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Barry Spanjaard (1929-1998) was born in New York in 1929 to Alfred (1903-1945) and Abigail (née Abigael Sophie Roozeboom, 1901-) Spanjaard, Dutch citizens who had immigrated to the United States in the 1920s. Alfred and Abigail married in New York City in 1927. The family moved to Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1932 so Alfred could take over the family antique business after his father’s death. After ...

Maria Dworzecka (born Marysia Rozenszajn, 1941- ) was born on June 19, 1941 to Izak (Wlodek) Rozenszajn (d. 1941) and Bela Rozenszajn (Bella, née Kaufman, 1909-1948). Bela Rozenszajn was born in 1909 in Pinsk (now Belarus) and had been active in the Communist party since 1929. Bela moved to Warsaw, Poland where she met Izak Rozenszajn. After the start of World War II, they fled to Białystok, Poland ...

The Lindenbaum and Landau families collection contains photographs of the Lindenbaum and Landau families, circa 1900s-1945. The family photographs were taken in Łódź, Poland; Warsaw, Poland; the Warsaw ghetto; and Belgium. The photographs feature friends and family members and include both victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Photographs of Tobiasz and Curtla Lindenbaum include the couple around ...

Personal papers including Frieda Newton's certificate of origin ('Heimatschein'), school reports, birth certificate, work references, papers for emigration such as medical certificate, police and tax clearance certificates, correspondence with the Austrian Self-Aid Domestic Agency in London, hairdressing and manicure certificate issued by the emigration department of the Jewish Community in Vienna ...

David Wolf Witelson (ca. 1890-ca.1942) married Rela Abromczyk (ca. 1892-1942) and they lived in Pabianice, Poland. David worked as a shopkeeper and Rela was a housewife. They had at least six children including Zoshia Witelson (later Zoshia Zarska, 1907-1944), Pinkus Witelson (ca. 1912-1939), Morris Witelson (ca. 1914-?), Joseph Witelson (ca. 1916-?), Ruska (later Rena Frieberg, 1918-?), Hela Witelson ...

Dolly Tiger (born Dorottya Rozsa Dezsofi) and her twin sister Ida Marianne (Mari) Dezsofi were born on January 31, 1930 in Budapest, Hungary to Dezső (d. 1947 in the United States) and Johanna (nee Selinger) Dezsofi. They were raised by their mother and grandfather, Mozes Selinger, a prominent Jewish jeweler in Budapest. In 1938 Johanna married George Paul, a non-Jewish Serbian jeweler, and moved with ...

Gerald Goodwin (formerly Gerhard Guttmann) was born to Kurt and Helene Guttmann (née Cohn) in Beuthen (now Bytom) Upper Silesia, Germany in 1929. His brother Werner Arthur was born in 1931. His mother Helene came from well known Jewish families of rabbis and scholars such as Moritz Lazarus, a professor of philosophy and ethics. With the increasing persecution of Jews in Germany, Kurt and Helene Guttmann ...

The collection contains prewar photographs of Chaim Yaakov Ciechanowiecki and Hinka Miller, and their families in Poland; postwar photographs in a displaced persons camp in Cremona, Italy; and modern color photographs of family members.

The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of the Bleier family of Budapest, Hungary and the Weisz family of Baia Mare, Romania. Included are biographical papers, correspondence, immigration documents, writings, clippings, and photographs. The material primarily focuses on the wartime and post-war experiences of Zoltan Weisz and Gisela Bleier, who met and married in Baia Mare after the war. ...

The collection documents the pre-war and post war lives of the Lorber Rolnik and Rolnik families of Poland. The collection includes pre-war family photographs in Włodawa and Chełm, Poland; post-war family photographs in the Tempelhof displaced persons camp, Brazil, and Israel; and theatre productions featuring Pinchas Rolnik in Włodawa and the Tempelhof displaced persons camp.

<p>This collection contains two articles relating to the Jewish refugee settlement farm in Millisle, County Down, Northern Ireland.</p>Articles: the first article published in The Jewish Monthly (October 1990) was written by Gerald Jayson (formerly Jacobowitz). The second article in the Belfast Jewish Chronicle (September 2005) was written by another refugee, Robert Sugar. He was six years old when ...

Ilse Rothschild (later Schwersenz and Leiner, b. 1910) was born to Salli (Salomon, Sally, 1881-1946) and Johanna Rothschild (née Friesem, 1881-1968). Salli owned a bakery in Bremen, Germany and had three children: Ilse, Rolf, and Adolf. Ilse married Arno Schwersenz (later Sherran) and they had a son, Jack (born Jakob Schwersenz, later Jack Leiner, 1936-2019), born in Bremen. Salli and Johanna sent ...