The collection consists of documents, correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Frederich Taussig, born 1923 in Vienna, Austria and raised in Prague, Czech Republic and survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps. Materials also illustrates his mother [d. 1932] and father, Lona and Jochanan Taussig, younger brother Thomas [the latter two whom did not survive] as ...

The Alzen family papers include identity papers, correspondence, and court papers documenting a Catholic farming family’s life in Nazi Germany, August Alzen’s forced sterilization, Johann Alzen’s death at Dachau, and the family’s efforts to receive compensation after the war. Documents include Agnes Alzen’s Arbeitsbuch; Albert Alzen’s Military Government questionnaire, Freie Deutsche Liga membership ...

Consists of various personal documents, correspondence, notes and other mementos of a Jewish family from the circles of the assimilated intelligentsia. The collection is divided into four series. The first series contains literary works, mainly by Juliusz Feldhorn, the poetry of Stella Landy and memoirs of Maria Krawczyk which contains information about the family’s fate, and photographs. The second ...

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The Weiss family papers include biographical material, correspondence, immigration material, and school and professional material relating to Zygfryd, Stefania, and Ruth Weiss’ life in Poland before fleeing to the Soviet Union in 1939, imprisonment in Yakutsk, and immigration to the United Stated in 1947. The collection also includes a diary kept by Ruth from 1944-1945 while in Uzbekistan. Biographical ...

Lola Goldsmith (1932-2009) was born Hannelore Goldschmidt, the daughter of Walter and Else (nee Lindau) Goldschmidt, in Hildesheim, Germany. The Goldschmidt family lived in Hildesheim until leaving Germany in 1939, settling in Cirencester, England. Having had to register as enemy aliens, they anglicized their names to "Goldsmith" at this point in time. Lola went to school and spent her early adolescent ...

Family photographs. Men gather for picture/filming at log cabin in mountains [Caucusus?], EXT. Julien Bryan gives the men instructions and backs out of frame.

The Eugen and Gertrude Schwarz family papers consist of identification documents, affidavits, documents, and photographs relating to the Schwarz family. Also included is Ilse Weinberger's memior entitled "Story of My Life," a letter from Ilse to Vera Frankel, and a photograph of Ilse Weinberger, the maid of honor, at Eugen and Gertrude Schwarz's wedding, June 29, 1932.

Consists of one book containing a printed copy of a PowerPoint presentation prepared by Dr. Benjamin Lesin entitled "Israel Meyer and Mollie Lesin: From Birth in Lithuania to a New Life in America." The presentation contains family history, photographs, and documents regarding the family of Rabbi Israel Meyer Lesin and his wife, Malke (Mollie) Glatt Lesin, originally of Naumiestis, Lithuania. Rabbi ...

Consists of documents related to the life of Albert Friedmann, his wife Olga, son Tibor, and stepdaughter, Eva (born Weiss). Albert and Olga married in 1946; both had lost their spouses in the Holocaust. The documents mainly concern the Friedmanns' lives in the Hallein displaced persons camp and Mr. Friedmann's position within the camp. Also includes immigration and naturalization correspondence and ...

Carl de Brouwer, a Belgian banker manager, and his wife Denise offered refuge to two Jewish children during the Nazi occupation of Belgium. Between late 1942 and September 1944, the de Brouwers sheltered 6-year-old Adrien Sapcaru and 12-year-old Monique Mogoulsky in their private home in St Denis-Westrem, near Ghent, Belgium. Monique was the daughter of Carl's former co-worker at the bank in Ghent; ...

Verdoner family on summer holdiay in Zandvoort, Holland, a beach resort town near Haarlem. VS, Yoka and Francisca digging in the sand with their mother and father. Playing in the sand with other children, also older children.

A generous feat of biographical sleuthing by an acclaimed historian rescues one child victim of the Holocaust from oblivion When the German Remembrance Foundation established a prize to commemorate the million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust, it was deliberately named after a victim about whom nothing was known except her age and the date of her deportation: Marion Samuel, an eleven-year-old ...

Jerzy Sieraczek (Jerome Sears) (b. 1936) was born in Warsaw, Poland to Henryk Sieraczek (1903-1982) and Leokadia Eizenberg. After the German invasion of Warsaw and the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto Henryk worked in the textile factory. In 1941 Leokadia was captured in a raid and taken to a concentration camp. In 1942, Henryk arranged for Jerzy to escape from the ghetto and live with the Bonczak’s ...

"A fascinating and timely examination of how genocide can take root at the local level--turning neighbors, friends and even family members against one another--as seen through the little-known story of the Eastern European border town Buczacz during World War II"--Provided by publisher First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. xiv, 398 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

This book examines the extraordinary personality of Claus Count Stauffenberg, a key figure in the 1944 coup attempt against Hitler. Stauffenberg's personality is thrown into relief by a study of his two brothers and other family members and friends. The three Stauffenberg brothers, Berthold, Alexander, and Claus, were inseparable both emotionally and intellectually. Their view of human existence was ...

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 ...

Home movies of the Lederer and Bruck families in Prague, Plana Nad Luznici, Pacov, and Stechovice, Czechoslovakia [Southern Bohemia]. (color) Landscape, family outside home in the mountains, Peter and Nina Lederer in a field of flowers, VAR shots of family members walking towards the camera, eating oranges, CU Ivan Rechts (cousin) squatting near house. 01:05:29 (black and white) Family swimming, tubing ...

Memoirs of a Jewish woman who was in the ghetto of Warsaw until 1942, when she and her family acquired Aryan documents and left the ghetto. During the Warsaw uprising of August 1944 she and her mother were seized by the Germans and sent to labor camps - first Lehrte, then Braunschweig; there she was liberated by the American army. Both on the "Aryan side" of Warsaw and in the labor camp, she and her ...

Jane Frieder swims in a pool, probably in Manila (note servant in white and plant vegetation in next shot), while Peggy floats in an inner tube. Jane practices diving. Scenes of life in the Philippines. 00:03:34 Housekeeper wearing white walks Peggy down the stairs. Jane and Peggy pose for the camera outside in the garden of their family estate. 00:03:56 Jane and Peggy swim in a pool, large cargo ships ...

Maggy Jacqueline Baum was born in Verviers on 22 August 1931. Her father, Szaja Chaskel (Salomon) Baum, was a Polish merchant who dealt in knitted goods. Her mother, Alta Perla Chojnowski, was a housewife. Maurice Baum, brother of Szaja Chaskel Baum, also lived in Verviers. Their sister Gittel Baum and her family lived nearby in the village Dison. During the Second World War, Maggy Jacqueline Baum ...