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  1. Steinhardt-Safier family. Collection

    The Steinhardt-Safier family collection contains 28 photos showing the prewar Steinhardt and Safier family life : pictures taken on boat rides during vacations, wedding photos taken at a synagogue in Berlin, baby pictures of Harry Henri Steinhardt, family parties and Passover celebrations, and the Safier family at their bakery in Berlin. The collection also contains a post-war letter from the Belgian Ministry of Public Affairs confirming the deportation of the Steinhardt-Safier family and two family trees clarifying the ties between the Steinhardt and Safier families.

  2. Stekler family collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, correspondence, receipts, report cards pertaining to the families of Walter Stekler and Gisela Schrott Stekler of Vienna, Austria and later of the United States. Also includes a mazchor, as well as tefillin (with protective bag and embroidered initials) and tallit belonging to Walter Stekler.

  3. Stella and Chester Szczesny collection

    Photographs documentating memorialization of Polish Roman Catholic Stanislawa and Czeslaw Szczesny, both survivors of multiple concentration camps and attempts to drown victims (some who survived) Thielbeck and Deutschland ships. Postwar identity card for Czeslaw and wallet in which all were kept.

  4. Stella K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stella K., who was born in Przemys?l, Poland in 1923. She recalls her happy, comfortable, and observant childhood; antisemitic attacks by children; attending public school; accompanying their maid to Catholic services; moving with her family to Krako?w; German invasion; ghettoization with her parents and sister outside Krako?w; her parents' deportation (she never saw them again); working as a nurse; transfer to P?aszo?w; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; selections; Polish civilian workers' indifference to the piles of bodies; transfer to Ravensbru?ck and Malchow; li...

  5. Stella Luftig collection

    Contains two photographs: one, dated 15 May 1927, a studio portrait of two boys; the other, undated, of a woman with three children in a park.

  6. Stella M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stella M., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1930. She describes her wealthy and assimilated family; an antisemitic incident in school; cordial relations with non-Jews; vacationing in Rabka; German invasion; escaping east with her family for two months eluding the Germans; reaching Tarno?w; deciding to return; obtaining a horse in Bochnia; expulsion, from their home; their maid hiding valuables for them; ghettoization in March 1941; non-Jewish friends sending them food; her father working as a ghetto policeman; his warning others of pending round-ups; liquidation of ...

  7. Stendal, Germany, information and photograph album

    Consists of one photograph album consisting of pre-war photographs of residents of Stendal, Germany. This album was discovered in the stable behind the house of Jenkel Denemark in Stendal. The stable was used as a gathering point for the Jews of Stendal before they were deported from the city in 1942. Also includes information about Jenkel Denemark and a history of the Jews of Stendal.

  8. Stepha S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stepha S., who was born in Skierniewice, Poland. She recalls her and her family's illegal communist activities; hiding in ?o?dz? to avoid arrest in 1936; fleeing to Paris; living with her uncle's family; her brothers and parents following her; active participation in a communist, Jewish organization (Arbeiter Ring); marriage to a Polish Jew; his mobilization at the outbreak of war in 1939; her daughter's birth; German occupation; increasing anti-Jewish measures; imprisonment of Jewish men at Beaune-La-Rolande, including her husband and brothers; moving to be near her ...

  9. Stephan H. Lewy collection

    The collection consists of a camera, a prayer book, documents, photographs, and two memoirs relating to the experiences of Heinz Stephan Lewy before the Holocaust in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust in France, and after the Holocaust in the United States.

  10. Stephanie Brady and Walter and Paula Bolton: personal papers

    Readers should reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection contains the personal papers of Viennese Jewish refugees Walter and Paula Bolton, and Steffi Brady (née Kohn).Personal papers including copy correspondence by Josef and Jenny Hausmann from Camp de Recebedou, photograph of a class taught by Josef Hausmann, copy articles relating to the school in Karlsruhe where Hausmann worked; and paper entitled 'Die zerschlagene Tafel - Jüdisches Leben in Durlach'. 

  11. Stephanie Klein papers

    The papers contain a letter written by Abram donor's uncle to "Moniek" in July 1944 while he was stationed with the Polish Army outside of Lublin, Poland, and a photograph of Abram and his family in Czestochowa, Poland, circa 1938.

  12. Stephanie Mayer collection

    The Stephanie Mayer collection consists of three photographs with inscriptions. The photographs show Stephanie Pringheim Mayer with friends on board the MS St. Louis in May 1939.

  13. Stephanie R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stephanie R., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922. She recalls her father's strong German identity; losing his bank in 1933 due to anti-Jewish legislation; her expulsion from school in 1938; convincing her father to hide on Kristallnacht to avoid arrest; her wish to emigrate; her father's refusal until August 1939; and the painful parting from her parents. Mrs. R. describes difficulties adjusting in England; communications with her parents prior to the war; a nine month incarceration on the Isle of Man as a potential German spy; return to London; the trauma of Ger...

  14. Stephanie Richardson photograph collection

    19 photographs taken or gathered by donor's father immediately following the Liberation of Buchenwald. The collection consists of vintage black and white copy prints of Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation by American troops.

  15. Stephen Alexander collection

    Contains a Swiss protective passport issued to Bela Alexander, and a document from the Hungarian Jewish Committee stipulating that Istvan Alexander [donor] has the right to be outside past curfew in the Budapest ghetto.

  16. Stephen B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stephen B., who was born in Berettyo?u?jfalu, Hungary in 1927. He recalls being raised with his sister in Debrecen; joyous family holiday celebrations; attending a Jewish school; German occupation in March 1944; anti-Jewish laws; ghettoization; forced labor cleaning bombing rubble; transfer to a brickyard a month later; deportation with his mother and sister to Strasshof (his father was in a slave labor battalion), then a labor camp in Vienna; contacts with Allied POWs; an Austrian foreman giving him extra food; observing Yom Kippur; disappearance of the guards; trave...

  17. Stephen Bass document

    Liberation document issued for Istvan [Stephen] Bass, who was born in Koszeg, Hungary in 1923 and was deported to concentration camps, and liberated in Gusen concentration camp, a subcamp of Mauthausen in Austria. Document dated June 8, 1945; entitled "Provisional identification card for civilian internee of Mauthausen," and "Ausweis - Certification."

  18. Stephen D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stephen D., who was born in Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, Poland in 1918. He describes comfortable relations with non-Jews; working in the family textile business; joining a Zionist organization; increasing antisemitism beginning in 1936; incarceration in 1938 in Bereza Kartuska, a Polish government camp; fleeing with his brother to Lut?s??k, Ukraine after the outbreak of war; a brief return to Poland to marry; his parents and sister joining them in Lut?s??k; his father's return to Poland (they never saw him again); German invasion; separation from his mother, sister, and bro...

  19. Stephen de Bastion collection

    Transcript of an interview given in 1987; also history of the Hollzer family by Stephen de Bastion an abridged translation of an article about about Szeyed, home of the Hollzer family; copy family photographsReaders need to reserve a reading room terminal to listen to Stephen de Bastion interview.

  20. Stephen de Bastion: copy family papers

    This collection contains papers relating to the family of Hungarian born Stephen de Bastion, pianist and composer, formerly known as Istvan Bastyai.Copy family papers including a transcript of an interview with Stephen de Bastion describing his life; a history of the Bastyai-Holtzer family with family tree; a history of the town of Szeged, Hungary where the family lived; and an account by Edith de Bastion of her family's experiences under the Nazis and press cuttings, and photographs.