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  1. Frances L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances L., who was born in Poland in 1926, the oldest of three children in an orthodox family. She recalls fleeing toward Krako?w when Germany invaded in 1939; living there briefly with relatives; returning home; moving in with relatives (their house and business had been pillaged); her parents' deportation in 1942; hiding when the ghetto was liquidated; discovering her sister and brother had been deported; her deportation to Sosnowiec, then Neusalz; slave labor in a thread factory; a death march; obtaining food for herself and a friend; briefly staying in Gross-Rose...

  2. Frances L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances L., who served in the United States Army Nurses Corps beginning in July 1941. She recalls postings in Oran, Algeria in the fall of 1942 via Birmingham, England, then Palermo, Italy; attending a dance hosted by General Patton; caring for wounded soldiers, including Germans, behind 7th Army lines in Italy, France and Germany; finding American soldiers who had been tortured and mutilated; and volunteering to administer anti-typhus injections in Dachau two weeks after its liberation. Mrs. L. describes the complete debilitation of the inmates; difficulty injecting ...

  3. Frances Laxson papers

    The Frances Laxson papers consists of a letter and liberation photographs sent home by James Laxson. The photographs consists of liberation photographs of either Dachau or Buchenwald concentration camps.

  4. Frances Maisel collection

    Consists of documentation regarding attempts by Samuel Friedman and Moses Goldberg (both of New York City) in 1941, to obtain a visa for Szolim Ejcer of Plunge, Lithuania. Mr. Ejcer was the twenty-three-year-old nephew of both Mr. Friedman and Mr. Goldberg. The paperwork includes affidavits of support, a photograph of Mr. Goldberg, and a 1942 envelope which returned from Lithuania stating that Mr. Ejcer's whereabouts were unknown.

  5. Frances Oxenhandler Irwin papers

    The papers consist of one photographic print of Hinde Ivanovich, mother of Reuben Ivanovich Irwin [donor's husband], taken in Lubraniec, Poland, one interview transcript of Frances Oxenhandler Irwin's memoirs, and one memoir by Frances Irwin titled "Frances Irwin: A Memoir of Life and the Holocaust."

  6. Frances Potts papers

    The Frances Potts papers consists of a two page letter with an addressed envelope written by Frances G. Potts (later Frances M. Grubbs Etherington) of the American Red Cross. The letter is addressed to Captain and Mrs. O L. Grubbs, Jr. in Walla Walla, Washington and is written in English and dated May 3, 1945. The letter congratulates the couple on their pregnancy and describes her visits to the Ohrdruf concentration camp and the atrocities committed by the Nazis. The papers also includes a photograph of Frances Potts, a member of the American Red Cross, stationed in Europe in 1944 and 1945.

  7. Frances R. Holocaust testimony

  8. Frances S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances S., who was born in Horocho?w, Poland in 1910. She describes her prewar family and religious life; her marriage in Yugoslavia in 1938; her studies at the University of Belgrade; and her arrest in 1938 before her stay was legalized. She recalls registering for emigration for fear of the Nazis; her flight, once she obtained her visa; her journey to Bombay via Greece, Iraq, and Karachi; and her forty-day trip to the United States, where she arrived in March 1941. She tells of her life here; her impressions of America's inertia with regard to receiving immigrants;...

  9. Frances S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances S., who was born in a small town in the Carpathian Mountains in 1925. She recounts her apprenticeship as a dressmaker in a larger city; Hungarian occupation in 1939; forced removal of able-bodied Jewish men; ghettoization in 1944; her father's refusal of an offer of hiding so they could remain with the Jewish community; the belief that a miracle would save them; walking with her family from the Khust ghetto to the train; separation from her family upon arrival at Auschwitz; assuming responsibility for four girls whom she helped to survive; working in a rubber ...

  10. Frances Syril and Martin Weinberg collection

    Group of women's clothing, baby clothes, table linens and a group of books belonging to the Weinberg family during the time period of the Holocaust

  11. Frances W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances W., who was born in Kon?us?, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1918, one of eight children. She recalls living in Uz?h?horod; training as a seamstress; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; all her brothers, except the youngest, being drafted into Hungarian slave labor battalions; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation with her parents, sister, sister-in-law, and their children to Auschwitz; separation from her family (she never saw them again); volunteering as a dressmaker; a death march, then train transport to Bergen-Belsen in...

  12. Frances Whitney collection

    Contains a Christmas card and photograph received by Frances Seeds Whitney from Lajos Krausz, an acquaintance she met while traveling through Europe before World War II, circa 1928. The photograph is labeled on verso: "1929...on the farm." Lajos lived in Subotica, Hungary, when he sent this card and photograph; he did not survive the Holocaust.

  13. Frances Ziegler family collection

    The collection consists of two armbands, cloth bundle, two combs, earmuff, klaf, knife, scissors, scrip, tag, documents, photographs, and books relating to the experiences of Frances Ziegler before and during the Holocaust in Poland where she lived in hiding in Poland and after the Holocaust in Fohrenwald displaced persons camp.

  14. Franciczek N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Franciczek N., a non-Jew, who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1923. He recalls his parents hiding a Jewish couple immediately after an attack on a cafe frequented by the Germans; his family's active participation in the Armia Krajowa, Polish Underground; the family decision to keep the couple; the woman attending church with his mother; his father obtaining false papers and employment for the couple; smuggling Jews and others to the Czech border; receiving letters threatening to expose them; staging a mock arrest and trial of the blackmailers with other AK members; cea...

  15. Francie Alpert papers

    The collection consists of documents and photographs regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of Francie Alpert (born Fernande Waligora), originally of Paris, France, who survived the war as a child refugee in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Documents include Francie’s clothing ration card, identification card, French passport, and resident alien’s border crossing identification card. Photographs include prints and copyprints of Francie as a child and teenager, her parents Szmul and Rose Waligora, Szmul’s father Szoel and his wife, Rose’s parents Abraham and Isza Kunigis, and Francie’s sister Janette.

  16. Francine E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Francine E., who was born in Czechoslovakia, in 1929, one of five children. She recalls living in Satu Mare; tones of antisemitism; having to wear the yellow star and expulsion from school in spring 1944; ghettoization; her father obtaining Christian papers for her and her sister and instructing them to go to Budapest; living with family friends; their friend's entry into a Swedish safe house; being refused entry because they had Christian papers; living in hotels; attending church; her sister's employer and his wife offering assistance after learning they were Jewish...

  17. Francine Lawrence collection

    Two documents regarding Amilcar Patalacci's deportation.

  19. Francine Parker collection

    Bookplate with the inscription "Ex Libris Adolf Hitler."

  20. Francis Akos papers

    Consist of materials relating to the Holocaust experience of Ferenc Akos Weinberg (later Francis Akos) as well as his experiences as a displaced person after World War II. The papers include a diary recounting his experiences at the Neuengamme concentration camp and the sinking of the Cap Arcona ship, which was a vessel used to evacuate refugees from West Prussia. Includes four photographs depicting a ceremony to memorialize the passengers who died when the Cap Arcona sank after a mistaken British attack. Also includes post-war passes and permissions identifying Akos as a former prisoner.