Copyright Holder: Mr. Harvy Simkovits

The collection consists of 49 photographs and a photograph envelope relating mainly to Ida Friedman Trushin and her life and family in Poland before World War II.

Consists of one bound memoir, 59 pages, entitled "Paula" by Paula Scwamenau Eisenhammer, originally of Sniatyn. In the memoir, she describes growing up with family in Sniatyn and Kolomyja, life in the Kolomyja ghetto, a failed attempt to escape to Romania, and escaping from a moving deportation train outside of Majdanek. She returned to Kolomyja and obtained Aryan papers. In the fall of 1942, she traveled ...

Describes the author's (b. 1926) childhood in Vienna, Austria; the Anschluss; Kristallnacht; author's emigration to Belgium and his subsequent escape to France; author's return to Austria in hopes of getting a transport to Sweden; author's arrest and his experiences in Terezin (a.k.a. Theresienstadt), Auschwitz, Dachau, Erpfting, and Kaufering; his liberation; the death of members of his family; his ...

Hanna walks around in a kimono and holding a sun umbrella on the porch of their home in Jaremcze. Mother Ella and another woman are dressed similarly. Hanna walks around and plays with the umbrella.

The collection related to the life of Abrasza Feldman during the time of the Holocaust and includes certificates, letters, photographs, and medical reports.

A large group is gathered outdoors in winter to watch skiers; a horse pulls several people on a sleigh, including Sonja de Kadt; close-up of Willie in her stroller and on a rocking horse

The Jakob and Zofia Dymant papers document Jakob Dymant’s escape from Poland during the Holocaust and survival in Japan, China, and India; Zofia Dymant’s wartime work for Walther C. Többens in Warsaw under her Christian alias; and the Christian aliases of some of Zofia’s relatives. Jakob Dymant records include identification papers, receipts, permits, immigration records, and an immunization certificate ...

Consists of one memoir, 64 pages, entitled "Autobiography and Memoirs of Zeida Harry Barr," written by Mr. Harry Barr, originally of Maków-Mazowiecki, Poland. Mr. Barr describes his childhood and family in Maków-Mazowiecki, his immigration to Australia in 1939, his wartime and post-war life in Australia, and his work with the Jewish community. Collection includes 3 copies of the memoir.

Consists of an autobiographical sketch of the early life of Anne Kelemen (Anne Kelemen Robitscher), originally of Vienna, Austria. She describes the lives of her extended family, including her parents, who perished at Belzec in 1942. Ms. Kelemen was sent to England on a Kindertransport in May 1939, and reunited with her sister, who was in England working as a domestic. She became a Zionist and tried ...

Testimony, 40 pages, typescript, about the experiences of the author and his family in Berlin, then in various parts of Europe (Denmark, Netherlands, the Westerbork and deportation to Theresienstadt), as well as role of El Salvador (specifically George Mandel-Mantello) in helping save him and family's life by issuing citizenship certificates.

The Rose Silberberg Skier papers include a diary, photographs, and materials related to Silberberg’s time at the Convent of the Gray Sisters in Neisse and at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp documenting the Silberberg family in Jaworzno, Poland, Silberberg’s wartime experiences in hiding, and her post‐war experiences at Zeilsheim. The diary records Silberberg’s wartime memories and her daily life ...

Collection of photographs, correspondence and documents relating to the Weiss and Ross families living in Liptovská Teplá, Slovakia. The photographs depict family life; the wedding of Alexander and Blanka Weiss in June 1937; birth of Peter in 1939; and their life till their escape into hiding. The documents include two Red Cross letters from Blanka Weiss to her father, dated October 1943 and January ...

Consists of one memoir, 14 pages, in English, written by Sofia Auguston, originally of Riga, Latvia. In the memoir, she describes life in the Riga ghetto, escaping several mass shootings, hiding her family's tallit, and being sent to Germany by boat in 1944. She witnessed the sinking of a barge of deportees, but her boat arrived in Stutthof. From there, she was forced to march to Totenhof in Sofienwald, ...

Consists of one memoir, 76 pages, entitled "My Perplexing Past," by Edward Bendik (Eduard Beinhacker), who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1932. He describes his childhood in Malacky and his memories of the German occupation of Malacky. He transcribes his mother's recollections of their escape from Czechoslovakia through Hungary to Italy, and their ocean passage to the United States, arriving ...

Rudolf Wolf (1907-2005) was born in Frankfurt, Germany to Hermann (1877-1970) and Ella (born Gisella Moser, 1886-1972) Wolf. He had one brother, Ernst (b. 1912). His father Hermann served in the German Army during World War I, and worked as a draftsman. Rudolf studied law in Munich, but was kicked out for being Jewish. He then studied to become an architect. Facing increased Nazi persecution, the family ...

The memoir of Zalman Lubocki of Kaunas, Lithuania is his eyewitness account of the German invasion in June 1941, life in the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto, imprisonment at Stutthof, hard labor, liberation, and his arrival as a displaced person at Landsberg, Germany. The collection is comprised of the original copy of the 100 page memoir written in Yiddish in 1945 when Zalman was living in a displaced persons ...

Account of the Lenkway family’s life in Cologne, Germany: persecution under the Nazis, escape from Germany in 1938, their odyssey through several European countries before emigrating to the US in 1941.

Contains information about the life of Rosa Taubman Budick in Poland before the Holocaust, the antisemitism she experienced from Poles, the ghetto in Kraków, Poland, her experiences while working for the SS in a prison, the Jewish police in the Kraków ghetto, living under an assumed identity, and liberation by the Red Army. Also included is a photograph of Taubman family members in Kraków circa ...

Typescript memoir, 6 pages, by Leo Mantelmacher (1919-2006), titled "How One Brother Saved His Other Brother's Life Without Knowing It." Mantelmacher, originally of Kozienice, Poland, described the experiences of his family in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and in particular, the evacuation of the Jewish population from his hometown of Kozienice in 1942, his own work as a forced laborer, ...

Testimony and one photograph describing Rosa Shoshana Taubamn Budick’s (later Shoshana Budick) family and childhood in Kraków as well as life in the Kraków ghetto.

Copyright Holder: Eli Schaap

Feliks Puterman (1910-1955, also referred to as Stefan Feliks Samuel Puterman) was born Samuel Puterman on 13 January 1910 in Mszczonów, Poland to Jakob Puterman (1885-1943) and Regina Puterman (b. 1886, née Pomeranzenbaum). He had two sisters, Irena Puterman (b. 1921, later Barbara Irene Sifneos), and Basia Puterman. The family lived in Poznań and Warsaw. Feliks pursued a career in art, and attended ...

The Guggenheim and Smali families papers consist of correspondence, memoirs, photographs, and a receipt documenting the Guggenheim family from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and the Smali family from Merkinė, Lithuania. Correspondence includes a letter written by Malka Pugacka Smali from a Cyprus detention camp in 1947 describing a scene she witnessed in the Kovno ghetto in 1942 in which a little girl’s ...