Julian Hirszhaut
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Brief Description: Eyewitness testimonies, newspaper clippings, printed material and photographs relating to Jews in Poland under Nazi occupation. The several hundred eyewitness testimonies were collected ca. 1945 by local Jewish historical commissions in Bialystok, Katowice, Krakow, Lublin, Lodz, Warsaw.   The testimonies are in Polish, Yiddish and German.      Materials relating to the Lodz Ghetto:  photographs; ghetto money;  printed announcements by Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski; a handwritten Zionist newspaper from the ghetto edited by David Joskowicz.  Miscellaneous materials from Jewish organizations in post-war Poland, such as Ichud and the Central Jewish Historical Commission.
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YIVO Online Guide
Record Series Number: RG 720/RG 720
Created by: Hirszhaut, Julian (Yehiel) (1908-1983)
Volume: 0.0
Subject Index
Ghettos, Holocaust
Holocaust and Aftermath
Poland
Survivors, Holocaust
Zionism
Genres/Forms of Material
Documents - Papers
Finding Aid Revisions: 1994/11/14 ; 1999/03/02 ; GMB
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