Sephardic songs of Monastir, Macedonia. CD 1 contains forty tracks of music sung by Avram Sadikario, recorded in 2004. CD 2 contains a document with the text of the lyrics.

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Maria Rozengarten Rose was born in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland, to Matias Rozengarten (1877-1942, originally of Siedlce) and to Golda Keis (1875-1941, originally of Warsaw). Maria had an older sister, Ruta, and a brother, Marek, who was the middle child. Marek completed trade school and opened a haberdashery in Warsaw. He married Maryla Wahl, and had a son, Czesio, born in 1934. In 1935, Ruta married Adam ...

<p>This collection contains transcripts of speeches held at the memorial service for Kurt Paucker on 26 April 1980.</p><p>Papers including speeches by Arnold Paucker; Werner Henle, Ph.D mentor at the University of Pennsylvania, colleague and friend; and Jan Vilcek and Clifton A Ogburn, colleagues and friends. The speech by his brother tells the story of their bourgeois upbringing in the Weimarer Republic ...

Leif Herman Rosenstock was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1926. His father, Noah Rosenstock, was a locksmith and his mother, Frida Frajdla Eisen Rosenstock, took care of the children. Leif Rosenstock had two younger siblings: Eva Lillian, born in 1928 and John Moritz, born in 1941. The Rosenstock family included Leif’s paternal grandparents: Isak Rosenstock, born in Lund, Sweden in 1880; his wife, ...

British issued Brodie pattern MK II green steel helmet worn by Marcel Frank when he was a Belgian liaison officer with the British Army during the liberation of Bergen Belsen concentration camp in late April 1945. Marcel was stationed at Lueneberg, on the outskirts of Bergen Belsen, and assisted with the repatriation of Belgian survivors in the displaced persons camp. He was present when the British ...

The Rabbi Malgorzata Melchior collection consists of two petitions for the issuance of identification cards for Lejzor Melchior, Rabbi Malgorzata Melchior’s paternal grandfather and of Rózia Melchior, Rabbi Malgorzata Melchior's paternal great-aunt in the Radom ghetto, Poland. Petition; number 4089 for identification card by Rózia Melchior, Rabbi Malgorzata Melchior’s paternal great-aunt, born on June ...

Welt im Film. Issue no. 72 Title: Filmstart in der Britischen Zone: Die beiden ersten Spielfilme [Beginning of filming in the British zone: the first two feature films]. A crowd watches as filming gets underway in Hamburg. The director describes the first scene before the action starts. The camera rolls along a track fillming the scene. The next film involves young people sailing in kayaks along the ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Kathy Pfister

Regine alias Regina Beer was born on 5 November 1920 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During the First World War her parents, the Belgian Jewish couple Henri Beer and Clara Josephine Pinkhof, had fled to the Dutch capital with their daughter Clarisse and son Sally Maurice. When Regine was 11 months old, the Beer family returned to Antwerp. There they experienced the beginning of the occupation in May ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00091 at Kazerne Dossin

Ruth Renee Cohen was born Raizel Friedman on April 26, 1930 in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia (later Munkács, Hungary, now Mukachevo, Ukraine) to Herman and Bertha (Breinde, nee Schwartz) Friedman. Her father and uncle manufactured wine, liquor, and beer. Their business was primarily wholesale, but Jewish customers came each Friday afternoon to buy wine for Sabbath. Ruth and her older sister Teresa (Terezie, ...

The Cytrynowski family correspondence collection consists of letters, postcards, and Red Cross messages to Nathan Citri from Yechiel, Genia, and Miriam Cytrynowski in Łódź, Poland and later in the Warsaw ghetto.The correspondents describe their lives, their preparations to move to Palestine, and their disappointment after plans fall through.

Jacob Arnon was a Dutch Jew and leader of a Zionist student organization. Arnon's uncle was one of the chairmen of the Jewish Council [Judenrat] in Amsterdam, and though he admired his uncle greatly, he condemns the Council's actions, especially their choice of whom to deport. Arnon's uncle survived the war but the two never spoke again. FILM ID 3265 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:18 to 01:29:12 [CLIP ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

The records of the Institute of Jewish Affairs have been divided into five main sections, as MSS 237-41, maintaining the subject arrangement that the Institute used for its documentation collections. The records of the London office and British section of the World Jewish Congress are distributed in several places in this arrangement. The archive contains: MS 237: information from the press and other ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...