Bibliography, Archival Sources
and other Resources

History of the Jewish Communities of Zaglembia

• Bedzin Chronicle. Tel Aviv, 1959.
  
  
• Blaszyczyk, Wlodzimierz, Bedzin Przez Wieki [Bedzin Through the Ages]. Poznan: Uniwersytetu im A. Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, 1982.
  
  
• Cymbler, Jeffrey K., The Cemetery of the Jewish Communities of Bedzin and Czeladz Poland. The World Zagłembie Organization (Tel Aviv 2007)
  
  
• Czempas, Jan, Zydzi w Nowym Slasku (1795-1807) [The Jews of Upper Silesia 1795-1807]. Katowice: Muzeum Slaskie, 1990.
  
  
• Falniowksa-Gradowska, Alicja and Irena Rychlikowa, "Powiat Krakowski, Proszowicki i Ksiaski" in Lustracja Wojewodstwa Krakowskiego 1789. Krakow: Polska Akademia Nauk, Materialy Komisji Nauk Historyczynych Nr. 4, 1962 pp. 1-63.
  
  
• Gelbart, N., Sefer kehilat yehudei Dabrowa Gornicza ve-hurbana [Memorial Book of Dabrowa Gornicza]. Tel Aviv: Former Residents of Dabrowa Gornicza, 1971. (Partially translated into English at "Book of the Jewish Community of Dabrowa Gornicza and its Destruction").
  
  
• Geshuri, Meir Shimon, Sefer Sosnowiec ve-ha-seviva be-Zaglembie [Book of Sosnowiec and the Surrounding Region in Zaglembia]. Tel Aviv: Sosnowiec Societies in Israel and the United States, France and other countries, 1973-74
  (2 vols.). (Partially translated into English at "Sefer Sosnowiec, Vol I" and "Sefer Sosnowiec, Vol II").
  
  
• Hampel, Mordecai, Yediot Bendin [Bedzin News]. Tel Aviv: Association of Former Residents of Bedzin in Israel, 1964.
  
  
• Jaros, J., "Wiadomosci o Zydach Czynnych w Polskim Przemysle Weglowym [Notes on Jews Active in the Polish Coal Industry]," in Biuletyn Zydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego w Polsce 1960, nr. 35. pp. 87-99.
  
  
• Jaworski, Wojciech, "Ludnosc Zydowska w Zaglebiu Dabrowskim do 1939 r. [The Jewish Population in Zaglebie Till 1939]," in Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis, nr. 1182 (historia 84), Wroclaw, 1991. pp. 77-81.
  
  
• Jaworski, Wojciech, "Organizacje Zydowskie w Zaglebiu Dabrowskim do 1939 r. [Jewish Organizations in Zaglebie Till 1939]," in Zaramie Slaskie , 1987, nr. 3-4. pp. 353-371.
  
  
• Jaworski, Wojciech, "Zydowskie Gminy Wyznaniowe w Zaglebiu Dabrowskim [The Jewish Communities in Zaglembia]," in Biuletyn Zydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego w Polsce, 1988 nr. 1-2 (145-146). pp. 131-144.
  
  
• Jaworski, Wojciech, "Zydowskie Partie Politiczne w Zaglebiu Dabrowskim w Okresie Miedzywojennym w Swietle Akt Archiwalnych," in Biuletyn Zydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego w Polsce, 1988 nr. 34 (147-148). pp. 89-100.
  
  
• Jaworski, Wojciech, "Zydowski Ruch Robotniczy w Zaglebiu Dabrowskim [Jewish Workers' Movements in Zaglembia]," in Sobotka, 1991, z. 2. pp. 205-218.
  
  
• Jaworski, Wojciech, Zydzi Bedzinscy [The Jews of Bedzin]. Bedzin: Muzeum Zaglebia w Bedzinie, 1993.
  
  
• Jaworski, Wojciech, "Zydzi w Zaglebiu Dabrowskim do 1939 roku [Jews of Zaglembia Till 1939]," in
  Zeszyly Zaglembiowskie 2 (1989). pp. 31-44.
  
  
• Kac, Fela, "In Upper Silesia" (Polish) in Mosty, no. 4 (1947).
  
  
• Kantor-Mirski, Marian, Krolewskie Miasto Bedzin [The Royal City of Bedzin]. Sosnowiec: Sowa Press, 1996.
  
  
• Kantor-Mirski, Marjan, Z Przeszlosci Zaglebia Dabrowskiego i Okolicy. (Sosnowiec: Dabrowsko-Slaskich Zakladow Drukarskich i Wydawniczych, 1931).
  
  
• Klajner, A., "Di Kleyn-Industrye in Sosnovtse [Small Industry in Sosnowiec]," in Di Jidishe Ekonomik 2/5-6 (1938). p. 266.
  
  
• Krajniewski, Jaroslaw, "Jak Szymon Londner Brame Rozbieral," in Aktualnosci Bedzimskie V 2000.
  
  
• Krajniewski, Jaroslaw, "Jak Zydzi Bedzinscy Miasto Budowali… [How Bedzin Jews Built the City]," in Aktualnosci Bedzinskie IV 2000.
  
  
• Lewin, Isaac, "Ha-Rav R' Menachem Mendel Ha-Cohen Levin - Bedzin," in Eleh Ezkerah [For These I Will Remember]. New York: Research Institute of Religious Jewry, Vol. 4, 1961, pp. 270-274.
  
  
• Lewin, Issac, "Ha-Rav R' Yeshaya Englard - Sosnovitz," in Eleh Ezkerah [For These I Will Remember]. New York: Research Institute of Religious Jewry, Vol. 6, 1963, pp. 290-296.
  
  
• Pajak, Irena, Mieszkancy Slaska, Podbeskidzia Zaglebia Dabrowskiego w KL Auschwitz. Katowice: Towarzystwo Opieki Nad Oswiecimiem Oddzial Wojewodzki w Katowicach (1998).
  
  
• Przemsza-Zielinski, Jan, Sosnowiec-gawedy o rodzinnym miescie. Sosnowiec: Sowa-Press, 1997.
  
  
• Przemsza-Zielinski, Jan, Sosnowiec Znany i Nieznany – Leksykon Nawzw Miejscowych [Sosnowiec Known and Unknown – Dictionary of Place Names]. Sosnowiec: Sowa Press, 1997.
  
  
• Przemsza-Zielinski, Jan, Zaglebie Dabrowskie w II Wojnie Swiatowej [Zaglembia During World War II]. Sosnowiec: Sowa-Press, 1995.
  
  
• Rapaport, J., Pinkas Zaglebie; Memorial Book. Tel Aviv: Hamenorah, 1972 (partially translated into English at "Memorial book of Zaglembie").
  
  
• Sefer Ha-Shomer Ha-Tzair Vol. 1, pp. 689-714.
  
  
• Stein, A. Sh., Pinkes Bendin [Pinkes Bendin: A Memorial to the Jewish Community of Bendin]. Tel Aviv: Association of Former Residents of Bedzin in Israel, 1959, (partially translated into English at  "A Memorial to the Jewish Community of Bedzin").
  
  
• Urbanski, Krzysztof, Powstanie Rozwoj i Zaglada Gminy Zydowskiej w Modrzejowie [The Origin, Growth and Holocaust of the Jewish Community in Modzrejow]. Kielce: Agencia JP, 1998.
  
  
• Urzad Miejski w Bedzinie, Bedzin dawniej i dzis. [Bedzin Past and Present]. Bedzin: Urzad Miejski w Bedzinie, 1997.
  
  
• Wein, Abraham, Pinkas Ha-Kehillot [Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities – Poland]. Vol 7. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1999. (Bedzin, pp. 101-115; Czeladz, pp. 419-420; Dabrowa Gornicza, pp. 131-135; Niemce, pp. 319-320; Niwka, p. 319; Slawkow, pp. 356-358; Sosnowiec, pp. 327-338; Strzemieszyce Wileki, pp. 347-348; Zabkowice 198-199; Zagorze, pp. 189-190; Zawiercie, pp. 192-196.
  
  
• Wilczek, Stanislaw, Ziemia Bedzinska [Earth of Bedzin]. Bedzin: Komitetu Organizacyjnego Dni Zaglembia Dabrowskiego, 1972.
  
  
• Yediot Bendin [Bendin News]. Tel Aviv: Organization of Former Residents of Bedzin in Israel, 1964.
  
  
• Zydzi w Zaglebiu [The Jews of Zaglembia]. Sosnowiec: Sowa Press, 1993.

• Pinkas Kehilat Bedzin (Bedzin Synagogue Record Book) 1770-1912 (Source: Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People HMB/119)
  
  
• Ksiega landwojtwoska m. Bedzina 1572-1645 [Polish State Archives -Katowice 773/I # 4 (microfilm # 70604)].

• Akavia, Miriam, Ha-derech ha-aheret [The Other Way: The Story of a Group (Nasza Grupa)]. Tel Aviv: Yedioth Ahronoth Books, 1992.
  
  
• The Battle and the Destruction of the Jewish Bedzin" (Polish), in Nasze Slowo no. 7 (Apr. 19, 1947).
  
  
• Bergman-Niska, Sara, "Ba-Derech Chatachtim Me-Geto Sosnovitz La-Aretz [In the Road of Horrors from the Sosnowiec Ghetto to Israel]," in Masuah – A Yearbook on the Holocaust and Heroism No. 9. Tel Aviv: Masuah,
  April 1981.
  
  
• Boda-Krezal, Z. and J. Osojca, "Dokumentcy o eksterminacji Zydow Zaglebie Dabrowskiego podczas okupacji hitlerowskiej [Documents on the Extermination of the Jews of Upper Silesia During Hitler's Occupation]," in Biuletyn Zydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego w Polsce 1962 nr. 3-4 (43-44). pp. 113-116.
  
  
• Brandes, Aaron, Keitz ha-yehudim be-ma'arav Polin [The End of the Jews in Western Poland]. Tel Aviv: Sifriat Poalim Workers' Book-Guild (Hashomer Hatzair), 1945.
  
  
• Brandes, Aharon and Chaim Reshef, Zvi Brandes: Me-roshei ha-machteret ha-halutzit be-Zaglembia [Zvi Brandes:
  A Leader of the Zaglebian Halutz Underground]. Tel Aviv: Moreshet, 1978.
  
  
• Brandt, Kersten, Loewy, Hanno and Oleksy, Krystyna, Before They Perished… Photographs Found in Auschwitz.
  2 vols. Oswiecim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2001.
  
  
• Brownlow, Donald Grey and John Eleuthere du Pont, Hell Was My Home: The True Story of Arnold Shay Survivor of the Holocaust. West Hanover, MA: The Christopher Publishing House, 1983.
  
  
• Cetynski, K. Bet-ha-bubot K. Tsetnik [Doll House]. (Tel Aviv, Devir, 1953).
  
  
• Cetynski, K. Kar'u lo Pipl [They Called Him Piepel]. (Tel Aviv: Hotsa'at Am ha-sefer, 1961).
  
  
• Cetynski, K., Salamandrah K. Tsetnik 135633. (Tel Aviv: Devir, 1946).
  
  
• Cybulski, B., "Zydzi Polscy w Prowincji Gornoslaskiej w Okresie II Wojny Swiatowej [Polish Jews in the Province of Upper Silesia During World War II]," in Slaskie Kwartalnik Historczyny. "Sobotka" 1989 z.1. pp. 137-149.
  
  
• Donat, Gitel, My Bones Don't Rest in Auschwitz: A Lonely Battle to Survive German Tyranny. Montreal: Kaplan, 1999.
  
  
• Dror, Tamar, A Green Parrot: The Unearthed Memories of a Jewish Child Living Under Nazi Occupation. Kitia Altman: Woollahra, Australia, 1999.
  
  
• Fishel, David, Kealeh Nidaf: Korot Hayim Mi-Sosnovits, Tel Aviv: Y. Golan, 1993.
  
  
• Fastag, Miriam, Dr. Josef Mengele's 301st : A Memoir of Darkness, Faith and Survival. (Brooklyn, NY, 2000).
  
  
• Feldman, Abner, "In the Ghetto and in the Extermination Camp," in YIVO Bleter Vol. XXX No. 2 (Winter 1947), pp. 223-248.
  
  
• Friedman, Philip, "The Messianic Complex of a Nazi Collaborator in a Ghetto: Moses Merin of Sosnowiec," in Roads to Extinction: Essays on the Holocaust . New York and Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1980.
  
  
• Friedman, Philip, "Two 'Saviors' Who Failed - Moses Merin of Sosnowiec and Jacob Gens of Vilna," in Commentary (1958). pp. 479-491.
  
  
• Gastfriend, Edward, My Father's Testament . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000.
  
  
• Gelbart, N., Sefer kehilat yehudei Dabrowa Gornicza ve-hurbana [Memorial Book of Dabrowa Gornicza]. Tel Aviv: Former Residents of Dabrowa Gornicza, 1971. (partially translated into English at "Book of the Jewish Community of Dabrowa Gornicza and its Destruction").
  
  
• Geshuri, Meir Shimon, Sefer Sosnowiec ve-ha-seviva be-Zaglebie [Book of Sosnowiec and the Surrounding Region in Zaglebie]. Tel Aviv: Sosnowiec Societies in Israel and the United States, France and other countries, 1973-74
  (2 vols.).
  
  
• "Ha-Meatim [The Few]" in Sefer Ha-Partizanim Ha-Yehudim [The Book of Jewish Partisans]. Merhavia: Sifriat Poalim, 1958. pp. 111-133.
  
  
• Hava, L., "Bendzin: Last Days in the Life of the Ghetto," in Jewish Frontier, vol. 11 no. 11 (Nov. 1944). pp 22-26.
  
  
• Herzberg, Tusia, Ha-Chol Ha-Tzochek - The Laughing Sand. Tel Aviv, 1986.
  
  
• Jaros, J., "Grabiez Mienia Zydow Przez Wladze Hitlerowskie w Swietle Akt Urzedu Powierniczego w Katowicach [Plunder of Jewish Property by German Authorities as Shown by the Records of the Trust Office in Katowice]," in Biuletyn Zydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego w Polsce 1961, nr. 38. pp.105-117.
  
  
• Kac, Fela, "In Upper Silesia" (Polish) in Mosty, no. 4 (1947).
  
  
• Kantyka, Jan, Slawkow w latach okupacji hitlerlowskiej 1939-45 [Slawkow During the Time of Hitler's Occupation]. Katowice: Slaski Instytut Naukowy, 1984.
  
  
• Klajner, A., "Di Kleyn-Industrye in Sosnovtse [Small Industry in Sosnowiec]," in Di Jidishe Ekonomik 2/5-6 (1938). p. 266.
  
  
• Klinger, Haika, Mi-yoman ba-geto [From a Diary in the Ghetto]. Merhavia: Hashomer Hatzair, 1959.
  
  
• Kohen, Yohanan, Shalosh Shurot Ba-Historyah: Tenu'ot "Ha-No'ar Ha-Tsioyoni," "Akiva' ve-'He-Haluts Ha-Kelal-Tsiyoni" Bi-Yeme Ha-Sho'ah be-Polin [The Lines in History: 'Hanoar Hazioni', 'Akiva' and 'Hehalutz Haklal-Zione' in the Years of Holocaust in Poland . ([Jerusalem]: Hotsa'at Masu'ah, 1999), pp. 593-702.
  
  
• Krakowski, Avraham, Counterfeit Lives. New York: C.I.S. Publishers, 1995.
  
  
• Laitner, Shmuel, Bendin 1938 -1941. [Israel]: Irgun Yots'e Zaglembiyah Ule-Kibuts Gazit, 1985.
  
  
• Liwer, David, Ir ha-metim [City of the Dead]. Tel Aviv: N. Twersky, 1946.
  
  
• Pajak, Irena, Mieszkancy Slaska, Podbeskidzia Zaglebia Dabrowskiego w KL Auschwitz. Katowice: Towarzystwo Opieki Nad Oswiecimiem Oddzial Wojewodzki w Katowicach (1998).
  
  
• Paldiel, Mordecai, "Alfred Rossner: The German Hemophiliac Who Died Attempting to Save Jewish Laborers," in Saving the Jews: Amazing Stories of Men and Women Who Defied the "Final Solution". (Rockville, MD: Schreiber Publishing), pp. 126-132.
  
  
• Perlis, Rivka, "Bedzin-Sosnowiec," in Tenuot ha-noar ha-halutzit be-Polin ha-kevushah [The Pioneering Zionist Youth Movements in Nazi-Occupied Poland]. Tel Aviv: Ghetto Fighters' House Ltd., 1987, pp. 254-282.
  
  
• Pollin, Teresa Amiel, "Photographs from Auschwitz," in History of Photography Vol. 23, No. 4 (Winter 1999), pp. 350-355).
  
  
• Posmantier, Harry, The Last of the Numbered Men: A Memoir of the Holocaust. New York: Vantage Press, 1984.
  
  
• Przemsza-Zielinski, Jan, Zaglebie Dabrowskie w II Wojnie Swiatowej [Zaglebie During World War II]. Sosnowiec: Sowa-Press, 1995.
  
  
• Ranz, Jochanan (John), In Nazi Claws: Bendzin 1939-1944. New York, 1956.
  
  
• Ranz, Joachanan (John), Inhumanity – Death March to Buchenwald and The Last Jews of Bendzin, New York, 2008.
  
  
• Rapoport, J., Pinkas Zaglebie; Memorial Book. Tel Aviv: Hamenorah, 1972 (partially translated into English at "Memorial book of Zaglembie").
  
  
• Renya, Binedudim Uvemahteret [Wanderings and Underground]. Jerusalem: Hakibutz Hameuchad Ain-Harod, 1945.
  
  
• Robinson, Bernard, Some Consequences of 'Organization Schmelt': As Experienced by Affected Individuals. (1998).
  
  
• Ronan, Avihu, "Mordecai Anielewicz Be-Zaglembie [Mordecai Anielewicz in Zaglembia]," in Yalkut Moreshet Vol. 47 (Nov. 1989). pp. 105-185.
  
  
• Ronan, Avihu, "Shlichuta Shel Halinka [Halinka's Mission]," in Yalkut Moreshet Vol. 42 (Dec. 1986), pp. 55-80.
  
  
• Ronan, Avihu, "Yehudei Zaglembia Be-Tekufat Ha-Shoa [The Jews of Zaglembia in the Holocaust Period]," doctoral thesis Tel Aviv University, 1989.
  
  
• Rosenberg, Yaakov, "Peilot Machtartit Shel Kevuzat 'Ha-Noar Ha-Zioni' Me-Zaglembia (Bendin-Sonowitz) Be-Milchemet Ha-Olam Ha-Shenia; Hitnagdut Va-Hazala [Underground Activities of the Zionist Youth Movement in Zaglembia (Bedzin-Sosnowiec) in the Second World War; Opposition and Rescue]," in Massuah – A Yearbook on the Holocaust and Heroism No. 17. Tel Aviv: Massuah, April 1989.
  
  
• Rozkowicz, Mieczyslaw, "Wiadomosci o Przesladowaniu Zydow na Slasku w Latach 1940-1943 w Aktach Katowickiego Sondergerichtu [Information on the Persecution of Jews in Silesia in the Years 1940-1943 in the Records of the Katowice Sondergericht]" in Biuletyn Zydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego w Polsce, 1964 nr. 49, pp. 91 - 99.
  
  
• Sack, John, An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1993.
  
  
• Shapell, Nathan, Witness to the Truth. New York: David McKay Co., 1974.
  
  
• Shay, Arnold L., "Bendzin; Fifty Years Ago," in Holocaust Survivors of South Florida, Inc., Vol. 13 No. 19 (1994), pp. 15-16.
  
  
• Shay, Arnold L., From Bendzin to Auschwitz. Hanover, MA: The Christopher Publishing House, 1996.
  
  
• Spiczman, L., "Yidn in Zaglebia be-eit der itziker milchuma [Jews in Zaglebia During the Present War]," in Yivo Bleter No. 2, Mar.-Apr. 1942, pp. 221 - 231.
  
  
• State of Israel Ministry of Justice, The Trial of Adolf Eichmann: Record of Proceedings in the District Court of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, 1992, pp. 419; 436 - 437; 441 - 447; 1300 - 1301.
  
  
• Stein, A. Sh., Pinkes Bendin [ Pinkes Bendin: A Memorial to the Jewish Community of Bendin ]. Tel Aviv: Association of Former Residents of Bedzin in Israel, 1959, (partially translated into English at  "A Memorial to the Jewish Community of Bedzin").
  
  
• Szaniawski, Maciej, "Likwidacja Ludnosci Zydowskiej w Zaglebiu Dabrowskim w Swietle Dokumentow Archiwum Akt Nowych w Warszawie [The Liquidation of the Jews in Zaglembia in Light of Documents in the New Archives in Warsaw]," in Zeszyty Zaglebiowskie^[5] (2000), pp. 101 - 110.
  
  
• Szternfinkiel, Natan Eliasz, Zaglada Zydow Sosnowca [The Extermination of the Jews of Sosnowiec]. Katowice: Wydaw. Centralnej Zydowskiej Komisii Historycznej w Polsce, 1946 (English translation by Amalie Mary Reichmann-Robinson).
  
  
• Testyler, Jo, Les enfants de Slawkow [The Children of Slawkow]. Paris: Albin Michel, 1992.
  
  
• Testyler, Jo, Yaldei Slawkow [The Children of Slawkow]. [Israel] Yaron Golan, 1994.
  
  
• Wajnblum, Emanuel, My Destiny. Bentleigh East, Australia, 1998.
  
  
• Wein, Abraham, Pinkas Ha-Kehillot [Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities – Poland]. Vol 7. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1999. (Bedzin, pp. 101-115; Czeladz, pp. 419-420; Dabrowa Gornicza, pp. 131-135; Niemce, pp. 319–320; Niwka, p. 319; Slawkow, pp. 356-358; Sosnowiec, pp. 327-338; Strzemieszyce Wileki, pp. 347-348; Zabkowice 198-199; Zagorze, pp. 189-190. (partially translated into English at "Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities – Poland")
  
  
• Weiss, Ann, The Last Album – Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2001.
  
  
• Wiederman, Pawel, Plowa Bestia [The Blond Beast]. Munich, 1948 (English translation by Amalie Mary Reichmann-Robinson).
  
  
• Yasul, Chana, "Tenuot-Noar Yehudit Ba-Eizor Zaglembia Be-Tkufat Ha-Shoah [Jewish Youth Movements in the Area of Zaglembia During the Holocaust Period," in Yad Vashem Studies Vol XX. Jerusalem, 1990.
  
  
• Zariz, Ruth, "Attempts at Rescue and Revolt – Attitudes of Members of the Dror Youth Movement in Bedzin to Foreign Passports as Means of Rescue" in Yad Vashem Studies. Vol. XX pp. 211-236.
  
  
• Zuckerman, Yitzhak, "Bedzin," in Sefer milchamot ha-getaot [The Book of the Ghetto Wars]. Tel Aviv: Hakibutz Hameuchad, 1956, pp. 338-363.
  
  

• Notebook of Dr. A. Silberschein (containing information on 1,522 Jews most from Zaglebie who applied to receive Latin American passports in 1943) (Source: Yad Vashem Archives of Dr. A. Silberschein RG- M-20 # 179)
  
  
• Records of the Staatliche Polizei Verwaltung Sosnowitz O/S, 4 Revier Czeladz, 1939-1945 (includes lists of Jewish residents 1940-43 with birthdates, birthplaces and addresses) (Source: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives RG-15.033M, RG-15.025M and Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw)
  
  
• Board of Jewish Population Delegation (Judenrat) in Bedzin Records, 1940-1943 (includes various lists containing names and addresses; some identification cards and photographs; a list of Jews deported during liquidation of the Bedzin ghetto; a list of Jewish intellectuals killed by the Nazis; a list of Jews sent to camp in Sosnowitz; medical affidavits for persons sent to the "sick room"; documents relating to the plunder and confiscation of Jewish property; work detail lists) (Source: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives RG-15.060M and Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw)
  
  
• Court Inquiries About Executions and Graves in Districts, Provinces, Camps and Ghettos (Source: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives RG-15.109M item 38)
  
  
• Auschwitz Häftlingspersonalbogen (Prisoner Registration Forms) (Source: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives RG-04.031M and Yad Vashem Archives)
  
  
• List of Bedzin and Sosnowiec Jews in Funfteichen k. Breslau Concentration Camp (Source: Diaspora Research Institute Archives in Tel Aviv)

• Bendiner Zajtung (Bedzin Newspaper) (1913) (available at Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People HM7520g).
  
  

• Das Jidisze Wochenblatt (The Jewish Weekly)

  (Mar 5, 1925 - Apr. 15, 1927; Nov. 21, 1928 - Nov. 22, 1930; May 6, 1927 - Apr. 7, 1928) (available at Kiddush Hashem Archives - Bnei Brak); (1928-1932) (available at Harvard University Library Film NC 1302); (1927 no. 18-52, 1928 no. 1-50, 1929 no. 1-54, 1939 no. 1-48, 1931 no. 1-49, 1932 no. 1-22) (available at Jagiollonia University 1304Czasop.V); (1925 nr. 8-9, 1926 nr. 1-5, 9, 1926/27 nr. 2, 21, 23-38, 40-48, 50-52, 1928/29 nr. 33-54, 1929/30 nr, 1, 3-6,17, 1931 nr. 45) (available at Jewish Historical Institute - Warsaw D. 288J)
  
  
• Ilon Zaglembia – Zaglembier Tzeitung (Zaglembiar Newspaper) (Dec. 1997 - ) (published by Zaglembie World Organization).
  
  
• Unser Wort (Our Word) (1913 -1914) (available at Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People HM752of).
  
  

• Unzer Telefon (Our Telephone) (1913-1915)

  
  
  (available at Harvard University Library Films NC 1226(2) and NC 1717 (03)).
  
  
  
  
• Zaglembier Cajtung (Zaglembier Newspaper) (July 18, 1919; Jan. 23, 1920; Mar. 4, 1920; Apr. 1, 1922; Sept. 8, 1922; Aug. 3, 1923; Dec. 19, 1924; Jan. 1- Dec. 31, 1937) (available at YIVO); (1919 - 1924; 1929 - 1930; 1931 - 1936) (available at Harvard University Library NC 963 and NC 1222[1]) (1926 - 1933, 1936 (Nr. 12-13, 22), 1938, 1939 [Nr. 1-34]) (available at Jewish Historical Institute - Warsaw D.22y).
  
  
• Zaglembier Szlezisz Folksblatt (1935 nr. 2-43, 1936 nr. 1-50) (available at Jewish Historical Institute – Warsaw D.48J).
  
  
• Zaglembier Szlezisz Lebn (Zaglembier Silesian Life) (1936 Nr. 10, 12-13) ( available at Jewish Historical Institute - Warsaw D.192J)
  
  
• Zaglembier Szlezysz Welt (Zaglembier Silesian World) (Aug. 27, 1937 - Aug. 25, 1939) (available at YIVO).
  
  
• Dos Zaglembier Szlezisz Wort (The Zaglembiar Silesian Word) (1936 Nr. 6-7, 9-10,13) (available at Jewish Historical Institute - Warsaw D.194J).

• Civil Birth, Marriage and Death Records of the Jewish Community of Bedzin
  

  1808-1825	LDS Family History Library film nos. 757,301 - 07
  1826-1859	LDS Family History Library film nos. 766,055 - 58 (Available at Douglas Goldman Institute of Genealogy at Beit Hatefusoth. Extracts of records also available at ).
  1860-1883	Polish State Archives - Katowice 788/1-35
  1884-1943	Urzad Stanu Cywilnego (town hall) – Bedzin

  
  
  
• Synagogue Birth, Marriage and Death Registers of the Jewish Community of Bedzin
  

  1851-1865

  Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (HM/3540a)

  
  
  
• Civil Birth, Marriage and Death Records of the Jewish Community of Czeladz ^[1]
  

  1929 -1942

  Urzad Stanu Cywilnego (town hall)- Czeladz

  
  
  
• Civil Birth, Marriage and Death Records of the Jewish Community of Dabrowa Gornicza^[2]
  

  1911-1941

  Urzad Stanu Cywilnego (town hall)- Dabrowa Gornicza

  
  
  
• Civil Birth, Marriage and Death Records of the Jewish Community of Sosnowiec ^[3]
  

  1901-1943;1945

  Urzad Stanu Cywilnego (town hall)- Sosnowiec

  
  
  
• Civil Birth, Marriage and Death Records of the Jewish Community of Strzemieszyce Wielkie
  

  1931-1942

  Urzad Stanu Cywilnego (town hall)

  
  
  
  
• Civil Birth, Marriage and Death Records of the Jewish Community of Slawkow
  

  1904-1940

  Urzad Stanu Cywilnego (town hall)[4]

  
  
  
  
• Census of Jews in Bedzin, Modzejów, Slawkow, Niwka and Zagorze 1791(Spis ludnosci zydowskiej wojew. Krakowskiego 1790-1792) (Polish State Archives, Krakow, IT191a)
  

• Census of Jews in Bedzin (circa November 1939) (22,174 names with birthdates, addresses and occupations) (Source: Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives RG-15.060M)
  
  
• Bedzin Synagogue Register of Contributors, 1859, 1865 (Source: Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People HM/3541)
  
  
• Bedzin Synagogue Records 1855 - 1866, 1899 - 1911 (Source: Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People HM/354oab; HM3541; HM2925; HM2923; HM3393; HM3399; HM5568; HM5599; HM5633; HM5635; HM5680; HM5695; HM6839; HM6308; HM6382; HM7579; HM2954)
  
  
• Bedzin Synagogue Records 1844 - 1866 (Akta t.s. dozoru boznicznego parafii Bedzin) (Polish State Archives -Katowice 773/I # 33 and 34).
  
  
• Sosnowiec Synagogue Records 1904 - 1910 (Source: Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People HM5683; HM5748; HM5736; HM6329; HM6389; HM7575).
  
  
• Bedzin Jewish School Records 1871-1881, 1889 - 1895 (Source: Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People HM7079; HM7023a-b; HM7023a; HM7023b)
  
  
• Sosnowiec Jewish School Records 1890 - 1899, 1913 (Source: Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People HM7021a-d; HM7152b).
  
  
• Modzejow Synagogue Records 1842 - 1858 (Source: Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People HM3434).
  
  
• Business and Telephone Directories for Poland, 1913, 1922, 1926/27, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936 - 1939 (Source: New York Public Library, Stanford University and Jagiellonian University)
  
  
• Records of the Synagogue in Bedzin 1844-1866 (Source: Polish State Archives Katowice 773/I # 33 and 34)

• Bedzin Ghetto Headshot Identity Photographs (4,714 photographs including birth dates, addresses and occupations) (Source: Yad Vashem Photo Archives) (photocopies available at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Library and Toronto Holocaust Center)
  
  
• Latin American Passports Issued to Jews in Bedzin (143 with photos, birth dates and occupations) (Source: Yad Vashem Archives of Dr. A. Silberschein RG- M-20 # 165)
  
  
• Personal Photographs of Bedzin Jews Found in Auschwitz (Approximately 2,400 photographs - copies located at US Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives Dept. and Fritz Bauer Institute)
  
  
• Photographs of Jews in Zaglembia 1939- 1944 (Several hundred photos taken by Germans of Jews during the war) (Polish State Archives, Katowice, zespol 773).
  
  
• Brandt, Kersten, Hanno Loewy and Krystyna Oleksy, Before They Perished . . .Photographs Found in Auschwitz. 2 vols. Oswiecim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2001.
  
  
• Pollin, Teresa Amiel, "Photographs from Auschwitz," in History of Photography Vol. 23, No. 4 (Winter 1999), pp. 350-355).
  
  
• Sosnowiec na stary fotografii [Sosnowiec in old photographs]. Sosnowiec: Sosnowiecka Korporacja Wydawnicza, 1997.
  
  
• Weiss, Ann, The Last Album – Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau . New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2001.

• Diamonds in the Snow, directed by Mira Reym Binford, Cinema Guild, 1994 (distributed by National Center for Jewish Film, Brandeis University).
  
  
• Eyes From the Ashes, by Ann Weiss, 1991.
  
  
• Jews in Dombrova (German propaganda film of Jews in Dabrowa Gornicza and Bedzin streets and in Rosner's factory), 194? (Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch of U.S. National Archives and Records Administration - RG242 MID 6198u).
  
  
• Lo Uchal Lachlom Od, by Aryeh Ben-Tov, Yad Vashem, 1991.
  
  
• Simply Lustiger, by Malte Rauch
  
  
• To the Smouldering Cities, Beth Hatefusoth – The Museum of the Diaspora, 1988.
  
  
• …Verzeihung, Ich Lebe […Sorry, I'm Alive]," by Andrzej Klamt.
  
  
• Zaglembie Jewry World Gathering, Zaglembie World Organization, 1988.

• JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy



• Simon Wiesenthal Center (Library Catalog Search)



• http://muzeum.bedzin.pl/muzeum-zamkowe/muzeum-historia (Polish)
  
  
• The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies



• The Polish Jews home page

• Records of the Fraternal Order of Bendin Sosnowiczer (Source: YIVO RG 1198)
  
  
• Records of the Association of Zaglembie Jews of Montreal (Source: Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives)
  
  
• Zaglembie World Organization; 23 Frishman Street; Tel Aviv 63561; Israel
  
  
• Fraternal Order of Bendin-Sosnowicer Sick & Benevolent Society; c/o Lillian Weisburg; 7 Carolline Ave., Elmont, NY 11003
  
  
• Zaglembie-Wolbromer Farband; c/o P. Reisman 1160 Cromwell Avenue Apt. 2D; Bronx, New York 10452-8707
  
  
• Zaglembie Society of Melbourne; c/o David Apelbaum; 7 Oultan; North Caulfield 3161; Victoria, Australia
  
  
• Amicale de Bendzin et Zaglembie; 92, Avenue Foch; 94340 Joinville-Le-Pont; France
  
  
• Zaglembie Society of Toronto, c/o Simon Slivka, 10 Tangreen Court #2303; Toronto, Canada M2M 4B9

• Daab, Aleksandra, Macewy Bedzinskie [Bedzin Jewish Tombstones]. Katowice: Urzad Miejski w Bedzinie, 1993.
  
  
• Derus, Malgorzata and Dariusz Walerjnski, "Cmentarze zydowskie w wojewodztwie katowickim [Jewish Cemeteries in the Province of Katowice]," in Cmentarze zydowskie. Wroclaw: Towarzystwo Przyjaciol Polonistyki Wroclawskiej, 1995. pp. 155-165.
  
  
• Walerjanski, Dariusz, "Cmentarze Zydowskie w Wojewodztwie Katowickim - Historia, Stan Zachowania, Problemy Ochrony [Jewish Cemeteries in the Katowice Voivodship – History, State of Preservation, Protection Problems]," in Ochrona Zabytkow 1998, no. 3, pp. 246-257.
  
  
• ul. Podzamcze, Bedzin
  
  
• ul Zawale, Bedzin (now a park)
  
  
• ul. Sielecka, Bedzin (now a bus terminal)
  
  
• ul. Czeladzka 64, Czeladz
  
  
• ul. Gospodarcza 1, Sosnowiec
  
  
• ul. Niwka Pastewna, Sosnowiec (Modzejow)
  
  
• ul. Stalowa, Sosnowiec (Milowice)
  
  
• ul. Wolka 5, Dabrowa Gornicza
  
  
• ul. Mydlice, Dabrowa Gornicza
  
  
• Krzykawka 139 (Boleslaw), near Slawkow

• ul. Kiliaskiego 10, Slawkow

• Archiwum Panstwowe w Katowicach; ul. Jozefowska 140; 40-145 Katowice 33; Poland
  
  
• Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oswiecimiu; ul. Wiezniow Oswiecimia 20; 32-603 Oswiecim 5; Poland
  
  
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives; 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW; Washington, D.C. 20024
  
  
• Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People; Hebrew University; Givat Ram Campus; Jerusalem 91010 Israel
  
  
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; 15 West 16th Street; New York, NY 10011-6301
  
  
• Yad Vashem; P.O. Box 3477; 91034 Jerusalem; Israel
  
  
• Fritz Bauer Institute; Grüneburgplatz 1; D-60323 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  phone: 49-69-79832240; fax: 59-69-79832241; e-mail
  
  
• Muzeum Zaglebia w Bedzinie; 42-500 Bedzin; Swierczewskiego 15
  

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