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  1. Ella A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ella A., who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1925, one of six children. She recalls being poor, but happy; cordial relations with non-Jews; apprenticing as a seamstress; belonging to Mizrachi; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of her father's business; one brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; German occupation in spring 1944; round-up to the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her immediate family; staying with cousins; crying all the time; refusing to eat; a prisoner co...

  2. Ella and Judit Schichtanz collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and photographs relating to the experiences of Ella Schichtanz and her daughter, Judit, in Budapest, Hungary, before and during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. Ella and Leon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ella S., who was born in Bielsko-Bia?a, Poland in 1918, and her husband Leon S., who was born in Lv?ov, Ukraine in 1918. Mr. S. describes details of his childhood in Kolomyya as the youngest of six children; attending high school where he edited a literary journal; training as a violinist; attending medical school; and anti-Semitic incidents throughout. Mrs. S. describes her family of four sisters; her parents' emphasis upon higher education; attending medical school in Lv?ov, where she met her husband; the Soviet occupation of Lv?ov and the hardships that resulted; t...

  4. Ella Brecher Lieberman collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experience of Ella Brecher Lieberman and her family in Poland and during their emigration to Palestine prior to the Holocaust.

  5. Ella Hochstadt Gruber Maier and Erich Maier family collection

    The collection consists of a bar of soap, paper currency, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ella Hochstadt Gruber Maier, Erich Maier, and members of their families in Austria before World War II and in Europe and the United States during and after the war.

  6. Ella Iranyi collection

    The collection consists of thirteen artworks created by Ella Iranyi in Vienna, Austria, prior to her arrest ca. 1939 and deportation to a concentration camp, where she perished.

  7. Ella Landenberg collection

    Consists of a folder of documents, correspondence, and articles regarding Ella Landenberg, who lived on false papers in Belgium during World War II and was an active member of the Resistance. Includes copies of wartime correspondence, in English and Hebrew, written to Ella as "Leonie" about her wartime espionage.

  8. Ella Lieberman Shiber artwork photographs

    Contains photogaphs of original drawings made by Ella Lieberman Shiber after her liberation in 1945 and immigration to Israel in April 1948. The 93 original drawings were donated by the artist to the Ghetto Fighters House Museum in Israel.

  9. Ella Menke Leeser letter

    Copy of a 5 page typewritten letter describing the experiences of the Leeser family, originally from Germany, while in hiding during the Holocaust in the Netherlands. The letter was authored in June 1945 by Ella Menke Leeser and her daughter Yonny and sent to relatives in Argentina. The letter contains information about the various Dutch aid givers and unique circumstances in which Ella and her two children, George and Yonny, were able to survive.

  10. Ella Spiegler papers

    Birth certificate, passport, autograph book, newsletter, photograph, and other documents related to the immigration of Ella Spiegler (later Goldstein), who left Austria for the United States in 1939 as one of the fifty children sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. The Stammbuch is a booklet that was given to Ella before her departure from Vienna in 1939, and in which friends and relatives wrote poetry, greetings, drew pictures, and left other expressions that wished her well as she prepared to leave her homeland. However, since her father, Wilhelm, was the first family member who was abl...

  12. Ellen Echeverria photograph collection

    Consists of photographs of Elke Plech (Elke Bozena, now Ellen Echeverria), a hidden child, with Janina Wysocka, the Polish woman who hid her during the Holocaust.

  13. Ellen Fass Zilka family collection

    The collection consists of a belt, blanket, bracelet, card game, case, set of garters, handkerchief, spoon, 2 towels, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ellen Ruth Fass before the Holocaust in Germany, during the Holocaust in England, and after the Holocaust in the United States, and an armband, Star of David badge, and documents relating to Marie Goerlich, Ellen’s great aunt, who was interned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp.

  14. Ellen Fletcher papers

    The collection consist of six report cards issued by the Mädchenvolksschule der jüdischen Gemeinde and one report card issued by the Joseph Lehmann-Schule in Berlin, Germany, to Ellen Auster.

  15. Ellen G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ellen G., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1938. She recalls her parents' divorce; visiting her father; attending a Catholic school; a kind nun (she hid her mother at one time); expulsion from school; she and her brother attending a Jewish school; her mother keeping them inside on Kristallnacht; a non-Jewish patient of her uncle's placing them on a Kindertransport organized by a Quaker woman in England; living with a private school teacher in London (her brother was placed at a boarding school); transfer to Dorset after the onset of war; transfer to her brother's sc...

  16. Ellen G. Singer collection

    The collection consists of a Life magazine and a bound set of The New York Times.

  17. Ellen Gale photograph collection

    Contains 37 photographs depicting the Gallewski family and other refugees on board the ship "IBERIA," en route to Cuba in 1939, their daily life in Havana, Cuba, and on board a ship en route to Miami, Florida, in 1940.

  18. Ellen H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ellen H., who was born in a small town in Czechoslovakia in 1924. She recalls her family's affluence; attending Hebrew gymnasium in Ungva?r with two sisters and a brother; Hungarian occupation; antisemitic restrictions; German invasion in 1944; orders for forced relocation to Ungva?r; a neighbor hiding her and one sister; deciding to join their family; ghettoization in a brick factory for six weeks; deportation to Auschwitz; her older sister sending her child with her mother, not knowing it was to the gas chamber; remaining with her two sisters; not recognizing each o...

  19. Ellen H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ellen H., who was born in Tyszowce, Poland in 1915. She recalls moving with her parents to Zamos?c?; engagement to her future husband; living with her older brother in ?o?dz?; returning home; German invasion; going to her fiance?'s small village for two weeks; returning home; brief Soviet occupation; receiving a letter from her fiance? asking her to join him in Soviet territory; her parents encouraging her to go; meeting her fiance? in Lut?s??k; marriage; being sent to Kazan?, then to Siberia; living in Asino; volunteering for transfer after German invasion of the Sov...

  20. Ellen Hecht collection

    The collection consists of fifteen pieces of scrip relating to the experiences of the husband of Ellen Hecht who was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust.