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  1. Susan Camis papers

    The papers consist of three photographs, two letters, a telegram, and two certificates documenting the Kollmann family during the Holocaust. Includes a letter and photograph sent to Susan Camis from Anna and Ernst Kollmann, Susan Camis's great aunt and uncle, who fled to Shanghai, China, from Vienna, Austria, in 1939; a telegram from Anna and Ernst Kollmann prior to their immigration to the United States in 1949; a photograph of Herta Kollmann, Susan's great aunt, with her mother; a photograph of her with her husband, Walter, Susan's maternal grandmother's brother; a birth certificate issue...

  2. Susan Darvas collection

    The collection consists of prewar documents, a medallion and a silver make up case which belonged to Mano Herskovits.

  3. Susan F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1919. She recalls moving with her mother to Prague in 1933 to join relatives, her father thinking it safer; anti-Jewish measures in 1939 including expulsion from the family home; her father telephoning to tell them he had to report to a transport (they never saw him again); deportation with her mother to Theresienstadt in May 1942, then to Estonia in September; their separation in Raasiku (she never saw her again); slave labor in Ja?gala, Reval, Narwa, and Kivio?li; close bonds with her fellow prisoners which saved her from...

  4. Susan Flusser Tausig collection

    The collection consists of photo albums, loose photos, documents, an autograph album, postcards, correspondence, an album of Chinese scrip, coins (Chines, Austria, etc.), a map of Shanghai, newspaper clippings related to Susan Flusser Tausig, her father Rudolf Flusser, her mother Blanka Rosenbaum (nee Lipiner), her stepfather Ludwig Rosenbaum, stepmother Dina Raave, and brother Peter Flusser. Also includes documents from Susan Flusser Tausig's father-in-law Peter Tausig and a Cafe Roy/Adieu going away card for Alexander Fried (a friend of the Tausig family).

  5. Susan G. Schoenenberger collection

    German documents: Bescheinigung der Eheschliessung, 28 November 1932; Heiratsurkunde, 7 October 1948; Auszug aus dem Familienregister, no date; Geburtskunde, 8 October 1903; documents for immigration visa; letters, photocopies and originals.

  6. Susan Gitlin collection

    The collection consists of filmstrips and a selection of manuals produced by the Hitler Youth Leadership to instruct and indoctrinate Hitler Youth members in the ideology of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.

  7. Susan Grosser papers

    The papers consist of a summons ("Borladung") from the state police ("Staatspolizei") in Vienna, Austria, issued to Karl Grosser donor's father and the envelope that held the summons.

  8. Susan Heller photographs

    Consists of ten photographs of Slovakian Jewish refugees in Canada.

  9. Susan Hilsenrath Warsinger collection

    The collection consists of a HIAS identification tag and seven photographs relating to the experiences of Susi Hilsenrath and her family in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, before the Holocaust and to Susi Hilsenrath's emigration from France to the United States in 1941.

  10. Susan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan K., who was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia in 1925. She recounts living in Dolni? Sucha?; her family's affluent, assimilated lifestyle; having to move to Ostrava in 1939 due to the war; her father's deportation to Nisko in October; apprenticeship to a milliner; moving to Prague with her mother and younger sister; sorting clothing of deported Jews; deportation to Theresienstadt in July 1943; forced labor assignments sorting clothing, in the mental hospital, in agriculture, and in the crematorium; sham improvements for a Swiss Red Cross visit; visiting friends an...

  11. Susan Kolker and family papers

    Contains correspondence between Philip Levin, of Baltimore, and his cousins Margarete and Anna in Berlin, as well as another cousin in New York, Sal Reinhart, all related to their efforts to obtain visas for Margarete and Anna to immigrate, dated 1938-1939. Includes one pre-WWI postcard of Berlin, as well as a photo of Margarete Reinhart from 1900.

  12. Susan Laurents papers

    The papers consist of a Jewish identification card ("Kennkarte") issued to Ilse Sara Waldheim in Köln (Cologne), Germany; a worker's book ("Arbeitsbuch") issued to Ilse Sara Waldheim in Cologne, Germany, and stamped by Federnfabrik Bernhard Stübecke; a change of address report ("Abmeldung") issued by the police to Ilse Sara Waldheim in Hemer, Germany; and a tax document ("Lohnsteuerkarte") issued to Ilse Sara Waldheim in Hemer, Germany.

  13. Susan M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan M., who was raised in Budapest, Hungary. She recalls her paternal grandmother with whom she associates Jewish holidays and traditions; anti-Jewish measures when she was five years old; her father's compulsory service in a Hungarian labor battalion; German invasion; moving into the ghetto in March 1944; separation from her mother during round-ups; her mother's escape from a brick factory and bribing a Hungarian to bring her to a Swedish safe house; living there with her mother; avoiding deportation with assistance from resistants; pervasive fear and hunger; and l...

  14. Susan M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan M., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. She describes her happy childhood as a performer in a successful children's theatre; her parent's divorce; her rejection from the art academy due to the Jewish quota; the nonchalant attitude of the Jewish community until the German occupation in 1944; anti-Semitic legislation; hiding with her father with the aid of his non-Jewish fiancee; the establishment of the ghetto; and the reign of the Hungarian Gestapo. She relates working as a nurse while hiding on false papers; being recognized by a non-Jewish friend who tu...

  15. Susan Mayerowitz papers

    The papers consist of a service record booklet for the German military and a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Kurt Stern donor's father, a Reisepass issued to Hilde Metzger [donor's mother], and one school diploma issued to Kurt Stern in Germany in 1927.

  16. Susan Medalie collection

    Contains a letter from the donor's grandmother to another relative in Brazil relating to the conditions in Germany for the Jews circa 1939.

  17. Susan Meisner collection

    Collection consists of photographs, publications and a first aid kit box.

  18. Susan P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan P., who was born in Felso?go?d, Hungary in 1930. She recalls attending public school there and in Va?c; visiting relatives in No?gra?d with her brother; her family's strong Hungarian identity; anti-Jewish restrictions; briefly attending school in Budapest; a round-up of all Jewish men (she never saw her father again); orders to move to Va?c in 1944; transfer to Go?do?llo?; pervasive terror and fear; a horrendous train trip to Auschwitz; separation from her family (she never saw her mother again); friendship with other Hungarian girls; fantasizing together about ...

  19. Susan P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan P., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1938. She recounts her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1940; his return a few months later; his conscription in May 1942 (she never saw him again); German occupation in March 1944; her mother obtaining Catholic baptismal papers for them in October; their move to a Swedish safe house; bringing food to her grandmother in the ghetto, posing as non-Jews; her mother bribing a Hungarian policeman with her wedding ring during a round-up; hiding, beginning in November, in a factory, then an apartment; lib...

  20. Susan Q. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan Q., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands to a prominent Sephardic, rabbinic family with a long Dutch history. She recalls a large extended family; German invasion; learning dressmaking, then nursing; working with her sisters at a Jewish mental hospital; her parents' deportation to Westerbork in 1942; their release when a friend provided false papers for them; hiding during round-ups; her older sister's deportation to Auschwitz (she did not return); being forced to assist at the castrations of Jewish men married to non-Jews; receiving notice for deportation; he...