Water Holocaust-Era Records

Wodzisław (Vodislov), Żarki (Zharki), Pilica (Piltz), Częstochowa (Chenstochov), Janów (Yanov), Piotrków (Petrikev), Opoczno (Opotchna), and nearby towns

71 Holocaust-era records for Water and related spellings.

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Częstochowa BMD 1939-1942 deaths; Często Arch [H]

ID	Reg year	Akt	Death place, date	Registration place, date	Deceased, age, profession, etc	Deceased surname	Father of deceased	Father surname	Mother of deceased	Mother maiden name	Spouse	Spouse maiden name or surname	Survived by	Survivors maiden name(s) or surname(s)	Witness 1	Witness 1 surname	Witness 2	Witness 2 surname	Other information	Surname(s) from previous column	Image(s)	Notes by translator	Notes (not by translator)
11723	1941	860	2 Dec 1941, Częstochowa	4 Dec 1941, Częstochowa	Gitla Ruchla Tenebaum née Cymbał, born Słuck 10 Dec 1899, died in Częstochowa ul. Warszawska 30	TENEBAUM NÉE CYMBAŁ	Józef Cymbał	CYMBAŁ	Sura Ita née Wędrów	WĘDRÓW	Majer Tenenbaum	TENENBAUM	[not listed]		Herszlik Mitelman, employee of the Rabbinate in Częstochowa		Szlama Majzler, employee of the Rabbinate in Częstochowa				www.crarg.org/i…004-RoeWG5.jpg

Częstochowa: Index to Khurbn Czenstochow, 1949; translation at https://www.jewishge…2/Czestochowa2.html; images at https://digitalcolle…3-6348-00505686a51c [H]

ID	Person	Surname from previous column	Page number
10010	Doctor Wider	WIDER	32

Częstochowa: lists of abandoned properties in Częstochowa, syg 29; images: https://www.szukajwa…/jednostka/15071873 (part of: District Liquidation Office in Kielce - tinyurl.com/3awprebr) [H]

ID	Details	Details in Polish	Image file name	Order number	Street	House number	Property type	Person	Surname from previous column	Group	Re-privatized	Delivered to the City Council.	Remarks	Notes by typist	Notes (not written by typist)
10421	LIST of real estates located in the city of Częstochowa, kept in the records of the District Liquidation Office in Częstochowa.	WYKAZ nieruchomości połoźonych na terenie m. Częstochowy, znajdujących się w ewidencji Rejonowego Urzędu Likwidacyjnego w Częstochowie.	21_336_0_-_29_12_56153431.jpg	413.	Nowa	15	house [Polish: dom]	Emilia Vetter	VETTER	V	[blank]	27 Aug 1946

Częstochowa: Regional Liquidation Office in Częstochowa 1949-1950, USHMM RG-15.327, syg 401 [H]

ID	Document start page, part 1	Document start page, part 2	Page(s)	Number (first page)	Description of the property, and location	Gardens, garages, outbuildings etc.	To whom did it belong	Surname from previous column	Currently administered by	Notes	Other information	Notes by transcriber / translator	Surname from previous columns	Notes (not written by translator / typist)
10375	Rejonowy Urząd Likwidacyjny w Częstochowie 1949-50 syg 31	Various property lists for the town and county of Częstochowa (1946-48)	13	87	Wały Dwernickiego, Aleja Kościuszki No.3, Częstochowa		Helena Wider	WIDER			Transferred in entirety 27 Aug 1946 Property register No.758/II	List of properties transferred by the Delegature Urzędu Likwidacyjnego in Częstochowa since 1 Mar 1946

France: Deportations during Holocaust, only "Pologne" from the web; used to be here: http://perso.wanadoo…istoire/Accueil.htm [H]

ID	Details	Nº JO [Number of journal]	Date [of journal]	Sex	Given name	Surname	Country of birth	Country of death	Complete information
11333	Nº = number; JO = the publication "Le journal officiel"	186	12 Aug 2001	F	Fajga	VIEDER, NÉE CWILICH	Pologne	Pologne	Vieder, née Cwilich (Fajga) le 13 décembre 1900 à Rozprza (Pologne), décédée le 12 décembre 1943 à Auschwitz (Pologne) et non le 7 décembre 1943 à Drancy (Seine).
39815	Nº = number; JO = the publication "Le journal officiel"	186	12 Aug 2001	F	Fajga	VIEDER, NÉE CWILICH	Pologne	Pologne	Vieder, née Cwilich (Fajga) le 13 décembre 1900 à Rozprza (Pologne), décédée le 12 décembre 1943 à Auschwitz (Pologne) et non le 7 décembre 1943 à Drancy (Seine).
40362	Nº = number; JO = the publication "Le journal officiel"	20	24 Jan 2002	M	Ber	WAITER	Pologne	Pologne	Waiter (Ber), né le 28 février 1908 à Varsovie (Pologne), décédé le 25 juillet 1942 à Auschwitz (Pologne) et non le 20 juillet 1942 à Angers (Maine-et-Loire).

Iran [Persia]: "Polish Refugees in Tehran, 1943," American Jewish Archives, D56, 8 (1675 persons) [H]

ID	Image	List	Page number	Given name(s)	Surname	Date [of birth]	Place [of birth]	Other information	Typist notes
10575	03-DSC00047.JPG	Lista No. 1	18	Maksymilian	WEDER	1921	Krakow
10576	03-DSC00047.JPG	Lista No. 1	18	Wilhelm	WEDER	1915	Chorzow

Poland: List of persons receiving individual gift packages, 1941, American Joint Distribution Committee [H]

ID	Details	Page number of complete set (unnumbered)	Page number at top, centered (if any)	Page header (including running header)	[List number?]	Name	Surname from previous or following column	[Address]	Column without header [regarding delivery]	Notes (not by typist)
11391	German title: 2. Liste der Personen zwecks Zusendung von individuellen Liebesgabenpaketen; preceded by letter in English from AJDC in Lisbon, Portugal to AJDC in New York, dated 2 Jul 1941	[31]	7	[Returned Parcels,] List. no. 2	[none?]	Klara Vidor	VIDOR	Auschwitz	Annahme verweigert [acceptance refused]

Poland: Monitor Polski (court records after WWII regarding inheritance, etc.); translations will be added later, for now try https://translate.google.com; source: http://monitorpolski.gov.pl [H]

ID	File name	Nr.	Date	Year	Page	Header	Introductory sentence/paragraph (if any), before a numbered list	Introductory sentence/paragraph (if any), before a numbered list: translation	Entry regarding person, couple, or family	Entry regarding person, couple, or family: translation	Surname from previous two columns	Notes by typist	Notes (not by typist)
13283	M1948030000001	30	16 Marca	1948	10	Obwieszczenia sadowe / Uznanie za Zmarlego i Stwierdzenie Faktu Smierci / Nastepujace osoby wniosly o uznanie za zmarlego	XXX. Do Sadu Grodzkiego w Zarkach	Translations will be added later; for now try https://translate.google.com	5. Szlama Kierkowski, Sosnowiec - co do a) Szajndli Wetter, c. Abrama i Jentli z Aronowiczow, ur. w 1916 w Zlarkach, b) Kajli-Dyny Wetter, c. Abrama i Jentli z Aronowiczow, ur. 1911 w Zarkach, c) Luzera Leiba Wettera, s. Abrama i Jentli z Aronowiczow, ur. 1914 w Zarkach, d) Entli Bajli Wetter, c. Leizora i Liby ze Sliwkow, ur. 1888 w Zarkach, wymienieni 10.X. 1942 wywiezieni zostali do Treblinki. Zg. 27/48.		WETTER, ARONOWICZ, SLIWKA
13285	M1948030000001	30	16 Marca	1948	10	Obwieszczenia sadowe / Uznanie za Zmarlego i Stwierdzenie Faktu Smierci / Nastepujace osoby wniosly o uznanie za zmarlego	XXX. Do Sadu Grodzkiego w Zarkach	Translations will be added later; for now try https://translate.google.com	Sad wzywa zaginienych, wymienienych pod: VI, l a, b, e, d, e, XXVIII. 1-2, aby w terminie czteromiesiecznym, wszystkich zas pozostalych, aby w terminle trzymiesiecznym od daty ogloszenia zglesili sie w Sadzie, w ktorym toczy sie pestepowanie, gdyz w przeciwnym razie mega byc uznani za zmarlych, a wszystkie osoby, ktore maja wiadomesci o zaginionych, aby w terminach powyzszych doniesly o nich Sadowi.		LUDON, DREZNER, WETTER, ARONOWICZ, SLIWKA, BRAJTBART, RYCHNER, MARKOWICZ, FRYMORGEN

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
63801	10-DSC00096.jpg	282	Abraham	WIEDER	Schottenberg
63802	10-DSC00096.jpg	282	Eunia	WIDDER	Bydgoszez
63803	10-DSC00096.jpg	282	Goldl	WIEDER	Rychbach
63804	10-DSC00096.jpg	282	Hela	WIEDER	Peterswaldau
63805	10-DSC00096.jpg	282	Honer	WIEDER	Rychbach
63806	10-DSC00096.jpg	282	Magda	WIDDER	Bydgoszez
63807	10-DSC00096.jpg	282	Maria	WIEDER	Tarnow
63808	10-DSC00096.jpg	282	Ruth	WIDDER	Warszawa
63809	10-DSC00096.jpg	282	Salomon	WIEDER	Rzeszow
63810	10-DSC00096.jpg	282	Taube	WIEDER	Rychbach
65018	10-DSC00104.jpg	289	Gizela	WOTER	Gdansk
65019	10-DSC00104.jpg	289	Margot	WOTER	Gdansk
65020	10-DSC00104.jpg	289	Rosemarie	WOTER	Gdansk

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

ID	Subdocument	Page	Surname	Given name	Birth year or age	Birth place or last residence
14047	Jewish Women Liberated In the Bergen-Belsen Camp	26	VIDOR	Terez	23 years	Nyirbator
14048	Jewish Women Liberated In the Bergen-Belsen Camp	26	VIDOR	Maria	20 years	Nyirbator
14049	Jewish Women Liberated In the Bergen-Belsen Camp	26	VIDOR	Anna	27 years	Nyirbator
14288	Jewish Women Liberated In the Bergen-Belsen Camp	27	WIEDER	Cyli	1897	Sziget
14289	Jewish Women Liberated In the Bergen-Belsen Camp	27	WIEDER	Dora	1920	M. Sziget
14290	Jewish Women Liberated In the Bergen-Belsen Camp	27	WIEDER	Janka	1923	M. Sziget
14291	Jewish Women Liberated In the Bergen-Belsen Camp	27	WIEDER	Lili	1925	M. Sziget
14292	Jewish Women Liberated In the Bergen-Belsen Camp	27	WIEDER	Lili	1922	M. Sziget
14293	Jewish Women Liberated In the Bergen-Belsen Camp	27	WIEDER	Regina	1928	Sziget
14294	Jewish Women Liberated In the Bergen-Belsen Camp	27	WIEDER	Sari	1929	Marosvasarhely
14298	Jewish Women Liberated In the Bergen-Belsen Camp	27	WIDER	Edit	1927	Szatmarnemeti
14299	Jewish Women Liberated In the Bergen-Belsen Camp	27	WIDER	Regina	15 years	Telcs

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

ID	Digital file id	Page	Survivor given name(s)	Survivor maiden name / other surname (previous or next column)	Survivor surname	Birthday	Birth city	Survivor sends greetings to -- given name(s)	Survivor sends greetings to -- surname(s)	Greetings to--Place	Other information	Typing notes
11713	02-DSC00031.JPG	18	Helen Zylwia	JAKUBOWSKA	WETTER JAKUBOWSKA	7 Jun 1922	Lwow	Antonie	SOUPPER	Lwow ul Szeptyckick 10/1	Ing.
11714	02-DSC00031.JPG	18	Helen Zylwia	JAKUBOWSKA	WETTER JAKUBOWSKA	7 Jun 1922	Lwow	Rosia	DZYDZAN	Lwow Rynek 18/III
11715	02-DSC00031.JPG	18	Helen Zylwia	JAKUBOWSKA	WETTER JAKUBOWSKA	7 Jun 1922	Lwow	Lizzi	ESSLER	Fabrik Essler, Bruen Obersess Ceehy
11726	02-DSC00032.JPG	18	Helen Zylwia	JAKUBOWSKA	WETTER JAKUBOWSKA	7 Jun 1922	Lwow	Antonie	SOUPPER	Lwow ul Szeptyckick 10/1	Ing.	Repeated
11727	02-DSC00032.JPG	18	Helen Zylwia	JAKUBOWSKA	WETTER JAKUBOWSKA	7 Jun 1922	Lwow	Rosia	DZYDZAN	Lwow Rynek 18/III		Repeated
11728	02-DSC00032.JPG	18	Helen Zylwia	JAKUBOWSKA	WETTER JAKUBOWSKA	7 Jun 1922	Lwow	Lizzi	ESSLER	Fabrik Essler, Bruen Obersess Ceehy		Repeated

Sweden: Survivors 1 (9505 persons) [H]

ID	Page	Given name(s)	Surname 1	Surname 2	Place of birth	Date of birth	Nationality
11703	28	Salomon	WIEDER		Dovhoje	03 Jul 1926	Czechoslovakia
11704	28	Sari	WIEDER		Mukacevo	03 Mar 1921	Czechoslovakia
17583	125	Helen Sylwia	WETTER	JAKUBOWSKA	Lwow	07 Jun 1922	Poland
19015	147	Hudi Hella	WIEDER		Calinesti	10 May 1929	Roumania
19016	147	Rosi	WIEDER		Dej	17 Dec 1916	Roumania
19017	147	Sarolta	WIEDER		Leordina	17 Jan 1928	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
11146	21	Majte			WIDER		F	Dragomiresti	1923				Roumania

USSR: "List of Polish Jewish Refugees Now in USSR, 1945," American Jewish Archives, H277/7 (2582 persons) [H]

ID	Image	Page number	Given name(s)	Surname(s)	Age	Family group	Last residence in Poland	Last address in the USSR
10777	15/DSC00053.JPG	6	Adolf	WIDER	49	Adolf, Halina, & Celina	Nowy Sacz	Semipalatinsk obl. St. Zana-Semei Shirokaya 42
10778	15/DSC00053.JPG	6	Halina	WIDER	21	Adolf, Halina, & Celina	Nowy Sacz	Semipalatinsk obl. St. Zana-Semei Shirokaya 42
10779	15/DSC00053.JPG	6	Celina	WIDER	9	Adolf, Halina, & Celina	Nowy Sacz	Semipalatinsk obl. St. Zana-Semei Shirokaya 42

Vilna [Vilnius, Lithuania]: Polish Jewish refugees receiving Joint Distribution Committee aid, in Vilna, Lithuania, 1940 [H]

ID	Page number	Number	Name	Surname from previous column	Birth place	Birth year	Comes from	[X = handwritten mark added after "Comes from" town]	Stamp at bottom of page (if any)	Notes (not by typist)
18544	141	8334	Mina Wider	WIDER	Wilno	1918	Miedzyrzec	X

Żarki List/Book of Permanent Residents (Spis Ludności Żarki), 1900-1924, syg 227, syg 228, syg 229 (4108 persons); sample images: https://www.crarg.or…dents-1900-1924.php [H]

ID	Notes	Book sygn	Page of book	Family comments (not written by researcher)	Surname	Given name	Year of birth
11795	Letters A-E have no years of birth; Czestochowa Arch, vol I (syg 227), II (missing), III (missing), IV (syg 228) V (syg 229)	228	2436		WETTER / WERTER	Josek	1864
11796	Letters A-E have no years of birth; Czestochowa Arch, vol I (syg 227), II (missing), III (missing), IV (syg 228) V (syg 229)	228	2436	Listed with family of person shown on line above	WETTER / WERTER	Blima	1861
11797	Letters A-E have no years of birth; Czestochowa Arch, vol I (syg 227), II (missing), III (missing), IV (syg 228) V (syg 229)	228	2436	Listed with family of person shown on line above	WETTER / WERTER	Sura	1889
11798	Letters A-E have no years of birth; Czestochowa Arch, vol I (syg 227), II (missing), III (missing), IV (syg 228) V (syg 229)	228	2436	Listed with family of person shown on line above	WETTER / WERTER	Idesa	1892
11799	Letters A-E have no years of birth; Czestochowa Arch, vol I (syg 227), II (missing), III (missing), IV (syg 228) V (syg 229)	228	2436	Listed with family of person shown on line above	WETTER / WERTER	Abram	1899
11800	Letters A-E have no years of birth; Czestochowa Arch, vol I (syg 227), II (missing), III (missing), IV (syg 228) V (syg 229)	228	2436	Listed with family of person shown on line above	WETTER / WERTER	Moszek	1907

Żarki: lists of persons obliged to pay levy 1940-1941, RG-15.314, zesp 125, syg 304; based on letter on page 102 (see: Beresz / Berek Półrolnicki): Żarki, 23 Aug 1941 / According to decree of the General Governor concerning collection of a resident tax from 27 Jun 1940, requires two payments for the fiscal year 1941, one by 10 Sep 1941 and one by 10 Feb 1942; images: https://www.szukajwa…/jednostka/12321636 [H]

ID	Header before this list	Page number	Order number	Person	Surname from previous column	Name of father or year [of birth], if included	Residence	Comments (see image for possible additional comments, in pencil]
10218	[pages 4-32:] List of persons obliged to pay dues / tax in the guaranteed year [Wykaz osób obowiazanych do płacenia daniny w roku rękojmi]	12	262	Chaja Weter	WETER	Abram	Koziegłowska 1	4838
11398	[pages 157-199:] Persons over 18 years of age required to pay a levy in 1940	173	[not listed on this page]	Abram Weter	WETER	Joachim	Koziegłowska 1	5815 N 1105
11399	[pages 157-199:] Persons over 18 years of age required to pay a levy in 1940	173	[not listed on this page]	Entla-Bajla Weter, wife	WETER	Lejzor	Koziegłowska 1	5816 wife
11400	[pages 157-199:] Persons over 18 years of age required to pay a levy in 1940	173	[not listed on this page]	Kajla-Dyna Weter	WETER	Abram	Koziegłowska 1	5817 wife N 5399
11401	[pages 157-199:] Persons over 18 years of age required to pay a levy in 1940	173	[not listed on this page]	Luzer Lajb Weter	WETER	Abram	Koziegłowska 1	5818 w niewoli [in captivity / held captive]
11402	[pages 157-199:] Persons over 18 years of age required to pay a levy in 1940	173	[not listed on this page]	Szajndla Weter	WETER	Abram	Koziegłowska 1	5819 N 1104
11403	[pages 157-199:] Persons over 18 years of age required to pay a levy in 1940	173	[not listed on this page]	Szyfra Liba Weter	WETER	Abram	Koziegłowska 1	5820 zmarła [she died]
11532	[pages 157-199:] Persons over 18 years of age required to pay a levy in 1940	177	[not listed on this page]	Sura Wetter	WETTER	Fajwisz	Koziegłowska 21	5941
11533	[pages 157-199:] Persons over 18 years of age required to pay a levy in 1940	177	[not listed on this page]	Brucha Wetter	WETTER	Szlama	Koziegłowska 21	5942

Żarki: Lists of property taxes on Jewish-owned properties, 1944, RG-15.314, zesp 125, syg 308 (index of names in this material); part of Akta gminy Żarki (Akta urzedu gminy Żarki): https://www.szukajwa…spol/-/zespol/75127; images: https://www.szukajwa…/jednostka/12321758 (but no images) [H]

ID	Image file name(s)	Page(s)	Details regarding this material	Receipt number	Order number	Payment request	Person	Surname from previous column	Address	Amount, in zl.	Amount, in gr	Remarks	[Based on "Żarki: lists of persons obliged to pay levy 1940-1941"] Who was living here in 1940/1941 or before?	Surname from previous column	Notes by translator / typist	Notes (not written by translator / typist)
10338	8_125_0_0_308.pdf	10	List of of the tax amounts paid to the tax office in Częstochowa from the Jewish house and land ownership in Quarter II, year 2155	[column not in this table]	261	365	[name not listed]		Koziegłowska 1	27	00		Chaja Weter, Abram Weter, wife Entla-Bajla Weter, Kajla-Dyna Weter, Luzer Lajb Weter, Szajndla Weter, Szyfra Liba Weter	WETER

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)
10260	List of Polish Jews expelled by the Nazi government into this Polish border town, receiving assistance from the JDC in 1938-1939	[12]	434	Leib Linker	LINKER	1-May-08	Bzemienka / Rzemienka?	butcher	Ludwigshafen	Zwirki 1	Rosa Widera, 661 Cleveland Ave., N.Y. Brooklyn	WIDERA	cousin

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