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Displaying items 22,021 to 22,040 of 22,191
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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Yocheved Flumenker collection

    Collection of photos of Yocheved Flumenker [donor], her husband and friends, primarily from the displaced persons camps in Stuttgart and Bad Reichenhall. Included are photos of donor’s wedding to Zvi Flumenker, photos from pre-war Lublin, and a photo from the Lublin ghetto, where the donor briefly lived before escaping with her father to live with peasants in the surrounding area. Also includes one identification card and one graduation certificate.

  2. Yocheveta and James Malla collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Yocheveta and James Malla. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. Yolanda Engel collection

    Contains photographs documenting the experiences of the Helen and Ezra Lebovics and their children Yolanda and Harry [born in Verece, Hungary] and Bela [born in Budapest]. Ezra performed forced labor and when Bela only was 2, Helen was deported in 1944 to Bergen-Belsen Concentration camp. The children were reunited with Ezra in January 1945 and in 1946, Helen, who had survived, came back to Budapest where the family tried to rebuild their lives.

  4. Yolanda Friedmann Gold Holocaust memoirs

    Contains of a copy of a typewritten memoir, two pages, written by Yolanda Friedmann Gold, originally of Jibou, Transylvania. The memoir describes life in the gehtto in Simleul-Silvania, then in Goldfill, Estonia. In Estonia, she was forced to work in a pine forest and then was briefly sent to Danzig and Stutthof before being sent to a munitions factory near Hamburg. She was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, and returned to Transylvania until 1964. Also includes a handwritten memoir, 2 pages, in Hungarian, about her family's Holocaust experiences.

  5. Yom ha-Shoʾah commemoration speech

    Speech written and delivered by Isaac Schweitzer [donor], 14 April 1996.

  6. Yom Hashoah commemoration programs

    Consists of programs for the Yom Hashoah commemorations sponsored by the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington in 1984, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2009. The programs include poetry, statistical information about the Holocaust, song lyrics, and readings.

  7. Yom HaShoah Commemorative Ceremony collection

    Printed program (5 copies), from event held at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, 30 April, 1995.

  8. Yona and Foa family memoirs

    Two unpublished memoirs, related to the Holocaust experiences of the Yona and Foa families, of Turin Italy: “A Memoir of an Immigrant who Escaped the Holocaust in 1940,” by Eva Yona Deykin, 53 pages, typescript; and“Memoires of David Yona,” by David Yona, typescript, 223 pages. The memoir by Eva Yona Deykin relates the history of the families of both of her parents, David Yona and Anna Foa, their life in Turin after their marriage in 1932, the arrest of Anna Foa's brother, Vittorio Foa, for his anti-fascist activities in 1935, and his betrayal by the writer Pettigrilli (Dino Segre), who had...

  9. Yona Wygocka Dickmann collection

    The collection consists of a comb and pocket knife relating to the experiences of Yona Wygocka as a prisoner in a salve labor camp in Germany during the Holocaust.

  10. Yonia Fain drawing

  11. Yoram (Joram) Bar papers

    Contains one memoir written by Jacques Bar entitled, "Many Like Me," describing the Russian campaign 1941 along with handwritten notes, and the Polish military archives response to Yoram Bar's query regarding antisemitism in the Polish army.

  12. Yoram Shaaf photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of Mendel Finkelsztajntaken in 1946; a photograph of Mendel Finkelsztajn and his wife, Malka Sztajnberg, taken in Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland, on September 18, 1938, before their marriage; and a photograph of Malka Finkelsztajn and his son, Jurek Finkelsztajn on February 25, 1946, in Wrocław, Poland.

  13. Yosef Yeger collection

    Contains photographs, copyprints, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and two copies of a manuscript relating to the Holocaust experiences of Alexander Shoni Jeger (donor's father; b. October 30, 1930 near Bacău, Romania). In 1942, his mother, Ettel Leida (nee Katz) Jeger, took her two sons, Sandor and Marton (b. July 12, 1933) to Budapest, where she worked as a cook. In 1944 she was taken to a train station for deportation, but when she fainted she was taken to hospital. Both children were in the ghetto. Ettel and her sons survived.

  14. Young Bobby and Edith in prewar Austria

    Robert (Bobby) Tennenbaum as a young child just learning to walk. Bobby toddles along the path of a park and climbs stairs in a park in Baden, a suburb of Vienna. His relatives, including his grandparents and uncle, stand by to catch him in case he falls. Bobby plays with cousin Edith. Lots of very cute baby shots. Bobby in the arms of his mother, Ernestine (Erna), walking across a lawn in the park. Bobby and Edith seated on a blanket with their mothers. Very nice scenes of the family playing with the children. 01:27:32 Bobby's paternal grandfather walks in a park-like setting in Sauerbrunn...

  15. Young boys box in Poland

    Two boys boxing in a ring before an audience of boys. Man waves a towel over one of the seated boxers during a break. Boxing resumes. CU boy raises arms in victory. They box and one boy falls to the ground. The other boy falls to the ground but gets up as well. One of the boys falls to the ground, dramatically tries to rise, but stays down. Winner. CU friend watches. (02:10) EXT building with sign “SWIETLICA ROBOTNICZA.” A man and a boy walk through a gate and towards a building entrance. INT boys boxing while others watch. Boxers raise gloves to the audience. CU children eating out of bowl...

  16. Young family; holiday with friends; beach

    Baby Karin in her carriage, chewing on a teething ring. Mother Ethel tickles her and she smiles. Sister Oda leans on the side of the carriage. Men sing and march on a wooded road. A sixth man joins, smiling with a closed umbrella resting on his shoulder. They drink coffee and rehearse singing in a courtyard. A man conducts. They walk joyfully down a path, one twirls an open umbrella above his head. The men drink beer at a table by a waterway. People on a boat. They continue drinking. Children play in the sand and water at a manmade beach. "ENDE"

  17. Young German Order collection

    The collection consists of a photograph album, documents, and artifacts related to the "Young German Order."

  18. Young people train for jobs in the US military work program

    Short film produced by the National Youth Administration in 1941 about the United States military work program which prepared young people for future jobs in the defense industry. Depicts NYA youth at work with machinery, airplane assembly, welding, tool and dye making, grinding and milling, etc. NYA provided young people with practical experience and training for jobs in the war industry. Some of the 400,000 NYA youth (men, women, African Americans) who went into private employment since 1940 are shown at work in a large aircraft plant. Melvyn Douglas provides the commentary.

  20. Youth Aliyah and "Tehran Children" photographs

    Consists of 11 photographs documenting the arrival of Jewish children and youths in Palestine who were assisted in fleeing Nazi Europe with help from the Youth Aliyah organization founded by Recha Freier and the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Select photographs depict the arrival of the so-called "Tehran children" who lived as refugees in Iran prior to their immigration to Palestine.