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Eli Oliff (1930-2011) was born Eliasz Olewnik in Żuromin, Poland to Basia Karniscyn and Israel Olewnik. He had two siblings: Elimelach and Rochela. His father served in the Polish Army during World War I and was a businessman. In November 1942 Eli and his family were deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the Auschwitz concentration camp. As the Soviet Red Army approached the camp in January 1945, Eli ...

Anna Maria "Settela" Steinbach was born on December 23, 1934 in Buchten (the seventh of ten children). Her father, Heinrich "Moeselman" was a trader and a violinist, her mother, Emilia "Toetela" ran their household. In July 1943, the German occupation authorities in the Netherlands instituted a prohibition against the movement of wagons and concentrated them in assembly camps. Settela and her family ...

Half a century after the murder of his mother in Auschwitz, Isaac Lipschits writes her a letter. In it he reawakens memories of their family life in the years before the outbreak of the Second World War, and its repercussions. He relates to her the fate of her husband, her daughter and her five sons. First published in Dutch as Onbestelbaar: Herinneringen in briefvorm, the book recieved wide acclaim ...

Toddler Wilhelmina (Willie) and a baby picnic on the lawn with three adults; 01:02:39 Willie gets a haircut outdoors (because she had eczema) and roams naked in the grass; 01:06:09 Willie is sprayed with water by an adult standing behind the camera, and bathes in a metal tub outdoors. She holds a teddy bear and plays in the yard with glasses; 01:10:42 Willie carries a bouquet of flowers across the ...

Miriam Weissman (born Michla Pomerantz) is the daughter of Abraham and Chaja. She was born on October 25, 1926 in Konstantyinowo, Poland. She had four older brothers and a sister. Michla lived in the ghetto in Wolkowysk, Belarus from 11/2/42-1/43, and was sent to Auschwitz. She remained in Auschwitz from January 1943 until liberation her liberation in January, 1945 at the age of nineteen. After liberation ...

Dorothea Grater Minskoff (1910-1986) was born in Pennsylvania, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s law school in 1934, and married fellow graduate Emanuel Minskoff. There were very few women in law school at the time, and when she was unable to find a job as an attorney, she worked as a secretary for the American Bankers Association. Through her classmate Josiah Dubois, she and Emanuel ...

The collection consists of one etching, eleven drawings and six paintings created by David Friedmann (from 1960, Friedman) after the war based upon his experiences during the Holocaust in the Łódź (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto in Poland from October 1941 - August 1944 and as a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz I, and Blechhammer concentration camps from August 1944 until his liberation soon after a ...

The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Carl Zucker, originally of Zakroczym, Poland, and his wife Edith Zucker (née Guzy), originally of Olkusz, Poland, in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp. Included is biographical material such as identification cards, birth and marriage certificates, displaced persons documentation, and restitution paperwork. There is also a small amount ...

Helen Otley (1911-2003) was born Helen Schlesinger, the daughter of Moritz (1880-1956) and Helene (1891-1975, née von Schelken) Schlesinger in Vienna on 13 October 1911. Her father was a civil servant, and the family lived in the working class district of Rudolfsheim, and also included a brother, Otto (1925-1944). As a child, her father was posted to Zagreb during World War I, and Helen and her mother ...

Aenni Karoline Ehrlich (later Aenni Kaufman, 1894-1952) was born on 24 August 1894 in Berlin, Germany to Paula (née Kaufmann, 1868-1942) and Emanuel Ehrlich (1855-1933). She had one sister, Lotte (later Lotte Strohmberg, b. 1892). Aenni married Erich Kaufmann in Berlin, and had two children, Emil George (b. 1933) and Ruth Mirjam (later Ruth Bernstein, b. 1934). By 1936, Erich was spending time in England ...

14:56:05 Sabina Zlatine is a naturalized French citizen from Poland who founded the Izieu home in 1942 after losing her job as a military nurse because she was Jewish. About 80 Jewish children were smuggled to safety in Switzerland from Izieu. She speaks about her involvement in the Resistance, Izieu, and Jews in Vichy. 14:57:10 Turning to the empty dock, she screams, "Barbie said he was only concerned ...