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Susan Warsinger was born Susi Hilsenrath on May 27, 1929 in Bad Kreuznach, Germany to Israel Hilsenrath (1902-1984) and Annie Hilsenrath (1908-1972), Susan had two younger brothers: Joseph Hilsenrath (b. 1930) and Ernest Hilsenrath (b. 1938). Mr. Hilsenrath owned a successful linen store, and Mrs. Hilsenrath took care of Susan and her brothers. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, the Hilsenraths ...

Arthur (Menachem) Spielman was born on Dec. 10, 1928, in Kraków Poland, to Simon (b. 1900) and Czarna (née Stiel, b. 1902) Spielman. Arthur had two sisters, Helen (b. 1931) and Barbara (b. 1939). The family was Orthodox and Simon owned as shoe making business where Czarna also worked as the bookkeeper. Simon was born in Slovakia and considered a foreign national so the family was exempt from many ...

Session 48. Testimony from Perla Mark who describes the burning of the main synagogue in Czernowitz and the murder of Jews including her husband, the town's chief rabbi. Mark gives an account of the deportation of her son and brother to Theresienstadt. She states that her brother died in Theresienstadt and that her son was sent to Auschwitz, where he was forced to play cello in the camp orchestra. ...

<p>This collection contains the personal papers of Freddie Knoller, an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor from Vienna. His parents, David and Marja Knoller, insisted that he and his two brothers, Erich and Otto, emigrated to avoid increasing anti-Semitism and Nazi persecution after the annexation of Austria. Freddie's parents were murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp whilst his two brothers ...

American matchbook acquired by Max Beer, who arrived in Canada in 1949 following his birth in a displaced persons camp in Germany. The matchbook was produced by the Jewish War Veterans of the United States as part of a 1933 boycott of German imports and has the slogan “For Humanity’s Sake: Don’t Buy Nazi Goods.” In spring 1941, Max’s father, Leo Beer, escaped from the Krakow ghetto in Poland, and joined ...

Letterhead acquired by 17 year old Jutta Rosen while serving in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army in Palestine after the war. The Brigade, established in British ruled Palestine in September 1944, fought against Nazi Germany in Italy from March 1945 until the end of the war in May. Postwar, the Brigade helped create displaced persons camps for Jewish survivors. Many Brigade members were involved ...

Khona Padison was born in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania to an Orthodox Jewish couple, Perets and Rakhel Kronik Padison. He had one sister, Kheina-Maia (Hena). His mother Rakhel was born in approximately 1900, in Vilno, Russia (Vilnius, Lithuania), to Itzik and Kheina Kronik. His father Perets was born in 1903, in Ukmerge, Russia (now Lithuania), to Mordekhai and Sara Padison. Perets had one brother, Shmuel. ...

The Gestapo office in Stettin was under the command of the Berlin Gestapo office. The Stettin office conducted surveillance on all organizations active in the region, and on individual persons suspected of political unreliability; it also engaged in counterintelligence. The structure of the Gestapo office as of 31 December 1939 included three sections, which in turn were organized into departments. ...

Sophie Friedländer (1905-2006) was the only daughter of five children of a Jewish family of teachers in Hamburg. When she was one year old the family moved to Berlin. She studied at the University of Berlin and did her teacher training at her father's school, the Karl Marx Schule in Neuköln, a progressive reform education school. She qualified as a teacher in 1933. As she was not allowed to teach at ...

The papers consist of 53 photographs of Cesia Ritter (née Honig) as a child before World War II and post-war photograph of her rescuers; an employment certificate for her father Naftali Honig in "Deutsche Dachpappenfabrik - Papapol" in Tarnow, Poland, in 1942; and identification card for Cesia Honig issued by ORT in Anvers, Belgium, in 1947; a copy of a letter written to Cesia's uncle in Palestine ...