Regina Gothelf was born Regina Klajman on Feb. 1, 1919, in Łódz, Poland. Her father, Icek Rafal Klajman, survived the Łódz ghetto and Auschwitz. Her mother, Chana Rawet Klajman, died in 1945 in a hospital in Łódz after surviving Auschwitz and Mauthausen. Regina had five siblings: Helena, who survived in the Soviet Union; Dawid and Abram, who were killed in battle in the Red Army; Manes, who was ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Lore Schneider

Alfred (Freddie) Traum was born on March 22, 1929 in Vienna Austria to Elias Traum and Gita Alster Traum who ran a business. He had one sister, Ruth (March 22, 1926). Elias was severely crippled from injuries sustained in World War I and spent his afternoons playing with and instructing Alfred. The Traums had a traditional Jewish home but lived in a secular neighborhood, and most of Freddie's playmates ...

Synagogue songs for Friday evening and Sabbath morning services Introduction by Sem Dresden

244 files, 4 opisi Manuscrips, drafts, and notebooks of the writer, correspondence with editors and colleagues. Opis 2: 1949 - 1963 Manuscripts of "Life and Fate" (1960). Notebooks, diaries, interviews with red army soldiers (1943-1945) Opis 3: Notebooks (1941-1950)

The Heinz Praeger papers include biographical materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting Heinz Praeger, his prewar life in Germany, and his wartime years as a refugee with his wife and son in Shanghai. Biographical materials include three copies of a brief biography of Heinz Praeger by Michael Carlon describing Praeger’s childhood in Berlin, antisemitic persecution in the 1930s, his ...

Helen Otley (1911-2003) was born Helen Schlesinger, the daughter of Moritz (1880-1956) and Helene (1891-1975, née von Schelken) Schlesinger in Vienna on 13 October 1911. Her father was a civil servant, and the family lived in the working class district of Rudolfsheim, and also included a brother, Otto (1925-1944). As a child, her father was posted to Zagreb during World War I, and Helen and her mother ...

Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war documents, identity cards, and photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of Otto Katz, born in 1905 in Budranów, Poland. Though his family was able to emigrate, Mr. Katz, who spent much of his pre-war life in Vienna, was arrested in 1939 and sent to Buchenwald where he remained until liberation in 1945. Includes pre-war diplomas for Mr. Katz, who was ...

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Fred Lubcher, his parents Jacob and Rose Lubczer, and his brothers Herman and Bernard, including pre-war life in Vienna, Austria, his father Jacob’s arrest and death at Buchenwald in 1940, and the family’s immigration to the United States in March 1940. Included are biographical material, immigration paperwork, correspondence, German passports ...

Consists of one carbon copy of a letter (with draft) written by Richard Goldstein, a member of the American Armed Forces, to his family on April 30, 1945, after the liberation of the Flossenbürg concentration camp. Mr. Goldstein explains in great detail the condition of the camp and the prisoners and how much the experience had undoubtedly changed his life.

O.75: Letters and postcards from the Holocaust period or regarding the Holocaust
 
 In the Record Group are personal letters collected by Yad Vashem since its establishment. The letters were written before, during and after the Holocaust period in the Nazi occupied countries - in ghettos, camps and hiding places, and in the countries to which the Jewish refugees from Europe succeeded in escaping ...

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Chronicles the life of Winifred (1897-1980), and of the Wagner family and the activities and feuds around the Bayreuth Wagner Festival, in the context of the history of her times, especially the Nazi period. After an unhappy childhood in England, Winifred was adopted by a German couple. Her adoptive grandfather, a musician, was a great admirer of Wagner, with whom he had had personal ties. At the age ...

O.99 - Julia Vajda Collection: Testimonies of Hungarian survivors, 2004-2007
 
 The collection contains interviews with survivors conducted by Dr. Júlia Vajda as part of the “Totalitarianism and Holocaust Project” of the University of Debrecen, Hungary, 2004-2007, and documentation regarding these interviews. 
 
 There are 332 audio testimonies in the collection: 308 interviews ...

George Mandl was born on September 12, 1908, in Miskolc, Hungary, to Lajos and Sidonie Mandl. He had one sister, Anna Nora Mandl. He was one of only a few Jewish students educated at the Frater Gyorgy Catholic Gymnazium in Miskolc, where he graduated in 1926. In the fall of 1926, he entered the University of Vienna Medical School. He graduated in November 1932, During 1933-1934, he completed clinical ...

Consists of a typed testimony, in English, entitled "The Holocaust's Second Victims" by Paul Keller. In the testimony, which was written for a Holocaust commemoration, Mr. Keller describes the effects of the Nuremberg Laws and on antisemitic persecution on his education and life as a child in Germany. He describes the culture shock he experienced as a German-Jewish refugee when his family immigrated ...

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Testyler describes his and his family's life in Sławków (Silesia) before the war, and their fate during the Holocaust. He was deported in 1942, as a 17-year-old boy, to a labor camp in Sakrau (near Sosnowiec), and later to Markstadt and Reichenbach. He settled in France after the war. 218 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Draft edition of a memoir describing Yehudit Ilan-Ondervaizer’s (b. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1933 - ) family history and her childhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands; the occupation of the Netherlands and the German measures to separate the Dutch Jews from the rest of the Dutch population; the author's hiding, capture, and internment in the Amsterdam ghetto; her transport to and experiences in Westerbork, ...

General Francisco Franco ruled Spain for nearly forty years, as one of the most powerful and controversial leaders in that nation's long history. He has been the subject of many biographies, several of them more than a thousand pages in length, but all the preceding works have tended toward one extreme of interpretation or the other. This is the first comprehensive scholarly biography of Franco in ...

Memoirs of a Polish Jew (1929-1993), born near Łódź, who was the only survivor of his family. Relates the life story of his sister, Bronia, and his own experiences in the Holocaust. In April 1940 the family was interned in the Łódź ghetto. The parents died from starvation and cold. Eichenbaum, his brother, and his sister were deported to Auschwitz in 1944. Bronia survived several camps; however, ...

Contains a handwritten memoir describing the author's life in a labor camp near Letichev, Ukraine cutting trees and building bridges and roads; his escape from the labor camp on November 25,1942 to the Luchinets, Ukraine ghetto; his transfer in May 1943 to Tulchin labor camp; and his escape from that labor camp and return to Luchinets three months later where he hid in a Ukrainian family's house until ...

Hanna places a baby doll in a wagon, taking great care in doing so. She hauls the wagon around, running through the garden in which she stands. She runs about while holding the doll.

This collection contains: pre-war photos of the Souritz-Grabowetzki family, including photos of the deported Abraham Echiel Souritz and his children Willy and Paulette ; pre-war photos of the family of Mozes alias Max Blumberg, second husband of Jeanne Grabowetzki, widow of Abraham Echiel Souritz ; war-time photos of Rachel Souritz' son Albert Souritz, taken while the child was in hiding in Mechelen ...