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  1. Jean K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean K., who was born in 1918 in Vilnius, Poland (presently Lithuania). She recounts her sister's birth; attending Zionist meetings; studying business; Soviet occupation; marriage in 1940; her son's birth in 1941; German invasion; ghettoization; the shooting of her mother, sister and grandparents; her father's illness and death; a round-up in September 1943; separation from her husband and child (she never saw them again); deportation to Kaiserwald; slave labor in an AEG factory; assistance from fellow prisoners after a severe whipping; transfer to Stuffhof in 1944, t...

  2. Jean L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean L., who was born in Poland in 1924. He recalls his family's emigration to Paris in 1936 due to antisemitism; their strong socialist commitment; German invasion; joining the Resistance; brief incarceration in Drancy; participating in armed resistance; living under false papers; arrest on April 22, 1943; incarceration in Fresnes; transfer to Struthof on July 10, 1943; deportation to Birkenau in January 1944; a privileged assignment to Canada Kommando with help from a former friend; surviving a selection because of his status as a political prisoner; organized resis...

  3. Jean M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean M., who was born in Zawalo?w, Poland, in 1922 to a well-established family. She relates attending school in Marijampole? and Stanislav; anti-Semitic incidents; German invasion; forced labor; German humiliation of the Jews; her brother's death at age fourteen in a labor camp; transfer to the Podhajce ghetto; her father's deportation; and her mother's death from typhus, though she herself survived it. Mrs. M. describes "aktions"; hiding in bunkers; the resulting physical and psychological difficulties; mass killings; liquidation of the ghetto; escaping; hiding in t...

  4. Jean Montgomery collection

    Sheet music, "Men of the Ozark," song created for the 102 Infantry Division of the United States Army, music composed by C.W.O. F.E. Ford and lyrics written by Sgt. E.A. Grama and Cpl. E.G. Valcourt; Matchbook, cover only, printed against blue background is emblem of 102 Infantry Division and printed against yellow background is advertisement for chapel service; Photographs, black and white images of US military personel and liberation scenes, taken by LeRoy Gustafson, member of 102nd Infantry Division in Germany at Gardelegen; dated 1945.

  5. Jean Nordmann papers Nachlass Jean Nordmann (1908-1986)

    Private papers of Jean Nordmann, president of the Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund, SIG (Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities). The collection consists of correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, speeches related to Nordmann's activities in the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, the Swiss Jewish Christian Community, and the Jewish Community of Freiburg. Also included are papers of Nordrmann's father, son and daughter.

  6. Jean Pictet - Red Cross

    A leading member of the International Council of the Red Cross, Jean Pictet was responsible for the preparatory work which led to the conclusion of the four Geneva Conventions in 1949. FILM ID 3444 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:08 to 01:27:25 Roll 1 Jean Pictet sits in his office in the International Committee of the Red Cross (Comité International de la Croix-Rouge). Pictet began working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1937 when he was twenty-five years old. He started as a legal secretary and worked closely with the President of the ICRC, Max Huber. In 1946, Pic...

  7. Jean Rose fonds

    Fonds consists of case files, committee reports and correspondence relating to Rose’s work with Jewish immigrants to Canada in the 1940s and 1950s. Also included are a number of commemorative materials including obituaries and tribute articles.Fonds consists of the following series:1. Immigration case work2. Commemorative materials3. Audio testimony

  8. Jean S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean S., who was born in 1928 in Rejowiec, Poland. She recalls attending Polish school where Jewish children were taunted; German invasion; fleeing with her family to the Russian occupied area; journey by train to the Ural Mountains; their return to Soviet-occupied Poland; travel by freight train for weeks to a Siberian labor camp; caring for her three siblings while her parents worked; transport to Uzbek, then Kazakh; attending school; her mother inviting an orphan (whom Mrs. S. later married) to live with them; and returning to Poland in 1944. Mrs. S. describes lear...

  10. Jean Wise collection

    The Jean Wise collection includes an Austrian certificate of citizenship issued to Wise’s mother, Hedwig Bachrach Levendula, in 1933 and a photograph of Wise’s father, Deszo Levendula, with Hedwig Levendula and friend in Klosterneuburg, Austria, in 1931. Deszo and Hedwig Levendula fled Nazi-occupied Austria for the United States.

  11. Jean-François N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean-François N., a Roman-Catholic, born in 1919 in Hasselt, Belgium. He recalls his family's upper-class background; their monarchist and Catholic focus; his own Rexist sympathies; turning away when the Rexist pro-German stance became known to him; military service from 1937 to 1938; recall in 1939 when war started; capture during German invasion; incarceration in a POW camp in Germany; solidarity with Belgians; volunteering to work; good treatment from local Catholics; regular correspondence with his family; escape and recapture; escape again; observing Jews with a...

  12. Jean-Louis Steinberg collection

    Contains memoirs written by Jean-Louis Steinberg documenting his experiences during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  13. Jean-Michel D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean-Michel D., who was born in Oran, Algeria and raised in Belgium. He recalls his parents' divorce (his mother was Catholic); a close relationship with his grandfather; working in Liège; marriage; imprisonment for resistance; escaping; he and his wife being sent for forced labor in Nuremberg; her release after two weeks (she was ill); going on leave (he never returned); his wife's death in 1942; living underground in Paris; arrest while trying to escape to England; imprisonment in St. Gilles; suffering greatly in solitary confinement; clandestinely sending a messa...

  14. Jeanette A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeanette A., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1925, one of six children. She recalls her older brother attending medical school in France; his return immediately prior to the war; German invasion; ghettoization; slave labor in a leather factory; her mother and youngest sister joining her brother in another town; transfer to barracks at the factory; return to Radom; her brother, mother, and youngest sister joining them; selection of her parents for a mass killing from which her oldest sister escaped; transfer to Pionki; slave labor in an ammunition factory; transfer to...

  15. Jeanette E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeanette E., who was born in Myszko?w, Poland in 1923. She recalls antisemitic harassment; attending boarding school in Cze?stochowa; German invasion; confiscation of her father's coal mine; moving to the Zawiercie ghetto; forced labor with her sister in a camp; joining her family in the Sosnowiec ghetto; forced labor in the Be?dzin ghetto; obtaining false papers; hiding during a round-up; escaping to the Kamionka ghetto; being hidden by her future husband; their escape with help from the underground; hiding in bunkers; being smuggled to Hungary with help from Poles a...

  16. Jeanette Meyer collection

    Includes a "Deutsches Reiche Reisepass" issued to Jeanette Klugmann (donor) on November 25, 1938, in Nuernberg-Fuerth, Germany. Black and white photograph of bearer affixed on page two; stamped with red "J" on front page; includes visas for France and the United States.

  17. Jeanette Orbach collection

    Consists of two post-war photographs of Jeanette Orbach, originally of Ichenhausen, Germany, and an obituary, 1971, for Mrs. Orbach, describing her pre-war emigration to the United States to escape the Holocaust.

  18. Jeanette Wohlhendler identification card

    Identification card, 1947, attesting that Jeanette Wohlhendler (nee Jeckel) had been a prisoner at Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen.

  19. Jeanine C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeanine C., who was born in 1928. She recounts her mother's death in 1932; living in a Jewish orphanage in Paris; German invasion; evacuation to Berck-sur-Mer; returning to Paris in 1940; dispersion of the orphans by UGIF to avoid deportations; her section's deportation to Drancy in July 1944; deportation to Birkenau in August; remaining together with fifteen EIF scouts (including Yvette L.); slave labor in Auschwitz; transfer to Kratzau in November; work in a munitions factory; receiving food from a supervisor; a friend giving birth and being transfered (mother and b...

  20. Jeanne A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeanne A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1931. She recalls living in Laufenselden; moving when she was in kindergarten; her family's emigration to Scheveningen, Holland (her grandparents lived there) due to her father's sense that they should "get out"; moving to Paris in 1938; the outbreak of war in September 1939; her father's detention as an "enemy alien"; his release and brief service in the French military; German invasion; her father's internment at a camp near Lyon; moving with her mother to that area; her father's escape; joining him in Lyon; returning to...