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Green ink lithograph, 38/50, a Cubist study of a woman's head created by Morice Lipsi, an artist known for his sculptures, at an unknown date, but probably postwar. The print was given to Micheline Weinstein, a psychoanalyst, in the 1970s by a patient who had kept it hidden under his floor for years. Morice, who was Jewish and originally from Poland, had lived in France since 1912. When Germany invaded ...

Raya Kirschner (later Feig) was born on May 21, 1929, in Bialystok, Poland, to Rabbi Meir Leib and Shaindel (Sonia) Denenberg Kirschner. She had an older brother Ben-Zion (Beno), born in 1925 in Papile, Lithuania. The family lived in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. Her father was born in 1895 in Papile to Ben Zion and Rasha Rutenberg Kirshner. Rabbi Kirschner was the director of the Hebrew Gymnasium in ...

Used Star of David badge given to 18 year old Bettina Mayer in Deggendorf displaced persons camp in 1945 by another camp resident. It was worn by the unknown person in Cologne, Germany, and it was given to Bettina because she was originally from Cologne. Jews were ordered to were a Judenstern badge at all times to identify them as Jews. Bettina, her parents, Siegmund and Johannette, and her brother, ...

This collection contains: a pre-war photo of Mozes and Ruchel Zeiger-Stern with their children Jakob and Harry (Henryk) Zeiger at De Keyserlei in Antwerp, ca. 1930 ; a pre-war photo of the Zeiger-Stern family with relatives or friends at the beach, ca. 1930 ; a group photo of the Antwerp branch of the Bnei Akiva youth movement, 1938 ; two studio portraits of Jakob Zeiger ; a wartime foreigners’ identity ...

The collection consists of documents and photographs regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of the Porges family of Vienna, Austria. Includes pre-war family photographs, identification documents, and paperwork related to immigration to the United States in 1946.

David Friedmann was born on December 20, 1893, in Mahrisch Ostrau (Ostrava, Czech Republic), part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was the son of Heinrich, a tinsmith, born in 1864 in Kobiernice, and Sophie Rosenblum, born in 1856 in Czaniec. He lived in a modest home with three surviving siblings: Marie, born in 1888, Adolf, born in 1895, and Isidor, born in 1897. In 1911, Friedmann moved to Berlin ...

Speculum used by Dr. Bruno Lambert, who immigrated to the United States from Nazi Germany in 1938, and served in the United States Army Medical Corps during the war. Bruno attended medical school in Germany from 1932-1937, but was not allowed to receive a diploma as a Jew under the Nazi regime. He transferred to a university in Switzerland, and earned a Doctorate of Medicine in July 1938. With the ...

David Friedmann was born on December 20, 1893, in Mahrisch Ostrau (Ostrava, Czech Republic), part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was the son of Heinrich, a tinsmith, born in 1864 in Kobiernice, and Sophie Rosenblum, born in 1856 in Czaniec. He lived in a modest home with three surviving siblings: Marie, born in 1888, Adolf, born in 1895, and Isidor, born in 1897. In 1911, Friedmann moved to Berlin ...

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is an organization associated with the Society of Friends (Quakers) that works to encourage peace and social justice matters around the world. The AFSC was founded in 1917 in response to the major humanitarian crises related to World War I. Throughout the 1920s the AFSC sought to relieve suffering by operating child feeding programs across Europe, most ...

Israel Yitzhak Miedzyrzecki was born on February 13, 1892, in Warsaw, Poland, to Berisch and Feiga Halberstadt Miedzyrzecki. He had 8 siblings and a large extended family. Israel was a tanner. He married Rivka Rybak, who was born on May 30, 1896, in Warsaw. They had four children: Stela, born 1916; Benjamin, born February 19, 1918; Mordecai, born 1922; and Genia, born May 21, 1934. Israel and Rivka ...