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  1. Jacob Mosberg collection

    Contains one identification card for Jakob Moszberg indicating that he had been a prisoner in Sachsenhasen and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, one notice to Jacob Moszberg (now Mosberg) from the Ministry of Interior of Lower Saxony, a photocopy of Jacob Moszberg and Charlotte Moszberg's marriage certificate from the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, and one identification card for Jakob Moszberg issued by Dr. Solomon Barash, Director Emigration Service AJDC Bremen.

  2. Jacob O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob O., who was born in S?awko?w, Poland in 1921. He recalls growing up in an assimilated family; German invasion; mass killings; fleeing to Olsztyn with his family; returning to S?awko?w; ghettoization; forced labor; his brother volunteering to replace a young father for deportation in January 1940 (he was killed in a camp); arranging a hiding place for his parents with help from a non-Jewish friend; escaping with his family to Strzemieszyce; forced labor in Sagan; his sister arranging a privileged job in the kitchen for him with help from a German; working as a Bl...

  3. Jacob P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob P., who was born in Viseu de Jos, Romania in 1926, the youngest of eight children. He recalls his family's poverty; attending Jewish and Romanian schools; Hungarian occupation; German occupation in 1944; transfer to a ghetto in a larger town; deportation several months later with his family to Auschwitz; separation from all but one brother; transfer to Birkenau; his brother helping him; their transfer to Doernhau, Wu?stegiersdorf, and Waldenburg; separation from his brother in Flo?ssenburg; evacuation of the camp in April 1945; disappearance of the guards; and l...

  4. Jacob R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob R., who was born in L?vov, Poland in 1929. He recalls his large, extended family; German invasion of Poland in 1939; Soviet occupation; attending school; the German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941; being sent, with his older sister, on a train to Kiev in the care of a Jewish family (he never saw his parents again); Soviet soldiers removing men and boys from the train; being left with only the boys when all the men of draft age were taken by the Soviet army; receiving food from local people; finding his sister in Kiev; fleeing to Dnipropetrovsk? two weeks...

  5. Jacob R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob R., who was born in Dobromyl?, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) in 1906. He recalls speaking Yiddish and German at home; his mother's death; his father's service in the first World War; abuse by Russian forces; becoming part of Poland after the war; antisemitism; moving to Berlin in 1926; the emigration of two siblings to Palestine; living in Ostende and Antwerp; expulsion because he was Polish; moving to Barcelona; burying dead from the civil war; moving to Paris in April 1939; German invasion; traveling to Orle?ans, Bordeaux, and Toulouse; arrest ...

  6. Jacob Reimer and Gustawa Zabramna Tenenbaum collection

    The collection consists of letters sent to Jacob Reimer from parents in Europe. Jacob Reimer had immigrated in December 1939. Also includes a recording, tag, documents related to mother's cousin Gustawa Zabramna Tenenbaum and photographs.

  7. Jacob Reinbach collection

    Consists of seven original photographs of an unknown camp liberation (most likely Buchenwald). Contains images of both survivors and open mass graves.

  9. Jacob Rutstein collection

    The collection consists of 13 coins and a hand-made tobacco pouch found at Dachau concentration camp post-liberation.

  10. Jacob S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob S., who was born in Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, Russia (presently Poland) in 1912, one of fourteen children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder and a Polish school; a brother's emigration to France (he survived); working as a carpenter from age twelve; employment by a German who protected him after German invasion; escaping to Warsaw; a non-Jew conveying messages to and from his family; traveling to Czyz?ewo, then Bia?ystok in the Soviet-occupied zone; paying a non-Jew to bring his wife and daughter to him; moving to Cheli?a?binsk; continuing to work ...

  11. Jacob Samuel collection

    Collection of papers including an image of the testimonial in recognition of Jacob Samuel's service to the Jewish community in Stettin; letter of congratulations on his 25th wedding anniversary

  12. Jacob Silvermintz papers

    Documents related to the post-war experiences of Jacob Silvermintz (aka Jakob Silberminz), originally of Szkosin, Poland; issued while he was living as a displaced person in and around Munich, Germany, 1945-1949. Includes identification cards, including those certifying that he had previously been a prisoner at Buchenwald; residence permits; health documents; and letters of reference related to his apprenticeship as an auto mechanic at a number of German companies after 1945, including Robert Bosch, GmbH. Includes his typescript memoir, 71 pages, entitled "I'm Still Here: The Story of Jacob...

  13. Jacob Vogel collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Jacob Vogel. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  14. Jacob W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob W., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1914, the youngest of eight children. He recalls life in a vibrant Jewish community; working in his father's fur business; anti-Semitic actions by local Poles; German invasion in September 1939; SS atrocities and killings; and deportation to Buchenwald in October with 3,200 Poles, less than 100 of which were Jewish. Mr. W. details in depth conditions in Buchenwald: camp organization; formation of the underground; relations among prisoners from many countries, including Russian POWs; camp songs; abusive forced labor and beatin...

  15. Jacob W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob W., who was born in Wolbrom, Poland in 1920. He recalls antisemitism from 1936 to 1939; friendships with non-Jews; German invasion; expulsion from school; a mass killing in a forest which included his brother; his other brother's death in the Polish army; transport to Auschwitz; and separation from his parents whom he never saw again. He describes transfer after three weeks to Auenrode; cruel treatment of many by a kapo who had been a family friend; a German civilian worker who saved his life; a friend's subterfuge which provided extra time for Mr. W. in the inf...

  16. Jacob Wolf collection

    Consists of one document, 4 pages, handwritten by Jacob (Jake) Wolf on May 27, 1992. In the document, Mr. Wolf writes about his experiences as a German speaking American soldier during World War II, including his memories of the liberation of Buchenwald.

  17. Jacob Wolman collection

    Contains documents relating to the investigation of war crimes in Poland.

  18. Jacob Wuehl: Family correspondence

    This collection consists of letters received by Jakob Wühl in London from members of his family, German speaking Jews of Polish nationality, who lived in Leipzig. Also included is correspondence between other family members. The family became victims of the 'Polen-Aktion', a series of expulsions and deportations in the earlier stages of the Holocaust. These events precede the November pogroms and never attracted much international attention despite the brutality involved. The collection thus highlights an early phase of the persecution of Jews which seems largely forgotten and overshadowed ...

  19. Jacob Yessenow collection

    The collection consists of photographs: post-liberation images of victims in the former Mauthausen concentration camp. Images include piles of bodies in wagons, laid and waiting to be buried and placed in mass graves by local Austrian bystanders. Also included is a view of the camp and interior barracks where surviving victims still remained; dated circa May 1945. Photographs belonged to Jacob Yessenow (donor's father) a member of the US Army's 11th Armored Division. The collection also includes two cameras used by Jacob Yessenow to take photographs of victims in the former Mauthausen conce...

  20. Jacobo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacobo B., who was born in Ma?kow Mazowiecki, Poland in 1926. He recalls attending Jewish and secular schools; stoning by Polish children; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; work in a forced labor camp, then with his father in the Mako?w ghetto; transfer to the M?awa ghetto; some relatives' deportation to Treblinka; deportation to Auschwitz with his mother, father, and sister; gender separation upon arrival (he never saw them again); digging canals in Birkenau; separation from his father upon transfer to Auschwitz; hospitalization; help from a Polish doctor; r...