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The collection consists of a drawing created by Ludwig Goldschmidt (donor's uncle and brother of Elise Schapira), January 1939, Germany. The drawing is an image of the synagogue of Brückenau in the lower Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. Ludwig Goldschmidt was sixteen at the time. He was later deported to Dachau where he died. The collection also includes the Elise Schapira papers, which consists ...

The Jeannette Nadle papers consists of Jeannette Nadle’s passport, 1947-1948; a testament of Jeannette’s wartime experiences in Belgium, November 30, 1947; and a memoir written by Jeannette Nadle in 1994. The memoir describes Jeannette’s experiences as a hidden child in Belgium and member of the Resistance during World War II.

<p>Thea Wessley (née Deuches) was the only child of Siegfried and Fanny Deuches from Vienna. She was sent to England in March 1939 when she was 15 years old. Thea stayed with a family in Hastings.&nbsp;</p><div>Her parents were separately deported to concentration camps in Poland. In 1940 her father writes from Lwow (Lemberg) whilst her mother is still in Vienna. Fanny was deported to Opole concentration ...

Consists of prewar, wartime, and post-war photographs from the collection of Katie Altenberg, born Kate Engel, in Vienna, Austria. Includes prewar family photographs in Edmunshof, near Hungary, and post-war photographs of Katie and her parents, Ludwig and Greta, as well as photographs taken after their 1948 immigration to New Berlin, NY. Katie and her family spent most of the war in Budapest, where ...

<div><div><div>Irena Hanna Wittek (1917-2005) was born in Vienna. She and her two brothers, Roman and Eugeniusz, grew up in Lwów, Poland (now L'viv, Ukraine). Their parents were Maurycy and Helena Roth. Maurycy was a lawyer from a modest family background in Eastern Galicia. The Reitmann family hired him as a tutor for their daughter Helena, who he married. Helena's family was part of the&nbsp;Jewish ...

Ruth Salm was born on January 22, 1924, in Bruhl, Germany, to Julius and Jeanette Salm. Julius worked as a cantor and an animal broker, while Jenny cared for Ruth and her twin younger siblings, Erwin and Inge. The family lived with Julius's mother, Theresa Salm. The family was arrested on Kristallnacht and imprisoned for hours, but because Julius hid himself, he was neither arrested nor imprisoned, ...

Miniature Torah preserved by Johanna Baruch Boas while living in hiding in Brussels, Belgium. The Torah belonged to her husband, Bernhard, and was possibly used while traveling. Bernhard died in Berlin in 1932. Johanna carried it with her when she fled Nazi Germany for Brussels in March 1939, with her daughter’s family. The Germans occupied Belgium in May 1940 and enacted punitive anti-Jewish legislation. ...

15:47 Mrs. Ennat Vitte, a civil party, continues to testify regarding her experience in Ravensbrück 15:48 President Cerdini asks the witness to describe the circumstances under which she lost her eyesight in Ravensbrück, and whether her inability to walk is a consequence of her time there; the witness has difficulty answering the questions posed 15:52 Prosecutor Vuillard asks the witness to confirm ...

<div>Vera Eliyashiv was born into an upper middle class Jewish family in Kovno, Lithuania, in 1929. Her father, Solomon Gutman, was a civil servant. Her mother Rachel née Gotlieb, died when Vera was six. Her father taught her to read and employed a governess to look after her after her mother died. She learnt Russian, Lithuanian and German at school where Jews and non-Jews alike mixed. The family was ...

The Lila Lam Nowakowska papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting Lila’s assumed identity in Warsaw during the Holocaust, her internment at Mauthausen and forced labor in Steyr and Znojmo, her postwar reunion with her mother, and the Jewish orphanage where her mother worked in Chorzów after the war. Biographical materials include identification and work papers ...