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  1. Ich gedenke Albert Cohen, Hedwig Cohen

    Günter Schmitz's memorialization and Lore E. Cohn's translation describing the Holocaust-related experiences and deaths of Cohn's parents, Albert and Hedwig Cohen.

  2. Ichud Newspaper (Łódź, Poland) [Newspaper]

    titled "Opinia." Commemorative newspaper issued on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in Łódź, Poland, by the Ichud Central Committee of a united party of Zionists and Democrat. It has articles by Julian Tuvim, Cyvia Lubetkin, Bernard Mark and Josef Kermisz

  3. ICRC, Spanish Civil War Guerre d'Espagne (C ESCI)

    Records related to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formed the so-called Commission d'Espagne (Commission of Spain) on August 26, 1936 which directed and coordinated all of the ICRC's humanitarian activities and operations within both the Republican and Nationalist territories. The collection covers the ICRC's humanitarian activities in Spain, in particular its work to identify prisoners and missing persons, facilitate prisoner exchanges, reunite families, and convey personal messages. Contains...

  4. ID card Deutches Reich

    Identity Card (Kennkarte) Deutsches Reich of Helmut Strauss, issued in May 1945 in Halle/SaaleTemporary travel document in lieu of passport of Helmut Strauss, issued in March 1948 by the military government of GermanyContains exit permit and visa for Switzerland 

  5. ID card from Deutsche Ortskommandatur Mogilev

    Consists of one identity card issued by the Deutsches Ortskommandatur Mogilev.

  6. ID cards relating to Ebensee

    Identification documents, postwar, from a displaced person (DP) and former camp inmate.

  7. ID patch stenciled 139905 worn by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate

    Prisoner identification patch with the number 139905 worn by 21 year old Shmuel Czyzyk when he was imprisoned in Dora Mittelbau slave labor camp, and its subcamp, Rottleberode, from January-April 1945. Shmuel, his parents, and three siblings were living in Łódź when Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany in September 1939. His father and brother left for eastern Poland but were caught by the Germans and interned in the Deblin ghetto. The rest of the family was sent from Łódź, and the family was held together in Deblin. In 1942, while Shmuel was at work, his parents and brother were deported to...

  8. Ida and Murray Turner papers

    The Ida and Murray Turner papers consist of identification papers, certificates, and a photograph documenting Ida and Murray Turner’s experiences at the small Jewish displaced persons camps at Bad Gastein and Ebelsberg and their immigration to the United States with the help of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) in 1949.

  9. Ida B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida B., who was born in We?gro?w, Poland in 1910, the youngest of twelve children. She recounts that both of her parents had been married before (they each had five children); one brother being killed during World War I; her father's death in 1920; another brother's death; training as a seamstress; a nephew's emigration to Palestine in 1936; her marriage in 1937; moving to Pinsk; her husband's draft into the Soviet military; returning home after German invasion; hiding; returning home in 1943 (her family were all gone); joining other Jews after the war; learning of co...

  10. Ida B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida B., who was born in the Smolensk region of Russia in 1919. She recalls a happy childhood; participating in Komsomol; medical studies in Smolensk; internship in her town; German invasion in 1941; her family's futile attempt to flee; finding their house destroyed; receiving food and housing from non-Jewish friends; Germans taking her and her brother to Demidov; forced labor; sexual assault by a German soldier (another woman was raped); escaping with her brother; ghettoization; slave labor digging trenches; mass shootings; her father planning their escape; leaving se...

  11. Ida C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida C., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1931. She recalls moving to Siedlce, returning to Warsaw prior to 1938; brief German invasion while she was with her grandparents near Siedlce; Soviet occupation; traveling to Minsk; her parents and sister joining them, transport to Arkhangel?sk in late 1939, then to a labor camp in Komi; attending school while her parents worked; hunger; and transfer to Samarqand at the end of 1941. Mrs. C. recounts their return to Poland in 1945; leaving ?o?dz? intending to emigrate to Palestine, living in a displaced persons camp and in Ulm...

  12. Ida Cohen correspondence

    Contains letters written from Suwalki, Poland to Ida Cohen in San Antonio, Texas, 1945: two letters from Kazimierz Wawrzyn, a friend of Ms. Cohen's and a resident of Krasnopol; one letter from Jadzi Bak in Krasnopol, dated November 1945; one letter from Father Jan Florek in Krasnopol, dated November 13, 1945.

  13. Ida Dancyger family photographs

    Consists of a large portrait, taken in the 1920s, of a young man (possibly her brother) and older woman who were family members of Malka Finkelstein, originally of Warsaw, Poland. Also includes a post-war photograph of Ida Flint, the daughter of Malka Finkelstein and Mendel Flint, with her father at the Hallerin displaced persons camp in post-war Austria.

  14. Ida Day: Letter to Wiener re 'Lapins'

  15. Ida F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida F., who was born in Zbaraż, Poland (presently Zbaraz︠h︡ , Ukraine) in 1921, the elder of two daughters. She recounts her father's medical practice and her mother teaching gymnasium until her sister's birth; her large extended family; attending public school; her family's focus on music and literature; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending university in Lʹviv in 1938, where she first experienced antisemitism; hiding with her sister during the war resulting in their very close relationship; assistance by Poles; and emigration to Israel when she was thirty-six....

  16. Ida F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida F., who was born in Vilma?ny, Hungary in 1925. She describes her non-observant family; education in a Catholic primary school; leaving gymnasium to help her father in the family farm and store; a close Catholic friend who became anti-Semitic and terminated their friendship; her family's 1944 deportation to Kos?ice; the arduous conditions; their transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau; her selection for forced labor; and discovering her parents had been killed. She tells of her transport to Peterswaldau; the camp regimen; hiding food for a fellow prisoner; making hand gren...

  17. Ida Friedman Trushin photograph collection

    The collection consists of 49 photographs and a photograph envelope relating mainly to Ida Friedman Trushin and her life and family in Poland before World War II.

  18. Ida G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida G., who was born in Paris, France in 1929. She recalls her parents placing her with a French family in Deux-Se?vres in 1940; warm relations with her foster mother; visiting her parents before her mother's arrest on July 16, 1942 (she never saw her again); arrest on January 30, 1944; interrogation by French police in Melle; her foster mother's unsuccessful efforts to free her using false papers; transfer to Niort, then Drancy; deportation to Birkenau in February 1944; working in a munitions factory; transfer to Auschwitz in October 1944; public hanging of the women...

  19. Ida Gebel, Wilhelm Wensing, Else Wensing, and Klara Ditschi papers

    Consists of copies of documents relating to the experiences of Ida Gebel, Wilhelm Wensing, Else Wensing, and Klara Ditschi, all Jehovah's Witnesses, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  20. Ida I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida I., one of seven children, who was born in Romania in 1919. She recalls her family's orthoodox lifestyle in Bistrit?a; increasing antisemitism; Hungarian occupation; conscription of Jewish men; transport to a collection site in a forest; deportation to Auschwitz; seeing her father for the last time; a translator explaining the true situation while pretending to repeat German words; and sharing food with her sister. Mrs. I. describes their transport to Augsburg, Germany; forced labor in a Messerschmitt factory; improved living conditions; observing Yom Kippur; rece...