Book recording the issuance of 'passports' (Ausweise) to 12260 residents of the Brest ghetto from 1941-1942. (ID: 30268)
Title or Main Description:
Book recording the issuance of 'passports' (Ausweise) to 12260 residents of the Brest ghetto from 1941-1942. Entries include parents' names, year of birth, the date the 'passport' was issued and a signature (n.b. the Brest State Archive has additional related material; see source AA0448)
Description:
Number of Names or Other Entries-- 12,260
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
- Survivors Registry Collection [photocopy]
- In USHMM Library Collection.
- Source Institution: Dr. Deborah Lipstadt, Department of Religion, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Provenance:
The original documents are held by the Brest State Archive (Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Brestskoi oblasti, ulitsa Sovetskikh pogranichnikov, 34, Brest, Belarus). A Mr. Harold Barry brought a copy of the list back to the United States for a friend and former resident of Brest, Louis Pozes (5110 East Oakmont Dr., Tucson, AZ 85718) after he visited the Brest State Archive in 1994. Mr. Pozes gave a copy of the list to Deborah Lipstadt, member of the USHMM council.
Keywords:
- Brest (Belarus)
- [Brest Litovsk (Soviet Union)].
- [Brisk (Soviet Union)].
- [Brisk D Lita].
- [Brisk Dlita].
- [Brisk nad Bugie].
- [Brzesc Litewski (Poland)].
- [Brzesc nad Bugiem].
- [Bzheshch nad Bugyem].
- Jews --Poland.
Language and Other Notes:
Text in Polish.
Resource Center Cataloging Notes:
Former Q&A Name Lists Database File Number-- BB0305