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  1. "Tehran Children" report

    1. Holocaust era antisemitic publication collection

    Consists of a printed report, February 1943, on the condition of orphans who came from Russia and were living in a refugee camp in Tehran, Iran. Also two handwritten letters written by HeChalutz members in Aden, Yemen, in 1944 and a news report from the HeChalutz sent from Tehran to the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem in 1946.

  3. Mary Dorrit Krattner collection

    Consists of a newspaper notice of the death of Mary Dorrit Krattner and a copy of the words spoken by priest Alistair Bate at Ms. Krattner's funeral in 2006. During the service, Bate described Ms. Krattner's experiences as a child in Vienna, her departure on a Kindertransport to Edinburgh in 1939, life with the McKinley family during the war, and her post-war life in Scotland.

  4. Joseph Spitz papers

    Contains a memoir entitled "Story Written in the Exact Words of Joseph Spitz's Experiences During the Time of the Holocaust"; a photograph of Joseph Spitz taken in 1946, in the Weilheim German Displaced Persons camp; a photograph of Joseph Spitz's family dated 1930; and a photograph of Ilona Spitz, the wife of Joseph Spitz, with children Agnes Veronika and Klara Judith, who perished in Auschwitz in 1944.

  5. Jacobsberg family collection

    Contains 19 photographs, a Shanghai census certificate, a passenger list for the Lloyd Triestino, Shanghai refugee papers, a marriage certificate, a death certificate, two pieces of Deutsches Reich Reisepass, two International Certificates of Inoculation and Vaccination, and two Shanghai Resident Certificates pertaining to the experiences of the Jacobsberg family in Shanghai.

  6. Oral history interview with Morris Pelta

  7. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection Displaced persons camps near Hof, Germany

    1. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection

    Contains a testimony in letter form written by Joel Fredrick on March 23, 1981, relating to his experiences working with displaced persons at the close of World War II. Fredrick mentions working in displaced persons camps in the area of Hof, Germany, where he was involved with clandestine operations to swap Jewish displaced persons posing as German nationals between theAmerican and Russian zones.

  8. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection Saarbrücken labor camp

    1. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection

    Contains letters written by Edward C. Gustely in 1981 and 1982 concerning his liberation experiences at a labor camp near Saarbrücken, Germany, and his subsequent work as a sanitation officer with the 83rd US Infantry Division at the Bindermichl housing camp in Linz, Austria.

  9. Paul Singer identification card

    An identification card issued to Paul Singer by the Jewish Administration of Displaced Peoples' Camp after his liberation from Dachau. The card contains biographical information about Singer and indicates that he participated in a special transport to visit the zone of Poland occupied by the Russians.

  10. Julius Messer collection

    Collection of correspondence (postcards and envelopes) and birth certificate relating to Julius Messer (donor's cousin) who fled from Krakow, Poland to Shanghai, China during the Holocaust; Newspaper from Polish Jewish refugee community in Shanghai, dated December 1945. An accretion including: photographic portraits of Julius Messer and his wife Irena (nee Cynamon); photographic print of the Board of Directors retirement luncheon for Superintendance LTD, UK of which Julius Messer was Chairman of the Board; certified copies of the death certificate of Julius and Irena Messer; certificates re...

  11. Escape from Yugoslavia

    Silvio Finci describes his family's experiences in Yugoslavia, specifically, the family's running away from a small village near Sarajevo to the city of Mostar; how they survived during the Nazi occupation; their escape to Italy; and how they immigrated to Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York and rebuilt their lives in the United States after 1941.

  12. A survivor's story Simon Sterling

    The memoir describes Simon Sterling and his wife's experiences in Nazi-occupied Poland; the Brody ghetto; his separation from his wife, Sophie, and his deportation to a concentration camp; his escape; Simon and Sophie's reunion; hiding in a forest; Simon's bout with typhus; their liberation by the Soviet military; Simon's work in a brewery; their escape to the American Zone of Occupation in Germany; the displaced persons camp at Föhrenwald, Germany; and their immigration to the United States.

  13. When the living envied the dead

    Describes her childhood in Poland; her imprisonment in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland; her incarceration in Auschwitz; the fate of her family; her reunion with her sister in Poland; their escape to the American Zone of Occupation of Germany; the Feldafing displaced persons camp; and their emigration to the United States in 1950.

  14. Holocaust memories of Genya Rotenberg

    Describes Genia Rotenberg’s (b. 1930) life in Poland before and during the Nazi occupation, including life in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland; her escape through the sewers; the death of her mother; Genia's capture and internment in Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen; her liberation and experiences in a displaced persons camp for children; the help she received from Dr. Hadassah Rosensaft; her reunion with her father; and their immigration to Palestine in 1946.

  15. Oral history interview with Miriam Goron

    1. Hadassah Rosensaft oral history collection

  16. Oral history interview with Suzi Hidas

    1. Hadassah Rosensaft oral history collection