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  1. Emil Spiro papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Emil Spiro, originally of Butzbach, Germany, who survived the Holocaust in Switzerland after arriving there in 1939 on a Kindertransport. The collection primarily consists of Swiss documents, immigration paperwork, and correspondence. Biographical materials include immigration paperwork, restitution files, and documents related to Emil’s life as a refugee in Switzerland from 1939-1947. Swiss documents also include papers requiring Emil to report to an immigrant labor camp in 1945, and letters from the Red Cross regarding his efforts to learn the f...

  2. Emil: episodes and remembrance

    The testimony describes Emil Jacoby's Holocaust recollections and his return to Eastern Europe to visit various concentration camps in 1987. Included is information about imprisonment at Auschwitz, survival of a death march in Austria, liberation by the Soviet army, and Jacoby's involvement in a Zionist organization called the Palestine Brigade (a.k.a. Jewish Brigade).

  3. Emile V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emile V., a non-Jew, who was born in Lanaye, Belgium in 1922. He recalls attending school in Liège and Tilff; receiving draft notification in May 1940; being sent to Paris; returning to Belgium three months later; organizing a resistance unit; noting German convoys and conveying that information to the resistance; working in Germany; returning to Belgium; arrest with his father on May 15, 1943 as spies; imprisonment in Liège, then Bochum; transfer to Esterwegen; no communication with the outside due to their "Nacht und Nebel" status (their clothing was marked "NN");...

  4. Emilia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emilia S., who was born in ?o?dz? Poland in 1938. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-330), Mrs. S. recounts her father leaving Poland; ghettoization of her relatives; her mother obtaining false papers from a priest in Mroczkowice; moving to Warsaw; her mother smuggling food to her parents and parents-in-law in the ghetto; an aunt sending her seven-year old cousin from the ghetto to live with them; moving to Krako?w; spending weekends with her aunt and uncle who were living as non-Jews in Bochnia; her baptism; her mother sending...

  5. Emilie Bergmann: correspondence from Otwock ghetto

    This collection consists of correspondence from Emilie Bergmann who was deported to Otwock ghetto, sent to her daughter Käthe in Hamburg and later in England. She describes her life in the ghetto, the scarcity of food and requests for food parcels, her health problems and her longing to be released.Correspondence from Emilie Bergmann, who was deported to Otwock ghetto, sent to her daughter Käthe in Hamburg and later in England.

  6. Emilie Boit collection

    The collection consists of items made and used at the Gurs internment camp.

  7. Emily Bordin papers

    The papers consist of a death certificate and two photographs that document the experiences of Emilie Bordin who was purportedly killed in 1940 in the Sonnenstein über Pirna Institute in Germany, which practiced euthanasia during World War II.

  8. Emily Heyser collection

    The collection consists of a commemorative medal and a book relating to the history of Germany during the Third Reich, 1933-1945.

  9. Emily Kesser collection

    Consists of: 1) one memory book and one family book, including one birth certificate of Hilde Reifenberg, the donor's mother, issued in Paderborn, Germany on 30 Dec.1938, 2) one address book kept by the donor's mother in New York; 3) a British transit visa issued to Ernst Israel Lewin and his wife Hilde, the donor's parents, on 14 Aug.1939 in Paderborn, Germany; 4) one letter and one family book stating that Ernst Lewin and Hilda Reifenberg were married on 19 Feb.1938,; 5) one memory book for Adolf Lewin, the donor's paternal grandfather, who died on 11 May 1938; and 6) a certificate, dated...

  10. Emily Kessler memoir

    Consists of one typed memoir, in English, written by Emily Kessler in 1993. In 1941, her husband was killed near Strye in Drohobycz, and Emily, her mother and infant son were evacuated to Khmelnik. She describes forced labor in Khmelnik, moving into the ghetto, and escaping a mass shooting with the assistance of local fascists. She and her son were imprisoned and sent back into the ghetto for forced labor. She went into hiding with the help of a non-Jewish friend, Katya Surovova (who was later named a Righteous Among the Nations) and crossed the border into Romania. She and her son survived...

  11. Emily Myriam Saul collection

    Consists of a photocopied registration form issued to Emily Myriam Saul (Emilia Kounio Saltiel) while in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943 after her arrest in Saloniki, Greece.

  12. Emily Sosnow collection

    Consists of a photocopy of a packet from the "Visas for Life: The Story of Chiune and Yukiko Sugihara" exhibit, seen at the Museum of Tolerance between January and March 1995, and a copy of pages 5-14 of a report written by Emily Sosnow related to Japanese relations with Jews and life in the Shanghai ghetto, which she wrote for a local section of the National Council of Jewish Women.

  13. Emily V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emily V., who was born in Patras (Patrai), Greece in 1913. She recalls moving to Athens; marriage and return to Patrai in 1934; her daughter's birth in 1936; the outbreak of war in 1940; her husband's army service in Albania; his return in 1941; the benign Italian occupation; her second daughter's birth in 1942; German occupation in 1942; and fleeing a round-up in October 1943. Mrs. V. describes the arduous journey to Mikhalai?ika; hiding with a non-Jewish family; receiving food and money from non-Jewish friends in Patrai; escaping to Karou?sian during a German search...

  14. Emin, Pascha (Eduard Schnitzer)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Arzt und Forschungsreisender, Gouverneur der Äquatorialprovinz in Sudan Zitierweise BArch N 2063/...

  15. Emina N. and Miriam W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of sisters Emina N. and Miriam W., who were born in ?o?dz?, Poland. They describe their family of six siblings; anti-Semitic incidents in the 1930s; German invasion in 1939; forced labor; having to move to the ghetto; a variety of jobs there; and difficulties of life in the ghetto. They recall deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; Emina saving Miriam from selection; transfer to Birkenau; railroad transport to Harburg, a camp near Hamburg; removing brick rubble; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; the birth of a baby in their barrack the night before liberation; liberation by the Brit...

  16. Emissaries Section (S86)

    Contains records of Israeli delegations in various countries of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, including the records of Zionist organizations abroad such as Youth Aliyah and Keren Hayesod. Features reports on the Jewish situation including Jewish refugee and DP camps after the war, negotiations with immigration agencies, cultural material that was prepared and sent around the world, and various other documentation.

  17. Emissiebank te Brussel. Activiteiten en liquidatie.

    Dit bestand (dat zeer relevant is voor de studie van de plundering van goederen en vermogens van Joden tijdens de oorlog) bevat grote series dossiers, briefwisseling en boekhoudkundige overzichtsstukken, die dateren van zowel tijdens als net na de Tweede Wereldoorlog en die betrekking hebben op de werking en de liquidatie van de Emissiebank. De ongeveer 31000 Dossiers Centralisés (met “C”-nummer) bevatten informatie over de liquidatie en het beheer van de rekeningen van bedrijven bij de Emissiebank en aanverwante banken. Sommige personen of bedrijven, wiens bezittingen of onderneming onder ...

  18. Emlékfoszlányok Hazateres -- Az ut

    Consists of a typewritten manuscript, 36 pages, entitled "Emlékfoszlányok" ("Fragments of memories") containing two short stories, "Hazateres" ("Returning home"), in which she describes her journey home from Miskolc, Hungary, where she was attending college, to Munkacs, Hungary in 1944, and "Az ut" ("The journey"), in which she describes her three-day journey in 1944 in a cattle car from Munkacs to Auschwitz concentration camp.

  19. Emma Jonas family collection

    The collection consists of two armbands, mica flakes, six Theresienstadt scrip, a Star of David badge, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Emma Jonas and her family in Berlin, Germany, before and during the Holocaust and to Emma's experiences in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp during the Holocaust and in Deggendorf displaced persons camp after the war.

  20. Emma N. Brixey collection

    Consists of a newspaper article from the Joplin Globe written about the donor, black and white photographs, seemingly of Dachau, and a handwritten memoir.