The George Rothman papers document the Holocaust-era experiences of George Rothman (born Georges Bardenstein) and his parents Emmanuel and Esfira Bardenstein in Bordeaux and Paris, France, including Emmanuel’s enlistment in the French Army, George’s hospitalization due to a severe illness, his parent’s deportation to Drancy and Auschwitz, and his survival as a hidden child in a Catholic orphanage. ...

Achim Frank was born in Leipzig in 1935, as the son of Johannes Gerhard Frank (Dresden, 1905) and Johanna Brandt. Johannes Frank had been a policeman in Dresden since 1925. He was added to the Polizeipräsidium in Leipzig in 1929 and to the Landessicherheitspolizei in 1931. He married Johanna Brandt in 1933. Achim would remain their only child. Johannes Frank joined the Kriminalpolizei (Kripo) a year ...

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Esther Pauline Lloyd was born in London in 1906 of Jewish parentage. She later married a non-Jew, having relinquished her Jewish identity and brought their children up as nominal Christians, which, according to an entry in her diary, she later regretted.<br /><br />Having been deported without her family by the occupying Germans in February 1943, she later managed to successfully appeal the decision ...

Hedwig Abranowicz came from a Jewish family. She was born in Vienna in 1900 and died in London in 1989. She had 2 sisters, Luki and Stella, and a brother, Hans Julius, who died in 1920. She was well educated, having studied philosophy at the University of Vienna from 1919-1925. It is not known when she received her doctorate. She was married to Walter Leibetseder, a non- Jew in 1919 (?). She worked ...

The Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers contain correspondence, identification documents, immigration documents, school certificates, photographs, and a photograph album relating to the Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families living in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) before and during World War II and the Holocaust. The correspondence centers on the emigration of Max and Irma Czerner ...

A Nazi educational film (propaganda) regarding questions of race and heredity of national/political value. [Aufklaerungsfilm ueber Rasse- und Vererbungsfragen / Praedikat: staatspolitsch wertvoll] Title on film: Kulturfilm-Abteilung Atelier 2. Woman calls on professor to show him what the beetles are doing. Additional colleagues join; a cameraman films them. Professor explains beetles' behavior - woman ...

<p>The collection consists of personal papers of Holocaust survivors Ilse Murray neé Perl and her son Claus Nicholas Perl as well as of Red Cross worker Enid Fordham.</p><p>Biographical materials of Ilse and Claus comprise official documents and eyewitness accounts, and allow insights into their persecution and imprisonment in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Included is an audio recording of Ilse ...

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Manuscript memoir, in Yiddish, 120 pages, describing David Newman's experiences in the Skarżysko-Kamienna forced labor camp in Poland during the German occupation, and his subsequent imprisonment at Buchenwald, written by Newman in 1988. An English translation by Miriam Beckerman, from 2006, is also included. The text begins with an account of the pre-war history of the Jewish community in his hometown ...

<p>This collection contains the personal papers of Bertha and Karl Weiss, Jewish former residents of Berlin whose families originated in Poland. Also contained are papers relating to various restitution and pension claims</p><p>Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access&nbsp;some digital photographs</p>

The collection documents the families of Elsie Mosler (born Ilse Rosenberg in Hamburg) and her husband, Claude Mosler (born Klaus Mosler in Berlin). Both families fled Germany due to antisemitic persecution by the Nazis during the 1930s. Biographical material includes Hermann Rosenberg’s German army papers from World War I, birth and marriage certificates, a diary written in German and English kept ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Hilde Geisen

The Walter Furst correspondence consists of correspondence between Walter Furst at Camp Ritchie, Maryland and his brother Harry, his parents Berthalo and Louise Furst, T.E. Glaser, Herbert Meyer, Curt Sloan, Fred Furst, R.H. Stern, Werner Oppenheim, and various other friends from across the United States. The letters focus mainly on military life and other personal matters. The majority of letters ...

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The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Ernest (Eliezer) Braun of Vienna, Austria, including his escape from Austria in 1938 to Yugoslavia and Italy, his immigration to the United States in 1944, and his time living at the Fort Ontario refugee camp in Oswego, New York. Included is a small amount of biographical material; a false identification card from Italy; correspondence from his ...

Describes Abram Korn's (1923-1972) experiences in Lipno, Poland, during the German invasion of Poland; Korn and his family's internment in the Kutno Ghetto; his deportation to and experiences in various concentration camps, including Gross-Rosen, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Hirschberg, Bolkenhain, Ohrdruf, and Buchenwald; Korn's involvement with resistance activities in Auschwitz and that camp's Sonderkommando ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Miriam F. Morris

Selected files of the cases investigated by the Court of the First Instance, Civil Court and Criminal Court, in Warsaw, Poland, during the inter-war years. The files mainly relate to: estates (e.g. cases concerning portioning out family property), payments of rent and expulsion from apartments, as well as cases concerning dues of different kinds. Records reconstruct some aspects of everyday Jewish ...

Edith Birkin was born in Prague in 1927. In 1941, she was sent with her parents to the ghetto of Łódź, Poland. In 1944, she was sent to Auschwitz and then to Christianstadt, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen. In Jan. 1945, she was sent on a death march to Flossenbürg. After spending a short time there, she was transported to Bergen-Belsen, where she was at the time of its liberation. After the Holocaust, ...

A Nazi educational film (propaganda) regarding questions of race and heredity of national/political value. [Aufklaerungsfilm ueber Rasse- und Vererbungsfragen / Praedikat: staatspolitsch wertvoll] Title on film: Kulturfilm-Abteilung Atelier 2. Woman calls on professor to show him what the beetles are doing. Additional colleagues join; a cameraman films them. Professor explains beetles' behavior - woman ...

Walter Hausner (April 24, 1914-February 5, 2003) was a member of the Austrian amateur film society in Vienna. His father, Ferdinand (1883-1957) owned a firm for fabrics and fashion articles with factories in Vienna and Jihlava, Czechoslovakia with business partner Siegfried Furst. Walter’s mother, Wilhelmina Bloch, died from cancer in 1937. Walter and Ferdinand managed to leave Vienna together just ...

Quote from opening Yiddish credits of film: "This is a documentary film depicting the life of the children in the Medem Sanatorium in Miedzeszyn, near Warsaw. The Sanatorium was founded and directed by the Central Organization of the Yiddish-Secular Schools and the General Jewish Labor Bund in Poland. It bore the name of the Bundist leader Vladimir Medem. The Sanatorium was in existence from 1926 until ...

Jean Beller's memoir describes Jean's childhood and adolescence in Poland; her experiences as a student of elementary education in Tel Aviv, Palestine; her return to Poland before the outbreak of World War II; conditions inside the ghetto in Łódź, Poland; her experiences with Chaim Rumkowski; her work as a kindergarten teacher and as the head of an orphanage in the ghetto; her attempts to hide when ...