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  1. Alice F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. She recounts anti-Jewish legislation; attending a Jewish nursing school; a cousin in England obtaining documents for her emigration; leaving on November 8 (she did not learn of Kristallnacht until her arrival in London); working at a hospital; categorization as an "enemy alien", resulting in her evacuation in 1940; communication from her parents through a friend in Sweden (they did not survive); joining the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad (JCRA) in 1943; not being allowed to leave due to her "enemy alien" status un...

  2. Alice Fahrer papers

    The papers consist of two studio portraits of Joseph Ornstein, one taken in 1898 and one (a copy print) printed in 1951, and a postcard send by Joseph Ornstein from Theresienstadt concentration camp to Karoline Zisdka in Vienna, Austria.

  3. Alice Fink: Family papers

    These family papers, including original correspondence, document in part the life of a German Jewish refugee.

  4. Alice G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice G., who was born in Pres?ov, Czechoslovakia, in 1924. Mrs. G. describes her youthful patriotism; her happy childhood; resistance of her teachers and parents to her desire for education; her frustrated and insecure mother; being her father's favorite child and his contribution to her "loving and non-ambivalent" religious outlook; and falling in love while in summer camp in 1938. She recalls her mother's decision, following Munich, to emigrate to the United States; antisemitic acts of the Slovaks; the family's purchase of U.S. visas; their train journey via Berlin...

  5. Alice G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice G., who was born in Spišská Stará Ves, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1923, one of six children. She recounts speaking German at home; anti-Jewish events beginning in 1939; being sent to an uncle in Spišské Podhradie, thinking it was safer; returning home; confiscation of the family store; her twin sister's death from illness; deportation with another sister to Poprad, then Auschwitz in March 1942; slave labor hauling bricks in Harmęż, then sorting clothing in Canada Kommando; transfer to Birkenau; separation from her sister; bringing her fo...

  6. Alice Gadlin papers

    The papers consist of 28 file copies of identification cards ("Kennkarte") with photographs, two file copies of identification cards without photographs, one original identification card with photograph, and two documents concerning the disposition of identification cards.

  7. Alice Goldberger collection

    The collection consists of letters, documents, photographs, drawings, and paintings relating to Alice Goldberger and the orphaned children survivors of concentration camps in her care in Lingfield, England, after the Holocaust.

  8. Alice H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice H., who was born in Warsaw, Poland. She recounts her family's emphasis on education; moving to Krako?w in 1937; marriage; German invasion; unsuccessfully attempting to flee East; joining her family in Warsaw; ghettoization; overcrowding and starvation; slave labor outside the ghetto; her father's death; her mother's deportation (she never saw her again); returning to the ghetto after escaping from a deportation train; her husband obtaining false papers and arranging their escape through his acquaintances in the Polish underground; living as Poles outside the ghe...

  9. Alice Herman papers

    Photocopied documents, from wartime Poland, for Henryk and Jadwiga Ziembinski.

  10. Alice I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice I., who was born in Rhodes, Italy (presently Greece), a twin and one of five children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; their affluence; cordial relations with Italians; attending an Italian school; expulsion in 1938 due to racial laws; attending a clandestine school; many Jews emigrating; her two older sisters living with uncles in Brussels and Paris; Allied bombings; her sisters returning because her uncles believing it safer in Rhodes; living in Ialysos for a month to escape bombings; German occupation; round-up in July 1943; a friend (an Italian officer)...

  11. Alice K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice K., who was born in Paris, France in 1930. She recalls her father's draft in September 1939; being sent to the coast with her school when Germany invaded; her mother retrieving her three months later; living in Brittany with her mother and younger, developmentally disabled sister; returning to Paris; her uncles staying with them for protection due to her mother's status as a POW wife; being sent to several places, including a convent in Auxerres, where she found solace in Catholicism; her mother leaving Paris to escape a round-up in 1942; hiding with her sister,...

  12. Alice L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice L., who was born in Brezova? pod Bradlom, Slovakia in 1926. She recounts attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; Slovak independence in March 1939; anti-Jewish legislation and harassment; her father's deportation (she never saw him again); living with an aunt in another town, then with an uncle; illegally entering Hungary with two girls; brief arrest; traveling to Budapest; reunion with her aunt, uncle, brother, and mother several weeks later; German invasion of Hungary in March 1944; obtaining papers as non-Jews; illegally entering Slovakia in...

  13. Alice Lang Rosen papers

    The collection contains seven copy gelatin silver prints of photographs made in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. Images are of Alice Lang (b. June 13, 1934); her parents, Ida Baehr Lang and Fritz Lang; her maternal grandparents, Johanna and Heinrich Baehr; and Paula Lang. Contains a French passport, which enabled Frieda Lang donor to return to Germany in April 1946; and a travel clearance document from the Western Base Section, U.S. Forces, European Theatre, issued to Frieda Lang in April 1946.

  14. Alice Lok Cahana and Surpik Angelini collection

    The collection consists of collages related to the experiences of Alice Lok Cahana and her family in Hungary, Germany, and Sweden before, during, and after the Holocaust, as well as the larger experiences of the Jewish community during the Holocaust captured by Cahana and Surpik Angelini.

  15. Alice Lok Cahana collection

    The collection consists of 2 paintings by Alice Lok Cahana.

  16. Alice Lonsdale collection

    Collection consists of 18 pre-war photographs from Austrian Jewish families, Loeffler [donor's immediate family] and Loeb [maternal relatives]. Depicted in the images are the Alice Loeffler, her brother Hans, and her parents, Alfred and Dora Loeffler, who did not survive; dated circa early 20th century; mainly in Vienna, Austria. Alice went on the Kindertransport to the United Kingdom in 1939.

  17. Alice M. Berney papers

    The papers consist of eight photographs from the children's home belonging to the Rothschild estates, "Chateau de La Guette," in France, one photograph depicting a group of girls at the École Hôtelière de Clermont Ferrand in France, and two medical certificates issued by the Comité Israélite pour les Enfants for siblings Alice and Herbert Menkes.

  18. Alice M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928. She recollects a strong Jewish influence in her childhood; the enthusiastic welcome for German troops in March 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; an uncle in Venezuela who arranged for their family to go to Trinidad; SS men coming to their home in the middle of the night on Kristallnacht, kicking her father down the stairs and arresting him; her mother arranging for his release; their departure on November 20th; and her confusion and fright. Mrs. M. tells of travel to Amsterdam, then to Trinidad; help received from the s...

  19. Alice R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice R., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1922. She recalls active participation in Hashomer Hatzair and a Jewish swim club; attending a German language gymnasium; expulsion due to antisemitism; deciding to emigrate to Israel with her youth group; her mother accompanying her and the group to Prague; her mother leaving since the border was to be closed when Slovakia was formed (she never saw her, her father, or younger sister again); traveling through Germany to debark from Marseille; attending an agricultural girls school, working, t...

  20. Alice S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1913, the youngest of three children. She recalls many injured veterans from World War I; active participation in a Zionist youth group, despite her parents' disapproval; completing studies at a private gymnasium, then medical school; her older brother and sister emigrating to join relatives in the United States; pervasive antisemitism; the Anschluss; the transformation of most Austrians into Nazis; the non-Jewish superintendent of their building protecting them during a round-up; emigration to the United States; training a...