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Edith Hamberg (later Edith Hamberg Tarcov, 1919-1990) was born on 23 October 1919 in Hannover, Germany to Sally (1887-1942?) and Minna (née Braunsberg, 1889-1943?) Hamberg. She had one sister, Margot (later Margot Ward, b.1924). Her father was a World War I veteran. Prior to her emigration from Germany, Edith was an active Zionist and worked at Jewish orphanages in Hannover and Kassel. She emigrated ...

The Arbeiter family papers consist of wartime correspondence, a newspaper clipping, and pre-war family photographs relating to the Arbeiter family, originally of Płock, Poland. The later correspondence relates to inquests into the fate of Elek Arbeiter, born in 1919, who escaped to the Soviet Union, but had not been heard from since 1941.

This collection contains correspondence, lists of documents, copies of lawsuit files, personal files, minutes of sessions, reports, as well as materials collected in the course of the work conducted by the Main Commission such as: name lists of German officers; materials related to the notes of Sonderkommando (including snapshots) found on the area of Birkenau in 1961; writer’s studies of Stanisław ...

The collection contains pre-war photographs of the Eisenstadt family of Pinsk, Belarus, and post-war photographs of Boris Eisenstadt and his wife Rachel Eisenstadt (née Bak, later Burstein) of Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania and her son Alex in the Landsberg displaced persons camp in Bavaria, Germany. The documents are identification papers of Rachel from Landsberg and Israel. There is also a letter regarding ...

Eva (Chava) Weinberger (later Cohen, mother of the donors) was the daughter of Moses and Idy nee Friedman Weinberger. Eva was born on November 19, 1924 in Kusnice, Transcarpathia. Kusnice was a small town not far from Munkacz. She had two older sisters Esther (b. 1915) and Helena (b. 1922), and two younger sisters Ruth (Jolan) (b. August 14, 1926) and Chana (b. 1930). Her mother died sometime in the ...

Mendel Grossman (1913-1945) was born in in Staszów, Poland to Shmuel Dawid (1882-1942) and Chana Ruchla (1887-1942) Grossman. He grew up in Łódź, Poland with three sisters, Rut, Rozka (b. 1918), and Feiga (b. 1910); and one brother, Jakub. His sister Rut immigrated to the United States in 1919, and his brother Jakub died of appendicitis before the war. Prior to the war, Mendel was a prolific artist ...

Mascha Berkmann (née Rutstein, later Marsha Berkman, 1920-2007) was born in Raseiniai, Lithuania to Rachel (née Seidman) and Hershel Rutstein. She had three brothers, Benjamin, Henry, and Israel. Her father was a cobbler, but died when Mascha was 2 years old. Her mother supported the family by cooking and cleaning for other families. The children were not able to go to school, and Mascha began working ...

Die Sammlung enthält v.a.: Verschiedene Rechnungen, Aufstellungen, Bestandsaufnahmen, Korrespondenz und Pläne des Ghettos Kauen, Leistungsberichte der KL Werkstätten, Verwaltungsbefehle, Aktenplan der Verwaltung, Liste befreiter Frauen durch die Rote Armee, Liste überlebender Juden Geschichte des Ghettos und Konzentrationslagers Kauen (Kaunas, Kowno) 1941-1944: Die litauische Stadt Kaunas (dt. Kauen, ...

Mark Borisovich Markov-Grinberg was born on November 27, 1907, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. He learned photography at secondary school. In 1925, he took his first job as a photographer for the Sovetsky Yug (Soviet South) newspaper and worked as a freelance correspondent for Ogonyok magazine. In 1926, Markov-Grinberg moved to Moscow and worked for various trade union newspapers and the magazine, Krasnoarmeyskaya ...

Wilhelm Beigel was born on May 18, 1927, in Vilna, Poland, (Vilnius, Lithuania) to Ferdinand, born on June 25, 1899, in Lemberg, Austria (L’viv, Ukraine), and Liza Kowarsky, born on October 20, 1904, in Vilna. Ferdinand was an officer in the Polish Army. Liza’s parents, Zelik (d. 1935) and Musia Kowarsky owned the Hotel Bristol, the largest hotel in Vilna. The Beigel family lived there with 14 extended ...

Fonds consists of vital records, citizenship documents, correspondence, photographs, slides, published materials, manuscript, videocassette, audio cassettes and objects relating to the lives and interests of the Kaplan family. Fonds has been arranged into the following series: Kaplan family personal records series (1994–1948); Kaplan family correspondence series (1947–1960); Kaplan family audio-visual ...

David Schickler was born on 16 October 1906 in Grodek Jagiellonski, Poland (today Horodok, Ukraine), as the son of Simon Schickler and Chana Todt. He became a teacher and, in July 1930, he followed his parents to Belgium. David moved in with them at Marinisstraat 3 in Antwerp, but the family changed addresses frequently during the years following their arrival. On 10 September 1935, David married Chana ...