Eric Sonner (birth name Eric Sonnenschein, b. 1916 in Šumperk, Moravia, Austrian Empire) and Rose Sonner (née Ruzena or Roszi Deutsch, b. 1917 in Veľká Bytča, Trencsén county, Kingdom of Hungary) were Ashkenazi Jews from what is now the Czech Republic; both lost their first spouses during the Holocaust. They married in 1947 and immigrated to Vancouver, via Gottenberg, New York, and Toronto, in 1949.Rose ...

Jacob Jochem was born in Plonsk, Russia (today Poland), on 18 April 1864. In 1882 he migrated to Germany where he lived in Berlin, Cologne and Barmen. Jacob then met Gertrude Ebeler, born on 3 August 1877 in Cologne, Germany, and the couple religiously married before migrating to Belgium in 1907. Their eldest son Emiel was born in Antwerp on 13 January 1909, second son Jozef on 19 April 1912. Jacob ...

Title in Dutch: "Betsy als baby in 1928" Scenes of a baby in a carriage and two women - Jeanne holding baby Marcus?, walking down the street. 01:00:56 On a different day (notice clothing), children with adults in a street. A little girl in white (Betsy?) looks up at the camera. 01:01:51 At the beach, children play in the sand. Man and two women on the beach. 01:02:26 Man and woman may be Frits and ...

Hersz Iteld (sometimes referred to as Zeidy, later known as Harry, 1890-1969) was born in Brańsk, Poland to Judas Gitel Naiman and Nochum Iteld (b. 1859). He had eight brothers and sisters: Lazar, Menucha, Avram, Hinka, Nechome, Ruven, Sholem, and Nachman. All his siblings but Sholem were killed in the Holocaust. Guta Shereshefsky (1897-1990) was born in Szczuczyn, Poland to Ewa Rosenthal (Chava) and ...

Ruth was born in Leipzig, Germany, in 1905. She initially worked as a shop assistant in a department store but after she met 'Fred' (Walter Bergmann) in 1926, she became a medical laboratory assistant but was made redundant and returned to the department store where she worked until she married Fred in 1933. Ruth and Fred had two children, Renée and Tommy. Fred was born in 1907 and studied medicine ...

Frank Liebermann (1929-2022) was born in Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland) to ear, nose, and throat surgeon Hans Liebermann (1900-1979) and his wife Lotte (1907-1995). Hans Liebermann’s parents were Bernhard (1869-circa 1945) and Jenny (1876-1936) Liebermann from Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland). Lotte Liebermann’s parents were Alfred (1875-circa 1944) and Hedwig Orgler (1883-circa 1944) from Oppeln ...

Regina Zielinski was born on 2 November 1925 in Siedliczcze (Poland). She has good memories of her father, mother, brothers and sister, and of life before the war. Before the German occupation, anti-Semitism seemed absent in her hometown; contacts between the family and their Polish neighbours and friends were good. After the German invasion the situation for the Polish Jews worsened dramatically. ...

Consists of three photographs of pre-war Jewish life in Wȩngrów, Poland. The photographs are of the Lokai family, some of whom perished in the Holocaust. The large family photograph is of the donor's great-grandmother's family, the Greenberg family. The donor's mother, aunt, and grandmother are all pictured.

<div>Rolf Daniel Otto Falksohn was born in Berlin in 1925 to Albert Falksohn (1892-1943) and Erna Falksohn (b. Brunke) (1893-1965). He had a sister Tutta aka Lydia (1915-1992), who had emigrated to Palestine in 1934 and a half-brother, Kurt (1910-c1960).</div><div><br /></div><div>Rolf's family on his father's side came from a German speaking Jewish community in Courland, Latvia. Rolf's mother, Erna, ...

Family footage of the Herz family vacation in Europe in 1937. Footage shows images of Jewish-American life before World War II with its European roots. Herz family visiting the farm of Jacob's father, Israel, in Wola, Poland. Shots of the farm, house, and family. The Polish Herz family poses in front of their home with children. Jacob's wife and daughter Belle posing inside window frame. Daughter Judith ...

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Ernö (Ernest) Schiffer, born in Námesztó in 1893, studied medicine at university in Budapest. He enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I and was in charge of a medical unit on the Russian Front. In the 1920s, he worked at the Jewish Hospital in Budapest and specialized in the new field of radiology, developing techniques for the X-ray apparatus, various shutters, and cooling devices, ...

The Dora Pollak family correspondence consists primarily of letters Dora and Richard Pollak received from family and friends in Czecholovakia, England, and Switzerland during and after the war. Wartime correspondence relates family news, documents efforts to emigrate from Czechoslovakia, describes preparations for deportation to Theresienstadt, and relays thanks for care packages delivered to Theresienstadt. ...

Ernö (Ernest) Schiffer, born in Námesztó in 1893, studied medicine at university in Budapest. He enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I and was in charge of a medical unit on the Russian Front. In the 1920s, he worked at the Jewish Hospital in Budapest and specialized in the new field of radiology, developing techniques for the X-ray apparatus, various shutters, and cooling devices, ...

More scenes of life and the family visit to Bad Gastein, beginning with a farmer and his boys shoveling hay into a wagon. The family eats at an outside restaurant. The boys walk along a path in the mountains with their grandfather Fritz (and a nanny/host?). Waterfall. The boys enjoy another meal outdoors. The family takes a carriage ride through the city, and into the mountains. The boys pick flowers ...

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Toddler Wilhelmina (Willie) and a baby picnic on the lawn with three adults; 01:02:39 Willie gets a haircut outdoors (because she had eczema) and roams naked in the grass; 01:06:09 Willie is sprayed with water by an adult standing behind the camera, and bathes in a metal tub outdoors. She holds a teddy bear and plays in the yard with glasses; 01:10:42 Willie carries a bouquet of flowers across the ...

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Consists of one typed memoir, circa 40 pages plus photographs, photocopied, and written in the spring of 1996 by Eric Hoffman, entitled "Eric Hoffman: For My Family, For My Children, For My Grandchildren." The memoir details Hoffman's life growing up in Münster, Germany; his move to Antwerp, Belgium; his voyage to Palestine in 1939; his wartime service in the British Royal Army Service Corps and his ...

This collection contains the papers of the Zappert family, a Jewish family whose roots can be traced back to 18th century Prague. The papers mainly relate to Wolf Zappert, a wealthy jeweller who worked in the second half of the 18th century in Prague, and Julius Zappert (1867-1941), a highly regarded paediatrician and university professor from Vienna. Julius Zappert fled Austria shortly after his imprisonment ...

The material in this collection allows insights into life and persecution of members of two Jewish families from Austria and Germany. While the rather administrational documents refer primarily to the Lichtenstein family, the included photographs depict members and social life of the Rothschild family.

The collection consists of vital records, administrative documents, trade certificates, travel papers, correspondence, letters of reference, liturgical materials, and photographs relating to the lives of members of the Gottfried family and the families of Gerda and Lori Gottfried's husbands (the Kraus and Seemann families, respectively). Records detail the vital statistics, career history, educational ...

Contains of correspondence, clippings, and photographs regarding the pre-war experiences of the Baer family, the Schneider family, the Eugen Wolf family, Lina and Margot Levy, the Faber family,and Ludwig and Emma Kahn, all of Germany. Most of the correspondence was written by people who later perished in the Holocaust, and details the Jewish life in pre-war Germany.