Photographs, documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Eugen Friedmann (donor), born in Kravany, Czechoslovakia in 1921. Documents his family's pre-war life in Kravany, his forced labor in Slovakia, and eventual deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, and Muhldorf concentration camps in Poland and Germany. Includes a postwar identity card illustrating the experiences of Alzbeta ...

Ruth Wangenheim Fischel was born on June 28, 1898 in Berlin, Germany. She married Siegmund Fischel (born March 26, 1895 in West Prussia) in February 1923. They had three children: Siegbert, Manfred, and Mignon. In 1939, the Fischels sent their children to live with relatives in the Netherlands and, in May 1940, obtained permits to go to Shanghai. Ruth and Siegmund arrived in Shanghai on July 21, 1940. ...

Dr Suzanne Ullmann was a zoologist, born of Jewish parents in Budapest in 1935. She lectured for many years at the University of Glasgow. Her father, Rudi Ullmann, a jeweller, had moved to London in the hope of setting up a business. Her mother, Lenke Ullmann, née Brueck, followed him out there but was unable to return to Hungary because of WWII. Suzanne along with her younger twin siblings, Joseph ...

The Rose Kaplovitz papers consist of correspondence, autograph books, and photographs documenting the lives of Rose and her family in Sosnowiec, Będzin, and Łazy. The collections relates to their experiences before the Holocaust, Rose’s survival in the Sosnowiec ghetto and Ober-Altstadt forced labor camp, and her postwar life in a Jewish orphanage in Chorzów and at the Leipheim displaced persons camp. ...

Consists of a baptismal certificate for Sophia Balitzer, originally issued in 1935 and reissued in 1947; a marriage certificate, dated 1936 at the parish of Sw. Magdaleny in Grodno; a 1945 identity card with photograph issued to Regina Balitzer, originally of Radom; and a postcard sent from Z. Baltizer in the Tarnow ghetto to his sister, M. Adout, in Lausanne, Switzerland, dated 1942. The baptismal ...

Consists of records of displaced persons (DP) camps and centers, which were collected by YIVO between 1946-1954. Includes information about Jewish organizations and committees that supported DPs, the occupation authorities, antisemitism, liberation day celebrations, annual congresses, material needs, the housing shortage in Germany, cultural activities, the Jewish community of Berlin, searches for ...

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<p>This collection consists of correpondence from Grete and James Pick, who emigrated to China, to their friends Willy and Else Heymann, who had emigrated to New Zealand.</p><p>Letters providing details of the procedures for refugees arriving in Shanghai, impressions of Chinese culture, James Pick's professional life in Tientsin, and Pick's return to Germany after the Second World War.<br /><br />Also ...

Relates the experiences of Morris (née Moishe) Elbaum; in particular his childhood in Warsaw, Poland; his life inside and escape from the Warsaw ghetto; his capture by the Germans, transport to a concentration camp, and his escape; his passing as a Polish gentile; his being sent to concentration camps in Ludwigshafen, Eichwalde, and Berlin, Germany as a laborer; his liberation; his attempts to find ...

In 2017, the Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Heinz Friedrich Meyer-Velde (1926-2015) from his daughter. In September 2018, an addition was made. Heinz Friedrich Meyer-Velde grew up in Brunswick where he worked as a court reporter for the local newspaper of Brunswick in the late 1940s. This way he came to know the then presiding judge of the Landgericht and later Attorney General of the ...

The Nazi Germans used Izbica, the Polish village where Philip Bialowitz was born, as a transitory ghetto for Jews on their way to the destruction camps in Eastern Poland. In Izbica Philip Bialowitz survived a fire squad as a young boy. He was deported to Sobibor in 1943 and selected for forced labour upon arrival. Philip's elder brother, Simkha, took care of him wherever possible. Philip was involved ...

The Joseph Komito memoir is a typewritten memoir of Joseph Komito in which he describes life in Mielec, Poland, before and during the German occupation; his experiences as a forced laborer first in an unnamed airplane factory and later in Wieliczka, Auschwitz, Flossenbürg, and Leitmeritz concentration camps; and his postwar life in the United States.

This collection contains 2 photographs showing David Michel Speyer posing for a portrait in 1916 and David Michel Speyer with his wife Marie Rosalie Kerremans and their two daughters Simonne Anna Eugènie Speyer and Eugenie Clémentine Speyer on the beach in 1927.

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 ...

Ladder used by Michael Goldmann (later Goldmann-Gilead), Chanan Ansbacher, and Eli Heilman to hide in Konrad and Regina Zimoń’s hayloft in January 1945, in Rybnik, Poland. The men had escaped from a forced march after Auschwitz concentration camp was evacuated. They hid for a week, during which time the Zimoń’s oldest daughter, Stefania, regularly brought them food. In summer 1939, fearing a German ...

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. ...

Magda Goldschmidt was born in Berlin on 13 January 1938. Her mother, Else Rosenthal, was unable to care for her child and thus left her at the orphanage when she was only 3 months old. In spring 1939, the management of the orphanage organised the emigration of the children. The Swedish branch of WIZO was involved in Magda’s transfer to Swedish foster parents, who adopted her in 1941. In 1961 Magda ...

This set of manuscript war-time diaries from an Austrian Jewish refugee provide a unique insight into a refugee's life and his interpretation of national events. A number of enclosures were found loose within the diaries. These have been catalogued separately [1277/16] with a note of their place of origin. Hollitscher begins his English diaries by remembering his last days in Vienna, but soon turns ...

When the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Thomas Toivi Blatt was twelve years old. He and his family lived in the largely Jewish town of Izbica in the Lublin district of Poland - a district that was to become the site of three of the six major Nazi extermination camps: Belzec, Sobibor, and Majdanek. Blatt's account of his childhood in Izbica provides a fascinating glimpse of Jewish life ...

Wool checked travel blanket given to 13 year old Mimi Alice Schleissner by her mother Berta to keep her warm when she left on the Kindertransport in May 1939. Mimi's parents Berta and Julius and her brother Edi, 18, stayed behind in Kolin, Czechoslovakia. Until October 1938, the family resided in the spa town Marienbad [now Marianske Lazne], in the Sudetenland region. It was annexed by Nazi Germany ...

Ernst Schlochauer (1921-1961) was born in Berlin on 3 April 1921, and raised there until 1933, when his parents moved the family to France. Ernst studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris, but the family chose to return to Berlin in 1935, and Ernst completed his studies there in 1937, and left for Britain the same year, where he took the university entrance examination at Cambridge. As he and ...

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