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  1. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

    The collection consists of the Elizabeth Koenig papers of a letter from HIAS-JCA Emigration Association to Fritz Kaufmann; an autograph book including photographs of children in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; Elizabeth’s diary describing her life in France from February to July 1940; a 1939 map of the Hautes-Pyrénées; photographs of Elizabeth, her brother, and the La Guespy children’s house in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; and a school report Elizabeth wrote and illustrated after arriving in America about France under the occupation. In addition, a sketchbook created by Elizabeth Kaufmann in Nazi-occupied...

  2. Elizabeth Lusthaus Strassburger collection

    The collections consists of a doll and photographs relating to the experiences of Elzbieta Lusthaus after the war when she and her mother Helena, who survived in hiding in Poland, were reunited with her father Edmund in Ancona, Italy, where he was stationed with the 2nd Polish Corps, British Army. Accretion: Purse which belonged to Zofia Schiff (donor's maternal grandmother)

  3. Elizabeth Lusthaus Strassburger collection

    The collection consists of a silver purse with coin purse related to the experiences of Elizabeth Lusthaus as a hidden child in Poland during the Holocaust.

  4. Elizabeth Lusthaus Strassburger collection

    The collection consists of two silver baby spoons relating to the experiences of Elzbieta Lusthaus and her maternal grandmother, Sophie Schiff, in the Tarnow ghetto and in hiding in Poland during the Holocaust.

  5. Elizabeth Lusthaus Strassburger family collection

    The collection consists of two medals and a report folder, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Edmund and Helena Strassburger and their daughter, Elzbieta, in prewar Poland and during World War II when Edmund served in the 2nd Polish Corps, British Army, and Helena and Elizabeth lived in hiding in Poland, and after the war when the family was reunited in Italy and emigrated to Great Britain in 1946.

  6. Elizabeth M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elizabeth M., who was born in Othmarschen, Germany in 1921, the first child of her father's second wife. She recalls her father's career as a prominent attorney; her close relationship with her younger sister and their nanny (with whom she remained in contact and who saved some of their parents' possessions for them); increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; attending school in Switzerland; one half-brother's emigration to England and another's to Palestine; her half-sister's emigration to Peru; and her father being arrested twice. Mrs. M. describes being registered with ...

  7. Elizabeth Margosches family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, design artwork, buttons, coins, pencils, sewing materials, wallets, biographical materials, correspondence, a diary, documents, photographs, books and other printed materials, and immigration, restitution, and subject files relating to the experiences of the Margosches and Reik families in Czechoslovakia, France, England, the United States, and Brazil before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  8. Elizabeth Model scrapbooks

    "Memories: People and Places" is the remembrance of Elisabeth Model as a wife, mother, and artist during the 1940s and 1950s. "In Memoriam: Max Model" is a tribute to Max Model, husband of Elisabeth Model, with information about his persecution during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. See RG list for titles for RG-10.060*01 - *02.

  9. Elizabeth Mundlak collection

    The collection consists of photographs and documents regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of Dora Juress-Mundlak and her husband Majer (Mielek) Mundlak, both originally of Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Poland. Photographs depict the pre-ware lives of the Juress and Mundlak families in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, including Majer with his first wife and their child, Majer in his Polish military uniform, members of the Juress family, and a pre-war postcard of Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Documents include forged identity cards for Dora and Majer under the respective false names of Janina Janiszewski and Karol J...

  10. Elizabeth N. Baker Miscellaneous Papers

    Leaflets, bulletins, correspondence, and clippings, relating to American politics and government, and conservative, anti-communist, and pacifist political groups in the United States. Indexes: Preliminary inventory.

  11. Elizabeth Rosenbaum Pilossoph photographs

    Consists of 14 photographs and photographic postcards depicting life in prewar Kolno, Poland, as well as pre-war photographs of members of the extended family of Betzalel (Charles) and Tzipporah (Faye) Olek Rosenbaum of Kolno.

  12. Elizabeth S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elizabeth S., who was born in Gyo?r, Hungary, one of five children. She recounts antisemitic harassment; working in her father's pastry shop; marriage in 1942; her husband's and three brothers' draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; expropriation of her father's shop in 1943; incarceration with her parents, brother, his wife, and their two children; receiving Red Cross notification that her husband was probably dead; hiding when her brother and his family were deported; deportation with a friend; finding her father in the cattle car to Auschwitz; intense thirst ...

  13. Elizabeth S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elizabeth S., who was born in Paris, France in approximately 1938. She recounts traveling with her mother to Toulouse after German invasion; reunion with her father; his leaving them (he was recognizable as a Jew because he was a well-known violinist); living in a non-Jewish friend's chateau as non-Jews; Germans being billeted with them; wearing a cross (she did not know she was Jewish); placement in a convent; visits from her mother; learning catechism and being confirmed; transfer to an orphanage; being told the war was over; returning to Paris with her mother; livi...

  14. Elizabeth Simon collection

    Contains information regarding Elizabeth Simon's internment at Mauthausen: certification of her internment, dated 22 May 1945; Claims Conference questionnaire, not dated; and an affidavit for indemnification claim, dated 1967.

  15. Elizabeth Trausel family collection

    The collection consists of documents, scrip, and a Star of David badge that relating to the experience of Elisabeth Trausel in Prague and Theresienstadt ghetto labor camp and her father Josef, and their family in Prague during the Holocaust.

  16. Elizabeth Walsh collection

    Censored envelopes sent to Victor Gibbs (donor's uncle) from his mother who escaped to England, and other friends and family in Germany; written testimony of Steffi Aghassi (friend of donor's mother) regarding her experiences during the Holocaust; sound recordings of various Yom HaShoah commemorative events, memorial programs, testimonies, and a school presentation by Herman Haller (donor's father)

  17. Elizaveta K. and Lev. K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elizaveta K., who was born in Zvenigorodka, Ukraine in 1921. She describes celebrating Jewish holidays; studying in Kiev in 1938; teaching; German invasion; returning to Zvenigorodka; fleeing, but returning when overcome by Germans; a mass killing of Ukrainian nationalists; ghettoization; brief arrest with a friend; their release after the Jewish Council's intervention; her father's murder; incarceration with her mother and sisters in a camp in May 1942; transfer to Lysyanka; building roads in Smilสนchentsy; assistance from a non-Jewish foreman; mass killings in fall ...

  18. Elizaveta Vineberg photograph collection

    The collection contains photographs of 4 individuals: Sofýa Benýaminova Vainberg (née Tokman), David Iosifovich Vainberg, Polina Davidovna Vainberg-Sagaigak, and Dora Davidovna Vainberg-Mikhailov.

  19. Elja Heifecs collection

    The collection consisting of a two prisoner badges, a commemorative pin, a poster, correspondence, documents, photographs, and sheet music relating to the experiences of Elja Heifecs who was imprisoned in Riga ghetto, Kaiserwald, Muhlgraben, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps during the Holocaust and in Riga, Latvia, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  20. Elka F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elka F., who was born in Ni︠a︡sviz︠h︡, Poland in 1920, the oldest of four children. She recalls meeting her future husband in 1932; participation in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation in September 1939; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish harassment; forced labor; surviving a selection in October with her future husband and their families (almost all other Jews were killed); ghettoization with approximately 600 survivors; Magalif (head of the Judenrat) giving them permission to wed; marriage in February; Magalif discouraging people from escaping so the elderly ...