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Language of Description: Czech
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  1. Max Levi memoir

    Consists of two photocopies of photographs and one copy of Max Levi's handwritten memoir, in German, with an English translation. The memoir details his experiences in Germany from April 30, 1933 until December 8, 1938, including the loss of his business and wealth; the family's experiences on Kristallnacht, when Max's business and apartment were destroyed and he was injured; and their arrival in New York on December 15, 1938.

  2. Pola Spitzer collection

    Consists of copyprints of photographs, copies of postwar and wartime correspondence, original and copies of wartime personal documents, and typed family histories, related to the Holocaust experiences of Pessa Fogelman (Pessia Fogielman, Pessy Fogielman, now Pola Spitzer). In 1943, Pola was secretly taken by Natalia Pisula, a Polish Catholic woman, from the ghetto in Radomsko. Pola later received false papers under the name "Pelagia Pisula" and was sent to Germany as a forced laborer at a munitions factory in Güstrow. Includes her false papers, essays written about Pola Spitzer's experience...

  3. Michael Kay collection

    Consists of postwar papers and photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of Michael Kay, originally of Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania. In 1933, Michael moved to Paris, then relocated to Bourbon-L'Archambault, France, and, in 1942, fled across the Spanish border and joined the British Army, participating in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. Includes photographs of Kay's parents, his "Autobiographical Sketch," documents related to his immigration and naturalization, as well as a copy of the Louisville Courier-Journal Magazine of April 3, 1983, containing an article written by Joan Kay about...

  4. Zina Alpern postcard

    Consists of one postcard, dated June 10, 1942, written by Zelda (“Zina”) Alpern in Salles-Curan, Aveyron, France, to Gertrude Wolf of Rochester, NY. On the postcard, which is torn and has a missing corner, Zina asks for news and expresses her hope that Gertrude will be able to send papers to assist with her emigration.

  5. Lejzer Najfeld's Dachau certificate

    Consists of one certificate from the Camp Office of Dachau marked June 12, 1945, certifying that Mr. Lejzer Najfeld, originally from Łódź, was detained in and subsequently liberated from the concentration camp of Dachau. It is stamped by the International Prisoners' Committee, Dachau Concentration Camp.

  6. Paul Lustig letter

    Contains a typed letter addressed to Robert C. Martin, Esq in Greensboro, PA from Paul Lustig of "Vienna, Austria, Germany"; in the letter Mr. Lustig writes about losing his job at his firm Kuffners' along with other Jewish employees, the firm being forced into non-Jewish ownership and asks Mr. Marvin for assistance with getting an affidavit for travel to the United States; laminated.

  7. Doba-Necha Cukierman collection

    Consists of original and photocopied wartime documents, dated April 1942 to December 1943, between Doba Necha (Zajfsztajn) Cukierman and her friends and family, including correspondence conducted under false names. Includes correspondence from Doba-Necha's brother Boruch, letters to the Prokop family who took over Doba's husband Szyja's fruit business, and between Doba (using her false name Zofia) and Szyja (using his false name Janek). Also included is a pamphlet and photograph of the Głusk Jewish Cemetery, where Doba's parents were murdered and a drawing created by Doba-Necha of the barn ...

  8. "Going back to Vialas: Retracing my Family History. The Baby Must Not Cry"

    Consists of one memoir by Dr. Anny Bloch-Raymond entitled "Going back to Vialas: Retracing my Family History. The Baby Must Not Cry." In her memoir, she details her search for her own family's history and the history of Vialas, France, a predominantly Protestant village in southern France (in the departement of Lozère), whose inhabitants sheltered Jews during World War II. She describes her family's evacuation from northern France to Nîmes and life there between 1940-1944, when the family was sheltered in Vialas, and where she was born in 1944. Dr. Bloch also interviews children who were hi...

  9. Ambassador George Landau collection

    Consists of one Austrian passport, issued in 1936 to Georg (now George) Walter Landau, which includes stamps, visas and an affidavit in lieu of a passport, relating to his 1938 emigration to Colombia and 1941 emigration to the United States; one photocopy of his 1920 birth certificate; and a 1938 Heimatschein.

  10. "Eric Hoffman: For My Family, For My Children, For My Grandchildren"

    Consists of one typed memoir, circa 40 pages plus photographs, photocopied, and written in the spring of 1996 by Eric Hoffman, entitled "Eric Hoffman: For My Family, For My Children, For My Grandchildren." The memoir details Hoffman's life growing up in Münster, Germany; his move to Antwerp, Belgium; his voyage to Palestine in 1939; his wartime service in the British Royal Army Service Corps and his post-war life. The memoir also includes several personal photographs with, 'The Windmuller Family Chronicle,' which details the fate of 120 members of Eric's close and extended family, as well a...

  11. "Budapest, Auschwitz, Sydney: Magda Altman Philip's Journey"

    Consists of one memoir written by Magda Altman Philip entitled "Budapest, Auschwitz, Sydney: Magda Altman Philip's Journey." The typed memoir details accounts of her family's life in pre-war Hungary, her arrest in Budapest, Hungary, as well as her time in Auschwitz and Oranienburg where she was liberated. The memoir includes copies of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs.

  12. Joseph Borkin papers

    Consists of correspondence and research material (photocopied and original) related to the research, writing, and publication of the book "The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben" by Joseph Borkin. Among the research materials are court documents from various legal cases against successor companies to I.G. Farben, which were tried in United States courts during the 1950s and 1960s, as well as subject files of copied primary and secondary source materials about individuals, organizations, and products related to I.G. Farben. These latter materials range information about the pre-World War I ...

  13. Oral history interview with Hannah Stein

  14. Bronner and Kirshenbaum families collection

    Collection of photographs of the Kirshenbaum and Bronner families from Bedzin, Poland, in the Bayreuth DP camp in Germany; photos show their friends and family. Includes a marriage certificate for Sala and Moniek Bronner, a notarized statement of Sala Kirschenbaum, and birth certificates of Sala and Moniek Bronner

  15. Elisabeth Steinhardt Welvaars collection

    Contains a Dutch passport issued to Elisabeth Steinhardt Welvaars donor's great aunt), and loose photographs and three photo albums illustrating the pre-war and postwar life of Elisabeth Steinhardt. The photographs primarily consist of vacation images from travels through Italy, Switzerland, France, London, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and include postwar photographs of South America, particularly Bolivia, where Elisabeth's immediate family immigrated. Elisabeth, who survived the Holocaust in the Netherlands, ultimately immigrated to Argentina after WWII.

  16. Nammering photograph collection

    Consists of seven photographs of the reburial of corpses near Nammering, Germany. The victims had been in the Buchenwald concentration camp and were murdered in April 1945. Two of the photographs have writing on the back that reads "Czechoslovakia May 1945."

  17. Marcel Hodak passport

    Consists of one French passport issued to Marcel Hodak, who was born on August 25, 1937 in Paris. The passport, which includes a photograph, was issued in June 1946.

  18. Hans (Jan) Löw collection

    Consists of enlargements, CD photographs, original negatives, copyprints, and original photographs of Hans "Jan" Löw, originally of Brno, Czechoslovakia. Prior to his 1936 emigration to England, Hans had previously edited a Revisionist Zionist publication in Prague and worked for Keren Tel Chai. Upon his arrival in London, Hans served as a secretary to Vladimir Jabotinsky in his office at 47 Finchley Rd. The office operated from 1936-1939.

  19. Abe Bortz photographs

    Consists of three photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, depicting a pile of corpses under memorial wreathes, and soldiers examining the camp gallows. Also includes a portrait of the photographer, Abe Bortz, a member of the 503 Quartermaster Car Company, First Army.

  20. Alfons Van San photographs

    Consists of four photographs from the collection of Alfons Van San, who was hidden at the Chateau de Beloeil children's home in Belgium during World War II. The photographs depict groups of boys, including a photograph of a female scout leader with her troop of boys gathered behind her.