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  1. Elena Boguslavsky Zondowicz collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, Polish report cards, a Catholic prayer book, and a picture of the Virgin Mary relating to the experiences of Elena Boguslavsky Zondowicz while in hiding during the Holocaust as well as her subsequent immigration to Mexico.

  2. Elena D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elena D., who was born in Prešov, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1918, the middle of three children. She recalls belonging to Hashomer Hatzair and Maccabi; cordial relations with non-Jews; graduation from high school; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of the family home and business; her brother's emigration to the United States; living with her grandmother in Bardejov to avoid deportation; denouncement by her best friend's husband who was in the Hlinka guard; feigning illness; hospitalization; release; marriage; her parents' and sister's depor...

  3. Elena Fleischnerova papers

    The collection consists of letters received by Elena Fleischnerova, formerly of Prague, after she fled Czechoslovakia for France in 1939 and then immigrated to the United States with her husband Eugene and daughter Danielle in 1940. The bulk of the letters, 1939-1941, are from her mother Emilie Wohryzek prior to her deportation with her husband Moritz to Theresienstadt in 1942. Other letters are from friends and family.

  4. Elena L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elena L., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Veľký Šariš, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1921. She recalls attending school until fifth grade; cordial relations with Jews and non-Romanies; working for a Jewish family; persecution of Jews and Romanies by Hlinka guards with the establishment of the Slovak state; observing Jews having to wear identifying marks and their deportation; destruction of Romani houses, including hers; anti-Romani restrictions; living in a hut in the woods; her child's death due to the harsh conditions; hiding from the Germans in a h...

  5. Elena Osipovna Malakhovshaya collection

    Contains photocopies of official documents, personal letters, and newspaper clippings pertaining to Elena Osipovna Malakhovshaia. Malakhovshaia was born in 1934 as Rosaliia Osipovna Laikhter. She lived through the German bombing of the port of Odessa and the ensuing widespread conflagration. Members of her family hid in the catacombs beneath the city. Malakhovshaia spent part of 1941 in the Slobodka Ghetto. She survived the war, became an artist, and later emigrated to Israel.

  6. Eleonora Diamand collection

    Contains glass negatives of photographs taken by Eleonora Diamand (donor's maternal grandmother) between 1905-1941, documenting life of her family in Lwow. Eleanora was killed during the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944.

  7. Elevator ascends the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Exposition

    The 1900 Paris Exposition filmed from the new elevator in the Eiffel Tower showing the ascent of the elevator and an aerial shot of the Champs de Mars and the exposition. The tops of pavilions, the iron structure of the Eiffel Tower. Entire buildings can be seen. Lanterns inside the Eiffel Tower. The tops of buildings, people walking along the Champs de Mars. Aerial shot of the busy Champs de Mars.

  8. Elfi E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elfi E., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1927. She remembers living with her grandparents (her parents were divorced); a close relationship with her twin brother; being attacked by Hitler youth; Kristallnacht; her mother's decision to send her and her brother to Belgium to join their father; the paid smuggler abandoning them in Aachen; their father finding them; placement with foster families; missing her brother; briefly seeing her mother who was emigrating to London; placement in an orphanage in Middelkerke; evacuation to an orphanage in Brussels during German in...

  9. Elfriede Gerson Hillelsohn collection

    The collection consists of a skirt, passport, and documents relating to the experiences of Elfriede Gerson before and during the Holocaust in Hamburg, Germany and her immigration to the United States.

  10. Elfriede Posner Greifinger collection

    Consists of the German language memoir, written in 1983, of Elfriede Posner Greifinger, originally of Dziedzice, Poland, along with an English translation of the same completed by Mrs. Greifinger's daughter, Edith Millman. In the memoir, Mrs. Greifinger describes the outbreak of war in Warsaw, life in the Warsaw ghetto, the family's escape from the ghetto and life posing as Aryans and in hiding. The memoir, which was never finished, concludes as the family is being blackmailed about their secret. Also includes copies of photographs of Elfriede Greifinger, her sister, Erna Koch, and brother-...

  11. Elfriede Schloss collection

    The collection consists of a tag and documents relating to the experiences of Elfriede Meyer during the Holocaust when she was placed in a Jewish orphanage in France and eventually emigrated to the United States along with other orphaned children with the assistance of the American Friends Service Committee.

  12. Elfriede Toch collection

    The collection consists of a purse, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Elfriede Toch, originally of Austria, who was one of the fifty children selected and sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus to come to the United States in 1939.

  13. Elhagyott Javak Kormánybiztosságának iratai

    • Records of the Government Commissariat for Abandoned Possessions

    The Government Commissariat for Abandoned Possessions was established by decree on March 11, 1945. Its aims were to aid those who were personally impacted by the destruction wrought by the war and the German occupation and lost their homes, wealth and basis of existence as well as to aid those who were deported and help their return. The Commissariat was also responsible for the supervision and maintainance of abandoned houses, landholdings, firms, flats and furniture. The possessions that were left behind without legal inheritors were used to compensate those who were deported. The Commiss...

  14. Eli C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eli C., who was born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1917. He recounts participating in Blau-Weiss; working at a Zionist summer camp with Teddy Kollek; his brother's emigration to Palestine in 1934; attending university; antisemitic harassment; Anschluss; warnings from their non-Jewish landlord of German raids; moving to Zurich, then Geneva; arrest in September 1939; expulsion from Basel to a Gestapo prison in Lörrach; transfer from prison to prison en route to Sachsenhausen; forced labor in a brick factory; beatings, hunger, and lack of sanitation; public ex...

  15. Eli Oliff papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Eli Oliff (born Eliasz Olewnik), originally of Żuromin, Poland. Included are two photographs depicting Eli in his concentration camp uniform after liberation at Buchenwald, a letter with envelope written by Eli in the Garmisch Partenkirchen DP camp to his relative Joseph Olev in Chicago, Illinois.

  16. Eli Pfefferkorn collection

    Files containing the writings and research of Eli Pfefferkorn.

  17. Eli Ringer. Collection

    This collection contains one hundred and thirty-three photographs containing the Ringer family, David Stein, Malvine Babad and others, three birth certificates, one Paraguayan passport for Salomon Ringer, one identity card, travel pass and shopping booklet of the UNRRA Jeanne d'Arc Refugee Centre, forty-two letters concerning the return from the UNRRA Jeanne d'Arc Refugee Centre, one letter from the Swiss Embassy about release from Internierungslager Laufen, one letter from the Paraguayan Consulate about release from lager Bergen-Belsen, three letters about the internment in Tittmoning, one...

  18. Eli Rotem collection

    Contains a photocopy of a letter sent by the donor's uncle (in hiding in Italy) to his cousin (living in Palestine) describing what the family had experienced after the German invasion of Yugoslavia. Also includes documentaiton about how the letter was brought by Italians to Israel in the 1990s, as well as brief account of donor's history

  19. Eli Rozycki collection

    Consists of photographs and documents related to the post-war experiences and life of Eli Rozycki, originally of Krakow, Poland. Eli, a survivor of the Krakow, Plaszów, Jerozolimska, Pionki, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Flossenbürg concentration camps, lived in Passau, Germany until his immigration to the United States in 1949. Includes photographs of life in Passau, his identity cards, his naturalization papers, and photographs of his life in the United States. Also includes one German/English dictionary, designed for auto mechanics, which was distributed after the war to aid communication bet...

  20. Eli Shechtman papers

    Papers of Eli Shechtman, a prominent Yiddish writer. The collection consists of Shechtman's personal and official correspondence, manuscripts, articles, notes, sketches, photographs, journals and newspapers clippings. The materials relate to Shechtman's personal and professional life as a writer. Journals and newspaper publications include: "Omer"," Leatztah Neis", "Morning Freiheirt", "Nasha Strana", "Yedioth Ahronot", "Al Hamishmar", "Maariv", "Folks Shtimah", "Yisroel Shtimah", "Iton 1977", "Humanite Dimanche", "Nasz Geos", "Liternaturnaya Gazzeta", "Maoznim", "Darom Africa", "Folksblatt...