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THe collection consists of family papers of Albin Goldschmied and Louise Ohs Goldschmied, their daughter Renée, and their parents Leopold and Katarina Pick Goldschmied, and Bernhard and Rosa Loewnthal Ohs. Includes correspondence, documents, photographs, books and publications, an autograph book, a notebook, a silk textile fragment, a cardboard box and related materials. Date range is late 19th century ...

The Sylvia and Abram Kolski photographs document Sylvia and Abram Kolski and their families in Poland before and during the Holocaust and in France and the United States after World War II. Photographs depict Sylvia and Abram Kolski; Sylvia’s parents parents, brothers, and cousins; Frymet’s brother Abram Borenstein, her sister Laia Karpman, and their families; the individuals who hid with Sylvia and ...

Contains eyewitness accounts of pogroms; printed excerpts from Vasilii Grossman's war diary; copies of articles, reports, and manuscripts by Grossman; Russian translation of Yankel Vernik's "A Year in Treblinka; " typed journal of D. I. Zaslyavskiy from 1943; protocol of conversation with the writer A. A. Bek; letters to the radio program "Naiti Cheloveka" from persons seeking information on relatives ...

Consists of poetry and songs in Russian relating to German and Stalinist camps from the 1930s to the 1950s. The individual songs and poems were written by camp survivors in Yiddish. In the 1980s they were compiled and translated to Russian by Roman Kaminsky. The compilation includes personal accounts of eight Holocaust survivors which describe what role music and poetry played in their daily life and ...

<p>Ronald Hertzmann, the donor, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA in 1945. His father, Otto Hertzmann, was born in Krefeld, Germany, in 1906 and died in London in 1976. He had emigrated to the USA on 9 August 1937, where his father's sister, Adele lived and where he met his wife. Then together with his wife, Isabelle, the family moved to London in 1950.</p><p>Otto's father, Hugo Herzmann ...

Consists of three articles from the "Forward" newspaper (New York), circa 1947, written by Sam Streitman. The articles relate to the fifth anniversary of the destruction of the Jewish community in "Ostrowce," Poland (apparently a reference to Ostrowiec). Also included is a photograph (black-and-white with partial coloring added) of Chawa and Frieda Borensztein, sisters of the donor's father. Both women ...

Collection of documents, photographs, and correspondence relating to Dorrit Wasservogel Wellerson (donor’s late wife), born in Vienna, Austria in 1923, and her parents Marcel and Klara Wasservogel. The Wasservogel family left Austria on August 20, 1939 for India. On September 1, 1939 the war broke out and they were trapped in Naples, Italy not being able to proceed. They later moved to Rome, but in ...

An account of the Holocaust experiences of Jankiel (Jack) Klajman, who was born in Warsaw in 1931. Describes life in the ghetto, where his parents died. A brother and sister were deported to Treblinka and perished; another brother, hiding on the "Aryan side", was denounced and killed. Klajman, with his non-Jewish appearance, snuck in and out of the ghetto, smuggling food; he also was a messenger for ...

Arthur I. Kessler was born on December 12, 1900 in Szczakowa, Poland. His daughter, Margit (Gita) Hammerschlag was born on July 27, 1935 in Prague Czechoslovakia. On September 12, 1942 Margit was deported from Praha, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt. On October 22, 1942, she was deported from Theresienstadt to Treblinka, where she perished. Arthur I. Kessler died in 1977.