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  1. Anna and Harry Chinitz oral history collection

    Oral history interviews with Anna Chinitz and Harry Chinitz

  2. Anna and Joel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna K., who was born in Hajdu?na?na?s, Hungary in 1930 and her husband Joel K., who was born in Megyaszo? in 1923. Ms. K. recounts her family's move to Debrecen; attending a Jewish day school; cordial relations with non-Jews; her family's orthodoxy and strong Hungarian identity; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the yellow star; ghettoization; suicides and deaths from hunger; deportation with her family to Strasshof; slave labor for local farmers; local farmers bringing them food; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; her bat mitzvah; once seeing a co...

  3. Anna and Leo Bluethe letters concerning Kristallnacht in Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Contains information about the experiences of Anna and Leo Bluethe in Kaiserslautern, Germany, during Kristallnacht and Anna's subsequent escape from Germany to England.

  4. Anna B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna B., who was born in Sobrance, Czechoslovakia in 1928, the oldest of three children. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; German invasion in 1944; her mother's non-Jewish friend offering to hide her (she would not leave her parents); their deportation to the Uz︠h︡horod ghetto., then to Auschwitz six weeks later; separation from her family; being used for so-called medical experiments; transfer to Stolp; horrific slave labor laying railroad track and digging bunkers; public hanging of nine boys for taking cigarettes; transfer to Rīga,...

  5. Anna Baumgart and Thea Rostock papers

    Testimony, 4 pages, handwritten, by Anna Lipnowska (Baumgart), describing her experiences in Warsaw Ghetto, along with two post-war letters of reference for Dr. Nachman Boim (one from UNRRA camp, one from hospital in California where he was resident in 1950).

  6. Anna Berkovitz papers

    Papers consist of 19 photographs and documents relating to the experiences of the Weiszhausz and Friedman families before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  7. Anna Bloch collection

    Consists of a certificate issued on 14 June 1945 in Linz, Austria, to Israel Bloch, donor’s husband, stating that he was born on 18 September 1911 in Krakow, Poland, and was imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp from 13 March 1942 until liberation on 5 May 1945; and a declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States, filed by Israel Bloch on 28 March 1951, in Toledo, Ohio, on behalf of himself, his wife, Anna Bloch (the donor), and their daughter, Halina Bloch, born in Munich, Germany, on 30 May 1946.

  8. Anna C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna C., who was born in Aleksandro?w ?o?dzki, Poland in 1921. She recalls her family's move to Antwerp; antisemitic incidents in school; German invasion in 1940; fleeing to Dunkerque in a futile attempt to leave with British troops; returning to Antwerp; fleeing to Paris; crossing to the unoccupied zone with her sister; moving to Marseille to obtain documents to emigrate to the United States; living in Bandol; receiving exit documents; convincing the authorities to allow her brother to join them; assistance from HIAS; and emigrating to the United States in summer 194...

  9. Anna Cheszes collection

    Contains photographs and documents pertaining to Anna Cheszes' experiences as a hidden child during the Holocaust

  11. Anna Csillag Fränkel postcard collection

    Postcards (9), sent from and sent to a variety of individuals in different concentration camps, internment camps, labor camps, or ghettos. Includes postcards from Izbica, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Ilag VII internment camp in Laufen (Upper Bavaria), Ravensbrück, and the Łódź ghetto. Also includes one postcard sent to a German army officer at the front, with an ink stamp at the bottom reading "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" and a blank postcard of the type used at Auschwitz, with a Polish postage stamp from 1970 commemorating Auschwitz and an ink stamp relating to an exhibition there in that ...

  12. Anna F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna F., who ws born in Bratislava in 1922, the younger of two sisters. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; her family's assimilated lifestyle; her father being forbidden to practice law and their forced relocation to Ivanka pri Dunaji due to anti-Jewish laws; her parents sending her and her sister to enter Hungary illegally; capture in Dudince; incarceration in Krupina then Patronka; avoiding deportation due to assistance from a cousin; release; returning to their parents in Ivanka; obtaining false papers from a German girl who took no payment; staying in B...

  13. Anna Friedman Prager collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Anna Friedman Prager and her family during and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  14. Anna Fruchtman collection

    The Anna Fruchtman collection consists of a phtogoraph of three women sewing at the World ORT/Union Vocational School, Stuttgart, Germany; a certificate of employment and identification card relating to Hanka Fruchtman's (later Anna Fruchtman) employment at the World ORT/Union Vocational School, Stuttgart, Germany.

  15. Anna G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna G., who was born in Varkovychi, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1924. She recalls her parents' Zionism; attending a Jewish gymnasium in Dubrovno in 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; her father's flight, thinking only men would be targeted; ghettoization; slave labor; a survivor of Babi Yar sharing her story; learning her father had been killed; her mother arranging for her to hide with Czech non-Jews; obtaining false papers; her rescuer hiding her mother, brother, cousins, and others in a bunker when their town was liquidated; her mother and br...

  16. Anna G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna G., who was born in Drohobych, Ukraine (then Poland), in 1929. She speaks of her prewar life, life under Russian occupation, and her experience of the German occupation of her town. She notes the worsening conditions under German occupation, culminating in the deportations and (as they learned only later) mass murder of Jews, including Mrs. G.'s mother, sister, and young niece. She tells of living with her father and brother in Drohobych; in the Gestapo camp on Janowska Street, where she had to hide in a closet for over a year and was finally discovered by a Germ...

  17. Anna Goldberg photograph collection

    The collection consists of ten photographs depicting Anna Goldberg and other young refugees in Die Jordan House orphanage in Feldafing displaced persons camp in Germany and in Bensheim displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II.

  18. Anna Gordyn: copy family papers

    This collection consists of copy contemporary documentation regarding the fate of a Jewish family during the Nazi era and related, more recent, material. Explanatory notes from the depositor have been retained with each item.

  19. Anna Grun manuscript

    Anna Grun's manuscripts include one Polish and two English versions entitled, “Remembrance,” about Anna's childhood in Kraków, Poland, her experiences in the Kraków ghetto and Płaszów concentration camp, and working at Oskar Schindler's enamel factory.

  20. Anna Gure collection

    Collection of photographs and documents concerning the experiences of Anna Gure (Gurvich), who worked with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) in a Munich DP camp (possibly St. Ottilien); one postwar document issued by the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria, dated December 5, 1945, stating that she had been a former prisoner at Stutthof; and one Swiss Red Cross document with the results of a chest x-ray. The collection also includes a caricature of a HIAS worker created by a Hungarian refugee.