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Born in Mogiliov Podol, Russia in 1913, Ethel Polisuk Stern was nine years old when she immigrated to Montreal Canada with her family in 1922. She began working at the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services (JIAS) in the 1930s, after living down the street from the organization's Esplanade Street building in her teen years. She was a social worker for JIAS from the 1930s until her retirement in 1983. Ethel's ...

A Lublin family remembered consists of one postcard, one pamphlet, and one videorecording (not digitized), all relating to the unveiling of a memorial to the Zajfsztajn family of Lublin, Poland, at the Glusk Jewish cemetery in June 1995.

Hilde Lotte Anker was born on May 29, 1926, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg Jakob Willie Anker and Gertrud Gottschalk Anker. She had two older sisters: Eva Kate, born June 6, 1922, and Dodi Grete, born May 9, 1924. Hilde’s father Georg was born on May 15, 1885, in Danzig, to Simon and Henrietta Anker. Simon founded a successful grain import-export business in 1877 and was prominent in the Jewish community. ...

The armband was removed from a dead German soldier by the fiancé of Leslie Finch's mother. He sent the armband to his fiancé from Europe while serving in the US Army during WWII. He died in Europe.

Collection of correspondence written by Simon Marcks (donor's paternal grandfather) in Germany to his children (donor's parents) who were able to leave Germany in 1938 to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe); dated February 1940 - January 1942; in German. Simon Marcks was unable to leave Germany due to financial reasons. His wife Zilla (Karoline) died of natural causes, but Simon along with his three sisters, ...

Ink wash painting of Wilda Petschau created by Bedrich Fritta in 1942 in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp where both men were imprisoned. Petschau was killed soon after the portrait was completed. The drawing was hidden in the walls of the ghetto and recovered after liberation in May 1945. Fritta, a Czech Jewish cartoonist and graphic designer, was deported to the camp from Prague on November 24, 1941. ...

Collection of photographs depicting Arpad Meitner and Berta Mahler Meitner before the war in Budapest, Hungary.

Collectie Ravenstein met Herpen, Demen en Langel, Dieden, Huisseling en Neerloon, 1625-2004 > Gemeenschap Oud Illegale Werkers Nederland kring Ravenstein-Schaijk, (1944) 1945-1949 > Mededelingenblad van de districten 's-Hertogenbosch, Oss, Veghel en Waalwijk , 1945

Ellen (Maexie) Regenstreif Illich (1901-1965) came from a family of converted Sephardic Jews who had settled in Germany. Her industrialist father, Fritz (Pucki) Regenstreif (1868-1941), had a lumber business in Bosnia where he owned a sawmill at Zavidovic and an Art Nouveau villa on the outskirts of Vienna in Pötzleinsdorf built by Friedrich Ohmann. Piero Ilic (1890-1942) came from a landed family ...

The Jacobson and David families papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and journals of poetry documenting the Jacobson and David families of Liepāja, Latvia; Paula Jacobson Sandler’s youth in Liepāja; Meyer and Nanny David’s exile to Siberia; and Meyer David’s last years in Minsk, Tallinn, and Nemenčinė. Several of the letters and poetry are translated into English. T Correspondence is primarily ...