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  1. Dinner napkin stitched with Edith Hamberg's initials

    1. Edith Hamberg Tarcov collection

    A dinner napkin stitched with the initials "E.H." for Edith Hamberg (later Edith Hamberg Tarcov, 1919-1990), the donor's mother. The napkins were brought over by Edith from Hanover Germany (by way of London) to the United States in 1939.

  2. Dinner napkin stitched with Edith Hamberg's initials

    1. Edith Hamberg Tarcov collection

    A dinner napkin stitched with the initials "E.H." for Edith Hamberg (later Edith Hamberg Tarcov, 1919-1990), the donor's mother. The napkins were brought over by Edith from Hanover Germany (by way of London) to the United States in 1939.

  3. Dinner napkin stitched with Edith Hamberg's initials

    1. Edith Hamberg Tarcov collection

    A dinner napkin stitched with the initials "E.H." for Edith Hamberg (later Edith Hamberg Tarcov, 1919-1990), the donor's mother. The napkins were brought over by Edith from Hanover Germany (by way of London) to the United States in 1939.

  4. Dinner napkin stitched with Edith Hamberg's initials

    1. Edith Hamberg Tarcov collection

    A dinner napkin stitched with the initials "E.H." for Edith Hamberg (later Edith Hamberg Tarcov, 1919-1990), the donor's mother. The napkins were brought over by Edith from Hanover Germany (by way of London) to the United States in 1939.

  5. Mikel C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mikel C., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1920. He describes his affluent family; moving to Vienna; the Anschluss; beatings of Jews: illegally entering France; arrest in Metz; transfer to Germany; arrests for illegally entering Holland and Belgium; incarceration in a Belgian refugee camp; release to study art in Antwerp with assistance from the Jewish community; German invasion; traveling to Brussels; watching the British evacuation at Dunkerque; translating for the SS in Calais as a non-Jew; joining his sister in Brussels (she later emigrated to the United States)...

  6. Dinner napkin stitched with Minna Braunsberg Hamberg's initials and entrusted to Edith Hamberg Tarcov

    1. Edith Hamberg Tarcov collection

    A dinner napkin stitched with the initials "M.B." for Minna Braunsberg Hamberg (1889-1943?), the donor's maternal grandmother. The napkins were entrusted to her daughter, Edith Hamberg Tarcov, or the donor's mother, and then brought over by Edith from Hanover Germany (by way of London) to the United States in 1939. Minna was deported to Riga, Latvia in 1941 and lost contact with her daughter Edith. She perished in 1943 or 1944, likely in Riga or the Stutthof concentration camp.

  7. Dinner napkin stitched with Minna Braunsberg Hamberg's initials and entrusted to Edith Hamberg Tarcov

    1. Edith Hamberg Tarcov collection

    A dinner napkin stitched with the initials "M.B." for Minna Braunsberg Hamberg (1889-1943?), the donor's maternal grandmother. The napkins were entrusted to her daughter, Edith Hamberg Tarcov, or the donor's mother, and then brought over by Edith from Hanover Germany (by way of London) to the United States in 1939. Minna was deported to Riga, Latvia in 1941 and lost contact with her daughter Edith. She perished in 1943 or 1944, likely in Riga or the Stutthof concentration camp.

  8. Dinner napkin stitched with Minna Braunsberg Hamberg's initials and entrusted to Edith Hamberg Tarcov

    1. Edith Hamberg Tarcov collection

    A dinner napkin stitched with the initials "M.B." for Minna Braunsberg Hamberg (1889-1943?), the donor's maternal grandmother. The napkins were entrusted to her daughter, Edith Hamberg Tarcov, or the donor's mother, and then brought over by Edith from Hanover Germany (by way of London) to the United States in 1939. Minna was deported to Riga, Latvia in 1941 and lost contact with her daughter Edith. She perished in 1943 or 1944, likely in Riga or the Stutthof concentration camp.

  9. Dinner napkin stitched with Minna Braunsberg Hamberg's initials and entrusted to Edith Hamberg Tarcov

    1. Edith Hamberg Tarcov collection

    A dinner napkin stitched with the initials "M.B." for Minna Braunsberg Hamberg (1889-1943?), the donor's maternal grandmother. The napkins were entrusted to her daughter, Edith Hamberg Tarcov, or the donor's mother, and then brought over by Edith from Hanover Germany (by way of London) to the United States in 1939. Minna was deported to Riga, Latvia in 1941 and lost contact with her daughter Edith. She perished in 1943 or 1944, likely in Riga or the Stutthof concentration camp.

  10. Dinner napkin stitched with Minna Braunsberg Hamberg's initials and entrusted to Edith Hamberg Tarcov

    1. Edith Hamberg Tarcov collection

    A dinner napkin stitched with the initials "M.B." for Minna Braunsberg Hamberg (1889-1943?), the donor's maternal grandmother. The napkins were entrusted to her daughter, Edith Hamberg Tarcov, or the donor's mother, and then brought over by Edith from Hanover Germany (by way of London) to the United States in 1939. Minna was deported to Riga, Latvia in 1941 and lost contact with her daughter Edith. She perished in 1943 or 1944, likely in Riga or the Stutthof concentration camp.

  11. Dinner napkin stitched with Minna Braunsberg Hamberg's initials and entrusted to Edith Hamberg Tarcov

    1. Edith Hamberg Tarcov collection

    A dinner napkin stitched with the initials "M.B." for Minna Braunsberg Hamberg (1889-1943?), the donor's maternal grandmother. The napkins were entrusted to her daughter, Edith Hamberg Tarcov, or the donor's mother, and then brought over by Edith from Hanover Germany (by way of London) to the United States in 1939. Minna was deported to Riga, Latvia in 1941 and lost contact with her daughter Edith. She perished in 1943 or 1944, likely in Riga or the Stutthof concentration camp.

  12. Dinner napkin stitched with Minna Braunsberg Hamberg's initials and entrusted to Edith Hamberg Tarcov

    1. Edith Hamberg Tarcov collection

    A dinner napkin stitched with the initials "M.B." for Minna Braunsberg Hamberg (1889-1943?), the donor's maternal grandmother. The napkins were entrusted to her daughter, Edith Hamberg Tarcov, or the donor's mother, and then brought over by Edith from Hanover Germany (by way of London) to the United States in 1939. Minna was deported to Riga, Latvia in 1941 and lost contact with her daughter Edith. She perished in 1943 or 1944, likely in Riga or the Stutthof concentration camp.

  13. Dinner napkin stitched with Minna Braunsberg Hamberg's initials and entrusted to Edith Hamberg Tarcov

    1. Edith Hamberg Tarcov collection

    A dinner napkin stitched with the initials "M.B." for Minna Braunsberg Hamberg (1889-1943?), the donor's maternal grandmother. The napkins were entrusted to her daughter, Edith Hamberg Tarcov, or the donor's mother, and then brought over by Edith from Hanover Germany (by way of London) to the United States in 1939. Minna was deported to Riga, Latvia in 1941 and lost contact with her daughter Edith. She perished in 1943 or 1944, likely in Riga or the Stutthof concentration camp.

  14. Weisberger family papers

    Documents, photographs, and printed materials, related primarily to the activities of the Weisberger family, of Poughkeepsie, NY, and New York City, during World War II. Most material relates to Rabbi Ralph M. Weisberger, in his role as a chaplain in the U.S. Army, including his service in Iraq and Iran, where he worked with refugee Polish doctors. Also includes photographs of his parents, and documents related to the wartime voluntary service in the United States of two of his siblings, Estelle Klein and Helen Weisberger.

  15. Ellen Nebel collection

    Contains eleven documents from Emmanuel Weinberg's employers proving employment and from the Hamburg police proving his residence in the city; twenty-five documents and one photocopy of a photographic print regarding the Weinberg family's store, J.P. Neumark; four photographic prints depicting the Weinberg family's pre-war experiences; two postcards sent to Ellen Nebel's father from Ellen Nebel's mother; three cards congratulating the Weinberg family on Ellen Nebel's birth; Ellen Nebel's report cards from the Volksschule in Hannover; and a letter from the Turkish consulate to Frau Neumark, ...

  16. Relocation of displaced persons

    INT, processing center for IRO (International Relief Organization). Families line up at desks where young men and women review their identity papers, create new documents, and arrange for them to emigrate to North America (Canada, United States), and various countries in South America. They are fingerprinted as well. VS, CUs of the refugees talking to the IRO workers. Expressions on the faces of refugees range from terrified to elated. 01:03:23:28 CU of a set of identity papers being created for a young woman, and her fingerprints being imprinted on the back of the paper. The same action is...

  17. Swiss Federal Archives records

    Contains files concerning control of Jewish and other refugees coming into Switzerland; on activities of Swiss-Jewish rescue and charity organizations; on Swiss legations in various European countries reporting on relevant matters; on communications of the United States, Great Britain, and Germany; on establishment and operation of labor camps and homes for refugees, and the like. It includes material on Jewish self-help organizations in Switzerland, Jewish communities in Switzerland, and labor camps for Jews in Switzerland. Includes approximately 3,500 case files from the child refugee aid...

  18. Anita Epstein papers

    The Anita Epstein papers contain photographs and documents concerning Salek and Eda Kuenstler's efforts to place Anita, their infant daughter, in hiding during the Holocaust. Documents include letters from Eda and Salek begging the Zendler family to hide Anita as their own child for the duration of the war and notes promising payment for her safety. Also included is a tag worn by Anita while aboard the USS Taylor and a note to Anita from a member of the Zendler family after a reunion visit in 1985. Many of the photographs in this collection depict Anita while she was in hiding with the Zend...

  19. Spreekmeester family papers

    The collection documents the efforts of the Spreekmeester family of Amsterdam, The Netherlands to prove their English ancestry and citizenship in order to obtain British passports for emigration and to avoid deportation to a concentration camp. The majority of the correspondence is with the Embassy of Switzerland in Berlin, and regards efforts to obtain British passports for Emanuel and Rebecca Spreekmeester and their two sons Philip Alfred and Alfred Arthur. Documents in1943-1944 were written after the family was deported to the Westerbork concentration camp, and then Bergen-Belsen. The ma...

  20. "The Life of Alexander Perlberger before, during, and after the Second World War"

    1. Mina Perlberger collection

    Consists of the typescript memoir entitled "The Life of Alexander Perlberger, Shortly Before and Shortly After the Second World War" written by his widow, Mina Perlberger. The memoir describes the life of Mr. Perlberger from adolescence until his death. She includes information about Perlberger's imprisonment in concentration camps in Poland, his experiences during Kristallnacht, his enlistment in the Red Army, and his emigration to the United States.