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Language of Description: English

  1. Greta and Fred Burg papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Manfred (Fred) and Greta (née Neumann) Burg, both originally from Vienna, Austria, who separately fled Europe to Sosúa, Dominican Republic during World War II. The collection includes letters to Fred in England and Sosúa from his family in Vienna and Lwów, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine); two immigration documents regarding Fred’s attempts to bring his mother and brother to Sosúa; Greta’s birth certificate and naturalization certificate; and photographs of the Burg and Neumann families, including depictions of family life in the Dominican Republic.

  2. Greta Braude Heiman photographs

    The Greta Braude Heiman photographs consists of photographs and copy prints of Greta Braude Heiman and her Meyer and Michel relatives and friends in Hamm an der Sieg, Germany before the Holocaust and in Milwaukee following their immigration to the United States. Photographs depict Greta, her parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, and uncles, and Thea and Fritz David. Copy prints depict Ilse David, Jewish children in Hamm an der Sieg, landmarks in Hamm an der Sieg, and a death announcement for Henrietta Meyer.

  3. Greta E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Greta E., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1937. She speaks of her very traditional, orthodox family; her parents' arranged marriage; their move to Hungary in 1938; their life in Budapest in 1940; and her father's service in a compulsory labor battalion. Ms. E. recounts her mixed feelings when her father was taken away including fear; being left alone in her crib; separation from her mother and sister, who went to a Wallenberg safe house when she was sent to a non-Jewish Red Cross home with her brothers; and transfer to a Jewish orphanage. She relates her return hom...

  4. Greta Fischer collection

    The Greta Fischer collection consists of biographical materials about Fischer's UNRRA career; concentration camp materials including a map and a ration card; photographs of children and employees at the D.P. children's centers at Kloster Indersdorf, Prien, and Gstadt; printed materials, reports, memoranda, and speeches about UNRRA's work with displaced children; and souvenirs from the children's centers, an UNRRA badge, a napkin, and a coaster.

  5. Greta Herensztat Wizenberg collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge and photographs relating to the experiences of Greta Herensztat and her family before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  6. Greta M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Greta M., who was born in Bocholt, Germany in 1924. She describes her family's strong sense of German identification; cordial relations with non-Jews; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions after 1936; being forced to sell the family business; the trauma of witnessing the violent destruction of a Jewish-owned store during Kristallnacht; expulsion from school in 1938; support from some German friends; being sent to Frankfurt for six weeks in 1939; her brother's departure for England; and her leaving, with her younger sister, on a children's transport in July (they never s...

  7. Greta M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Greta M., who was born in Kra?sny Brod, Czechoslovakia in 1937. She recounts moving to Humenne? when she was two; her large, extended family; her grandmother, aunt, and uncle emigrating to the United States; her father losing his government job due to anti-Jewish laws; expulsion from school; having to wear the yellow star; non-Jews helping them avoid deportation; obtaining false papers as non-Jews; leaving Humenne? in 1943 when it became too dangerous; living in Kosic?e and Bratislava; renting an apartment in a small town; fleeing from a German raid while being shot a...

  8. Greta Meier papers

    The papers consist of one certificate of registration for the Perse School for girls in Cambridge and one ration book issued to Greta Lowenstein.

  9. Greta Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Greta Z., who was born in the Hague, Netherlands, in 1913. Mrs. Z. recalls the German occupation in 1940; imposition of anti-Semitic restrictions; round-up of her parents and brother in 1942 (they never returned); and deportation with her husband and two daughters to Westerbork in September 1943. She describes the family's transport to Bergen-Belsen in early 1944; daily routine in the camp, including her exemption from work because she was a woman with children; and visits by her husband (he was in a different barrack). She tells of the family's evacuation in April 19...

  10. Greta Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Greta Z., who was born in Bielefeld, Germany in 1927. She recounts her family's long history in Germany; her father's World War I service; attending Catholic school; the burning of their synagogue on Kristallnacht; expulsion from school the next day; attending a Jewish school; being shunned by former friends; assistance from her former teachers; her father's four week incarceration; she and her brother refusing to go on a children's transport, not wanting to leave their parents; a deportation notice in November 1941; her father refusing offers from non-Jewish friends ...

  11. Gretchen Passig Rasmus collection

    The collection consists of five handmade dolls, including three female dolls and two male dolls, made by Displaced Persons staying at the home of the donor’s maternal grandmother, Gretchen Passig Rasmus (1874-1964), at Landweg 85, Hademarschen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

  12. Grete M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Grete M., who was born in Aurich, Germany in 1922. She recalls her orthodox, close-knit family; cordial relations with non-Jews; changes in 1938; attending nursing school at the Jewish hospital in Berlin; two siblings emigrating to England; her parents' deportation (they perished); hiding with a German family in 1942, then with their relatives in Upper Silesia; fearing exposure, returning to Berlin via Gross Strehlitz (Strzelec) to Beuthen (Bytom); arrest; transfer to Auschwitz; useless forced labor; assistance from a guard because she spoke German; seeing a cousin (s...

  13. Grete Sacki (Mayer): Personal papers

  14. Grete Salus: Poems

    This collection of typescript poems was written by Grete Salus during the period of her incarceration in the camps of Terezin, Auschwitz and Oederan.

  15. Grigoriĭ D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Grigoriĭ D., who was born in Sunai, Belarus in 1922. He recalls living in a rural area; cordial relations with non-Jews; completing high school in Grozovo; attending the Polytechnic in Minsk; his father's arrest in 1938 as a spy because he had siblings in western nations (he was executed); his sister's medical practice in Lenino; German invasion in June 1941 while he was in Slutsk; joining his mother, sister, and brother in Lenino; obtaining a Soviet machine gun; giving it to partisans; solidarity in the ghetto; escaping with his brother with assistance from non-Jews...

  16. Grigorijus Kanovičius

    The fonds of the activities and writings of the famous Jewish writer Grigorijus Kanovičius, who, age twelve, was able to escape to the East in the first days of the Second World war and thereby survived the Holocaust. In 1945 he returned to Vilnius; he graduated from Vilnius University and in 1959 published his first novel. His novels and short stories depict life in the shtetls before the war and how life changed later, and how the Jewish communities were destroyed. The files of this personal fonds consist of drafts, fragments of novels, correspondence, personal photos, photos from events ...

  17. Grigoriy Getselevich memoir

    Testimony, one page, handwritten, brief account of life under German occupation in Ukraine (near Vinnitsa).

  18. Grigory Flom memoir

    Testimony, typescript, 2 pages, written circa 1990s, giving brief overview of Grigory Flom's activities during WWII, including his service in Red Army, capture by Germans and experiences as POW in Malinovka, Volchansk, Belaya Kalita, and other locations, until liberation in July 1943.

  19. Grigory Kotlyarski photograph collection

    The photographs depict Grigory Kotlyarski and his older brother, Chaim Misha, as children and during their military service in the Soviet Army.

  20. Grodno Oblast Archive records

    Consists of microfilmed documents relating to the activities of various German occupation agencies in and near Grodno (Hrodna) during World War II. Records include proceedings of criminal investigations; examples of anti-Jewish propaganda; census name lists for Grodno and the vicinity; the use of forced labor; and documents with information on the destruction of synagogues, the treatment of Soviet prisoners of war, ghettos in Belorussia and Poland, partisan activities, resistance actions, transports of Jews from Grodno to concentration camps, arrests of Roma and Sinti, racial policies, and ...