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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. Stephen Siegel collection

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

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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...

  13. 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 ...

  14. STERMER, Esther

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

  15. 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...

  16. Stern family collection

    The collection primarily consists of photographs and copyprints depicting the family of Abraham and Etelka Stern, who immigrated to Antwerp, Belgium from Sighet (Sighetu Marmatiei, Transylvania) in 1927. Included are depictions of Abraham and Etelka, their children Alex, Edith, and Judith, and other family and friends. Also included is a letter received by Edith, a list of hidden children in France, and the 1996 program for a ceremony honoring Emilie and Pierre Baldy, a French couple that helped hide the Sterns in Rimes, France from 1942-1943, who were recognized as Righteous Among the Nati...

  17. Stern family documents

    Contains facsimiles of Baruch Stern's death certificate, Amalie Sara Schwab's birth certificate, attestation that her name is Amalie Stern nee Schwab, and an attestation that Amalie Stern nee Schwab has taken the name "Sara."

  18. Stern family papers relating to restitution

    Relates to the fate of Ilse Stern Salinger, who was incarcerated in Westerbork and later perished at Auschwitz along with her husband and child. Also relates to cooperative efforts by Mrs. Salinger's father, Robert Stern, and her mother-in-law, Clara Alice Steinhaus, to obtain restitution from the West German government for damages (e.g. loss of freedom, loss of property) to Ilse Salinger.

  19. Stern family: First World War letters from the front

    Stern family correspondence including letters from Rudolf Stern from the front during World War I to his father, Robert and sister, Hedwig (1911/1); letters from Fritz Bernstein to Robert and Hedwig Stern (1911/2); translations of this correspondence (1911/3)  

  20. STERN, Ethel and David

    The documents in the collection consist of 5 paper files as well as a file of photographs. The document files are 1) documents related to JIAS history, programs and administration, including some newsletter articles written by Ethel Stern and others by Joseph Kage; 2) JIAS administrative and personnel correspondence with Ethel Stern, as well as correspondence from other sources related to her life and career; 3) letters sent to Ethel Stern, mostly expressions of gratitude from JIAS clients; 4) JIAS client case information and attestations written by Ethel Stern (this file carries restrictio...