Documents related to the Holocaust in Lviv (Lwow) and Lviv (Lwow) Region, The Lviv Collection, personal narratives, 1941-1944
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Brief Description:

The core documents of this collections are listed below,

Maurycy Allerhand, narrative, letter to Colonel Steffens, Juli 1941;

Maurycy Allerhand, chronicle of days in Lviv, 1942;

M. Allerhand, Chronicle, Lviv, 1942; In addition there a number of sub-divided documents from Maurycy Allerhand written narrative in regard to the life in German-occupied Lviv (Lwow) and in the ghetto.

There is series of personal diary-like narrative written by J. Berman, an employee of the Jewish Council established by the German administration of Lviv (Lwow). These narratives largely relate to the actions of Ukrainian militia in late June, early July of 1941 and then to the day-to-day occurrences with Ukrainian auxiliary police and German police.

Accounts written by Polish scholar of Jewish descent, Salomon Czortkower relate to the actions of German authorities in regard to Jewish population of the ghetto, implemented by Ukrainian and German police.

The documents of this collection largely relate to the Jewish community under German occupation in Lviv (Lwow), in 1941, 1942.

In addition to the narratives of Maurycy Allerhand, J. Berman, Salomon Czortkower, there are a number of accounts of day-to-day round ups, actions and other atrocities imposed of Jews in the ghetto of Lviv (Lwow). The actions of perpetrators, largely Ukrainian police and German police are well described. There are also accounts in regard to the functionaries of Jewish Community of Lviv (Lwow) in prewar and wartime.

Held at:
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
100 S. The Grove Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Phone: 323-651-3704
Fax: 323-843-9518
Email: archive [at] lamoth.org
Record Series Number: RG-89/RG-89
Created by: Maurycy Allerhand, Professor of Jurisprudence, the former Chairman of the Lviv Jewish Community, out (1868 -- 1942), Gold, former administrative clerk of the outpatient clinic in Lwow., H.S., the inhabitant of the Lwow Ghetto., J. Berman, member of Jewish Council in the Lwow (Lviv) Ghetto, Salomon Czortkower, Polish anthropologist of Jewish origin.
Volume: 1.0 Boxes
Biographical Note for Maurycy Allerhand, Professor of Jurisprudence, the former Chairman of the Lviv Jewish Community, out (1868 -- 1942) :

Professor Maurycy Allerhand, born in 1868 in Rzeszow, died in 1942 in Lviv (Lwow)

Professor Allerhand gained doctorate in Vienna University in 1892. In 1909 received habilitation of the Lwow University for a scholarly volume. He remained professor of Lviv (Lwow) University until the time of German occupation. Professor Allerhand published over one thousands scholarly works. In 1929, Professor Allerhand served as Chairman for the Executive Office of Lviv Jewish Community. He also held official and public offices related to jurisprudential activity.

In October 1941, he and his wife were forced to live in the Lviv ghetto. On September 10, 1942, Professor Allerhand and his wife were transported to Janowska Road Concentration Camp in Lviv. They both were murdered in the camp. His son Joachim (1897 – 1970), son’s wife Zina (1908 – 1978) and grandson Leszek (born in 1931) survived the Holocaust.

Subject Index
Actions of the German police in Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
Adolf Rotfeld, lawyer, deputy chairman of the Lviv Judenrat, Lwow, 1941
Arbeitsamt (German labor office)
Arbeitsamt on Zamknięta Street, Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
Arrest of Joseph Parnas, the leader of the Judenrat in Lviv (Lwow), 1941
Arrests of Jews in Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
Arson of the synagogue on Boimow / Sobieskiego Street, Lviv (Lwow), 1941
Assault on S. Czortkower, Polish anthropologist of Jewish origin.
Attacks on Jews in Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
Barracks at Wolecka Street, Lviv (Lwow)
Beatings of Jews by the police, Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
Borki Wielkie (Poland; German labor camp; Velyki Birky)
Brygidki Prison in Lviv (Lwow), June, July 1941
Brygidki Prison in Lviv (Lwow), unearthing the NKVD crimes, June, July 1941
Children in the ghettos
Chronology of the extermination of Jewish in Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1943
Clashes between Ukrainian and Jewish police, Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
Collaboration against the Jews between Polish citizens and the police, Lviv (Lwow)
Collecting money and valuables to help those in concentration camps, Lviv (Lwow), 1942
Colonel Steffens, German administration, Lviv (Lwow), 1941
Confiscation of furs and warm clothing, Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
Confiscation of Jewish apartments in Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
Confiscation of library collections, Lviv (Lwow), 1941
Confiscation of personal belongings and property
Correspondence of prof. Maurycy Allerhand, 1941 -- 1942
Court of honor of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US Occupation Zone of Germany
Czwartaki (Poland; German labor camp)
Death of Joseph Parnas, the leader of the Judenrat in Lwow (Lviv), March, 1942
Detention of Jews by German police, Lviv (Lwow), 1941
Discovering and unearthing of the NKVD crimes in the Lviv prisons, June, July 1941
Disease in concentration camps
District Galizien (Eastern Galicia), German administrative unit of occupied Poland
Dni Petlury (Petlura Days), the arrests and murders of Jews conducted by Ukrainian Police, Lviv,1941
Documents in German language
Documents in Polish language
Eastern Galicia (Poland: Region)
Everyday life of Jews in Lviv (Lwow), 1941-1942
Execution of Jews
Executions of Jews in Brygidki Prison, Lviv as revenge for the NKVD crimes, June, July 1941
Executions of Jews in the yard of Lonckiego Prison in regard to the NKVD crimes, June, July, 1941
Executions of Jews in Zamarstynowska Prison in Lviv in regard to the NKVD crimes, June, July, 1941
Extermination of Jews in Lviv (Lwow), discourse and narrative, postwar
Extortion of cash payments from Jews by Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, wartime, Lviv (Lwow)
Financial settlements in camps, Lwow (Lviv), 1941
Financial statements of the camps, Lwow (Lviv), 1941
First German-established Jewish Council (Judenrat) of Lviv (Lwow), July 1941
First German-established Jewish Council of Lviv, composition, July 22, 1941
Forced labor
Gazeta Lwowska, editorial board and contributors (1918 --1939)
General Government (German-occupied Poland), 1939 -- 1945
German Armed Forces, Wehrmacht
German extortion of contributions in the ghettos
German operation "Zolldevisen kontrolle”, Lviv (Lwow), 1941
Gestapo activities in Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
Gestapo Headquarter on Pelczynska Street, Lviv (Lwow)
Hiring contracts of Religious Community, Lviv (Lwow)
Hunger in ghettos, 1939 -- 1945
Identification documents, the Lwow Ghetto, Lviv, 1942
Interrogation by Gestapo, Poland
J. Berman, member of Jewish Council in the Lwow (Lviv) Ghetto
Jaktoriv (Ukraine)
Jaktorow (Poland)
Jaktorow (Poland: German Labor Camp)
Janowska (Poland: Concentration Camp)
Janowska labor camp (Lvov, Ukraine)
Jewish Community in Lviv (Lwow)
Jewish conversion to Christianity, occupied Poland, 1941 -- 1942
Jewish Council (Judenrat) in Lviv (Lwow)
Jewish District in Lviv (Lwow)
Jewish field hospitals for military purpose, Lviv (Lwow), 1942
Jewish Order Police
Jewish pogroms in Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
Jewish Religious Community in Lviv (Lwow)
Jewish Religious Community of Lwow (Lviv), 1918 --1939
Jewish religious education in Lviv (Lwow)
Jewish teachers, hiring contracts, Lviv (Lwow), XIX c.
Jewish yellow stars of David, Jewish badges and patches
Jews are forced to Brygidki prison, Lviv in regard to unearthing the NKVD crimes, June, July 1941
Jews forced to work, Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
Jews regarded only as the workforce, Lviv (Lwow), 1941
Joachim Herman Allerhand, son of Maurycy Allerhand
Jozef Arno Feller, grandson of Maurycy Allerhand
Jozef Arno Feller, inmate in the Ghetto, Lviv (Lwow)
Jozef Czeszer, Vice President of Jewish Religious Community in Lviv (Lwow), XIX c.
Jozef Parnas, Chairman of Jewish Council (Judenrat), established by German administration July 1941
Jozef Parnas, executive of the Jewish community in Lwow, chairman of Judentrat in 1941, defiance
Kozaki (Poland; German labor camp)
Kurowice (Poland; German labor camp; Kryvychi)
Lacki Wielkie (Chervone – Lviv, Zolochiv, Ukraine)
Lacki Wielkie (Poland; German labor camp)
Legal advice from Maurycy Allerhand, Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 9142
Leszek Leon Allerhand, grandson of Maurycy Allerhand
Liquidation of older Jews in Lviv, 1941
Living and working conditions of Jews in Lviv (Lwow), 941 -- 1942
Lonckiego Prision in Lviv (Lwow), wartime, postwar
Lonckiego Prison in Lviv (Lwow), unearthing crimes of the NKVD, June, July 1941
Lviv (Ukraine)
Lviv under German occupation, 1941 -- 1944
Lwow (Poland)
Lwow (Poland: Ghetto)
Lwow ( Poland: ghetto)
Lwow, Lemberg, Lvov, Lviv, variants of this city name in history, Poland, Ukraine, USSR, Austria
Massacres in Brygidki (prison in Lviv on Kazimierzowska Street), Lwow, 1941
Maurycy Allerhand, Chairman as Govermental Commissar of Jewish Community in Lwow, 1924 - 1929
Maurycy Allerhand, Professor, professional and public activity, interwar, Lwow (Lviv)
Maurycy Allerhand, Professor of Law, Lwow (Lviv), Commissar of the Jewish Communities in 1920s
Maurycy Allerhand, Professor of Law at the Jan Kazimierz University of Lwow (Lviv), 19th, 20th c.
Maurycy Allerhand, rejection of German offer to take post of Chairman of Judenrat in Lviv, July 1941
Maurycy Allerhand and his wife perished in Janaowska camp, Lviv, August 10, 1942
Medical doctors, hiring contracts, Lviv (Lwow), XIX c.
Meir Balaban, Jewish Polish historian, interwar period
Mistreatment of Jewish women, Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
Narratives in German language
Narratives in Polish language
Officials of Jewish Community in Lviv (Lwow), 1941
Orders of the German authorities, Lviv 1941
Organization Todt, civil and para-military German engineering entity
Penalty for not wearing Jewish armband, Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
Personal searches of Jews in Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
Pluchow (Poland; German labor camp; Pluhiv)
Population of the labor camps near Lwow (Lviv), 1941
prison on Lackiego Street in Lviv, Lwow, 1941 -- 1942
Professor Maurycy Allerhand, confined to Lviv (Lwow) ghetto, 1941, 1942
Professor Maurycy Allerhand, intervie with Collonel Steffens, German administration, Lviv, July 1941
Prohibition of using the public transport for Jews, Lviv (Lwow), 1942
Publication of Teka Lwowska in Bulletin of ZIH (Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw), 1979
Rabbis, hiring contracts, Lviv (Lwow), XIX c.
Registration of craftsmen and other workers to urban workshops, Lviv (Lwow), 1942
Registration of health professionals, Lviv (Lwow), 1941
Registration of unions of Commerce and Industry, Lviv (Lwow), 1941
Report of the Jewish Community in Lviv (Lwow), 1941
Requisition of M. Allerhand's library, Lviv (Lwow), August, 1941
Resettlements of Jews in Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
Restrictions for acquisition for Jews in Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
Roundups of Jews in Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
Sadistic sexual mistreatment of Jewish women, Lviv (Lwow), 1941
Salomon Czortkower, Polish anthropologist of Jewish origin.
Schutzstaffel (SS)
Situation of Jews in Lviv (Lwow), 1941-1942
Sobieski School in Lviv (collection point for deportation), Lwow, 1942
Storage of clothing collected from different countries (textilhandelsgesellschaft), Lviv (Lwow),1941
Supplies for the camps, Lwow (Lviv), 1941
Teka Lwowska (The Lviv Collection), wartime documents in regard to Jews, archival documents
Teka Lwowska, arrangements by Dr. Zygmunt Hoffman, ZIH, publication, 1979
The "Fur Campaign", Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
The "Music Campaign", Lviv (Lwow), 1942
The death penalty for Jews, Lviv (Lwow), 1942
The Deutsche Volksliste (German People's List)
The first draft of the ghetto area in Lviv (Lwow), December, 1941
The Ghetto in Lviv (The Lwow Ghetto)
the Lwow (Lviv) ghetto chronicle, 1941 -- 1943
The prediction of the liquidation of Jews, Lviv (Lwow), 1942
The role of the NKVD crimes in causation of Lviv (Lwow) Jewish Pogrom, June 30 -- July 2, 1941
The “Snow removal campaign”, Lviv (Lwow), 1942
Ukrainian auxiliary police in anti-Jewish actions, Lviv and Lviv region, 1941 -- 1944
Ukrainian auxiliary police in Lviv and Lviv region, 1941 -- 1944
Ukrainian perpetrated atrocities and crimes in regard to Jews in Lviv (Lwow), June, July 1941
Ukrainian self proclaimed militia in Lviv before the German takeover, June 30, 1941, July 1, 1941
Unterbergen (Pidhirtsi), Ukrainian village
Violence against Jews in Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942
Winniki (Poland; German labor camp; Vynnyky)
work permits
Work supply in the Lwow Ghetto, Lviv, 1942
Yellow stars and armbands, Poland, 1939 -- 1945
Zamarstynowska Prison in Lviv (Lwow), unearthing of crimes of the NKVD, June, July 1941
Zamarstynowska Prison in Lviv (Lwow), wartime
Zina (Zinajda) Allerhand (born Rubinstein), daughter-in-law of Maurycy Allerhand
Zlotow (Poland; German labor camp; Zlotiv)
Genres/Forms of Material
Gazeta Zydowska (The Jewish Gazette)
Languages of Materials
Polish [pol]
German [ger]