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Language of Description: English

  1. Warum ich Europea verlassen, und was ich in Amerika erreicht habe

    The collection includes Dr. Eduard Bloch's autobiography titled “Warum ich Europea verlassen, und was ich in Amerika erreicht habe,” written between 1941 and 1945. In his autobiography, Eduard provides a history of his family and details his life in Austria and his family’s immigration to the United States as well as and his career as a physician, including his professional acquaintance with the Hitler family. The collection also includes a translation of the autobiography titled “Why I left Europe and what I have achieved in America.”

  2. David Siegel papers

    The David Siegel papers document Siegel’s time working for the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC), serving as a liaison to the Canadian immigration department, assisting with Jewish displaced persons from 1948-1949. Included in the records are documents from Siegel’s time with the CJC, such as his diary, address book, and travel documents. In addition, a photograph album documents Siegel’s travels across Europe. The biography series contains Siegel’s reflections on his time with the CJC, both in written responses to questions via mail, and an historical narrative that Siegel gave that broke dow...

  3. Juhn family documents

    Contains documents pertaining to the Juhn family's Holocaust experiences, including: identity cards; telelgrams; and certificates concerning Lygmiut Horszowski, Zigmund Horsovseky, Willy Hass, and Adolf Hass.

  4. Jüdische Gemeinde Hamburg collection

    Contains community records of five main Jewish communities in Germany: Münster, Oldenburg, Detmold, Lippe, and Lübeck. It includes correspondence with the Centralverein, the Reichsvertretung, and other organizations; and records relating to financial and social welfare matters within these Jewish communities.

  5. Jüdische Gemeinde Köln collection

    Contains records from the Jewish communities in Köln. Includes undated deportation lists; death registers at the Israelisches Asylum 1932-1942; Gestapo card files and name lists, 1939 and 1943; records relating to the refugee camp on Blankheimer Str.,1945-1946; postwar letters and reports about persecutions of Jews, 1946-1960; postwar reports about many subjects including restitution, name lists, confiscation of property; and family document collections.

  6. Jüdische Gemeinde Stuttgart collection

    Consists of records pertaining to the Jewish communities of Stuttgart, Esslingen, Hechingen, and Ulm and various other records. Includes postwar name lists of survivors from Theresienstadt and Bergen Belsen living in Switzerland; name lists and deportation lists of Jews from the Stuttgart area (1935-1945); deportation lists to Theresienstadt (1942-1944); community records of the town Hechingen (1942-1945); organization of food supply (1944-1945); correspondence of Mr. Marx, who was the "Vertrauensmann der Reichsvereinigung" in Stuttgart until 1944; records of the high council of Israelites ...

  7. Jüdische Gemeinde Wiesbaden collection

    Includes file of 1,100 cards with individual personal data, created by Wiesbaden Gestapo until 1942; list of deportees from Wiesbaden to the "East," with some annotations made after the war; burial register of the Platterstrasse cemetery, 1940-1942; postwar card file of approximately 350 cards on individuals to 1950.

  8. Jüdische Gemeinde Erfurt

    Contains records concerning laws on Jews; records on the organizations Keren Hayessod, and Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Gotha; protocols of the Elders of Zion in German; financial and political reports.

  9. Jüdische Gemeinde Mannheim collection

    Contains lists of foreign emigration, files on confiscation of Jewish goods, on Jews transported to France on 22 October 1940, on Dr. Neter, and on the estate of Doris Perlstein (1935-1990); and financial books.

  10. Jüdisches Regionalmuseum Mittelfranken in Fürth collection

    Contains personal papers of the Gräfenberg family, Schäler family, and Lotte Roman (n.d.); correspondence of Lore Sulzbacher with her parents who were deported to Theresienstadt (1938-1944); and documents pertaining to the Spear toy factory (1938-1940).

  11. Institut für die Geschichte der Deutschen Juden in Hamburg collection

    Contains protocols, correspondence, writings of M. Plaut, personal papers of Epstein, who was chairman of the Jewish community, including poems and writings from Theresienstadt concentration camp (1942), restitution matters, postcards of Lotte Cahn from Theresienstadt and Łódź, Poland, and letters from Hamburg, Germany (1935-1937).

  12. Ephraim-Carlebach-Stiftung, Leipzig collection

    Contains records concerning Nazi crimes against Jews, and correspondence, including the personal papers of Kurt Sabatzky.

  13. Identification card

    The identification card was issued to Marcel Koller [donor] in Bucharest, Romania. It states that he was born in Vijnitz, Romania (now Ukraine), on 23 April 1931 and was deported to and liberated from the Tropova camp in Transnistria, Romania (now Ukraine).

  14. Ewa Karpinska papers

    The papers consist of a portrait photograph of the Szotland family and a 7-page, typewritten biography which is probably a transcript of an interview conducted on August 16, 1995, with two letters to Minna Wosk, subject of the interview. These letters are from Dr. Thomas Lange, are written on "Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt" letterhead, and are dated September 12, 1997, and January 26, 1998.

  15. Levy family photograph collection

    The photographs include an image of Erno and Sylvain Levy on their honeymoon, an image of their daughter, Josie, as a child in hiding in Lesterps, France, during the Holocaust, and studio portraits of the family after World War II.

  16. Szymon Radzynski photograph

    The image, taken in June or July of 1945, depicts Szymon Radzynski (donor's father) wearing a prison uniform.

  17. Autograph album

    Rectangular form with black-and-white fabric-covered cardboard cover; interior pages of written text, drawings, adhered stickers, and adhered postcards; red paper strips adhered to the front cover with tape. The autograph album contains verses from 25 of Faye Adam's (now Faye Warschauer) classmates who lived in the Netherlands during World War II.

  18. Herbst family papers

    The papers consist of nine photographs depicting the experiences of the Herbst family in the Ansbach displaced persons camp, two photographs depicting the experiences of the Herbst family before World War II, two identification cards issued to Sabina Herbst [donor's mother] and Ziunia Herbst [donor] in Ansbach, three documents relating to Sabina and Ziunia Herbst's emigration to the United States in 1948, and two letters (with envelopes) written to Sabina Herbst while she was living in New York, N.Y.

  19. Josef Grotte photograph collection

    The photographs consist of images of Josef Grotte and his family before and during the Holocaust.

  20. Esther Lask photograph collection

    The photographs relate to the experiences of Esther Lask in several displaced persons camps in Germany after World War II. The photographs mainly consist of studio portraits of individuals and informal group images of refugees at various camps. Many of the photographs have handwritten messages on the back.