The Mandel family papers include biographical material, restitution files, photographs, and family documents relating to Yehuda Mandel and his family’s experiences pre-war in Latvia and Hungary, their flight from Budapest, immigration to the United States, and their post-war life in America. A large portion of the collection includes materials relating to Yehuda’s Cantorial career including music, ...

George Barlaz (born Gershon Mendel Barlaz, 1905-c.1970) was born in Szepetowka, Russia (currently Shepetivka, Ukraine) to Shmuel Barlaz (1865-1937) and Chaia (Chaya) Hinde Bailey (1869-1942) and had several brothers and sisters including Jacob, Elihu (1896-1959), Avraham (1907-1942), Dora (1894-1942), and Adela (1915-1942). George moved to Dubno, Poland (currently Dubno, Ukraine) in 1918 or 1919 and ...

Copyright Holder: Eli Schaap

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 in Venice, on gondola. CUs, Jacob Herz, gondolier. Bridges in Venice. Ruins in countryside. 01:10:53 Tourist shots of the Coliseum in Rome and other sights. Statues, beach, tents, ruins, sights in Rome.

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The collection consists of correspondence and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Béla Ingber, originally from Munkács, Hungary (now Mukacheve, Ukraine) as a forced-laborer in Hungary during World War II and as a Jewish refugee in Italy from 1945-1947. Correspondence includes postcards to Béla while he was a forced-laborer from his father Kálmán Ingber in Munkács, and post-war ...

The "Diary of Robert Lichtblau" consists of a typed copy, with English translation, of the memoir of Robert Lichtblau, written in 1945. The text, which is entitled "The Diary of Robert Lichtblau" (though it seems to have been written as a narrative) contains information about the Lichtblau family before the war; the expansion of the family's pipe-making business; life in Vienna after the Anschluss; ...

Contains one memoir, 127 pages, entitled "Ein Amerikaner: Anecdotes from the Life of Harry Ettlinger," written by Harry L. Ettlinger, originally of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2002. In his memoir, Mr. Ettlinger describes his childhood in Germany, his family's immigration to the United States in 1938, his experiences as a soldier in World War II, and his post-war life. Includes copies of family photogra ...

Sigmund A. Cohn (1898-1997) was born in Breslau, Germany, where he earned a law degree before working for the Department of Justice in Berlin and then being appointed a judge. He lost his position when Hitler came to power in 1933 and emigrated to Genoa, Italy, with his wife Suzanne Lewy Cohn and their daughters Eva and Marianne. In 1939 they immigrated to the United States and settled in Athens, Georgia, ...

This collection consists of copy papers which document Josef Mengele's early life and career in the SS and also his life in exile in South America.

Contains one memoir, 18 pages, about Calecka Perla's family life in Łódź, Poland, her family's deportation to concentration camps, and her survival as a non-Jewish domestic, liberation by the Russians, and emigration to Israel.

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Ellen Gale is the wife of Manfred Gale (Gallewski). Manfred (also known as Manni) lived with his family in Trebnitz, Germany. After Hitler came to power, the family was persecuted culminating in the imprisonment of Richard Gallewski (Manfred's father) in Buchenwald. He was released after two weeks because he was a hero of World War I. The family; Richard (father), Kate (mother), Manfred, and Klaus, ...

The collection documents the prewar and wartime lives of Max and Lotte Wertheim and their son Stanley Wertheim, originally of Warburg, Germany, including their immigration to the United States in 1937. Documents consist of identification and family papers including birth and marriage certificates, German passports, a family book (Stammbuch), Lotte’s autograph book, and immigration papers. Photographs ...

This collection documents the life of Ken Ambrose and his family from the 19th century until the modern era. Papers include original documents and certificates pertaining to several members of his family; correspondence both official and family-related, some describing fate of friends and family during the Holocaust and also attempts to emigrate by others. Also included are a number of photographs ...

Contains photographs, legal documents, and booklets pertaining to Dr. Abraham Blumowitsch-Atsmon's family life in Poland and work for the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American occupied zone. Includes pre-war photographs of family life, wartime photographs of partisans in the Brest-Slonim region, photographs of students in classes at the ORT school in Munich, and photographs of Ben-Gurion ...

Typescript copy and translations of the memoirs of Moses Lissiansky (1872-1943), describing his life in pre-revolutionary and revolutionary Russia, originally written in Austria in the 1930s, as well as translations and summaries of correspondence that his son, Arnold Lissance, had received from his family in Austria after his own immigration to the United States in the 1930s. Also contains documents ...

Jacques Springer was born in Antwerp, Belgium, on 8 November 1917, as the second son of Szymon Springer (born on 6 January 1885 in Krakow, Poland) and Liba Serl Kunstliger (born on 12 November 1884 in Kalwaria, Poland). Jacques had an older brother named Isidore, who had been born in Antwerp on 23 July 1912. Their father Szymon was a diamond trader, while Liba took care of the children. After Szymon ...

Karl and Max Horn were brothers, two of the sons of Benjamin and Elfriede (née Schreiber) Horn, originally of Vorst, Germany. The family was involved in agriculture, and in particular, had businesses related to cattle trading as well as a butcher shop. In addition to Karl and Max, the Horns had two other sons, Josef and Paul. At a young age, Max Horn (born 7 February 1897) left Vorst for Cologne, where ...

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Mendel Resler was born in Sulita, Romania, on 22 July 1894. He became a fabrics merchant and fought as a soldier during the First World War. Mendel was wounded in battle, but survived. On 24 April 1918, he married Rebecca alias Rosa Gutmann in Bucharest, Romania. She had been born on 22 July 1895 in Jassy, Romania. Their four eldest children were all born in the Romanian capital: Charlotte on 6 June ...

From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas, a small desert town at the southern tip of Texas. The trains carried Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants and their American-born children. The only family internment camp during World War II, Crystal City was the center of a government prisoner exchange program called "Quiet ...