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Albert Erlebacher was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, on February 27, 1935, to Julius (b. May 2, 1888) and Irma (née Stammhalter, b. August 26, 1902). He had an older brother, Gunther, born June 25, 1923. In 1938, two years after Albert was born, Gunther emigrated to the United States at age 14. The family, who lived near Karlsruhe in Bretten, Germany, was very religious and kept kosher. Irma ran a fabric ...

Walter Rauscher (July 9, 1919 – December 1974) was born in Ošelín, Czechoslovakia to Oskar and Clementine (Schnurmacher) Rauscher. The family owned a general store in town and lived in the quarters above it. Oskar died in June 1936, leaving the business to his wife. Walter’s uncle, Leo Schnurmacher, was the Honorary Consul of Czechoslovakia in Manila, Philippines. In 1938, Leo connected Walter, who ...

William C. Christianson (1892-1985), who served as a judge at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials during 1947-1949, was born in Moody County, South Dakota on 5 December 1892. He lived in Minnesota as a child, and graduated from Highland Park College in Des Moines, Iowa, and later obtained a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. Following service in the United States Navy during World War ...

HAS, Julian and Esther Aresty on a trip to Bitola, probably in Summer 1936 after their wedding on June 18, 1936. The couple was living in Chicago at the time. They stand near the railing of a ship’s deck. Waves pass. People play shuffleboard, talk, and pose for photographs on the deck. A passing ship on the horizon line. Very brief shot of men playing a game on the ship. Pan of the sea and land on ...

Edith Hamberg (later Edith Hamberg Tarcov, 1919-1990) was born on 23 October 1919 in Hannover, Germany to Sally (1887-1942?) and Minna (née Braunsberg, 1889-1943?) Hamberg. She had one sister, Margot (later Margot Ward, b.1924). Her father was a World War I veteran. Prior to her emigration from Germany, Edith was an active Zionist and worked at Jewish orphanages in Hannover and Kassel. She emigrated ...

Ferdinand Rubel was born in a small village, Steinbach am Donnersberg in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, in 1900. His family worked as barley and grain brokers. Most of his extended Rubel family had immigrated to Chicago in the mid-19th century. Ferdinand had been involved in ad hoc anti-Nazi groups who broke up Nazi rallies. Soon after the January 1933 Nazi takeover, Ferdinand was arrested as a political ...

The Joseph Komito memoir is a typewritten memoir of Joseph Komito in which he describes life in Mielec, Poland, before and during the German occupation; his experiences as a forced laborer first in an unnamed airplane factory and later in Wieliczka, Auschwitz, Flossenbürg, and Leitmeritz concentration camps; and his postwar life in the United States.

One of the most remarkable and stirring episodes of World War II involved a young Swede from a distinguished banking family named Raoul Wallenberg. Wallenberg had watched the progress of the war and the treatment of the Jews from his neutral country with growing horror and the burning ambition to do something. When in June of 1944 he was approached to oversee a rescue operation of Hungarian Jews being ...