Oral testimony of Golda Finkler who discusses her family history and life story spanning the prewar, wartime, and postwar periods.

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

Consists of one memoir, handwritten in English, by Tunia Kogan, originally of Ozorkow, Poland. In the memoir, she describes her life and family in Ozorkow, the selection in the town square, life in the ghetto, and her deportation to Auschwitz in September 1944. In December 1944, she was sent to Dresden. After the bombings in Dresden, she was sent on a forced march for two months, until she was able ...

Camillo Adler (1905-1985) was born in 1905 in Austria to Moritz (1874-1959) and Sara (née Reich, 1873-1954?). He had one brother, Adolph (later Anthony, b. 1908) and one sister, Golda (b. 1903?). Camillo received his law degree in Vienna, but was unable to find work there and moved to Lyon, France. He married Martha Kraus (1901-1969), daughter of Ludwig (1866-1942) and Marie Kraus (1875-1942), in 1933. ...

<p>This collection consists of the personal correspondence of Marianne Elsley, a Kindertransportee from Berlin who arrived in England in March 1939. Her parents were deported and perished in the Holocaust. The letters were sent by relatives and friends between 1939 and 1944, with the last letter from her parents arriving at the time the Second World War broke out.</p>Marianne Elsley's personal correspondence ...

Contains of materials related to the experiences of Alice Mimi Schleissner (Mimi Ormond), originally of Marianske Lazne, Czechoslovakia. Includes photographs of Mimi's immediate and extended family, photographs of her life on the Hachshara after arriving in England on a Kindertransport, and her 1944 wedding photograph from her marriage to Ed Ormond, an American GI. Also includes Mimi's wartime recollections ...

Ruth Schwarzhaupt is the youngest daughter of Albert and Hella (nee Rheinhold) Schwarzhaupt. Albert was born in Regensburg and Hella in Kleineibstadt. Ruth was born on May 10, 1931 in Munich, but her family moved to Konstanz about three years later. Albert, who may have had his own business for a time, sold electric bulbs, a job which required a great deal of travel. Hella was religiously observant, ...

This collection contains: three pre-war photos of members of the Antwerp sports club Joodse Arbeiders Sportklub or JASK [English: Jewish Workers Sports Club (Antwerp) or YASK], including Philip Swaab and possibly a brother or future brother-in-law called Marcel ; a pre-war group photo of pupils at a school or colony, including Bertha and Eugenie alias Jennie Tygel ; two pre-war photos of Philip Schwaab ...

György (George Pick) was born March 28, 1934 in Budapest, Hungary. He was the only child of middle class Jewish parents. György’s father, Istvan, was an engineer responsible for producing hydraulic grape presses for wineries. His mother, Margit Pick (née Kornhauser), worked as a legal secretary. The Pick family could trace its history in the Austro-Hungarian Empire back 230 years, and György had many ...

Béla (born Vojtech, 1892-1942) Weichherz was born in Čadca, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) and had seven siblings: Hugo, Martin, Gyula, Ninka, Josephine, Lotti and Malvine. He worked as a traveling salesman for the Philips Company and lived in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). Béla married Esti (born Estera, 1899 -1942) and they had a daughter, Kitty (born Katharina, 1929-1942). After Kitty's ...

Home movies taken by Abraham (Abe) Hershkowitz while visiting family in Pacanow and Aleksandrów, Poland in 1934 including local villagers, street scenes in Pacanow, family members, water carrier, children's home, and a market.

Fred Angress was born on 14 April 1923 in Berlin, Germany. His family fled to England in 1937 in order to avoid Nazi persecution. Angress and his family later settled in Amsterdam where they were forced into hiding during the Holocaust. His father was deported to Auschwitz and perished on a death march from the camp in early 1945. Fred immigrated to the United States in 1947 and settled in San Francisco, ...

Contains 33 photographs documenting Alida Rudelsheim (Aviva Ben Heled) and her family before World War II, her life in hiding during the war, and her wedding after the war. Also includes photographs documenting David Van Gelder [David Ben Heled] and his family before and during the war in the Netherlands, and a false identification card issued to, but never used by, Alida Joonker [Aviva Ben Heled] ...

This collection contains: the documentary “Darkness and Light” on the story of Irene alias Rina Szmulewicz-Mondlin, created by Gaël Krajzman Johns (https://vimeo.com/446912076) ; the documentary “Nous sommes là!” on the story of Irene’s cousin Francine Erlich and Francine’s husband Marcel Holender, created by Gaël Krajzman Johns (https://vimeo.com/498783061) ; the documentary “We are here!” on the ...

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Max Schindler was born in Leipzig, Germany, on 5 July 1932 as the only child of Polish electrician Adolf alias Abraham Schindler (born on 28 January 1900 in Wojnicz, Poland) and his wife Jetty Kern (born on 16 July 1902 in Bohorodchany, then Poland, today Ukraine). Mid-August 1939 Max and his mother Jetty clandestinely fled to Belgium by train. In Antwerp they were reunited with Max’s father Abraham ...

Consists of photographs, original documents, photocopies, research files, and clippings related to the wartime and post-war experiences of Abraham (Abe) (originally of Kovno, Lithuania) and Lilly (née Applebaum) Malnik (originally of Belgium) Includes wartime and post-war photographs from the Malnik and Applebaum families, oral history transcripts and biographical information, research about family ...

Looks at the life of the British aristocrat whose political beliefs and friendship with Adolf Hitler scandalized her family, friends, and society. 1st U.S. ed. xii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

The collection includes a cake server, cooking pot, Kenyan statues, silver spoon, steamer trunk, prayer book, biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Clara and Max Berg and their extended family in Germany before their escape to Kenya and their life in Kenya during the Holocaust, and their postwar immigration to the United States and the ...

Consists of one bound diary, in German and English, describing the life experiences of Dr. Max Cohnreich, originally of Berlin, Germany. In the diary, written mainly in 1939 and addressed to his grandchildren, Dr. Cohnreich describes his life in Germany, his emigration experiences, and his feelings on the current situation in Europe. After his death in 1949, his granddaughter, Margaret (Peggy) Stolowitz, ...