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  1. Stephen F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stephen F., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1912. He recounts his father's leaving for military service in 1914; his return four years later and death shortly thereafter; turmoil during the Nazi takeover in 1933; attending medical school; being warned to leave prior to a raid (his older sister and brother had already emigrated); an unsuccessful attempt to attend medical school in Strasbourg; studying in Amsterdam; joining his brother and sister in the United States; graduating from Harvard Medical School; getting his mother and grandparents out in 1938; ...

  2. Stephen Fisher collection

    Consists of two stereographic prints depicting the persecution of the Jews during World War II. One image depicts Polish Jews being forced to labor with a large cart, while the other image shows the burning of Jewish beds in the town square in Myślenice, Poland. The photographer is listed as Heinrich Hoffmann, and the photographs were mass produced and published by Raumbild-Verlag-Otto Schönstein.

  3. Stephen Glick collection

    The collection consists of five filmstrips created to indoctrinate and educate members of the Hitler Youth in Nazi Germany during the late 1930s.

  4. Stephen J. Fraenkel papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Stephen Fraenkel of Berlin, Germany including his immigration to the United States in 1938 with the financial aid of the Sigma Alpha Mu Jewish fraternity at the University of Nebraska, his studies at the University of Nebraska and the Illinois Institute of Technology, his engineering career, his pathway to citizenship, and his efforts to assist his father Max Fraenkel emigrate from Germany. Included are numerous letters sent to Stephen by his father in Berlin from 1938-1942. The bulk of the collection consists of biographical materials, ...

  5. Stephen J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stephen J., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1939. He recounts his family's move to Piotrko?w Trybunalski after German occupation; ghettoization; his father's privileged position as a physician; living in a hospital compound; deportation to a labor camp with his parents, brother, and uncles and aunts; transfer to Buchenwald with his father and brother (his mother was sent to Bergen-Belsen); being hidden in the shoemaker's shop with assistance from a German prisoner-physician, then in the tuberculosis barrack; seeing shootings and wagons full of corpses; the prisoner ...

  6. Stephen J. Schweitzer diary

    The Stephen J. Schweitzer diary is a small pocket diary Schweitzer maintained secretly and hid in his socks while he was a POW in Stalag IXB and as a forced laborer in the Berga forced labor camp. The diary contains brief entries describing events and conditions in the camps, the moods of his fellow prisoners, and his thoughts of his family.

  7. Stephen Kornreich collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, papers, ephemera, photographs, and a leather travel documents pouch related to Stephen Kornreich [donor's father], a Hungarian Jew who left for Palestine in 1933 and later immigrated to the United States in 1939. Additional materials are donor's audio-recorded interview with her father Stephen Kornreich, from 1981-1984, and a partial transcript of the interview. Also includes a memoir that Stephen Kornreich's brother Beno Korda wrote for, and gave to, the donor.

  8. Stephen L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stephen L., who was born in Berlin, Germany to a Jewish father and Protestant mother. He recalls his mother's death in 1931; living in a Jewish orphanage; his father's two month incarceration in Oranienburg; his bar mitzvah; his father's remarriage to a Jewish woman in 1938; violent harassment by Hitler youth; Kristallnacht; his father losing his business; his parents sending him to France; attending public school; German invasion in 1940; Quakers transporting his group to unoccupied territory; assistance from OSE and ORT; learning from the Red Cross that his parents ...

  9. Stephen Lerman papers

    The Stephen Lerman papers consists of six photographs of Lerman’s family and himself. All but one of the photographs capture images of Lerman’s family prior to his imprisonment in several concentration camps. The photograph marked 1991.105.02 is a portrait of Stephen Lerner. 1991.105.03 shows the Lerman family in 1938. From left to right: Stephen, mother Sara, sister Shana, father Izak Wolfe, and brother David. The photograph marked 1991.105.04 was taken in 1931 and shows from left to right: sisters Miriam, Bessie, and Goldie, with Stephen’s cousin Szlama in the rear. The photograph marked ...

  10. Stephen Mize collection

    Deutsches Reich Arbeitsbuch für Ausländer issued to Polish youth (Wasyl Nowodejki?)in 1944; Antisemetic Notgeld coupon from Brakel, Germany; dated March 1, 1922

  11. Stephen Olesnevich papers

    Collection of more than 280 photographs taken by Stephen Olesnevich in Warsaw and other cities in 1945-1946. Documents include his passport and his nomination to serve as Vice Consul of the Unted States in Poland.

  12. Stephen Siegel collection

    The collection consists of seventy-eighty lithographs relating to the history of the Holocaust.

  13. Stephen Weiner collection

    Contains letters from Bella Flora Wach (donor's mother) to her parents Fajga and David Wach while all them were in hiding in Belgium during the Holocaust; dated December 1943 to June 1944.

  14. Sterba Arnost postcards

    Contains two picture postcards of Karlovy Vary in 1945 and Edvard Benes, the President of Czechoslovakia prior to the German occupation of the Sudetenland in 1938.

  15. Sterbebuch (Zweitbuch) 1942 Band 18. NR. 25501.- 27000

    Consists of a copy of "Sterbebuch (Zweitbuch) 1942: Band 18. NR. 25501.-27000." compiled by the Standesamt Auschwitz in September 1942. The death book provides the prisoners' identification numbers, their native cities, the names of their parents, the names of the attending physicians, and the alleged causes of death.

  16. Sterbeurkunde for Paul Reiss

    Photocopy of a Sterbeurkunde (death certificate) for Paul Reiss issued from the Standesbeamte des Sonderstandesamt Arolsen on July 24, 1963. Includes Paul Reiss' date and place of birth, date and place of death, and similar information for his wife, Rosalie Reiss.

  17. Sterilization and population politics

    Propaganda film including healthy Germans engaging in sports, 1936 Olympics, farming, Nuremberg Laws, Roma, mentally ill, women with dogs, Hitler Youth, harvest festival, marching SS and Wehrmacht in the 1930s. Title cards read: "Rassenpolitische Amt R.L. der NSDAP feigt den Aufrlärungsfilm," "Was du ererbt" and "Entwurf und Ausfiihrung: h. Gerdes." A man throws a javelin and a text reads a quote from Dr. Grok in German. A woman lies next to a sleeping baby, a toddler walks towards the camera as someone holds his hand and a CU of a boy’s face. Children run across a field after a ball. Small...

  18. Sterilization; marriage health law

    Propaganda for sterilization (15m10s); "Kampf ums Dasein" [struggle for life] (2m12s); enactment of the marriage health law (4m30s); positive Nazi goals (1m50s). Nazi racial propaganda film about mentally and physically disabled people and the danger and drain they are on the Aryan nation. This film (like "Erbkrank") shows footage of men, women and children who have been placed in hospitals, asylums, etc. There are CUs of sad, destroyed people. Footage of their behavior (i.e., a man standing in a field of daisies "whipping" the air with an imaginary whip, another man angrily beats his hand ...

  19. STERMER, Esther

    Manuscript entitled documents the Stermer family's survival of the Holocaust in Poland through concealment in a local cave.

  20. Stern and Pächter family papers

    The Stern and Pächter family papers include biographical material, correspondence, testimonies, cookbooks, poems, and documents relating to Mina Pächter, Anny Stern, and their family’s experiences in Prague and Theresienstadt. The collection includes a document instructing Mina to report to Theresienstadt, copies of Mina’s biography and the Pächter family tree, letters from Mina to her daughter, Anny, and one of her sister, Red Cross letters from Mina to her son-in-law Georg and from Josef Stern to Fritz Lederer, copies of transcripts of Anny Stern and Elisabeth Laufer’s oral testimony, a c...