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Herbert Komlos (1916-2003) was born on 3 June 1916 in Rakospalota, Hungary. He married Eva Lőwy (1921-2009) in April 1944 in Budapest. Their son John was born the same year. Herbert was a survivor of Hungarian labor battalions and went into hiding with his family and extended relatives in Budapest. After the war, they lived in Austria. Their second son Steven was born in 1948. In December 1956 the ...

Drawing created by Henri Bomblat, circa 2000, in memory of his sisters, Sarah and Rosette, who were killed at Auschwitz concentration camp. It depicts a crematorium with smokestacks with portraits of 2 young women. Above is a large closed eye inscribed with excerpts from the Kaddish. Sarah, age 22, was arrested in Paris on July 16, 1942, and deported to Auschwitz on September 23, 1942, where she was ...

The Vollweiler family collection consists of identity documents, family history materials, and correspondence related to the Vollweiler family, originally of Heidenheim, Germany. Justin Vollweiler was arrested on Kristallnacht in 1938 and imprisoned in the Dachua concentration camp. He was able to immigrate to the United States after his release. His wife, Else and daughter Inge were able to join him ...

Abraham (Abram) Winiger (1905-1993) was born December 21, 1905 in Nadwórna, Poland (now Nadvirna, Ukraine) to Israel and Sarah Winiger. Mina Winiger (1913-1979) was born May 5, 1913 in Majdan Górny, Poland to Markus and Sobel Händel and moved to Nadwórna. The couple were married in 1938, and their son Jakob (Jankl) was born March 1, 1941. Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a ghetto ...

The Rabbi Malgorzata Melchior collection consists of two petitions for the issuance of identification cards for Lejzor Melchior, Rabbi Malgorzata Melchior’s paternal grandfather and of Rózia Melchior, Rabbi Malgorzata Melchior's paternal great-aunt in the Radom ghetto, Poland. Petition; number 4089 for identification card by Rózia Melchior, Rabbi Malgorzata Melchior’s paternal great-aunt, born on June ...

Michael Siegel was born in Arnstein in 1882, the son of farmer and horse trader, Salomon Siegel. He received the König Ludwig Kreuz in 1916 for his work with young people during the First World War. He married Mathilde Waldner (1893-1970) in 1920 with whom he had two children, Hans-Peter (born 1921) and Maria Beate (born 1925). After graduating in law at the universities of Munich and Berlin he joined ...

This collection contains: a letter from Clementine Krijn (Kryn) in Antwerp to her brother and sister-in-law Alexander and Frances Krijn-Cohen in New York, announcing the death of their father Salomon Krijn (Kryn), his struggle during the last days of his life and the state of their mother Bertha Dreyfuss, 1941 ; the envelope with censorship markings containing the letter regarding the death of Salomon ...

Photographs and biographical materials documenting the experiences of Enny Bachrach and her husband Siegfried Steinhardt. Photographs include WWI images of Louis Bachrach, Enny’s father, in his battalion and in a field hospital, and later undated images of various family members. Biographical materials include birth certificates for Siegfried Steinhardt, Enny Bachrach, Evelina Steinhardt, and two immigration ...

Bernhard Weinberg (1872-1943) was born on 30 January 1872 in Czernowitz (Chernivtsi, Ukraine) to Moses Weinberg and Rachel Gottlieb. His wife Lotte Weinberg (née Zimbler, 1873-1942) was born on 10 April 1873 in Sadagora (Sadhora, Ukraine). Their daughter Regina Weinberg was born on 17 September 1912 in Lviv, Ukraine. The family lived in Vienna, Austria. Bernhard and Lotte corresponded with cousins ...

Irma Gideon (née Frank, 1912-2006) was born on May 27, 1912 in Oberlustadt, Germany to Jacob Frank (April 19, 1876-October 28, 1948) and Bertha Frank (November 9, 1883-July 26, 1966). She had three siblings: Martha Mayer (1907-1942), Hans Frank (Ehemann, 1910-2003), and Max Frank. She married Richard Gideon (1910-1994), and they had two children. Richard Gideon died on October 18, 1994 in Brooklyn, ...