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Personal papers and correspondence of Arnost and Eva Kramer

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Mannsbach and Goldschmidt families, originally of Beverungen and Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The collection primarily documents the emigration of Lilly Goldschmidt (née Mannsbach), her husband Bernhard Goldschmidt, and their son Fred to the United States in 1938, the emigration of her brothers Heinz, Otto, and Richard to South America, and her ...

The Rosemarie Koczy papers consists of a biographical sketch of artist Rosemarie Koczy, a transcript of an oral history interview of Koczy, and an advertisement for an art exhibition at her house in New York. The oral history transcript relates Koczy's experiences as a child during and after the Holocaust.

Babette (Betty) Isner (née Lutz, 1895-1949) was born in Nuremberg and Justin Isner (1889-approximately 1942) was born in Hüttenbach. Their children Bella and Ruth were born in Nuremberg in 1928 and 1929. The Isner family boarded the MS St. Louis in May 1939 for Cuba but was forced to return to Europe with most of the other passengers. They disembarked at Boulogne and were originally directed to Poitiers ...

Fred (Fritz) Cohen (1914-1981) was born on October 12, 1914 in Eschwege, Germany to David and Martha Cohen. David was born on October 15, 1988 near Leer, Germany to Benjamin and Eva Cohen, and Martha was born in 1888 in Eschwege, Germany to Michael and Fanny Katzenstein. In 1938, Fred married Ruth Cohen (née Loewenstein). Ruth was born on December 27, 1912 in Netra, Germany to Sigfried (d. 1917?) and ...

Lusia Berkowicz-Hammer was born in 1941 in Magnitogorsk, USSR. Her father, Abram Berek Berkowicz, was born in 1903 in Łódź, Poland. Abram’s father, Henoch Berkowicz, and his mother, Brucha Dessa Berkowicz, perished in the Łódź ghetto. Abram’s three siblings: Wolf, Srul Szymon and Fajga Berkowicz perished in the Holocaust. Fajga Berkowicz was deported from the Łódź ghetto to Chełmno death camp in 1942. ...

Natalie Baum was born as Natalie “Nelly” Tisch on September 2, 1919 in Vienna, Austria. Her father, Jakub Tisch was born in Lvov on January 15, 1880 and owned a shoe factory in Vienna. Nelly’s mother, Wanda Wittie Neumann, was born in Stanislawów, Poland. Nelly’s older brother, Leopold, was born in Lvov in 1908 and soon after his birth the Tisch family moved to Vienna. On March 24, 1938, two weeks ...

Group picture of the children attending school at the catholic institute run by the Sisters of Mercy in Heverlee, where Nathan Goldman was hidden.

Copy documents regarding emigration

The Tersch family papers contains German issued Jewish passports for Dr. Herman Tersch and his daughter Edith Tersch, dated May 1939, and official notification documents regarding the confirmation of Dr. Hermann Tersch and Edith Tersch’s residency in Vienna, Austria, undated. Also included is an Affidavit of Support dated June 24, 1939, filed by Raymond E. Law in Chicago, Illinois offering support ...