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<p>This collection contains correspondence relating to the estate of Betty Wixon (née Davidsohn) and her German pension awarded for loss of earnings under the Hitler regime.</p>Correspondence re estate and a copy of her death certificate and draft affidavit for Betty Wixon's restitution claim.<div><br /></div>

Consists of a copy of the survivor testimony of Kay Gundel entitled "Reborn: Memoirs of a Camp Survivor." The testimony describes in great detail the persecution of Jews living in Berlin, Germany, just prior to World War II. The greater portion of the testimony is devoted to the graphic description of Gundel's imprisonment at Terezin, Auschwitz, and Merzdorf. The later part of the testimony describes ...

Ephraim Mayer Robinson (originally from Warsaw, Poland) and his wife Sarah (originally from Bessarabia) returned from Uzbekistan to Sarah's home town Romanovka in Bessarabia near the end of the war. From there, they hopped the border as refugees. The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society sent them to the Zeilsheim DP camp in October 1945.

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This is Leonie van Daalen-Röell's own story of her aristocratic Dutch family of privilege, glamor and power. She arrived in Central Java not knowing that she was living on one of the last sugar plantations owned by her mother's family in Tjepiring, the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) or that this would be the last ten years of the 300 year reign of the Dutch colony. This is not your normal memoire. ...

Dr. Eduard Bloch (1872-1945) was a Jewish medical doctor who practiced in Linz, Austria in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Eduard was born in Frauenberg (currently Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czech Republic) and had three sisters and one brother. He married Emilie Kafka (Emliy, 1875-1961, born Linz) in 1902 and they had a daughter, Gertrude Bloch (Trude, later Kren, 1903-1992, born in Austria). Eduard studied ...

Consists of directives issued by various offices of the Nazis restricting and forbidding Jews to be a part of German life, and directives deporting Jews from Tubingen, etc. The collection also consists of a postcard from Gurs; a letter for assistance and a photocopy of a headstone with members of the donor's family inscribed on it.

Contains a letter written by a prominent Admor near the end of WWII; a notation on the back of the letter states (in translation) "Erev Shabbos Kodesh, Vayakhel, in the morning 8:00, Tel Aviv." The author describes the deaths of his forefathers, family members, and friends, and his troubles during the Holocaust including the many attempts on his life and times he was saved from certain death. The back ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 727, Part 2C. Release date, 12/12/1938. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Young Refugees Reach Britain" Harwich, England. 206 German-Jewish youngsters, whose parents fill Nazi concentration camps, arrive on peaceful shores with their meager belongings to start life anew in comfortable quarters and in safe surroundings. Young Jewish refugees arrive in ...

Copyright Holder: Sandy Stolzman Rosen

Digital copy available as collection KD_00631 at Kazerne Dossin

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

Recounts the life of Jakob David Fritz Blasbalg (1874-1942), born in Glogów, Poland, one of seven children. The family moved to Berlin sometime between 1880-90. Fritz was married in 1906 to Elsa Lissauer (1906-1937). The book centers around the correspondence between him and his two daughters during 1937-1941. The girls fled in 1933 from Berlin - Jenny (b. 1910) to the USA and Gerda (b. 1913) to Palestine. ...

Consists of one letter written by Vilma Grunwald to her husband, Dr. Kurt Grunwald, on July 11, 1944, while she was imprisoned in the Czech family camp at Auschwitz. The letter was written shortly before Vilma and her 16 year old son, John, were taken on trucks to the gas chambers. In the letter, she describes that she is aware of her impending fate, that she is calm, and thinking about him and about ...

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Piera Solender (1916-1991) was born Piera del Strologo in Livorno, Italy. The family closed their fabric stores and relocated to Milan in 1941. In August 1943, their apartment was destroyed while they were on vacation. Her brother and his family, one of her sisters, and their father survived the rest of the war in Switzerland. Piera, her sister Nilda, and their mother traveled south and were sheltered ...

Copyright Holder: Ninetta Matsa Feldman

Joseph Feingold was born Jozef Fajngold, on 23 March 1923, in Warsaw, Poland, the son of Aron (1891-1961) and Rachel Leah (nee Jakubowski, 1901-1942?). In addition to Joseph, the Fajngolds had two other sons, Alexander (born 1924) and Henry (1929-1942?). Around 1932, the family moved to Kielce, where Aron practiced his trade as a woodworker. After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, Joseph, ...

Fay Walker was born on 19 Apr. 1920 in Kanczuga, Poland. She survived the Holocaust by hiding in several homes and fleeing the Soviet Union. She married and immigrated to the United States in 1947.

Jacques Dreese

Mendel Grossman (1913-1945) was born in in Staszów, Poland to Shmuel Dawid (1882-1942) and Chana Ruchla (1887-1942) Grossman. He grew up in Łódź, Poland with three sisters, Rut, Rozka (b. 1918), and Feiga (b. 1910); and one brother, Jakub. His sister Rut immigrated to the United States in 1919, and his brother Jakub died of appendicitis before the war. Prior to the war, Mendel was a prolific artist ...