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The collection documents the wartime experiences of Blanche Goldszpiner, an American living and working in Warsaw during the Holocaust. Included is a photographic postcard of a seated woman; a letter written by Blanche Goldszpiner in 1940 in Warsaw, Poland, to her cousin in the United States prior her internment in the Warsaw ghetto; and an envelope addressed to "Readers Digest" from Jack Balinsky ...

This collection contains : a letter from Chenke alias Anna Fischler in Berchem to her husband Wolf Fischler, held prisoner by the Nazis at an unknown location (perhaps Begijnenstraat prison) in Antwerp, 1942 ; a postcard from Wolf and Chenke alias Anna Fischler-Fischler, interned in Chalon, France, to Chenke's sister Alina Fischler (married Strassberg) in Mérignac, regarding Wolf and Anna’s children ...

Hessy Levinsons (now Hessy Levinsons Taft) is the older daughter of Jacob and Pauline (Levine) Levinsons, both talented singers who came from Latvia to Berlin in the 1920s and studied voice at the Hochschule fuer Musik. The two were married in 1928 in Latvia but returned to Berlin to pursue their careers. In 1932, using his legal stage name, Yasha Lennsen, Jacob signed a contract with the Breslau opera ...

Née le 21 juin 1924 à Paris, deuxième fille d’André Jacob, architecte, et d’Yvonne Steinmetz, Denise Jacob grandit à Nice. C’est dans cette ville que, dès les débuts de l’Occupation, elle accomplit ses premiers actes de rébellion en écrivant au tableau, avant la classe, les mots d’ordre et les messages venus de Londres. En novembre 1942, encore lycéenne, elle se met à la disposition de l’Union générale ...

The Ammy and Nico Herschel collection consists of correspondence, personal papers, biographical materials, newspapers, speeches, programs, and ephemera relating to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Ammy Herschel (née Weyel/Weijel) and Nice Herschel of the Netherlands. The biographical materials includes the diaries of Nico Herschel written in the Netherlands from July 1, 1933 to September 7, 1942; ...

Marcus (Mark) Tennenbaum was instrumental in securing exit visas and making other emigration arrangements for most members of his family. Marcus, Ernestine, and Robert escaped Vienna via the Queen Mary which left Cherbourg, France on March 19, 1939 and arrived in New York on March 23. Edith [now Edie Ostern], her brother George (not in the film), mother Dora, and grandparents Malka and Leib arrived ...

La Radiodiffusion Nationale possédait, depuis la dernière guerre, un fonds d'archives relatif au artistes musiciens des orchestres de la Radiodiffusion française pendant et après la deuxième guerre mondiale. Ce fonds, qui s'est révélé être d'un grand intérêt historique, a été collecté par le Service d'Archives Ecrites de Radio France en janvier 1990 auprès de l'Administration des Formations Permanentes, ...

Street scenes of the Warsaw ghetto. Pedestrians cross a bridge over the street. Special attention is given to reverse rickshaws--bicycles with benches on the front--in which people are carted around. Jewish men have their documents examined. Some elderly men then meet in a well-decorated hall, possibly a restaurant. Jewish police, all in jackets and ties, stand at attention in two lines, then march ...

The Goldstein family papers, 1914-1982, contain photographic postcards of Herman Goldstein (1889-1943) serving as a German soldier in World War I; four photographs of Herman, Rita, and Heinz Goldstein (b. 1928) at a celebration aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939; a printed wedding invitation for Herman Goldstein and Rita Goldstein (née Grubner, 1893-1979) held on November 6, 1927 at the Lutzow Strasse Synagogue ...

The Nicole Denier Long papers include a family book, divorce papers, marriage permissions, a personal narrative, and photographs documenting the family of Nicole Denier Long in Paris before, during, and after the Holocaust and her marriage to American serviceman John Vanderford Long. Nicole’s photocopied seven-page personal narrative remembering her brother describes their childhood and their survival ...

<div>The donor’s mother, Irenka Lowy, was &nbsp;born &nbsp;in Stvrtok, a small village near Trencin in Slovakia, into an educated family. The parents had a shop and big farm employing many of the villagers. She and her brother had a good life. Her grandparents were very much part of the family. She and her brother &nbsp;were sent to school in Trencin and boarded at first with a family, then went home ...

Sally (Salomon) and Erna (nee Marx) Isenberg and their three children, Artur, Helmut, and Norbert, lived in Saarbrücken (Germany), Zurich (Switzerland), Loerrach (Germany), and Vaduz (Liechtenstein). Artur came to the United States to attend Harvard University before 1938. The others immigrated in October 1938. The boys served their new country in WWII. Artur worked for the Office of War Information. ...