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Wodzisław (Vodislov), Radomsko (Radomsk), Janów (Yanov), Piotrków (Petrikev), Żarki (Zharki), Radoszyce (Radoshitz), Przedbórz (Pshedbosh), and nearby towns

21 Holocaust-era records for Read and related spellings.

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Częstochowa: Czestochower Yidn (Jews of Częstochowa 1947), transliteration of index; all names, including historical figures, non-Jews, etc.; translation at https://www.jewishge…1/Czestochowa1.html; images at https://digitalcolle…3-cd02-00505686d14e (2907 listings) [H]

ID	Given name	Surname	Page	Comments
11119	Moshe	ROED	337

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)
12928	94	Paltiel Rath	RATH	Janow / Janów, Poland	1902	Shloma	Dwora	Janów added because it seems more likely
12938	94	Loal Raud	RAUD	Kasel, Poland	1924	Wilhelm	Paula

Poland: List no. 10 of Jews who arrived in Sweden after June 26th (Group 2); printed in red at top of page 1: Relatives Information Service; 18 Mar 1945? [H]

ID	Page	Person	Surname from previous column	Birthday	Town	Identity card no.	Notes by typist	Notes (not by typist)
10185	6	Czarna Rath	RATH	11 Oct 1926	Chrzanow, Poland	4107

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
49829	10-DSC00020.jpg	209	Benjamin Bencion	RAD	Lodz
50690	10-DSC00025.jpg	214	Fryda	RATT	Krakow
50691	10-DSC00025.jpg	214	Salomon	RATH	Bytom
50759	10-DSC00025.jpg	214	Irena	RAUT	Krakow

Radomsko (and other towns): Stefania Heilbrunn and Miriam Chaszczewacki, Children of Dust and Heaven: A Diary from Nazi Occupation through the Holocaust [A Collective Memoir] (Cape Town, South Africa, 1978; and republished later) [H]

ID	Page	Person	Surname repeated from previous column
10234	49	vom Rath	VOM RATH

Radomsko Yizkor Book index, page 585-600: https://www.jewishge…adomsko/rad585.html; images at https://digitalcolle…3-c4a6-00505686a51c [H]

ID	Index page number	Letter	Given names	Surname(s)	Page(s) in Yizkor book
11922	595	PEY		PAN-RAT	153
12465	598	RESH	Benny	RAHT	574

Register of Jewish Survivors I: Lists of Jews Rescued in Different European Countries (Jerusalem, 1945; 19032 records typed) [H]

ID	Subdocument	Sublist	Page	Surname	Given name	Surname from previous column	Birth year or age	Birth place or last residence	Typing notes
16037	List of Jews Liberated from the Buchenwald Camp; submitted by the World Jewish Congress, Jun 1945	List A; 8 Jun 1945- 6 Aug 1945	40	RAT	Gustav		1911	Dresden
28408	List of Jewish Survivors from East European Towns	RIGA	172	RATOW	Isaak

Sweden: Jewish refugees finding safe haven in Sweden 1946-1947; American Joint Distribution Committee [H]

ID	Page number at corner	Page number at top	Regional page header	Subheader	Number	Name	Surname from previous column	Date of birth	Place of birth	Notes by typist	Notes (not by typist)
10666	22	2	Jewish Assembly Registration Department, Wahrendorffsgatan 3, Stockholm; list of refugees arrived May, Jun, Jul, Aug 1947; stamped at the top: received 26 Sep 1947	Poles	72	Clara Chaie Rath	RATH	22 May 1890	[blank]

Sweden: "List of Survivors: Stockholm, 1946," Mosaiska forsamlingens i Stockholm (807 persons) [H]

ID	Page number	Nationality	Identity card number	Sequential number (on left)	Arrival date	Given name(s)	Surname	Date of birth	Last domicile	Place of birth	Comments
10387	9	Polish	4107		After 26 Jun [1946]	Czarna	RATH	11 Oct 1926	Chrzanow		List No. 10 of Jews who arrived in Sweden after 26 Jun [1946] (Group 2)

Sweden: Survivors 1 (9505 persons) [H]

ID	Page	Given name(s)	Surname 1	Surname 2	Place of birth	Date of birth	Nationality
10173	4	Irene	BERGER	ROUTH	Nisgora	17 Oct 1908	Czechoslovakia
16563	108	Mala	RATH		Chrzanow	16 Jun 1919	Poland
18687	142	Blanka	RATH		Sighet	14 Jan 1915	Roumania
18688	142	Laura	RATH		Sighet	07 Jul 1917	Roumania

Sweden: Survivors 2 (1375 persons) [H]

ID	Page	Given name	Given name 2	Given name 3	Surname	Surname 2	Sex	Place of birth	Date of birth	Residence	Place of death	Date of death	Nationality	Notes
10802	16	Szarna			RATH		F	Chrzanow	11 Oct 1926				Poland

Zbąszyń, Poland: refugees 1938-1939, List of persons, actually in Zbąszyń, having relatives in U.S.A., Canada, or South America; addresses not exact or unknown; unnumbered pages [H]

ID	Additional informaiton	Page number	Number [on page]	Person	Surname from previous column	Born on	Born at	Occupation	Last address in Germany	Present address in Zbąszyń	Address of relatives	Surname from previous or next column	Degree of relationship	Notes (not by typist)
10345	List of Polish Jews expelled by the Nazi government into this Polish border town, receiving assistance from the JDC in 1938-1939	[15]	331	Chaim Gross	GROSS	9 Sep 1880	Zarnow	merchant	Karlsruhe	Szkola	Dora Reid, Bronx, N.Y. / Emanuel Gross, N.Y.	REID, GROSS	daughter, son

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