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Print of a portrait drawing by Esther Lurie of a young woman in checked dress with two Star of David patches. It is print 19 of 20 and is signed the artist. This print is a version of the drawing, Portrait of a Young Girl with Two Yellow Badges, which Lurie did in the Kovno ghetto and for which she was awarded the Dizengoff Prize in 1946 in Palestine. In 1934, Esther and her family emigrated from Latvia ...

<div>Vera Eliyashiv was born into an upper middle class Jewish family in Kovno, Lithuania, in 1929. Her father, Solomon Gutman, was a civil servant. Her mother Rachel née Gotlieb, died when Vera was six. Her father taught her to read and employed a governess to look after her after her mother died. She learnt Russian, Lithuanian and German at school where Jews and non-Jews alike mixed. The family was ...

Miksa Rottenberg (Max, 1902-?) was born in Dés, Austria-Hungary (now Dej, Romania) to Albert Dov (1868-1943) and Anna Rozia Dina Rosmann (Rozman, 1879-1944) Rottenberg. Anna was born to Efraim and Sara Rosmann in Falstin, Austria-Hungary (now Falsztyn, Poland.) Anna had six siblings: Shlomo, Bernhard Jakob Dov, Khain Mordekhai Markus, Hermin Khava, Rosa Rakhel, and Braindel Blanka. Albert was born ...

Prewar footage (home movies) of the Katz family in 1929. Kovno street scenes. VAR CUs of Katz family strolling along Laisves al., showing Dita's mother Liola, grandfather, brother, uncle, and grandmother. 01:00:34 MS EXT of the grandfather's wholesale trade store - C. KACAS - on Presidento gatve. Here, the family sold typewriters, sewing machines, and bicycles. VAR shots of store and family at door ...

Salek Rosendorn (Salomon, 1913-1972) was born on 25 August 1913 in Łódź, Poland to Hersz and Masha Rosendorn. He had seven siblings: Abraham, David (d. 1940), Ida (b. 1905), Leon (b. 1908), Malka (b. 1899), Mietek (b. 1902), and Noah. Hersz was a tailor and all of his children learned the trade. Salek’s brothers Abraham and David moved to Berlin in 1919 to open a tailor shop called Rosendorn Brothers. ...

Seventeen-year-old Frieda Masia resided in Sosnowiec, Poland at the outbreak of WWII. She began working in a Jewish hospital as a nurse after the Nazis occupied Sosnowiec. Masia saw Jews starved, beaten, burned alive, and executed, regardless of age. She belonged to the Jewish underground, and was a leader in the Zionist youth movement. After a particularly bad 'action' against the Jews, Mordechai ...

The collection documents the postwar experiences of Holocaust survivors Itzhak and Judith LIchta in several displaced persons camps. Included are photographs and an album from Föhrenwald, Reichenhall, Bergen Belsen, and likely Milbersthofen-Am-Hart displaced persons camps; pre-war photographs of Itzhak’s family in Falenica, Poland and Judith’s family in Oszmiana, Poland (present day Ashmyany, Belarus); ...

Reports, correspondence, hearings of witnesses regarding the action of the Polish underground in Warsaw, materials about the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 - various information, studies, accounts, notes, list of executions, situational sketches and maps, list of commanders and military units; account of German crimes committed in September 1939; investigation materials against Erich von dem Bach, Heinz Reinefarth, ...

<p>This collection comprises the personal correspondence received by Tony Berger, a Jewish refugee from Duisburg who was the only one of her siblings to emigrate to England on a domestic visa. Despite her efforts to help her family leave the country, they did not manage to obtain the required documentation in time.</p>Family letters of Tony Berger, mainly from her mother, siblings and grandparents, ...

The Kleinberg family papers comprises postcards and letters written between the members of the Kleinberg family from 1939 until 1945. The majority of the correspondence is between the Kleinberg siblings and their immediate families, with the many of the letters coming from Zofia Minder in Krakow and Lola Schifeldrim, a close family friend who worked for Irena’s husband, Ferdynand Keiner and assisted ...