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  1. Marc Jaffe collection

    Consists of receipts and thank-you letters for donations made by D. Jaffe of Newport, RI, to Rabbi A. Zelman's yeshiva in Warsaw and Rabbi A. Scher's yeshiva in Kaunas in 1939. The thank-you letters relate how difficult it is becoming to keep the yeshivas open.

  2. "For My Children": Rebecca Atsmon memoir

    Consists of memoir, 59 pages, which relates to the life of Rebecca Atsmon, born in Lvov. She was taken to a work camp in 1941, which was under the command of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Kitner who treated them very well. He warned her family of the liquidation of the ghetto in 1943 and aided them in their escape to Germany with Gentile papers. She worked in Germany until the liberation in 1945 and traveled to the Landsberg displaced persons camp.

  3. Egon and Frieda Fried collection

    Consists of documentation regarding the education, emigration, and employment of Egon and Frieda Fried who emigrated first to England and then to the United States from Vienna, Austria, in 1939 to 1940. Egon Fried was an engineer, and the collection contains his diplomas from primary and secondary school, his letters seeking employment in the United States, letters of recommendation, and original blueprints and drafts he created.

  4. Hameln Synagogue collection

    Consists of information regarding the history and reconstruction plans of the synagogue in Hameln, Germany, which had been destroyed on Kristallnacht. Includes copies of original drawings of the synagogue before it was destroyed, a bound book entitled "Sie waren Burger der Stadt: Die Geschichte der judischen Einwohner Hamelns im Dritten Reich", by Bernhard Gelderblom (164 pages, published 1997), a brochure about the synagogue, copies of newspaper articles, and a blank piece of stationery with a drawing of the synagogue on the front. Also included is one photoprint consisting of copies of tw...

  5. Linda Ryngiermacher Fishman photographs

    Consists of two copyprints: one of Frieda Ringermacher with friends, and one of Rajzel Rose Ringermacher Fox. Both women perished in the Holocaust, Rajzel with her three-year-old son Welwale in Treblinka in 1942 . They were from Skarżysko, Cze̜stochowa, Poland.

  7. "War and Resistance: This I Remember" memoir

    “War and Resistance: This I Remember,” a memoir details Anne Levine’s Holocaust experiences. Levine spent 1940-1942 at the “Rayon de Soleil” children’s home in Cannes, France. In 1942, she went into hiding in the Durfort home of Denise and Paul Cadier. When this became too dangerous, she went to Paris and, under an assumed name, got a job as a research assistant at the "Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique." Along with many of the employees at the center, notably Dr. Jacques Monod, she joined the Resistance and remained in Paris until the city's liberation in 1944.

  8. "I Remember" memoir

    Contains one memoir, 21 pages, detailing the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Helga Stein. As the only child of an Aryan father (who passed away when she was three) and a Jewish mother, she details her experiences in Berlin as a child under the Nazi regime. After her family and friends were arrested and deported, Mrs. Stein, then a young adult, hid in a bombed out apartment building in Berlin for the entirety of the war. She immigrated to the United States in 1953.

  9. Sergio DeBenedetti memoirs

    Consists of one unedited memoir, in Italian, entitled "Note Antifasciste," by Sergio DeBenedetti (approximately 520 pages) 1941, and the edited version of "Note Antifasciste," retitled "Between Fascism and Freedom: The Education of Sergio DeBenedetti," edited by Vera DeBenedetti Bonnet, in English, (approximately 100 pages), 2003. In this memoir, Sergio DeBenedetti recounts his experiences as a Jewish physicist in Mussolini's Italy and his experiences working in Paris in the months immediately preceeding the Nazi invasion in 1940.

  10. Joseph Shein collection

    Contains one copyprint of a poem, written in Yiddish, entitled "The shtetl is burning," by Mordechai Gebertig; photograph of the common grave, in Czȩstochowa, Poland, commemorating the deaths of Jewish resistance fighters in March 1943; photograph of message written on a wall by a resistance fighter in Czȩstochowa immediately before his death; one book regarding the Czȩstochowa ghetto, written by Liber Brenner; and one bound copy of "The story of our family," by Yitzhak Shein.

  11. "Hlas Pudy Q306" issues

    Contains photocopies of "Hlas Pudy Q306", a children's magazine written and published by eleven children, all under the age of twelve, who lived in the attic numbered Q306 in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto in Czechoslovakia. The children--editor-in-chief Mariana Kornova, Zdenek Grunhut, Hana Brockova, Jiri Kreisl, Anita Brandeisova, Tomas Sladkus, Jan Brod, Petr Abrahamovsky, Petr Fischl, Tommy Brandais, and Kitty Langendorfova--all perished in Auschwitz in the fall of 1944. In the magazine, they wrote short stories, poems, puzzles, and humorous observations about their lives and about...

  12. Lonia Bork collection

    Contains postcards written from the Łódź ghetto, 1940-1941, to Lonia Bork's sister in Russia. Also includes letter written by Lonia from Hanover, Germany, 1945; and a small circular metal "dogtag" with "Halberstadt L.B. 1945" engraved into it. The "dogtag" belonged to Luba Gerszenowicz Horn from Aleksandrów, Poland.

  13. Auschwitz/Dachau prisoner correspondence

    Consists of four letters written home by prisoners on concentration camp stationery; three are from Dachau, those of Aleksy Bryniyszkiewicz, Soideusr Augustyniak, and Bonifacius Gozdricki, and one from Auschwitz, that of Georg Gusikiewicz.

  14. Birthe Trommer photograph

    Contains photograph of Josef and Kaja Geldmann, with their daughter Birthe, eating Christmas dinner with the Johanson family of Landskrona, Sweden. The Geldmanns, a Jewish family, escaped by boat from Denmark to Sweden in October 1943. The photograph was taken on December 24, 1944.

  15. Sophie Fritz photographs

    Contains photographs: one of three sisters, described as "Yeva, Sonja, and Liza," and one of three women and an elderly man, described as "Slova Nudelman and third husband, Sonja Cygelman Tzigelman and Rachel Nudelman Cygelman. This photograph has three generations in it, as Rachel is Slova's daughter and Sonja's mother. Only Yeva and Liza survived the war.

  16. Renata de Gara Cafiero collection

    Contains documents regarding the removal of Paul De Gara from public service as a non-Aryan as of April 7, 1933. Also includes a certificate of good conduct used by Dr. De Gara to enter the United States in 1939. Collection also contains a memoir written by Adele Cantor entitled "Tears and Joys of a War-time Deportee" (London, 1946, 32 pages) regarding her childhood in Berlin, Germany; experiences in the camps of Gurs, Douadic, and Chateau Le Roc; liberation; and emigration to England in 1946.

  17. 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...

  18. Ernst Thaelmann postcard

    Pre-printed postcard addressed to Ernst Thaelmann, Berlin, Germany. Postcard proclaims that the undersigned person demands a public trial, medical care, and the release of Ernst Thaelmann and all others from fascist jails and concentration camps.

  19. Frances Maisel collection

    Consists of documentation regarding attempts by Samuel Friedman and Moses Goldberg (both of New York City) in 1941, to obtain a visa for Szolim Ejcer of Plunge, Lithuania. Mr. Ejcer was the twenty-three-year-old nephew of both Mr. Friedman and Mr. Goldberg. The paperwork includes affidavits of support, a photograph of Mr. Goldberg, and a 1942 envelope which returned from Lithuania stating that Mr. Ejcer's whereabouts were unknown.

  20. "As Children during the Holocaust in France (1940-1944)"

    Memoir, 13 pages, relates the Holocaust experiences of Joseph Sungolowsky, who escaped from Belgium to France with his family after the Nazi invasion in 1940. The son of a rabbi, Joseph and his family went into hiding in Nice, France, with the help of the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE).