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  1. Alice S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recalls her family's affluence; attending school until 1936; her sister's emigration to England; nursing training in a children's home, then the Jewish hospital; an uncle who worked there arranging for the removal of her name from deportation lists (her brother was deported and killed); meeting her future husband, who was hiding in Berlin (his mother was a non-Jew); liberation by Soviet troops; continuing to work with children at the hospital; learning her future husband's father had died in Theresienstadt; visiti...

  2. Alice Samson collection

    Consists of original and digital documents and photographs related to the life of Suse Lore Alice Samson (later known as Alice Samson), originally of Edesheim, Germany. Includes Alice's written testimony, copies of documents and photographs, and correspondence regarding her attempts to find out the fates of her family and restitution for lost property. Includes correspondence with the International Tracing Service, the Red Cross, and various attorneys, the latter including both personal compensation claims and the class-action suit against the French national railway, the SNCF.

  3. Alice Spruyt. Collection

    This collection consists of : a Megillah Esther, the scroll containing the book of Esther which is read twice during the Purim fest and which was rescued by Marcel Bracke from a Jewish home near the Antwerp city park in 1942 ; a copy of Marcel Bracke’s post-war forced labourer recognition card.

  4. Alice Stern papers

    Consists of personal papers of Alice Stern that relate to her emigration from Germany to the United States. Among the documents are affidavits from family members; correspondence with the American Consulate in Stuttgart, Germany; and documents concerning Alice Stern's finances at the time of her emigration.

  5. Alice Stern: Jewish id card

    Jewish Identification Card of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia "Allgemeine Bürgerliche Legitimation" was issued 4 Nov 1940, it has a red "J" stamp in it, the date of the evacuation 31 Oct. 1941 and the marriage notice with Mr. Eckstein, dated 5 May 1942.German and Czech 

  6. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Heroine of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Alice Lidell Hargreaves honored at the Columbia University by its President Nicholas Murray Butler.

  7. Alicia Altmueller collection

    The Alicia Altmueller collection consists of three letters written in August 1947 by three survivors requesting assistance (warm clothing, shoes, physical support) from Mr. J. Garfinkel, Kiever Independent Unterstuzung Verein (KIUV). The three survivors wrote KIUV on behalf of themselves, family and friends from Campo Adriatico IRO, Milan DP. The IRO supported camp was also referred to as Transit Camp Bari, located in Apulia. Names in the letters are as follows: Miriam Kegen along with unnamed husband and daughter, Aron Bakalchuk and Lucy Bakalchuk, Girsch Goberman and Sonia Goberman (née T...

  8. Alicia Fajnsztejn Weinsberg collection

    Consists of a purse owned by the donor's aunt and kept by Alicia Weinsberg in hiding; a Russian affidavit for Jakob Fajnsztejn (the donor's grandfather); seven postcards from the Warsaw ghetto; one letter and envelope from the ghetto; one Red Cross letter from the ghetto; two identity cards; three false birth certificates; and one letter from the American Consul General in Sweden. Also includes other materials concerning the wartime experiences of the donor's family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Alicia Wassertheil collection

    Identity card of Alicia Wassertheil's grandmother; collection of photographs pertaining to Ms. Wassertheil [donor] and her family in Krakow (prewar and post-war), period newspaper.

  10. Alina Rindler collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Alina Rindler shortly after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  11. Alina Skibinska collection

    Consists of one black and white photograph bearing an image of three men standing in front of a building and ditch; verso, handwritten in graphite in the upper right corner is "1952-894" and handwritten in ink at the upper center is "Pustkow - Lager/IX.1941/mit 2 Judenrat (tlern)." Photograph is of the Pustków slave labor camp, Poland.

  12. Alina Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alina Z., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922. She recalls attending an ORT school; German invasion; ghettoization; hunger and round-ups; marriage in 1941; jumping from a train to Treblinka with her husband, having been warned by a Pole of their destination; hiding with a farmer; returning to Warsaw because they feared exposure; living on the Aryan side; returning to her parents in the ghetto because of blackmail threats; hiding in bunkers during the uprising; and deportation to Majdanek in May 1943 and Birkenau several months later. Mrs. Z. recalls her realization...

  13. Alisa Tennenbaum collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Alisa Tennenbaum and her family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  14. Alison Owings collection

    Correspondence, transcripts, audiorecordings, clippings, reviews, and other research and editorial materials created and/or collected by Alison Owings, during the research, writing, and publication of her book "Frauen: Women in the Third Reich" (Rutgers University Press, 1993). Collection includes transcripts of interviews and interview notes; audiorecordings; correspondence with interviewees, scholars, and others who were involved with or advised on the research; and correspondence, reviews, and other material related to the publication of the book.

  15. Alix Preece: personal account

    This collection consists of the personal account of Alix Preece, a German Jewish refugee who had been living in France since 1927 and spent most of the duration of the Second World War there. She was interned for several months at Gurs before moving on to Marseilles where she was hoping to get a Brazilian visa to join her family. As her visa extension was refused she eventually managed to go to Portugal and from there to Algiers where she met her future husband. In her eyewitness account she provides a detailed description of the conditions at the camps in Gurs and Pompart, Marseille. Also ...

  16. Aliza B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aliza B., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in approximately 1928. She recalls a happy childhood among her large, extended family; German invasion in April 1941; anti-Jewish measures; her brother's escape; ghettoization; her brother's return; their deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents (she never saw them again) and brother; the smell of "burning meat"; learning of the gas chambers and crematoria; selection for specious medical experiments and surgery performed by Josef Mengele, Horst Schumann, Wladyslaw Dering, and Carl Clauberg; recoveri...

  17. Aliza Bar collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and photographs related to the experience of Aliza Bar, who was a hidden child in Poland, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  18. Aliza R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aliza R., who was born in Zbaraz?, Poland (presently Zbaraz?h?, Ukraine). She describes life in a wealthy, politically aware family; attending secular school; attending law school at the University of Krako?w; marriage to another attorney; and life as a successful professional couple in the Warsaw area. She relates her journey from Warsaw to Zbaraz? at the outbreak of the war during which her daughter was born in a farmer's house; living in Zbaraz? under the Russian occupation; her feeling they should leave Poland prior to the German invasion; her refusal to register ...

  19. Alkalay family photographs

    The Alkalay family photographs consists of two photographs of members of the Alkalay family in Bulgaria. One photograph taken in Haskovo, Bulgaria, dated July 1943, depicts Lora Alkalay with two friends, Suzi and Mali, eating bread and butter given to them by Suzi’s father who worked as a baker during the war. All three girls are wearing the Jewish Star of David badge. The second photograph depicts Nissim Alkalay with his friend, Jacques Safonov, in front a Balkan building opposite the palace of the King in Sofia, Bulgaria.

  20. Alkis Keramidas collection

    This collection consists of three drawings, one watercolor painting and one oil painting created by Alkis (Alkiviades) Keramidas immediately after World War II, depicting German retaliation aktion in Greece.