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  1. Moser family papers

    The papers consist of handwritten and typed postcards and letters written by a Jewish family, the Arnhelms, in Berlin, Germany, to relatives in the United States as well as a typewritten genealogy of German Jewish family starting with "Karl Moses, geb 15.9.93zu Kolberg, mosaisch, Preus."

  2. Moser family papers

    Contains letters and documents related to the Moser family's move from Berlin to Shanghai and lists of material items taken with them to Shanghai.

  3. Moser, Mentona

    Bestandsbeschreibung Biographische Angaben: Mitglied des ZK der KP der Schweiz und des ZK der Schweizer Sektion der IRH (1921-1924); Übernahme der Treuhandschaft für Gebäude und Einrichtungen der KPD in Berlin (1926); antifaschistische Tätigkeit u. a. in der Schweiz und in Frankreich (1933-1944) Bestandsbeschreibung: Biographisches; Artikel, Manuskripte u. a. über die Einrichtung eines Kinderheimes für Emigrantenkinder in der UdSSR, über Solidaritätsaktionen Schweizer Arbeiter für deutsche Antifaschisten und über Fritz Platten; Tagebuch 1946-1962; Korrespondenzen mit Familienangehörigen sow...

  4. Moses and DeGroot families photographs

    The collection contains pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Moses and DeGroot families in the Netherlands.

  5. Moses and Esther Goldberg photographs

    Consists of three original post-war photographs and two copyprints of Moses and Esther Glodowska Goldberg, both of whom were originally from Poland. Includes small portraits of both Moses and Esther, a portrait of Esther taken in the Pocking displaced persons camp, and two copyprints of Moses working as a baker. The copyprints show that Moses had been given a tattoo on his right forearm.

  6. Moses and Mainzer families collection

    The collection consists of documents and correspondence, a Pentateuch, ID cards, and passports relating to the experiences of Meta Moses and Fritz Mainzer before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  7. Moses and Mania Leinwand family collection

    The collection consists of a wallet, documents, a manuscript, photographs, and a publication relating to the experiences of Moses and Mania Pfeffer Leinwand before and during the Holocaust in and near Przemyslany, Poland, where they lived in hiding, and after the Holocaust in Deggendorf displaced persons camp, as well as a copy of a siddur written while in hiding by Moishe Boruchowicz (Borochovitch) of Dzelechov (likely Zelechow), Poland.

  8. Moses and Miriyam Goldshmidt collection

    Testimony, circa 60 pages, typescript, titled "From the Abyss to Freedom: The Story of a Survivor of the Death Camps, 1939-1945," by Moshe Goldschmidt, composed in Hebrew. Describes pre-war life in Bialystok, invasion and occupation by Soviets, then Germans; life in Bialystok ghetto, then a succession of camps (Belzec, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Gusen). Accompanying account of Miriam Goldschmidt (95 pages, handwritten, in notebook) is also in Hebrew. Miriam describes family's life in eastern Slovakia, then Hungary, followed by German occupation, deportation to camps including Stutthof. Also a c...

  9. Moses and Posen families collection

    The collection consists of materials such as documents, photographs and correspondence, as well as embossed or inscribed books and some objects, like a game and bib, that all document the experiences of Lotte Moses Grunwald (1915-2001) and members of the Moses and Posen families. There are also some documents related to the Grunwald family.

  10. Moses and Ruth Rontal collection

    Consists of scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, books, family tree information and clippings regarding the life and Holocaust experiences of Moses and Ruth Rontal. Moses, originally of Vilna, was the chief cantor in Radom prior to the war; he lost his wife and daughter in the Holocaust, survived several concentration camps, and met Ruth Gold, who also lost her husband and children in the Holocaust, in the Dachau concentration camp. They married in Stuttgart in April 1946 and arrived in the United States in May 1946, where Moses Rontal continued his work as a cantor. Includes photographs of ...

  11. Moses and Wolf Blau: short biographical statements

    It is not known in which context these two original signed statements by Moses Blau and his son Wolf, German Jewish refugees in Amsterdam were made. However the formal presentation and details contained therein suggest that the document was created as part of a process of registration possibly with the Dutch authorities or a Jewish relief organisation.

  12. Moses B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1909. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment; having to work after his bar mitzvah to help support his family; studying before and after work; German invasion; being rounded-up with other men and tortured for three days; his release when his family paid a ransom; his father visiting another town (he never saw him again); ghettoization; his mother's death from starvation; assignment of Mordecai Rumkowski's and David Gertler's adopted children to his work detail; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; tran...

  13. Moses Berkowitz manuscript relating to the Jewish community of Woronowa

    Contains information about the Jewish community in Voronovo (Woronowa), Belarus, before and during the German occupation of World War II. Also contains information about the fate of Jews in nearby Lithuania.

  14. Moses D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses D., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1933, the oldest of four children. He remembers their affluence; a maid caring for the younger children; separation from their parents when they were placed on a train in July 1939; adults from the kindertransport accompanying them to London; being met by an uncle and aunt; his younger siblings being sent to foster homes; briefly staying in a hostel; living with his uncle and aunt; close calls during the blitzkrieg; visiting his siblings; antisemitic and anti-German harassment; learning his parents had left Germany; his un...

  15. Moses F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses F., who was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1930, one of ten children. He recalls his family moving to Hajdúhadház; their orthodoxy; his father working as a teacher; his mother's business selling milk; his older brothers' draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; an older sister moving to Budapest; round-up with his parents and younger sister to the Hajdúhadház ghetto in spring 1944; his bar mitzvah there; transfer to the Debrecen ghetto; deportation to Austria; a forester taking his family, including cousins, aunts, and uncles, to cut trees; having to fill ...

  17. Moses K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses K., who was born in Drohobych, Ukraine (then Poland) in 1918. He recalls leaving public school after third grade due to anti-Semitic treatment; working at odd jobs; visiting an uncle in Lv?iv after his bar mitzvah; traveling a circuitous route for months to Palestine with assistance from people in Constant?a, Budapest, Salonica, and I?zmir;imprisonment in Acre for illegally entering Palestine; transfer to a prison in Jerusalem; his release through the intercession of a rabbi; working for the British; stealing arms for the Haganah; working in several places; and ...

  18. Moses Kirschner collection

    Certificate: laminated, issued to Moses Kirschner (donor's father) by the International Information Office Dachau; states that he was "detained in Dachau" from July 15, 1944 until April 29, 1945, and was assigned prisoner number 81204; photograph of bear attached; issued May 14, 1946.

  19. Moses L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912, a Polish citizen and one of three children. He recounts attending public school; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; visiting his wife's family in Os?wie?cim in 1938; Poland revoking his Polish citizenship; being declared stateless; hiding during Kristallnacht; obtaining visas for the United States; being ordered to leave Germany; arrest with his father; his release because he had a U.S. visa; his father's deportation to Sachsenhausen; one sister's emigration to England; deportation to Sachsenhausen; staying in the ...

  20. Moses M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses M., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1923, the oldest of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder and public school; his bar mitzvah; leaving school at thirteen to work in his parents' bakery; working in his uncle's bakery in ?o?dz?; German invasion; returning home; ghettoization; forced labor in a glass factory; having to stay in the factory while the ghetto was liquidated (he never saw his family again); transfer to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a HASAG munitions factory; digging anti-tank trenches in 1944; trans...