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Schenja alias Jenny Birnbaum or Birenbaum was born on 19 April 1929 in Cologne, Germany. She was the eldest child of Simon Birnbaum (born on 13 August 1897 in Checiny, Poland) and Salka Flescher (born on 23 February 1900 in Stanislawow, Poland). Jenny had three younger siblings: Esther who was called Erna (born on 8 November 1931), Joseph (born on 26 December 1932) and Herschel (born on 4 November ...

Contains some 25,000 pages of more than 6,000 documents relating to the lives of the Jewish population living within the borders of occupied Poland from September 1939 to the end of February 1943. The collection contains questionnaires, reports, journals, diaries, memoirs, journal articles, literary works, letters, notices, copies of official correspondence, protocols of the deliberations of ghetto ...

13:42 President Cerdini calls the session to order; asks that the accused present himself; Barbie refuses to appear; Cerdini calls on the bailiff to compel the accused to appear 13:43 The bailiff reads the names of the witnesses scheduled to give testimony in the session 13:45 Cerdini suspends the session while the bailiff goes to Barbie to compel him to appear 14:12 Cerdini calls the session to order; ...

Consists of documents, correspondence, memoirs, and research notes related to Dr. Otto Ehrentheil’s attempts to assist family and friends to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. After his family arrived in the United States from Vienna, Austria, in November 1938, Dr. Ehrentheil worked to provide financial assistance and affidavits for numerous family and friends. Includes correspondence, financial documentation, ...

In 1936, at the behest of Paul Baerwald and Felix Warburg and the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), David Glick, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania attorney, traveled to Germany to act as an independent liaison between Nazi officials and Jewish organizations. His primary objective in this capacity was to assist German Jews in leaving the country, through whatever legal means possible. He met with ...

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. ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

The Freud family papers consist of biographical material, correspondence, diaries, calendars, and subject files relating to Martin, Ernestine, Sophie, and Walter Freud’s pre-war experiences in Austria and fleeing to France and England. The collection also includes material relating to Ernestine and Sophie’s immigration to the United States and Ernestine’s career. Biographical material includes a birth ...

Karl and Max Horn were brothers, two of the sons of Benjamin and Elfriede (née Schreiber) Horn, originally of Vorst, Germany. The family was involved in agriculture, and in particular, had businesses related to cattle trading as well as a butcher shop. In addition to Karl and Max, the Horns had two other sons, Josef and Paul. At a young age, Max Horn (born 7 February 1897) left Vorst for Cologne, where ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die „Wissenschaftliche Kommission für deutsche Kriegsgefangenengeschichte" (WK) war eine im Auftrag der Bundesregierung eingerichtete zeitgeschichtliche Forschungsorganisation. Auf Beschluss des „Kriegsgefangenenbeirats" im Bundesministerium für Vertriebene, Flüchtlinge und Kriegsgeschädigte (BMVt), dem Vertreter von Evangelischem Hilfswerk (EHIK), Deutscher Caritas-Verband ...