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  1. Elihu H. Rickel papers

    The bulk of this collection relates to Commander Elihu Rickel’s time in China, and in particular Tianjin, in 1945-1946, while serving as a chaplain with the U.S. Marine Corps. While there, he sought to raise awareness about the condition of the Jewish community in Tianjin, which was comprised primarily of Jews who had fled Europe in the late 1930s. The second series of documents in this collection contains, in part, a report that Rickel wrote about the community, a letter he sent to Rabbi Stephen Wise, and a journalistic account of Rickel’s ministry among the Jewish community. By this time,...

  2. Elijahu Yones collection

    Contains a German-language version of his memoir titled "Am rande des Grabes" which was published, in Hebrew, in Israel in 1960 and an English-language copy of his Hebrew University doctoral thesis, "Jews in Lvov During World War Two and the Holocaust, 1939-1944," submitted in September 1993.

  3. Elimelech S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elimelech S., who was born in Żuromin, Poland in 1919. He recounts his father's death before his birth; his mother's remarriage; attending public school, cheder, then a technical school; antisemitic harassment; working in Warsaw beginning in 1938; German invasion in September 1939; returning home; deportation from Sierpc to Pomiechówek, then Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki in November; escaping; joining his family in Warsaw; retrieving money in Żuromin; selling belongings in Mława; returning to Warsaw; ghettoization; posing as a Polish smuggler to escape; smuggling food to h...

  4. Elimelech Weinmann family tree

    Consists of the family tree of Elimelech Weinmann, born in Poland most likely in the early 1800s. The family, which now has Argentinean, Israeli, and Australian branches, lost members in the Holocaust.

  5. Eline Hoekstra-Dresden collection

    Contains documents issued to Eline Dresden and her father, Professor Daniel Dresden, while interned at Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands.

  6. Elinor Gabriel collection

    The collection consists of 92 slides taken by unknown photographers in Jewish DP camps in Europe and Israel after World War II. Included in the slides are images of Jewish displaced persons preparing or learning various vocations through the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT).

  7. Elisa F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elisa F., who was born in Rhodes, Italy (presently Greece) in 1927, the youngest of six children. She recounts her happy childhood; attending a Jewish, then an Italian school; moving to Kos in 1942; her father's leadership role in the Jewish community; anti-Jewish legislation; her mother's death; two brothers' emigrations; her father warning Jews to leave; his emigration to Turkey (her sister lived there); German invasion; fleeing to the countryside with her brother and his family; round-up and deportation to Greece; meeting two aunts; the Turkish consul having her br...

  8. Elisabet Goldstein collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform that includes a jacket with embroidered patch and pants and a teaspoon relating to the experiences of Isidor and Elisabet Farkas Goldstein in Romania, Poland, and Germany during and after the Holocaust.

  9. Elisabeth and Maurits Munichman family collection

    The collection consists of dice, a strongbox, a suitcase, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Maurits Munichman and his parents, Herman and Hanna Santilhano Munichman, and Elisabeth Blind (later Munichman) and her mother, Schoontje Visser, and their families in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.

  10. Elisabeth Bates papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Elisabeth Bates (born Isabela Wolfowicz), originally of Gąbin, Poland. Documents include a false identification document used by Elisabeth to live under the name of Elzbieta Rybiecka in Warsaw, Poland, dated 21 April 1939; and an identification card belonging to Elisabeth’s grandfather, Icek Majer, circa 1939. Photographs consist of a photograph of Elisabeth with her mother, Mania (née Glas) Wolfowicz, circa 1925; and one of her father, Marek Wolfowicz, undated.

  11. Elisabeth Dora Gebhardt: Copy diary extract

    Elisabeth Dora Gebhardt: Copy diary extract 

  12. Elisabeth Eidenbenz papers Nachlass Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011)

    Private papers of Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011), a teacher, nurse, and aid worker for refugees in the camps of Argelès-sur-Mer, Saint Cyprien, and Rivesaltes, France and in other places. The collection consists of private personal documents, correspondence and photographs of Elisabeth Eidenbenz and her family; reports, press articles, correspondence, and photographs relating to activities of Elisabeth Eidenbenz to rescue children of Spanish Republicans, Jewish refugees and Romanies fleeing the Nazi invasion. Elisabeth Eidenbenz was a founder of the Mothers of Elne-a maternal hospital at E...

  13. Elisabeth F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elisabeth F., a Catholic, who was born in Dorinne, Belgium in 1915. She recounts few memories of World War I; attending school in Natoye, Namur, and Brussels; marriage in 1936; her son's birth in 1937; her husband's military draft in 1939; fleeing with her parents and son to Murviel-lès-Béziers after German invasion; her husband's combat death; never attending mass again; living with her sister in Spontin; working for the Resistance through a former teacher; hiding and moving downed Allied pilots; imprisonment in St. Gilles for three weeks in November 1940; arrest w...

  14. Elisabeth K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elisabeth K., a German non-Jew, who was born in Insterburg, Germany (presently Cherni?a?khovsk, Russia) in approximately 1931. She recalls her father was a career military officer; moving to Berlin in 1935, then to a village in 1937; her parents' "Prussian" lack of communication and formal child rearing (she learned not to ask questions); playing with Jewish children; observing destruction after Kristallnacht; learning her beloved Jewish pediatrician had committed suicide; frequent marching and the boredom of Hitler Youth meetings; the focus on girls as producers of f...

  15. Elisabeth Kanis. Collection

    This collection contains the false ID of Elisabeth Kanis, her post-war civil resistance ID and six documents regarding medals and titles awarded to Elisabeth Kanis post-war.

  16. Elisabeth L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elisabeth L., a non-Jew, who was born in Etterbeek, Belgium in 1913. She recounts her father's World War I military service; her mother leaving her to find him in France; joining her mother near Paris in 1916; returning to Belgium in 1918; her parents' divorce; living with her mother; working as a secretary/accountant; distributing anti-German materials in Brussels in 1940; assisting downed Allied pilots through the Resistance; betrayal of their unit; arrest on February 20, 1943; nine months incarceration in St. Gilles; a death sentence in May; deportation to Germany ...

  17. Elisabeth L. Winn papers

    The papers consist of two identification cards for foreigners and stateless persons issued to Elisabeth Winn (b. Gessler).

  18. Elisabeth Orsten family collection

    The collection consists of two memoirs and cutlery relating to the experiences of Elizabeth M. Ornstein (later Orsten) and her family in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust, and the Ornstein family’s immigration to the United States.

  19. Elisabeth Orsten family collection

    The collection consists of a five piece silver cutlery set, a miniature ivory penknife, a silver locket, a miniature mother of pearl compass, an autograph book, biographical materials, correspondence, a diary, photographs, printed materials, and school records relating to the experiences of Elizabeth M. Ornstein (later Orsten) and her family in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust, and the Ornstein family’s immigration to the United States.

  20. Elisabeth Steinhardt Welvaars collection

    Contains a Dutch passport issued to Elisabeth Steinhardt Welvaars donor's great aunt), and loose photographs and three photo albums illustrating the pre-war and postwar life of Elisabeth Steinhardt. The photographs primarily consist of vacation images from travels through Italy, Switzerland, France, London, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and include postwar photographs of South America, particularly Bolivia, where Elisabeth's immediate family immigrated. Elisabeth, who survived the Holocaust in the Netherlands, ultimately immigrated to Argentina after WWII.