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Language of Description: Latvian

  1. Goldberg-Kardimann family. Collection

    This collection contains: a studio portrait of the deported Bernhard Goldberg reading a book ; a studio portrait of the deported Rosa Kardimann, married Goldberg ; a portrait of spouses Majer and Malka Goldberg-Goldberg.

  2. 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.

  3. Goldberger family photographs

    Consists of eight pre-war and wartime photographs from the collection of Gustav (Gus) Goldberger. The Goldberger family emigrated to Denmark in 1935, where Jeno Goldberger was the chief cantor in Copenhagen. The photographs include kindergarten pictures, piano recital pictures, and other pictures that demonstrate the daily life of the family in pre-war and wartime Denmark. The family escaped to Sweden in 1943, but returned to Denmark after the war.

  4. Golden book and other Forty-Second US Rainbow Division memorabilia from the Rainbow Division archives

    Contains information about the involvement of the 42nd US Infantry ("Rainbow") Division in the liberation of Dachau and the memorialization of Belgian political prisoners who died there. Included are excerpt pages from the "Golden Book" containing the signatures of several Dachau survivors.

  5. Goldfarb family collection

    Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of William Goldfarb and his family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  6. Goldfarb family collection

    The collection consists of two metal and enamel pins and one wood and rubber stamp relating to the experiences of Elimelech, Roza, and William Goldfarb in the Ziegenhain and Kassel DP camps.

  7. Goldfarb family papers

    The Goldfarb family papers document the experiences of Polish-born Leopold Goldfarb, his Belgian-born wife Jenny, and their daughter Nina; as they sought to escape Belgium following the German invasion in 1940, and immigrate to the United States, by way of Portugal, Jamaica, and Cuba, following Jenny’s death in France. The papers contain identification and immigration documents, correspondence, including over a dozen postcards sent to Leopold Goldfarb by members of his extended family in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940-1941, family photographs, and correspondence related to Goldfarb’s efforts to ...

  8. Goldfarb family papers

    Contains vaccination certificates, testimony, marriage certificate, and naturalization papers for Moses Goldfarb and Szaindl (Shirley) Dudelsak Goldfarb. Also includes a certificate for a tree planted in Israel in the memory of Sara Dudelsak, who perished in the Holocaust.

  9. Goldfeld and Rauchbach families papers

    Letters, documents, and photos related to Beate Rocker (nee Goldfeld), her parents Israel & Dora Goldfeld (nee Heitner) and her brother, Albert Goldfield (originally Goldfeld). Also includes a book of congratulatory telegrams for the marriage of Marie Brandstetter and Hermann Rauchbach as well as photos and a document related to their son Otto Rauchbach (later Rocker). Also includes Kurth Rauchbach (later Rocker)'s 1945 account of his wartime experience.

  10. Goldfischer-Wyszegrodzka family. Collection

    This collection contains a Polish passport issued to Marjem Wyszegrodzka in 1937. Marjem Wyszegrodzka, born on 20 August 1908 in Łęczyca, Poland, moved to Belgium and married Leibisch Goldfischer. She had been in Belgium since 22 August 1927, working at a clothing shop in Brussels. On 7 October 1942, both Marjem and Leibisch were registered at the Dossin Barracks for deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau on Transport XIII, which departed on 10 October 1942. Upon arrival, Marjem did not survive the deportation. Her husband, Leibisch, was selected for forced labour and survived the war, being rep...

  11. Goldhersz family papers

    Contains a doctoral dissertation written by Sara Goldherszowna; a report card for Sara Goldherszowna; a photograph of Sara Goldherszowna; a photograph of the ship, Cap Arcona, that later sunk with 6800 people on board; and a Łódź ghetto work card for Pinkus Goldhersz.

  12. Goldie M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Goldie M., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1920. She recalls her observant home; a small Jewish community; living with her aunt in Abau?jva?r; attending school; her mother's death; meeting her future husband; Hungarian occupation; confiscation of Jewish property; conscription of men for forced labor battalions; ghettoization near Mukacheve in 1944; forced labor; cruel guards; deportation with relatives to Auschwitz/Birkenau; a child's sadistic murder upon leaving the trains; separation from her relatives, except one cousin; appels, starvation, and forced labor; bury...

  13. Goldlust family papers

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs regarding the Holocaust experiences of the Goldlust family of Konstanz, Germany including Manja Goldlust and her children Paula and Leo’s deportations to the Gurs and Rivesaltes internment camps in France, correspondence from the camps with Manja’s husband Bernhard Goldlust in England, and Bernhard’s attempts to help them immigrate to England. Biographical material consists of Bernhard’s Foreigner passport (Fremden Pass), primarily postwar identification documents of Paula (some documents place her birth as 1928), an affidavit and related documents...

  14. Goldman family collection

    Consists of photographs and documents relating to the wartime experiences of Dmitry Goldman, originally of Chisinau, Moldova, and of Nesya Goldstein Goldman. Includes Soviet Russian work papers and ration cards, as well as pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs for Dmitry, who fought in the Red Army, and for Nesya, who was a forced laborer.

  15. Goldman family papers

    The papers consist of letters sent by the Goldman family in Łódź, Poland, to their daughter and sister, Zosia Sophie Perlman, in Chicago, Ill.

  16. Goldmann family collection

    Correspondence, documents, and related materials concerning Kurt Goldmann pertaining to his life in Germany from his birth in 1921 through his emigration in 1939, his experiences as a newly arrived immigrant to the U.S. as a student at Penn State University and membership in the Phi Sigma Delta fraternity, his Army service during WWII, and post-war experiences as a naturalized American. Included as well are items pertaining to his parents Paul and Hedwig (Hede) Goldmann and their emigration from Germany to England and then to the U.S. and family records prior to and during the Nazi era incl...

  17. Goldmann family papers

    The Goldmann family papers consist of correspondence, biographical records, immigration documents, school notes and records, photographs, and military documents relating to Kurt Goldmann's prewar life in Germany, immigration to the United States in 1939, experience as a student at Pennsylvania State University, service in the United States Army during WWII, and his postwar life in the United States. Also included are documents related to Kurt’s parents, Paul and Hedwig (Hede) Goldmann, and their emigration from Germany to England and the United States, as well as prewar documents relating t...

  18. Goldmeier family records

    Consists of copies of legal documents used by the Nazis to confiscate and force the Goldmeiers to sell the buildings and other property owned by Isidor Goldmeier in Frankfurt, Germany, in the 1930s. Also contains a copy of a Nazi brochure which identified the Jews of Frankfurt in 1935. Includes copies of correspondence between Ralph Gomar and the current owners of the real estate, which the Nazis confiscated from his family. Please see also 2014.101.1, the John and Dorothy Goldmeier papers, for related family material.

  19. Goldschmeid and Burstyn families collection

    Documents, correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Imré and Borbala Wirth Goldschmeid and their daughter Veronika Goldschmeid. Included are pre-war images and documents such as birth certificates and report cards for Imré and Borbala, and post-war documents concerning Veronika, Borbala, and Borbala's mother Julianna who were together in Budapest until 1944 at which time Vera was placed with the Red Cross, and Borbala and sister Margit were deported to Bergen Belsen where they survived. Juliana and Mor (Borbala's parents) perished of hunger in January 1945 in Budapest....

  20. Goldschmidt Family collection

    The collection consists of a drawing created by Ludwig Goldschmidt (donor's uncle and brother of Elise Schapira), January 1939, Germany. The drawing is an image of the synagogue of Brückenau in the lower Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. Ludwig Goldschmidt was sixteen at the time. He was later deported to Dachau where he died. The collection also includes the Elise Schapira papers, which consists of correspondence to Elise in New York from her parents in Frankfurt, photographs of her parents and brother before the Holocaust and of her family in the United States, and two versions of her...