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  1. 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.

  3. "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.

  4. "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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. "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...

  8. 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.

  9. Auschwitz/Dachau prisoner correspondence

    Consists of four letters written home by prisoners on concentration camp stationery; three are from Dachau, those of Aleksy Bryniyszkiewicz, Soideusr Augustyniak, and Bonifacius Gozdricki, and one from Auschwitz, that of Georg Gusikiewicz.

  10. Birthe Trommer photograph

    Contains photograph of Josef and Kaja Geldmann, with their daughter Birthe, eating Christmas dinner with the Johanson family of Landskrona, Sweden. The Geldmanns, a Jewish family, escaped by boat from Denmark to Sweden in October 1943. The photograph was taken on December 24, 1944.

  11. Sophie Fritz photographs

    Contains photographs: one of three sisters, described as "Yeva, Sonja, and Liza," and one of three women and an elderly man, described as "Slova Nudelman and third husband, Sonja Cygelman Tzigelman and Rachel Nudelman Cygelman. This photograph has three generations in it, as Rachel is Slova's daughter and Sonja's mother. Only Yeva and Liza survived the war.

  12. Renata de Gara Cafiero collection

    Contains documents regarding the removal of Paul De Gara from public service as a non-Aryan as of April 7, 1933. Also includes a certificate of good conduct used by Dr. De Gara to enter the United States in 1939. Collection also contains a memoir written by Adele Cantor entitled "Tears and Joys of a War-time Deportee" (London, 1946, 32 pages) regarding her childhood in Berlin, Germany; experiences in the camps of Gurs, Douadic, and Chateau Le Roc; liberation; and emigration to England in 1946.

  13. Spreekmeester family papers

    The collection documents the efforts of the Spreekmeester family of Amsterdam, The Netherlands to prove their English ancestry and citizenship in order to obtain British passports for emigration and to avoid deportation to a concentration camp. The majority of the correspondence is with the Embassy of Switzerland in Berlin, and regards efforts to obtain British passports for Emanuel and Rebecca Spreekmeester and their two sons Philip Alfred and Alfred Arthur. Documents in1943-1944 were written after the family was deported to the Westerbork concentration camp, and then Bergen-Belsen. The ma...

  14. Ernst Thaelmann postcard

    Pre-printed postcard addressed to Ernst Thaelmann, Berlin, Germany. Postcard proclaims that the undersigned person demands a public trial, medical care, and the release of Ernst Thaelmann and all others from fascist jails and concentration camps.

  15. Frances Maisel collection

    Consists of documentation regarding attempts by Samuel Friedman and Moses Goldberg (both of New York City) in 1941, to obtain a visa for Szolim Ejcer of Plunge, Lithuania. Mr. Ejcer was the twenty-three-year-old nephew of both Mr. Friedman and Mr. Goldberg. The paperwork includes affidavits of support, a photograph of Mr. Goldberg, and a 1942 envelope which returned from Lithuania stating that Mr. Ejcer's whereabouts were unknown.

  16. "As Children during the Holocaust in France (1940-1944)"

    Memoir, 13 pages, relates the Holocaust experiences of Joseph Sungolowsky, who escaped from Belgium to France with his family after the Nazi invasion in 1940. The son of a rabbi, Joseph and his family went into hiding in Nice, France, with the help of the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE).

  17. Dachau 1950-1951 collection

    Consists of nineteen slides of photographs taken at the concentration camp Dachau in 1951.

  18. Zygielbojm bibliographic and research materials

    Consists of photocopies, translations, speeches, and articles about the life, death, and memory of Shmuel "Artur" Zygielbojm, a member of the Polish government-in-exile in London, who committed suicide in 1943 in hopes of bringing the world's attention to the plight of the Jews of Poland. Dr. Aliza Kolker of George Mason University compiled this research, originally intended as a bibliography of work done on Zygielbojm.

  19. "Blanka's Story" memoir

    Consists of memoir, 14 pages, entitled "Blanka's Story," describing the Holocaust experiences of Blanka Schuh, born in Dubrinic, Czechoslovakia. She and her family were deported in 1944, first to Uzhgorod and then to Auschwitz, where they were separated. She was sent to Latvia to work for the Wehrmacht, and was then transferred to the Stutthof concentration camp. She was liberated by the Russians and went to a displaced persons camp in Torino, Italy. She remained in Italy for two years, then emigrated to Israel and finally to the United States in 1958. Of her family, four siblings, her pare...

  20. Kahn family correspondence

    Consists of correspondence from and regarding Bertha and Johanna (Hansel) Kahn. As Jewish life became difficult in Germany, the mother and daughter moved to Amsterdam. When the Nazi invasion occurred, they went into hiding until their finances ran out. The Dutch Underground offered to take Hansel in, as she did not look Jewish and was good with languages, but she refused to leave her mother. The two women were deported to Westerbork and perished in Sobibor. The correspondence includes a Red Cross telegram from Bertha, dated 1943, and letters describing their situation that were sent to fami...