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Henry Hirschmann was born Heinz Hirschmann in Grossauheim, Germany, on August 5, 1920. His parents, Maier and Ida Hahn Hirschmann, had three sons: Heinz, Ludwig Paul (known as Paul), and Lothar Eliezer. The family ran a store selling household items and gifts. In 1934, the street on which the family lived, Hauptstrasse, was changed to Adolf Hitler Strasse. Hirschmann was arrested on Kristallnacht and ...

Archief van R.J.M. ('Rob') Wijnoogst (IJmuiden, 30 april 1926 - overleden, datum onbekend). Militair en Verzetsdeelnemer. Robert Wijnoogst groeide op in IJmuiden in een Oranjegezind milieu dat op diverse manieren bij verzet betrokken was. Zijn vader hielp Joden naar Frankrijk te vluchten, zijn grootvader zat gevangen vanwege een vechtpartij met WA'ers en zijn grootmoeder zat vast omdat ze in een winkel ...

Drawing created by Henri Bomblat, circa 2000, in memory of his sisters, Sarah and Rosette, who were killed at Auschwitz concentration camp. It depicts a crematorium with smokestacks with portraits of 2 young women. Above is a large closed eye inscribed with excerpts from the Kaddish. Sarah, age 22, was arrested in Paris on July 16, 1942, and deported to Auschwitz on September 23, 1942, where she was ...

Men moving off in twilight silhouetted against sunset. Group of men kneeling in twilight. Officer in combat gear reading orders. American flag on left shoulder, men in this unit appear to be paratroopers. Planes have names such as "Windy City," "Bobbie Ellen 3," "Dinky," "Philadelphia Express." This is a portable metal runway. VS of men under wings of plane. LS, pan of plane landing. Jeep towing small ...

Archief van S.E. Bunker. Stanley Edward (Stanley) Bunker, geboren Engeland 24 januari 1912. Gehuwd, echtgenote overleden 1990. Relatie met F. (Rietje) Kanter. Militair Stanley Bunker groeide op onder de rook van Londen. Vanaf zijn veertiende was hij bijrijder, later chauffeur van een vrachtwagen. Kreeg werk voor de Ford Motor Compagny, die na het uitbreken van de tweede wereldoorlog militair materieel ...

The Herzog family papers include photographs, correspondence, and a birth certificate documenting the Herczog family from Érsekújvár (now Nové Zámky, Slovakia, formerly in Czechoslovakia and Hungary) and from Nagybörzsöny, Hungary. The collection includes correspondence and postcards written to Tibor (Avigdor) Herczog in the Hungarian forced labor camps in Köszeg and Ripinye (now Repenye, Ukraine) ...