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  1. Bronia Landau papers

    The collection consists of two copies (one each in English and Hebrew), of "My Lost Childhood", a memoir by Bronia Bratt Landau, originally of Kromołów, Poland, which details her experiences between 1942-1945 in the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp in Sagan, Germany (now Żagań, Poland), the Grünberg subcamp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp, and the Helmbrechts subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp. The memoir also discusses her escape from a death march in German-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1945. Also included are two copies of a photograph of the Bratt family from 1941. Both c...

  2. Elly Moses photographs

    The Elly Moses photographs consist of pre-war, wartime, and post-war original and reproduction photographs of Elly van Leeuwen Moses, her sister Rachel (Chellie), and her parents, Isaac and Judith, as well as of one of the families who hid her during the Holocaust.

  3. Phia Vos family photograph

    One photograph of Phia Vos with her extended family (1938-1939) in Zwolle, Holland. The adult women from left to right are Tehudit, Sophia and Luisa. Phia is on her grandmother's lap. Her brothers Hans and Louk are behind her.

  4. Stamm family papers

    The Stamm family papers consist of correspondence and lists documenting Anna and Gustav Stamm, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and Silbermann and Stamm family members and friends they left behind in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. The correspondence describes loneliness; employment and health issues; hopes and plans for immigration to America, Brazil, Australia, and Shanghai; requests for financial help; gratitude for packages; and the birth of a baby boy. A 1939 list details the contents of one of the suitcases Anna Stamm brought to America, and a photocopy of a 1942 Theresie...

  5. Stuttgart and Łódź school photographs

    Consists of six post-war photographs of children in the displaced persons camp schools in Stuttgart, Germany and Łódź, Poland.

  6. "Euxin: A Brave Voyage to Freedom" memoir

    Memoir tells the story of Lilly Shalit (nee Roth, ex-Abramovici) who tried to escape Romania in 1942 on the sailing boat "Euxin" with her husband, sister, and brother-in-law. The journey took them six months, as they travelled through the Black Sea and the Bosphorus towards Palestine. Turkish authorities would not let them land in Izmir, and they spent two months on the ship in the Bay of Izmir before the British consulate obtained visas for them to Cyprus. Although they wished to go to Palestine, they accepted the visas and spent Sep. 1942-April 1944 in Cyprus, until they were allowed to l...

  7. Marie Winkelman collection

    Collection consists of seven pre- and post-World War II photographs of the family of Marie Lubowski Winkelman; also includes one false "Kennkarte," for Maria Lisiecka used while in hiding in Warsaw, Poland.

  8. Kloster-Indersdorf displaced persons camp photograph collection

    Consists of six photographs of young men at the Kloster-Indersdorf displaced persons camp, holding chalk boards with their names on them. Pictured are Hil Kadyziewicz, Tibor Munkacsy, Mosche Birnbaum, Julius Wiess, Chaim Geller, and one unknown young man. Also includes one photograph of people standing outside the children's home for Jewish orphans in Dumbarton, Scotland, taken in 1945.

  9. Marc Jaffe collection

    Consists of receipts and thank-you letters for donations made by D. Jaffe of Newport, RI, to Rabbi A. Zelman's yeshiva in Warsaw and Rabbi A. Scher's yeshiva in Kaunas in 1939. The thank-you letters relate how difficult it is becoming to keep the yeshivas open.

  10. "For My Children": Rebecca Atsmon memoir

    Consists of memoir, 59 pages, which relates to the life of Rebecca Atsmon, born in Lvov. She was taken to a work camp in 1941, which was under the command of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Kitner who treated them very well. He warned her family of the liquidation of the ghetto in 1943 and aided them in their escape to Germany with Gentile papers. She worked in Germany until the liberation in 1945 and traveled to the Landsberg displaced persons camp.

  11. Egon and Frieda Fried collection

    Consists of documentation regarding the education, emigration, and employment of Egon and Frieda Fried who emigrated first to England and then to the United States from Vienna, Austria, in 1939 to 1940. Egon Fried was an engineer, and the collection contains his diplomas from primary and secondary school, his letters seeking employment in the United States, letters of recommendation, and original blueprints and drafts he created.

  12. Hameln Synagogue collection

    Consists of information regarding the history and reconstruction plans of the synagogue in Hameln, Germany, which had been destroyed on Kristallnacht. Includes copies of original drawings of the synagogue before it was destroyed, a bound book entitled "Sie waren Burger der Stadt: Die Geschichte der judischen Einwohner Hamelns im Dritten Reich", by Bernhard Gelderblom (164 pages, published 1997), a brochure about the synagogue, copies of newspaper articles, and a blank piece of stationery with a drawing of the synagogue on the front. Also included is one photoprint consisting of copies of tw...

  13. Linda Ryngiermacher Fishman photographs

    Consists of two copyprints: one of Frieda Ringermacher with friends, and one of Rajzel Rose Ringermacher Fox. Both women perished in the Holocaust, Rajzel with her three-year-old son Welwale in Treblinka in 1942 . They were from Skarżysko, Cze̜stochowa, Poland.

  15. "War and Resistance: This I Remember" memoir

    “War and Resistance: This I Remember,” a memoir details Anne Levine’s Holocaust experiences. Levine spent 1940-1942 at the “Rayon de Soleil” children’s home in Cannes, France. In 1942, she went into hiding in the Durfort home of Denise and Paul Cadier. When this became too dangerous, she went to Paris and, under an assumed name, got a job as a research assistant at the "Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique." Along with many of the employees at the center, notably Dr. Jacques Monod, she joined the Resistance and remained in Paris until the city's liberation in 1944.

  16. "I Remember" memoir

    Contains one memoir, 21 pages, detailing the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Helga Stein. As the only child of an Aryan father (who passed away when she was three) and a Jewish mother, she details her experiences in Berlin as a child under the Nazi regime. After her family and friends were arrested and deported, Mrs. Stein, then a young adult, hid in a bombed out apartment building in Berlin for the entirety of the war. She immigrated to the United States in 1953.

  17. Sergio DeBenedetti memoirs

    Consists of one unedited memoir, in Italian, entitled "Note Antifasciste," by Sergio DeBenedetti (approximately 520 pages) 1941, and the edited version of "Note Antifasciste," retitled "Between Fascism and Freedom: The Education of Sergio DeBenedetti," edited by Vera DeBenedetti Bonnet, in English, (approximately 100 pages), 2003. In this memoir, Sergio DeBenedetti recounts his experiences as a Jewish physicist in Mussolini's Italy and his experiences working in Paris in the months immediately preceeding the Nazi invasion in 1940.

  18. Joseph Shein collection

    Contains one copyprint of a poem, written in Yiddish, entitled "The shtetl is burning," by Mordechai Gebertig; photograph of the common grave, in Czȩstochowa, Poland, commemorating the deaths of Jewish resistance fighters in March 1943; photograph of message written on a wall by a resistance fighter in Czȩstochowa immediately before his death; one book regarding the Czȩstochowa ghetto, written by Liber Brenner; and one bound copy of "The story of our family," by Yitzhak Shein.

  19. "Hlas Pudy Q306" issues

    Contains photocopies of "Hlas Pudy Q306", a children's magazine written and published by eleven children, all under the age of twelve, who lived in the attic numbered Q306 in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto in Czechoslovakia. The children--editor-in-chief Mariana Kornova, Zdenek Grunhut, Hana Brockova, Jiri Kreisl, Anita Brandeisova, Tomas Sladkus, Jan Brod, Petr Abrahamovsky, Petr Fischl, Tommy Brandais, and Kitty Langendorfova--all perished in Auschwitz in the fall of 1944. In the magazine, they wrote short stories, poems, puzzles, and humorous observations about their lives and about...

  20. Lonia Bork collection

    Contains postcards written from the Łódź ghetto, 1940-1941, to Lonia Bork's sister in Russia. Also includes letter written by Lonia from Hanover, Germany, 1945; and a small circular metal "dogtag" with "Halberstadt L.B. 1945" engraved into it. The "dogtag" belonged to Luba Gerszenowicz Horn from Aleksandrów, Poland.