The Last Witness: The Child Survivor of the Holocaust looks in depth at the traumatic effects of genocidal persecution on the child's psychic structure and on development through the life cycle. It offers valuable information to clinicians working with Holocaust survivors and their families and serves as an indispensable guide for therapists and interested readers who want to learn more about the short- ...

“The last visit in Bítýška at the yard” in September 1938. Baby Elizabeth Shenk with newspaper. 01:00:39 Michael in shorts with tall socks. Cousins from Prague visit the summer cottage: Felix Landsmann (school-age boy in striped suit, b. 1930, died in Auschwitz) with his mother Lilli (niece of Michael Eckstein) in the foyer. Lilli in trenchcoat plays table tennis with her husband Hans (b. 1898, died ...

A meditation on a woman's hat once on display in the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. 1st ed. 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

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 ...

Johannes Vosskamp (1896-1945) was a veteran of World War I and so were his brothers. It is unclear when he became a Nazi party member. In World War II, he was drafted at the age of 46 (ca. 1942) as part of "Organisation Todt" behind the lines. He was sent to Serbia and was declared "missing in action" at the end of the war in 1945.

Book, Arbeit Macht Frei, of reproductions of 16 drawings of concentration camp scenes by Frantisek Reichtental. This edition, signed by the artist on the title page, is number 449 of a limited run of 5000 copies, of which 1000 were signed by Reichtental. The majority of the proceeds from the book sales were dedicated to the children's homes of the Central Union of Jewish Communities in Slovakia.

The collection consists of two children's books, "Mon Petit Trott" and "Contes et Légendes Du Grand Siècle," taken by Gaston Schmir from a school library in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France, in Apr. 1943. Gaston Schmir left the books in Haute-Savoie, France, before crossing into Switzerland, and he returned and recovered them after World War II.

15:00 Prosecutor Libman asks the witness, Mrs. Paulette Roche, to authenticate photos of children from Izieu, which were published in a book written by Prosecutor Klarsfeld 15:01 President Cerdini calls the next witness, Dr. Adolphe Waysenson, to the stand; the witness presents himself to the court and is sworn in 15:02 The witness testifies; he stayed with his two younger siblings in the children's ...

"Following a devastating genocide in 1994, the Rwandan government elected to hold all perpetrators accountable - including children. Thousands of children were held in prisons while awaiting charges; some were later convicted. This book is about these children. Drawing on interviews and extensive archival research in Rwanda, it documents their journey through prisons, formal courts, gacaca proceedings ...

Birth certificate, passport, autograph book, newsletter, photograph, and other documents related to the immigration of Ella Spiegler (later Goldstein), who left Austria for the United States in 1939 as one of the fifty children sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. The Stammbuch is a booklet that was given to Ella before her departure from Vienna in 1939, and in which friends and relatives wrote ...

The collection consists of children's clothing, baby books, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ellen and Frits Mendels, and their children, Franklin, Jacqueline, and Manuela, before and during the Holocaust in France when the family lived in hiding. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

Consists of instructions, dated 8 Aor. 1939, issued for Gretl Pappenheimer [donor] to the "Movement for the Care of Children from Germany" in London by the "Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland"; two copies of a "Fuehrungszeugnis," or certificate of good conduct, issued on 4 February 1939, for Kurt Lowenstein [donor's husband] by the Chief of Police of Düsseldorf, Germany; letter of reference, ...

Antisemitic children's picture book published by Julius Streicher's Stürmer-Verlag in 1936 and used in many German schools. Each illustration is accompanied by an anti-Jewish poem. 3. Aufl., 41.-50. Tausend. 42 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 25 cm

Peter (age 4 or 5) plays with a set of tin soldiers and a toy castle at home in Reichenbach. Peter's younger sister, Doris, waves. She sits in a high chair, and plays with blocks of wood. She and her brother play with a wooden clown doll. Doris in a crib, she reads a picture book. INT, Doris next to a window. 01:01:38 Peter is outside digging in a sandbox (at their home in Reichenbach at Adama Mickiwicza ...

The GFH Tenenbaum collection includes hundreds of unedited testimonies of Holocaust survivor children, collected in 1946 and 1947 in Poland and Germany. Some eighty of the testimonies were published in his book "One of a City and Two of a Family". However, as Tenenbaum himself admitted, they were edited, and carried some bias in favor of Zionism and the USSR. The GFH collection holds about 650 unedited ...

David Bajer (later Bayer) was born on September 27, 1922, in Kozienice, Poland, to Manes and Sarah Bajer. David was the second of four children: Rosa, born 1920, Joshua, born 1927, and Rachel, born 1930. The town, about fifty miles southeast of Warsaw, had a large Hasidic Jewish community of around 6000, nearly half the population. The family was religiously observant. His father operated a small shoe ...

13:42 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 13:43 The bailiff reads the names of the witnesses scheduled to give testimony in the session 13:45 Cerdini suspends the session while the bailiff goes to Barbie to compel him to appear 14:12 Cerdini calls the session to order; ...

The collection consists of the Elizabeth Koenig papers of a letter from HIAS-JCA Emigration Association to Fritz Kaufmann; an autograph book including photographs of children in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; Elizabeth’s diary describing her life in France from February to July 1940; a 1939 map of the Hautes-Pyrénées; photographs of Elizabeth, her brother, and the La Guespy children’s house in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; ...

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Manfred Weidhorn and his parents Anne and Aron Weidhorn, including their flight from Vienna, Austria after the German-annexation of Austria in March 1938, Aron’s immigration to the United States in 1939, and Manfred and his mother’s immigration to the United States via Cuba in 1941. Included are biographical and identification documents, records ...

Session 109. Attorney General Hausner discusses the translation of the word 'sonderbehandlung.' Whether or not this affects the testimony of the witness Krumey is discussed. 00:04:42 It becomes apparent that the exhibit has not been submitted by the Defense, and Dr. Servatius argues that parts of it are advantageous and other parts detrimental to the Defense. The Judges discuss this with each other ...

Jewish children recuperate at "Joodse Invalide," a hospital for Jewish disabled in Amsterdam, after liberation from Bergen-Belsen. MCU four Jewish children jumping and climbing on a bed, smiling, the boys wear kippahs. Nurse (woman in white apron uniform) puts one of the children, who had climbed out, back onto the bed. Nurse seats the children at the end of the bed, they are all clapping and smiling. ...

Correspondence, diaries, photographs, identification documents, postcards, and books, belonging to the family of Helen Leser (also known as Helene Leser, Chana Leser), originally of Rozwadów, Poland. Documents include identification documents for family members during the German occupation of Poland; materials from the Soviet Union during the time of her family's exile there, including postcards received ...