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  1. Sample sheet to demonstrate 5 stamps used by a Dutch resistance member to forge identity cards

    1. Gerry van Heel collection

    Sample sheet with 5 stamps made from rubber stamps used by Gerry van Heel to forge documents for the Dutch resistance and for Jewish people living in hiding in Eindhoven, Holland. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands. By summer 1942, the Germans were deporting Jews to concentration camps. Gerry and his wife Molly aided resistance efforts by hiding wounded English pilots, Dutch Army officers, and Jews. In the fall of 1942, Molly urged her friend, Dora Kann, to go into hiding. Molly and Gerald hid Dora's young daughters, 12 year old Elise and 8 year old Judith; their brothers, 14 ...

  2. Samson M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samson M., who was born in Poland in 1913 to a Hasidic family of seven children. He recalls their poverty; joyous holiday celebrations; antisemitic harassment at school; apprenticeship as a shoemaker in Seitesz; moving to Krako?w; German invasion; escaping east with his brother; Germans overtaking them; staying in Izbica; Soviet troops arriving; their withdrawal; leaving with them; living in L?viv; finding two of his brothers there; volunteering to work in a Soviet coalmine; harsh conditions; escaping with a friend; traveling to Kiev, then L?viv; volunteering for labo...

  3. Samuel and Franka Baral papers

    The Samuel and Franka Baral papers consist of biographical information, correspondence, immigration documents, and testimony relating to Samuel Baral and Franka Baral’s experiences fleeing Kraków, internment in a ghetto, going into hiding, and immigrating to Palestine and Australia. The collection includes a certificate of naturalization and a certificate of registration for Australia issued to Franka and travel documents for Samuel to return home as well as a letter from Samuel’s mother, Juda, to the German Compensation Collection Agency and a copy of Jakob Baral’s birth certificate. The c...

  4. Samuel B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel B., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1933. Mr. B. recounts his childhood perspective on the Russian occupation of Vilna; the arrival of the German army; and German anti-Jewish activities. He recalls arrival at Vilna's "old ghetto" with his parents; hiding outside of the ghetto in a monastery, through the arrangement of a baptized aunt; and being forced by circumstances to smuggle themselves back into the ghetto. He describes conditions within the ghetto; the ghetto's school; his own private education; his artistic activities within the ghetto; and his family's ...

  5. Samuel Kohn, born in Paris, France, 1901, known as Moulou: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Samuel Kohn, born in Paris, France, 1901, known as Moulou: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II OSE (Children's Aid Society) activities including rescuing children; arrest at the CAR (Refugees Aid Committee) offices in Lyons, 09 February 1943. Also in the file: - Deposition by Marguerite Kohn at the police station taken from documents presented at the trial of Klaus Barbie, 23 February 1983; - Last letters from Samuel Kohn to his wife.

  6. Samuel Kramer papers

    Consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs and similar materials collected by Samuel Kramer, an attorney who was legal counsel to Agudas Chasidei Chabad in Brooklyn, NY, and who worked closely with Rabbi S. Gourary and his father-in-law, the Lubavticher Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, in attempts to secure visas for several dozen rabbis and students of the Tomchei Tmimim yeshiva, first so that they could leave Lithuania for Japan, and then from Japan onward, 1940-1941. The “Correspondence” series is the largest component of the collection, and consists primarily of letters fr...

  7. Samuel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel R., who was born in Koszyce, Poland in 1923. He describes moving to Paris in 1923; collecting money for Spanish children in 1936; joining the Communist Party; learning about Nazism from German and Austrian refugees in 1937 and 1938; the outbreak of war in September 1939; evacuation to Pau in June 1940; joining the Resistance after returning to Paris on July 14, 1940; his father's death on September 2, 1940; and participating in student demonstrations in 1940 and 1941. Mr. R. recalls his arrest in August 1941; release from Drancy in November; hiding with the aid...

  8. Samuel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel S., who was born in Sni︠a︡tyn, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1920. He recounts his family's move to Vienna the following year; antisemitic harassment in school; Austrians warmly welcoming German occupation in 1938; attending Jewish school due to anti-Jewish restrictions; his father's arrest (he was in Dachau for four months, then Buchenwald for four months); his release upon promising to emigrate; obtaining documents in 1939 for three to emigrate to Palestine; his father, mother, and younger sister emigrating there; his emigration to Belfast with assistance fro...

  9. Samuel Schalkowsky papers

    1. Samuel Schalkowsky collection

    Contains three black-and-white photographs, one letter, and two legal documents pertaining to Samuel Schalkowsky's post-World War II experiences as a displaced person following his internment in the Magdeburg Brabag concentration camp. The letter requests that Allied military personnel grant Mr. Schalkowsky any needed assistance in his attempts to locate his sister.

  10. Samuel Zisman papers

    1. Samuel Zisman collection

    The Samuel Zisman papers consist of biographical materials, team records, drawings and maps, memoranda and reports, personal correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Samuel Zisman’s service as United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) director of District 5 in Bavaria from 1945-1947 and the administration of displaced persons camps in that district. Biographical materials consist of Samuel Zisman’s international certificate of inoculation and vaccination, chest x-ray, and permit to cross the Soviet zone of occupation as well as Paul Spreiregen’s c...

  11. Sandomirski family papers

    The papers consist of correspondence, a passport, and photographs relating to the Sandomirski family in Vienna, Austria, and their experiences during the time period of the Holocaust. Most of the collection is correspondence, 1939-1941, from Aron and Feige Sandomirski in Vienna to their son, David, who was able to immigrate to Washington, DC, in 1939. Aron and Feige were deported to Riga in 1942, where they perished.

  12. Sandor Berko collection

    The collection consists of eighteen original photographs depicting Sandor Berko and his family before the war in Tiszalök, Hungary; his father in a forced labor battalion; Sandor and others in displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria; after the war in Tiszalök and in Sweden; and one Ketubah (marriage contract) of Sandor 's parents-in-law.

  13. Sandor G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sandor Arye G., who was born in Cluj, Romania. He describes his active involvement in the Zionist organization in Cluj; his unsuccessful attempts to convince the people around him to flee to Palestine; the partition of Transylvania in 1940; and a trip to Budapest to prepare for emigration to Palestine. He tells of leading a Youth Aliyah group to Palestine via Romania, Istanbul, and Lebanon in 1941; joining the British army as a volunteer in 1942; and smuggling Jewish children from Egypt to Palestine. He relates being sent with his company to Italy, where he became fam...

  14. Sara Szrojt papers

    The Sara Szrojt papers are comprised of documents and photographs collected by Sara during her incarceration in a Soviet forced labor camp and in the years before and after. The documents consist primarily of postcards from Sara’s mother and father written in 1941 shortly before they went into hiding in Lublin. Also among the documents is a marriage certificate for Chana and Jankiel, reissued in 1946. The photographs depict the Szrojt family and friends before and after the war in Lublin and images of a Jewish cooperative of upholsterers and curtain-makers in Wrocław, Poland c. 1950. Some o...

  15. Sara Zayer papers

    1. Sara Zayer collection

    The Sara Zayer papers contain the correspondence of Sara Zayer, a Polish woman who immigrated to the United States in 1939 to live with her brother. Her husband was transported from Warsaw to the Łódź ghetto, and later was killed at Auschwitz. Contained in the letters are primarily Russian and Polish correspondence with her husband, family members, and friends. The bulk of the Sara Zayer papers contain correspondence between Sara and various family members and friends. The letters are primarily in Russian and Polish, and contain a variety of topics but mainly discuss the status of family me...

  16. Sarah Field photographs

    1. Sarah Field collection

    The collection consists of four photographs taken in the displaced persons camp in Ulm, Germany.

  17. Sarah G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah G., who was born in Radoszyce, Poland in 1921. She recounts extreme poverty and antisemitism in Warta; illegal immigration to Brussels when she was nine; attending secretarial school; German invasion; fleeing to France; working for the police; warning Jews of round-ups; returning to Belgium after six months; joining the Rote Kapelle resistance group; using false papers; uncovering collaborators; escaping arrest three times; the arrest of her sister and brother-in-law after her transmitter was found in their apartment; deportation of her parents and other sibling...

  18. Sarah M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah M., who was born in Dereczyn, Poland (now Derechin, Belarus) in 1926, the fifth of eight children. She recounts her father's emigration to Paris in 1932; the family joining him in 1937; their poverty; difficulties as foreigners; German invasion; being harassed when wearing the required yellow star; her mother's arrest, imprisonment in Drancy, and release; and her mother separately hiding her children, hoping some would survive. Mrs. M. recalls working in a village until 1942 (everyone knew she was Jewish and assisted her); returning to her parents who were hidin...

  19. Sarah W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah W., who was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1905. She recalls moving to Antwerp with her family; her mother's death; attending Hebrew school; marriage in 1927; her son's birth in 1928; moving to Luxembourg where her husband was a rabbi; German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish measures; fleeing to Paris with her husband and three children; traveling by train through Spain to the Portuguese border; futile attempts to enter Portugal with assistance from the Joint; returning to France; internment with her family in Bayonne; her son's bar mitzvah in a local synagogue; trave...

  20. Sasha Kaufman letter

    Contains a letter, possibly a form letter, with envelope, signed by Sasha Kaufman in the Landsberg DP camp, addressed to UN Secretary General Trygve Lie. The letter appeals to the United Nations to help open Palestine to Jewish refugees who had suffered in Nazi concentration camps.