Copyright Holder: Ninetta Matsa Feldman

Marion Cave Rosselli is remembered as the 'perfect companion' of the Italian Antifascist leader Carlo Rosselli, assassinated in Paris in June 1937. But little is known about the young English student fired with revolutionary enthusiasm who moved to Florence in 1919, witnessed the violent march of fascism to power and thereafter became a resolute adversary of the Mussolini dictatorship. Based on a wealth ...

The Naumann family papers consist primarily of correspondence to Ilse Sternberger from her father, Kurt Naumann, documenting his life in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) before his deportation, as well as from her relatives Else Hammer, Robert Karpel, and Walter and Ida Naumann documenting their postwar lives in Italy and Germany. The collection also includes a copy of the personal narrative of Albert ...

Fonds consists of: A newspaper article on Diane Kriger winning a 1950's Ottawa Jewish Bulletin "Beautiful Baby" contest; A ritual shoichet knife used by Max Movshovitz when he was a shoichet in Carleton Place; Two email printouts discussing Kriger family history - 2011/2012; A letter in Yiddish along with its translation. The letter was used to wrap up the shoichet knife. It asks for people to come ...

Copyright Holder: Eli Schaap

Steven Vogel is a survivor of Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps. Eva Cooper (born Eva Brust) is the daughter of Elek Brust (b. 1899) and Livia (Lilly) Schwarcz Brust. Eva was born on March 18, 1934 in Budapest, Hungary where her father owned a wholesale paper box company. The family attended the Dohány Street Synagogue. After voyaging to America to attend the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, ...

Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of Josef and Olivia Kohn, both of Romania, who married in 1942. Also includes photographs of Josef's parents, Itzak and Leni, and Olivia's parents, Sancu and Rachel Pechet (Pecket). Also includes documents related to birth, nationality, education (including diplomas), passports, and family history. The collection documents pre-war and wartime life ...

The 9.5mm home movies predominantly feature cousins Hanna Lieberman (b. 1930) and Thomas Sperber (1930-2009) in Knihinin, Poland (a district of Stanislawow, which is now Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine) and the spa retreat of Jaremcze, Poland (now Yaremcha, Ukraine). Thomas's grandfather Filip owned a yeast and alcohol factory in Stanislawow, and with his wife Babeta (1858-1927) had four children: ...

Jacques (Yanek) Schop was born in 1933 in Krakow, Poland. His parents were skilled textile workers. The Schop family still resided in Krakow when Nazi-Germany invaded Poland on 1st September 1939. In March 1941 a ghetto for Jews was created in Krakow. Jacques Schop, his parents and his older brother Ludwig were forced to relocate there. Jacques’ father opened a clothing factory in the ghetto where ...

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 ...

Copyright Holder: Jack Honig

The Ash Camp photograph album is a leather bound photograph album, black with embossed horses, which includes 326 mounted and labeled photographs. The photograph album's owner is unknown but includes photographs of the Gabe family, the Saul family, the Jake family, and the Elais family. In addition to candid family photographs, there are also photographs of life in Shanghai, the "Ash Camp," likely ...

<p>This collection comprises one folder containing the personal papers of Rolf Oppenheimer including his father's WWI Iron Cross certificate, work references, RAF application papers, naturalisation papers; also his uncle, Walter Fels' restitution claim including an affidavit from Ernst Niquet confirming that he hid Walter Fels in Berlin during the latter years of the war.&nbsp;</p><p>In an audio interview ...

Robert Gessner was born on October 21, 1907 in Escanaba, MI. He obtained a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1929 and a M.A. from Columbia University in 1930. He started teaching at New York University in 1930. He married Doris Lindeman on May 27, 1938 and had two children, Peter and Stephen. Mr. Gessner was a screen playwright and the author of several books, including "Massacre" (1931); "Broken ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00129 at Kazerne Dossin

Arnold Schleifer (1872-1950) was a Vienna-born restaurateur who leased and managed the Claremont Inn and Tavern-on-the Green in New York City for many years. In 1943, Arnold Schleifer and his nephews, Arthur Schleifer and Julius Berman, won the contract to operate the restaurant. They enlarged the dance floor and offered nightly music. A large outdoor patio offered dining al fresco. Trees were first ...

Digital copy available at Kazerne Dossin as KD_00574

A memoir compiled by Rosalie Gerut describing the experiences of her father, Aryed-Leyb (Leybl) Fingerhut, in Švenčionėliai, Lithuania, Siauliai,Lithuania, and Kremenchug, Soviet Union (currently, Ukraine); his interest in music and the Yiddish language; his work as a researcher for YIVO (Institute for Jewish Research) in Vilnius (currently Vilna, Lithuania); his memories of the German invasion of ...

Copyright Holder: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Carl Henry Levy was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on May 7, 1913 to a wealthy German Reform Jewish family. He attended a secular private college-preparatory school. During those years, he printed a magazine in his attic, was chief editor of his school newspaper, and was involved in a Jewish youth group. He was finishing undergraduate philosophy studies at Harvard just as Hitler rose to power in Germany. ...

Ralph Uri Hanauer (1940-1981) was the son of a Hans Heinz Hanauer (b. June 19, 1918) and Ursula Hanauer (nee Rosenfeld). Both Hans and Ursula had Jewish mothers and Christian fathers. Both were officially classified as "Mischlinge." Uri was born in Berlin on February 6, 1940. In 1941 Hans was arrested for his anti-Nazi beliefs and taken to Gut Winkel in 1941, a former Zionist hachshara which became ...

Interiors of Queen Mary ship at sea, the four American friends walking down a brightly lit corridor with clock reading 7:03 AM on September 5, 1938. David Kurtz in a gray suit and short, red, wide-bottomed tie. Window reflection with the three women smiling. Extreme LS of distant Statue of Liberty viewed from the S.S. Queen Mary. Pan across New York City skyline from north to south. Various posed shots ...

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