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  1. Sketchbook created by young Jewish girl in Nazi-Occupied France

    1. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

  2. Sketchbook created by young Jewish girl in Nazi-Occupied France

    1. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

  3. Sketchbook created by young Jewish girl in Nazi-Occupied France

    1. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

  4. Sketchbook created by young Jewish girl in Nazi-Occupied France

    1. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

  5. Sketchbook created by young Jewish girl in Nazi-Occupied France

    1. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

  6. Sketchbook created by young Jewish girl in Nazi-Occupied France

    1. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

  7. Sketchbook created by young Jewish girl in Nazi-Occupied France

    1. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

  8. Andre? E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre? E., who was born in Parczew, Poland in 1935. He recalls observance of the sabbath and Jewish holidays; his extended family; German invasion; hiding with his parents and younger sister; non-Jewish families refusing to hide them; disappearance of his mother and sister (he never saw them again); he and his father joining a partisan group in the forest; living in bunkers; stealing food from local peasants; a Soviet soldier who protected him; actions against Germans including blowing up railroads; leaving the forest during a major German offensive; attacks by Polish...

  9. Eva L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva L., who was born in approximately 1913. She recounts living in Berlin; her father's death in World War I; training as an analytic chemist; not finding employment in her field due to antisemitism; her sister's emigration to Palestine; the impact of the Nuremberg laws; her mother's visit to her sister in 1936; marriage in March 1938; her husband's emigration to Shanghai; visiting her sister briefly in Haifa; emigrating to Shanghai via Marseille (her mother remained in Germany); her husband's economic success; her daughter's birth in 1939; Japanese occupation in 1941...

  10. Emma S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emma S., a singer who was born in Russia, emigrated to the United States in infancy, and at the time of her interviews lived in both Israel and the United States. She tells of her musical education and training and the beginning of her career. She details her motivation for joining a cultural delegation sponsored by the World Jewish Congress which toured displaced persons camps in Europe in 1946. She recalls the devastation she encountered upon arrival; the vitality of the survivors in the more than fifty camps where she sang, including Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Landsbe...

  11. Abraham Getman photographs

    A collection of 83 photographs relating to the experiences of Abraham (Avram) Getman and his family during the period immediately following the Holocaust. The collection includes images of refugee camps in St. Marein and Admont in Austria and images of the donor's emigration from Austria to Israel in 1948.

  12. Mayer Mermelstein memoir

    The Mayer Mermelstein memoir includes a personal narrative of the Jewish transit camps in Bari, Italy titled "Jewish refugees in the UNRRA camps in Italy," and four copies of photographs depicting life in a transit camp in Bari, Italy. The Mayer Mermelstein memoir contains three copies of a personal narrative titled "Jewish refugees in the UNRRA camps in Italy," and four copies of photographs depicting a transit camp in Bari, Italy. The original memoir is in hand-written Yiddish. A photocopy of the original and an English translation are also included in this collection. The narrative descr...

  15. Mann family papers

    1. Mann family collection

    Consists of original correspondence, education documents, identity documents, memoir material, photographs, and photographic negatives documenting the pre-war, wartime, and post-war lives of the family of Dr. Ignacy (Igor) and Erika Schoenbaum Mann.

  16. Leopold Levy family papers

    The Levy family papers include correspondence, immigration documentation, property lists, and photographs relating to the Levy family’s prewar life in Germany and preparation for immigration to the United States through London in 1940. Included are letters to the American Consulate in Geneva, Switzerland, correspondence and documentation relating to efforts to bring Erica Levy from Belgium to England and to obtain visas to the United States, and family correspondence describing the fate of other Levy family members unable to flee Germany.

  17. Rita Hofrichter collection

    Contains 17 black-and-white photographs from the Leipheim and Föhrenwald displaced persons camps and one displaced persons index card for Rita Gliksman (Hofrichter).

  18. Leon K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon K., who was born in a small town in Bosnia in 1907 to a family of nine children. He recalls his father's death; attending business college; a government job; marriage in Travnik on the day of the German invasion in 1941; working in Tuzla; moving to Travnik; hiding for three months to avoid deportation; reaching Italian-occupied Mostar with help from a Muslim; his wife joining him in January 1942; and fleeing to the mountains. He recounts living with partisans; moving to Kotor; transfer to Vieste, then Bari, Italy; emigration to the United States in 1943; living i...

  19. Susan S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan S., who was born in Zalishchyky, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1923, one of three children. She recounts attending public school; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; attending business school in another town; German invasion; returning home; hiding with her family during a mass killing; deportation to the Tolstoye ghetto in September 1942; forced labor in the fields; meeting her future husband, Paul S.; escaping a mass shooting with Paul S., in which her parents and nine-year-old sister were killed; hiding with Paul S., his brother, and others; Ukrainian ...

  20. Ann F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann F., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1925, one of nine children. She recalls a large, extended family; uncles emigrating to North and South America in the 1930s; antisemitic harassment; Catholic instruction in school; her mother's death; older siblings caring for her and younger ones; German invasion; burning of the synagogue and surrounding neighborhood; her father's death; ghettoization; deportation with one sister to Parschnitz; forced labor in the Hase textile factory; Czech civilians bringing them food; long roll calls in freezing weather; her younger siste...