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The collection consists of two documents of Karol Gecman (later Karol Jaworski) in Kuybyshev, USSR (now Samara, Russia). The first is a 1943 Russian translation of Karol's diploma from a Jewish Gymnasium in Lubin, Poland in May 1933. The second is a 1946 repatriation document allowing Karol to return to Poland.

Consists of a large portrait, taken in the 1920s, of a young man (possibly her brother) and older woman who were family members of Malka Finkelstein, originally of Warsaw, Poland. Also includes a post-war photograph of Ida Flint, the daughter of Malka Finkelstein and Mendel Flint, with her father at the Hallerin displaced persons camp in post-war Austria.

Julius Rothschild was born in Friedberg in 1875. Carry Ruth Rothschild was born in Frankfurt in 1898. Carry Ruth and Julius became naturalised as a British subjects in 1948. Julius Rothschild died in 1966.

Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

<p>This collection consists of the personal papers (photocopies) of Pauline Lilly Howard, a Jewish woman who emigrated to Shanghai with her first husband Herbert Markstein in 1939 to escape Nazi persecutions in Germany. After the Second World War she moved to the United States with her second husband, William Howard.</p>Personal papers including school reports; birth, marriage and divorce papers; extract ...

Simon Lewkowicz was born in Raczki, Poland, in 1896 as the son of Emmanuel Lewkowicz and Chaja Sadkowski. He became a tailor. In 1918 he married Chana Guittel Bot in Raczna, Poland. Chana had been born on 14 January 1895 in Przedborz, Poland. Their eldest child, a daughter named Chaja Frymeta alias Claire, was born in Przedborz on 10 February 1919. Simon and Chana then relocated to Paris, France, where ...

Anna alias Jeanne Slomovic was born in Brussels on 24 August 1933 as the daughter of the Czechoslovakian master butcher Chaskel Slomovic (born on 16 May 1901 in Selosololvina, Czechoslovakia) and his wife Gita Goldsteinova (born on 24 January 1907 in Cracianesti, Romania). Anna’s baby brother Leon was born in Brussels on 17 August 1939. When Nazi Germany invaded Belgium on 10 May 1940 the Slomovic ...

Willem Wouthuijsen was born in Amsterdam on 16 April 1888 and became a diamond cutter. In 1912 he married Ester Ricardo, born in Amsterdam on 8 August 1887. The couple had three children : Louis David, born on 9 December 1913 in Amsterdam (passed away on 11 July 1916), Siegfried Adolf, born on 17 August 1916 in Amsterdam, and Elisabeth, born on 13 April 1918 in Amsterdam. In 1931 the family migrated ...

The Machtinger family collection includes photographs of Sophie Machtinger, Paul Machtinger, and their daughter Ruth Machtinger in the Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp) in 1946, as well as Sophie Machtinger's memoir "Recollections from my life's experiences" written in Polish in 1955 and translated into English in 1988.

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Theresa Cahn-Tober (born Theresa Licht) and her parents Stephen Lighton (previously Szymon Licht) and Elizabeth Lighton (previously Esther Licht), all of whom survived the war in Warsaw under false-identities and lived in the München Neu Freimann displaced persons camp after liberation. Included are false-identity documents, identification papers, ...