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  1. Kurt Goldstein collection

    Consists of a postcard sent to Kurt Goldstein from his father, who was in L'viv, Poland, in 1940. The postcard is dated May 20, 1940. Also includes an envelope sent by Mr. Goldstein to Kurt, who lived in New York, in July 1940. Mr. Goldstein was deported and perished in the Holocaust.

  2. The Kurt Grossmann Archives: Documentation regarding Kurt Grossman's activities as an advisor to the Jewish Agency and documentation regarding reparations

    In the collection there is documentation primarily regarding the background to Grossmann's activities as a press officer after World War II, along with documentation regarding the negotiations conducted between Israel and Germany concerning the reparations. The documentation includes mainly German publications regarding German legislation concerning reparations and reports of Grossmann's trips to Germany. More than half the documentation consists of press clippings.

  3. Kurt Grubler collection

    Contains a bound manuscript written by Kurt Grubler titled, "Death or Survival: A Survivor's Holocaust Experience," correspondence and documents relating to the Nazi persecution of Jews in Austria and Poland, and materials comprised chiefly of correspondence (1915-1948) and official documentation (1900-1942) of the Grubler and Littner families. The collection includes copies of drawings, photographs, and articles about the history and persecution of the Jewish community of Linz, Austria, as well as documents and copies of documents relating to Nazi propaganda and the Nazi occupation of Aust...

  4. Kurt Gutfreund papers

    The Kurt Gutfreund papers include biographical materials, Theresienstadt postcards and receipts, photographs, and a clipping. The Theresienstadt material documents Kurt Gutfreund’s imprisonment in the Theresienstadt concentration camp from 1943-1945 with his mother Hildegard. Postcards and receipts primarily document packages Hildegard’s sister sent them in Theresienstadt. Some of the postcards include coded messages from Hildegard in the addressee field requesting specific foods in the next package (for example “Dear Onion” to indicate she wanted onions). Additional postcards from the Gutf...

  5. Kurt H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt H., who was born in a small town in Germany in 1928. He recalls that his was the only Jewish family in town; being protected by the townspeople on Kristallnacht; people from another town destroying the family's property; their move to Cologne in 1939; deportation to the Ri?ga ghetto; working for the ghetto commander; the sadistic behavior of the commander; the importance to their survival of sharing smuggled food and clothing; deportation by boat with his father and siblings to Stutthof on Yom Kippur 1944 (his mother remained in Ri?ga); separation from his sister...

  6. Kurt Hach collection

    Consists of one folder of handwritten (via fax) memories of the wartime experiences of Mr. Kurt Hach, originally of a small coastal town near Hamburg, Germany. Mr. Hach describes the story of the ships populated by prisoners, which were bombed in the harbor of Lübeck in May 1945, as it was told to him by a German naval officer who had been present. He also describes his wartime memories, including smuggling food and the aftermath of Allied air raids; as well as learning in the 1980s that his mother was Jewish.

  7. Kurt I. Lewin collection

    Consists of photographs and papers related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Kurt I. Lewin [donor]. Includes identity cards, permits to travel, work permits, documents forged while the donor was in hiding as a Studite monk, Polish army documents, entry documents into Palestine, and photographs of family members and of Studite clergy members. Also includes Mr. Lewin's handwritten 1947 memoir, "Aliti MiSpezia," as well as Polish and Hebrew typed transcripts of the same. The memoir describes his childhood, wartime, and postwar experiences.

  8. Kurt I. Lewin Israeli War of Independence collection

    Consists of documents related to the post-war life of Kurt I. Lewin, originally of Lwow, Poland, in Israel after World War II. Mr. Lewin became a member of the Haganah, and a Major in the Israeli Defense Forces during the War of Independence. Includes recommendations, identification papers, commissioning documents, and veteran commemoration materials.

  9. Kurt Josef Stangl: Ahnenpass

    Kurt Josef Stangl: Ahnenpass. In addition to the original document there is also a copy and English translation of the printed introduction.The Ahnenpass traces the descent of the family back to the 18th century.

  10. Kurt Kastan correspondence

    Letters written on concentration camp form stationary from Kurt Kastan to his wife Rosa (Rosel) and their daughters in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). The letters are primarily written from the Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück concentration camps, between February 1941 and February 1942.

  11. Kurt L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt L., who was born in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1910. He recalls his father's prosperous cattle business; attending law school; Hitler's ascent to power; antisemitic laws prohibiting him from practicing law; studying in Basel; an unsuccessful attempt to establish a business in Casablanca; living in Paris and Brussels; returning to Germany; obtaining a ten-day visa to visit the United States; traveling to New York; spending three months in Havana obtaining documents to return to the United States; his parents' visit in 1937; their return to Germany, not liking the U.S.;...

  12. Kurt M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt M., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1915. He recalls his excellent education prior to 1933; Hitler's ascent to power; anti-Jewish restrictions barring him from university; cantorial training; teaching in a Jewish school; the trauma of Kristallnacht; deportation to Theresienstadt in 1943; conducting religious services; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in fall 1944 (he later learned his wife volunteered to follow him); remaining with his brother; observing prisoners trampling another prisoner to death because he had sent others to their deaths; the stench of bu...

  13. Kurt Maier family collection

    The collection consists of ceremonial artifacts, photographs, and a letter relating to the experiences of Kurt Maier and his extended family before and during the Holocaust.

  14. Kurt Moser diary

    The Kurt Moser diary documents Moser’s experiences at the Château de la Hille in France (Ariège) and details his planning for escape to Spain and Portugal. The diary describes life at the castle, his attempts to escape to Switzerland, his capture and brief imprisonment, his work on a farm, efforts to find a guide to Portugal, his preparations for escape including obtaining travel documents, and his fears about deportation to Poland. It is believed that the last entry in the diary was made by Kurt’s friend Walter Kaniuk.

  15. Kurt N. Grübler collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Kurt Grübler's extended family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  16. Kurt Paucker: Memorial Service

    This collection contains transcripts of speeches held at the memorial service for Kurt Paucker on 26 April 1980.Papers including speeches by Arnold Paucker; Werner Henle, Ph.D mentor at the University of Pennsylvania, colleague and friend; and Jan Vilcek and Clifton A Ogburn, colleagues and friends. The speech by his brother tells the story of their bourgeois upbringing in the Weimarer Republic in Berlin before their education was interrupted in Nazi Germany and the family was torn apart by the Jewish persecutions

  17. Kurt R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1912. He recalls graduating from medical school in 1937; his brother's marriage and emigration to Palestine in 1938; his marriage; futile efforts to emigrate to Palestine; fleeing to Trieste in 1939, leaving his parents and wife in Vienna (his parents were deported to Minsk and killed); arrest and transfer to a camp in Eboli; working as a doctor's assistant; release with assistance from the camp doctor; living in Todi, then in Umbertide; German invasion; arrest; escaping to Todi from a train station in Perugia; local Italian...

  18. Kurt R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1913. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending medical school; violence against Jewish students; the Anschluss; anti-Jewish restrictions and violence, including expulsion from medical school; obtaining visas for his parents to Czechoslovakia; smuggling himself and his younger sister to Czechoslovakia in September 1938 with assistance from Czech army officers; reunion with their parents in Trenc?i?n; forced labor; volunteering to enter Novaky labor camp in 1942 to avoid deportation; his parents' and sister's arrival; meet...

  19. Kurt Richard Grossmann Papers

    Writings, correspondence, clippings, and serial issues, relating to Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, postwar German and Austrian restitution payments to Jewish war victims, German-Israeli relations, the conditions of Jews throughout the world, and civil liberties in the United States and Germany.

  20. Kurt Rosenthal papers

    The Kurt Rosenthal papers consists of letters addressed to Kurt Rosenthal and his sisters, dated 1940-1941. Some of the letters were written while Kurt Rosenthal was imprisoned in Les Milles and Gurs internment camps in France as an “enemy alien.” The letter dated November 8, 1940 informs about the arrival of Jews in Gurs internment camp from Baden.