council in Żyrardów addressed to the Social Welfare Committee (Juedische Unterstutzungstelle) in Kraków, 11/27/1940, 1/14/1941.

• Verification form from the Polish Red Cross stating that Rukhl Niklas was imprisoned and tattooed with the number 81310 in 1944.
• Photocopied verification form from Auschwitz stating that Johann Dabrowski, bearing the tattooed number 18306, was arrested on 7/8/1942.
• Notice re: Villis Kirsners (German).
• “A Constructive Answer to Auschwitz and Judenfeindschaft (Hatred of the Jews)” address by Boland Hughes, M.D., 2/11/1945.

“German Extermination Camps-Auschwitz and Birkenau,” issued by the War Refugee Board, Washington, D.C.

Report on Auschwitz by Dr. Charles Susskind.

“My Sojourn in the Auschwitz (Oświęcim) Extermination Camp and My Escape” by Martin Steg, Paris.

• “Report on Conditions in the Concentration Camps of Oświęcim and Birkenau” by Sargent H. Ripka, 7/4/1944.
• Memorandum (copy) undersigned by Jozef Sandel, Chaim Hanft, and Anatol Wroblewski in Katowice, 11/14/1947 re: their concern for the fact that Jewish Auschwitz victims are frequently represented as “Poles”—and not as Jews (Polish).
• Handwritten Yiddish statement re: the Jewish uprising staged in Auschwitz - to be used for the collective book on Auschwitz (“Zaml-bukh: Oyshvits”).

• “Kurier Wieczorny,” 11/28/1947, 11/30/1947.
• “Kurier Codzienny,” 11/26/1947

“Yom Kippur in Auschwitz” by Genia Silkes

“The Jewish Uprising in Auschwitz: The Women and Children of Auschwitz.”

“Six Years in Hitler’s Hell” by B. Appel.

• “Session of the International Oświęcim Committee,” 1/31/1957.
• “There Should Never Again Be Another Oświęcim,” “Folks-shtime,” 6/4/1957.
• “Regarding Compensations for Those Persecuted in Oświęcim and Their Families,” “Folks-shtime,” 12/18/1957.
• “Oświęcim-The Grave of Millions of Jews,” “Folks-shtime,” 1/29/1957.
• “272 Projects from 30 Countries for a Monument at Auschwitz,” “Folks-shtime,” 4/15/1959.
• Photostat of an article written in English by Nelly Kalecka, a 14-year-old girl from Grodno, which was published in the English edition of the New York “Tog,” 1946.

Schedules of the transport routes used to transport Jews from various Polish cities to Treblinka

• Eyewitness testimonies of Jews who had been imprisoned in Treblinka given in the court in Łódź , 12/3/1944.
• Jewish survivors of Treblinka: Samuel Reizman, Henryk Poswolski, Stanislaw Kon.
• A copy of the plan for the crematory ovens.
• English articles from the Polish press agency, “Polska Agencja Prasowa"

• “Treblinka” by Elia Rozenberg.
• “At the Graves of Our Fathers in Treblinka” by I. Edelman. Recollections of former inmates.
• “The Uprising in the Treblinka Extermination Camp,” “Folks-shtime,” Y. Wiernik, 4/15/1958.

• Reprint from the “Saturday Evening Post” entitled, “How the Nazi Butchers Wasted Nothing” by Edgar Snow.
• Article, “`Kol Yisrael’ Receives an Interview from Radio Moscow an Interview Regarding the Uprising in Sobibor”.
• Armband bearing Star of David, worn by the Jewish police in Sobibor.

Letters from Alexander Pechorsky, a Soviet Army officer and former Sobibor inmate sent from Rostov to Reuben Ainsztein in London.

Janowska concentration camp in Lwów, Poland-Letters from an inmate, “Tusiek,” who perished in 1943, written to his mother.

The Lublin District

Dispatches from Konstantin Simonov re: the extermination camps in Poland

• Testimony (copy) of Hans-Adolf Asbach, former Nazi official in Poland, 9/6/1955 (German).
• “Report On the Trial of Hans Biebow, a War Criminal, Supervisor of the Ghetto in Łódź , Held Before the District Court of Łódź , from 23 to 30 April 1947” (translated from the Polish).
• Letter (copy) addressed to the United Nations War Crimes Commission re: Adolph Fritz Fischer (Polish).
• Document detailing the legal process of Hans Biebow (Yiddish).

• “Report on the Trial of Karl Gallasch” (translated from the Polish).
• “Trial of Leon Gross and Maier Kerner by the Special Criminal Court at Kraków” (translated from the Polish).
• Trial of the members of the SS command at Majdanek 12/2/1944 (translated from the Polish).
• Trial of 11 Germans for crimes in Łódź-sentence issued by court in Łódź , 2/15/1949 (Polish).

• Willie Ankelbach, Dr. Josef Buhler, Friedrich Gerhardt, Sergei Bobko, Al. Grabowski, Hazenmeier, B., Friedrich Kuczynski, Mozer, H., Gen. Juergen Stroop, Musielowski, Paul Schmidt.
• Letter from Dr. David Wdowinski, 7/21/1964.
• Polish Embassy, London concerning the matter of Nazi war criminals, 12/9/1947

• “Szesc miesiecy w wiezieniu niemieckim: opowiadanie bylego wieznia”.
• “Zycie dziecka uchodzcy” by Dr. Irena Filozof .
• “Zycie muzyczne w ghecie warszawskim” by Marceli Reich.
• “Likwidacja ghetta warszawskiego.”

• “Beginning of the War-September 1, 1939”.
• “Those Who Did Not Survive Until the Uprising”.
• “It is Fifteen Years…”.
• “The First Seder Night 1943-Uprising”.
• “Memories of the Warsaw Ghetto-The Glory of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.”

• The Board of Deputees of British Jews to the World Jewish Congress, 4/3/1944.
• A speech by William Edlin, 3/31/1944.
• A civic mass meeting: “A Tribute to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto” on 6/7/1944-Jewish Community Council of Detroit.
• Newspaper clippings

• General Jewish Defense: Committee in Paris-meeting for the 2nd annual day of remembrance for the Warsaw ghetto uprising, 4/19/1945 (Yiddish).
• Memorial-Lodge 400 and 860 of the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order, 4/19/1945 (English).
• Memorial meeting, 4/18/1945 - American Federation for Polish Jews (English).
• Announcements concerning the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Warsaw, 4/1945 (Polish).
• Invitation to a commemorative program for the third anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising to be held on 4/19/1946 (Polish).
• Stamp issued on the occasion of the Warsaw ghetto uprising’s second anniversary (Yiddish, French).
• “A Meeting to Remember”-“Remember the Warsaw Ghetto,” 4/23/1946 (English).
• “Uroczysta academia poswiecona trzeciej rocznicy...,” “Wolna Polska” 5/15/1946 (Polish).

• Yizkor meeting organized by Poale Zion, 5/14/1947.
• Program Dedication of the site of the American Memorial to the Heroes of the Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto (admission tickets), 10/17/1947.
• Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Program-organized by Hashomer Hazair
• American Memorial to Six Million Jews of Europe, New York City, 10/19/1947.
• “On the Occasion of the Fourth Annual Remembrance Day of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,” “Dos Naye Lebn” no. 31 (109).
• Ghetto Uprising,” “Dos Naye Lebn” no. 31 (109). · “Jewish Youth Helps Build a Memorial Monument in Warsaw…,” “Morgn frayheyt,” Sunday, 10/26/1947.
• “The Day of Remembrance for the Heroes and Martyrs of the Warsaw Ghetto,” “Forverts.”
• “Conseil des Associations Juives de Belgique-Soiree Commemorative…Ghetto de Varsovie,” 4/20/1947 (French, Yiddish).
• “Keren Kayemet L’Yisrael-Gaj K.K.L. imienia Bohaterow Ghetta Warszawskiego” (Polish, Hebrew).
• Polish commemorative stamp issued in honor of the establishment of the “Pomnik Bohaterow Ghetta Warszawa” (“Monument for the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto”) (Polish).

• “Fifth Annual Commemoration for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,” New York, 4/19/1948 (Yiddish).
• Invitations to the fifth annual Warsaw ghetto uprising, issued by the “Central Committee of Jews in Poland,” 4/18-4/19/1948 (Yiddish, Polish).
• Invitation for “Wasser” signed by “P. Zelicki”-Warsaw ghetto uprising commemoration to be held on 4/18/1948 in Warsaw, 4/15/1948 (Polish).
• Invitation to the fifth annual commemoration for the Warsaw ghetto uprising to be held in the Bronx’s Amalgamated Housing on 5/7/1948 (Yiddish).
• Notices for the “IZKOR” ceremony to be held at the Nozyk Synagogue at 6 Twarda St. in Warsaw on 4/23/1948 (Polish).
• Leaflet issued by the Warsaw “Landsmanshaft” Committee in Berlin, printed by the “Undzer lebn” printing shop, undated (Yiddish).
• Photograph of an artistic sign created on the occasion of the annual Warsaw ghetto commemoration day-issued by the Warsaw “Landsmanshaft” Committee in Berlin.
• Pamphlets issued by the “Central Committee of Jews in Poland” re: the establishment of a monument in commemoration of the Warsaw ghetto fighters and the uprising (Yiddish, Polish, Hebrew).
• Leaflet issued by the “Council of Jewish Organizations in Belgium” reminding local Jews of the upcoming 5th annual day of commemoration for the Warsaw ghetto uprising (Yiddish, French).
• Leaflet encouraging donations on behalf of the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto fighters’ monument on the occasion of the uprising’s fifth anniversary (Yiddish, French).
• Commemorative stamps issued by Poland on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising (Polish).

• Leaflet announcing the sixth annual commemoration for the Warsaw ghetto uprising to be held on Sunday, 4/17/1949 in NY-issued by the “Farband fun gevezener yidishe katsetler un partizaner, NY”.
• Tickets for the Warsaw ghetto uprising’s commemorative evening to be held on Sunday, 4/24/1949 in NY-issued by the “Alveltlekher yidisher kultur-kongres”.
• Leaflet for the above.
• Articles and notices in the “Forverts” announcing the upcoming Warsaw ghetto uprising commemorative ceremony, which will include former Yiddish actress Dina Halpern and Moyshe Perenson, theater director in Poland, 4/9, 4/10, 4/12, 4/14, 4/17/1949.
• “Dramatic montage” compiled by M. Perenson for the Warsaw ghetto uprising commemorative ceremony in Chicago.
• Article re: Warsaw ghetto uprising commemoration in Chicago-“1,500 Jews Attended the `Yizkor’ Evening for the Heroes of the Ghetto Uprising,” “Forverts,” Wednesday, 4/20/1949.

• Invitation to the seventh annual commemoration for the Warsaw ghetto uprising to be held in Katowice, Poland on 4/19/1950-issued by the local “Wojewodzki Komitet Zydowski” (Polish).
• High Holiday synagogue entry ticket for “Rubin”-issued by the “Verband Polnischer Juden in Wien” (German).
• “On the Occasion of the Seventh Annual Commemoration of the Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto-Preparations for the Event in Łódź ,” “Dos naye lebn” no. 38 (462) (Yiddish).
• Sign announcing the upcoming seventh annual memorial ceremony for the Warsaw ghetto uprising to be held on Sunday, 4/23/1950 in Montreal, which will feature Vladka (Meed) as guest speaker (Yiddish).

• Leaflet for a concert-“A Tribute to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto” to be held in NY on Thursday, 5/3/1951-sponsored by the American Labor Party (English).
• “Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Meeting” to be held in NY on Thursday, 5/17/1951-sponsored by the Menora Temple in Boro Park (English).
• “Ghetto Evening”-ninth annual commemoration for the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Tuesday, 4/22/1952-issued by various Jewish institutions in Niterói, Brazil (Yiddish).
• The ninth annual commemorative evening for the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Sunday, 4/20/1952-issued by the United Zionist Organization in Niterói, Brazil (Yiddish).
• Invitations for the ninth annual Warsaw ghetto uprising commemoration sponsored by various organizations in NY, Sunday, 4/6, 4/20/1952 (Yiddish).
• Paper pin with Star of David with the words: “Ninth Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt” (English).
• Clippings from “Di prese” in Buenos Aires concerning Jews from Warsaw (and the surrounding areas) and re: the recent commemoration held for the Warsaw ghetto uprising, 4/20/1951, 12/2/1952 (Yiddish).
• Article re: the upcoming eighth Warsaw ghetto uprising commemorative evening to be held in Chicago on 4/29/1951, which will feature the Yiddish writer, Chaim Grade, as guest speaker, “Forverts” (Yiddish).
• “Light 6 Candles in Memory of the 6 Million Martyrs”-commemorative ceremony to be held in NY on Thursday, 4/19/1951-issued by the Congress for Jewish Culture.
• Announcements and invitations-The eighth annual commemoration for the Warsaw ghetto uprising to be held in NY on Sunday, 4/22/1951-issued by the “Alveltlekher yidisher kultur-kongres” (Yiddish).
• Announcement re: upcoming Warsaw ghetto uprising commemorations to be held in NY on 4/2, 4/8, 4/9/1951 (Yiddish).

• Concert and film presentation to “Honor the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto!” to be held in NY on Friday, 4/3/1953 (English).
• · Admission tickets and invitation to tenth anniversary commemoration of the Warsaw ghetto uprising to be held in NY on 4/19, 4/25/1953-sponsored by American Jewish Committee, ADL, Club of Polish Jews, and Jewish Writers Club (English).
• Programs from the above (Yiddish).

• “A Public Tribute” on the occasion of the eleventh anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising to be held in Montreal, Tuesday, 4/27/1954-sponsored by the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Jewish Labor Committee, and the Labor Zionist Movement (English, Yiddish).
• Leaflets and admission tickets for “Rally to Commemorate the 11th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” to be held Tuesday, 4/20/1954 (English, Yiddish).
• “Public Tribute to Jewish Martyrs”-“11th Anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” to be held in Montreal, 4/27/1954-sponsored by the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Jewish Labour Committee, the Labour Zionist Movement, and the Federation of Polish Jews (English, Yiddish).
• Notices issued by the “United Committee to Commemorate the Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,” 3/20/1953, 3/11, 4/5/1954 (Yiddish, English).
• Press Release from the Polish Embassy in Washington, D.C., “Poland Commemorates Eleventh Anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” no. 27, 4/27/1954 (English).
• “Yizkor” announcement for the eleventh annual Warsaw ghetto uprising commemoration to be held in Toronto on Sunday, 5/2/1954 (Yiddish).

• “Yizkor” announcement for the twelfth annual Warsaw ghetto uprising commemoration to be held in Toronto on Sunday, 4/17/1955 (Yiddish).
• “Invitation-12th Anniversary Commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” to be held in NY on 4/19/1955-sponsored by the Club of Polish Jews (English, Yiddish).
• “At the Monument of Pain and Heroism,” “Ilustrirte folks: shtime” no. 10 (1522), undated (Yiddish).
• Program from Holocaust memorial service held in Jönköping, Sweden on 4/17/1955-sponsored by the “Judiska Kulturklubben Jönköping” (Swedish, Yiddish).

• Admission tickets and notice for “Rally to Commemorate the 13th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” to be held on Sunday, 4/22/1956-sponsored by the United Committee to Commemorate the Anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Yiddish, English).
• Notices informing the public of the above (English).
• “Those Who Did Not Live to See the Day of the Uprising,” “Unzer tsayt” by Hannah Krystal-Fryshdorf, April-May 1956 (Yiddish).

• Newspaper clippings from the “Folks-shtime” in Warsaw re: the thirteenth anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising and commemorative ceremonies-includes: “Press Conference Concerning the Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto,” “We, the People of the Resistance,” “In Honor of the Heroes of the Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto,” 2/5, 4/4, 4/9, 4/11, 4/18, 4/30, 5/3, 5/7, 5/22, 12/10/1957.

• Newspaper clippings from “Di prese” in Buenos Aires re: the eighth annual day of commemoration for the Warsaw ghetto uprising, 3/16, 3/19, 4/9, 4/14, 4/20/1951 (Yiddish).
• Clippings from other various newspapers re: commemoration ceremonies for the Warsaw ghetto uprising: “Der veker,” Brussels, no. 2, 4/1947, “Forverts,” 4/16/1951, “Folks-shtime,” 4/18/1957 (Yiddish).
• Program from Warsaw ghetto commemoration ceremony held in London, England on Sunday, 4/7/1951?-organized by the British-Polish Friendship Society (English).

• Admission ticket to the “15th Hazkorah of the Warsaw Ghetto” to be held in NY on 4/20/1958 (Yiddish, English).
• Admission ticket to the fourteenth annual day of commemoration for the Warsaw ghetto uprising to be held in NY on 4/13/1957 (Yiddish).
• Notices re: the “Memorial Rally on the 14th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Battle” held in NY on 4/19/1957-sponsored by the Jewish Labor Bund (Yiddish, English).
• Notices re: the upcoming commemorative ceremony for the Warsaw ghetto uprising to be held in NY on 4/21/1957-sponsored by the United Committee to Commemorate the Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Yiddish, English).

• Proclamation issued by Robert F. Wagner, Mayor of the City of New York, declaring 4/19 “Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Commemoration Day,” 4/18/1958 (English).
• Admission tickets to the fifteenth annual Warsaw ghetto uprising commemoration ceremony to be held in NY on 4/19/1958-sponsored by the “Alveltlekher yidisher kultur-kongres” (Yiddish).
• Program from the above (Yiddish).
• Notices for various Warsaw ghetto uprising commemorative ceremonies and rallies-sponsored by the Workmen’s Circle and the Jewish Labor Bund (English, Yiddish).
• “Tribute to the Jewish Martyrs on the 15th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” to be held in Montreal on 4/17/1958-sponsored by various Canadian Jewish organizations including the Canadian Jewish Congress (Yiddish, English).
• Holocaust commemoration program-“Zog nit keyn mol, az du geyst dem letstn veg!” held in NY on 4/19/1958-sponsored by the “Oyfleb” organization (Yiddish).
• “Rally to Commemorate the 15th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” to be held in NY on 4/20/1958 (English, Yiddish).
• Notices and admission tickets issued by the “Committee to Commemorate the 15th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” re: upcoming commemorative ceremony to be held in NY on 4/20/1958 (Yiddish, English).
• “Remember the Six Million”-“15 Year Commemoration: Warsaw-Ghetto Uprising” to be held in NY on 4/18/1958 (English).
• “The Ghetto Martyrs and Their Place in Our Times,” “Forverts” by Vladka Meed, Saturday, 4/19/1958 (Yiddish).

• Newspaper clippings re: the 15th annual commemoration for the Warsaw ghetto uprising: “Folks-shtime,” 2/13, 3/2, 4/12, 4/15/1958, “Frayheyt,” 7/13/1958 (Yiddish).
• Invitation to the fifteenth annual commemorative evening for the Warsaw ghetto uprising, 4/17/1958 (Polish).

• Press releases and notices issued by the Embassy of the Polish People’s Republic in Washington, D.C. concerning the fifteenth annual Warsaw ghetto uprising commemoration week beginning on 4/19/1958 (English).
• Programs and notices issued by the Committee to Commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising re: the fifteenth and sixteenth annual commemorative ceremonies to be held on 4/19/1958 and 4/20/1959 (Yiddish, English).
• “Memorial Meeting Commemorating the Sixteenth Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” to be held on 4/19/1959-sponsored by the Workmen’s Circle of NY (Yiddish, English).

• “Alveltlekher yidisher kultur-kongres” commemorative evening for the Warsaw ghetto uprising to be held in NY on 4/19/1960 (Yiddish).
• Admission tickets to “Ghetto Memorial to Commemorate the Uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto” to be held in NY on 4/17/1960 (English).
• “Rally to Commemorate the 17th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” to be held in NY on 4/17/1960 (Yiddish, English).
• Notices from the “Committee to Commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” to be held in NY on 4/17/1960 (Yiddish).
• Press release from the CBS Television Network re: “The Warsaw Ghetto,” a program presented as part of the television series, “Look Up and Live,” an award-winning program shown on television on 4/19/1959 (English).
• Commemorative evening for the Warsaw ghetto uprising to be held in Montreal on 4/27/1960 (Yiddish, English).

• Notices from the “Committee to Commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” to be held in NY on 4/17/1960 (Yiddish).
• Commemorative evening for the Warsaw ghetto uprising to be held in Montreal on 4/13/1961 (Yiddish, English).
• Historical points to be presented on the occasion of the 18th annual Warsaw ghetto uprising-prepared by R. Yuklson (Yiddish).
• “Rally to Commemorate the 18th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” to be held in NY on 4/16/1961 (Yiddish, English).
• “Alveltlekher yidisher kultur-kongres” commemorative evening for the Warsaw ghetto uprising to be held in NY on 4/19/1961 (Yiddish).
• Eighteenth annual commemorative ceremony for the Warsaw ghetto uprising to be held in NY on 4/19/1961 (Yiddish).
• “Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Meeting” to be held in NY on 4/14/1961-sponsored by the Committee for the Commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto (English).
• Admission tickets to the “Ghetto Memorial” to commemorate the uprising of the Warsaw ghetto to be held in NY on 4/16/1961 (English). · Signed proclamations from the State of New York Executive Chamber and the Office of the Mayor of the City of New York re: “Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Commemoration Day,” 4/18/1958 (English).

• Flyer encouraging people to financially support the monument commemorating the heroes of the Warsaw ghetto uprising (Yiddish).
• “Mass Meeting to Commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto” to be held in NY (English).
• Proclamation issued by President Richard Nixon on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, 4/29/1973 (English).
• Anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, 4/29/1973 (English).
• Polish stamps issued on the occasion of the Warsaw ghetto uprising’s twentieth anniversary (Polish).

• Bochnia, Cerkowiec, Chelm, Dynow, Dunajec, Dabrowa Gornicza, Garwolin, Kaluszyn, Kraków, Łódź, Mielec, Nowe Miasto, Nowy Sacz, Ostrowo, Ostrowiec, Piaski, Plesno, Płońsk, Poplawce, Przemyśl, Raciaz, Sieradz, Sochaczew, Sosnowiec, Stuczyn, Tarnow, Trzebinia, Węgrów, Wierzbnik, Zdunska Wola, Zelechow.
• Bund material:
• Handwritten notes from the Polish newspaper, “Rzeczpospolita Polska,” 7/5/1943.
• “Dobry Wieczor! Kurjer,” Warsaw, no. 262, 10/21/1939.
• “Przekroj” no. 1033, 1/24/1965.
• Article re: cultural work in the ghettos of Wloclawek and Kutno, 1940-1941.

• Letter to Dr. Mahler re: situation of the Jews in Romania, 5/23/1943 (English).
• Letter from Mr. Kimmelman (Jerusalem) re: Romania, 4/23/1943 (English).
• Anonymous re: Hungary (German).
• Copy of letter addressed to the Z.O.B. and Z.K.N. (Jewish Fighters
• Copy of letter addressed to the Z.O.B. and Z.K.N. (Jewish Fighters Organization Jewish National Committee in Poland), London, 2/19/1944 (Yiddish).
• Correspondence between Abraham Mandelbaum in Geneva, Switzerland, and N. Kantrowicz re: the distribution of food packages in the ghetto, 9/25/1941 (Yiddish).
• Cable from Yakov Zerubawel in Switzerland (French).

• Notice about a forthcoming book, “Cyankali” by R. Grynszpan describing life in the Warsaw ghetto and on the Aryan side (Yiddish).
• Notice published by the Help Warsaw Committee in London, concerning the devastation of Warsaw (English).
• Declaration: “Resolution of all Three Central Administrative Bodies” (Yiddish).
• Photocopied page: “Victims of Nazi Germany Postal History”-“Refuge in Southern History” (English).
• Commemorative stamps issued by Germany for Maximillian Kolbe, a victim of Auschwitz-Birkenau, 8/15/1941, 5/25/1973 (German).
• Generalgouvernement and Gestapo stamps (German).
• Obituary about Naftali Herc Turkow, who died at age 71, May 1940 (Polish).