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  1. Else D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Else D., who was born in Bielsko-Bia?a, Poland. She describes moving to Krako?w at age twenty-five; German invasion; ghettoization; round-ups in the ghetto; transfer to P?aszo?w (her husband perished there); random killings and public executions; being placed on Oskar Schindler's list due to her cousin's influence; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau, then to Bru?nnlitz, with the other women on Schindler's list; knitting socks to trade for extra food; liberation by Soviet troops; staying briefly in Prague; returning to Bielsko-Bia?a; difficulties reclaiming family property...

  2. Else Levy Billin collection

    Consists of papers related to the Holocaust experiences of Else Levy Billin, originally of Konz, Germany, near Trier. Includes her pre-war and wartime vaccination records, and work certificates from Theresienstadt, (Terezin) where she spent the war. Includes postcards sent from Else Levy and her mother, Gerta Levy, from Terezin to various family members. Also includes one letter, 1983, from Else Levy Billin to the mayor of Trier asking for his assistance in returning to Germany to see her hometown once more.

  3. Else Löwy-Leseritz collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Else Löwy-Leseritz, a Jewish medical doctor from North Rhine-Westphalia, who was murdered in the Holocaust.Photocopies of the medical qualifications and work references of Else Löwy-Leseritz.

  4. The Else Mendel Archive

    The archive is divided into three groups: letters, personal documents and copies. The letters include Mendel’s correspondence with her family expressing fear and concern about their deported family members.

  5. Else Pollak Chandler collection

    Consists of the official response to a Red Cross inquiry into the fate of Jakob, Regine, and Edith Pollak, originally of Vienna, Austria. The inquiry was made by Jakob and Regine's daughter, Else, who was able to emigrate to England before the war. The response states that the remaining members of the family perished in the Holocaust. Also includes correspondence sent and received by Else Chandler after her immigration to England, documents regarding her immigration, and documents regarding her pre-war schooling.

  6. Else Raesener. Collection

    This item is a short letter sent by Else Raesener, living in Brussels, to her daughter Lea Raesener, living in Palestine, via the Red Cross only a few weeks before Else's arrest and deportation. It would be her last sign of life.

  7. Else Singer envelope

    The envelope was sent from Else Singer of Vienna, Austria, to Dr. Ladislaus Fessler of White Plains, N.Y. It bears several "Deutsches Reich" stamps, tape printed with "Geöffnet" and a Nazi emblem, and tape printed with "Opened By Examiner 4981."

  8. Elsie A. Ragusin Azzinaro collection

    The collection consists of a patch, a pouch, three drawings, a prayer book, clippings, correspondence, notes, and photocopies relating to the experiences of Elsie Ragusin during World War II, when, in 1939, on a visit from the United States to Italy with her family, Elsie and her father were arrested as political spies, and Elsie was imprisoned in Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps, and after the war when, after liberation, she was taken to Sweden to recover, and returned to the United States in December 1945.

  9. Elsie B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elsie B., who was born in Czernowitz, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Chernivt?s?i, Ukraine) in 1912. She recalls her father's death in World War I; two sisters' emigration to the United States; a brother's death in 1927; marriage in 1936; Soviet occupation; her daughter's birth in 1941; German invasion; living with a cousin to avoid deportation; traveling to Mogilev, then Luchenits; living with a Jewish woman for a year; her husband leaving for forced labor; hospitalization; insisting her daughter remain with her; liberation about eight months later; reunion wit...

  10. Elsie Bitkower photograph collection

    Collection consists of five photographs documenting members of the During family at the time period of the Holocaust. Images include Kurt During (donor's brother), Elsa During (donor's grandmother) with her son Horst, all of whom were killed during the Holocaust. Image of Eleanora (Lore) During Markusfeld (donor's aunt) and her friend Fritzi Wolfinger in 1947 after their liberation and a pre-war photographic postcard from Koblenz, dated May 10, 1917.

  11. Elsie Deeks collection

    Consists of photographs, correspondence, and documents from the collection of Elsie Deeks, originally of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Ms. Deeks worked with the St. John's Ambulance Brigade of Canada as part of the 29th British General Hospital and was stationed at the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp between May and July 1945. Includes handwritten letters about life in the hospital, personal photographs, documents related to her wartime service and copyprints of official photographs taken upon the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

  12. Elsie Lydon photograph collection

    The Elsie Lydon photograph collection consists of photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and photographs of captured German airplanes, circa 1945.

  13. Elsie M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elsie M., a non-Jew, who was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1924, one of three children, to a British mother and Belgian father. She recounts her sister's death at age thirty-months in 1925; moving to Brussels in 1929; attending public school in Evere, then Catholic school; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing on foot with her parents and brother; Germans overtaking them in Hazebrouck and returning them to Brussels; her father's resistance activities; Jewish schoolmates wearing the yellow star; Germans arresting Jews in her class; her family hiding Allied aviators since ...

  14. Elsie Trovillions collection

    Letter and envelope sent by Rie Wittenberg Hetteligh from Haarlem to Elsie Trovillions (donor's mother), dated July 1945. The two young women knew each other before the war, either as pen pals or personally. Rie described in her letter the long years of German occupation of Holland; confiscation of food and valuables, cold and other hardships suffered by the local population. She mentioned the murder of the majority of Dutch Jewry. Rie expressed her graditude for Americans, Canadians, and British for liberating Holland and described the shortages in postwar Holland. She told her friend that...

  15. ELTA informacija. Bolševikų bėgimas iš Ukmergės

    • Information from news agency ELTA (Electronic Lithuanian Telegrams Agency). Escape of the Bolsheviks from Ukmergė

    Correspondence, notes, writings send to ELTA (Electronic Lithuanian Telegrams Agency) about the first days of WWII in Ukmergė, including information about people (most of whom were Jews) arrested by local activists.

  16. ELTA informacija. Buržuazinių nacionalistų kovos veiksmų aprašymas traukiantis Raudonajai armijai Vilniuje ir Trakuose

    • Information from News Agency ELTA (Electronic Lithuanian Telegrams Agency). Descriptions of the Fighting Between the Red Army and Local Nationalists in the First Days of Second World War (When the Red Army Was Retreating) in Vilnius and Trakai

    Information about activities (including correspondence, notes, letters, writings) of units of the white arm-banded local partisans who were fighting against communists and Jews.

  17. Elte, W.S.H.

  18. Elvin Smith collection

    Contains two sound cassettes entitled, "Corrie ten Boom telling of saving lives of Jews, Rose Price concentration camp survivor" and "Diet Eman: saving Jewish lives during World War II."

  19. Elvira F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elvira F., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1918. She recalls attending an Italian school; working in a bookstore; marriage in 1943; her brother escaping to the partisans; she and her husband hiding with a non-Jew; escaping to their hosts' parents' home in a village; fleeing to Kozanē, then Polikástanon; assistance from ELAS; helping them, but not participating in military incursions; posing as non-Jews using false papers; her husband's arrest and one month imprisonment (the Germans didn't know he was Jewish); liberation; returning to Thessalonikē; learning...

  20. Elwin P. Ware letter

    The letter was written by Elwin P. Ware, representative for the United States at the Nuremberg Trials, to his wife and office staff describing what he saw during a post-liberation tour of Buchenwald concentration camp.