A collection of videorecordings of interviews conducted with Holocaust survivors and witnesses by the Columbus affiliate of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. 3 videorecordings

50 pages 21 cm

The Walter and Elizabeth Richards family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, restitution files, and subject files documenting a German Jewish family from Berlin, some family members’ escape to Argentina, the United States, and England, the deaths of Elizabeth Richards’ parents at Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, and postwar efforts to receive restitution for confiscated ...

Interview with Kurt Thomas (Brno 11 April 1914). Thomas was taken to Sobibor via the ghetto of Theresienstadt. In the sorting barracks he had to sort clothes and belongings of victims who had been gassed. As an orderly he later managed to save the lives of several prisoners by letting them rest longer than allowed. When he had climbed across the fence during the uprising he refused to hurry: "I don't ...

Sonja Speyer Echt (born Sofie Speyer or Speier, 1926-) was born on 20 August 1926 in Guxhagen, Germany to Emanuel and Betty Speyer. Emanuel (1884-1941?) was born in Guxhagen in 1884 to Salomon and Regine Speyer. Betty (née Neumann, 1894-) was born in 1894 in Burgpreppach, Germany to Wolf and Sofie (née Friedmann) Neumann. Sonja had one sister, Rita (later Rita Güthermann, b. 1923), and one brother, ...

Copyright Holder: Rachel Green

Consists of seventeen bound volumes containing diaries written by Dr. Maria Madi, a non-Jewish female physician living in Budapest, Hungary, between December 1941 and September 1945. In the diaries, which are handwritten in English, Dr. Madi describes what she is hearing about the war, about propaganda in Hungary, and about missing her daughter, who immigrated to the United States in 1939 and started ...

The collection contains correspondence documenting the Berkowicz family’s experiences during the Holocaust. Included is correspondence to Bina Tac Berkowicz after her immigration to the United States from her sister Faiga Tac Bursztyn in the Warsaw ghetto; letters from family members in Slonim, Belarus; correspondence from Bernard Berkowicz’s brothers who were refugees in New Zealand; and letters enquiring ...

Charlene Perlmutter Schiff (1929-2013, nicknamed Musia) was born Shulamit Perlmutter in Horochów, Wolyn Poland (Horokhiv, Ukraine) on 16 December 1929 to Simcha Perlmutter and Fruma Lieberman. Her father, Simeon Perlmutter (Simcha,1900-1941) was a philosophy professor in Lvov (L’viv, Ukraine) at the Jan Kazimierz University (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv). Her mother, Fruma Lieberman (b. ...

Charlene Perlmutter Schiff (1929-2013, nicknamed Musia) was born Shulamit Perlmutter in Horochów, Wolyn Poland (Horokhiv, Ukraine) on 16 December 1929 to Simcha Perlmutter and Fruma Lieberman. Her father, Simeon Perlmutter (Simcha,1900-1941) was a philosophy professor in Lvov (L’viv, Ukraine) at the Jan Kazimierz University (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv). Her mother, Fruma Lieberman (b. ...