Copyright Holder: Walter Schoenholz

Sara de Leeuw was born on 4 October 1921 in Winterswijk, the Netherlands, as the daughter of Abraham de Leeuw (born on 27 August 1886 in Arnhem, the Netherlands) and Belia Philip (born on 11 July 1885 in Gorenlo, the Netherlands). Sara had three older brothers named Hartog Israel (born in 1914), Rudolf Maurits (born in 1917) and Arie (born in 1918), and two younger brothers named Sallie (born in 1924) ...

Julian Lehmann, son of the author Oskar Lehmann, and grandson of the Rabbi Dr. Markus Lehmann was born on 3 October 1886 in Mainz, lived in Hamburg and was editor of the <i>Israelitisches Familienblatt</i>. After studying modern languages and literature, he did a short course in journalism and became an editor on the <i>Frankfurter Nachrichten</i> (1912-1927), then he founded the periodical <i>Der ...

Ruth von Wild (1912 -1983) was a Swiss teacher who dedicated her life to the care of refugee children. Ruth von Wild grew up in Barcelona as a Swiss citizen abroad. Her parents were from Glockenthal in the canton of Bern. She graduated from the University of Neuchâtel, and taught from 1933 to 1936 at the Swiss School in Barcelona. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War the school was closed and ...

Airmail envelope received by the Jaffe family in New York, relatives of Nesse Galperin Godin. It was postmarked December 1940 and sent from Warsaw in German occupied Poland to New York. In June 1941, Siauliai, Lithuania, where Nesse lived with her closeknit family, was occupied by Nazi Germany. Nesse, her parents Pinchas and Sara, and her brothers, Yechezkel and Menashe were soon forced into the ghetto. ...

The municipality of Hroubovice belonged to the Košumberk and Chrást estates in the 19th century. There had been an important Jewish community in the municipality since the 18th century. At the beginning of the 19th century, it formed up to 50 percent of the municipality's population. At the end of the 18th century, an independent Jewish religious community was established, and a ghetto was built, in ...

Anna Teitelbaum was born in Antwerp on 5 December 1931 as the youngest of four children of the Jewish diamond merchant Chaim Teitelbaum and his catholic wife Victorina De Ridder. Anna attended classes at a local primary school (Stedelijk Onderwijsgesticht voor meisjes nr. 1) at Lange Leemstraat, where she had several Jewish classmates. When Nazi-Germany invaded Belgium on 10 May 1940, the Teitelbaum ...

FILM ID 4600 -- AJC NY 162-168 Claude Lanzmann interviews an American Jewish Committee (AJC) employee at the New York City office. During the interview the employee acts as a guide, taking Lanzmann on a tour of the building housing the AJC, which is comprised of several departments. The guide explains the main functions of the departments they pass: the Public Education and Information Department, ...

Excerpt of well-known propaganda film made by the Nazis to show the International Red Cross and others that they were not mistreating Jews in the "ghettos." Documentary footage depicts the life of Jews in the ghetto of Theresienstadt [Terezin] in Czechoslovakia as harmonious and joyful. They wear yellow stars on their civilian clothing but are euphemistically called residents ["Bewohner"] instead of ...

Wooden comb and paper case given to 21 year old Esther Dykman by a friend on December 27, 1944, when they were slave laborers in an AEG Factory in Kaiserwald concentration camp in Riga, Latvia. The friend found the comb on the side of the road and made the holder from materials taken from the factory where she and Esther worked. Germany invaded Soviet controlled Poland in June 21,1941, and three days ...

Genia Kac was the daughter of Samuel and Tsivia Kac. She was born in 1906 in Bielsk Podlaski, where her father was a shochet (ritual slaughterer) and a mohel (performer of circumcisions). Genia had two brothers: Israel and Yosef. Israel belonged to the Betar revisionist Zionist youth movement. As a young man, he immigrated to Palestine but was forced to return to Poland after contracting malaria. He ...

Credits. EXT, bridges in San Francisco and Germany. Bridges at war - soldiers and tanks, bombings. Repaired bridge in Manila in October 1946. Views of damage to buildings in Manila. Children and young people in Manila, food shortages. YMCA services. 01:06:36 Boys club meeting of the YMCA outdoors in Manila. Baseball game. Damaged Y building. INTs, woman cooking in her home; her family eats. Student ...

Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Hatzerim&#x0D; &#x0D; Personal documentation (from the personal files of kibbutz members):&#x0D; &#x0D; 1. Yechezkel Roth (Of Blessed Memory): &#x0D; a. Eulogy regarding Yechezkel Roth; &#x0D; b. Transcription of a talk given by Yechezkel Roth to the ...

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Prayer book for the first and second say of Sukkoth from the library of Isaac Ossowski, a prominent member of the Jewish community in Berlin, Germany, who emigrated in 1938 to avoid the increasing persecution of Jews by the government of Nazi Germany. It is a narrative of the culture, history, and traditions of the Hasidic movement. Rabbi Ossowski was head shochet [ritual slaughterer], mohel [practitioner ...

György Pető (Dec 20, 1906-1971) was a talented violin player, photographer, and class lottery businessman in the southern Hungarian city of Szeged. He began making 8mm films in 1938. Pető was first in a Jewish forced labor company in Kiszombor in 1940. After returning home, Pető married Eva Lengyel (d. 1970) on September 8, 1941. They had a son, András, on October 3, 1943. Pető was again transported ...

The archive was created in 2007 and covers the period around 1930 until Halina Neujahr died in 2006. The archive primarily contains documents relating Halina Neujahr's own experiences from the Warsaw ghetto and her time in Sweden in the form of lectures and newspaper articles, as well as the documentary film _In Memoriam_ with Halina Neujahr, in which she talks about her life in the Warsaw ghetto and ...

Carolina Knoch Taitz was born on Feb. 24, 1929, in Rīga, Latvia. She grew up in the countryside outside of Rīga on a small farm. She recalls the time up until the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1941 as a peaceful time. In 1942, her family was forced to move to Rīga when the Germans invaded Latvia. She, her sister, and her mother were transported to the ghetto in Rīga shortly thereafter. Carolina ...

The Joseph and Josie Peretz papers comprise documents and photographs concerning Joseph and Josie Peretz, a Jewish couple living in Antwerp, Belgian who survived the Holocaust. Joseph, after being released as a prisoner of war with the Belgian army was deported to a labor camp in northern France and escaped after procuring false French papers, while Josie, a Polish-born Jew, lived with a couple in ...

Nechama Shneorson was born Nechama Santocki in 1929 in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania to butcher shop owner Jacob Santocki and his wife Ethel. She had three sisters: Zlata, Ida, and Genya. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union they were sent to the Seventh Fort and then to the Kovno ghetto in August 1941. Ida was killed in a fire during the liquidation of the ghetto in July 1944. The rest of the family ...

<p>This collection contains the papers of Vera Cohn, mainly concerning Dr Kurt Singer, conductor and musicologist, with whom she had a relationship before she emigrated to the UK in 1938.</p>Personal papers including press cuttings relating to Singer, programme for a guest performance at the Berliner Ensemble accompanying the exhibition 'Geschlossene Vorstellung - Der Jüdische Kulturbund 1933-1941' ...

The Arnold Hartmann correspondence documents Hartmann’s efforts to help his Breslau cousins flee Germany during the Holocaust and either join their relatives who had already emigrated to Shanghai, Montevideo, or La Paz or immigrate to the United States. Hartmann’s correspondents include his cousins Philipp and Regine Hartmann in Breslau; their older daughter Meta and her husband Bruno Oszlowski who ...

Gender and the Long Postwar examines gender politics during the post-World War II period and the Cold War in the United States and East and West Germany. The authors show how disruptions of older political and social patterns, exposure to new cultures, population shifts, and the rise of consumerism affected gender roles and identities. Comparing all three countries, chapters analyze the ways that gender ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...