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  1. Irit R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irit R., who was born in Min?sk Mazowiecki, Poland. She recalls her family's poverty; German invasion; ghettoization; her father's beating by Germans; public humiliation of a rabbi which ended her belief in God; her father's death from starvation in 1941; supporting her family doing farm work; her mother placing her with a farmer in 1942; learning of the ghetto's liquidation; being denounced as a Jew while working under an assumed name; a Polish woman from Ka?uszyn adopting her as a Christian; denouncement by her previous employer; obtaining Christian identity papers ...

  2. Irma C. Erman Papers

    Correspondence, writings, personal documents, printed matter, photographs, and art objects, relating to German Jewish emigre affairs, the history of antisemitism, and Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution. Includes two plays dramatizing the actions of Paul Gruninger, a Swiss police captain, and Mitsugi Shibata, a Japanese official, in saving the lives of Jewish refugees in Austria and China, respectively, during World War II.

  3. Irma de Miranda collection

    Correspondence and reports documenting Irma de Miranda's activities as a volunter with the Jewish Relief Unit and general information from the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad

  4. Irma F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irma F., who was born in Lobens, Germany (presently ?obz?enica, Poland), the youngest of six children. She recounts expulsion from school as a Jew; her parents sending her to live in ?o?dz? in 1939; her mother joining her with her youngest brother and a sister in August; her mother leaving to retrieve possessions from their home; German invasion; learning from her mother's correspondence that her father had been taken to a concentration camp; traveling to Bydgoszcz, posing as a German, to visit her brother; learning he had been killed; traveling to ?obz?enica; finding...

  5. Irma Gerber collection

    The collection conisits of twelve prayerbooks.

  6. Irma Gideon collection

    The Irma Gideon collection consists of a handwritten memoir in German by Irma Gideon. The memoir described her experiences during Kristallnacht in Oberlustadt, Pfalz, Germany, 1938 and her emigration to the United States. The collection also includes a photocopy of a newspaper article titled "Lustadter Synagogenbrand vor dem Richter" and a copy of a trial in the Strafkammer des Landgerichts Landau in der Pfalz in April 1948, of those people responsible for the violence on Kristallnacht. There are also biographical notes regarding the Gideon family written in English, likely created by museu...

  7. Irma M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irma M., who was born in Forchheim, Germany in 1925, an only child. She recalls her family's affluence; attending Catholic school; her sense of isolation, despite kindness from nuns; wanting to be part of the pervasive Nazi youth culture; living with an aunt in Bamberg; attending a Jewish boarding school in Horburg; being forced to break the school windows and march through town to have rocks thrown at them during Kristallnacht; returning home; finding her home vandalized and her father gone (he was in Dachau); their non-Jewish maid and doctor assisting them; her fath...

  8. Irma Maurer memoirs

    Consists of one handwritten memoir, stapled and bound by a red cover with each entry dated 1985, telling the story of her family, childhood, and adulthood, ending with her family’s arrival at the Riga ghetto in 1941.

  9. Irma Morgenstern Grundland collection

    Contains an identity card, documents, and photographs concerning Irma Grundland's postwar life in Poland.

  10. Irma Petrasek: copy eyewitness account

    This collection contains the eyewitness account of Holocaust survivor Irma Petrasek describing her long journey through the labour and concentration camps of Nazi Germany. Irma Petrasek was deported to Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp, labour and concentration camps in Estonia, Strutthof labour camp in Poland, a labour camp in Hamburg and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She describes the conditions during transport and in the camps, the fate of some of her fellow prisoners and the hardship she had to endure. Includes summary of her account in English.

  11. Irmgard Baum papers

    Consists of a transcript of an oral history of Irmgard Baum; a Jahrzeits book; a passport issued to Baum; poems; a memoir written by Baum's Uncle Ernst; and photographs of Baum's experiences before World War II

  12. Irmgard K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irmgard K., who was born in Breslau (presently Wrocław, Poland), Germany in 1915, the youngest of five children of a Jewish father and Christian mother. She recounts attending synagogue and learning Hebrew; her father's death in 1924; antisemitic harassment; active participation in Social Democratic Party youth groups; her siblings' emigration to France in the early 1930s; her mother joining them; several arrests for anti-Nazi activities; engagement to a non-Jew; the Nuremberg laws prohibition against their marriage; her fiancé's arrest for anti-Nazi activities; one ...

  13. Irmgard Piepenbrock: school certificate

    Leaving certificate issued from the commercial college “Handelsschule der Schwestern Unserer lieben Frau zu Ahlen (Westf.) (Berufsfachschule)“.German 

  14. Irmgard Smurka: copy papers

    These copy personal papers of Irmgard Smurka (née Klinger) document the life of a German Jewish resident of Berlin who emigrated to Great Britain after the war. The papers include school certificates; birth, marriage and death certificates; job references, etc. Of particular interest is an affidavit of 1961 submitted by Irmgard Smurka in support of a claim for compensation, in which she details the victimisation she endured during the nazi era (-/14). In addition there are manuscript (-/17) and typescript (-/18) accounts of her experiences written in German for Yad Vashem. The above items p...

  15. Irmgard Weinberg Schwartz collection

    Consists of letters, postcards, and telegrams to Irmgard Weinberg from her parents, Jakob and Helene Wertheimer of Hamburg-Bahrenfeld, Germany. The letters concern the Wertheimers' attempts to emigrate from Germany to join their daughter, Irmgard, in England.

  16. Irmin Steinlieb donation

    Article photocopied from "History of the Jews in Bucovina," vol. I. Copies of postcard and envelope from camps in Poland, 1940, addressed to Committee for the Aid to Jews affected by the war in Switzerland.

  17. Irmin Sternlieb collection

    Work card issued to Francisca Sternlieb by Romanian Government, dated 1942-1943; with stamps and photograph. Identification card issued to Francisca Sternlieb by Romanian Government; with stamps and photograph. Envelope from Geneva, Switzerland, addressed to "Herrn Isaac Rozentuler, Edinita, Jud, Hotin, Bessarabien," postmarked 2 April 1942.

  18. irn32273

    Two posters. 1-"Bicz ludzkosci." 2-"Anordnung..."

  19. irn601528

    The collection consist of one poster issued by the French Government Seine-et-Oise department in 1941, 112 paintings created by Zenek Maor, a Holocaust survivor originally from Poland, the Elkan family papers, from 1941-1946, and a typed manuscript with a list of Polish refugees from the immediate postwar period.