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Contains a memoir, 5 pages, typed in Romanian, by Safta Marin (born Georghe Apostol), originally of Clejani, Romania. In the memoir, he describes his childhood as a Roma/Sinti, his experiences traveling by wagon as part of a deportation into Russia in 1942, and the starvation and deaths of members of his family. Born Georghe Apostol, after the war he named himself Safta Marin after a brother who died ...

Contains photographs documenting the experiences of the Helen and Ezra Lebovics and their children Yolanda and Harry [born in Verece, Hungary] and Bela [born in Budapest]. Ezra performed forced labor and when Bela only was 2, Helen was deported in 1944 to Bergen-Belsen Concentration camp. The children were reunited with Ezra in January 1945 and in 1946, Helen, who had survived, came back to Budapest ...

This collection contains personal papers and correspondence of the Heydecker family, German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany who settled in Great Britain shortly before the outbreak of World War II.

Engraved marker for the grave of Chaja Gitla Fortunska recovered in Łódź, Poland, after the war by her daughter Alicja Dworzecka. On January 28, 1943, Chaja, 55, was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Łódź Ghetto, having passed away after unsuccessful intestinal surgery at the ghetto hospital. Chaja, husband Jankiel, children Dawid, Alicja, and Moniek, with their spouses, were residents of Łódź, which ...

The papers consist of two passports and two identification cards relating to the Doernberg family's flight from Eschwege, Germany, to Portugal. The collection includes German passports ("Reisepass"), German identification cards ("Kennkarte"), and Portuguese identification papers (Bilhete de Identidade) for Hedwig and Carl Doernberg, David Doernberg's paternal grandparents, who fled from Germany to ...

Francie Alpert (1931-2014) was born Fernande Waligora on 13 May 1931 in Paris, France to Szmul and Rose Waligora. Szmul Loeb Waligora (also referred to as Samuel, 1899-1942) was born in Sokołów Podlaski, Poland on 9 March 1899 and worked as a tailor. Rose Waligora (née Kunigis, also referred to as Rishkeh, 1903-1947) was born Rysha Kuniges in 1903 in Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) to Abraham and ...

The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Sulamita Simenauer Konar’s mother Chana Pomerancblum Simenauer and grandmother Mina Zalcman Pomerancblum, both of whom survived in hiding under false identities in Jeleśnia, Poland. Included are a registration form (Meldebestaetigung) issued to Chana under her false identity of Maria Kolodziejczyk, and two occupancy registration forms (anmeldung) ...

Sophie Scharvogel, grandmother of the depositor, who was born on 24 December 1859 in Mainz; was transported to Terezin on 1942 and died there on 16 November 1942. She was the widow of Professor J. J. Scharvogel. Karl Traumann, author of one of the letters who writes from Gurs concentration camp in the French Pyrenees, February 1941, was a patent lawyer from Karlsruhe, first cousin of Gertrud Ohly and ...

Michael Markheim (1915-1961) was born Michal Markheim on 12 November 1915 in Kraków, Poland to Salomon Hausman Markheim (b. 1882) and Estera Markheim (née Herz, b. 1881). Michael had six siblings: Rebeka (later Rebeka Schnür, b. 8 September 1908), Natan (Nathan, 25 August 1910-24 January 1945), Yanek (born Jakob Hausman, also referenced as Jean Marks, b. 30 March 1913), Dolek (born Dawid, b. 22 July ...

Beate Rocker (nicknamed Deta) was born Beate Goldfeld on 7 November 1924 in Vienna, Austria to Israel and Dora Goldfeld. Her father Israel owned a sweater factory in Vienna. Her mother Dora (née Heitner, 1883-1942) was born in Novosolitza, Romania (Novoselytsia, Ukraine). Beate had one brother, Albert (later Albert Goldfield, 1914-2005), who was born on 26 April 1914 in Novosolitza. Beate left Vienna ...