Lewis Lax (Lutek Laks) Papers, 1939-1945

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-49.01, Israel Laks, postwar proof of incarceration, August 1945

Proof of incarceration in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, issued to Israel Laks in August 1945 in Hamburg

Subject/Index Terms:

Proofs of incarcerations under German-Nazi and Axis regimes

Israel Laks (Lewis Lax), assumed false identity in Poland

Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration Camp)

Germany (1945 -- 1949)

Documents in German language

Creators:

Postwar German police authority in Hamburg (1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-49.02, Laks Lutek (Israel Laks), AEF DP Registration card, September 1945

Displaced persons camp registration card issued to Lutek Laks ((Israel Laks, Lewis Lax). His wife is Regina Lindeubaum. Emigration destination is United States

Subject/Index Terms:

Israel Laks (Lewis Lax), assumed false identity in Poland

Displaced person camps in Germany

Displaced person camps, documents

Regina Lindeubaum, displaced person

Germany (1945 -- 1949)

Documents in German language

Creators:

Authorities of Displaced Person Camps in Germany (1945 -- 1956)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-49.03, Lax Lutek (Israel Laks, Lewis Lax) United States Lines Company Passenger Ticket, June 1946

Israel Laks (Lutek Laks, Lewis Lax) emigrates to th United States, June 1946

Subject/Index Terms:

Israel Laks (Lewis Lax), assumed false identity in Poland

Emigration to the United States

Emigration from postwar Germany to the United States

Bremen (Germany)

New York (New York, United States)

Germany (1945 -- 1949)

United States (1945 -- 1960)

Sea-line passenger documents, American

Sea-line passenger tickets, American

Sea-line passenger documents

Documents in English language

Creators:

United States Lines Company (June 1946)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-49.04, Laks Israel (Lutek Laks, Lewis Lax) Educational record, school for dentistry laboratory personnel, Poland, 1941, January 1941

Educational record for studying laboratory profession in dentistry, issued to Israel Laks (Lutek Laks, Lewish Lax) for the study-period between 1938 and 1940. The document issued in January 1941

Subject/Index Terms:

Israel Laks (Lewis Lax), assumed false identity in Poland

Education and training

Education and training in Poland, 1918 -- 1939

educational documents

Educational documents, Polish

Poland (1939 -- 1941)

Documents in Polish language

Creators:

Certification Commission for the profession of laboratory-technician in dentistry, Poland (1041)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-49.05, Sidonia Lewin, United States Lines Company Passenger Ticket, February 1947

A passanger ticket to travel with United States Lines Company from Bremen to New York, issued to Sidonia Lewin (Laks, Lewis) in February 1947

Subject/Index Terms:

Sidonia Lewin (Laks, Lewis), refugee

Emigration from postwar Germany to the United States

Emigration to the United States

Sea-line passenger documents

Sea-line passenger documents, American

Sea-line passenger tickets, American

Bremen (Germany)

New York (New York, United States)

United States (1945 -- 1960)

Documents in English language

Creators:

United States Lines Company (June 1946)

United States Line Company (February 1947)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-49.06, Lewis Lax (Lutek Laks, Lewis Lax) postwar Tesitmony, Postwar

Personal recollections of Israel Laks (Lutek Laks, Lewish Lax) of his prewar, wartime and postwar experience

Subject/Index Terms:

Israel Laks (Lewis Lax), assumed false identity in Poland

Prisoners of War, Polish

Personal memoirs and recollections

Personal testimonies, postwar

Means of adaptation and survival in the Holocaust

survival tactics

Rejection of Jewishness in the Holocaust for the sake of survival

Role of money and connections in survival in the Holocaust

Stereotypes with regard to Polish antisemitism

Numerus Clausus, a quota reducing admission of Jewish students to Universities, Poland

Survivors postwar views, biased

Armed forces, Polish, 1918 --1939

Chelm (Poland)

German invasion of Poland, September 1939

Inconsistent and biased reflections on the Polish military resistance against the German invasion

Soviet annexation of Eastern Poland, September 1939

Chodel (Poland)

Auxiliary police in Nazi-German concentration camps

Means of adaptation and survival in concentration camps

Personal survival skills

Untruthful stories, survivors

Lublin (Poland)

Polish collaborating police, money extortion, 1939 -- 1944

Acquisition of gold and valuables by survivors

Warsaw (Poland)

Assuming false identity, Jewish survivors

Acting under false identity, Jewish survivors

Polish Home Army (Armija Krajowa)

Resistance, Polish

Reflection on a Polish character at wartime, Jewish

Business activity under false identity, Jewish survivors

Conducting clandestine businesses under the German occupation by Jewish survivors

Polish Resistance supplies the Jewish Resistance with ammunition in Warsaw ghetto

Will and energy for survival

Means of adaptation and survival in Nazi-German prisons

Pawiak Prison (Warsaw, Poland)

Communications through the Warsaw Sewers, 1939 -- 1945

The Warsaw Sewer System as the clandestine paths, 1939 -- 1945

The Warsaw Sewer System as a hiding place, 1940 -- 1945

Warsaw Polish Uprising

Warsaw sewage canals, means of underground communications

Postwar adaptation and accommodation, Jewish survivors

Creators:

Isreael Laks (Lutek Laks, Lewis Lax)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-49.06.01, Lewis Lax (Lutek Laks, Lewis Lax) postwar Tesitmony, Postwar

Personal recollection of Israel Laks (Lutek Lask, Lewis Lax) of his prewar, wartime and postwar experience

Creators:

Isreael Laks (Lutek Laks, Lewis Lax)

Lewis Lax (1939 -- 1945)

A. Soeliaeka, resident of Skierniewice, Poland (1944)