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Consists of one memoir, 19 pages, written by Sophie Ritterband Lewartowicz Weiss, originally of Łódź, Poland. Mrs. Weiss describes her family, childhood, and marriage to Zygmunt Lewartowicz. When the Germans invaded Poland, Mrs. Weiss (then Mrs. Lewartowicz) and her family briefly fled to Warsaw before returning to Łódź. In Decemeber 1939, after witnessing the German occupation of Łódź, the family ...

Collection of photographs depicting the Aszknazy family before the war in Romania; the Weiss family in Hungary; Sylvia Aszknazy immediately after the liberation in German in 1945; Sylvia and her brother Leopold Aszknazy in their hometown in Romania in 1946 and later in the Ulm DP camp in Germany and during their journey to America in March 1948; Frank Weiss during his military service in the US Army; ...

Consists of a handwritten memoir, 2 pages, written by Lilly Aron Weiss, originally of Balassagyarmat, Hungary. In the memoir, she describes her experiences in Hungary in 1944, her deportation to Auschwitz, being separated from her family, and life in Auschwitz. In the fall of 1944, she was transferred to the Ashesleben airplane factory and from there, to Theresienstadt, where she was liberated.

Fred Freuthal was born in 1932 to Paul (b. Hamburg, 1901-1996) and Grete (née Weiss, b. Vienna, 1908-1998). Paul and Grete married on December 30, 1928. Fred, an only child, was born in Berlin, where the family lived for a year before moving to Konigsburg, then Vienna. In the spring of 1939, Fred was chosen to go to the United States under the supervision of two Americans, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Der Inspekteur war im Frieden der höchste Vertreter seiner Waffengattung und überwachte ihre Ausbildung. Mit Inkrafttreten der Kriegsspitzengliederung 1939 wurden die Inspekteure dem Chef der Heeresrüstung und Befehlshaber des Ersatzheeres unterstellt und ihre Aufgabenbereich auf Neuaufstellungen sowie Ausbildung ihrer Waffen im Ersatzheer beschränkt. Bis Kriegsende ...

Pair of black, leather mid-calf boots worn by Alice (Ala) Brand while she was a prisoner at several concentration camps from December 1944 until April 1945. The boots were purchased for Alice by her husband, Samuel, who was working with a special science unit at Płaszów labor camp in German-occupied Poland. Samuel was escorted to and from work by two guards, and he was able to bribe them into taking ...