Darkest Russia: a record of persecution Board of Guardians for the Relief of the Jewish Poor: minutes of the Board, 1869-1971; minutes of the executive committee, 1869-1977; minutes of the sanitary committee, subsequently the health committee, 1885-1922; minutes of ad hoc committees, 1869-1941, principally connected with emigration and the administration of relief; minutes of the finance committee, ...

Copyright Holder: Edith Goldapper

Documents regarding the Sztejnsznajd family of Lutsk, Poland. Collection contains postcards, articles, forms, and documents relating to the family's life in Lutsk and also of their attempts to emigrate to the United States. The family left Poland and arrived in the United States in 1939, though many of the extended family perished in the Holocaust. The collection also contains 31 volumes in Hebrew ...

Marie Zelwer (Mania or Marjan, later Brandstetter, 1933- ) was born in Błaszki, Poland to Haim Luzer Zelwer (?-1942) and Eta (Ida) Messer (died at age 82) and was raised Orthodox. Marie had a younger brother, Szlamek (Sam b. 1935), and a half-sister Helene Litwak Gordon. Her father owned a bus company. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939 Hiam was drafted into the Polish army. Marie, Eta, Sam, ...

"Theresienstadt was the Jewish ghetto (1941-45) created by the Nazis within the walled garrison town of Terezín, Czech Republic, to which many of Europe's Jewish cultural elite were deported, and where their artistic activities were allowed flourish despite the ghetto's hidden purpose as a prison and conduit to Auschwitz-Birkenau and other Nazi concentration camps. Considered as a whole, the art of ...

"I wrote this book on June 6, 2019, 75 years after D-day, the greatest invasion the world has ever seen. Seven thousand ships, 150,000 troops, 4,000 American and British deaths on the very first day! The courage of the men, who jumped from the landing ships into the sea, sometimes drowning with their heavy equipment, and stormed the beaches under heavy fire from machine guns, rifles and artillery salvos, ...

Ottó Komoly (Hebrew name: Natan-Zeev Kahan) was born in Budapest in 1892; by profession he was an engineer. In 1940 he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség, and in 1941, he was elected as its Chairman. In 1943, the Budapesti Mentőbizottság (Budapest Relief and Rescue Committee) was established in Budapest and Komoly served as its chairman. In this capacity, he was involved with ...

The collection consists of children’s illustrated books, documents, photographs, a prayerbook, news articles and periodicals relating to Susi Traumann Lewisnsky.

Ruth Taub (now Ruth Feldman) was born on November 30, 1928, in Vienna, Austria as the only child of Markus and Jeanette Taub, who had both been born in Poland. Markus ran a grocery in Vienna and helped support members of his extended family, who had joined him in Austria. In 1938, the grocery was forcibly confiscated by the Nazis and Ruth was forced to leave public school for a Jewish school. In the ...

At Froebelhaus kindergarten, VS, mostly MCUs and CUs, children at small tables, watch as woman cuts up apple for them, children help set table for meal, one girl is carrying a leather purse, she sits down and pulls a wrapped sandwich out of her purse and begins to eat it, several children eating apples and bread. [There is a brief scene of the Hitler Youth flying club from Story 510, Film ID 211, this ...

Childsize suitcase used by 12 year old Michel Jeruchim when he and his siblings emigrated to the United States in October 1949. Among the items he carried in it was, Les Aventures de Jambo, an illustrated book created for him by his brother Simon. Nazi Germany occupied France in June 1940. Michel, then age 3, his parents, Samuel and Sonia, and his siblings, 14 year old Alice, and 10 year old Simon, ...

The Forgotten Kindertransportees offers a compelling new exploration of the Kindertransport episode in Britain. The Kindertransport brought close to 10,000 unaccompanied children and young people to Britain on a trans-migrant basis between 1938 and 1939, with an estimated 70% of these children being of the Jewish faith. The outbreak of the Second World War truned this short-term initiative into a longer-term ...

Reel 7A. Colorful flowers. Mother sitting with children on a park bench in Warsaw. New housing in Warsaw. Reconstruction. Steel mill. Workers leave mill through gates. Cranes at work, INT coal burning. INTs, Julien Bryan with Jozefa Drzewowska (age 72), photographed clasping her hands in prayer in 1939 and used on the cover of "Siege" (Photo Archives W/S 47403). Jozefa's daughter and grandchildren. ...

"FRANCE" Riverside. "Views of Paris" Street scenes in Paris. Seine. Book market. Street traffic with parked Coca-Cola truck. Shops. La Madeleine church. Arc de Triomphe and cafe. Le Figaro. Riverboats. Fountain. Children playing. Outdoor cafe. Pedestrians crossing the street. American-Express-Co building. 01:05:53 "The World's Fair In Paris" Pan up, Eiffel Tower. Crowds attend the World's Fair. Pavilions ...

Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma

Includes one letter relating to an idea for a book publication and a wedding invitation from one of Shalom Steinbach's children. The letter was sent to Dr. Eric Berryman by the publisher, Stefan Grunwald, on September 9, 1985.

Rose Kaplovitz was born Rózia Zaks (Saks) on September 6, 1930 in Sosnowiec, Poland, to Mendel and Hindel (Helen) Zaks. Her parents owned a grocery store, and Rose had six siblings: Regina (later Rosenman), Cesia (later Kaiser), Tola (later Gilbert), Romek, Mania (Maria, Malka, later Ullman), and Cyma (Cymusia). The children attended the Jewish public school on Ostrogórska Street in Sosnowiec. When ...

The collection consists of a handmade portfolio and five books relating to the experiences of Anna Zajac and her sister Lydia in the Ahawah Children's Home in Berlin, Germany, from 1936-1938 and her subsequent journey to Great Britain as a Kindertransport refugee in December 1938.

Doll: handmade by Annie Loewenstein (donor's mother) in Munich, Germany. The Loewenstein family: Willy (donor's father) [b. 1894], Annie [b. 1904], Ruth (donor) [b. 1929], and Marianne (donor's sister) [b. 1932], were able to leave Germany in August 1939 for England. Ruth and Marianne were wearing thin gold bracelets on their wrists and each carried a doll. The German guard at the Dutch border tore ...

The Richard Weilheimer collection includes biographical materials, correspondence, a watercolor booklet hand-made in Gurs, photographic materials and a prayer book documenting the Weilheimer, Wetzler, and Stern families from Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, Germany. Documents reflect the families’ prewar lives in Germany, their deportation to the Gurs concentration camp in southern France in 1940, Richard ...

The five Frieder brothers from Cincinnati, Ohio (Philip, Henry, Alex, Morris, and Herbert) made their fortune in cigars, which they manufactured in the Philippines. The brothers took turns managing the cigar production. Every two years, one of the brothers (excluding Henry) and his family would relocate to their home at 44 Brixton Hill, Santa Mesa, Manila. The Frieder brothers were passionate poker ...

The collection consists of a bisque doll, a stuffed animal, a wooden toy, and a children's book relating to the experiences of Jutta Grybski (later Janet Beasley) before the Holocaust in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, and after the Holocaust near Terezin in Czechoslovakia.

The location of the first scene may be Pervomaysk, which Pauline Baerwald Falk, Myron S. Falk Jr., and Evelyn Morrissey visited on June 7. Pervomaysk was the location of an Agro-Joint sponsored colony of Jewish farmers. A group of young children and their minders pose for the camera and play in the open air. One child holds up a book. CU of a child looking into the camera. Two horses tow a wagon piled ...