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  1. Anna W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna W., a Romani, who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, one of five children. She recounts her father's work in a traveling theater; her family's move to Leipzig; expulsion from school in 1937 or 1938 due to laws against Romanies; forced labor at about age thirteen; deportation with her family to Auschwitz in 1942; the humiliation of having to undress in front of many people of both genders; transfer to Birkenau; transfer two years later to Ravensbru?ck; surgical sterilization; transfer to Schlieben; forced labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Oldenburg, t...

  2. Anna W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna W. who was born in Hungary in 1938. She recounts events told to her by her mother, but does remember times of fear and terror. She tells of living on an estate; anti-Jewish regulations in 1939 resulting in their move to Budapest, then a rural vineyard in 1941; her father's conscription into a forced labor battalion; remaining with her mother and sisters; German occupation; being forced to return to Budapest in 1944; hiding with her mother and sisters in several places in the ghetto; their detection, arrest, and release; possessing false papers; her mother's arres...

  3. Anna Walinska collection

    The collection consists of artwork created by Anna Walinska before and during the Holocaust.

  4. Anna Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna Z., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1926. She describes her assimilated family; frequent, cordial relations with non-Jews; European vacations; summering in Ustronie in 1939; German invasion; moving to Sro?dboro?w; her father, brother, and uncle fleeing east; moving to Warsaw in October; return to Cze?stochowa; German confiscation of their house; living with her uncle; attending Polish school; receiving religious instruction and converting to Catholicism in January 1940; moving to the open ghetto; her father's and brother's return; being sent to her Polish...

  5. Anna Zofia Prasalek fonds

    Fonds consists of an article: “Would engrave symbol on survivors’ stones - June 19, 1987, an Ottawa Jewish Historical Society receipt for books and documents received from Zofia Prasalek, three books, a a copy of a certificate describing rescue work of Kozimizsh, April 25, 1961 from the Jewish Historical Institute (Zydowski Instytut Historyczny)

  6. Anne and Robert Levitt collection

    The collection consists of cigarette cards, twenty-eight coins, currency, envelopes, maps, a medal, a pocket knife, postage stamps, posters, stickers, brochures, clippings, documents, journals, a bound volume of newsletters, postcards, scrapbooks and loose scrapbook pages, publications, 14 framed Szyk prints, 1 unframed Szyk print, 6 Szyk prints mounted on plaques.

  7. Anne and Ronald Abramson collection

    The collection consists of two prints by Arthur Szyk.

  8. Anne and Seth Smith collection

    Consists of four photographs from the liberation of Dachau. Contains images of bodies on a train car and truck.

  9. Anne B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anne B., who was born in Rexingen, Germany in 1931, the elder of two children. She recounts her mother confining them to their home on Kristallnacht; viewing the destroyed synagogue the next day; expulsion from school; her father's arrest; his return from Dachau four weeks later; expulsion from their home in 1939; a German woman who helped them obtain food; living with her grandparents; her father obtaining documents for him and her mother to emigrate to the United States; her mother's arrest in 1940; her release, conditional upon her leaving Germany within four days;...

  10. Anne Birnbaum collection

    Contains letters written by Annie Zwern in Frankfurt am Main to relatives in the United States before the war; a document dated June 1939 regarding the registration of a family with German police in Berlin-Wilmersdorf; and a newspaper clipping with a photograph of Blanka Zwern and her daughter Anna arriving on the S.S. Marine Marlin in New York.

  11. Anne Blaustein photograph collection

    The collection consists of studio portraits of the family of David Liss, originally of Poland, including his wife Julia, son Henryk, and daughter Niusienka, all of whom perished at Auschwitz in 1944. Also included an identification photograph of David used for his post-war American passport.

  12. Anne C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anne C., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1919, the middle of three children. She recounts her family's affluence; participating in a Zionist youth group; removal from school in 1934 due to anti-Jewish laws; attending a Jewish school; her parents' emigration to Luxemburg in 1935; attending a boarding school in Munich; emigration to London in 1937; seeing one brother on his way to the United States; visiting her parents in France; her other brother's emigration to Palestine in 1939; marriage; living in Scotland; her husband's death in 1946 (he was killed w...

  13. Anne Clark Schames collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, correspondence and a prayer book relating to the experiences of Anne Clark Schames, her parents Max and Kaethe, and her brother Henry before World War II in Stuttgart, Germany, during the war in Germany and Netherlands, and after the war when they immigrated to the United States in the early 1940s.

  14. Anne D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anne D., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1935. She recounts attending boarding school when her mother became ill in 1938; her parents' baptisms; not knowing she was Jewish; illegal emigration to Lucerne, Switzerland in 1939, then to Casablanca (they had relatives there); regularly attending church; exposure to antisemitism (she did not learn she was Jewish until she was ten); marriage to an American soldier in 1954; emigration to Seattle; the births of two children; divorce; remarriage; living in France, where her third child was born, then Seattle; and emigratio...

  15. Anne Frank diary mono-opera musical score and related documents

    Bound volume of musical score for an opera based on the "Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank. Title (Russian) is "Dnevnik Anni Frank, monopera, v 4 stsenax, 21 epizody," with libretto and music by Grigori Frid. Parshitura, 1969. Inscribed with Frid's (Fried) address in Moscow. Second folder contains concert programs from performances in Kislovodsk and Pyatigorsk in 1976-77; Rotterdam, 1979; Stockholm, 1997; Syracuse, NY, 1978; with English summary of opera.

  16. Anne Frank Exhibit fonds

    Fonds consists of textual and photographic records, including a docent training kit, research notes, notes on artifacts used in exhibit, student and reflections on the exhibit.

  17. Anne G. Holocaust testimony

    Video testimony of Anne G., who was born in a small town in Germany in 1910, moved to Ludwigshafen am Rhein, and then to Mannheim in 1932. She recalls anti-Semitic incidents; attending a speech by Hitler in Mannheim; her father leaving for France; and her fiance's attempt to leave Germany. She describes Crystal Night, detailing atrocities she witnessed; her conflict due to her love for Germany; being incarcerated in Mannheim prison; and obtaining papers enabling her to emigrate to England. Mrs. G. describes the painful departure from her mother and grandmother; her reunion with her fiance i...

  18. Anne Haas Jacobson Papers

    Contains a letter received by Harry Haas (donors' grandfather and father) in 1939, sent by Viennese Jewish woman named Rosalie Haas and her Protestant husband Robert, who were trying to flee Nazi Austria.

  19. Anne Hanken manuscript

    Contains a manuscript written by Anne Hanken (donor's maternal aunt) about different rescuers during the Holocaust.

  20. Anne Heineman-Beer collection

    Collection of documents, receipts, correspondence and other papers relating to the restitution claims of Anne Heineman-Beer (donor's grandmother) and her family's experiences during the Holocaust.