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  1. Yaakov F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yaakov F., who was born in Suwałki, Poland in 1924, the sixth of eight children. He recounts his family's affluence; attending Jewish school; antisemitic harassment and violence; one brother enlisting in the Polish military; brief Soviet invasion, then German invasion in 1939; a local German warning his father of imminent deportations; his parents arranging for him to hide with a non-Jewish family; attending church and wearing a cross; moving to the barn when the family feared discovery; escaping to the forest when the Pole hiding him tried to kill him; assistance fro...

  2. Grete M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Grete M., who was born in Aurich, Germany in 1922. She recalls her orthodox, close-knit family; cordial relations with non-Jews; changes in 1938; attending nursing school at the Jewish hospital in Berlin; two siblings emigrating to England; her parents' deportation (they perished); hiding with a German family in 1942, then with their relatives in Upper Silesia; fearing exposure, returning to Berlin via Gross Strehlitz (Strzelec) to Beuthen (Bytom); arrest; transfer to Auschwitz; useless forced labor; assistance from a guard because she spoke German; seeing a cousin (s...

  3. Jolan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jolan K., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1921. She recalls Hungarian occupation; her father's and three brothers' conscription into a forced labor battalion; traveling from Solotvyno to Munka?cs (Mukacheve) to arrange her father's release; traveling to Kos?ice and Uz?h?horod to arrange one brother's release; learning her other two brothers had been killed; ghettoization; help from the town's mayor obtaining food for the ghetto; deportation with her parents and two brothers to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her family (she never saw her mother again); transfer t...

  4. Jacques F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques F., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1925. He recalls attending Jewish school; living with his grandmother when his mother emigrated to Paris; promising his grandmother that he would remain observant; joining his mother in 1934; inadvertently breaking his promise to his grandmother; attending a Jesuit school; German invasion; being influenced to go to London by Gaullist radio in 1941; difficulty crossing the Allier River into unoccupied France; detainment as a refugee; joining a Resistance group in Montluc?on; expulsion from vocational school in Thiers due to...

  5. Sara G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara G., who was born in 1929 in Biała Podlaska, Poland, one of four children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending public school; her sister's marriage and move to Vilnius; antisemitic harassment; brief Soviet occupation; one brother fleeing east; German occupation; ghettoization; clandestinely trading merchandise from the family store; her father's deportation (she never saw him again); hiding during a three-day round-up, in which her grandfather was shot; transfer to the Międzyrzecz ghetto; staying with an aunt who already lived there; her mother's death...

  6. Josef R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef R. who was born in Skarz?ysko-Kamienna, Poland in 1928. He recalls expulsion from public school in 1939; ghettoization; his older sister arranging for the family, including his six-year-old sister, to go to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna labor camp when the ghetto was liquidated; sorting prisoner's clothing; the killing of a co-worker which affected him deeply; hiding the younger sister during inspections; finding a diamond which his father traded for food; transfer to Cze?stochowa, then, with his father, to Buchenwald in late 1944 (he later learned his mother and sisters ...

  7. Helen C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen C., who was born in Lypcha, Ukraine (then the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) in approximately 1917, one of five siblings. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; working on their farm; becoming a seamstress; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; moving to Budapest in 1942; working as a housekeeper; incarceration in a brick factory; deportation to Ravensbru?ck; slave labor; being subjected to painful medical experiments; sharing food with a fellow prisoner; transfer to Rechlin after one year; praying to herself; escaping from a death march; liberation ...

  8. International Tracing Service- Child search Branch: Papers re Lebensborn children etc

    This microfilm collection of documentation apparently emanating from the offices of the International Tracing Service deals in large part with children adopted by the Lebensborn programme.

  9. Wilfrid Israel Papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of Wilfrid Israel's papers consists of copies of original essays, memoranda, private papers etc covering such subjects as the Weimar Republic, the rise of national Socialism, German Communist and Socialist parties and trade unions, the Jewish refugee problem. Also a fairly comprehensive collection of the 'Political Group Papers' (1941-1943) from the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Committee on Reconstruction. The papers in this collection relate to his activities a...

  10. Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief: Archives

    This collection is held at the Wiener Library on microfilm.

  11. Peter Johnson: Personal papers

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection of Peter Johnson's personal papers documents his life up until the immediate post-war period. It includes school reports, family correspondence, documents re naturalisation, papers relating to his service in military intelligence, and papers relating to the former Jewish population in Hildesheim, where he was stationed at the end of the war. Also deposited by Peter Johnson, the bulk of which collection relates to the activities of the refugee social club 'Hyphen', of which he was one of the foun...

  12. Evelyn Kaye: Family documents

    The papers in this collection document the lives of an Austrian Jewish family- Walter and Hansi Finkler and their daughter, Evelyn- who managed to escape the Nazis and come to England in 1939. They provide an insight into the experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution in the UK.

  13. Eleanor Hess: family papers

    This collection of papers documents the life of a German Jewish refugee to Great Britain, Eleanor Hess, and, in part, the lives of family members. The papers include emigration and citizenship papers of her grandfather Emil, c1870s; certificates and First World War army records of Julius, her father; and correspondence from Eleanor and her brother, Herbert, in Brazil, to their mother, c1950s. In addition there is an unpublished memoir of Eleanor, which describes the life of a Jewish girl in Nazi Germany and the experience of emigration to a foreign land.

  14. Hannele Kuhn: family papers

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection of family papers consists primarily of letters from the Jewish parents, Franz and Hertha Kuhn, in Berlin, to their daughter, Hannele or Hannah, who had managed to find refuge in Great Britain, having come out on one of the Kindertransporte in 1939. The letters give a very moving account of the trials and tribulations of a very close-knit, loving family split asunder by the Nazis and ultimately condemned to death. The correspondence includes Red Cross telegrams between Hannele and her parents and...

  15. Kurt Paucker: Memorial Service

    This collection contains transcripts of speeches held at the memorial service for Kurt Paucker on 26 April 1980.Papers including speeches by Arnold Paucker; Werner Henle, Ph.D mentor at the University of Pennsylvania, colleague and friend; and Jan Vilcek and Clifton A Ogburn, colleagues and friends. The speech by his brother tells the story of their bourgeois upbringing in the Weimarer Republic in Berlin before their education was interrupted in Nazi Germany and the family was torn apart by the Jewish persecutions

  16. Johannes Kohl: Personal papers

    This collection contains the papers of Johannes Kohl, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who emigrated to the UK via Holland in 1939.Personal papers including his membership card of the Austrian Centre in London; an information guide for Jewish refugees in England and press cutting from the Kleine Volkszeitung (5 May 1938) regarding the execution of a Jewish criminal in Paris.

  17. Joseph and Mary Rath: personal papers

    Personal papers including family correspondence and official documents collated in preparation for emigration such as work references, birth and school certificates, Josef Rath's medical certificate and confirmation of adoption, Mary Futterweit's Heimatschein and passport and a Kitchener Camp transit pass.It also includes papers and publications relating to Josef Rath's military service such as Pioneer Corps training notes British Army release book and certificate, bank notes ('Quittungen') issued at Theresienstadt concentration camp photographs (see photo archive).In addition there are pos...

  18. Bergmann family: Internment letters

    This collection contains letters sent by Jewish refugee Dr Walter Manfred ('Fred') Bergmann, a medical surgeon, to his wife Ruth Bergmann, first from an internment camp in Huyton, Liverpool and then, after transfer of the camp, from Douglas on the Isle of Man (1687/1-41). (See also transcripts and translations of letters 1687/14-41 (1687/2).) There is only one letter written by Ruth Bergmann to her husband. She and her children found refuge in a hostel in Cheshire with the help of the Quakers. The letters document the family's efforts to obtain Fred's release and his life at the internment ...

  19. Henri and Grete Falkenstein

    This collection contains the personal papers of Henri and Grete Falkenstein, a German Jewish couple who emigrated together with their children to the UK in 1937.Personal papers including correspondence and documents for emigration such as tax clearance certificate ('Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung'), Abmeldeschein, contract for the sale of Grete Falkenstein's inherited property, notice of departure, application for a naturalisation certificate; as well as correspondence and papers relating to the restitution claims by the Falkenstein and Sonneborn families.Also included are a copy of 'Bundes...

  20. Schlesinger-Bischeim collection

    The collections consists of two family history books, one by Simon Bischheim and one written for Bernard and Winifred Schlesinger, as well as a set of photographs, most of which seem to depict members of the Bischheim family.