Languages: German [ger], Polish [pol], English [eng]
Abstract
This collection contains official documents, false identity papers, and a testimony of Lewis Lax. Lax was a Holocaust survivor from Poland who was also a partisan during the war, acting under false identity .
Box and Folder Listing
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