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Fonds consists of a genealogy of the Landau family and the Sheinfeld Family, compiled by Jerrold Landau, a baseball trophy presented by AJ Freiman, Israella Singers documents, Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation documents, Talmud Torah School documents, Beth Shalom documents, and a framed "First Distinguished Service Award" presented to the people at the Chevra Kadisha (1980). Folder 1: Landau and Sheinfeld ...

Contains Jonas Landau's memoir relating to his childhood in prewar "Stolpce" (Stolbce, Poland, now Stolbëisy, Belarus); the shooting of Jews by the Nazis after they occupied the town in June 1941; his work in the local railroad station; conditions in the ghetto; his escape from the ghetto in 1942; and his experiences from 1942-1944 as a partisan in a predominately Jewish detachment of the Zhukov group ...

Maximilian Landau was born on October 4, 1904 in Minsk, Russia. He was the son of Edward Landau and Gustawa Kraushar Landau. Maximilian, who was an engineer, married Felicia Gurewicz and their daughter Irene was born in Warsaw in 1930. In 1940 the family was forced into the Warsaw ghetto, where they worked for the Többens workshops sewing German military uniforms. In April 1943, during the Warsaw ghetto ...

Consists of one Austrian passport, issued in 1936 to Georg (now George) Walter Landau, which includes stamps, visas and an affidavit in lieu of a passport, relating to his 1938 emigration to Colombia and 1941 emigration to the United States; one photocopy of his 1920 birth certificate; and a 1938 Heimatschein.

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

Jacob Landau was born in Jadachy, Poland, in 1898 and became a diamond trader. In 1922 he married Leah Blitzer, whom was born in Zareby, Poland, in 1898. Leah gave birth to two sons before the family migrated : David, born in 1923, and Noé, born in 1924. Jacob Landau arrived in Belgium in December 1924. His wife and sons followed in February 1926. The Landau-Blitzer family settled in Borgerhout, Antwerp, ...

The collection consists of two copies (one each in English and Hebrew), of "My Lost Childhood", a memoir by Bronia Bratt Landau, originally of Kromołów, Poland, which details her experiences between 1942-1945 in the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp in Sagan, Germany (now Żagań, Poland), the Grünberg subcamp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp, and the Helmbrechts subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration ...

Consists of a copy of 40 excerpted pages from memoirs by Bendix Landau, of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, addressing the circumstances of his deportation in September 1942 and his subsequent internment in Theresienstadt. Later pages concern Bendix's mobilization during WWI and military life.

Bernt Hermele donated his oral history interviews to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March 2019. Mr. Hermele conducted the interviews for his podcast Överlevarna.

Contains information regarding Felix Landau, who was employed by the Gestapo and was assigned to secure Jewish property, volunteered to report to an Einsatzkommando in the area of Milnicle. Descriptions of executions, taking of property from prisoners and corpses. Diary covers the month of July 1941.