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<div>Kurt Wilhelm Weinberg was born on 23 July 1924. He grew up in the small town of Werther near Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. His father, Julius Weinberg (1887-1965), owned a tobacco factory, which Kurt's great-grandfather founded in 1877. The factory was based at Haus Werther "dem Schloss," where the Weinberg family used to live as well. The business was very successful and had 300 ...

Consists of correspondence, official documents, and photographs relating to the Holocaust experiences of Ilse Lichtenstein Meyer, originally of Volkmarsen, Germany. Includes correspondence written while Ilse was in the Netherlands, as well as photographs of the various children's homes in which she lived. Also includes a notebook in which Ilse wrote recipes for a class on housework at a children's ...

Consists of papers related to the Holocaust experiences of Ruth Salmon Seltzer, originally of Lambsheim, Germany. Ruth was sent on a Kindertransport from Germany to France in 1939, and lived in the OSE home of La Guette, before being sent to the United States in 1941. Her mother and sisters spent part of the war in the Rivesaltes and Gurs concentration camps, and emigrated to the United States after ...

This collection contains: a digital copy of the Rosenblatt-Ginsberg family photo album, including photos of Hans Rosenblatt, his parents Adolf Rosenblatt and Lea Ginsberg, his uncle Samuel Rosenblatt and his adoptive parents David Dorn and Hanna alias Fanny Dorn taken before, during and after the war ; Samuel Rosenblatt’s American immigrant identification card from 1939 ; an album with handwritten ...

Lilly Geringer Drukker was born in Vienna on 13 January 1927. Her parents were Sophie (nee Karpel) and Josef Geringer, and her maternal grandparents immigrated from Sniatyn, Poland in 1894. Her father came from a family of musicians who had lived in various locations in the Balkans, eventually settling in Piraeus, Greece. When Josef was an adolescent, his father brought him to Vienna to further his ...

<p>This collection contains papers (photocopies) relating to the fate of the Jewish family of Richard and Gisela Bernstein and their children Heinz and Susanne. Whilst the children emigrated to England as Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi regime, their parents could not escape deportation to Auschwitz despite them moving to Oslo.</p><p>Personal papers including birth and death certificates, correspondence ...

Uri Hirschmann was born Helmut Martin Hirschmann in 1922 in Frankfurt am Main to Lazarus Hirschmann (1889-1938) and Hedwig Hirschmann (1894-approximatley 1941). Lazarus Hirschmann was a World War I veteran and owned a writing materials wholesale business. Uri left Germany for Palestine in March 1939, settled on a kibbutz, and married Zahava Shapira. His sister Margot (b. 1925) left in April on a Kindertransport ...

This collection mainly consists of papers related to Julius Carlebach (1922 - 2001) moved life, concerning his work in the Jewish Orphanage Norwood, his academic career and his religious placements and engagement. Few papers providing personal impressions reflecting his early life experiences in Nazi Germany, arriving in Great Britain as a refugee through the first Kindertransport in 1938 and commemorations ...

The Alfred Büchler papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and police and Buchenwald Kommandantur certificates documenting the Büchler family of Gleiwitz; Heinrich Büchler’s incarceration in Buchenwald; Alfred Büchler’s freedom to emigrate; Alfred, Steffi, and Henry Büchler’s efforts in England to communicate with their parents, Jacques and Käthe Büchler, in Gleiwitz; and Jacques ...

Grete Löwenstein Meier was born on November 4, 1924 in Bocholt, Germany. Her father, Berthold Löwenstein, owned a small department store and her mother, Martha Löwenstein, took care of the children. Greta had an older brother, Hans (now Jack Lowson, b. 1921) and a younger sister, Ilsa (now Ilsa Lebach, b. 1927). In May 1939 Greta’s brother immigrated to England where he worked as an engineering apprentice. ...