<p>The collection consists of personal papers of Holocaust survivors Ilse Murray neé Perl and her son Claus Nicholas Perl as well as of Red Cross worker Enid Fordham.</p><p>Biographical materials of Ilse and Claus comprise official documents and eyewitness accounts, and allow insights into their persecution and imprisonment in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Included is an audio recording of Ilse ...

Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive. The testimony or excerpts from it cannot be used for publication.

Contains a handwritten document, prepared by Elsa Cheimovits (born 1925 in Velkysevlus, Czech Republic) on January 28, 1947, while she recuperated in the Renstrams Civic Hospital in Göteborg, Sweden after being liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp with her sister Irene. The document records the deaths of Elsa's parents, Jeno and Zuhanna, and her siblings Eva, Elisabeth, Blanka, Frida, ...

NS-Dokumentationszentrum der Stadt Köln (EL-DE-Haus, Cologne)

Alex Kozlowski was born Olec Scheidt, around the year 1932, in Lwow, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine), to Arnold and Regina Scheidt. His mother, who earned income from an apartment building that her father gave her, and his father, a tavern-owner, separated when Olec was young. In November 1941, several months after the German forces occupied the area around Lwow, Olec, his mother, and aunt Zosia were forced, ...

Josef Hirschhorn was born on February 5, 1926 in Oradea, Romania, to Martin and Irene (née Seidmann) Hirschhorn. In 1944, a few years after Oradea had been re-incorporated into Hungary and re-named Nagyvárad, he was deported from Nagyvárad to Sachsenhausen, where he was assigned prisoner number 80777. He is presumed to have died in Sachsenhausen.

Copyright Holder: Ms. Irene Skolnick

<span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Simons family were successful Jewish businessmen who owned the oil company, Simons &amp; Söhne AG in Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia (now Walter Rau, Neusser Öl und Fett AG). Both families tried to flee Nazi persecution by emigrating to Holland but perished in the Holocaust.&nbsp;</span><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Gertrud and Max Joseph: Gertrud (Trude) Blach ...

Herbert Komlos (1916-2003) was born on 3 June 1916 in Rakospalota, Hungary. He married Eva Lőwy (1921-2009) in April 1944 in Budapest. Their son John was born the same year. Herbert was a survivor of Hungarian labor battalions and went into hiding with his family and extended relatives in Budapest. After the war, they lived in Austria. Their second son Steven was born in 1948. In December 1956 the ...

Within the larger history of fashion, especially for women, in Nazi Germany, Guenthor (history, Houston Community College, Texas) finds smaller stories of economic greed and political machinations; of ideological hyperboles, cultural contestations, and the manufacture of illusion; of gender fashioning and class conflict; of high fashion salons and Jewish ghettos; and of world war, home fronts, and ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00091 at Kazerne Dossin

Elias Dresner (1889-1942) was born in Krakow, Poland (former Austria) and married Gretel (née Cohn, 1896-1942) born in Greiz, Germany. They both lived in Leipzig, Germany until 1939 when they moved to Krakow. They were captured by the Gestapo in 1942. Elias was shot whilst in Gestapo custody in Tarnow. Gretel was sent along with Elias' brother Wladek to Belzec where they perished. Gretel's mother 'Oma ...

Edith Jacoby was born in Worms, Germany, ca. 1899. She married Kurt Jacoby in the 1920s. Instead of attempting to emigrate to the US, the Jacobys fled into Poland to avoid Nazi persecution. The two Jacoby children, Klaus and Irene, were sent by children's transport to live in England. Kurt Jacoby died shortly thereafter and Edit Jacoby was deported to the Warsaw Ghetto. She was later killed at Tre ...

Emphasizes, on the one hand, Améry's ideological development and, on the other, his attitude to his writing and his frustrated desire to be recognized as a creative writer and not merely as an essayist and "professional" Auschwitz symbol. Pp. 70-103 describe Améry's Holocaust experiences: his exile from Austria, his flight from Gurs, the torture he underwent in Breendonck for his activities in the ...

Leopold Weil was born in Karlsruhe in 1925. His father Nathan Weil was born in 1885 and died in 1937. His mother Irene Weil (née Kauders, born in 1899) emigrated to the USA. Leopold Weil went to school in Milan until 1938. He must have returned to Germany as he emigrated to England as a teenage refugee on a Kindertransport in 1939. There he changed his name to Leonard Lawrence. He initially lived at ...

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Monique Joseph (born Helga Kaufmann), originally of Cologne, Germany, her parents Caroline and Sallly Kaufmann, as well as her Husband Theophile Joseph and his family. Included are identification papers, false-identity documents, an autograph album, immigration papers, correspondence, memoirs, and photographs. Biographical material related to ...

Gitta Simon (1899-1993, nicknamed Gitti) was born Margit Kohn on 23 April 1899 in Moson, Hungary to Bernat and Hermina (née Schonfeld) Kohn. She had five siblings. Her family spoke German at home. Her father owned a men’s clothing store in Moson, and the family lived in an apartment above it. She married David Barta (d. 1939) around 1921. He was 19 years older than she and died in August 1939. On 20 ...

The collection consists of photographs depicting Cecile Rojer Jeruchim's experiences as a hidden child in Belgium during the Holocaust. Included are depictions of Cecile, her siblings Anny and Charles, and parents Abraham and Geshewa before World War II, the children's home of "Hirondelles," a meeting with Sister Clotilde in 1946, and post-war trips to London, England, and Rochefort, France.

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Waldmann family, originally of Bad Windsheim, Germany. Included are German passports, family history, immigration documents, restitution paperwork, correspondence, and photographs regarding brothers Leopold, Max, and Sigmund, and their families including their mother Emma Esther Waldmann, and Max’s wife Charlotte and sons Kurt and Otto. ...

In the context of efforts to provide access to the written testimonies and autobiographical texts of Austrian authors related to the experiences of exile, resistance and persecution from 1933/34 onwards, numerous unpublished autobiographical testimonies in the archive of the Theodor Kramer Society were reviewed and cataloged. According to conservative estimates, 135,000 people were expelled from Austria ...

The Guggenheim and Smali families papers consist of correspondence, memoirs, photographs, and a receipt documenting the Guggenheim family from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and the Smali family from Merkinė, Lithuania. Correspondence includes a letter written by Malka Pugacka Smali from a Cyprus detention camp in 1947 describing a scene she witnessed in the Kovno ghetto in 1942 in which a little girl’s ...

Erini Kypreou, later Erini Varanga Kanelopoulos, was born on Milos Island in the Cyclades, located between mainland Greece and Crete. Her father was the island physician. At a young age, she married a merchant sea captain and moved to Alexandria, Egypt. She had a daughter Anna. In 1909, when Erini was seven months pregnant with her second daughter Pipina, her husband, 33, died of a heart attack in ...

13:37 President Cerdini calls the session to order; asks that the accused present himself; Barbie refuses to appear; Cerdini calls on the bailiff to compel the accused to appear 13:38 The bailiff reads the names of the witnesses scheduled to give testimony in the session; one witness who was scheduled to appear will not be able to appear in Lyon before June 5, 1987 13:40 Cerdini suspends the session ...