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Consists of copyprints of the family of Alfred and Stefa Ungar, who lived in Krakow, Poland, with their children Adam and Kuka (now Helen). Includes pre-war copyprints of the family, copyprints of the family at the labor camp of Krakow-Prokocim, and copyprints of Alfred Ungar in his concentration camp uniform, alone and with other prisoners, after their liberation from Buchenwald. Also includes a copyprint ...

The Veres family (excluding Kati's father Bela Krausz) survived the Holocaust by living in hiding. Peter (b. October 23, 1938), the oldest son of Kati and George Veres, was born and baptized as an Anglican in London. As a British citizen, he was protected by the Swiss Embassy. Kati and George arranged for two Swiss women to hide six year old Peter for several weeks during the invasion of Budapest in ...

Contains Chaim Yehoshua Neuman's 93-page handwritten memoir, in Yiddish, in which he describes his life in pre-war Poland; the increasing persecution of Jews which followed the German invasion of Poland in September 1939; his experiences in the Sosnoftza and Srodula ghettos; his work in a tailor shop and a clothing factory; his deportation to Birkenau concentration camp, circa August 1943; his transfer ...

The Simon Langner papers contain primarily immigration and legal documents related to Simon Langner, a Holocaust survivor. Included are a World ORT machinist’s trade certificate, an identity card, an affidavit and testimony for Simon, and a court ruling for reparations. Also included are a copy of his brother’s Abram Langner’s birth certificate, and a photograph of Simon.

The collection consists of three scrapbooks. One scrapbook contains photographs, correspondence, and other documents relating to Paul and Berthe Hendrix’s courtship, wedding, and honeymoon. The other two scrapbooks are baby books for Paul and Berte Hendrix's sons; one for Robert Alexander Hendrix (b. May 12, 1930) and the other for Hans Leonard Hendrix (b. January 31, 1933).

Contains four volumes of scrapbooks compiled by Siegfried Wenzel, as a child or adolescent while living in Germany, between 1939 and 1943, consisting of clippings from German newspapers of the era, reporting on wartime events. Consisting of four separate numbered volumes, titled "Kriegstagesbuch," with handwritten annotations added by Wenzel from that time, the volumes report on German military advances ...

Nathan Rohloff (Natan Roloff) was Dagmar Phillips and Aviva Zylberberg’s paternal grandfather. The Roloff family lived in Riga, Latvia and Natan was an activist in the boy scouts movement. Natan’s son, Joachim Roloff married Thea Raudis. Their daughter Aviva was born in April 1940 and Dagmar in November 1941. After the German invasion of the USSR, the daughters stayed with their mother until sometime ...

National War naval ensign with a swastika and a cross on a red field, obtained by an American soldier during his service in Germany in 1945. This type of flag was used aboard German warships from November 7, 1935 - May 8, 1945. The US soldier who brought the flag home landed at Utah Beach during the D-Day invasion in June 1944, and helped liberate and secure the city of Paris, France in late August. ...

Some forty years later, the Allied landings on the Italian coast at Salerno before dawn on September 9, 1943, seem only a part of one of the half-forgotten campaigns of World War II. Yet it was in its day the largest amphibious invasion becoming the Allies' costliest blunder. Codenamed "Avalanche," the operation under U.S. General Mark Clark involved 500 ships and 165,000 American and British servicemen ...

Scope and content: Collection is comprised of memorabilia received or collected by Maurice Smith while performing military service in Italy and the Netherlands. Collection is divided into three series: Artefacts [between 1939 and 1945], Correspondence, photograph (1945) and Publications and ephemera (1944–1945).