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- Dr. Nathan Eck was born in Janow, Poland, 19 March 1896. He was a Gordonia youth movement activist and a Zionist activist, as well as a teacher, educator, writer, editor and Holocaust scholar. Dr. Eck served in the Austrian Army from 1915-1918 and earned the degree of Doctor of Law at the University of Vienna in 1922. - He wrote articles that appeared in the "Lemberger Togblatt" in 1912, in the "Wiener ...

Menasche alias Maximilian Brunner was born in Kaschau, Czechoslovakia, on 15 May 1894 as the son of Baruch Brunner and Rifka Kendel Hollander. Maximilian had two sisters named Esther (born on 18 August 1895) and Rachel alias Rosa (born on 9 November 1897). In 1899 the Brunner family migrated to Belgium. During the First World War, Maximilian nonetheless had to serve in the Austro-Hungarian army. He ...

The Goldfarb family papers document the experiences of Polish-born Leopold Goldfarb, his Belgian-born wife Jenny, and their daughter Nina; as they sought to escape Belgium following the German invasion in 1940, and immigrate to the United States, by way of Portugal, Jamaica, and Cuba, following Jenny’s death in France. The papers contain identification and immigration documents, correspondence, including ...

Caroline Woolsey Ferriday (1902-1990) was the only child of Henry Ferriday, a New York dry goods merchant, and Eliza Woolsey Ferriday. After a brief acting career on Broadway, she began working as a volunteer at the French consulate in New York City. During World War II she raised money to assist French children, particularly war orphans. After the war, she aided victims of pseudo-scientific experiments ...

Varian Fry (1907-1967) was born in New York City, obtained a degree in classics from Harvard University, and married Eileen Hughes, an editor at Atlantic Monthly. Fry worked as a researcher and editor at several magazines in the early 1930s, traveling to and reporting on Nazi Germany. After Germany invaded France, Fry helped found the Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC) in June 1940. The private American ...

Robert Kaldeck (1910-1998) was born Robert Kohn on 2 February 1910 in Vienna, Austria to Moriz (b. 1876) and Ella (b. 1879) Kohn. His father was a World War I veteran and earned a bronze medal for bravery. He had two sisters, Alice (nicknamed Lizzy or Lizzi, b. 1911) and Edith (nicknamed Ditty, 1905-1957). Robert changed his last name to Kaldeck in 1929. He graduated from the University of Vienna Medical ...

The collection documents the childhoods of siblings John and Marianne Wolff in Berlin, Germany, their immigration to England via Kindertransport in 1939, and eventual immigration to the United States in 1945. Included are documents and photographs.

Diana Kurz was born on July 4, 1936, in Vienna, Austria. Her father, Benjamin, was born on January 30, 1902, in Poland and came to Vienna as a child. He had three brothers, Meilach (Emil), Karl (Charles), and Michael. Lillian was born on April 12, 1912, in Zlotniki, Poland, to Moses and Jutte Hellreich. She had two brothers, Emanuel and Herman, and two sisters, Augusta and Stephanie. The family immigrated ...

The collection's contents are catalogued in three inventories. The inventories are arranged according to structure. The collection contains the HICEM charter (January 1935); accounts of HICEM activities for 1926-39; circulars to HICEM branch offices (1933-40) on rules for filling out a central card file of émigrés; on conditions of emigration to Uruguay, Ecuador, Haiti, and other countries, and on ...

Eugenia Shrut (1925-2003) was born Gina Tabaczyńska on May 20, 1925 in Kłodawa, Poland to grain merchant Naftali Tabaczyński and his wife Rozalia Szczecińska. Gina had two older brothers, Paweł and Mietek. From 1936 until 1939 Gina lived with her uncle’s family in Warsaw and attended the Mirlasowej gymnasium. In November 1940, the Tabaczyński family fled Kłodawa and was later forced into the Warsaw ...