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Language of Description: English

  1. Stoops-Cleymans family. Collection

    This collection contains a pre-war photograph of the kosher restaurant and delicacies shop "Ringer" in Brussels and photo of an unidentified (Jewish?) woman, a friend of the donor's mother.

  2. The Stories of Eric Haas and Marga Schlamm Haas

    Contains a memoir about Eric Haas (born: July 3, 1917 Offenbach/M. Germany) and Marga Schlamm Haas (born: February 5, 1921 in Berlin, Germany) and their experiences in Amsterdam, Holland, when the Germans invaded, their internment in the Westerbork transit camp, S'Hertogen Bosch (called Vught for short) concentration camp, and in Bergen Belsen, Switzerland, Marseilles, and an UNRRA camp in North Africa.

  3. The stories of our lives Chaim Szyja and Dwojrele Neuman

    Contains Chaim Yehoshua Neuman's 93-page handwritten memoir, in Yiddish, in which he describes his life in pre-war Poland; the increasing persecution of Jews which followed the German invasion of Poland in September 1939; his experiences in the Sosnoftza and Srodula ghettos; his work in a tailor shop and a clothing factory; his deportation to Birkenau concentration camp, circa August 1943; his transfer to Auschwitz concentration camp a few weeks later, where he worked in the tailor's shop; his transfer by train to Buchenwald concentration camp during January 1945; his transfer to Rehmsdorf ...

  4. The stories of the families Bach and Herz (Wolf - Mayer)

    Contains a personal testimony and a detailed family history of the Bach and Herz families.

  5. The Story of Berta and Freddy Fischel

    Typescript, 5 pages, with separate title page, "Surviving: The Story of Berta and Freddy Fischel," by Sonia Pressman Fuentes. The author (Fuentes) was a cousin of Freddy Fischel, and she wrote up this narrative after interviewing the Fischels in 1975 and 1991.

  6. The story of exodus from Wien

    Testimony, 15 pages, photocopy of typescript (2 copies) titled "The Story of our Exodus from Wien," by Walter Schwarz, about life in Vienna, the Anschluss and occupation, and his family's escape from Vienna in July 1938.

  7. The story of Gerda Weissmann Klein

    Coproduced by the U.S.Holocaust Memorial Museum Research Institute, this Academy Award-winning documentary relates the harrowing story of Gerda Weissmann Klein and her journey of survival and remembering both before and after the war.

  8. The story of my tragic life

    Testimony, photocopy of Yiddish manuscript (104 p) and English translation (168 pages), titled "The Story of My Tragic Life" by Sonya Papper, translated by Morris Nimovitz. Describes Papper's experiences in German-occupied Ukraine.

  9. Story of Sally and Samuel Bloom

    Consists of a copy of a memoir by Jack Bloom concerning the Samuel and Sally Bloom family of West N.Y., N.J. The memoir describes the generosity shown by the Blooms as they agreed to sponsor the family of Martin Lichtenstein in order for them to emigrate from Germany just prior to the outbreak of World War II.

  10. Stovall collection

    The collection consists of two prints.

  11. Strafanstalt in Schieratz Prison in Sieradz Zakład karny w Sieradzu (Sygn. 200)

    This collection contains a selection of 507 cases of personal files of Jewish prisoners, who were sentenced for various “crimes” committed during the occupation, and were imprisoned in the prison in Sieradz. Typical reasons for sentencing Jews to prison were: illegally crossing the country border, illegal trade and craft manufacture, illegal slaughter, hiding goods, smuggling into the ghetto, trading foreign currency, and other crimes of economic character, leaving their whereabouts, bribery, falsification of documents, theft, receiving of stolen goods, and beggary. The files contain the fo...

  12. Strafing the German countryside and railroad lines; American Air Force personnel celebrating; V-E Day in London

    Scenes shot from a plane of the strafing of a town and/or a farm in Germany (lots of green space). An airman holds a slate reading: "SFP 186 Johnson [cameraman] Strip Y-73 Group 362 Sqdn 7 Plane [?] Date 19 May [?] Pilot Hunter" Burning fire that seem to spell out "V-E" shot from the air. A group of smiling American servicemen pose for the camera, holding up the V for victory symbol. Two soldiers stand in front of a sign that reads "Hells Angels 303rd bomb group." They read a Stars & Stripes newspaper which displays the headline "GERMANY QUITS." The marching band of the 8th Air Force pl...

  13. Strafing; VE Day in London

    Aerial shots of GSAP strafing town, vehicles on road, trains (pilots' names indicated on cameraman's slates). Dive bombing marshalling yard. 01:20:26 CU of Winston Churchill, the King, Allan Brooke, etc. Large crowd behind the gate leading to Buckingham Palace. Square filled with people. More GSAP strafing targets.

  14. Strafing; VE day in Paris; American airmen at Moosburg prison camp; Red Cross food packages

    Airplanes parked. Plane taxis away from parking area, passes camera. CU, red nose, parked planes. Strafing train, German town. MCU, German ranking officers climb aboard plane. Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg's plane taking off. Nose of aircraft in FG, formation flies overhead. Strafing on road, strafing parked aircraft. (4/19/45 366 FG 391st SQ RAFAEL) German officers awaiting air evacuation to England. They board plane. GIs standing around as they watch German officers climb in plane. Door of plane is closed. Crowd of Parisians as they parade through the streets for VE-Day in Paris. CU, Eternal Light...

  15. Strauss family: personal papers and corresondence

    This collection consists of the papers of the Strauss family, German speaking Jews from Prague, most of whom managed to flee Nazi persecution.Personal papers including Julius Strauss' diary (incomplete) in which he describes the emigration of his children and his failed attempt to go to Paris in April 1939 to find accommodation for himself and Elsa; wartime correspondence between the parents, their children and friends; papers relating to Julius Strauss and Vilem Lesny's compensation claim; photographs; family trees; as well as papers relating to the estate of family friend, Otakar Bondy, w...

  16. Strauss/ Sterzelbach Family papers

    This collection contains family correspondence, 1858-1923 (1866/1) replete with English translations- correspondents include Leo and Elise Sterzelbach, Jette Hoenigsberger, Moritz Lichtenstetter, Berta Lichtenstetter et al; correspondence between Kossy Strauss and Moritz Sterzelbach et al 1938-1939 (1866/2); Correspondence concerning assistance with emigration of family and friends, 1938-1939 (1866/3-4); Summary and inventory of correspondence in 1866/3-4 (1866/5); Index and copy correspondence re emigration, 1938-1939 also copy photographs (1866/6); miscellaneous documents re the Lichtenst...

  17. Strauss/Lehmann family collection

    Consists of one box of documents, questionnaires, forms, and correspondence (mostly from the 1950s and 1960s) regarding the Holocaust restitution claims for Adolph and Bella Lehmann Strauss and their daughter Hilde, originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Also includes information about the extended Lehmann family. The restitution claims include family information and information about their Holocaust experiences.

  18. Streator Times Press newspaper article

    Contains a newspaper clipping from the Streator Times Press, dated June 12, 1944. Headline reads: "Jews Still Being Killed by Germans." The article details President Roosevelt's comments to Congress with his submission of a report on caring for war refugees. "Knowing they have lost the war, the Nazis are determined to complete their program on mass extermination." He then details the work of the War Refugee Board.

  19. Street activity in the Krakow ghetto

    Jewish man with star armband walks along cobbled streets of Krakow ghetto. Pedestrians and a horse with wagon cross a bridge. MS, pan of street activity - people walking and traffic. More people cross the bridge. Good view of main street in the ghetto. Wagon filled with belongings and furniture. Women and children converse in the street. View of another street, man takes a photograph. Another view of bustling streets in the ghetto.

  20. Street barricade in Stuttgart; Russian POWs hold May Day ceremony

    04:40:48 (LIB 6127) Stuttgart, Germany, April 29, 1945. SEQ: German civilians carry bricks and rubble and build a barricade around French MG position at street intersection. CU, French soldier directs work of Germans. 04:44:13 (LIB 6128) May Day - Stalag #6, Hemmer, Germany, May 1, 1945. HAS, MS pan Russian POWs hold May Day celebration in POW camp Stalag 6, after liberation by US forces. CU, Russian soldiers carrying sign in Russian and English: "Long live the American Army which liberated us from Nazi captivity." Cut-ins, still portraits of Stalin, Truman, Churchill, Lenin, Zhukov. LS, sp...