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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple
Country: United States

  1. Zdenka Steiner Novak family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, a photo album, a cookbook, documents, sketches, correspondence, photographs, Zdenka's memoir, "Story of My Life," and her school records. The papers are part of a collection documenting Zdenka Steiner Novak and the Steiner family's experiences in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Zagreb, Croatia) before, during, and after World War II.

  2. Zdenka W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zdenka W. who was born in Kolinec, Czechoslovakia in 1909. She recalls moving to Prague at age seventeen (her parents were deceased); German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions resulting in dismissal from her job; working for her brother; hearing of atrocities against Jews in Poland; her brother's deportation to Terezi?n in December 1941; and volunteering for transport to Terezi?n with her younger sister at her brother's urging by correspondence. Mrs. D. describes her office job; transports from Germany; her older sister's arrival after Heydrich's assassination; her ...

  3. Zdenko Bergl collection

    Consists of two false documents issued to Zdenko Bergl and his mother in Mirabella Eclano, Italy, in September 1943; four documents issued to Zdenko Bergl in the Cinecitta displaced persons camp near Rome, Italy, in 1946 and 1947; a photocopy of a certificate issued to Zdenko Bergl's father in 1940 in his hometown of St. Ivan Zabno in Croatia; a photograph of Zdenko Bergl and two friends in the Cinecitta DP camp in 1947; and a circa 1932 photograph of a brick factory, which belonged to Zdenko Bergl's father.

  4. Zdzis?aw S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zdzis?aw S., a non-Jew, who was born in W?oc?awek, Poland in 1914. He describes childhood friendships with Jews; defending Jews against attacks as part of Hashomer; meeting Mordecai Anielewicz; membership in the Polish Socialist Party; mobilization in the Polish military; German invasion; capture; escape from a prisoner-of-war camp to W?oc?awek; helping Jews escape to the Soviet Union; escape to Warsaw to avoid arrest for helping Jews; his brother's execution for hiding Jews; ghettoization; observing terrible conditions during ghetto visits; smuggling Jews out; establ...

  5. Zdzislaw Ryn papers

    Writings, typescript and photocopies of published articles, by Ryn, many relating to Holocaust survivors and "survivor syndrome," circa 1979-1990.

  6. Ze'ev D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ze'ev D., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924, the older of two brothers. He recounts living in a children's home organized by Janusz Korczak for two years when his father was ill; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending a Polish scout camp in summer 1939; German invasion; returning home; ghettoization; working in a Korczak children's home; creating a puppet theater with friends; taking food to his parents; hiding during a round-up (his family and everyone in the children's home were deported); a factory job outside the ghetto; observing...

  7. Ze'ev G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ze'ev G., who was born in Kaunus, Lithuania in 1927, one of five children. He recounts his very close family, attending Jewish schools; his bar mitzvah; Soviet occupation; transfer to a public school; German invasion; briefly fleeing east with his parents and brothers (one sister fled to Russia, another to Vilnius); finding their home occupied upon return; moving to his grandfather's home (his grandfather had been killed); a non-Jewish neighbor bringing them food; ghettoization; his sister's return from Vilnius; his father's privileged position as a painter; working w...

  8. Ze'ev R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ze'ev R., who was born in Manevichi, Poland (presently Prilesnoye, Ukraine) in 1923, one of two children. He recounts attending Polish public school, then gymnasium in Lʹviv; Soviet occupation in September 1939; he and his sister attending a Soviet school; German invasion in June 1941; hiding with Ukrainian neighbors; other Ukrainians stealing their possessions; hiding in a Ukrainian friend's barn; leaving his family to escape to the forest with a group; joining a partisan group; learning that his family had been shot in a mass killing; receiving food from a family fr...

  9. Ze’ev Raveh Werba collection

    The Ze’ev Raveh Werba collections consist of a tablecloth, documents, awards, certificates, manuscripts, and photographs documenting Ze’ev Raveh Werba in prewar Maniewicze, Poland (Manevychi, Ukraine), as a partisan during the war, and after the war in the Adriatic displaced persons camp in Italy and then in Israel. Documents recognize Werba for his participation as a partisan and in the Israeli Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel. The manuscripts describe Werba’s experiences during and after the Holocaust. Photographs depict the Werba family in Maniewicze before the war; Werba as a partisan ...

  10. Zeev F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zeev F., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1926. He recalls his family's affluence; his sister's birth in 1930; attending a Jewish private school; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of his father's business and schools closing; ghettoization; severe hunger and cold; working in a sewing workshop; his father's death; his father's friend arranging his reassignment to a kitchen, thus providing the family with more food; joining Hashomer Hatzair, an "oasis" in a horrible environment; meeting his future wife at a meeting; rea...

  11. Zeev Rebhun collection

    Collection contains information regarding Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps, including lists of Jews deported, maps of the camps, and official reports; videotape entitled "The final solution." The name lists are from the Sachsenhausen archives, NARA, and Yad Vashem archives.

  12. Zeev S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zeev S., who was born in Sochaczew, Poland in 1921, the second of seven children. He recounts attending public and Hebrew schools; antisemitic harassment; the Jewish community's rich cultural life; caring for his chronically ill mother from age thirteen; participating in Hechalutz; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw with his family; returning to Sochaczew; slave labor with his brother in the Kampinoska Forest; their escape to Soviet-occupied Białystok; returning home after three months; forced labor constructing an airport; deportation with his family to the Warsaw gh...

  13. Zeev Schuss memoir

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 10 pages, titled "My Glorious Journey," by Zeev Schuss, describing wartime experiences of his childhood, which led him from his native Krakow, to Lwow, Bukhara, Tehran, and finally Jerusalem. Also contains Hebrew and Polish versions of the memoir.

  14. Zehava Bendor papers

    Collection of photographs, identification cards, correspondence, and other documents relating to the experiences of the Dars and Bernstein families during the Holocaust.

  15. Zehava Epstein collection

    Collection photographs and identification cards documenting the experience of Zehava and Jehoshua Epstein [donor and husband] during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. The collection includes identification cards issued to them in Poppendorf Displaced Persons camp stating that they were on board the Exodus 1947 and forced to return to Germany from Haifa. Identification photos of each, post-war photographs with friends and family dated 1946-1947 and a photo of Zehava Epstein taken in Łódź, Poland, dated 1941. The couple met while on board the Exodus.

  16. Zehava R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zehava R., who was born in Żywiec, Poland in 1935, one of two children. She recounts living in Bochnia; German invasion; ghettoization; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; an aunt's wedding; separation from her brother during a round-up (they never saw him again); living with an aunt who worked for the Germans; her aunt arranging for a non-Jewish woman to hide her; escaping from the ghetto; the woman taking her to Jews in Prokocim; entering Slovakia illegally with them; living in a Joint camp in Liptovský Mikuláš; intense loneliness; arrest in Košice while attem...

  17. Zehngut and Weiss families collection

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs concerning the Zehngut and Weiss families in Europe; papers concerning the emigration of Inge and Kitty Weiss among the 50 Children rescued from Vienna by Brith Sholom and Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus as well as the emigration of their parents Stella Zehngut Weiss and Leon Weiss; and related materials from their lives in the United States including school records, government documents, a draft of a memoir written by Inge, and a Camp Ray-Oot swimming medal.

  18. Zeilsheim DP Camp

    Life at Zeilsheim DP camp (a small German town converted into a DP center), including a protest march and Robinson family members in various settings. All footage shot in camp. Fay and Alice play in snow, houses in BG. Joseph (born in Zeilsheim on August 25, 1946) in the baby carriage. Children play near house. Children and adults march, carrying flag of Star of David, in celebration of Lag B'Omer. Robinson family, including parents Ephraim and Sarah and children Fay, Alice, and Joseph, walk past sign "Zeilsheim Assembly Center, UNRRA Team." Robinson family entertains visitors. Children pla...

  19. Zeilsheim DP Camp (color)

    Color film of Zeilsheim Displaced Persons camp taken by Jewish survivor Albin H. White [under the false identity Albin Ostrowski] around June 1947, including shots of the assembly center, an office, outdoor performances, children, the monument to murdered Jews, soccer, school, and machine shops. Opening pan over the countryside, street scene with homes, residential area. Sign: “Zeilsheim/Assembly Center/UNRRA Team 1022” with two stars of David. “Achtung" [announcement] poster underneath dated 25 June 1947. Woman and child walking near to an entrance: “UNRRA TEAM…[1022]” Street scenes in wha...

  20. Zelda Abramson collection

    Oral history interviews produced by Zelda Abramson as research for her book The Montreal Shtetl: Making Home After the Holocaust