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  1. Framed oil painting of a country scene created in the Łódź Ghetto

    Painting created by Stefan Krengel in the Łódź ghetto in Poland that was presented to Mr. Regner, the director of the transport division in the ghetto, on his birthday, July 14, 1942. The painting was signed on the back by all the clerks in the transport office and has a caption wishing Mr. Regner a happy birthday. Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and one week later occupied Łódź. They renamed it Litzmannstadt and in February 1940 relocated all the Jews, roughly 100,000 people, into a sealed ghetto. Prewar Łódź was a thriving industrial city and the ghetto was an important ...

  2. Fran Finkelstein: An angel at my doorstep

    Contains information about the life of Fran Finkelstein and her family before the Holocaust, their time in the ghetto in Tlumach, Ukraine, and their life in hiding. The testimony also contains information about the Finkelstein family's emigration after World War II.

  3. Fran Greene family collection

    The collection contains a dress worn by Fran Frost upon her arrival in the United States and a pair of suspenders worn by her father in Lukow, Poland, before World War II

  4. Fran L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fran L., who was born in Chrzanów, Poland in 1924. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-675), Ms. L. recalls receiving food from her family's former maid who was a Polish civilian worker at Neusalz; transfer from Gross-Rosen to Flossenbürg, then Bergen-Belsen; meeting her husband through his uncle, an official at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; friendship with Hadassah and Joseph Rosensaft; and living in Celle after she was married. She discusses her continuing belief in God and commitment to orthodoxy; traveling to Poland wit...

  5. Fran Laufer collection

    Consists of post-war candid photographs of Golda Meir, Menachem Begin, and David Ben-Gurion. Also includes a group photograph of German soldiers and two photographs of the execution by hanging of an SS officer.

  6. Fran Prager photograph collection

    Seven staged images of Adolf Hitler speaking, taken by Heinrich Hoffmann in the 1920's. The photographs were entrusted to Fran Prager by an employee who worked as a secretary to Ms. Prager.

  7. France occupation photograph collection

    Two vintage copy prints depicting the French surrender to Germany. The first photograph is of the French and German delegations inside the “Armistice Car.” The second photograph depicts Hitler and his generals standing in front of the memorial slab for the 1918 Armistice with Germany; Glade of the Armistice, Compiègne, France; dated June 21, 1940.

  9. Frances and Julian Hirshfeld family collection

    The collection consists of a blanket, a pin, a pouch, a towel, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of Franka Rosenblum and Julian Hirshfeld and their families in Poland and several concentration camps during the Holocaust and in a displaced persons camp in Paris, France, where they married after the end of World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  10. Frances B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances B., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1918. Mrs. B. tells of a family move to Korelitz; religious homelife; increasing antisemitism; Zionist youth group membership; attempts to emigrate to Palestine or South Africa; Soviet occupation; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; round-up of young men who were killed in Nowogro?dek; forced labor; her mother's death from beating; transfer with her family to Nowogro?dek; the murder of 4,000 on August 7, 1942; and her last meeting with her father. She describes hiding in a cesspool six days with her siste...

  11. Frances Cutler Hahn collection

    Consists of digital images of documents and photographs related to Frances Cutler Hahn, who was born Fanny Lindenberg Kahan in Paris, France, in 1938. Includes photographs of her parents, Schlomo Zalman Kahane and Cyla Lindenberg, letters to their family in Poland, photographs of Fanny in wartime childrens' homes and post-war orphanages, and documents related to her immigration to the United States with the assistance of HIAS.

  12. Frances Doniger collection

    Photographs, correspondence, documentation and drawing surrounding the experiences of the Abusch and Pick families during the Holocaust and of siblings Frances and Max Abusch who fled Vienna, Austria on the Kindertransport. Their parents were able to travel to New York, where Frances soon joined them. Max eventually made his way to Toronto, ON, Canada. The collection also follows the Pick family, relatives of Frances's mother. Her cousin Josef Pick was able to escape, but the rest of his family was killed.

  13. Frances E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances E., who was born in Prague in 1920. In this vivid and insightful testimony, Mrs. E. speaks of the clash between German and Czech cultures in prewar Prague, exemplified by her parents and herself; the German occupation of Prague in March 1939 and the subsequent restrictions imposed on Jews; her family's arrest, interrogation, and release in summer 1942; and her transport, with her parents and husband, to Theresienstadt in August 1942. She describes the painful separation from her parents; her psychological breakdown upon arrival; her work in Theresienstadt; sep...

  14. Frances G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances G., who was born in Tarnopol, Poland in 1919, one of seven sisters. She recalls her comfortable childhood in an observant and very close family; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; pogroms by Poles and Ukrainians; forced labor; ghettoization; frequent round-ups and killings, including her youngest sister; working in a laundry; friendship with a Polish woman, Irene Opdyke, who worked for a German major; smuggling food into the ghetto with assistance from Ms. Opdyke; sharing warnings from Ms. Opdyke of round-ups; killings of her sisters and ...

  15. Frances Grün papers

    The papers consist of a Certificate of Discharge from Buchenwald concentration camp issued to "Jude Leopold Grün" (donor's brother); a letter written by William N. Fraleigh, American Vice Consul in Naples, Italy, to Leopold Grün regarding the German quota waiting list; and a letter written by the Grün children to their parents [envelope included with letter].

  16. Frances H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances H., who was born in Hungary in 1918. She recalls her childhood in Moha?cs; not attending university due to anti-Jewish quotas; moving to Budapest with her family in 1935; marriage; her brother, father, and husband being drafted into Hungarian forced labor battalions; learning of her brother's death in 1943; German invasion; traveling with her mother to join her father-in-law per her husband's instructions; their arrest; incarceration in Kistarcsa; psychological devastation when her mother had to undress in front of young policemen; deportation to Auschwitz/Bir...

  17. Frances H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances H., who was born in Opato?w, Poland in 1918, the younger of two sisters, three months after her father's death. She recounts living with an aunt in Zawiercie; her mother's remarriage; visiting her and her half-sister in Sosnowiec where they had moved; her aunt's death; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing with her uncle and cousins to Volodymyr-Volyns?kyi?; returning to her mother in Sosnowiec, then her relatives in Zawiercie; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1942; separation with her cousin from her uncle and younger cousin (they were...

  18. Frances Hirshfeld collection

    Consists of two documents issued to "Franciszka Rosenblum" (Frances Hirshfeld) and three letters with envelopes sent to "A.H. Wyman" (Frances Hirshfeld's uncle) in Jacksonville, Florida.

  19. Frances Hoytash Caminer photographs

    Consists of 13 photographs from the collection of Frances Hoytash Caminer. Though born in the United States, Frances and her family spent 1928-1938 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The photographs depict Frances and her family in Prague during the 1930s. Included are photographs of her uncle Otto and his son Peter, and her uncle and aunt Julius and Walda Eisner with their children, Lily, and Jirka, all of whom perished during the Holocaust.

  20. Frances L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances L., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921. She recalls her assimilated and wealthy family's disbelief that conditions in Germany would impact them; the Anschluss; anti-Jewish restrictions; her brother's emigration to Belgium; emigrating with her father to Amsterdam in 1938; her mother joining them later (she had refused to emigrate earlier); German invasion in May 1940; marriage, and moving to Tilburg. Mrs. L. recounts her brother's escape attempt through France (he perished in Auschwitz); her son's birth in 1942; hiding in several locations over the next tw...