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Kurt Fisch (later Fish) (1917-2008) was born in Vienna to Pinchas and Rosalie (“Sali”) Fisch (née Schächter), both of whom were born in Poland. His older brother, Heinrich, was born on October 23, 1904, also in Vienna. Pinchas worked as a stockbroker in Vienna until World War I, when he began to sell wholesale meat. He later worked in a bank. Kurt was educated in Vienna and, along with his high school ...

The collection documents the childhoods of siblings John and Marianne Wolff in Berlin, Germany, their immigration to England via Kindertransport in 1939, and eventual immigration to the United States in 1945. Included are documents and photographs.

<p>The Waldmann-Mandels were a blended family. Maurice Donat Waldmann was a Jew from Berlin who came to the UK in about 1938 to avoid persecution. In April 1940 he married Helena Mandelbaum, but this marriage was dissolved. Together they had a daughter. </p><p> Maurice married Rita Munter in February 1947. Rita was from a village in Bartenstein. However, after being expelled for refusing to give the ...

The collection consists of three handkerchiefs, a cloth case, three children's books, Jewish prayer books, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ruth Mondschein and her family in Vienna, Austria, and as a Kindertransport refugee in the Netherlands with her younger brother before the Holocaust, as well as the family's separate journeys to the United States in 193 ...

Consists of correspondence, official documents, and photographs relating to the Holocaust experiences of Ilse Lichtenstein Meyer, originally of Volkmarsen, Germany. Includes correspondence written while Ilse was in the Netherlands, as well as photographs of the various children's homes in which she lived. Also includes a notebook in which Ilse wrote recipes for a class on housework at a children's ...

The Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers contain correspondence, identification documents, immigration documents, school certificates, photographs, and a photograph album relating to the Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families living in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) before and during World War II and the Holocaust. The correspondence centers on the emigration of Max and Irma Czerner ...