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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: French

  1. Gita Abraham memoir

    Testimony, three pages, photocopy of typescript. Fragment of memoir, describes author's experience at Auschwitz, and at liberation.

  2. Gita B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gita B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922, the youngest of seven children. She recalls her affluent childhood; attending gymnasium; participating in No'ar ha-Tsiyoni; her brothers' marriages; one sister attending school in Paris; her mother's death in 1938; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; confiscation of the family business; her father and three brothers moving to Warsaw, thinking it safer; ghettoization; living with one brother and sister; forced factory labor; avoiding round-ups due to her brother's factory management position; her sister disappeari...

  3. Gita Feuerwerger photographs

    The collection consists of 27 photographs of Gita Feuerwerger and her time spent at the International Children's Center at Prien on Chiemsee [PCIRO Team 1069] children's camp after the war.

  5. Gitel and Isaac Coppel: family tree

    This collection consists of correspondence and a family tree of the descendants of the Jewish couple Gitel and Isaac Coppel, whose family has had interconnected German and British relations since 1807 when their eldest son was sent to England to prevent his forced enrolment in Napoleon's armies for the Russian campaign.Papers including translations of Hebrew gravestone inscriptions of Isaac Coppel, Bräune Coppel (Isaac's mother) and Gitel Coppel who were buried at the Old Jewish Cemetery in Hanover (Lower Saxony).

  6. Gitlya Starikova photograph

    Black and white photograph of a man and a woman with an inscription (handwritten) in black ink on verso: "Mr. Iosif Starikov and/Mrs. Gitlya Starikova/1948"; verso: purple sticker with black ink numbers "05370" adhered on left. Created by unknown photographer, 1948.

  7. Gitta and Martin Hoffman collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Gitta and Martin Hoffman and their families during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  8. Gitta B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gitta B., who was born in Rudnik, Poland, in 1923. Mrs. B. describes moving at the age of five to Reichenberg, capital of the Sudetenland; the German cultural orientation of the Jews there; difficulties experienced by her father because of his east European Jewish orientation; and increasingly widespread antisemitism. She relates her family's move to Prague following the German occupation of the Sudetenland; the German occupation of Prague and the resulting anti-Jewish actions; her father's efforts to remain religiously observant despite prohibitions; and continuing a...

  9. Gitta L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gitte L., who was born in Vilna in 1893. Mrs. L. recalls the outbreak of World War I after her graduation from gymnasium; her training and years of work as a nurse in refugee camps; studying at the University of Leningrad; and her emigration to Vienna to marry her fiance?. She tells of her political activity in Vienna; antisemitism; Kristallnacht in Sassnitz, when her husband was beaten by a mob and interrogated, and she was imprisoned with him (but released after a short time); her husband's escape with the help of a Nazi soldier; their emigration to the United State...

  10. Gitta Rosenzweig collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Gitta Rosenzweig and her family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  11. Gitta Simon papers

    The collection consists of a memoir documenting the Holocaust experiences of Gitta Simon (née Kohn), originally of Moson, Hungary, including her deportation to Auschwitz in June 1944, transfer to Altenburg subcamp of Buchenwald. While on a death march, Simon was liberated by the United States Army. The memoir is in Hungarian and was written post-war while she and her husband, Laszlo Simon, were living in Shanghai (1947-1949). A digital English translation of the memoir is also available at the USHMM (DS135.H93 S5968 2000). Also included are a small number of documents including marriage and...

  12. Gitta W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gitta W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1934. She notes vague memories of being loved and hearing marching in the Berlin streets; traveling to Belgium; living in a house with her parents and relatives; German invasion; fleeing to Paris, then Nice; her malaise at seeing her parents very upset; difficulties in school; her father and uncle escaping when the families were arrested; release with her cousin; hiding with her father, uncle, and cousin; escaping after detection by the Gestapo; hiding with other Jews in a small village and Marseille; placement in a convent...

  14. Gittel Eisner. Collection

    This collection contains two pre-war studio portraits of Abram alias Avram Cohn and Gittel Eisner with their daughter Deborah Cohn.

  15. Gittler family correspondence

    Letters written between 1938 and 1941 by members of the Gittler family of Breslau, Germany. The majority of the letters were written by Wilhelm and Gertrud Gittler and their son, Franz Gittler, and were sent to Ilse Gittler Muller (daughter of Wilhelm and Gertrud), who, with her husband Hans (later changed to Harold), had immigrated to the United States in 1938. The letters describe family matters and immigration attempts. Franz Gittler was sent to England on a Kindertransport and survived the war, but Wilhelm and Gertrud Gittler perished in the Holocaust.

  16. Gitya Glikman memoir relating to the Krasnoye and Zhmerinka ghettos

    Contains a photocopy of a one-page memoir by Gitya Glikman (b. Krasnoye, Soviet Union) describing the establishment of a ghetto in Krasne (Krasnoye), Ukraine, and the deportation of the Glikman and her family to the ghetto in Zhmerynka (Zhmerinka), Ukraine. Gitya was liberated in March 1944.

  17. Giulietta Donati Baquis story

    Testimony: photocopy of typescript (3 pages) and manuscript (2 pages), about author's experiences in Florence, Italy during Holocaust.

  18. Give Roosevelt his rest campaign button

  19. Give Them a Face (France) portrait collection. Collection

    This collection contains over 4,200 portraits of Jewish men, women and children from Belgium, whom have been deported from the French camps Drancy, Angers, Beaune-la-Rolande, Compiègne, Pithiviers and Lyon, to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sobibor, Maidanek and Kaunas between March 1942 and August 1944. Among the deportees, four groups can be distinguished : persons that had lived in Belgium and whom had emigrated to France legally before the beginning of the war, persons that fled from Belgium to France in May 1940 or afterwards, children born out of these refugees in France and persons arrested by ...

  20. Give Them a Face portrait collection. Collection

    This collection contains over 19,650 portraits of Roma, Sinti and Jewish men, women and children from Belgium and the north of France, whom have been deported from the SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks) to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Ravensbrück, Bergen-Belsen and Vittel between August 1942 and July 1944.