Documents, correspondence, photographs and artifacts illustrating prewar German Jewish life, flight to United Kingdom and immigration to USA of Ruth Haack Vamos, Arthur Vamos, their daughter Maureen and extended family. Also included are personal oral histories recorded by the family.

Oral history interviews and family recordings of the Wajnbaum / Wine Family collection, which includes interviews with Israel Weinbaum (Izrael Wajnbaum); video footage of the Wine family trip to the village of Nowy Korczyn, Poland, which features conversations with Catholic Poles who hid the donor's father Albert Weinbaum (Adash Wajnbaum) and his parents Israel Weinbaum and Leah Weinbaum (Lola Orzech); ...

This small collection of copy documents relates to the life of Wolfgang Nelki. See also Unpublished Memoir 4036 for the Nelki family history, written by Wolfgang Nelki.

July 1934: private life, children. Sep 1934: Vienna trip, zoo visit, wedding.1935: Winter and carnival delights, soldiers in a private atmosphere 15:20 Nazi Party, Volksfest, Adolf Hitler in an open car. Railroad, private, moving, May celebrations, sea vacation in Karshagen, carnival run 38:40 Western campaign, ruins, Dunkirk, war goods left behind, church, Lille 44:57 Bus with the inscription "Rheinisches ...

Copyright Holder: Eli Schaap

Consists of copies of scanned letters, documents, photographs, identification paperwork, and travel documentation related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war life of Antonina Milgrom Marek (also known as Tauba), originally of Warsaw, Poland. Includes pre-war correspondence to family in the United States, post-war identity cards documenting her life in a refugee camp in Great Britain and her marriage ...

Copyright Holder: Eli Schaap

Consists of a CD containing a memoir entitled "An Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times" by Michael Cann, written in Amherst, MA in 2006, as well as a paper copy of the memoir. Mr. Cann describes his family's history in Berlin, his memory of National Socialism in his school, and his family's immigration to the Netherlands in 1937, and his immigration to the United States in March 1939. He also includes ...

De Unikel's memoir "Return to Life," written in 1985, describes her life in Szecseny before the Nazi occupation of Hungary, her experiences in Auschwitz and in a camp in Kraków, Poland, and her liberation.

Consists of four photographs of pre-war Jewish life; photographs are of the family of Jenny Podbierski, who immigrated to the United States in 1905 from Wilczyn, Poland. The photographs were taken between 1924 and 1937.

DIE PIRNSCHEN - AUGUST 1936. This film shows Manfred "Fred" Hess at home with his wife Trude and two daughters Ursula and Luise. WITH FORK AND KNIFE. CUs, Luise eating. AFTER DINNER, LITTLE TEARS AND LITTLE TUNES. The children play with their father in the living room. Albert Günther Hess (AGH) is teaching the girls piano and playing the guitar for them. DIE ZUHOERERIN (VON EINEN TONKRANK EILINOPERATEUR). ...

Consists of letters, postcards and envelopes written in the Warsaw ghetto by the donor's family to Vilna, Poland, Melbourne, Australia, and Shanghai, China; documents; relating to the donor and his family life in Poland before the war, in Shanghai during the war, and in Melbourne, Australia after the war; and photographs;depicting the donor and his family in Warsaw before the war and later in Vilna, ...

Copy and translated correspondence of Noah (Eisler ?) in Cracow to his children, Itzchok, Mala and Jacob, somewhere abroad, reporting routine everyday life.

The collection consists of four watercolors created by Jo Spier while imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia and a brooch with charms representing aspects of daily life at Theresienstadt.

Consists of eight pre-war and wartime photographs from the collection of Gustav (Gus) Goldberger. The Goldberger family emigrated to Denmark in 1935, where Jeno Goldberger was the chief cantor in Copenhagen. The photographs include kindergarten pictures, piano recital pictures, and other pictures that demonstrate the daily life of the family in pre-war and wartime Denmark. The family escaped to Sweden ...

Mile Braach, born Emilie Marie Auguste Hirschfeld, a Frankfurt annalist and entrepreneur studied the feminist Marie Eleonore Pfungst in the 1990s. To do so, she collected documents regarding the life of the Pfungst family. The Jewish entrepreneurial family owned the Naxos Union, one of the first producers of sanding machines. The family was persecuted during National Socialism. Braach's biography of ...

Testimonies, containing both German and English versions of memoir by Fred Hertz, titled "Four Hundred Forty Six Years and Ten Days," about life of Hertz family and relatives in Coesfeld, Germany, experiences after Nazis came to power, Kristallnacht, and emigration to Palestine via the Netherlands.

Private film of a Nazi rally during Hitler’s journey from Linz to Vienna. Outdoor shots of a large home with painted swastikas and several Nazi flags. Tanks drive down a street. Nazi soldiers walking down the street. Hitler gives the Nazi salute from his car driving down the street with many onlookers on the sidewalks. Austrians shake hands and kiss cheeks. Nazi flags hanging from buildings. Trucks ...

The collection consists primarily of photographs of pre- and postwar life, predominantly in Greece, and the recorded testimonies of Allegra and Henricos Algava, which were conducted by the donor, their son Andreas Algava, a child survivor.

Consists of the one manuscript, entitled "My Life: 1920-1943," by Margot Pogorzelski Hodge, originally of Freystadt, Germany. The eldest of five children, she describes her life in Freystadt, her memories of Nazi persecution, dropping out of school to work to support her family after her father's death in 1933, and her immigration to England in 1939 to work as a nurse.

Consists of family documents related to the Wollman (Wolman) family, originally of Warsaw, Poland. Includes the pre-war passport of Robert (Sam) Wolman, who emigrated to the United States in 1924, as well as correspondence with the family who remained in Poland. Includes written vignettes about life in the United States and in Poland, as well as correspondence from the late 1930s about getting aid ...