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Documents, correspondence, identification papers, and photographs regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of Blake and Anna Schiff in the Warsaw Ghetto, Grodno, and in hiding in Novosiolki. Biographical material includes documents regarding Blake’s education and employment in the United States, Blake’s false identity card under the name Stephan Podolski used in post-war Poland, and social security ...

<p>This collection contains the personal papers of the Jewish family of Josef and Jenny Hausmann from Karlsruhe, who perished at Auschwitz concentration camp whilst their two daughters managed to flee Nazi-Germany in the 1930s.</p>Personal papers including copy correspondence by Josef and Jenny Hausmann from Camp de Recebedou, photograph of a class taught by Josef Hausmann, copy articles relating to ...

HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, was founded in the 1881 in the Lower East Side of New York City. Their original mission was to rescue Jews in Eastern Europe and Russia who were being persecuted and murdered in pogroms. They provided the recent refugees with meals and shelter, and helped them find jobs. In 1904, HIAS set up an office on Ellis Island and expanded their aid services to new arrivals, ...

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/

White flag with a blue Star of David sewn by Ruth Linden in 1945 in Shanghai, China, to express her vision of the future flag of Israel. The flag was sewn in the "Ladies Secondhand Store," owned by the Linden family. They provided clothing goods and tailoring services to the community in Shanghai.

Consists of correspondence in Yiddish and photographs sent by Meyer and Esther Miller of the United States to Chaya Bruche and Dovid (later Brenda and David) Huss in the Dieburg DP camp. After the war Brenda and David Huss mistakenly contacted the Millers searching for relatives in the United States. Though they were not relatives, the Millers befriended and assisted Brenda and David while they were ...

Circular cloth Star of David patch that 21 year old Angela Weissmann was forced to wear in Piatra Neamt, Romania, ca. 1941-1945. In November 1940, the fascist government of General Antonescu joined the Axis Alliance. They immediately put in place policies to persecute Jews, such as the requirement that Jews wear a Jewish star badge on their clothing at all times. The antisemitic regime also supported ...

<div>Kurt Wilhelm Weinberg was born on 23 July 1924. He grew up in the small town of Werther near Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. His father, Julius Weinberg (1887-1965), owned a tobacco factory, which Kurt's great-grandfather founded in 1877. The factory was based at Haus Werther "dem Schloss," where the Weinberg family used to live as well. The business was very successful and had 300 ...

In 1931 Shomre Hadas, an orthodox Jewish community founded in Antwerp in 1920, merged with the Jewish Community of Antwerp, officially established in 1816. The name of the congregation then became the Jewish Community of Antwerp Shomre Hadas. The community’s main synagogue, inaugurated in 1893, was located at Bouwmeestersstraat in Antwerp, and was also known as the Dutch Synagogue, a reference to the ...

George Kadish, born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (1910- 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania ...