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  1. "My Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 98 pages, entitled "My Story," by Margaret Elias Lawrence, who was born in Munich, Germany, in 1917. She was raised in Königsberg, Germany, where her father, Leo Elias, owned a small store. She recalls her childhood, the increasing antisemitism after 1933, Kristallnacht, and her immigration to England in February 1939, to work as household help. She married fellow refugee Hans George Lewinneck (Harold George Lawrence) in January 1940, and in February 1945, Margaret gave birth to a son, Peter. In 1948, the family immigrated to Argentina, and then to the United States ...

  2. Dr. Frank Stinchfield collection

    Consists of 39 photographs from the collection of Dr. Frank E. Stinchfield, a physician and Colonel in the United States Army Medical Corps. The photographs were taken a few days after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945, and depict surviving prisoners, camp architecture, and piles of corpses. Also includes several photographs of the Ohrdruf concentration camp after liberation.

  4. Schwarzhaupt family collection

    Consists of correspondence regarding the Holocaust experiences of the family of Albert and Hella Reinhold Schwarzhaupt. Consists of pre-war postcards, the 1921 marriage certificate of Albert and Hella, and the birth certificate of their fourth child, Ruth Schwarzhaupt. In 1935, Albert and Hella managed to secure passage to the United States for their two oldest children, Rosi and Hanni. In February 1939, the two youngest children, Max and Ruth, sponsored by a Swiss Jewish Relief Agency, entered Switzerland, where they remained during the war, joining their siblings in the United States afte...

  5. "Late Embrace"

    Consists of one DVD, entitled "Late Embrace," (28 minutes), a documentary produced by Yehudit Shenhar and Alisa Eshed in Jerusalem in December 2006. The documentary is the story of Ester Roter, who was a hidden child and the only survivor of her family. After the war, Ester immigrated to Palestine and, conflicted about her feelings towards them, did not keep in contact with the Kormarniccy family who hid her. In 2004, she returned to Głubczyce and reunited with the family; the documentary also shows members of the Kormarniccy family visiting Ester in Israel, including the ceremony at Yad Va...

  6. Shoshana Benes photographs

    Consists of nine photographs from the collection of Shoshana Marin Benes (originally Rajsla Meryn), originally of Bedzin, Poland. The photographs depict life before the Holocaust, life in the Bedzin ghetto, and include two studio portraits of Rajsla Meryn wearing the Magen David. Also includes photographs of teenagers taken in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp.

  7. Linkuva photographs

    Consists of eight photographs of pre-war Jewish life in Linkuva, Lithuania. Includes photographs of homes, the marketplace, the post office, and a horse-drawn wagon.

  8. Marcel Burtin testimony

    Consists of one CD-ROM containing the testimony of Marcel Burtin (born Szloma Burstyn) that was recorded in 2001, transcribed from the original French by Mr. Burtin's daughter, Joelle Leseuer, in 2008, and translated into English by Sally Case in 2008. In his testimony, Mr. Burtin, who was born in Dzierzby, Poland, describes his family's immigration to France when he was a child, and the first years of the war. In 1942, he went into hiding in the countryside near Paris before escaping to the south of France, where he lived on false identity papers. Mr. Burtin was arrested as a member of the...

  9. Rozia Topor memoir

    The Rozia Topor memoir contains an eight page memoir written by Rozia Topor describing her experiences in several ghettos and labor camps of Poland, while caring for her younger siblings.

  10. Salaspils concentration camp collection

    Consists of information about the Salaspils concentration camp in Latvia. Includes documents written by Margers Vestermanis, a museum director; a summary of testimony by prisoner Joseph Gertner; and copies of photographs and artwork.

  11. John and Sophie Lambert collection

    Consists of photographs and documents from the lives of Hans and Sofie Schneider Lemberger (John and Sophie Lambert), who immigrated from Vienna to the United States in December 1939. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs, diplomas, birth and marriage certificates, report cards, "Reisepasses," and letters regarding attempts to help family immigrate and regarding the fate of family members.

  12. "I was a Child During the War"

    Consists of one DVD entitled, "I was a Child During the War," which tells the story of Bertrand and Ariane Rosenau, originally of Paris, France. Includes their experiences in Paris after the German occupation, the deportation of their father, and their lives in wartime Paris living under false Aryan identities.

  13. Selected records from various archives of Romania concerning Roma

    This collection documents deportations of 25,000 Roma to Transnistria in 1942: contains lists of Roma to be deported; police reports concerning alleged criminal activities; petitions of deportees for repatriation; “Romanianization” of Romas’ property; requests from local officials for clarification of deportation orders; internal correspondence concerning the effect of deportations on the remaining population; decisions regarding Roma refugees from Northern (Hungarian) Transylvania; and other topics such as typhus outbreaks, “vagabondism,” “concubinism,” and mixed marriages.

  14. M2121, Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp Inmate Cards, April 1944-April 1945

    Contains three series of original German records identifying inmates of the Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, for the period April 1944 to April 1945. The first group is a name series, and the other two smaller series consist of cards organized by block (barrack) number to which the inmate was assigned, and occupations or trades to which some of the inmates were assigned within the camp. American forces seized the cards when they liberated and occupied the camp in April 1945. These records are unique in form, as the Germans cut the cards t...

  15. Rabbi Dr. Enoch (Hans) Kronheim collection

    Consists of photographs, documents, correspondence, sermons, and newspaper clippings related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war life and work of Rabbi Dr. Enoch (Hans) Kronheim. Includes material related to Rabbi Kronheim’s rabbinical work in pre-war Bielefeld, his 1938 immigration and the 1939 immigration of his family, and of his wartime work as a rabbi in Jamestown, NY.

  16. Gluszyca names list

    Consists of a list of names and personal information of 613 Polish Jews who were resettled between 1946-1950 in Gluszyca, a small town near the Czech border. Many of those listed fled, or were shipped, east into the Soviet Union at the beginning of the war.

  17. Katia Magid and Fannie Szuster collection

    Consists of letters, documents, and official paperwork regarding the post-war immigration attempts of Katia (Katie) Magid and Fannie Szuster, both Holocaust survivors originally from Vilna (Vilnius), Poland (present day Lithuania). The papers describe the women's attempts to emigrate from Cuba into the United States to join family. Includes a letter written by Alan Markon to President Truman asking him to help his Aunt Katia and her friend Fannie immigrate.

  18. Selected records of the Archives départementales de l'Eure-et-Loir

    This collection contains documents from the prefect’s office; the administration of the Voves camps, where most persons identified as Communists were sent, often transferred from other camps; the Chartres prison; and private families and notaries. Documents include a register of Jews interned at the Chartres prison (1055W); several collections in the J Series (from private sources); the papers of the family of the deported doctor Goldberg; and records concerning compensation made to victims of spoliation by the Vichy regime and the German occupying forces.

  19. Jewish Registry of Antwerp

    Contains a name list of an estimated 11, 250 names of the Antwerp Jewish Community.

  20. Jacob and Rita Litman papers, including Samuel Golfard diary

    The collection includes biographical material, restitution files, and photographs primarily documenting Jacob and Rita Litman’s experiences at the displaced persons camp at Bayerisch Gmain, Germany, from 1946 to 1949, their immigration to the United States, and efforts to obtain restitutions as well as extensive post-war correspondence from Tadeusz Jankiewicz, who helped Jacob escape, and other Poles who knew and helped Jacob during the war. The collection also includes the diary of Samuel Golfard, which was written during Samuel's internment as a Jewish forced laborer in and around Przemys...