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  1. Gina Gotfryd collection

    The Gina Gotfryd collection contains photographs and a memoir of Gina Gotfryd, a Jewish child during the time of the Holocaust, who survived the Radom ghetto, labor camps, and Auschwitz. Also included is an identification card of her father. The Gina Gotfryd collection contains a memoir, written by Gina Gotfryd about her experiences surrounding the Holocaust. Also included are photographs of her family prior to the war and some photographs while she was in Stuttgart displaced persons camp. Additionally, there is an identification card given to Gina’s father, Shamai, after his liberation fro...

  2. Gina Kaeser papers

    Papers consist of documents, letters, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Heinrich and Gustava Skovronsky [donor's parents] during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Some of the photographs were saved by Gustava while in the concentration camps by keeping them wrapped up in her hair with a comb.

  3. Gina Rappaport memoir

    Consists of a copy of a memoir, 4 pages, written by Gina Rappaport of Kraków, Poland, immediately after her liberation in April 1945. In the memoir, Gina describes her memories of the German occupation of Kraków, her family's decision to flee to Tarnów, Poland, the actions of the summer of 1941, the family's deportation to Bergen-Belsen, and their liberation in April 1945.

  4. Gina S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gina S., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1921, one of two children. She recalls moving to Katowice; attending boarding schools in Vienna and Hannover, where she lived with her maternal grandparents for two years; her mother 's death; returning to Poland; staying with a friend in Kraków; German invasion; returning home a week later; learning her family had gone to Sosnowiec; joining them; working for the German administration in early 1940 since she spoke German; her brother travelling to Kraków to sell saccharin; notification of his death; colleagues selling of...

  5. Ginette Kalish photographs

    Contains photographs of Ginette Kalish [donor] and other children in Canet Plage, France, who were part of a group of seventy other orphaned children from Barcelona, Spain, who had escaped Franco and were assisted by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. This group of children were later moved to a chateau in La Vercantiere that included a school and church until their liberation in 1945. Also includes a collection of prewar and wartime photographic prints and a photographic postcard documenting the Druker family, friends from Canet Plage and the Château de Masgelier children's home in Francet.

  6. Ginny Helgeson collection

    Consists of five enlarged Signal Corps photographs taken by Claude Edward McGraw, a member of the United States Signal Corps. The photographs depict survivors demonstrating the use of the crematorium or photographers after the liberation of Dachau; Red Cross tents at Mauthausen; and prisoner portraits, including one of a Soviet prisoner with his name and prisoner number tattooed on his chest. Also includes one smaller photograph with caption describing the image of the reburial of bodies taken from a mass grave in Wetterfield, Germany.

  7. Ginsberg family papers

    Consists of original copies of birth certificates issued in 1941 for Helga Sara Gappe (born in 1920 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany) and for Szymon Icyk Ginsberg (born in 1911 in Dąbrowa Górnicza (Poland), Poland). Ginsberg's birth certificate consists of a handwritten Russian original and typed German translation. Also includes a small booklet issued by the Commune de Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode in Belgium recording the marriage of Ginsberg and Gappe in 1939.

  8. Ginz family collection

    Contains twenty photographs depicting Otto Ginz, his wife Marie Mancinka, and their two children, Petr, born 1928, and Eva (Chava), born 1930. Includes a postcard sent to Otto Ginz in Prague from Theresienstadt from his friend Freudenfeld, who write about meeting Petr there, c. 1942; and three documents issued to Eva Ginz in Theresienstadt in March 1945.

  9. Giorgina V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Giorgina V., who was born in Turin, Italy in 1926. Mrs. V. describes her family life; moving to Milan, where her grandparents lived, in 1936; attending Hebrew school; the beginning of persecution in 1938; attending public school which had a Catholic emphasis; being barred from that school; her return to Hebrew school; and her happy memories of that time. She recalls Italy's entry into the war in 1940; moving back to Turin; schools closing; being sent to Rome, where she lived with a converted uncle and aunt, to finish high school; German occupation of Turin; and moving...

  10. Giorgio Perlasca collection

    Contains statements and narrative reports written by Giorgio Perlasca relating to the persecution, deportations, and killing of Jews in Hungary circa 1944-1945, and script of documentary film about Perlasca entitled "Eroe Per Caso."

  11. Giorgio Perlasca correspondence with Eva and Pál Lang

    Correspondence, sent between Giorgio Perlasca, of Padua, Italy, and Eva and Pál Lang, of Budapest, Hungary, 1988-1992. and with Perlasca's family, 1992-1997. The Langs, who were among the Jews saved by Perlasca's actions in Budapest in 1944-1945, when Perlasca provided over 5,000 people with safe conduct passes through the Spanish legation in Budapest to prevent their deportation by the Nazis, contacted him in 1988 to express their gratitude. The Langs remained in contact with Perlasca in the following years, visiting him in Italy and hosting visits in Hungary, which are documented in this ...

  12. Giovanni Palatucci collection

    Collection consists of four vintage photographs and one document relating to Giovanni Palatucci [donor's maternal uncle].

  13. Giovanni Palatucci papers

    Contains a biography of Giovanni Palatucci (1909-1944), who, as the police commissioner of Fiume, on the Italian coast, worked to ensure the safe migration of refugees, prevent the looting of Jewish homes, hid files, and supplied money to refugees attempting to escape the Gestapo. In September 1944, he was arrested and sent to Dachau, where he perished. He was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. Includes a certificate honoring Palatucci and the typed testimony of Goty Bauer of Milan, Italy, regarding his experiences with Palatucci.

  14. Girls dance outdoors in prewar Poland

    The girls dance outdoors in Jaremcze in front of an ethnic band, with drum, violin, and some kind of held piano. Brief shot of their mothers Ella and Nelly on a bench.

  15. The girls from Salzwegel: 40 lager girls, by Itka Najman Slodowski

    Consists of a photocopied manuscript containing the memoirs of 40 women survivors of Salzwedel concentration camp. Each memoir includes a photocopied photograph of the survivor and a questionnaire asking her name, date of birth, names of her parents and siblings, her ghetto- and camp-internment dates, names and addresses of other Salzwedel survivors with whom she is in contact, and names of women who did not survive. Copies of a Salzwedel camp map, a speech given by Itka Najman Slodowski during a June 1996 survivors' reunion at Salzwedel and survivor lists are included in the manuscript. A ...

  16. Girls from Spreewald with swastika necklaces

    Women in traditional costume stand on either side of a man in civilian dress, who is introduced by the narrator as the new "Oberpraesident" of the province of Brandenburg, Hube. SA men stand behind them. The camera pans across the young women as Hube introduces them as representatives of Spreewald. A couple of the women wear necklaces with Swastika charms. One of the women speaks briefly, and the camera pans across the smiling girls again.

  18. Girls push miniature baby carriages; Hanna plays with a doll

    Children, more heavily dressed, are at some paved area with wooden beams in the background (a playground?). They play with baby carriages, racing them and attempting to chase down a preteen girl (maybe cousin Magda). Hanna plays with baby dolls indoors.

  19. Girsh K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Girsh K., who was born in Minsk, Russia in 1914, the fourth of seven children. He recounts his family moving to Moscow in 1916 to avoid the German invasion; returning to Minsk in 1918; hardships under German and Polish invasions; attending a Jewish school; Soviet elimination of Jewish cultural and religious institutions in the 1930s; training as an engineer in Moscow; working in a shoe factory in Minsk; his brothers serving in the military; German occupation; ghettoization with his parents and sisters; round-up of all Jewish men; a mass shooting of all professionals i...

  20. GIs at Camp Boston

    Back at Camp Boston. Murray poses in a field. Soldiers show off their injuries after a football game. One day pass to Reims. Details of the Reims Cathedral. A GI cafe. Fuzzy shots of train cars. Scenes of the countryside from a passing train. Soldiers smoke cigarettes and explore an abandoned German railway gun. Trucks enter the USA Calais Staging Area. Panoramic shots of the camp, including tents. Soldiers pose in a group shot with a dog. Soldiers pack their things and board box cars.