Poland
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
Oral History Interview with Marie Rafael, 1979 August 23
Topics covered: Born in Poland, moved to London as a small child, became a dress maker, talks about husband and marriage, a lot about her son, her love of languages, father made clothes, England during World War II.
Oral History Interview with Max Grimes, 1976 September 20
Oral History Interview with Max Grimes, 1976 September 20
Oral History Interview with Miriam Miklin, 1984 October 10
Interview covers life experiences from before WWII in Poland and through her entire experience in the Holocaust. Miriam and her two sisters were the only surviving members of their family. After the war they tried to go home, stopping at a town 30km away and sensing the hostility toward them they left. Later the same evening there was a pogrom where 60 young Jewish survivors were murdered. They were too afraid to go home after that and left for Czech.
Oral History Interview with Solomon Schindel, 1982 December 25
Oral history covers growing up in Poland, father sold baskets and mother died when he was six. Pre-war life in Poland and his experience during the war and in concentration camps. Life after the war. Immigrated to US in 1949 through New York, shortened name from Schindelheim to Schindel. Lived in Chicago and then Denver.
Photograph of Hannah Levi Hirsch, 1870
Photographs, 1870-1878
Contains black and white photograph of the six Harris brothers taken in New Jersey and a photocopy of their mother Hannah Levi Hirsch.
Spivak Confidential Report, 1920 April 13
The folder contains a copy of Confidential Report from Dr. Spivak. The report was created by Dr. C.D. Spivak who was a commissioner on the Commission Health and Sanitation of the Joint Distribution Committee. He investigated the health and sanitation of the Jews in Warsaw, Wilno, Minsk, Bobrujsk and other parts of Poland and occupied Ukraine.
Spivak Letters, National Library of Israel
The Blessing of the Moon, c. 1960 - 1979
This painting is entitled The Blessing of the Moon. It measures approximately 24" x 18" and is oil on canvas board. The image depicts Kracow at night under a starry sky and bright moon. The image is of the same street/area of his other painting, "The Burning of Cracow." In line with his other paintings, Veston did not date the painting, though it can be assumed that it was created while living in Albuquerque--between 1955 and 1980.