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John Glazer (1914 -1985) was born Hans Gerson Glaser in Katscher, Silesia, the son of Louis Glaser (1864-1923) and his second wife, Olga Grunthal (1879 -1918). By the age of 9 both of his parents had died. After his father’s death, he moved to Berlin with his stepmother, and then moved to Breslau (Wroclaw) for High School (Heilige Geist Gymnasium). He began engineering studies, but they were disrupted ...

Marika Rotter (née Szuecs) was born in Gyor Hungary in 1915, and later studied Art in Vienna. She went on to work in fashion design, including running her own business making belts and accessories. Her first husband was Ernst Lӧw-Beer, a Czech industrialist from Brno, with whom she escaped to England and divorced soon after. Her parents remained in Hungary- her mother was sent to Auschwitz and murdered ...

Consists of one typed memoir, 85 pages, entitled "Memoirs," written in 2006 by Michael Schwartz, originally of Debrecen, Hungary. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in Hungary; his father's disappearance while part of a forced labor battalion, his deportation to Auschwitz, where his mother, sister, and grandmother were murdered; his subsequent deportation to Dachau with his brother, Tibor; their ...

<p>This collection consists of the personal papers of Elisabeth Eisner, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who fled Austria shortly after the annexation in 1938. As soon as her mother had obtained her domestic permit she joined her in 1939.</p>Personal papers including birth and naturalisation certificates, Heimatschein, qualification, list of belongings brought to England upon emigration, photographs, papers ...

Ferdinand Rubel was born in a small village, Steinbach am Donnersberg in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, in 1900. His family worked as barley and grain brokers. Most of his extended Rubel family had immigrated to Chicago in the mid-19th century. Ferdinand had been involved in ad hoc anti-Nazi groups who broke up Nazi rallies. Soon after the January 1933 Nazi takeover, Ferdinand was arrested as a political ...

The Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection contains correspondence between Lawrence B. Goldsmith Sr., various members of the Schiffman and Marx families living in Germany, and United States government officials. The correspondence relates to the families’ requests for assistance in immigrating to the United States from Nazi Germany in the form of signed affidavits of support and financial assistance. ...

Feliks Puterman (1910-1955, also referred to as Stefan Feliks Samuel Puterman) was born Samuel Puterman on 13 January 1910 in Mszczonów, Poland to Jakob Puterman (1885-1943) and Regina Puterman (b. 1886, née Pomeranzenbaum). He had two sisters, Irena Puterman (b. 1921, later Barbara Irene Sifneos), and Basia Puterman. The family lived in Poznań and Warsaw. Feliks pursued a career in art, and attended ...

The Pilpel Family papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and documents related to the family of Franz Josef and Marion (Stern) Pilpel (later Pell), their daughter Nina, and their son Ronald, chiefly related to the family's immigration from their native Austria to India, and their subsequent immigration to the United States. Includes personal and biographical documents, correspondence between ...

<p>Walter Simon (1908-1979) was born in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, the son of businessman Daniel Simon and his wife Amalie (nee Hartog). After training as a silk weaver and an internship in international banking at Westminster Bank in London, he joined his father's silk wholesale company E Blankenstein &amp; Co, Krefeld. His work as head of export involved frequent travelling to England, Belgium, ...

Mania Lichtenstein was born in Włodzimierz Wołyński, Poland (presently Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Ukraine) in 1923 to Gerszon and Gitel Tisch. She had two older sisters, Rivka and Nechama. The family remained in Włodzimierz Wołyński through the Soviet occupation of the city in 1939. With the German invasion in 1941 the family faced increasing persecution and in February 1942 were forced in to the first of ...