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  1. Ann Curiel papers

    Consists of documents related to Vilma Avolia (b. 1921, later Wilma D'Urbino) and her mother, Fortunata D'Urbino (b. 1893), who survived the war as Jewish women in Italy. Includes a 1941 identity card identifying Vilma as a resident of the Comune di Catanzaro, a 1944 copy of Fortunata's birth certificate, a 1945 refugee and ration card for Fortunata (with photograph) and a document listing her as a resident of the Prato displaced persons camp in 1945.

  2. Ann E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann E., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924. She recounts her father's service in World War I (he was in a Russian POW camp for several years); not being admitted to public school because she was Jewish; the Anschluss; expulsion from private school; her father's imprisonment in Dachau on Kristallnacht; his release after six weeks due to his veteran's status; she and her sister being sent on a kindertransport to London in March 1939; living with a foster family in Bedford for over two years; her parents arriving later in 1939; visiting them; her father's incarcerat...

  3. Ann F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann F., who was born in 1925, in Zdun?ska Wola, Poland. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending a private Jewish school; German invasion; fleeing east; returning home; ghettoization; her father's Polish friends bringing them food; a public hanging; liquidation of the ghetto in 1942; separation from her family (she never saw them again); a suicide in the cattle train transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto; living with a cousin; a friend's family sharing food with her; transfer to Cze?stochowa in 1943; slave labor in a munitions factory; meeting her future husband; an old...

  4. Ann F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann F., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1925, one of nine children. She recalls a large, extended family; uncles emigrating to North and South America in the 1930s; antisemitic harassment; Catholic instruction in school; her mother's death; older siblings caring for her and younger ones; German invasion; burning of the synagogue and surrounding neighborhood; her father's death; ghettoization; deportation with one sister to Parschnitz; forced labor in the Hase textile factory; Czech civilians bringing them food; long roll calls in freezing weather; her younger siste...

  5. Ann F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann F., who was born in Panevėžys, Lithuania in 1918, one of ten children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her father's charitable giving; antisemitic violence; two older brothers emigrating to South Africa; joining a married sister in Kaunas; Soviet occupation; marriage to a cellist in February 1940; her daughter's birth; German invasion; mass killings by Lithuanians, then Germans; ghettoization; an abortion in 1942 since Jewish women were forbidden to bear children; a non-Jewish neighbor hiding them during a round-up; starvation; deportations of many relatives...

  6. Ann Goldman papers

    The Ann Goldman papers document her work with the Vaad Hatzala in the 1940s. The documents contain a dinner program, vaccination certificate, travel documents, refugee data sheets, passenger list for the R.M.S. Queen Mary, and two undated letters. The photographs include photos of Ann’s brother Moti Leibman and his wife; Ann with Vaad Hatzala staff in Frankfurt and Munich, Germany; dinners for Henry Morgenthau and Binyamin Mintz; Vaad Hatzala staff with ambulances to be delivered to Palestine; and Ann Goldman with an unidentified person.

  7. Ann H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann H., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1925. She describes her religious childhood; increased antisemitism from 1933 on; German bombing in 1939; her brothers' departure for the Russian zone and her sister's to a forced labor camp; selection in 1940 when she and her sister were separated from her parents, whom she never saw again; deportation with her sister to Sosnowiec, then to Germany; and work as slave laborers. She recalls that despite horrendous work and living conditions, they always thought they would survive. Mrs. S. tells of worsening conditions in seve...

  8. Ann Hershkowitz papers

    The papers consist of an identification card issued to Hanka Schudmak (later Ann Hershkowitz) and stating that she was a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen, two photographs of Hanka standing near the grave of her younger sister, Itka Schudmak, at the International Cemetery at Bergen-Belsen, and a photograph of the gravestone of Itka Schudmak. Itka Schudmak, Ann Hershkowitz's younger sister, died of typhus on May 27, 1945, after liberation at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

  9. Ann J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann J., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926 to an affluent family. She recounts having two half siblings from her father's first marriage and a younger brother; moving to Stuttgart in 1932; her father losing his job due to anti-Jewish laws; moving to Vienna, her father's native city; rejection from public school due to anti-Jewish laws; the Anschluss in March 1938; several expulsions from their apartments; her older brother's arrest on Kristallnacht; assistance from a former non-Jewish employee; her older brother's release after two weeks; learning he had been whi...

  10. Ann J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann J., who was born in Kobyl?nik, Poland (presently Narach, Belarus) in 1931, one of six children. She recalls antisemitic violence and boycotts; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish violence by local militiamen; a round-up of all the Jews in fall 1942; Germans hiding her older brother; her family's release because her mother made dresses for the mayor's family; transfer to Myadzyel; escape with her parents, two sisters, and infant brother during a partisan attack; hiding in a forest; cold and starvation; obtaining food by begging from...

  11. Ann L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann L., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1931. She recalls that her father was chief physician of a hospital; a privileged childhood as an affluent Czech; her father's refusal to emigrate due to his strong Czech patriotism; Hitler's arrival in Prague in March 1939; her older brother's emigration to the United States in October; anti-Jewish regulations; expulsion from school after third grade; her father losing his position; and the family's transport to Terezi?n in July 1943. Mrs. L. recounts her mother's illness; her father working as a physician; contacts w...

  12. Ann Nudelman photograph collection

    The collection consists of seven photographs. The first print is a black and white image of bride and groom standing with two men and two women dated November 3, 1946. The second print is a black and white image of a woman standing outside with a tent behind her with "F-2/210" printed at top dated March 25, 1948. The third print is a black and white image of bride and groom seated at set table, seven men and women standing around them, and lit candelabras on table dated November 3, 1946. The fourth print is a black and white image of men walking in a long column protesting, a banner with He...

  13. Ann R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann R., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1929. She recalls early happy memories; German bombardment; wearing the yellow star; expulsion from school; watching the Gestapo round-up her parents; and their wanton destruction, including the "evisceration" of a doll. She remembers informing the sanitarium where her brother was hospitalized that her parents had been taken away (they would not keep him anymore since there was no one to pay); giving him to a strange woman; wandering the streets with her sister; a nun offering to help them; moving many times; a visit from h...

  14. Ann S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann S., who was born in Rome, Italy in 1928. She recalls her family had lived in Italy for seven generations; Jewish holidays in a large, extended family; expulsion from school in 1938 due to anti-Jewish laws; German occupation; one brother escaping; escaping with her parents and sister to a mountain village; her other brother later joining them; attending school; returning to Rome after the war; reunion with her brother; working as a translator for the United States military; marriage to an American in 1948; and emigration to the United States. Ms. S. notes she seldo...

  15. Ann Strauss-Salfield collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Ann Strauss-Salfield (née Schloss), originally of Stuttgart, Germany. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence between Ann, who fled to England in 1939, and her future husband Milton Strauss living in the United States. The correspondence focuses on their daily lives, but there are frequent discussions of her attempts to get a visa and immigrate to the United States. Other correspondence includes letters to Ann from her grandmother, Uncle Moritz, and her stepsister Margrit; and letters to Milton from his brother Alfred a...

  16. Ann W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann W., who was born in Radzi?o?w, Poland in 1932, the youngest of four children. She recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; confiscation of the family's flour mill; German occupation; Poles helping Germans to identify Jews; the destruction of prayer books from the synagogue; public beatings of Jews, including her parents and two siblings; escape from Radzi?o?w with her family; hiding for two months with help from her father's business associates; being rescued by people when they agreed to convert to Christianity; attending conversion classes; constantly changing hiding ...

  17. Ann West collection

    The collection consists of badges, an armband, a cloth, scrip, a pamphlet, and personal papers related to Ann West's work for a German military laundry near Berlin, her deportation to Auschwitz and liberation, and her mother’s survival in Theresienstadt and status as a victim of fascism.

  18. Anna (Golden) Gordon family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Anna and Riva Gordon (Golden) and their family in Svencionys and Vilna, Lithuania, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  19. Anna and Benno Fischer oral history collection

    Oral history interviews wtih Anna Fischer and Benno Fischer.

  20. Anna and Hans Blüthe photograph

    Contains a pre-war photograph of Anna and Hans Blüthe.