Bertil Bergström was born on May 3, 1915 in Norrköping and grew up in Åby with his parents and two brothers.In his youth he was involved in the Swedish Missionary Association, Åby Missionary Assembly.When Bertil was 13 years old, the family moved to Malmö. In Malmö, he was involved in the Swedish Red Cross for many years of his life and was chairman and leader of the Youth Red Cross 1943-47, leader ...

Mervin Mirsky (b. 1904 - d. June 24, 2010) was the son of David and Sadie Mirsky, grandson of Rev. Jacob Mirsky. David, along with his brothers Norman and John (Jack), worked for his father's company, Pure Springs Ltd., and specialised in sales, merchandise, and promotions. Mervin left the family business for a short period when he enlisted to fight in the Second World War. In 1945 he was attached ...

Anna Koppich (1909-2005) was a Jewish doctor living in Hungary at the time of German occupation in 1944. She, her son, Gyurika (George), and her parents were incarcerated in the Kolozsvàr ghetto in 1944, after her husband, Ferri had already been deported to a labor camp. In the ghetto, Anna continued to work as a physician and care for the sick. In June 1944 Anna and her family and were transported ...

This collection contains the personal papers of Frederick Edwards, formerly Fritz Meyer, and includes birth, naturalisation and school certificates; driving licences; British army records and sundry correspondence

Izac Holcman was born in Warsaw, Poland on February 15, 1902 to Izrael and Lea Holcman (née Grynsztejn). He was the youngest of two boys, with an older brother named David (1898-). Izac graduated from a secondary school in Warsaw in 1917 and went on to take a course in bookkeeping - a profession he retained for much of his life. At the age of 20, Izac joined the Polish Armed Forces as a member of the ...

Dr. Julius Kühl (Juliusz, Yehiel, 1913-1985) was born in Sanok, Poland (Galicia at the time). He moved to Switzerland and studied economics and the University of Zurich. At the outbreak of World War II he received a position at the Polish legation, which remained loyal to the Polish government-in-exile and was supervised by Aleksander Ładoś. Kühl was charged with aiding Polish soldiers in Swiss internment ...

Jan de Jong was born in 1916 in Arnhem, Netherlands. After hiding for several years in the Nazi occupied Netherlands he was eventually caught. Jan was taken to Westerbork transfer camp and later Sobibor extermination camp in Poland where he was murdered in June 1943.

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 ...

Joseph G. Fogg (Cleveland, Oh., 1920 - Moreland Hills, 1992) was as a volunteer ambulance driver for an American Field Service unit attached to the 8th British Army, and served from 1942 to 1945. He witnessed Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly after liberation

Jakob Ascher (later Jacob, 1882-1970) was born in Poland where he worked as a merchant and married Feiga Storch (later Fanny, 1882-1949). They had four children: Heinz Israel (later Harry, b. August 31, 1921), Max Leo (Motke or Mordechai, b. May 23, 1922), Esther (b. February 21, 1924), and Isidore Abraham (b. August 26, 1928). Jakob served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during WWI and settled in Breslau, ...

<p>This collection consists of the personal papers of Elisabeth Eisner, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who fled Austria shortly after the annexation in 1938. As soon as her mother had obtained her domestic permit she joined her in 1939.</p>Personal papers including birth and naturalisation certificates, Heimatschein, qualification, list of belongings brought to England upon emigration, photographs, papers ...

Contains documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Rose Schwartz Schindler and Max Schindler, Holocaust survivors who met and married in the United Kingdom after World War II. Max’s family was deported from Cottbus, Germany to Poland in October 1938; Max, his father Benjamin, and brother Alfred performed slave labor in numerous concentration camps including Płaszow, Litoměřice, and ...

The Martin Perlmutter papers contain biographical materials and photographs documenting Perlmutter’s time in Italy with his wife, primarily in the Bari displaced persons camp, after World War II before their immigration to the United States. Many of the photographs depict camp demonstrations against British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin and restrictive Palestine immigration policies. Biographical materials ...

This collection comprises copy documents relating to the Herschel Grynszpan/ Ernst vom Rath affair. In addition there is a covering note containing commentary on the documents from Vincent Frank-Steiner.

Ancsel Feuerwerker (later Arthur Feuer) was born on November 4, 1922, in Craciunesti, Romania, to a Jewish couple, Lazar (Zvi) Eliezer and Regina (Rywka) Chaya Perl Feuerwerker. Zvi was born on August 24, 1893, in Tiszakarácsonyfalva (later Craciunesti), and had 1 sister. He worked as a timber cutter, floating the large logs down river in Romania to Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Rywka was born in 1897, ...

Finding aid is available. Postcards written by Orban's parents in original Hungarian have been translated to English by the donor, George Szasz.

Consists of one memoir, 25 pages, untitled, by Relli Schmerler Katz, originally of Czechoslovakia. In the memoir, written in 1996, Mrs. Katz describes pre-war Jewish life. Her family was deported in April 1944 to the ghetto in Mátészalka, Hungary, and from there to Auschwitz. She describes the process of arrival in Auschwitz, reuniting with an aunt who had been deported previously, and surviving multiple ...

"The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before. Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated- Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this book he recounts its dramatic and traumatic history. 'I want to observe and ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Miriam F. Morris

Digital copy available as collection KD_00977 at Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

This collection contains: two photos of Dora Turksma as a child, including a photo of her with her mother Klara Schilt at the beach; the ‘Volksmisboek en Vesperale’ (catholic prayer book) Dora Turksma received when being baptised as a hidden child in 1944; several dozen post-war prayer cards and devotional cards tucked away in the bible, signed by nuns and pupils at the boarding schools Dora attended; ...

P.46- Kaelter Collection: Documentation from the estate of David and Judith (Edith) Kaelter, residents of Germany, who emigrated to Eretz Israel in 1939&#x0D; &#x0D; David Kaelter served as a teacher in a few Jewish communities in the Saxony region of Germany and subsequently in Berlin. In 1935 he established and administered a Jewish elementary school in Koenigsberg. In 1939, David and Judith (Edith) ...

Wooden traveling wagon made for a Lovari family, a Romani people, who specialized in horse dealing in the Czech and Slovak regions. The wagon with metal hoops for a canvas covering was custom-made for members of the group in the mid-1930s. In 1939, there were about a million Roma in Europe. The Roma were judged as racially inferior by Nazi ideology and singled out for persecution by Germany, in ways ...