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  1. Elly K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elly K., who was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 1926. She recalls her happy childhood; her older brother emigrating to Palestine after the outbreak of war; imprisonment of her father and two brothers; illegally traveling to Hennef to visit them; learning they had been transferred to Sachsenhausen; deportation with her mother and younger brother to the Ri?ga ghetto in January 1942; slave labor outside the ghetto; assistance from Wermacht soldiers; her mother's and brother's deportation to Auschwitz (she never saw them again); transfer to Kaiserwald after the ghetto'...

  2. Elly M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elly M., who was born in the Hague, Netherlands in 1931. She recalls a happy childhood; no differences between Jews and non-Jews; German bombing of Rotterdam; anti-Jewish measures; her father's volunteering to go to Westerbork believing it would save his family (he never returned); and the underground separately hiding her and her sister. Mrs. M. remembers many transfers; settling with a family in Middelburg; a year and a half as a loved family member; one incident of separation due to danger of exposure; the November 1944 Allied liberation; attending school; liberati...

  3. Elly Moses photographs

    The Elly Moses photographs consist of pre-war, wartime, and post-war original and reproduction photographs of Elly van Leeuwen Moses, her sister Rachel (Chellie), and her parents, Isaac and Judith, as well as of one of the families who hid her during the Holocaust.

  4. Elm, Joachim und Sonja

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 9. Sept. 1931 in Gera, gest. 6. Mai 2012 in Berlin, Diplomat, Botschafter der DDR 1950-1954 Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig, ab 1954 Referent im Ministerium für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten (MfAA), zunächst in der Abt. Recht und Vertragswesen, 1956 Referent in der Konsularabteilung, 1963 Bereichsleiter Grundsatzfragen in der Konsularabteilung, 1963 Beobachter auf der UN-Staatenkonferenz über konsularische Beziehungen in Wien, 1964-1965 Sektorenleiter Finnland in der 4. Europäischen Abt. (Nordeuropa) des MfAA, 1965-1969...

  5. Elm, Joachim und Sonja.- Bildbestand

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 9. Sept. 1931 in Gera, gest. 6. Mai 2012 in Berlin, Diplomat, Botschafter der DDR 1950-1954 Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig, ab 1954 Referent im Ministerium für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten (MfAA), zunächst in der Abt. Recht und Vertragswesen, 1956 Referent in der Konsularabteilung, 1963 Bereichsleiter Grundsatzfragen in der Konsularabteilung, 1963 Beobachter auf der UN-Staatenkonferenz über konsularische Beziehungen in Wien, 1964-1965 Sektorenleiter Finnland in der 4. Europäischen Abt. (Nordeuropa) des MfAA, 1965-1969...

  6. Elmar Martin photograph collection

    Contains photographs taken by Elmar L. Martin (donor's father) in Leipzig-Thekla and Berga an der Elster concentration camps (sub camps of Buchenwald) after the liberation in April 1945. Mr. Martin served as a photographer in the US Army Signal Corps, War Crimes Investigating Team.

  7. Elmer G. Hurd photograph collection

    Contains 19 photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp taken shortly after liberation.

  8. Elmer Jesse Fisher papers

    Contains a multi-paged report titled "We Saw Dachau" (V. 1 No. 6) dated "Mon. 14 May 1945." Report written by numerous soldiers, but primarily by Elmer J. Fisher (donor's grandfather). Signed by him, upper left corner of cover. Includes three photographs of post-liberation of trains with corpses, taken near the Dachau camp, dated May 1945.

  9. Elmer Rothermich letter

    The Elmer Rothermich letter consists of a nine page letter with an envelope, written by Elmer Rothermich on April 10, 1945, in Germany, describing his experiences liberating the Ohrdruf concentration camp as a member of the 81st Field Infantry Battalion of the United States Army. Also includes additional information regarding Mr. Rothermich's service record, his wife's memories of the receipt of this letter, and a copy of an article in the St. Charles, MO "Banner News" quoting from the letter.

  10. Elsa and Kurt S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elsa and Kurt S. Kurt S. was born in Munich, Germany in 1917. He recalls being first in his class, but not matriculating due to anti-Jewish laws; confiscation of the family business; his father's death in 1936; his deportation to Dachau on Kristallnacht; release contingent upon his emigration; Hechalutz arranging his emigration to the Netherlands; working on a farm; and marriage in 1941. Elsa S. was born in Heidelberg in 1921. She recounts her family's move to Ludwigshafen in 1925; expulsion from school; preparing to emigrate to Israel with Hechalutz; meeting her futu...

  11. Elsa and Selmar Biener papers

    The Elsa and Selmar Biener papers consists of immigration documents, correspondence, photographs, and financial materials related to the emigration of Elsa and Selmar Biener aboard the MS St. Louis, their disembarkation in England, and their internment on the Isle of Man. The correspondence includes letters and telegrams to / from Selmar and Elsa Biener, their family, and various Jewish aid societies, dated 1929-1968, and undated. The papers also includes receipts for sending registered postal packages, 1940, and a collection of messages written and received by members of the Friedler famil...

  12. Elsa K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elsa K., who was born in Stettin, Germany (presently Szczecin, Poland) in 1906, one of four children. She recalls moving to Insterburg (presently Cherni?a?khovsk); fleeing to Stettin during the first World War; her father's and other relatives' military service; returning to Insterburg a year later; active participation in a Zionist group; working in her parents' shoe store; marriage in 1929; the births of three children; her father's death in 1934; her siblings emigrating to the United States and Brazil; antisemitic harassment and boycotts; forced sale of the shoe st...

  13. Elsa Lustig-Moser letter

    The letter and envelope were sent to Emilie Lustig in New York, N.Y., from Elsa Lustig-Moser in Prague, Czechoslovakia, advising her of the desperate situation for Jews in the Sudetenland and requesting an affidavat of support for immigration to the United States.

  14. Elsa Meyring memoir

    Testimony, 50 pages, photocopy of typescript, written by Elsa Meyring, entitled "Aus dem Leben einer Deutschen Nichtarier."

  15. Elsa R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elsa R., who was born in Lu?beck, Germany, in 1908. Ms. R. tells of leaving her family in 1929 to work in Munich; antisemitism; disillusionment with her Christian fiance, who alone knew she was Jewish; and obtaining a post in Turin, Italy in 1935 with the help of an anti-Nazi company official. She relates visiting her sister in Rome; friendship with her firm's Turin representative; the 1938 laws expelling all foreign Jews; unsuccessful attempts to obtain an American visa; her friends' bribery of police, so her file might be "lost"; arrest; transport in 1940 to a women...

  16. Elsa Wells Kormann collection

    Contains 2 photographs of the Dueppel Center Jewish Displaced Persons Camp in Berlin, Germany, 3 copies of the same photographs, and 11 letters written by students in the Dueppel Center Jewish Displaced Persons Camp.

  17. Elsbeth Heckers fonds

    Fonds consists of: a scrapbook of photos and Second World War / Holocaust letters outlining the family history and deportations.

  18. Elsbeth Kasses papers Nachlass Elsbeth Kasses (1910-1992)

    Private papers of Elsbeth Kasser (1910-1992), a nurse and aid worker for refugees in the internment camp of Gurs and in other places. The collection consists of: photographs; certificates; medals; and correspondence, including various documents relating to childcare in the southern France, refugee rescue, the internment camp Gurs, the medical mission to Finland, and the Swiss assistance to war victims; documentation on occupational therapy in Zurich, former internees, former employees in rescue projects in Spain and Southern France, and on rescue in Denmark, Germany and Switzerland; Also in...

  19. Else and Willy Heymann: personal correspondence

    This collection consists of correpondence from Grete and James Pick, who emigrated to China, to their friends Willy and Else Heymann, who had emigrated to New Zealand.Letters providing details of the procedures for refugees arriving in Shanghai, impressions of Chinese culture, James Pick's professional life in Tientsin, and Pick's return to Germany after the Second World War.Also included are a copy letter to Willy Heymann by a general who he cared for in World War I, the wedding ode for Else and Willy Heymann's wedding, Else Heymann's memoirs of her visit to Constantinople between 1917-191...

  20. Else Cheimovits Parnes papers

    Contains a handwritten document, prepared by Elsa Cheimovits (born 1925 in Velkysevlus, Czech Republic) on January 28, 1947, while she recuperated in the Renstrams Civic Hospital in Göteborg, Sweden after being liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp with her sister Irene. The document records the deaths of Elsa's parents, Jeno and Zuhanna, and her siblings Eva, Elisabeth, Blanka, Frida, Mozes and Judith [Judit], whom Elsa believed all perished at Auschwitz.