The Verdoner Family - Gerrit and Hilde Verdoner, their children Yoka (b.1934), Francisca (b.1937) and Otto (b.1939) - were Jewish. In May 1940, when the Germans overran the Netherlands, Nazi decrees aimed specifically at Jews forced Gerrit out of his business and Yoka out of her second grade class. When the Nazis commandeered their home, the Verdoners went to live with Gerrit's parents in Amsterdam. ...

The reminiscences of Miep Gies, the woman who hid the Frank family in Amsterdam during the Second World War, presents a vivid story of life under Nazi occupation. Includes index. 252 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Copyright Holder: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The Margaret Klein Goetz family correspondence consists primarily of letters, telegrams, and postcards to Margaret Klein from her parents and sister in Heidelberg and then Gurs, Les Milles, Nexon, and Masseube. The correspondence documents the family’s efforts to immigrate to the United States, money and parcels received by the family members in the camps through Quaker and Swiss relief agencies and ...

The Machtinger family collection includes photographs of Sophie Machtinger, Paul Machtinger, and their daughter Ruth Machtinger in the Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp) in 1946, as well as Sophie Machtinger's memoir "Recollections from my life's experiences" written in Polish in 1955 and translated into English in 1988.

Copyright Holder: Samuel Stammer

This collection of papers documents the life of a German Jewish refugee to Great Britain, Eleanor Hess, and, in part, the lives of family members. The papers include emigration and citizenship papers of her grandfather Emil, c1870s; certificates and First World War army records of Julius, her father; and correspondence from Eleanor and her brother, Herbert, in Brazil, to their mother, c1950s. In addition ...

Otto Verdoner, at roughly four months old. VS, CUs, MCUs, Otto being bathed by his mother. CU, Francisca posing in the arms of a woman in the Verdoner garden, Yoka doing same. VS, MLSs, MSs, MCUs, Francisca and Yoka playing in the garden, and in a sand box. Their grandfather comes out to join them in the garden, followed by other unidentified relatives. The camera focuses for quite a while on a young ...

Correspondence and documents pertaining to the extended Shoag family of Wilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Traby, Poland (Traby, Belarus), and Jeannette, PA, between the years 1929 and 1940.

Consists of identity cards, documents, and correspondence related to Albert and Erna Lustig, originally of Mannheim, Germany. Includes paperwork related to the Lustigs' emigration to the United States in 1938 and the emigration of their young daughters, Ilse and Lilly, in 1939, who had been staying with relatives while their parents were establishing themselves in the United States. Also includes documents ...

The Schermeister family play act in the yard at their vacation home in Snekkersten. Edith, the donor's grandmother, appears dressed up in an overcoat, hat, and purse. She sits on a bench and beckons one of the girls. Bernhard whispers in her ear and sits next to her on the bench. View from behind as the girls dress Bernhard in his wife's costume clothing. Bernhard shows off, juggles oranges. One of ...

Consists of documents and photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of Dr. Moses and Teofila Vorshirm Keitelman (later Marian and Teofila Kotlewski), originally of Mielec, Poland. The documents relate to the Keitelmans' pre-war education, including Moses' training as a doctor and Teofila's as a X-ray technician. Includes post-war documents related to the family's name change to "Kotlewski," ...

"In the late 1990s, French author and journalist Jean Hatzfeld made several journeys into the hilly, marshy region of the Bugesera, one of the areas most devastated by the Rwandan genocide of April 1994, where an average of five out of six Tutsis were hacked to death with machete and spear by their Hutu neighbors and militiamen. In the villages of Nyamata and N'tarama, Hatzfeld interviewed fourteen ...

Photos of the famous diary, school pictures, and the rooms in which she lived with her family while hiding from the Nazis for two years are compiled in this moving biography about the short life and enduring spirit of this young girl and talented writer. 1st American ed. 215, [1] pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, color maps, portraits ; 18 cm

Gabriel Groszman (born Gábor, b. 1930) was born in Vámosmikola, Hungary to Margit (née Stöckl; 1904-1993) and József (1897-1987) Groszman. He had one older brother, Imre (Imi, 1926-1960). József was a veteran of World War I, and he married Margit Stöckl in 1926. He ran a wholesale grain business with Margit’s sister Helén’s (1900-1944) husband Géza Abelesz (1896-1944). Their business was forced to ...

The collection consists of military uniforms, medals, ribbons, and pins, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Jacques (later Jack) and his family in the Netherlands before and during the Holocaust and his escape to Great Britain and military service during the war, as well as the experiences of Hedi Justus Grootkerk and her family in the Netherlands ...

Describes Joseph Deak's work in a Hungarian forced labor battalion; his liberation by members of the Soviet military; his journey home; and the postwar experiences of members of his family.

Consists of photographs and documents related to the Roth family, originally of Kraków, Poland. Includes photographs depicting life in the Liebenau and Vittel internment camps (including of poet Yitzhak Katzenelson in Vittel) and biographical materials. The bulk of the collection documents the family's immigration to the United States in 1944, attempts to prove that Chaskiel Roth was born in the United ...

<p>Thea Wessley (née Deuches) was the only child of Siegfried and Fanny Deuches from Vienna. She was sent to England in March 1939 when she was 15 years old. Thea stayed with a family in Hastings.&nbsp;</p><div>Her parents were separately deported to concentration camps in Poland. In 1940 her father writes from Lwow (Lemberg) whilst her mother is still in Vienna. Fanny was deported to Opole concentration ...

INT, people eating and dining on Christmas. Gerald and Berthold play with a toy train set. MS, decorated Christmas tree, Elfriede lights the candles. Theo plugs in electrical lights and smokes a cigarette. 01:08:28 Several shots of men shoveling the snowy streets with a pharmacy and other shops or residences behind them. 01:09:06 The two boys set off a toy plane in a snowy park (Gerald was a model ...

The Sobel family papers consist of a journal, photographs, and subject files relating to Herman, Salomea, and Judyta’s pre-war and postwar experiences in Ukraine and Poland. The collection includes a journal kept by Herman for his daughter from 1925-1937 documenting his observations of his family’s life and his memory of fighting in World War I, an English translation of the journal, originals and ...

Jakob Anysz and his wife Sophia Lindner, both born in Poland, moved from France to Belgium in 1928. The couple had at least eight children whom migrated to Belgium as well or at least lived in the country for some time. Son Isy (Isaac) Anysz was able to emigrate to Argentina before the war. Sophia Lindner was deported from the Dossin barracks to Auschwitz-Birkenau via transport XXI in 1943 and perished. ...

Consists of one memoir, approximately 70 pages, in English, entitled "Eddie Klein: A Rescued Life" by Edward Klein, originally of Sieradz, Poland. In the memoir, Mr. Klein, describes his pre-war family and religious life; escape to Warsaw and then to Łódź after the German invasion; life in the Łódź ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; transfer to Sosonowiec; forced march to Mauthausen; ...