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Hélène Goldflus was born Hélène Cantkier, on 10 September 1931, the daughter of Natan and Therese, or Taube (née Klejtman), in Paris. Her parents, although originally from different towns in Poland, met in Warsaw and were married there in 1930. For their honeymoon, they travelled to Paris, where a cousin of Natan's lived, and decided to remain there. Hélène had three brothers, Maurice (born 1935), ...

Motke Blum was born in Racaciuni (Moldava), Romania, on April 5, 1925, to Arie Lieb (1898-1983), and Leah Josef, (9/1904- 12/1989) His father was a shoemaker. Motke has two siblings, Haim, born in 1923, and Nissan, born in 1932. Prior to World War II, his family moved to Bucharest, Romania, where Motke attended a Jewish school and belonged to the Gordonia Zionist movement. In January 1939, Romanian ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 11, No. 754, Part 2. Release date, 02/23/1939. 841 Jews arrive in Shanghai on the SS Conte Biancomano. View from dock as passengers wave from rail of boat (mostly men). CU women and men waving. MLS women and men walking down stairs, departing boat (nicely dressed). Refugees at desk, exchanging papers. 02:13:10 Hedrig Callman with her grandson Rolf Eis. Man in "window" dropping ...

Cricket. MSs batsman hitting, bowler throwing. LSs of cricket match being played in front of large crowd. Headline re "bodyline bowling" controversy. 01:20:54 CU sign "Fleet St." Shot looking up the busy street. Interior offices of paper? journalists working (narrator speaks as a journalist) LS, MS G.K. Chesterton speaking to big crowd. Auto racing at Brooklands. CUs people in booths keeping records. ...

Regine Canetti was born on May 16, 1921 in Sofia, Bulgaria to Albert Canetti (b. Kazanlak, Bulgaria) and Rachelle Levi (b. Constantinople or Andnopolus, Turkey, d. 1940). The family had Sephardic roots, and spoke Ladino at home. Rachelle’s grandfather was a Rabbi, and her father was a tailor for the Sultan. Albert worked for Louis Dreyfus, a large French company that dealt in grains and shipping, and ...

Touring Europe before World War II, probably in the year 1930. Home movies by an unknown American cameraperson. Consists of two 14" reels which contain short 16mm rolls spliced together. Includes segments of rare Kodacolor (lenticular) film. The Americans travel by bus, boat, and train across Europe with stops in England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Finland to Russia, Belarus, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, ...

Vera Mahler (née Hess, b. 1923) was born in Berga an der Elster to Adolf Hess (1887-1944) and Jette Hess (nee Falk, b. 1896) and had one sister, Ilse (1927-?). Adolf and Jette married in 1922 and lived in Berga where Adolf worked as a manufacturer. Adolf was arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp during Kristallnacht in 1938. He was released four weeks later after promising to leave Germany. ...

TRIMS of Poland 1936- not connected by subject matter. Polish cavalry on maneuvers in an open field. Shop window in Warsaw during the arrival of Smigly Rydz. INT, MCU a streetcar full of passengers in Warsaw. Gdynia, ships loading and unloading at the port, pier 23. EXT, MS, streetcar rounding a corner in Warsaw. VS, EXT, MLS, husband and wife in the countryside walking toward their home, MCU entrance ...

Sally (Salomon) and Erna (nee Marx) Isenberg and their three children, Artur, Helmut, and Norbert, lived in Saarbrücken (Germany), Zurich (Switzerland), Loerrach (Germany), and Vaduz (Liechtenstein). Artur came to the United States to attend Harvard University before 1938. The others immigrated in October 1938. The boys served their new country in WWII. Artur worked for the Office of War Information. ...

The Bicks were a Jewish-German family who lived in Sorau, now Żary, Poland, until their escape to Chile in 1939. The documents in this fonds pertain mostly to Siegfried (birth name Jude Siegfried Bick, b. July 16, 1882, in Sorau, Germany), his wife, Johanna Bick (birth name Johanna Munter, b. November 24, 1889, in Labischin, Germany), and their son, Werner Bick (b. December 14, 1919, in Sorau, Germany).Siegfried ...