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  1. Nachame Kuchevsky photograph

    Consists of one photograph of Nachame Kuchevsky (Norma Lipow) taken in Kovno in 1936. She survived the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto as well as the Auschwitz concentration camp. She married Morris Lipow in Munich in 1946.

  2. Tamara Mali Lapidus Kacel photograph

    Consists of one pre-war photograph of the family of Tamara Mali Lapidus (Tamara Lapidus Kacel), originally of Serei, Lithuania. The photograph depicts Nahum and Sara Ella Lapidus with their children, Tamara and twins Etta and Mina.

  3. Leon Benveniste photograph

    Consists of a photograph taken in Salonika (Thessaloniki), Greece, in 1939, of the starting line of a motorcycle race. Pictured on the right is Leon Benveniste.

  4. Goldberger family photograph

    Consists of a photograph of the Goldberger family taken in Tiszalok, Hungary, in 1935. Pictured are Celia, Miklos, Livia, and Ervin Goldberger.

  5. Judith Bihaly photographs

    Consists of pre-war photographs of Karoly and Josephine Nettel Bihaly, the donor's parents, and post-war photographs of Judith and her twin brother Andras in the Bagnoli and Bari, Italy, displaced persons camps. Also includes photographs of Judith Bihaly on the kibbutz Ashdod Yaakov with other Jewish youth from Europe. She immigrated to Palestine with a group sponsored by Youth Aliyah.

  6. Ignac and Hermina Rothman Ungar wedding photograph

    Consists of the wedding photograph of Ignac and Hermina Rothman Ungar, taken in 1919 in Foldes, Hungary. Both perished in Auschwitz.

  7. Leibowitz family photographs

    Consists of photographs of the Leibowiitz family in pre-war and wartime Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania), and photographs of the family of Saul Leibowitz in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp and in the United States. Includes a photograph of Saul Leibowitz and other survivors laying a wreath on a memorial on the one year anniversary of liberation and a photograph of the Leibowitz family after receiving their United States citizenship in 1958.

  8. Frieda and Johanna Gross collection

    Consists of photographs, official documents, and papers related to the Holocaust experiences of Frieda and Johanna Gross, who were passengers on the MS St. Louis. Also includes photographs and papers related to the sisters, who went into hiding in Belgium after their return to Europe and before their immigration to the United States. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the family and their ancestors, prewar postcards, and naturalization papers.

  9. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Aube

    This collection contains documents from the Special Police Commissariat. It includes lists of refugees by nationality, materials on internment facilities, and documents of the Bureau of Liaison with the German authorities and of the Renseignements généraux (the police agency watching foreigners). Also included are documents on the persecution of Jews in the communes of Isle-Aumont and Ramerupt, and materials of the post-liberation Historical Commission on the Second World .

  10. Michail Gebelev collection

    Consists of copies of articles and photographs related to the wartime experiences of Michail Gebelev, who was in charge of underground operations in the Minsk ghetto. Present-day photographs show the daughter of Michail Gebelev, Svetlana Gebeleva, at ceremonies honoring her father.

  11. 1943 Gurs photograph

    Consists of one photograph taken in the Gurs internment camp in May 1943. The photograph depicts two women, each holding a toddler, and is captioned "Wally, Heiner, Trude, und Suzy in Gurs." It is believed that "Trude" is Trude Frank, a cousin of Lore Rosen [donor] who survived the war and "disappeared" in East Germany shortly thereafter.

  12. Olga Berkovitz Lebovitz photographs

    Consists of three photographs taken in 1939 and 1940 of the Berkovitz family, originally of Berehove, Czechoslovakia, as well as two photographs of Olga Berkovitz in 1946, one with fellow survivors in Reichenback, and one with her husband, David.

  13. Joseph Fagen photographs

    Consists of five photographs taken at Dachau by Joseph (Jerry) Fagen in May, June, and July 1945. Includes photographs of Fagen, a member of the United States Army and of one of the units which reached Dachau on April 30, 1945, in and around the camp, as well as a photograph of two survivors he befriended. Also includes a list of his unit's movements from November 28, 1942-October 5, 1945. Fagen was stationed at Dachau from May-July 1945.

  14. Oral history interview with Peter Eugene Weiss

  15. Bernard A. Grossman collection

    Consists of one typed report, two pages, describing life in and the liberation of the Barth concentration camp. The author is unknown. Also includes two letters, written in 2007 by Bernard Grossman, describing his memories of life in Barth (also known as Stalag Luft I), in which he was imprisoned from December 13, 1943 - April 30, 1945, after being shot down from a B-17 airplane over the North Sea.

  16. Wisconsin wartime press clippings

    Contains photocopies of wartime newspaper clippings from the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Milwaukee Journal, and the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle. The clippings specifically relate to each newspaper's coverage of Kristallnacht, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the liberation of Lublin-Majdanek, and the Nuremberg war crimes trials. The clippings were used in the 1989 writing of "Press coverage of the Holocaust, 1933-1945 :a comparison of three Milwaukee newspapers", by James Lawrence Sernoe for his masters degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

  17. "Memoirs of my childhood from the Holocaust"

    Consists of one memoir, 11 pages, entitled "Memoirs of my childhood from the Holocaust", by Moshe Brem, origially of Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland. In 1939, Moshe's father was conscripted into the Polish Army. Moshe, his mother, and his extended family remained in Piotrkow, which became a ghetto, and managed to escape deportation by offering tailoring services to the Germans and by bribing both the Germans and non-Jews in Piotrkow to help the family. In the fall of 1944, however, Moshe and his mother were deported to Ravensbrück. Only a small child, Moshe spent his days hiding while his moth...

  18. Humorous Hitler postcard

    Consists of one postcard depiciting a cartoon Hitler painting an outhouse with a copy of "Mein Kampf" hanging inside the doorframe. The postcard is entitled "The House Painter." The postcard was sent from Pvt. F. Coleman at Fort Sill, OK, on May 24, 1943, to Mr. Francis Gowen in Concord, NH. In the postcard, Pvt. Coleman writes that he hopes that the picture on the postcard were true.

  19. "My Memories from the War"

    Consists of one memoir written in May 1996, 4 pages, entitled "My Memories from the War," by Claire Holand, originally of Pabianice, Poland. In her memoir, Mrs. Holand, the only survivor of her immediate family, writes about her experiences in pre-war Poland, her deportation to Auschwitz and life in a forced labor factory in Neukolln, Germany, where she worked between 1942 and liberation in April 1945.

  20. Herbert G. Birch photographs

    Consists of three photographs taken by Staff Sgt. Herbert G. Birch of the Gardelegen atrocity. Also includes a newspaper clipping, dated April 20, 1945, which describes Gardelegen.