Bernard Klajminc was born on November 30, 1901, in Lagow, Poland, to Herzl and Miriam Milbergow Klajminc. He had a brother, Tzvi Hersch, who immigrated to Canada in 1924 with his wife, Annie, and their children. Bernard married Bertha (Bajla) Horenkrig, who was born on August 27, 1905, in Warsaw. The couple lived in Brussels, Belgium. Bernard was a tailor. They had a daughter, Marie-Jose, on December ...

Aaron (Tobias) Rosengarten was born in the Bergen Belsen Displaced Persons (DP) Camp in September 1946. He was the son of two Holocaust survivors from Poland who came to Montreal in April 1948 as part of the Tailor Project, an immigration program that brought Displaced Persons to Canada in 1948-1949 to work in the garment industry. He passed away in Montreal in January 2022.

Two wheeled wooden handcart used by inmates while working as forced laborers at the Small Fortress in Theresienstadt (Terezín) ghetto-labor camp northwest of Prague, Czechoslovakia. Carts like this were used to transport food and other heavy loads. Special workers also used them to transport bodies of ghetto residents who had died of starvation and disease. After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, ...

A history of the camp of Drancy, based on eyewitness testimonies, especially by Paul Zuckermann, Nissim-Noël Calef, and Georges Kohn, as well as material from newly opened archives. Between 1941-44, 67,000 of the 75,000 Jews deported from France, most of them foreigners, passed through Drancy. 80,000 additional Jews spent shorter or longer periods interned there. Describes the organization of the camp ...

Saul Sorrin (1919-1995) was recruited to work for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). Sorrin initially worked as a supply officer based at the Neu Freimann camp outside of Munich before becoming area director of the Munich region in 1946. He oversaw the closing of the Neu Freimann camp when UNRRA transferred its operation to the International Refugee Organization (IRO) ...

The Places of Detainment and Memory: Nazi Concentration Camps in Greece, 1941-1944 started as a research project in January 2017. It was initiated by the Chair of Jewish Studies of the Department of History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in collaboration with scholars from AUTh, as well as other Greek and European Universities. The project was funded by the German-Greek ...

Arrivals at Westerbork transit camp. Workers and guards at train station. Train pulls in. People get off trains with bundles; chaotic feeling. Freight train pulls in, Jewish prisoners from Vught concentration camp wearing clogs and work clothes, get off, line up. They have been sent to Westerbork for punishment. Brief INT of registration (out of focus).

The Toni Heller collection contains documents relating to Harry and Toni Heller, who both were imprisoned in Westerbork transit camp from 1940-1945. Items include travel and work passes from Westerbork, certificates of good conduct, and a newsletter from the refugee camp. Other items include an interview with Commander Gemmecke of Westerbork, a testimony on life in the camp, and a brief biography and ...

From Cinematography of the Holocaust catalog: The long journey, by train, then bus, and then by ship, until refugees finally reach Israel. The poor facilities and the lack of care for the patients and the urgency for help. A former prison is used as a mental institution because no other facilities were available at that time. Shotlist: Jewish refugees arriving. CREDITS. GV: City (Vienna?). Train arriving ...

The collection consists of a Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip and a Westerbork transit camp voucher.

The letter was written to Col. Wooten from J. Nestel in Salzburg, Austria, requesting that Capt. D'Jernes remain as commander in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) displaced persons camp "Beth Bialik" (Jewish Transit Camp #2). Attached are 51 sheets containing 1,417 signatures from camp residents.

Rudi Dingfelder (later Robert Felder, 1924-1986) was born on April 21, 1924 in Uehlfeld, Germany to Leopold Dingfelder (1886-1943) and Johanna Dingfelder (née Wormser, 1891-1943). Johanna Wormser was born in Zeitlofs Bavaria, Germany to Moses Wormser and Karolina (née Adler) in 1891. Rudi and his brother Martin grew up in Plauen, Germany. Leopold owned a kosher butcher shop and Johanna was a housewife. ...

The collection primarily contains documents, correspondence, and photographs that document the wartime experiences of Huguette Salomon Frank of Paris, France in Marseille, France; Drancy transit camp; Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp; Ravensbrück concentration camp; and one of the Bunzlau subcamps of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Included are some photographs and documents relating to ...

Franz Peter Kien was born January 1, 1919, in Varnsdorf, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic), to Leonard and Olga Frankl Kien. His father Leonard was born in 1886, in Varnsdorf, and was a member of the German-speaking Jewish population in the, the Sudetenalnd, which bordered Germany. Leonard was a textile manufacturer with his own factory. Peter’s mother Olga was born in 1898, in Bzenec, Austro-Hungary ...

Violin crafted in 1890 by Guadagnini, a master Italian instrument maker in Turin. Henry Rosner bought it in Vienna in 1928. It was his constant companion for 66 years, excepting a brief separation near the end of the war. Rosner played the violin professionally in well-known cafes, hotels and resorts all over Europe until Poland fell to the Nazis in 1939. Three years later, Rosner, his wife Manci -- ...

Ruth Franken was born on July 15, 1937, in Haarlem, Netherlands, to Max, born on July 8, 1897, in Emmerich, Germany, and Irma Saloman, born on January 12, 1907, in Linden bei Bochum, Germany. Max served in the German Army during World War I (1914-1918), was wounded and received an Iron Cross and other military honors. He worked as an upholsterer. Irma was one of three children born to an Orthodox Jewish ...

Transcript of an interview and a manuscript documenting the experience of Lea Sonnenschein in Amsterdam, Westerbork transit camp, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Troebitz, Leipzig, Munser, Buchenwald, and Herenveen.