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  1. Gertrude and William Nagel papers

    The Gertrude and William Nagel papers include photographs, birth certificates, education records, correspondence, and passports documenting Gertrude and William Nagel’s prewar experiences in Vienna, Austria as well as their wartime immigration to the United States, William Nagel’s service in the United States Army, and their families. Documents include records of William Nagel’s education in Vienna, Austria; naturalization as a U.S. citizen; enlistment in the U.S. Army; service as an intelligence officer interrogating German POWs in Germany; and honorable discharge with several commendation...

  2. Gertrude Basinger Oppenheimer papers

    The collection consists of documents related to Gertrude Basinger Oppenheimer's emigration from Bruchsal, Germany to the United States in 1936. Included are affidavits of support, German emigration documents, an immigrant identification card, anda naturalization certificate. Also includes a handmade book illustrated and authored by her brother, Paul Basinger and sent to her in Bruchsal prior to her immigration to the United States.

  3. Gertrude Buff Spangler papers

    Collection of documents, photographs and notebook illustrating the pre-war and wartime experiences of Gertrude Buff's and her mother and father, Elsa and Berthold Buff. Also included is a Deutsches Reich Reisepass [German passport] for Paul Spangenthal [Gertrude's husband, Paul Spangler]. Collection contains Arbeitsbuch [worker's book] for Gertrude, who was forced as a Jew to leave school and work for private German companies until she and Elsa emigrated in 1939. Includes German documents concerning confiscated family property and post-war restitution efforts; a handwritten German cookbook ...

  4. Gertrude G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude G., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1931. She recalls hostility from local Nazis after the Anschluss in March 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions and violence; expulsion from school; her father's arrest prior to Kristallnacht; public humiliation of her mother and grandmother on Kristallnacht; learning her father was in Dachau; his release, based upon a promise to leave Austria; their emigration to Italy; living in Milan with assistance from the Joint; attending a Jewish school; her father's internment as a political refugee; joining him, with her mother, in Cas...

  5. Gertrude Goetz collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of Helen Kopfstein, who was deported from Vienna, Austria, to Sobibor death camp in June 1942 and a letter from Dr. Schwarzschild written in 1939.

  6. Gertrude Gottfried family papers

    Contains information about Gertrude Gottfried's Holocaust experiences; includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs and embarkation cards for her emigration to the United States. Also includes affidavits of support, naturalization information, identification paperwork in lieu of passports, passenger tickets for the SS Marine Marlin related to the post-war immigration of Josek and Guta (later Joseph and Gertrude) Gottfried.

  7. Gertrude Gutman collection

    Consists of an eighteen-page newspaper created by displaced persons on their journey to New York. The cover bears an image of a ship with “IRO” written above and “U.S.A.T. Gen.C.H. Muir/No. 29/31.10.49/Bremerhaven/[image of life preserver]/New York/9.11.49.”

  8. Gertrude H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Getrude H., who was born in approximately 1931 in Reghin, Romania. She recalls no awareness of politics; visiting grandparents in Sighet; wearing the yellow star in 1944; her father's removal by the SS; forced relocation with her mother to the Vis��eul de Sus ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; a kapo removing her mother from the line of older people and warning them to conceal they were mother and child; staying in the same bunk at night, but keeping apart during the day; the birth of a child in her barrack; burying the baby; the barrack kapo seeing and ignoring it (sh...

  9. Gertrude Heller Fischbach collection

    The Gertrude Heller Fischbach collection consists of six photographs relating to the family of Gertrude Fischbach (née Heller). Pictured in the photographs are the parents of Gertrude Fischbach Moritz Heller (b. December 30, 1876) and Friede Heller (b. May 25, 1880), and her parents-in-law Jonas Fischbach (b. October 17, 1885) and Amalie Fischbach (née Dull, b. September 29, 1884). The photographs were taken in Klagenfurt, Austria in 1938; London, England, circa 1939; and 1943-1944 after their arrival in the United States. All pictured were passengers on the MS St. Louis and eventually immi...

  10. Gertrude Jackel and Julius Wetterhahn family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, photographs, diploma, photo album, oral history and other materials relating to the experiences of Gertrude Jackel and Julius Wetterhahn (donors' parents) and their parents, siblings, and extended family during the time period surrounding the Holocaust.

  11. Gertrude Jorisch papers

    The Gertrude Jorisch papers consist of a partial list of victims from Skałat, Poland (now Скалат, Ukraine); Gertrude Jorisch’s 13 page memoir about her prewar life in Skałat, the deportation of her family to Belzec, her time in the Skałat ghetto and labor camp and hiding in the forest, and postwar antisemitism in Skalat; and photographs of herself, her father, her husband, and other Holocaust survivors at the displaced persons camp at Deggendorf.

  12. Gertrude K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1923, one of five children. She describes her close, observant family; the March 1938 German annexation of Austria; forced transfer to a Jewish section; round-ups; her family's employment in a soup kitchen; her emigration to Palestine through Hashomer Hatzair with her father's encouragement; writing to and receiving letters from her family; and learning of their emigration to Yugoslavia. Mrs. K. recalls being joined by one of her brothers; life with other children on a kibbutz; joining her aunt's household in Haifa in 19...

  13. Gertrude Kahn papers

    Death certificate, dated 1949, for Friedrich Wessely, from Council of Jewish Communities in Czechoslovakia, attesting to Wessely's death at Theresienstadt in 1942. Two photographs, unidentified, perhaps of Wessely and his wife, Sofie Levy Wessely.

  14. Gertrude Kupferblum Russi collection

    Consists of one memoir, untitled, written by Gertrude (Gert) Kupferblum Russi in September 2002, describing her experiences in Poland and Italy in the 1930s and her immigration to the United States with her husband, Simon, in 1938, in order to escape the Holocaust. Also includes one photograph, taken in 1920, of Simon Russi with his family, one photograph, dated 1936, of Gertrude Kupferblum with a friend, and one photograph of Gertrude Kupferblum with her brother Henry in 1937.

  15. Gertrude Laufer collection

    The Gertrude Laufer collection include an identification card and a letter. The identification card (Foreigners' Resident Certificate) was issued to Gertrude Brück upon her arrival in Shanghai in 1939 from Vienna. The letter written by Margarethe Braun Mittler (Gertrude Laufer’s aunt) from the ghetto in Opole, Poland to a friend in Vienna, Austria, in November 1941 and describes the poor health and subsequent death of her mother. Margarethe was born in 1901 and is believed to have perished in 1942 in the Belzec or Sobibor killing centers in Poland.

  16. Gertrude M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude M., who was born in Germany in 1915. She recalls a happy childhood; living with aunts in Alzey; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending business college; working in Cologne; her father's arrest in 1933 as a Social Democrat; moving to Mainz after his release; her fiance's emigration to the United States in 1938; difficulties leaving Germany after Kristallnacht; obtaining passage on the St. Louis to Havana in May 1939; refusal by the Cuban government to allow debarkation of any passengers; futile attempts to obtain landing rights by the Joint; forced return ...

  17. Gertrude M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude M., who was born in Germany in 1915. In addition to information included in a previously cataloged testimony (HVT-1368), Ms. M. recalls living in Hilversum after German invasion of the Netherlands; a non-Jewish friend arranging her hiding place in Haarlem; and staying there from August 1942 to January 1943. She notes improved communications today enable people to help during genocides such as in Cambodia.

  18. Gertrude Philipp letter

    Consists of one letter, 12 pages, from Gertrude Philipp, of Germany, to the Salberg family in Pennsylvania on August 17, 1939. In the letter, she gives extensive description of her experiences on Kristallnacht and how difficult life had become as a result of the anti-Jewish laws and of popular sentiments.

  19. Gertrude Rubin papers

    Collection consisting of 11 letters and one postcard received by Gertrude Rubin [donor's mother] while she was living in hiding in France, after she was able to leave the Rivesaltes internment camp with help from the French resistance. Collection includes letters and a postcard written by Selma Rubin [donor's grandmother] to her daughter, sent from Rivesaltes internment camp in France, June-July 1942; letter written from unknown acquaintance in Rivesaltes, dated August 1942; and letters written by Erich, Rudy and Dohle (Danielle) Adler, Gertrude's half-brothers and sister, while they were l...

  20. Gertrude S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude S., who was born in Hausberge an der Porta, Germany in 1919, one of two sisters. She recounts her family's move to a small town in Hessen, then to Hannover; increasing antisemitism after 1933; apprenticing as a seamstress in Dortmund; anti-Jewish restrictions; Kristallnacht; living briefly in Munich; Allied bombings; her family's unsuccessful effort to obtain emigration papers in Stuttgart; their deportation to the Ri?ga ghetto; forced labor; frequent round-ups; her parents' deportation (she never saw them again); a friend preventing her from committing suici...