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  1. Jenny Gutwirth. Collection

    In this interview Jenny Gutwirth talks about: her family fleeing Italy and surviving the war in Switzerland ; the survival story of her husband Emmanuel Neustetel, including the fate of his father Mojzesz Neustetel as a forced labourer in France, going into hiding in Laeken and Emmanuel’s band with his rescuer Frans Verbiest.

  2. Jenny L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jenny L., who was born in Aleksinac, Yugoslavia in 1927, the younger of two children. She recounts a kind kindergarten teacher; moving to Belgrade; her father's military conscription in spring 1941; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; a public execution; her brother's escape to Italian-occupied Croatia; reporting to a German round-up; escaping when she saw her friend killed, leaving her mother and grandmother; traveling to an aunt's home in Niš (she worked for the underground); obtaining false papers; living with her former kindergarten teacher; hiding partisa...

  3. Jenny R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jenny R., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1919 to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. She recounts her mother's death in 1923; placement in a children's home where she was very unhappy; returning to her father; expulsion from school in 1933 due to anti-Jewish laws, although she did not consider herself Jewish; her father's arrest in summer 1933; visiting him in prison; his transfer to a concentration camp, then his release; difficulty obtaining and keeping jobs due to racial laws; having to prove that her mother was an "Aryan"; rumors of gas chambers and killi...

  4. Jenny S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jenny S., who was born in 1926 in Vienna, Austria, an only child. She recalls an comfortable and happy life; warm Sabbath and holiday observances; changes, particularly after the Anchluss; her father's arrest and release; eviction from their apartment; her father's second arrest (she never saw him again); her mother registering her for emigration to the United States; leaving Vienna in May 1941; spending three days in Berlin with her mother and her friend Louise prior to leaving; their painful departure (she never saw her again); traveling with Louise; a ship voyage f...

  5. Jenny Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jenny Z., who was born in Dzia?oszyce, Poland. She recalls living in Da?browa Go?rnicza; hostility toward Jewish businesses; German invasion; hiding in Czeladz?; arrest; incarceration in Sosnowiec; transfer to Oberaltstadt where she met her two sisters; slave labor in a textile factory; frequent selections; enduring prolonged appels; her younger sister's transfer (she did not survive); a Red Cross visit; severe punishment when her diary was discovered; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; a hostile response from the local Poles; meeting her future husband who ...

  6. Jeno Klein postcards

    The Jeno Klein postcards consists of three postcards writen by Jeno Klein (maiden name Szerena Reich), addressed to Tibor Klein, written two days before and on the day of deportation from Budapest (23 Beniczky Street, Ujpest), in July 1944.

  7. Jenohedgy Szerdahelyvi postcard

    The postcard was written by Jenohedgy Szerdahelyvi to Janos Szerdahelyvi in Hungary.

  8. Jeremiah (Jerry) Tax papers

    Correspondence from Jeremiah (Jerry) Tax to his wife, Deborah, and to his parents, Clara and Ben, while Tax was stationed with the 71st Infantry Division, U.S. Army, in the European Theatre, World War II. Includes correspondence describing Tax's impressions of occupied Germany and Austria and of liberated concentration camps, as well as newspaper clippings, a greeting card, and a booklet titled "The 71st Came to Gunskirchen Lager," commissioned by Maj. General Willard G. Woman, for which Tax authored piece titled "And Afterwards . . .." Also includes a map of the 71st Infantry Division's mo...

  9. Jerold F. Majerus collection

    The collection consists of military scrip, documents, autobiographical text, and printed materials relating to the experiences of Jerold F. Majerus, during his service with the U.S. Army, in the 6827th Military Detachment, as part of the stenographic support staff of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-1946.

  10. Jerome Balmuth collection

    Collection of Jerome Balmuth related to his military service including: US Army documents, two "Letters on Record," and photographs. Also included are photographs of Jerome Balmuth as a child with his parents, his graduation photo from Amherst and a program from his graduation, and a photograph of Prof. Balmuth teaching at Colgate in 1975.

  11. Jerome Gitelson memoir

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 6 pages, describing Oskar Glick, a Jew from Austria who came to Lithuania, where the author (Jerome Gitelson) met him in Vilnius. Notes activities of Glick that helped save numerous Jews.

  12. Jerome Ney papers

    Correspondence, documents, telegrams, and related materials concerning the efforts of Jerome Ney, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, to help relatives emigrate from Germany between 1938 and 1941. Relatives included his second cousin, Herbert Neu, and Neu’s parents and sister, Sigmund, Carola, and Ellinor, who were able to immigrate to the United States, due to Ney’s efforts; as well as Jerome Ney’s paternal aunt, Emma David, and her four daughters, who were unable to leave Germany and perished in the Holocaust. Includes correspondence with relatives, government agencies, aid organizations, immigratio...

  13. Jerome Reisberg collection

    Contains photographs of post-liberation Nordhausen and Dachau concentration camps acquired by Capt. Jerome L. Reisberg, DDS of the US Army.

  14. Jerome S. Buser collection

    Consists of notebooks, documents, and clippings from the collection of Jerome S. Buser, who was given intelligence gathering and German language training at Carleton College in Minnesota during World War II. This training was done for eventual espionage wherein Mr. Buser would be dropped behind enemy lines to pose as a German businessman. The notebooks contain notes from history, geography, and language classes, demonstrating the training one received for future espionage activities. Due to the end of the war in Europe, Mr. Buser was never deployed overseas. Also includes seven small German...

  15. Jerrit A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jerrit A., who was born in Amsterdam in 1909. He describes aspects of prewar life in the Jewish section of Amsterdam; the beginnings of anti-Jewish legislation and forced labor; being rounded up, with his wife and three children, by the SA and taken to Westerbork; his separation from his wife and children, when he was forcibly removed from the deportation train (which continued to Auschwitz, where his family was killed); and being taken as a slave laborer to Cosel, in Silesia. He speaks of his transfer to Niederkirch, where most of the prisoners were also Dutch; to Se...

  16. Jerry and Esther Besser collection

    The collection consists of correspondence from the International Tracing Service of the International Red Cross, sent to Jerry and Esther Besser, of Atlanta, in response to requests that had placed in 1987. Included is a letter with information about Jerry (Gezel) Besser's internment at Gross-Rosen and Dachau, and a letter with information about Edzia Zajbel (born 1930), and her interment at camps in Ludwigsdorf and Reichenbach, and following liberation, her stay at the Ansbach displaced persons camp.

  17. Jerry and Lydia Milrod collection

    The collection consists of five pieces of Łódź ghetto scrip.

  18. Jerry Gotkin collection

    Consists of a letter; written by Peretz Shkolnik, donor’s mother’s cousin, who survived the Holocaust in hiding near Jody, Lithuania, his hometown. In the letter, written in a displaced persons camp in Cremona, Italy, Mr. Shkolnik relates his experiences during the war.

  19. Jerry H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jerry H., who was born in Poznan?, Poland in 1929. He recounts his family's assimilated lifestyle; antisemitic harassment; visiting grandparents in ?o?dz?; his father's suicide due to financial reasons; moving to ?o?dz?; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; his sister's demeaning forced labor; ghettoization; attending school; his grandmother's and mother's deaths; working in a leather factory; hospitalization; working as a messenger; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his sister (he never saw her again); frequent selections; transfer to Braunschw...