Edith Stein was born Edith Grunwald on 22 December 1935 in Antwerp, Belgium to Golde and Bernat Grunwald. Her parents married in 1934 in Antwerp. Her mother Golde (1904-1984) was born Golde Wachtenhein on 30 November 1904 in Volové, Czechoslovakia (Mizhhirya, Ukraine). Her father Bernat Grunwald (1904-1975) was born on 30 May 1904 in Bardejov (Slovakia) and worked as a tailor. Edith had one sister, ...

The Schiffer family visits Mohács, Erzsébet’s hometown on the Danube, in summer 1932. (00:16) Adults and children in bathing suits. They swim in a wooden structure moored to the shore of the Danube. János and his mother, Erzsébet Schiffer. (01:29) János and his cousins play in Klári and János Molnar’s yard with a toy stroller and ball. (01:53) Nurse-maid (brief). The children play outdoors. (02:42) ...

Leo Sussman (born Lesor Süssman, March 18, 1901-1991) was born in Baranov, Poland to Josef and Cilli Sussman and had five siblings including Erna, Fanni, Helene, Regina (December 12, 1903-1991), and Moritz. Leo married Rachel Stroh (later Renee, 1915-2007) in 1934. Rachel was born in Mielec, Poland to Chanine Stroh and Sara (nee Berger) and had two siblings, Lazer and Sosia. They lived in Vienna where ...

Yehuda Avisar (1899-1950) was born Yehuda Kodlowski and spent his youth in Dnipropetrovsk. He was a civil engineer, worked in a Zionist underground movement, and moved to Palestine with his wife, Yehudith Avisar, and children in 1925. He was a city engineer in Jaffa and worked with the Haganah. In 1942 he volunteered for the 1st Camouflage Company of the Royal Engineers attached to the British Eighth ...

This collection contains: two photos of Dora Turksma as a child, including a photo of her with her mother Klara Schilt at the beach; the ‘Volksmisboek en Vesperale’ (catholic prayer book) Dora Turksma received when being baptised as a hidden child in 1944; several dozen post-war prayer cards and devotional cards tucked away in the bible, signed by nuns and pupils at the boarding schools Dora attended; ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

Typescript, annotated, incomplete, account of Nelly Wolffheim's experience running the last remaining Jewish Kindergarten school in Berlin<br />German 30 pages&nbsp;

Simon Jeruchim was born on December 25, 1929, in Paris, France, to Samuel and Alice Szpiro Jeruchim. Samuel was born on December 24, 1898, in Ostrow, Poland, and Sonia, on August 18, 1899, in Garwolin, Poland. They left Poland because of antisemitism. He had two siblings, Alice, born on February 18, 1928, and Michel, on April 4, 1937, both in Paris. The family lived in Montreuil, a suburb of Paris, ...

The Lucien Dreyfus papers primarily consist of five parts of a seven-part diary written by Lucien Dreyfus from 1940 to 1943. An intelligent and discerning man, Lucien used his diary to document his intellectual and social life as a refugee in the south of France, his observations on the rise of antisemitic laws and violence, his cardiac condition, his daughter’s family and their emigration to the United ...

The collection consists of correspondence and prayer books relating to the experiences of Herbert Karliner and his family who fled Germany on the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis, were separated after their return to France, when Herbert and his brother Walter were placed in a children's home and his parents, Martha and Josef, and two sister, Ilse and Ruth, were deported and killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau ...

"In the face of the German onslaught in World War II, the Soviets succeeded, as Molotov later recalled, 'in relocating to the rear virtually an entire industrial country.' It was an official declared, 'one of the greatest feats of the war.' Focusing on the Kirov region, this book offers a different and considerably more nuanced picture of the evacuations than the typical triumphal narrative found in ...

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Manuscript drafts of writings, correspondence, photographs, audio recordings, and related materials, concerning the activities of Holocaust survivor and educator Helen Fagin. Includes manuscript drafts of Fagin's memoirs, "My European Journey, 1939-1946" and "My American Journey, 1946-2008," a manuscript draft of "Hell Translated: A Survivor's Approach to Teaching the Holocaust as a Moral Lesson;" ...

Barbara Rodbell (née Ledermann) was born in 1925 in Berlin, Germany to Franz and Ilse (née Citroen) Ledermann and had one sister, Susanne (b. 1928). In 1933, Barbara's family moved to Amsterdam, the Netherlands where they became friends with Anne Frank and her family. After the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940, Barbara's friend, Manfred Greenback, had underground contacts and was able to obtain ...

Tents and flags in Palestine A girl seated in a tent looks up, speaking to someone. The tents with a white building behind them and more tents. INT boy sits on small stool next to an unmade bed. 01:10:50 A man sitting near a window looks back towards the camera, stands up, and closes a book. CU of a little boy wearing round glasses, another young boy in round glasses standing behind him. A man walks ...

Aviva Slesin was born in 1942 in Šiauliai, Lithuania. She was smuggled out of the ghetto and placed in hiding for the duration of the war. Her rescuers were Matilda and Juozas Salenekas. Aviva was reunited with her mother, Sulamith Slesin, and her stepfather, Abraham Slesin, in Munich after the war, and they immigrated to the United States in 1950.

Alice Ferrières (1909-1988), was born in Paris in a Protestant family. She grew up in Ganges, in Hérault. Graduated in mathematics, she obtained a position as professor at the École primaire supérieure of young girls of Murat in 1938. In 1941, when Nazi occupiers seized French Jewish businesses, Ferrières began helping Jews in any way she could, eventually rescuing around 50 adults and children, despite ...

Grete Löwenstein Meier was born on November 4, 1924 in Bocholt, Germany. Her father, Berthold Löwenstein, owned a small department store and her mother, Martha Löwenstein, took care of the children. Greta had an older brother, Hans (now Jack Lowson, b. 1921) and a younger sister, Ilsa (now Ilsa Lebach, b. 1927). In May 1939 Greta’s brother immigrated to England where he worked as an engineering apprentice. ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

Josef Lazar Weinstein (after adoption Josef Lazar Rath-Weinstein, later Joseph Rath) was born on 18 June 1908 in Vascauti (Romania), son of Berl and Sidi Weinstein. Ephraim and Rosa Rath, both born in Vienna in 1862, adopted Josef in 1923. Due to the aryanisation of his employer Josef was made redundant in 1938.&nbsp;<br /><br />Josef and Mary Rath (née Futterweit, born in Vienna on 31 December 1913) ...

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The Wolfes and Herzfeld family papers include a family history and family tree for the Wolfes family, and a suicide letter written by Martha Wolfes Herzfeld in a concentration camp near Aachen in June 1942. The family history consists of a genealogical booklet and table for the Wolfes family from Mehle and Hannover Germany. The book was prepared and researched by Dr. Willi Schragenheim, and it charts ...

Eva Sekules (1926-2003) was born in Vienna, Austria on 7 April 1926. After immigrating to Great Britain (ca. 1939), she lived in children's homes of the Caldecott Community between 1940 and 1944, first at Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent, and then at Hyde House, Wareham, Dorset. She was ordered to report to duty in the Auxiliary Territory Service in Pontefract, Yorkshire, in 1944, and served in this from ...