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  1. "A Brief History of the Moller Family During the Nazi Era, 1933-1945, and Beyond"

    The collection consists of one manuscript, 56 pages, entitled "A Brief History of the Moller Family During the Nazi Era, 1933-1945, and Beyond," written in 2006 by brothers Ruben H. Moller and Levi W. Moller. The manuscript details their childhood in Bochum, Germany, the death of their father August Moller in 1935, their and experiences on Kristallnacht. It also details their Holocaust experiences including their deportation to the Riga ghetto in December 1941, their transfer to Kaiserwald concentration camp in 1943, and subsequent transfers to Dünawerke, a work camp in Panevėžys, Lithuania...

  2. Magda Nemeth testimony

    Consists of written testimony by Magda Nemeth, a survivor from Budapest, Hungary. The testimony is told in the form of short stories, entitled "Quicksand," "The Real Klara," "Rozsa Sandor," "The Lost Art of Survival," "The Twenty-Five Days: The Siege of Budapest," and "The Last Christmas Eve." The stories describe her memories between May 1944-1945, including her rescue of her younger sister from deportations in the Hungarian countryside, and her rescue from a firing squad at the Radetzky military barracks in Budapest, thanks to the intervention of Raoul Wallenberg. She also donated a copy ...

  3. Pierre Hartendorf collection

    Consists of copies of official paperwork and archival records regarding the Holocaust experiences of Pierre Hartendorf, originally of Haarlem in the Netherlands, who was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen in 1944. Includes testimony by Mr. Hartendorf's daughter, written in 1989, describing his arrest and imprisonment.

  4. Fred Manasse collection

    The collection primarily consists of photographs depicting the Holocaust-era experiences of Manfred Manasse (Fred), originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, including pre-war and wartime photographs of his parents Alfred and Trude Manasse and his sister Miriam, all of whom perished in the Holocaust. Other photographs include depictions of Fred and his brother Gustav in an orphanage in Lisbon, Portugal waiting to immigrate to the United States, having previously fled Germany on a Kindertransport. Documents include Fred’s immigration visa, affidavit in lieu of passport, and alien registratio...

  5. Alexander and Aviva Bartal papers

    The Alexander and Aviva Bartal papers primarily consist of photographs documenting Polish Holocaust survivors Alexander and Aviva Bartal and their family and friends before the Holocaust in Poland and after liberation in Germany, Italy, and Israel. The papers also include photocopies of 1970s correspondence about Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg, between World Jewish Congress representative Hilel Storch and historian Gerald Fleming. Photographic materials include loose photographs, a photo album cover dated 1947, and loose photo album pages documenting Alexander and Aviva Bartal and their...

  6. Abram Pukacz papers

    The Abram Pukacz papers consist of correspondence and photographs documenting Abram and his family from Łask, Poland. The letters were written by Abram to his cousin in Tel Aviv shortly after World War II, and describe the loss of his family in the Holocaust, his loneliness, and his impatience to immigrate to Palestine. Photographs depict Pukacz family members and family home in Łask before the Holocaust, Abram and other young people in the Bergen Belsen displaced persons camp, and the Ayanot agricultural school in Israel. Ayanot photographs include a picture of David Ben-Gurion and other o...

  7. Croatian names lists

    Consists of photocopies of names lists of Croatians who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1941, as well as one names list of Holocaust survivors, compiled by the Jewish Community of Zagreb.

  8. Klubski family collection

    Consists of documents and photographs related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of the Klubski (Klubsky) family, originally of Paris, France via Łódź, Poland. Herman (Hercko/Hertz) Klubski and his wife, Bella Shapshak, had three children, twins Marie (later Marie Benson) and Henri (Aron/Ari) and daughter Lily (later Lily Nathan). Henri, a soldier in the French army (who received the Croix de Guerre and the Bronze Star), was arrested in Paris in 1941, interned in Drancy, and deported to Auschwitz on September 23, 1942, where he perished on September 28, 1942. Lily's husband...

  9. Hirschfeld family collection

    Consists of papers related to the Holocaust and immigration experiences of the family of Isac and Lydia Hirschfeld, originally of Liebau, Latvia. Isac Hirscheld passed away before the war, and once the war began, Lydia and her daughters Fanny, Frida, and Marie were interned, first in the Riga ghetto, and later in a forced labor camp. The collection includes a wartime address book, Fanny's diary, kept while in forced labor, and wartime correspondence. In 1944, Fanny volunteered to accompany a cousin on a transfer to Stutthof, where she perished. Lydia, Frida, and Marie survived the war and s...

  10. Pauline Widder Fabri memoir

    Consists of an English-language, typed translation of Pauline Widder Fabri's memoir, which she wrote immediately after the war, in Budapest, Hungary. She describes her experiences between March 1944 and the end of the war, focusing particularly on the dates between November 16, 1944 and January 18, 1945, as she took detailed notes of her activities between those dates. She describes the anti-Jewish ordinances established after the German invasion, her move into the area of Budapest protected by Raoul Wallenberg and the Swedish embassy, her daily activities in the winter of 1944- 1945, and h...

  11. Transcript of oral history interview with Charlotte Gellar Brown

  12. "Images from Auschwitz-Birkenau"

    Consists of a portfolio of artwork entitled "Images from Auschwitz-Birkenau: By John Wiernicki, Polish Resistance Fighter and Prisoner Number 150302." Mr. Wiernicki, who is not Jewish, was imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau from September 1943 - December 1944, and in Ohrdruf from December 1944 until the liberation of the camp. The collection contains an introduction explaining Mr. Wiernicki's experiences and 20 watercolor and ink drawings of events he witnessed, both at Auschwitz and in Ohrdruf. Also includes a CD-ROM containing scanned copies of the images.

  13. Pruzhana photographs

    The collection consists of pre-war photographs of the Levitas family of Pruzhana, Poland (Pruzhany, Belarus). The family perished during the Holocaust.

  14. "My War Years"

    Consists of one memoir, 13 pages, written by Cass Lewart, originally of Łódź, Poland. Mr. Lewart describes his family and life before the war, his memories of the German invasion, during which the family briefly fled to Warsaw before returning to Łódź. After witnessing the German occupation of Łódź, Mr. Lewart's father decided to move the family back to Warsaw, and managed to obtain false Aryan papers for them. The family lived outside the ghetto until they were denounced in the fall of 1942, and briefly imprisoned. Mr. Lewart and his mother were released and established a new false i...

  15. "My Life--Memoirs by Sophie Weiss"

    Consists of one memoir, 19 pages, written by Sophie Ritterband Lewartowicz Weiss, originally of Łódź, Poland. Mrs. Weiss describes her family, childhood, and marriage to Zygmunt Lewartowicz. When the Germans invaded Poland, Mrs. Weiss (then Mrs. Lewartowicz) and her family briefly fled to Warsaw before returning to Łódź. In Decemeber 1939, after witnessing the German occupation of Łódź, the family returned to Warsaw and went into hiding as Catholics. The family lived as Aryans outside the ghetto until they were denounced in the fall of 1942, and briefly imprisoned. Mrs. Weiss and her ...

  16. "An Absence of Closure"

    Consists of one memoir, 114 pages, entitled "An Absence of Closure," by Gustav (Gus) Schonfeld, originally of Munkacevo, Czechoslovakia. He describes his childhood in Munkacevo (Munkacs), his family lineage, and the takeover of Munkacevo, first by the Hungarians in 1939 and later by the Germans in 1944. After the German invasion, Gus's father, Dr. Alexander Schonfeld, a physician, was assigned to the village of Barkaszo, so the family moved, but were deported to Auschwitz shortly thereafter. After a few weeks in Auschwitz, Gus, his father, and some of the male members of his familiy were se...

  17. 1939 Deutsche Automobilclub map of Germany

    Consists of one large folded color map of Germany, entitled "Strassenzustandskarte von Deutschland," published by the Deutsche Automobil club in Munich in 1939. Includes areas which had been incorporated into or were controlled by Germany. The map is stamped as having been owned by Major John Hinkel (later Colonel), a paratrooper who fought in the Italian campaign during World War II.

  18. "The Diary of Jenö Klein"

    Consists of a photocopy of the handwritten diary of Jenö Klein, originally of Makó, Hungary, written between March 1, 1944 and July 2, 1945. Mr. Klein was deported from Makó to Strasshof, Austria, and from there to Neumuhl to work in a quarry and a forest, then to Gmund to work in a potato processing factory. Mr. Klein became a "Jupo" (Juden Polizei) of the group and was in charge of the distribution of items. In April, the group was transferred to Theresienstadt (Terezin). Mr. Klein was liberated on May 7th by the Red Army. Also includes a typed translation of the Hungarian diary into G...

  19. Elizabeth Kardos Langfelder Kux collection

    The collection consists of correspondence and documents related to Elizabeth Kardos Langfelder Kux's restitution claims. The papers include information about Mrs. Kux's Holocaust experiences, including the arrest and death of her first husband, Jakob Langfelder, her own imprisonment in the concentration camps of Sered (Czechoslovakia), Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Bad Kudowa labor camp, Mauthausen, and the Klein-Schönau labor camp. Also includes information about the death of her oldest son, Stephen, who froze to death as a toddler on a transport to Mauthausen, and the birth of her son Charles i...

  20. Roman Ryterband letters

    Consists of a collection of letters written to Roman Ryterband by members of his family in Poland between 1938 and 1943. Mr. Ryterband spent the war in Switzerland, and received letters from his parents, Abram and Golda Riterband (Ryterband), who were deported from Łódź in 1939, imprisoned in the Nowy Sacz ghetto and deported to a death camp in 1942. Also includes letters from other members of his extended and immediate family from the Warsaw and Łódź ghettos, including his brother Stasiek Ryterband and wife Luba from the Warsaw ghetto, who were murdered towards the end of 1942. Some le...