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  1. Ellen Kaidanow collection

    Documents, photographs, and letter, related to Ellen Kaidanow (born Shifra Leviatin) and her family, and their experiences in the Dubno ghetto, in Poland, during the German occupation in World War II. In addition to documents, the collection includes a spoon.

  2. Ellen Kaufmann Boucher papers

    The Ellen Kaufmann Boucher papers include Holocaust-era and postwar correspondence addressed to Ellen in the United States from family and friends in Europe, the memoir Ellen drafted between 1988 and her death, prewar and wartime photographs of her family in Mainz, Germany, and a transcript of an interview she gave in 1995. Holocaust-era letters are addressed to Ellen primarily from her parents and sister Marianne in Mainz and relates family news and good wishes. A letter from a friend of Marianne’s in Montevideo describes an opportunity for Marianne to immigrate to Uruguay. A letter from a...

  3. Ellen M. Fine papers

    The Ellen M. Fine papers consist of Moritz Mayer's 1939 passport, Alice Mayer's 1939 passport including Ellen, and two 1941 telegrams asking for Moritz Mayer's help with Ferdinand and Bertha Simon's emigration.

  4. Ellen Nebel collection

    Contains eleven documents from Emmanuel Weinberg's employers proving employment and from the Hamburg police proving his residence in the city; twenty-five documents and one photocopy of a photographic print regarding the Weinberg family's store, J.P. Neumark; four photographic prints depicting the Weinberg family's pre-war experiences; two postcards sent to Ellen Nebel's father from Ellen Nebel's mother; three cards congratulating the Weinberg family on Ellen Nebel's birth; Ellen Nebel's report cards from the Volksschule in Hannover; and a letter from the Turkish consulate to Frau Neumark, ...

  5. Ellen P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ellen P., a non-Jew who was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1925 and who was involved in the Danish Resistance during the war. She describes the German occupation of Denmark in 1940; her involvement in underground politics in high school soon after the occupation; planning for increasingly active means of resistance; and the activities of the Resistance in warning and hiding Jews, as well as smuggling them by boat to Sweden. She speaks of collaboration with the Swedes for the rescue of Jews, including methods of sabotage and blackmail; her brothers' involvement in resc...

  6. Ellen S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ellen S., a non-Jew who was born in Bohemia. Mrs. S. describes her life in Plzen?; her limited yet positive contact with Jews; the German occupation and increasing restrictions on her freedom; her apprenticeship to a dressmaker; and her peripheral knowledge of the Jewish situation. She relates the shock of seeing a deportation train full of abused prisoners, and her thwarted attempts to feed them; her subsequent attempts to aid people when possible; and the inability of the church to address the immediate situation. She also speaks of meeting the American G.I. who was...

  7. Ellen T. Meth collection

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

  8. Ellen W. Echeverria collection

    Contains materials donated by Ellen W. Echeverria. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Ellen W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ellen W., who was born in Memel, Lithuania (presently Klaipe?da) in 1921. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her father's death; the family's move to Kaunas in 1939; German invasion in 1941; Lithuanian pogroms; she and her family being saved by their concierge; the disappearance of two brothers; learning they were shot by Lithuanians; ghettoization; a selection in October 1941 in which her mother, brother, and uncle's family were taken (she never saw them again); forced labor outside the ghetto; bartering for food with Lithuanians; working with her sister in a brick ...

  11. Eller family collection

    Two letters and one envelope from Leon "Melamet" (donor's paternal uncle, brother of donor's father Charles), Sabina (donor's paternal aunt, sister of Charles and Leon) is mentioned in the letters. Three photographs: one of Sabina and the other two are unknown. Marriage certificate: for Fritz and Dora Feiler (Charles's second wife/donor's step mother) issued in Vienna, Austria in 1938

  12. Elli Kamm: personal papers on Terezin ghetto

    This collection contains the personal papers of Elli Kamm relating to her and her sister's restitution claim.Personal papers Including restitution papers, eyewitness testimonies, Elli Kamm's 'Arbeitsbuch' and various work references.English, German

  13. Ellinor Adler: Family documents

    This collection of family documents describes the plight of a Viennese family: an aryan woman, her Jewish husband and their daughter. In addition to some original documentation, there are 2 personal accounts by the mother, Maria Goldschmied, which cover the period from the arrival of the Nazis to the 1970s when she used to still visit her native Austria. Of particular interest are the memoirs at 1319/11-12 and material relating to Alwin Goldschmied's arrest, including a visitor's pass allowing his wife to visit him in prison which was retained and used to rebut official denials that he was ...

  14. Elliot L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elliot L., who was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1925. He recalls moving to Paris with his family in 1928; returning to Sofia in 1937; enactment of anti-Jewish laws; expulsion of Jews from Sofia; relocating with his family to Ki?u?stendil; continuing to attend school; preparing for deportation which never occurred; and liberation by Soviet troops in September 1944. Mr. L. recounts studying engineering in Sofia; affiliation with Zionist organizations; an illegal attempt to emigrate to Palestine in 1947; incarceration in Cyprus when the ship was intercepted by the British;...

  15. Elliott S. Mandelman collection

    Contains correspondence written from family members in the Warsaw Ghetto, Sanok, and Przemyśl, Poland to Murray and Rose Sobel Mandelman (donor's parents) who were able to escape to the United State. Also includes one piece of scrip from the Łódź ghetto.

  16. Ellis Gordon collection

    Invitation Card to a Gala Concert to aid the Danish Refugees in Sweden at the Metropolitan Opera House held on Thursday evening, February 17th, 1944. Lists participating artists, prices, special guests, contact for tickets. "There are about 11,000 Danish Refugees in Sweden who have fled Gestapo terror, they must be fed, clothed, housed until Denmark is free again. Denmark is not yet in the Nation-wide National War Fund Drive, as this unfortunately was closed before the latest tragedy to our country occurred, therefore this Benefit Concert has been arranged by Lauritz Melchior to help reliev...

  17. Ellsworth Kelly sculpture

    Ellsworth Kelly site specific sculpture commissioned by the United States Holocaust memorial Museum Art in Public Spaces program. The Art for Public Spaces Program was established to commission works of artistic merit that address the singularity of the Museum and contribute to the visitor's experience of the Museum in ways that are substantial and distinct from the permanent or special exhibitions. Four site-specific works of art, 'Memorial' being among them, were chosen by an independent jury comprised of contemporary art curators and specialists. The subcommittee included Holocaust survi...

  18. Ellsworth R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ellsworth R., who was born in New Haven, Connecticut in approximately 1924. He recalls military draft in 1943; assignment to the 26th Infantry Division; landing in England; combat in France; large numbers of casualties and injuries; an attack by Hitler Youth in Alsace; fighting in partnership with French Moroccan troops; encountering French and Belgian forced laborers in a work camp; coming upon SS troops shooting into a burning barrack which they later learned was occupied by Romanies; taking no prisoners after that episode; finding a train full of Jewish prisoners, ...

  19. Elly Bollegraaf fonds

    Fonds consists of two parliamentary letters from MPP Naqvi and Preimer McGuinty; a photo album of photos from the "A Coat of Many Colours" exhibit; a photo album of photos from the first international gathering of children hidden during the Second World War, 1991; a photo album of photos of "The Courage to Remember" exhibit 1991; a photo album of photos from the Leo Haas "Visual Memory" exhibit; 3 packets of photographs; a card sent to Elly from Anna Heilman, an Auschwitz survivor

  20. Elly G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elly G., who was born in Simleul-Silvaniei, Romania in 1929. She recalls her brother's birth in 1939; Hungarian occupation in 1940; anti-Jewish laws; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion (they never saw him again); ghettoization in spring 1944; a woman giving birth and a man dying during transport to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother and brother (she never saw them again); remaining with a cousin; her cousin getting her a privileged kitchen job; transfer to another camp; slave labor in a factory; illness from fumes in the factory (she...