Lea Derszowicz (1912-1988) was born on 9 December 1912 in Dzików, Tarnobrzeg, Poland to Wolf (1876-1942) and Anna (1880-1942, née Monheit) Eberstark. She had several siblings including Shimon (1902-1943), Eliezer (1905-1943), and Chaim (1922-1943). Her father was a merchant and she was raised in a Hasidic household. Around 1936, Lea married Pinkus Derszowicz (b. 1908 to Leib and Gital Derszowicz) and ...

Contains a compilation, in German with English translation by Justin J. Mueller, of reports, correspondence and a questionnaire relating to the flight and life in hiding of Martin Bier's mother, Ellen Bier-Feitler, from March 1944 to May 1945. Included are an uncompleted memoir by Ellen Bier-Feitler, a Swiss Justice and Police Department questionnaire dated March 18, 1944, and a letter and reports, ...

Contains of a copy of a typewritten memoir, two pages, written by Yolanda Friedmann Gold, originally of Jibou, Transylvania. The memoir describes life in the gehtto in Simleul-Silvania, then in Goldfill, Estonia. In Estonia, she was forced to work in a pine forest and then was briefly sent to Danzig and Stutthof before being sent to a munitions factory near Hamburg. She was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, ...

"This is the story of Sabine Fröhlich and the harrowing experiences of her family during the Nazi regime - experiences she did not disclose to her children for decades. Sabine was raised as Catholic with her brother Andreas. As a result, she did not understand that the rapidly emerging antisemitic propaganda would be applied to her family, including her father, a decorated German WWI veteran. She first ...

Consists of one memoir, 5 pages, in English, written by Samuel Finkelstein, originally of Rzeszów, Poland. In the memoir, Mr. Finkelstein describes his family's pre-war life in Rzeszów, being forced into the ghetto, and how many struggled to get identity cards designating them as necessary labor. In 1943, Mr. Finkelstein was deported to Płaszów and from there, to Mauthausen. He was sent to the subcamp ...

Consists of memoir, 59 pages, which relates to the life of Rebecca Atsmon, born in Lvov. She was taken to a work camp in 1941, which was under the command of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Kitner who treated them very well. He warned her family of the liquidation of the ghetto in 1943 and aided them in their escape to Germany with Gentile papers. She worked in Germany until the liberation in 1945 and traveled ...

Consists of one memoir, 40 pages, entitled "Before the Storm," written in 2004 by Alexander Cohen, originally of Budapest, Hungary. In the memoir, Mr. Cohen describes the anti-Jewish measures in Budapest before 1944 and the chaos of life in Budapest in 1944. He describes his experiences in a Hungarian forced labor battalion and the deaths of members of his family and those of his wife, Magda, whom ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Adele Rubinstein

Contains a manuscript entitled "Sunday's Child," by Lili R. Andrieux.

The collection consists of photographs depicting Herbert Krogman’s life in Copenhagen, Denmark prior to World War II; his flight to Sweden with his parents, Herman and Frieda Krogman, in 1943; and his service in the Danish Army in 1945.

Murray Goldblatt was U.S. soldier who served during World War II in Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia and Germany from 1943 to 1945, most likely with the 15th Finance Corps. Born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family, Murray worked in the family's hardware store before enlisting with the Army on January 23, 1943. After his release on December 27, 1945, Murray returned to New York and later settled in Princeton, ...

Max Chaja (later Max Guyer) was born in Gąbin, Poland. Max was active in the theatre in Poland. He married Zelda Teifeld in the late 1920s, and moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina around 1930. She joined him in there in 1934. They remained there for the duration of World War II, and immigrated to the United States by 1950. They settled in Detroit, Michigan. Max and Zelda had two daughters, Aida and Norma. ...

The Fritz G. Cohen collection consists of 37 handwritten postcards, in German, sent from Hannover, Germany, dated 1940-1942, from Lina Cohen, the donor's grandmother, or Margarete Liepmann, or Bertha Abrahamsohn, the donor's aunt, and sent to Hete or Henry Vaderborght or Mimi Lambucht in Brussels (Belgium), and to Dr. J. Gramegna in Genoa, Italy. All the postcards are addressed to "My dear child" or ...

Copyright Holder: Mrs. Arlene Erlebacher

The amateur films shot by German infantryman Corporal Eugen Biedenbach of 419 Infantry Regiment record his training and active service in the German campaigns against Yugoslavia and on the southern sector of the Eastern Front. The films also containg pre- and post-war scenes of Biedenbach family life in Stuttgart (where the family of Eugen's wife owned a clothes store) as well as recreational activities. ...

Testimony, circa 70 pages, typescript. Most appears to be about Novak's life in U.S. after war, not about what her family experienced during it.

Letters and postcards sent to Cecilia Pels in Copenhagen from various locations in Europe with expressions of thanks on receiving food parcels, 1941-1943
 
 Cecilia Cohen married Ludwig Pels in Hamburg; the Pels family were wine merchants and were very involved in community life in their town; Ludwig was head of the Chevra Kadisha (burial society) and Cecilia was involved in collecting donations ...

Dr. Max Schur, born in Ukraine and living in Vienna from 1914, was a psychoanalyst and Freud's personal physician. His wife, Helen (Kraus) Schur, born in Prague, was also a doctor. They married at the Seitenstettengasse synagogue in Vienna in 1930 and had two children, Peter (b.1933) and Eva (b.1935). The Schur family lived in Vienna until June 10, 1938, when they left for London with visas obtained ...

<p>This collection contains papers (photocopies) relating to the fate of the Jewish family of Richard and Gisela Bernstein and their children Heinz and Susanne. Whilst the children emigrated to England as Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi regime, their parents could not escape deportation to Auschwitz despite them moving to Oslo.</p><p>Personal papers including birth and death certificates, correspondence ...

Consists of one memoir, 10 pages, entitled "Zigi's Story," by Zygmunt (Zigi) Shipper. In his memoir, Mr. Shipper describes his childhood in Łódź, his memories of life in the Łódź ghetto, and his forced labor in a metal factory, where he worked until July 1944. He was deported to Auschwitz then to a series of camps, including Stutthof. At the end of the war, he was sent on a forced march and ended up ...

Consists of documents, eight pre-war family photographs, and two books written in German and Hebrew entitled, "Gebetbuch and Stunden der Andacht" from the estate of Ms. Eva Rosemarie Feigl. The documents included in the collection are: Eva Feigl’s naturalization certificate, Alien Registration card, high school diploma, birth certificate, and a photocopy of an affidavit in lieu of a passport, issued ...

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 ...

Therese (Tesi) Wertheim (née Mayer, 1896-1982) was born in Stuttgart, Germany to Max Wetheim (1865-1950) and Clara Mayer (d. 1927) and had one sister, Ruth (b. 1906). Ruth, her husband Adolf Sichel, and their son Martin immigrated to the United States in 1937. After Kristallnacht in 1938, Max immigrated to the United States with the help of Ruth and her family. Tesi married Ernest Wertheim (1883-1956) ...

Edith Brandon was born September 24, 1921 to Heinrich and Meta Blau (née Samuel). She spent much of her childhood in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland), where her father ran an import/export business. Edith’s parents first met in her mother’s family home in Minden, a German garrison town where her father was stationed near the end of WWI. Edith and her mother made frequent visits to Minden ...