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Elisabeth Kanis was born in The Hague on 22 February 1884 as the daughter of the Ashkenazi couple Elias Kanis and Sura De Leeuwe. She grew up in Amsterdam and became a telephone operator at the Amsterdam stock exchange. There, Elisabeth met Maurits (Moses) Henriques de Castro, born in Amsterdam on 1st February 1886 as the son of the wealthy Portuguese-Dutch couple David Henriques de Castro and Esther ...

Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia
 
 In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted ...

Daniel Jacobson (b. 1919) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Samuel David (1889-1977) and Annie (Anna) Rose Jacobson (1894-1966). Daniel’s parents were first generation Americans, who emigrated from Lithuania, Samuel in 1911 and Annie in 1914. Daniel had two younger brothers; Joseph (1924-2003) and Saul (1926-1999), and a younger sister, Beatrice (later, Bertha Lena Shannon 1929-1967). Samuel worked ...

Flora Cohen was born on December 3, 1914, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to Abraham and Alijda (Aleida) Van Beek Cohen. Flora had three older siblings, Izak (1900-1965), Salomon (1904-1981), and Elisabeth (1906-1996), and two siblings who died before she was born, Moses (1901-1901), and Rosina (1902-1903). Flora’s father Abraham was born on January 23, 1874, in Rotterdam, to Isaac and Elizabeth van Lier ...