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  1. Jeanne Daman Scaglione collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, photographs, slides, sound recordings, and sheets of unused Star of David badges relating to the experiences of Jeanne Daman and her efforts to rescue Jewish residents of Belgium and to resist the German occupation of that country during World War II, as well as her postwar work in the United States with the United Jewish Appeal.

  2. Jeanne Glibert. Collection

    This collection consists of an interview with Jeanne Glibert. In her testimony Jeanne talks about her youth, the beginning of the war as she fled with friends, living under occupation in Antwerp, traitors who snitched on Jews, Jewish youth friends Betti Van Hamberg, Claudine Van Hamberg and Irène Brandes, and about Jewish links after the war.

  3. Jeanne Rothschild collection

    Contains correspondence and documents relating to the donor's father's internment in Camp Gurs and Les Milles: drawings made by Gurs inmates in 1939; documentation of attempts to obtain visas; photographs taken by donor's husband while in Germany with the U.S. Army, some from Dachau taken two days after liberation; documents from the Red Cross International Tracing Service concerning the donor's mother's twin sister and older brother; and a sound cassette of the donor's oral testimony.

  4. Jeanne Thomas Bell papers

    The collection includes the following British newspapers: Daily Mirror, August 28, 1939 Evening Standard, April 16, 1945 Sunday Pictorial, May 13, 1945

  5. Jeannette Hahlo papers

    The collection includes a post-war letter and diary kept by Jeannette "Jet" Hahlo during her time in Germany where she served as an interpreter with the United States government during the Nuremberg trials. The diary consists of transcribed correspondence written by Jet to her sister, Sylvia Hahlo.

  6. Jeannette Hammer Kaufmann memoir

    Consists of a photocopy of a memoir, 20 pages, written soon after the end of the war by Jeannette Hammer Kaufmann, originally of Vienna, Austria. Married with two sons prior the war, she describes life after the Anschluss, their attempts to emigrate and being sent to the Opole ghetto in 1941. The family was able to escape from Opole to join Jeannette's parents in the Kunów ghetto. The family then moved to Bodzechów, where Jeannette's husband found a job as a chauffeur at a labor camp; Jeannette describes witnessing the liquidation of Kunów as they were leaving the ghetto and the residents w...

  7. Jeannette Nadle papers

    The Jeannette Nadle papers consists of Jeannette Nadle’s passport, 1947-1948; a testament of Jeannette’s wartime experiences in Belgium, November 30, 1947; and a memoir written by Jeannette Nadle in 1994. The memoir describes Jeannette’s experiences as a hidden child in Belgium and member of the Resistance during World War II.

  8. Jeannette Olson collection

    Consists of a photograph of Jeannette Gerstl with her parents: Pauline and Wilhelm Gerstl, sitting on a bench, dated 1941, location: Nice, France; and a photograph of Emile Lasfarques and Jeannette Gerstl in the garden of the Lasfargues family, who had hidden and kept Jeannette for a year, dated: c. fall 1943; location: Antibes, France.

  9. Jeannine A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeannine A., who was born in Paris, France in 1932. She recalls the outbreak of war; her father's military draft; moving, with her mother and brother, to Avignon to join her father when he was decommissioned; being told not to reveal they were Jewish; assuming a false name; their parents placing them with a Catholic woman in Saint-Geniez-d'Olt, who was unaware they were Jewish; participating in Catholic services; attending public school; returning to their parents when the daughter suspected they were Jews; meeting their infant brother; their parents placing them in L...

  10. Jecheskiel and Gertrude Rottholz Steinfink collection

    Photograph of Klara Steinfink (donor's paternal grandmother); photograph of Klara Steinfink's tombstone in Vienna, Austria; photograph of clothing store that belonged to donor's paternal grandfather. They are pictured in front of the store with their sons Owen (donor's father) and Alan; a prayer book from November 13, 1920 from a Bar Mitzvah that was saved by Owen.

  11. JEDWAB, Henryk [memoirs of Poland 1918-1945]

    The fonds consists of 48-page typed memoir (photocopy) about his life in Poland, service in Polish army during World War II, Holocaust experiences, relations with Catholic faith in Poland. Memoir includes photocopies of photos. Originals are with the author.

  12. Jefferson Patterson travels by car through countryside

    Germany. River boats. Jefferson Patterson and his mother Mrs. Carnell on front steps of a house, garden, American flag. Massive ocean liner moves slowly through a harbor in Bremen. Men and women wave at the ship. Various shots of the city, riverboats in the water. Nazi flag in a square. Dresden Cathedral. Terrassenufer Street, Dresden courthouse. The Carolabrücke Bridge and the Albertbrücke Bridge. Saxon State Chancellery. Konigstein Fortress. Elbe River. Cars in lot. People walking. Views from the Konigstein Fortress, people gathered at lookout, including German and Nazi soldiers. Boats on...

  13. Jeffrey Bryan collection

    Documents and photographs concerning Rudi Britzmann's (donor's father) experiences in Nazi occupied Germany; in the United Kingdom; on board the ship "Dunera"; in the Hay and Tatura camps in Australia; and as a post-war war crimes investigator and participant in the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Includes photographs of Lore Koenigshoffer (donor's mother) in pre-war Germany and war-time United Kingdom.

  14. Jeffrey Cymbler collection

    Collection contains one copy of the 1943 German Census of all Jews residing in Bedzin, Poland, taken by the Gestapo; list totals 22,174 names.

  15. Jeffrey Cymbler photographs

    Consists of family photographs from the collection of Jeffrey Cymbler. Includes photographs of the Cymbler family in pre-war Be̜dzin, photographs of the Leizorek family, who immigrated from Be̜dzin to Buenos Aires in 1940, and photographs of war-torn Be̜dzin. Please also see 1997.A.0119 for more information on the Cymbler family.

  16. Jehiel Weinberg letter

    Consists of one letter, written by Rabbi Dr. Jehiel Weinberg, undated but circa 1946, to Dr. Marcus Cohen in Basel, Switzerland. In the letter, Rabbi Weinberg, the pre-war principal of the Hildesheimer Seminary in Berlin, writes about the wartime loss of his private library and asks his friend whether the Joint Distribution Committee might be able to assist him in acquiring some Jewish books recovered from Nazi plunder.

  17. Jehovah's Witnesses

    A documentary about the fate of the Kusserow family in Germany during WWII. They are Jehovah's Witnesses.

  19. Jehuda and Pola Stopnicki papers

    The papers consist of documents and 21 photographs relating to the experiences of Jehuda and Pola Stopnicki (donors' parents) during and after the Holocaust. Includes restitution papers and correspondence; testimonies of Jehuda and Pola Stopnicki's and their families' experiences; poems written by Jehuda Stopnicki shortly before her wedding; and family photographs from before World War II, while living as displaced persons in France, and after their immigration to Israel and later to Bolivia.

  20. Jehuda Feitelson collection

    Consists of documents illustrating Jehuda Feitelson's experiences immediately following his liberation from concentration camps, 1945-1947.