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Contains two notebooks, handwritten and hardbound. The notebooks were written in displaced persons camps in Germany and Cyprus by three rabbis (sometimes the rabbinate from Stuttgart is used). The notebooks contain notes on permits for "agunot" (women whose husbands had disappeared or who had died without witnesses, and men who could not prove that they are single or widowed) to marry and a list of ...

The period from 1939-1945 saw some of the most devastating events in living memory. Bringing the experience of war to life through contemporary documentation, this work tells the stories of the men and women who lived and died during World War II. Collection of texts originally published as individual volumes of the Essential histories series. 480 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 ...

The collection consists of photographs documenting the Holocaust experiences of Nanette de Vries and her brother David de Vries, both of whom were hidden children in Haarlem, Netherlands. Modern inscriptions are written on the verso in English.

The 9.5mm home movies predominantly feature cousins Hanna Lieberman (b. 1930) and Thomas Sperber (1930-2009) in Knihinin, Poland (a district of Stanislawow, which is now Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine) and the spa retreat of Jaremcze, Poland (now Yaremcha, Ukraine). Thomas's grandfather Filip owned a yeast and alcohol factory in Stanislawow, and with his wife Babeta (1858-1927) had four children: ...

The plan to create two memorial tablets in the memorial hall of the Kieler Gelehrtenschule to commemorate these individuals was the idea of Hartmut Kunkel, friend of the depositor, and history teacher at the German School in Richmond, London, 1984-1988.

Emilie (née Geromin) Bordin (1887-1940), a German victim of the Nazi euthanasia program, was killed at the Sonnenstein über Pirna facility. Emilie was the daughter of Wilhelm Friedrich and Marianne (Schütz) Geromin. She was raised on an estate in Przasnysz, East Prussia (Poland), where her father managed the forests of a Russian duke. Emilie was the oldest of five children. In 1909, she married Emil ...

Concentration camp uniform cap issued to Werner Sauer while interned in Stutthof concentration camp as a German marine deserter in early 1945. The cap is lined with cloth because German military deserters were treated better than Jewish prisoners. The hats Werner had been issued previously as a Jewish inmate were not lined. Werner saved the cap, and refused to ever have it cleaned, as evidence of his ...

A new baby (Hanna's cousin Babeta) is in a carriage drinking from a bottle. It is held up by its mother Nelly and father Emanuel (with glasses). She is played with, diaper changed, and fed.

The Fritz G. Cohen collection consists of 37 handwritten postcards, in German, sent from Hannover, Germany, dated 1940-1942, from Lina Cohen, the donor's grandmother, or Margarete Liepmann, or Bertha Abrahamsohn, the donor's aunt, and sent to Hete or Henry Vaderborght or Mimi Lambucht in Brussels (Belgium), and to Dr. J. Gramegna in Genoa, Italy. All the postcards are addressed to "My dear child" or ...