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Alfred (Freddie) Traum was born on March 22, 1929 in Vienna Austria to Elias Traum and Gita Alster Traum who ran a business. He had one sister, Ruth (March 22, 1926). Elias was severely crippled from injuries sustained in World War I and spent his afternoons playing with and instructing Alfred. The Traums had a traditional Jewish home but lived in a secular neighborhood, and most of Freddie's playmates ...

Ursula Nelson was born Ursula Kantorowicz, in Berlin in 1921, the daughter of Sigbert and Claire (née Casper) Kantorowicz. Her parents divorced around 1928 and her mother later married Ernst Warschauer. Ursula grew up in Berlin, but in 1939 was sent to England on a "Kindertransport," just three months before her eighteenth birthday. During this period, Ursula's biological father had died in 1939, and ...

<p><strong style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration-color: initial;">Readers need to book&nbsp; a reading room terminal to access this digital content</strong><br /></p><p>Gerta and Rudolf Pollak were assimilated Jews from Prague, a middle class family, relatively well off and not particularly religious. Their two sons, Felix and Arnost, managed to flee to Great Britain on one of the Kindertransporte. ...

The collection contains Simson's and Mary's letters to each other and to the authorities on the subject of Simson's interment on the Isle of Man as an enemy alien. There are also some digital copies of photographs of the Kleins.

The Henry Knepler papers include biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and writings documenting Henry Knepler and his relatives, their lives before the war in Vienna, where Hugo Knepler was in the music business, Henry’s travel to England via Kindertransport and subsequent internment as an enemy alien in England and Canada, his mother’s survival in Austria by hiding under a false identity, ...

The collection documents the Kahn family’s experiences in Germany, France, and Switzerland during the Holocaust. The bulk of the collection consists of letters written to Ruth Kahn in Switzerland from her parents Leo and Elfriede Kahn and her sister Marga Kahn in Sulzburg, Germany and internment camps in southern France at Rivesaltes, Gurs and Les Milles. Also included is other correspondence, identification ...

Copy family documents and digital photographs

A biography of Levitus-Peiser, a German Jewish woman born in 1925 in Frankfurt a.M. In November 1938 she and a younger sister left Germany on a "Kindertransport" to Amsterdam, where they found refuge in an orphanage. They were in danger again when the Nazis occupied the Netherlands in 1940. In 1942 deportations of Jews from the Netherlands began. Levitus-Peiser had completed a nurses' training course ...

Title onscreen: "Bruchsal Judenfrei! Die letzten Juden verlassen Bruchsal, 18 Oktober 1940" [Bruchsal free of Jews! The last Jews leave Bruchsal, October 18, 1940] A line of Jews, wearing warm clothing and carrying suitcases and bags, files past the camera, including Marcus Rosenberg and his son Leo Rosenberg and Edith [Loeb] Leuchter and her mother, Julie. They are guarded by uniformed Germans, including ...

Sophie Friedländer (1905-2006) was the only daughter of five children of a Jewish family of teachers in Hamburg. When she was one year old the family moved to Berlin. She studied at the University of Berlin and did her teacher training at her father's school, the Karl Marx Schule in Neuköln, a progressive reform education school. She qualified as a teacher in 1933. As she was not allowed to teach at ...