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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. ...

Ralph Voigt recorded his family's travel to Europe in 1938, likely in celebration of Ralph's graduation from high school, Title- EUROPE 1938. Couple, probably Elmer and Nellie Voigt, at desk with pamphlet ‘How to See Europe’. The Americans are well-dressed and packing nice clothes. 1:02 Moving train. Ship smokestacks. Map of Europe with the travel itinerary: Havre, Paris, Versailles, Basel, Lucerne, ...

“Danubius Pathé Baby Budapest.” Family group sits at a table for a meal on a hillside overlooking city of Budapest (could be Janoshegy). Laci Schiffer’s wife, Marcsa (nee Fried), on a visit to Budapest to meet the family (in 1933?). She waves from an upper level of a building. Two groups walk down the sidewalk past a building (sign with “... Adolf Fiai…” is barely visible) in Budapest and wave to the ...

1941/1942 footage shot by a member of Heinz Guderian's 29th infantry division, before it left Warsaw for the Soviet Union, and during the invasion of the USSR. A group of women and small children, likely Polish peasants, walk across a field. A German soldier walks a motorcycle across a small stream but it gets stuck in the mud. Cut to the central train station in Warsaw with signs in German and Polish. ...

Otto Pfister (1900-1985) was born in Munich to Catholic parents. Although he did well in school as a child and loved to read, his family did not have the money to allow him to continue his formal education. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed as a cabinet-maker. Health problems prevented him from being conscripted in the Germany army in World War I, and he produced hand-dovetailed ammunition boxes ...

Margalit Ben Ami was born on October 9, 1937, as Gretha Dotsch in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She is the middle daughter of Samuel Dotsch (b. October 11, 1911) and Elisabeth Viskoop Dotsch (b. June 25, 1910). Samuel owned a leather goods workshop in which he produced handbags and belts. Elisabeth helped in the business, but she mainly took care of the children. The oldest daughter, Sonja, was born on January ...