Litwin Holocaust-Era Records

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42 Holocaust-era records for Litwin and related spellings.

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Bodzentyn 1939: list of contributions to Jewish community in Bodzentyn in 1939, syg 3374, document pages 173-185 [Lista składek Gminy Wyznaniowej Żydowskiej w Bodzentynie za rok 1939]; images: https://www.szukajwa…/jednostka/14981489 [H]

ID	Page	Serial number	Name of payer [Nazwisko i imię płatnika]	Surname from previous column	Place of residence [Miejsce zamieszkania]	Contribution for 1939 [Składka na rok 1939]	Notes (not written by translator / typist)
10128	179	124	Emanuel Litwin	LITWIN	Łączna	15.00

Bodzentyn 1939: list of contributions to the Jewish community in Bodzentyn for 1939, syg 3374, pages 174-185; images: https://www.szukajwa…/jednostka/14981489 [H]

ID	Image file name	Page	Order number	Person	Surname from previous column	Residence	Contribution for 1939	Comments	Notes by translator / typist	Notes (not written by translator / typist)
10128	21_100_0_6.3_3374_183_61122893.jpg	179	124	Emanuel Litwin	LITWIN	Łączna	15.00

Bodzentyn 1939: list of contributions to the Jewish community in Bodzentyn for the year 1939, syg 3374, pages 189-201 [H]

ID	Image file name	Page	Order number	Person	Surname from previous column	Residence	Contribution for 1939	Notes (not written by translator / typist)
10128	21_100_0_6.3_3374_199_6122911.jpg	195	124	Emanuel Litwin	LITWIN	Łączna	15.00

Children With Lost Identity: a list of 2500 files of Holocaust orphans from Poland between years 1936-1945 (2455 persons; info at https://tinyurl.com/q2prw84) [H]

ID	The complete list	Sublist	Person	Surname	Date of Birth	City	Country	Archive No	Notes
11366	Originally at https://tinyurl.com/yyzjzfrn; now at Web Archive: https://tinyurl.com/y6zaht9x	Children With Lost Identity- L	Roman Litwin	LITWIN	1 Jan 1940	Lwow	Poland	463

Częstochowa BMD 1939-1942 marriages; Często Arch; for information on notary records, see https://www.crarg.org/notary-records.php [H]

ID	Reg year	Akt	Date and place of event	Date and place of registration	Groom, age, profession, city, and (starting in 1916) street address	Groom surname	Groom's father	Groom's father surname	Groom's mother	Groom's mother maiden name	Bride, age, city, and (starting in 1916) street address	Bride surname	Bride's father	Bride's father surname	Bride's mother	Bride's mother maiden name	Witness 1	Witness 1 surname	Witness 2	Witness 2 surname	Other information on the page	Surname(s) from previous or next columns	Image(s)	Comments by translator	Surname(s) from previous or next columns	Comments (not by translator)
10424	1940	152	19 Jul 1940, Częstochowa	25 Jul 1940, Częstochowa	Jakub Gelber, bachelor, born Częstochowa 1 Jul. 1912, living in Częstochowa ul. Targowa 15	GELBER	Nuchim Litwin	LITWIN	unmarried Nacha Gelber	GELBER	Blima Pankowska, unmarried, born Częstochowa 15 Jan 1915, living in Częstochowa ul. Targowa 15	PANKOWSKA	Wolf Pankowski	PANKOWSKI	Chinda Laja née Wajs	WAJS	Majer Zalcman, merchant, living in Częstochowa ul. Targowa 15	ZALCMAN	Mojżesz Asz, employee of the Jewish community in Czestochowa				www.crarg.org/i…078-tEltOZ.jpg
11287	1942	213	19 Aug 1942, Częstochowa	24 Aug 1942, Częstochowa	Mordka Kusznir, bachelor, born Częstochowa 6 Jul 1915, living in Częstochowa ul. Narutowicza 3	KUSZNIR	Chaim Kusznir	KUSZNIR	Chaja Małka née Kożuchowska	KOŻUCHOWSKA	Rywka Litwin, unmarried, born Częstochowa 15 Apr 1915, living in Częstochowa, ul. Nadrzeczna 4	LITWIN	Nuchim Litwin	LITWIN	Nacha née Gelber	GELBER	Mojzesz Asz, worker in the Rabbinate		Herszlik Mitelman, worker in the Rabbinate				www.crarg.org/i…64-JdXfyJ.jpeg

Częstochowa Book of Permanent Residents 1870-1930, Często Arch (about 16,250 persons); sample images: https://www.crarg.or…dents-1870-1930.php [H]

ID	Volume	Page of book	House number	Given name	Maiden name	Surname	Parents	Mother's maiden name	Birth date, place	Profession, other information	All surnames for persons in this family
16774	18	3015	184	Hana Laja	BIMSZTEJN	HELMAN	Hemia & Dyna Litwin	LITWIN	30 Oct 1874, Warszawa	Merchant; widow	BIMSZTEJN, HELMAN, LITWIN
16775	18	3015	184	Dawid		HELMAN	Izrael Lajb & Hana Laja Bimsztejn	BIMSZTEJN	4 Jan 1898, Warszawa	With mother	BIMSZTEJN, HELMAN, LITWIN
16776	18	3015	184	Paulina		HELMAN	Izrael Lajb & Hana Laja Bimsztejn	BIMSZTEJN	26 Jun 1901, Warszawa	With mother	BIMSZTEJN, HELMAN, LITWIN

Częstochowa Forced Labor, WWII; original documents at Jewish Historical Institute Warsaw; we thank the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation Genealogy Project for their cooperation (4843 persons) [H]

ID	Jewish Historical Institute sygn.	Laufende No. [consecutive number]	Kartei-No. [file number]	Person	Surname from previous column	Occupation (Beruf)	Occupation (Beruf) (translated)	Place of residence (Wohnort)	Date at top of page	Page No. in pencil	Page No. in red	Comments
10465		434	D 9444	Zalma Litwin	LITWIN	Fuhrmann	Cart driver, truck driver	Nadrzeczna 51	23 Ma? ???	?
12651		3346	D 12356	Moszek Litwin	LITWIN	Schuler	Pupil	Nadrzeczna 41	22 Apr 1940	92	103

Częstochowa: prisoners at Hasag Pelcery slave labor camp in Częstochowa, USHMM (4738 persons) [H]

ID	Image file	Image file (second set: improved images)	Lp.	Given name (Nazwisko i imie)	Surname (Nazwisko i imie)	Year of birth (Data ur)	Birth, from complete document	Place of birth (Miejsce urodzenia)	Residence in 1939 (Miejsce zam. w 1939 r)	From where sent (Skad przybyl do obozu) [may be one of 6 Hasag slave-labor camps]	Profession (Zawod)	Profession (Zawod), translation	Card number (Nr. kartotek obozowej)
12660	Hasag-A3/0466.tif	Hasag-B3/0462.tif	2659.	Jakob	LITWIN	1918	7 May 1918	Szydlowiec	Szydlowiec	Skarzysko-Kam			5244
12661	Hasag-A3/0467.tif	Hasag-B3/0463.tif	2660.	Mania	LITWIN	1920	4 Aug 1920	Dzialoszyn	Dzialoszyn	Skarzysko-Kam	robotnica	worker (female)	2247
12662	Hasag-A3/0468.tif	Hasag-B3/0464.tif	2661.	Sonia	LITWIN	1927	15 Mar 1927	Szydlowiec	Szydlowiec	Skarzysko-Kam	robotnica	worker (female)	5783
12663	Hasag-A3/0469.tif	Hasag-B3/0465.tif	2662.	Zalma	LITWIN	1909	21 May 1909	Czestochowa	Czestochowa	Czestochowa	robotnik	worker (male)	2123

Częstochowa: Resurrection and Destruction in Ghetto Częstochowa (Viderstand un Umkum in Czenstochower Ghetto, L. Brener), publ. before 1952, in Poland [H]

ID	Translation here	Page	Given Name	Surname	Title	Notes	Surname from previous column	Details on pages 174-176	Notes
10681	https://www.jew…a4/cze005.html	127	Yakov Moshe	GELBER-LITWIN

Częstochowa: Surviving Jews in Częstochowa, about 1945, World Jewish Congress (2503 persons) [H]

ID	Page number	Sequence number on far left	Given name	Surname	Year of birth	Present address [document published 1950]	Comments
11376	25	1388	Mania	LITWIN	1920	Dzialoszyn

Częstochowa: two lists of Jews from the 1940s, RG-15.304, syg 12, pages 12 and 17 [H]

ID	Letter before this list	Page number	Serial number	Person	Surname from previous column	Address to right of person's name	Notes (not written by translator / typist)
10014	25 Oct 1940: This is a list of transporters [presumably people with vans or horse-drawn carts] who work for the community. The Council of Elders respectfully requests they be supplied with appropriate quantities of bran [Kleie], oats [Hafer] and petroleum.	13	14.	Załma Litwin	LITWIN	Nadrzeczna 51

Częstochowa Yizkor Book 1958, index pages 327-334; "Czenstochov: A New Supplement to the Book 'Czenstochover Yidn'"; translation at https://www.jewishge…wa/Czestochowa.html; images at https://digitalcolle…3-d71d-00505686a51c (1519 persons) [H]

ID	Surname	Given name	Other surname	Page number	Index page number - column number
10793	LITWINOV			216	331 – 1

Great Britain: "Survivor List--Polish Children Arriving in Great Britain, Aug 1946," American Jewish Archives, D56, 11 (116 persons) [H]

ID	Given name(s)	Surname	Date of birth	Place of birth	Other information
10071	Mala	LITWIN	9 Sep 1932	Lodz

Kielce district: "Surviving Jews in the Kielce District"; World Jewish Congress, no date (2179 persons) [H]

ID	Town	Sequence number in city list	Person	Surname from previous column	Present address [city after war]	Year of birth	Page of book	Comments
11867	Szydlowiec	59 of 112	Szajndla Litwin	LITWIN		1921	19

Kielce: list of city council voters entitled to vote in the election of city councilors and their deputies 1939, syg 2373-2393 [H]

ID	District, syg, image folder	Image	Page number	Order number	Person	Surname from previous column	Street name	House number	Date of birth [day and month often not listed]	Living in the city since when?	Confirmation that the vote was cast... [column usually blank]	Remarks...	Notes (written by typist)	Notes (not written by typist)
19251	District 7, ward 1, syg 2389, images at https://www.szu…ostka/16289836	21_122_0_-_2389_28_56023932.jpg	25	1075	Zofia Litwin	LITWIN	Wesola	18	1896	1922

Końskie: lists of issued industrial and commercial cards and correspondence in this matter, 1940-1941, zesp 519, syg 429; part of Akta miasta Końskie (https://www.szukajwa…pol/-/zespol/111989); images: https://www.szukajwa…/jednostka/15091183 [H]

ID	Image file name(s)	Page(s)	Details regarding this material	Person, business, etc.	Surname from previous column	Notes (by translator / typist)
10118	21_519_0_0_429.pdf	71	List of persons who operated businesses in 1940 and did not purchase registration cards for 1941 [Lista osób, które prowadziły przedsiębiorstwa w 1940 r., a nie wykupiły kart rejestracyjnych na 1941 r.]	109 Abram Litwin; type of industrial, commercial establishment, or occupation: sprzed. drobn. galanterii [sale of small haberdashery]; address: Joselewicza 12; comments: [none]	LITWIN

Końskie: Records of the City of Końskie [Akta Miasta Końskie] (selected records), RG-15.441, zesp 519, syg 4 - syg 475, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum summaries; details and images: https://www.szukajwa…pol/-/zespol/111989 [H]

ID	syg	Images	Description/Title of this collection	Summary of material, translated with https://chatgpt.com/g/g-4ANoaaYlq-polish-english-translator	Surname from previous column	Notes (by translator / typist)
10268	syg 181	https://www.szu…ostka/15090907	Covering costs of treatment, allowances, 1923-1930	page 176-177 request of Moszek Litwin for assistance.	LITWIN

Końskie: registers of business registration cards / taxable businesses, 1940, syg 430, 21_519_0_0_430 [H]

ID	Year	Image file name	Page	Order number	[Date of receipt and number of registration card]	[Business: Name of owner (co-owner)]	Surname	Handwritten number after name, if any	Section part III appendix to article 7	Unknown meaning	[Date checked]	[Type of business]	[Business: Place of operation]	[Cost of registration card]	h [handel? = trade], pr [produkcja? = production / manufacture], or rz [rzemieślnik? = artisan]	Notes by translator / typist	Notes (not written by translator / typist)
10133	1940 [no column headers; headers assumed, based on 1943 document]	21_519_0_0_430	33-34	27	23 Sep 1940	Abram Litwin	LITWIN	[blank]	I.c.	1.7.	31 Dec 1940	[Polish text]	Końskie Joselewicza 12	20.00	[blank]

Końskie: registers of Jews arriving in Końskie, 1940, pages 3-42, zesp. 519, syg 447; part of Akta miasta Końskie (https://www.szukajwa…pol/-/zespol/111989); images: https://www.szukajwa…/jednostka/15091203 [H]

ID	Image file name	Page	Header before (and footer after) these listings, if any	Order number	Person	Surname from previous column	Parents	Maiden name from previous column	Date of arrival	Date of arrival spelled out	Place of previous residence	Occupation	Occupation, translated	Date of birth	Marital status	Address of residence	Remarks and annotations [nearly always blank]	Notes (not written by translator / typist)
10259	21_519_0_0_447.pdf	18	Header: Register of Jews who arrived in Końskie from 29 May to 1 Sep 1940 / at the end of the list: Końskie 8 Sep 1940 [with stamp of the Jewish coummunity]	409	Icchok Klarfeld	KLARFELD	Wigdor & Fajga née Litwin	LITWIN	3/6	3 Jun 1940	Łódź	kamasznik	maker of shoe uppers	1921	kawaler [bachelor]	3 Maja 40

Łódź: Jewish survivors registered in Łódź, July 1945, received by the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society of Canada [date unreadable] [H]

ID	Page number	Name	Surname from previous column	Year of birth	Address before 1939	Notes (not by typist)
13527	28	Sara Frankental-Litwin	FRANKENTAL-LITWIN	1910	Aleksandrow

Poland: Jewish Refugees in Italy, List Nr. 1, Jan 1946; only "Poland" listings [H]

ID	Page number	Name	Surname from previous column	Place of birth	Date of birth	Father's name	Mother's name	Notes (not by typist)
12395	76	Abe Litwin	LITWIN	Stolin, Poland	1917	Chaim	Chana

Poland: "Martyrdom of Jewish Physicians in Poland" (Exposition Press, 1963; 2584 persons) [H]

ID	Given name(s)	Surname	Birth	Death	Page number
11481	Alfred	LITWIN	1899	Holocaust	410

Poland: Register of Jewish Survivors II (Jewish Agency, 1945) [H]

ID	Digital file id	Page	Given name(s)	Surname(s) from previous or next columns	Place
24213	09-DSC00025.jpg	75	Sara	FRANKENTAL LITWIN	Lodz
42633	09-DSC00127.jpg	171	Schel	LITWEN	Gliwice
42634	09-DSC00127.jpg	171	Icek	LITIWIN	Lodz
42635	09-DSC00127.jpg	171	Jozef	LITWIN	Lodz
42636	09-DSC00127.jpg	171	Mania	LITWIN	Czestochowa
42637	09-DSC00127.jpg	171	Maria	LITWIN	Lodz
42638	09-DSC00127.jpg	171	Mina	LITWIN	Lodz
42639	09-DSC00127.jpg	171	Szajndla	LITWIN	Szydlowiec

Sweden: Holocaust Survivors 1945-1946; American Jewish Archives, D56/5 (16,816 rows) [H]

ID	Digital file id	Page	Seq number	Survivor given name(s)	Survivor maiden name / other surname (previous or next column)	Survivor surname	Occupation	Birthday	Birth city	Last domicile	Survivor sends greetings to -- given name(s)	Survivor sends greetings to -- surname(s)	Greetings to--Place	Other information	Typing notes
17673	04-DSC00056	34	415	Heniek		NUSYNOWICZ		20 May 1909	Kielce		Sala	LITWIN	Auschwitz

Szydłowiec, Poland: Jewish survivors in Szydłowiec, Cabled to the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society of Canada; Relatives Information Service, 24 Jan 1946 [H]

ID	Page number	Name	Surname from previous column	Year born	Notes (not by typist)
10060	2	Szajnola Litwin	LITWIN	11921
10061	2	Szajnola Litwin	LITWIN	1921

Warsaw: "Surviving Jews in Warsaw as of June 5th, 1945," World Jewish Archives (2523 persons) [H]

ID	Page number	Given name	Surname	Year of birth	Address in 1939	Present address in Warsaw	Comments
11342	8	Jozef	LITWIN	1904	Lodz	Targowa 32-2

Zbąszyń, Poland: refugees 1938-1939, List of Refugees who have relatives in America; numbered 187-598; unnumbered pages [H]

ID	Additional informaiton	Page number	Number	Person	Surname from previous column	Born on	Born at	Occupation	Last address in Germany	Present address in Zbąszyń	Address of relative	Surname from previous column	Degree of relation	Notes by typist	Notes (not by typist)
10117	List of Polish Jews expelled by the Nazi government into this Polish border town, receiving assistance from the JDC in 1938-1939	[6]	297	Samuel Rubinstein	RUBINSTEIN	15 Jan 1875	Bialystok, Pol.	tailor	Hamburg-Altona	17 Stycznia 13	N. Rubinstein, 65 Wadoworth Str. Terrace N. Y. [and] Sara Litwin, 80 Vaneortland Park N. Y. City	RUBINSTEIN, LITWIN	[blank]

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