Testimony, 2 pages, typescript. Author was native of Vienna whose family lived in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, during the occupation, which she describes, including her life as a hidden child.

Josef Ludwig Oppenheimer (later Joseph, 1927-2020) was born in Würburg, Germany, to Ludwig Emanuel (1892-1972) and Maria Schwarzenberger (later Mary, 1898-1997) Oppenheimer. Josef’s family lived comfortably. His father, Ludwig, was a merchant, and the son of Emanuel and Sophie Lauer Oppenheimer. During World War I (1914-1918), Ludwig fought for Germany in the 11 and 5 Bavarian, Field Artillery Regiments. ...

Margot Kalman emigrated from Berlin to Johannesburg, South Africa, in c 1936, where she met Peter Weinberg whom she later married. She was working as a seamstress in a textile business at the time of the correspondence. She moved to England in 1960.

Fritz Mangold and his family originally came from Hamburg, Germany.<br />

Consists of one memoir, written by Eva Biro Slott, describing her experiences in the ghetto and in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, during the Holocaust. Includes letters written to Eva by Jozsef, Sari, and Judit Biro, family members who did not survive the war, describing life in the Mindszent ghetto and preparations for their deportation. Also includes material regarding Arie Kadar, cousin of Eva Slott, ...

Esther Lurie (1913-1998) was born in Liepaja (formerly Libau), Latvia, to a religious, intellectual Jewish family. Her parents were Josef and Bluma and she had five older sisters and an older brother. The family was forced to move to Riga during World War I (1914-1918), when Liepāja, a Baltic seaport which was then part of the Russian Empire, was taken over as a military port. Esther’s artistic gifts ...

The author, a non-Jew, writes about the Jewish family of her first husband František (Franta) Taussig - the Taussigs of Hlinsko. Franta (1909-1941) was a communist party organizer and editor of a communist newspaper in Bruenn (Brno). He was arrested and shot by the Nazis in 1941 for his activities in the resistance. His parents and a younger brother, Josef (Pepek), a writer and artist, were sent to ...

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

Copyright Holder: Mr. Joseph Altman

Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE (born Wertheim; 19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on Kindertransport. Winton found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain. Shortly before Christmas 1938, Winton was planning to travel to Switzerland for a skiing holiday. He decided instead ...

Copyright Holder: Eliane Ungar

Memoir, typescript, 732 pages, written in 1945-1947 by Mojżesz "Mietek" Pachter (donor’s paternal uncle) during his recuperation in a tuberculosis sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland. In the memoir, Mietek described the Pachter family life in the Warsaw ghetto; forced labor by his older brother Wilek Wolf and himself and smuggling of food for the parents: Pinchas and Rywka and their youngest brother Sewek ...

<p>Biographical notes on Bernhard Baer. The notes provide details of his life, born into a German Jewish family in Berlin in 1905, and trace his experiences through the First World War and its aftermath, his escape from Nazi persecution to England in 1938 and his subsequent career as an expert in colour printing and a publisher of artists' graphic work.<br />English Typescript 24 pages</p><p>The account ...

Felicia Bryn (born Felicja Braun, 1936 or 1937-2014) was born on 22 August 1936 or 1937 in Warsaw Poland to Dawid Braun and Bluma Gliksman Braun. Dawid (b. 1914) worked as a physician and was originally from Kalisz, Poland where his grandfather was a well-known rabbi. Bluma (1915-1941) was born in Wielun, Poland and was a daughter of Rabbi Fajwel Gliksman, an Agudah Israel activist. Felicia had one ...

Consists of one memoir, 660 pages, untitled, by Joseph Winkler, originally born in Sambor, Galicia, in 1903. The memoir was dictated in August 1974 and transcribed. In his memoir, Mr. Winkler describes his childhood, life under Russian occupation during World War I, and seeing his town become Polish territory. He got a job at a petroleum refinery in Drohobycz in 1927, received his doctorate in chemistry, ...

Yehuda Zerzy Singer was born in Kraków, Poland in 1928 and immigrated to Palestine in February 1943 with the "Tehran Children," a group of children and Holocaust survivors brought to the country by the Jewish Agency after staying in a camp arranged for them in Tehran, Iran. After arriving in Palestine, Yehuda was sent with a group of children to Kibbutz Ein Harod.

Photocopies of documents about Ernst Benedikt's life and of his publications, as well as digitised photographs of him and his family.

The memoir describes the life of Paulette Singer Barrett from 1939 to 1953. It includes the pre-World War II emigration of Paulette's parents from Poland and Romania to Paris, France, Paulette's and her parents' journey to southern France after the Nazis seized Paris, the fate of her relatives who stayed in Poland, the resistance activities of French citizens, and the eventual imigration of Paulette ...

Abraham (Abram) Winiger (1905-1993) was born December 21, 1905 in Nadwórna, Poland (now Nadvirna, Ukraine) to Israel and Sarah Winiger. Mina Winiger (1913-1979) was born May 5, 1913 in Majdan Górny, Poland to Markus and Sobel Händel and moved to Nadwórna. The couple were married in 1938, and their son Jakob (Jankl) was born March 1, 1941. Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a ghetto ...

Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

Basia Garfinkel was born in Będzin, Poland, on November 2, 1927 to Josef Garfinkel (b. 1889) and Jochewed Beitner (b. 1886). Josef owned a general store and a workshop where holiday frocks were sewn. He was a very observant man and follower of the Radomsk Rabbi. The family spoke Yiddish at home and lived at Modrzejewska 44, a building where most of the residents were Jewish, including the Weinstein, ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Susan Warsinger

Consists of a copy of 40 excerpted pages from memoirs by Bendix Landau, of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, addressing the circumstances of his deportation in September 1942 and his subsequent internment in Theresienstadt. Later pages concern Bendix's mobilization during WWI and military life.

This collection consists of the personal account of Alix Preece, a German Jewish refugee who had been living in France since 1927 and spent most of the duration of the Second World War there. She was interned for several months at Gurs before moving on to Marseilles where she was hoping to get a Brazilian visa to join her family. As her visa extension was refused she eventually managed to go to Portugal ...