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  2. "Secret of the Hat"

    Consists of one videocassette containing a documentary entitled "Secret of the Hat," which appeared on Slovak TV in 1979. "Secret of the Hat" tells the story of Elzbieta Ross (Rossova), known as Elsa in the documentary, born in 1915 in Trencín, Czechoslovkia. Elzbieta, who was Jewish (though that is not mentioned in the documentary) became a communist and was expelled from medical school for her communist ties. She became a courier for the communist underground, carrying directives received from Prague in, among other hiding places, her hat. She was arrested on November 21, 1941, by the Ge...

  3. "The Man of a Thousand Faces: The Story of Tibor Slezák"

    Consists of a Hebrew copy and an English language translation of "The Man of a Thousand Faces: The Story of Tibor Slezák," 124 pages, by Avivah Even Hen. Tibor Slezák was a medical student and member of the Czech resistance in Brno at the beginning of the war, assisting those attempting to flee Czechoslovakia to Palestine. After the German invasion, he returned to his hometown of Źilina briefly before escaping over the border to Hungary. He lived in Budapest and was able to acquire the stamp of a military officer which allowed him to create false orders to be able to save people from dep...

  4. Radzyń Podlaski memorial album

    Consists of one album containing photographs of a memorial service held in Tel Aviv on January 10, 1970, to honor the victims of the Holocaust from Radzyń Podlaski, Poland.

  5. Lou Dunst 80th Birthday Celebration videocassette

    Consists of one videocassette of footage of the 80th birthday celebration of Lou Dunst, held in San Diego, CA on March 5, 2006. At the party, Mr. Dunst, a Holocaust survivor, was reunited with a liberator of the Ebensee concentration camp, Robert Persinger, who liberated Mr. Dunst and his brother Irving in May 1945. Mr. Dunst was also presented with the gift of a memorial Torah scroll. Also includes clippings of the television news accounts of the party.

  6. Edmund Glaser collection

    Consists of two programs for Nuremberg Military Tribunal Case No. One (U.S. vs. Karl Brandt, et. al) (The "Doctors Trial") and Military Tribunal Case No. Two (U.S. vs. Erhard Milch), which took place between 1946 and 1947. Each program lists the counts charged in the indictments of the defendants.

  7. Dr. Friedrich Walter Forster collection

    The Dr. Friedrich Walter Forster collection consists of a photocopy of Forster’s German handwritten memoir of his Holocaust experiences, an English translation of the memoir, and a brief essay written by Forester's nephew Sandro Lane. The memoir describes Dr. Forester’s 1941 deportation from Vienna, Austria to Poland by the Gestapo. In Zakrzowek, Poland he continued his work as a physician before being deported to series of forced labor camps including Budzyn and Miękisz. He was sent to the Flossenbürg concentration camp in 1944. Towards the end of the war, he was sent from Flossenbürg to D...

  8. Dr. Jacob Auslander collection

    Consists of correspondence written by Dr. Jacob Auslander( also called Bi), a physician in New York City, to his family in Europe, namely, his sister Cilli, who survived the war in Vienna. The Auslander family originally lived in Radatz, Romania; while Cilli survived the war in Vienna, the rest of the family was deported to Transnistria. In the letters, the siblings discuss wartime experiences and post-war Europe.

  9. Nachame Kuchevsky photograph

    Consists of one photograph of Nachame Kuchevsky (Norma Lipow) taken in Kovno in 1936. She survived the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto as well as the Auschwitz concentration camp. She married Morris Lipow in Munich in 1946.

  10. Tamara Mali Lapidus Kacel photograph

    Consists of one pre-war photograph of the family of Tamara Mali Lapidus (Tamara Lapidus Kacel), originally of Serei, Lithuania. The photograph depicts Nahum and Sara Ella Lapidus with their children, Tamara and twins Etta and Mina.

  11. Leon Benveniste photograph

    Consists of a photograph taken in Salonika (Thessaloniki), Greece, in 1939, of the starting line of a motorcycle race. Pictured on the right is Leon Benveniste.

  12. Goldberger family photograph

    Consists of a photograph of the Goldberger family taken in Tiszalok, Hungary, in 1935. Pictured are Celia, Miklos, Livia, and Ervin Goldberger.

  13. Judith Bihaly photographs

    Consists of pre-war photographs of Karoly and Josephine Nettel Bihaly, the donor's parents, and post-war photographs of Judith and her twin brother Andras in the Bagnoli and Bari, Italy, displaced persons camps. Also includes photographs of Judith Bihaly on the kibbutz Ashdod Yaakov with other Jewish youth from Europe. She immigrated to Palestine with a group sponsored by Youth Aliyah.

  14. Ignac and Hermina Rothman Ungar wedding photograph

    Consists of the wedding photograph of Ignac and Hermina Rothman Ungar, taken in 1919 in Foldes, Hungary. Both perished in Auschwitz.

  15. Leibowitz family photographs

    Consists of photographs of the Leibowiitz family in pre-war and wartime Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania), and photographs of the family of Saul Leibowitz in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp and in the United States. Includes a photograph of Saul Leibowitz and other survivors laying a wreath on a memorial on the one year anniversary of liberation and a photograph of the Leibowitz family after receiving their United States citizenship in 1958.

  16. Frieda and Johanna Gross collection

    Consists of photographs, official documents, and papers related to the Holocaust experiences of Frieda and Johanna Gross, who were passengers on the MS St. Louis. Also includes photographs and papers related to the sisters, who went into hiding in Belgium after their return to Europe and before their immigration to the United States. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the family and their ancestors, prewar postcards, and naturalization papers.

  17. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Aube

    This collection contains documents from the Special Police Commissariat. It includes lists of refugees by nationality, materials on internment facilities, and documents of the Bureau of Liaison with the German authorities and of the Renseignements généraux (the police agency watching foreigners). Also included are documents on the persecution of Jews in the communes of Isle-Aumont and Ramerupt, and materials of the post-liberation Historical Commission on the Second World .

  18. Michail Gebelev collection

    Consists of copies of articles and photographs related to the wartime experiences of Michail Gebelev, who was in charge of underground operations in the Minsk ghetto. Present-day photographs show the daughter of Michail Gebelev, Svetlana Gebeleva, at ceremonies honoring her father.

  19. 1943 Gurs photograph

    Consists of one photograph taken in the Gurs internment camp in May 1943. The photograph depicts two women, each holding a toddler, and is captioned "Wally, Heiner, Trude, und Suzy in Gurs." It is believed that "Trude" is Trude Frank, a cousin of Lore Rosen [donor] who survived the war and "disappeared" in East Germany shortly thereafter.

  20. Olga Berkovitz Lebovitz photographs

    Consists of three photographs taken in 1939 and 1940 of the Berkovitz family, originally of Berehove, Czechoslovakia, as well as two photographs of Olga Berkovitz in 1946, one with fellow survivors in Reichenback, and one with her husband, David.