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Language of Description: Czech
Language of Description: English

  1. Oral history interview with Ethel Davidson

  2. Oral history interview with Helen Mincberg and Ann Beckerman

  6. Schiller and Binder families collection

    Contains letters written by the Schiller and Binder families in Kitsman (Cotman) and Chernowitz, Romania, to their children Sara Schiller (donor's mother) and Moshe Schiller, and Shmuel Binder (donor's father) and Arie Binder in Palestine. The Schiller family from Kitsman and the Binder family from Chernowitz were deported in the fall of 1941 to Transnistria. According to testimonies, the Schiller family was thrown off the barge in the middle of the Dniestr River and drowned. The Binder family was deported to Transnistria at the same time, and no one survived.

  7. Liberman and Tencer families papers

    Contains correspondence from the Liberman family in Lublin, addressed to their daughter Stefania Liberman Tencer (donor’s mother) in Lvov and later in Rovno, dated 1940-1941; from Rozka Zafsztajn and from Mrs. K. Tencer in Radom (donor’s paternal grandmother); postcard from Kazimierz Tencer (donor’s father) during his service in the Polish Army to his wife in Rovno, c. 1944; certificate regarding Stefania Tencer’s employment in Rovno in 1944 and her CV, in Russian; letters from cousins in Tel Aviv, c. 1947, in Polish; from Mr. Borensztajn c. 1947, in Yiddish; and letters from Elek in Torun ...

  8. Weinberg family correspondence

    Two postcards sent from Lotte and Bernhard Weinberg of Vienna, Austria in May and November 1938 to their cousins Max, Paul and Sophia Steinberg in Chicago, Il. Among other topics, Lotte and Bernard sought help in obtaining a visa for their daughter Regina.

  9. Adolph Rosenthal correspondence

    Contains three letters, plus two enclosures, between U.S. Representative Herman P. Kopplemann (1st district, Connecticut) and Adolph Rosenthal, of East Hartford, Connecticut, from January-February 1937, concerning the efforts of Mr. Rosenthal to obtain visas that would enable family members in Germany to immigrate to the United States. Kopplemann advised Rosenthal to provide as much information about his personal finances and property as possible, and the correspondence chiefly concerns the type of information needed in order to make the affidavit as convincing as possible.

  10. "Sara's Story"

    Consists of typed testimony of the Holocaust experiences of Sara Weingram, as written by Sondra Greenberg. The testimony describes Sara's childhood in Pułtusk, Poland, the German invasion, and her family's forced evacuation east to Russia. The family was briefly split, but reunited near Orsha, in Belarus. After the German invasion in June 1941, Sara was separated from her family during a German bombing raid and found an orphanage. She eventually found her family in Magnitogorsk, where the family suffered from illness and hunger. After the war, Sara married her boyfriend, lived in the Milan ...

  11. Lithuanian Jewish charities Lietuvos Žydų labdaros draugijos (Fond 1147)

    Contains records of Lithuanian Jewish charity organizations who provided aid to the Jewish repatriates from Russia expelled from Lithuania during the WWI, and to Jewish refugees who fled from Poland, 1939-1940 (ca, 12,000 refugees). Includes also files relating to the activities of Jewish charities in Vilnius (Vilna), Kaunas (Kovno) and other cities in Lithuania; minutes, reports, financial and statistical reports of Jewish organizations "Ezra", OZE; lists of Jews who applied for the financial aid and medical treatment, and individual forms with personal data of Jewish refugees.

  12. Czarny family papers

    Travel documents, photographs (71), and correspondence relating to the Czarny (also spelled Charney or Chorney) family in Baranowicze, Poland (present day Baranovichy, Belarus). Includes pre-war photographs, corresopndence between Mojzesz Czarny and his family in Poland, including following his immigration to the United States, as well as correspondence sent from his family after the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland, and travel documents related to his immigration. Mojzesz Czarny immigrated from Poland to the US in 1938 leaving behind his parents Leib and Henia, and his two sisters Rywa ...

  13. Kingmark silver and red pin commemorating the Danish king's 70th birthday acquired by Louise Lawrence-Israels

    Commemorative Kingmark buttonhole pin acquired by Louise Lawrence-Israels. It was issued in honor of the 70th birthday of King Christian X of Denmark on August 21, 1940. It has the King’s initials, the years 1870-1940, and the Danish flag. Christian remained in Copenhagen during the German occupation (4/1940-5/1945) and the Kingmark became a popular symbol of Danish independence, patriotism, and solidarity. Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940.

  14. Records of the Jewish Community Board in Utena Utenos žydų bendruomenės taryba (Fond 1233)

    The collections includes various materials related to the activities of Jewish community of Utena (Utyan). Consists of correspondence with government offices, minutes of meetings, circular letters from the Ministry of Jewish Affairs in Lithuania, voter registration lists, lists of community members, and reports on community activities.

  15. Bachrach and Steinhardt families collection

    Photographs and biographical materials documenting the experiences of Enny Bachrach and her husband Siegfried Steinhardt. Photographs include WWI images of Louis Bachrach, Enny’s father, in his battalion and in a field hospital, and later undated images of various family members. Biographical materials include birth certificates for Siegfried Steinhardt, Enny Bachrach, Evelina Steinhardt, and two immigration documents issued to Enny Bachrach from civil authorities in Eisenach, Germany and the Bolivian consulate in Hamburg. Also included is a Jewish wedding certificate (ketubah) for Enny and...

  16. Neil Hora papers

    This collection includes photographs of Doris and Nicole Hora as well as the donor's father, Morris Hora. Doris and Nicole were related to Morris's family and survived the Holocaust in France. Additional photographs include images of Odette and Suzanne Leon, also survivors in France; an image of Morris in immediate post-war in France; a postcard to donor's mother; and a hand-written note on a photo studio's card.

  17. Breakstone family letter

    Consists of a photocopy of a typed English-language translation of a letter written to Leah Breakstone and the rest of the Breakstone family after World War II. The letter, originally written in Yiddish by a family member named ‘Toba” (who seems to be a sister of Leah), describes the fate of their family, many of whom perished in October 1941, likely at Ninth Fort in Kovno (Kaunas). The translation was completed on November 13, 1946 by Rabbi Maxi Felshin.

  18. Thomas Ketterman photographs

    Consists of eleven photographs, taken after the liberation of Dachau, which were mass printed and widely distributed, as well as one photograph described as the path to the Eagle’s Nest. The versos of these photographs include descriptions written by Thomas Ketterman, a member of the 136th AAA Gun battalion during World War II.

  19. Gary Abernathy collection

    Consists of two wartime photographs: one was likely taken at Brenner Pass in October 1940, and depicts Keitel, von Rundstedt, Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco, while the second photograph depicts a pile of corpses at Buchenwald in April of 1945.

  20. Hannah Wolpert letter

    Consists of two envelopes and one letter written by Hannah Wolpert from Kelme, Lithuania, to cousins Jean and Sophia in New Jersey, describing life in Kelme in 1931. The letter is five pages long on two pieces of paper, and the donor recovered the letter from the attic of the Wolpert family home in Palisades Junction, NJ.