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Contains photographs, letters, and documents related to the wartime and postwar experiences of Wilhelm (William) and Regina Rusinek Weiss. Includes photographs showing Regina Rusinek in Volary, Czechoslovakia, soon after the liberation by the US Army in May 1945; later photographs depicting William and Regina in the Feldafing DP camp, in the Berlin Zoo and with their newborn son, Samuel, born 1946; ...

Morris Kornberg was born in Przebr̤z, Poland on Jan. 6, 1918. He was the youngest of seven children in a strictly Orthodox family. When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, he was forced to work. He lived in a ghetto and worked in a factory. Morris was imprisoned in Klonskie, a prison in Poland, taken to Radom, Poland, and then to Jawischowitz, a subcamp of Auschwitz in Poland. He worked in a coal mine ...

A biography and family history of the mother and uncle of Eliane Ungar, Bronka (Brandla) Friedman (1925-2002) and Bernard (Berek) Friedman (1927-2015), both originally of Chrzanów, Poland. Included is a description of the history of the Jewish community of Chrzanów, the extended members of the Friedman family there and abroad, the history of the German occupation of Chrzanów and subsequent persecution ...

Contains records from various concentration and other camps, includes mainly various name lists, statistics, reports, questioners, correspondence, and testimonies. Included are camp medical records, lists of deportees, and internees, list of arrivals and prisoners, registers of deaths and death certifications, lists of capos and gestapo agents, general camp statistics and registers, general camp documentation, ...

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1923 in Kraków. He was arrested in 1940 and deported to the Krzeszowice labor camp. He managed to escape, returned to Kraków, and went into hiding. In January 1941 his parents and brother left for Nowy Targ in southern Poland; Stein joined them there. In fall 1941 they were taken for forced labor. In August 1942 many Jews were shot, including Stein's father, and 2,000 Jews ...

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The Litke family papers document the experiences of Chaim Litke and Frida Hoffmann Litke in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and their post-war lives in the Eggenfelden displaced persons camp, Eggenfelden, Germany from 1945-1949. The collection includes papers from Eggenfelden, immigration and naturalization documents, restitution papers, Frida’s testimonies about her time in Auschwitz concentration ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners General Wilhelm Franz Canaris Lebensdaten 01.01887 geb.in Aplerbeck/Dortmund 09.04.1945 gest. im KZ in Flossenbürg Werdegang 1905 Eintritt Kaiserliche Marine 1914 Schlacht bei den Falkland-Inseln auf dem Kreuzer "Dresden" 1915 Internierung in Chile und die Flucht nach Deutschland 1916 Geheimauftrag in Spanien, Kommando über ein U-Boot im Mittelmeer 1919 Mitglied Kriegsgericht ...

The collection primarily documents the wartime experiences of Aaron Finger, originally of Toronto, Canada, who trained at Camp Ritchie and was in Germany from 1945-1946. Included is an identification card, letter of commendation, a small amount of correspondence, photographs, and a photograph album. Also included are a small amount of documents and photographs related to the family of his wife, Henrietta ...

The author, a non-Jew, writes about the Jewish family of her first husband František (Franta) Taussig - the Taussigs of Hlinsko. Franta (1909-1941) was a communist party organizer and editor of a communist newspaper in Bruenn (Brno). He was arrested and shot by the Nazis in 1941 for his activities in the resistance. His parents and a younger brother, Josef (Pepek), a writer and artist, were sent to ...