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  1. Etka W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Etka W., who was born in Brzesko Nowe, Poland, in 1925. Mrs. W. speaks of her orthodox childhood in a small village; stealing into a church to observe a Catholic wedding; anti-Semitic measures after the German occupation; concealing her yellow star; her father's attempts to provide kosher meat to customers; and hiding with her family in late 1942 in the attic of a Polish farmer. She tells of another Jewish woman and child whom the farmer fed; almost being discovered when the farmer came under suspicion; staying in the attic until April 1945 (two months after liberatio...

  2. Etlya Katzman Fisher photograph collection

    The collection consists of ten photographs relating to Etlya Katzman Fisher and her family's life during the Holocaust in Bender, Moldova (Tighina, Romania) and Krasnodarskiĭ kraĭ, Russia. The photographs include images of Etlya Katzman Fisher's classmates at girls' schools in Romania and the Soviet Union.

  3. Etta and Josef Kurz family papers

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs (65), related to the experiences of the family of Josef and Etta Kurz, and their daughter Helen (donor), in Lwów, Poland, prior to World War II, during the war, and in their immigration to the United States after the war. Includes pre-war financial and business records related to the family owned business and property in Lwów, false identification documents used by Etta Kurz during the German occupation of Poland, immigration and citizenship documents, pre-war family photographs, and post-war photographs of the Kurz family, and various friends th...

  4. Etta S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Etta S. who was born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1921. She recalls her father's work for the Jewish community; his scholarliness and extensive library; attending a private Jewish school; apprenticing at a fashion salon in Miskolc, then Budapest, and at the same time, attending a private city college and Jewish student organized classes (MIEFHOE); German invasion in March 1944; a death march to Innsbruck, then train transfer to Ravensbrück; the humiliation of having her head shaved; a veteran prisoner advising her; slave labor in a Siemens factory; losing her faith in God;...

  5. Etta Teich collection

    Contains a Hebrew School report card issued to Etta Teich while a student in the Eschwege displaced persons camp.

  6. Etta W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Etta W., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1922. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews in her village; attending a Christian school; joining a Zionist group against her grandmother's wishes; her older sister's emigration to Palestine; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish regulations; leaving for Budapest in 1939; emigration to Palestine using the passport of another person; joining the British army as a nurse; serving in Italy; assisting survivors to emigrate to Palestine after the war; learning most of her family and people from her village had perished; discharge...

  7. Ettel Bomze photograph

    The Ettel Bomze photograph is an undated photograph of Ettel Bomze of Vienna, Austria. Ettel Bomze was deported from Vienna to Theresienstadt on July 15, 1942. She was deported from Theresienstadt to Treblinka concentration camp on September 21, 1942 where she perished upon arrival.

  8. Ettelbruck, Luxembourg collection

    Consists of scanned articles, on DVD and on CD, which were published in a journal entitled "De Rieder: Informatiounsblad vun der Gemeng Ettelbréck" between 1998 and 2002. The articles, co-authored by Will Dondelinger and Arthur Muller, are entitled "Jüdische Bevölkerung in Ettelbrück," and describe the history and Holocaust experiences of the Jewish community of Ettelbrück, Luxembourg. The articles include scanned images, documents, and family information.

  9. Ettelson family collection

    Consists of a suitcase, wallet, photo album, photographs, newspapers, clippings, notebooks, documents, correspondence, ephemera, and other original material pertaining to the experiences of Ralph Ettelson who emigrated from Vilkaviskis, Lithuania to the Dominican Republic before the war. The collection includes correspondence and photographs pertaining to Ralph's mother, Itta Ettelson Shimenski, and his siblings Reveka and Max, who perished in the Holocaust. Additional photographs, correspondence, and clippings pertain to Jewish communities, and Jewish refugees, in the the Caribbean and Ral...

  10. Etti Hecht and Paula Leibowitz collection

    Collection contains 19 family photographs of the Hecht family of Romania. The photographs are both pre- and post-World War II. Collection also contains two documents relating to the 1948 emigration to Israel of Lieb Hecht and a 1959 document from the German war tracing service regarding the whereabouts of Lieb Hecht.

  11. Ettore A. Peretti, PhD, pamphlets

    Contains thirty-one pamphlets, most of which had been distributed on the streets in Nazi Germany; copies of "Das Jahr im Bild," "Der Stürmer," "Berliner Zeitung," "Berliner Tageblatt"; a speech delivered in the Reichstag by Adolf Hitler; "Dr. Goebbels auf dem Reichsparteitag 1935: Kommunismus ohne Maske"; "Max Schmelings Sieg-ein deutscher Sieg"; and "RAK." The material was collected by Ettore Peretti, an American student living in Germany in 1935-1936. Some of the leaflets were also published in English to show English-speaking visitors examples of what was being published in Nazi Germany.

  12. Ettore Ovazza

    Il fondo raccoglie documenti testimonianti l'attività di Ettore Ovazza come combattente e fascista fino al 1938 quali tessere del PNF, dell'Associazione nazionale volontari di guerra e dell'associazione piemontesi artiglieri. Tra la documentazione cartacea descritta è conservata la corrispondenza intrattenuta con personalità di spicco tra cui Dario Disegni, Felice Ravenna, Angelo Sacerdoti e con il generale Liuzzi; di particolare rilevanza è il fascicolo "Documenti d'antiquariato" contenente lettere di Victor Hugo e di Giuseppe Mazzini (b. 1, fasc. 1). Fondatore della rivista "La nostra ban...

  13. Ety Moncarz Rosinski photograph collection

    Collection of four pre-World War II photographs taken in Brussels, Belgium.

  14. Ety Rosinski-Moncarz photograph collection

    The collection consists of four photographs relating to the experiences of Ety Rosinski-Moncarz during the Holocaust. Several of the photographs depicts Ety and other girls at a convent preparing for their first communion, and one photograph shows Ety walking along a street in Binche, Belgium, with her aunt, Betty Szyper, and her cousin, Albert Szyper.

  15. Etzel, Franz

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1254
    • German
    • Nachlässe 397 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 13,4 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik im Zeichen der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft. Festgabe für Franz Etzel. Hrsg. v. Alfred Müller-Armack und Herbert B. Schmidt. Mit Beitrag von Kurt Georg Kiesinger u.a. Stuttgart 1967 Barzel, Rainer: Franz Etzel in der Fraktion (1961-1965).- In: Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik im Zeichen der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft. Stuttgart 1967.- S. 85-95 Lutzke, Hans-Hermann: Der Beitrag Franz Etzels zur Wirtschaftspolitik. Zur Geschichte des Bundesausschusses für Wirtschaftspolitik der CDU.- In: Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik im Zeichen der sozia...

  16. Eugen and Gertrude Schwarz family papers

    The Eugen and Gertrude Schwarz family papers include letters and telegrams from Gertrude’s mother in Brünn (now Brno) and brother in Lvov (now L’viv) documenting their efforts to emigrate and scrapbook pages containing photographs of Eugen and Gertrude Schwarz and their family members in Czechoslovakia as well as French identification papers for the couple documenting their brief stay in Paris and their immigration to the United States. Most of the correspondence in the collection is written to Gertrude Schwarz and her family from Gertrude’s mother, who describes the difficult sale of her h...

  17. Eugen and Gertrude Schwarz family papers

    The Eugen and Gertrude Schwarz family papers consist of identification documents, affidavits, documents, and photographs relating to the Schwarz family. Also included is Ilse Weinberger's memior entitled "Story of My Life," a letter from Ilse to Vera Frankel, and a photograph of Ilse Weinberger, the maid of honor, at Eugen and Gertrude Schwarz's wedding, June 29, 1932.

  18. Eugen and Helene Cohn papers

    The Eugen and Helene Cohn papers include correspondence and certificates documenting the couple’s health and status as refugees and internees in France following their return to Europe aboard the MS St. Louis, their efforts to gather the necessary documentation to emigrate to Cuba via Portugal, and their departure for Cuba aboard the SS Nyassa.

  19. Eugen Czinner oral history collection

    Oral histories from the Eugen Czinner collection

  20. Eugen Czinner papers

    Consists of three letters written on pre-printed prisoner stationery by Eugen Czinner while interned in the Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps. The letters, two from Buchenwald written in 1941-1942 and one from Auschwitz written in November 1944, were written to Marie Czinner in Pilsen.