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Erwin Berkowitz (1927-2005) was born on May 15, 1927 in Vienna, Austria to Emil (December 19, 1893-December 2, 1939) and Ernestine Schapira Berkowitz (August 22, 1902-1980s). Emil was born in Dabrowica (Tarnobrzeg County), Poland and moved to Vienna in 1914. Ernestine was born in Vienna. Emil served in the Polish military before coming to Vienna. He trained as a woodworker and his work included making ...

Joseph Birnberg (born Josef Birnberg, 1920-1997) was born on 20 November 1920 in Kołomyja, Poland (Kolomyi︠a︡, Ukraine) to Nachman Kerner Birnberg (b. 1880) and Ernestyna Esther Tropp Birnberg (b. 1886). Nachman owned a weaving factory where he made patterns for rugs and textiles. Joseph had three brothers, David Salomon (b. 1904), Baruch (Bubbie, B. 1924), and Moses (Emil, b. 1930). Joseph graduated ...

Emil Knebel was a cinematographer known for Andante (2010), Adam (1973), and Wild Is My Love (1963). He was one of the cameramen who recorded daily coverage of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem (produced by Capital Cities Broadcasting Corp and later held academic positions in Israel and New York teaching filmmaking at universities. Refer to CV in file.

Louis Sommer was born in Izbugya, Hungary and emigrated to the United States in 1899. He settled in Omaha, Nebraska where he owned a grocery business at the intersection of Dodge Street and 49th Street. Louis and his brother Harry visited their father Barnath and extended family and friends in Humenne, Slovakia in March 1932. They recorded Jewish families and businesses with a movie camera. Bernard ...

Levi Itzhak (Lewek) Szabason (now Lewis Shabasson, 1914-2006) was born on 10 March 1914 in Kozienice, Poland to Ezra Zelig Szabason (b. 1881) and Faigal Laja Gruman Szabason. Lewek had four older siblings -- Chaja (b. 1901), Jakub (b. 1903), Motl Mordechai (b. 1908) and Etel (b. 1912), and one younger sister Ruchl (Rosa, b. 1919). His father owned a saw mill and a small construction business. He was ...

Gabriel Groszman (born Gábor, b. 1930) was born in Vámosmikola, Hungary to Margit (née Stöckl; 1904-1993) and József (1897-1987) Groszman. He had one older brother, Imre (Imi, 1926-1960). József was a veteran of World War I, and he married Margit Stöckl in 1926. He ran a wholesale grain business with Margit’s sister Helén’s (1900-1944) husband Géza Abelesz (1896-1944). Their business was forced to ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

Nathan Sadik (1917-2010) was born Nachman Mendel Sadyk on 17 June 1917 in Mława, Poland to Josef Dowid and Ruchla (née Appelmann) Sadyk. Nathan had three younger sisters: Golda, Chaya Rivke, and Gitel. His father worked as a shoemaker and the family was Orthodox. After completing grammar school he worked in a flour mill to help support the family. After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, ...

The photographs depict Mordechai (Motek) Weinryb [donor] and his friends during their years of organizing illegal emigration to Palestine and later during his internment in Cyprus. The images consist of studio portraits of the donor and friends as well as one informal group photograph.

Collection of documents, copy prints, photographs and correspondence documenting the experiences of Joseph Gleitman, his wife Sura (Sally) Lazega, and their friends before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs; a large pre-war school photograph of Polish and Jewish students in Slakow; post-war documentation relating to the marriage of survivors ...