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  1. Jack Arnel photograph collection

    Contains photographs of General Eisenhower visiting the Feldafing displaced persons camp.

  2. Jack B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1930. He recounts his father's career as a concert violinist; attending public school; piano lessons; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor in factories; relatives dying of starvation and disease; deportation with his parents and younger brother to Auschwitz/Birkenau in summer 1944; separation from his mother and younger brother (he never saw them again); remaining with his father; their transfer to Gleiwitz; slave labor digging ditches; his father's death in November; a death march to Blechhammer; liberation by Soviet...

  3. Jack B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack B., who was born in 1919 in Warsaw, Poland. He recalls religious family life; singing in the Norzyk Synagogue choir under several famous cantors; playing soccer for Jewish sports groups; working as a furrier from the age of thirteen on; conscription into the Polish army when Germany invaded; returning to Warsaw after defeat; ghettoization; the last synagogue service at which Cantor Gershon Sirota sang; selling fur clothing to feed his family; sleeping in a bunker to avoid deportation; and the disappearance of his parents and others until only he and his brother r...

  4. Jack B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack B., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1927. He recalls his orthodox family; his father's death in 1939; German invasion; destruction of the synagogues; anti-Jewish regulations; his older brothers working as tailors for the Germans; his family's exemption from deportation due to his brothers' jobs; his deportation to Auschwitz, Neukirch, Gross Rosen, and Wu?stegiersdorf; receiving extra food from one foreman; being beaten when the extra food was discovered; forced labor burning bodies, making caskets, and working in the kitchen; recovering from a severe burn in a...

  5. Jack Barden collection

    This collection comprises personal and family correspondence; correspondence and papers regarding the assistance given to a number of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, particularly relating to Professor Raphael Sokolowsky

  6. Jack Belcher photograph collection

    The collection consists of five photographs depicting the liberation of a concentration camp at Nordheim, Germany.

  7. Jack Bornkind photograph collection

    The collection contains two photographs of United States Army soldier Private First Class Jack Bornkind in uniform and one of his grave.

  8. Jack Caminer photographs

    Consists of 40 photographs taken by Jack Caminer [donor], a member of the United States Armed Forces, in the spring of 1945 as his unit traveled through Germany and Austria. Many of the photographs are of the destruction in Nuremberg. Includes one photograph of the donor, described as "Crossing the Rhine; 29 March 1945", taken during the holiday of Pesach. Also includes photographs of Jack Caminer (originally Hans Wolfgang Caminer) as a child in Berlin with various family members. His paternal grandfather, Max Lang, who appears in the photographs, perished of natural causes in Theresienstad...

  9. Jack Cherniss papers

    The collection primarily consists of letters written by Jewish American soldier Jack Cherniss to his wife Shirley while he was serving in the United States Army during World War II. His frequent letters describe his training in the United States and his deployment overseas in December 1944. Significant letters include one from 11 January 1945 describing an altercation with an antisemitic fellow soldier, and his letter from 27 April 1945 contains his account of the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after liberation. Also included are administrative papers regarding his military career an...

  10. Jack Cynamon collection

    Contains five pre-war photographs of the donor and his parents. The donor was hidden with the help of Father Joseph André, and was sent to a children's home in Namur and then to Serville.

  11. Jack Dygola collection

    The collection consists of seven loose photographs of Jack Dygola with other children at the Landsberg displaced person camp in Germany.

  12. Jack Erdfarb collection

    Consists of fourteen photographs related to Jack Erdfarb 's (Jakub Erdfarb) residence in Landsberg displaced persons camp and a suitcase.

  13. Jack Freedman collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Jack and Sara Freedman during and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  14. Jack Friedman collection

    Consists of a photocopy of an identity certificate and transit visa issued to Jakob Frydman (Jack Friedman) by Chiune Sugihara in Kaunas, Lithuania, in August 1940, a copy of a photograph of the Mr. Friedman holding his visa, photocopies of two postcards sent from occupied Poland in 1941, and photocopies of newspaper clippings and programs honoring Sugihara between 1986-1995.

  15. Jack G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack G., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1938 to a Jewish father (whom he never knew) and a half-Jewish mother. He recounts his mother telling him of his father's arrest in 1939; hiding with his mother; deportation with his mother to Theresienstadt; his mother's forced labor; an unsuccessful attempt to transfer to another camp by train with a friend; being "kicked off the train" and spending two months in "a holding place" in Vienna; returning to Theresienstadt, where his mother taught him reading and arithmetic; receiving packages from his aunt in Vienna; liberati...

  16. Jack G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack G., who was born in approximately 1925, one of eight children. He recounts living in Tarnowo, Poland; his family's orthodoxy; attending school in Ostro?e?ka; his father's death when he was nine; transferring to school in ?omz?a; antisemitic harassment; one brother's military draft (he never saw him again); Soviet occupation; working as a carpenter; German invasion; forced relocation with his family in 1942 to the ?omz?a, then Zambro?w ghettos; his brother's escape (he did not survive); deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in January 1943; separation from his mother ...

  17. Jack G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack G., who was born in Che?m, Poland in 1924. He recalls living in Karolino?w; German invasion; Soviet occupation; re-entry of German soldiers; moving to the Soviet zone with his father and two siblings (his mother and four siblings remained in Che?m); living in Li?u?boml?, Kostopol?, then Kaunas; Lithuanian slaughter of Jews immediately prior to German invasion; detention in the Seventh Fort with his father and brother; his transfer to the Ninth Fort where he found his sister; their release; finding their brother; learning his father was killed; ghettoization; slav...

  18. Jack G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack G., who was born in Deszno, Poland in 1926, one of seven children. He recounts attending public school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; forced relocation to Rymanów; forced labor in his father's stead; six months in a forced labor camp; a brief escape; transfer to the Kraków ghetto; assistance from a baker; staying in a Catholic hospital when he had typhus; protection by the nuns; imprisonment; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in early 1942; sorting possessions of murdered Jews; sharing extra food they found; saving a friend from extermination; transf...

  19. Jack G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack G., who was born in Bełchatów, Poland in 1923, one of nine children. He recalls joining Betar; a good life until German invasion in 1939; severe rationing; smuggling food; volunteering for forced labor in place of his father; two years in labor camps; a public hanging of prisoners who "stole" food, including his uncle; train transfer to Auschwitz, then Myslowice (Fürstengrube); surviving by "stealing" food; train transport to Dora/Nordhausen; placement with other prisoners on boats on the Elbe River; bombardment by the British who thought they were escaping SS;...

  20. Jack Gardner fonds

    Fonds consists of records generated as a result of Jack Gardner’s role in the Red Army, his medical leave, his residency in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp, and his advocacy work in restoring Jewish cemeteries and mass graves in Sambir, L’viv Oblast, Ukraine. Records include correspondence, identification, permits, licenses, certificates, legal documents and clippings.