Hans Ascher (1902-1973) was employed by his father-in-law Paul Lande (1869-1936) and his uncle Carl Jaroczynksi (1874-1955) in the knitting factory "Felix Lande - Strumpf Strickerei, Tricotagen und Strickgarn Fabrik." Carl encouraged Hans to pursue his partner's daughter Ilse (1908-1982) after he was brought into the business. Ilse married Hans in Berlin on October 27, 1928. Before immigrating to Palestine ...

Bernhard Blumenthal (b. 1863, Germany) was a farmer born in Hüttengesäß, Germany (a district in Ronneburg) to Moses and Jette Blumenthal. Bernhard and his wife Elissa Sinsheimer (b. 1862) had three children, Theodor (b. 1892), Sophie (b. 1894), and Albert Blumenthal (1896‐1972). Bernhard was imprisoned for one year in Wolfenbüttel and deported from Frankfurt am Main in August 1942 to Theresienstadt. ...

<p>The Oppenheimers of Schwedt were a Christian family of Jewish heritage. The father, Ernst (Emil) Oppenheimer (1866-1942) converted to Christianity in his late 30's and married Magdalena Lewinsohn whose mother was Christian and father was Jewish. As the race laws in Germany affected all 'non-Aryans', all but two of the eight children left the country in 1939. Two emigrated to Sweden with the help ...

VS, EXT, lake views with mountains in BG. VS, a family of Laplanders (father, mother and child) come to shore in canoe, carrying their belongings, they head toward their tent and enter with all of their belongings. Two dogs enter the tent with them. MCU, man smoking a pipe, then cooking a meal while two children look on. VS of Laplanders in their tent, women, children, baby, etc, carrying out daily ...

The Vogel and Baer family consists of Berta (Bertha) Baer Vogel of Untergrombach, Germany, her ex-husband Albert Vogel, their children, Inga and Ellen, and extended family. The daughter of a Jewish ironmonger, Berta lived in Karlsruhe, Germany with her family until her and Albert separated in 1930 and she immigrated to Basel, Switzerland. The Vogel and Baer family correspondence comprises letters primarily ...

This collection contains : a studio portrait of Najm Wolf Rosan ; a photo of Najm Wolf Rosan, his children Max and Rachel Rosan, and a family friend riding a horse in a park.

In very grainy footage, Hanna runs about, holding a stick and clothed for warmth in a park in Olmuetz. The family walks towards the camera. Then dressed for spring, jumping off a stoop with Harriet.

Dr. Max Schur, born in Ukraine and living in Vienna from 1914, was a psychoanalyst and Freud's personal physician. His wife, Helen (Kraus) Schur, born in Prague, was also a doctor. They married at the Seitenstettengasse synagogue in Vienna in 1930 and had two children, Peter (b.1933) and Eva (b.1935). The Schur family lived in Vienna until June 10, 1938, when they left for London with visas obtained ...

Misses Stoops-Cleymans was born in Evere in 1944. Her mother, Jeanne Cleymans, had previously worked as a cook at the kosher restaurant "Ringer" at Rue Saint-Michel 21 in Brussels. "Ringer" had opened in 1935 and was property of the French-Polish couple Marcelle Kosmann and Izak Spira. The restaurant was named after Izak's mother Gittel Ringer and was located at the back of the building housing the ...

'In the early 1930s, life for the Jews is on the brink of ruin: Hitler has come to power, and the golden memories of happy times are fading fast. One young couple, Margret and Heinz Lichtenstern, decide to flee Germany with their parents and daughter, Tutti. They move to Amsterdam, where Heinz is able to coninue his work ... and where there seems to be hope for the future. Two years later, Tutti's ...

A new baby (Hanna's cousin Babeta) is in a carriage drinking from a bottle. It is held up by its mother Nelly and father Emanuel (with glasses). She is played with, diaper changed, and fed.

Copyright Holder: Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry (Judaica Center) of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine

Hersch Mozes Cohen was born in Antwerp, Belgium, on 14 June 1905 as the son of Mozes Cohen and Hilletje Pollak. Hersch was raised in the port city, but when, in 1914, the First World War broke out his family fled to the Netherlands, the country of birth of both Hersch’s parents. In June 1919 the Cohens returned to Antwerp and settled at Grammestraat 33. However, Hersch again lived in Amsterdam from ...

Dr. Max Schur, born in Ukraine and living in Vienna from 1914, was a psychoanalyst and Freud's personal physician. His wife, Helen (Kraus) Schur, born in Prague, was also a doctor. They married at the Seitenstettengasse synagogue in Vienna in 1930 and had two children, Peter (b.1933) and Eva (b.1935). The Schur family lived in Vienna until June 10, 1938, when they left for London with visas obtained ...

The Rohony family is comprised of János Rohony, his wife Anna Gereben, and their daughter, Zsusana (later Susan). The family lived in a wealthy part of Budapest, Hungary, where János owned a factory employing over one hundred employees producing chemicals and plastics. In the summer of 1943 János, a Jew, was forced into the Hungarian labor battalions and taken to Transylvania. After a little over a ...

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Norbert Klopstock (b. 1896) was born in Berlin and owned a retail plumbing supply store that was confiscated under the Nazi regime. He married Hilda Klaus (b. 1894) and had two daughters Ruth (b. 1922) and Liselotte (b. 1931) On Kristallnacht, Norbert was arrested and imprisoned at Sachsenhausen concentration camp. After his release, he managed to escape to England, where he was interned in the Kitchener ...

Consists of original documents, correspondence, and copyprints related to Frantisek Benno Vohryzek, originally of Hrdlovka, Czechoslovakia. Includes documents related to Vohryzek's emigration to Ecuador in 1939, his life in Ecuador, emigration to the United States in 1944, and related to learning that his parents and sister perished during the Holocaust. The Frantisek Vohryzek papers document the experience ...

Szymon (Simon) Mahler (1893-) was one of thirteen siblings. His parents, Wolf and Bascha Mahler, owned a butcher shop in Krosno, Poland. Simon left Krosno for New York in 1912. He married Eva Schoenwetter (1894-) in 1921. Their children were born in New York: Jack (b. 1922), Blanche (b. 1924), and Charles (b. 1926). Many of Simon's family members in Krosno were murdered during the Holocaust. The Jewish ...

Film is incredibly jumpy. Man models a jacket too small for him. People are walking along a grassy hill. Hanna is picking things off the ground.

Peter Ofner was born in 1923 in Berlin, Germany, to Curt (Kurt) and Betzi (nee Leon) Ofner. Curt was a veteran of the German Army in World War and worked as a high school teacher at one of Berlin's oldest municipal schools. In 1935, he was forced to resign and took a position of Holdheim high school, established for Jewish students. On Kristallnacht, Curt was arrested and spent a month in Sachsenhausen. ...

Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Robert Kan and his family escaped the Nazis on May 13, 1940 and emigrated to Queens, New York via the Dutch East Indies. He received a BA in Economics from Hofstra Univeristy and worked for thirty years for the US government at the Department of Commerce, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Science Foundation, and the American Embassy in Tokyo. After retiring ...