The Hans R. Fliegel memoir, "The Holocaust and the Viennese Family Fliegel", describes Fliegel’s childhood in Vienna, the Anschluss, Isidore Lipschutz’s help securing Belgian visas for the Fliegel family, their year spent in Antwerp, immigration to the United States, and difficulties in starting a new life and establishing a career in New York. The memoir includes recollections by Fliegel’s brother ...

Saul Lilienthal (1877-1944) was born on 21 October 1877 in the village of Jeruty, East Prussia (present day Szczytno County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland) to Heiman and Cecilia Lilienthal (née Loewy). He had one sister, Johanna (later Johanna Deutschland), and three brothers, Samuel, Abraham (1885-1956), and Herbert. Johanna immigrated to Montevideo, Uruguay by 1932, and remained there for ...

The Goldstein family papers, 1914-1982, contain photographic postcards of Herman Goldstein (1889-1943) serving as a German soldier in World War I; four photographs of Herman, Rita, and Heinz Goldstein (b. 1928) at a celebration aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939; a printed wedding invitation for Herman Goldstein and Rita Goldstein (née Grubner, 1893-1979) held on November 6, 1927 at the Lutzow Strasse Synagogue ...

Prewar footage (home movies) of the Katz family in 1929. Kovno street scenes. VAR CUs of Katz family strolling along Laisves al., showing Dita's mother Liola, grandfather, brother, uncle, and grandmother. 01:00:34 MS EXT of the grandfather's wholesale trade store - C. KACAS - on Presidento gatve. Here, the family sold typewriters, sewing machines, and bicycles. VAR shots of store and family at door ...

The Robert and Louise Brunner papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, emigration and immigration files, and printed materials documenting Robert Brunner and Louise Koblitz’s efforts to flee to France, immigrate to the United States, and establish their life in America. The collection also includes correspondence between immediate family members and photographs of the Brunner and Koblitz ...

Abe Birencwaig was born in Tomaszów, Poland, on 14 June 1895. He became a tailor and married Jenta Josefowicz. The couple had three children, all born in Tomaszów : Estera (b. 01/05/1923), Chaja Rebeka (b. 24/09/1924) and Zelik (b. 01/06/1926). Between 1928 and 1930, all Birencwaig family members emigrated to Belgium. Abe Birencwaig and Jenta Josefowicz settled in Brussels. Abe befriended Jacques (Yankel) ...

The Cytrynowski family correspondence collection consists of letters, postcards, and Red Cross messages to Nathan Citri from Yechiel, Genia, and Miriam Cytrynowski in Łódź, Poland and later in the Warsaw ghetto.The correspondents describe their lives, their preparations to move to Palestine, and their disappointment after plans fall through.

This collection contains: wedding photos of Joseph Abramow and Dunia Menakier; photos of the Abramow-Menakier family on holiday at the beach and in a rural setting; photos of relatives including Jesel alias Lena Menakier and her daughters Adolphine alias Tania and Jenny Sapiro as well as the Creizberg-Menaker (Menakier) family; a photo album of an unidentified family, possibly the rescuers of Maurice ...

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Consists of one memoir, 49 pages, entitled "Growing up on Three Continents", by Henry Culman, originally of Liegnitz, Germany. Mr. Culman describes his childhood in Nazi Germany, the family's escape to Shanghai in June 1939, the family's life in Shanghai from 1939-1947, their immigration to the United States in 1947, and post-war life.

Ruth Renee Cohen was born Raizel Friedman on April 26, 1930 in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia (later Munkács, Hungary, now Mukachevo, Ukraine) to Herman and Bertha (Breinde, nee Schwartz) Friedman. Her father and uncle manufactured wine, liquor, and beer. Their business was primarily wholesale, but Jewish customers came each Friday afternoon to buy wine for Sabbath. Ruth and her older sister Teresa (Terezie, ...

The sisters, Fanny and Charlotte, emigrated to England as Jewish refugees from Vienna in 1938 and 1939. Their parents did not manage to flee the country and were deported. Erich Walter, a socialist, was stationed with the Czech Army during the Nazi German occupation of the Czech Republic and managed to emigrate three days before the outbreak of the Second World War.<div><br /><div><div>Fanny ('Fay') ...

Consists of six photographs of members of the Reininger family of Czernowitz, Romania, taken in the displaced persons camps of Hofgers, Landsberg, and Kassel, and one book, 91 pages, entitled "The Rajninger Tree of Life and the Jewish Faith," by Leon Rajninger, 2000. The book traces Mr. Rajninger's family through the war to the present day and includes family trees, photographs, copies of historical ...

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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

The collection consists of correspondence, reports, photographs and other materials relating to the emigration of the Schoenberger family from Germany to the United States; to family and friends remaining in Germany; to the Schoenberger family's new life in the United States, to Dr. Schoenberger's professional career as an art historian; and to his work for Jewish Cultural Reconstruction.

Jewish life and the synagogue in Radom, Poland in 1936, filmed by an unknown cameraperson. The film was produced by the Radom Society/Club and includes Manny (Mendel) Sztainberg and his uncles, Jacob and Stanley. Added musical track, not original to the silent film, and captions. Well-dressed people walking in street, summer. 01:16 Radom Synagogue. Exterior views. Congregants in courtyard. Men in prayer ...

Copyright Holder: Mrs. Inge Engel

Marie-Jeanne Borghmans was born on 18 May 1937 as the only child of Jozef (Jef) Borghmans and Alice Deleu. As youngsters Jozef and Alice had been neighbours. After their wedding in 1934 the young couple first lived at Gemeentestraat in Kessel-Lo, near Leuven, and later at Albrecht Rodenbachstraat. Jozef Borghmans earned a living as a postman in the Leuven area (mainly the Kessel-Lo district). Upon ...

Heda Kaufmannová (24 April 1905 Prague - 7 August 1981 Prague), writer, translator and participant in the anti-Nazi domestic resistance, was born into a Jewish family in Prague, where she was brought up to belong to the Czech nation. She graduated from a girls' lyceum in Vinohrady, then completed a bookbinding course at the State Graphic School. In 1929, she had to leave her job as a bookbinder and ...

Simon Lewkowicz was born in Raczki, Poland, in 1896 as the son of Emmanuel Lewkowicz and Chaja Sadkowski. He became a tailor. In 1918 he married Chana Guittel Bot in Raczna, Poland. Chana had been born on 14 January 1895 in Przedborz, Poland. Their eldest child, a daughter named Chaja Frymeta alias Claire, was born in Przedborz on 10 February 1919. Simon and Chana then relocated to Paris, France, where ...

Consists of documents, clippings, publications, photographs, and correspondence related to the life of Max Goodman (Ghitman), originally of Orchard Park, NY. Max's family, who were originally from Germany, returned to Berlin shortly after Max was born, and Max studied music at the Berlin Conservatory of Music. He became a professional jazz musician, and immigrated to the United States in 1937 after ...