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(LIB 5968) Schwarzenfeld, Germany. LS of many coffins loaded onto horse-drawn carts. German civilians from Schwarzenfeld unload and carry the coffins, walking past rows of corpses. Many civilians dig graves in a fenced area. The remains of a striped uniform are visible on at least one of the bodies awaiting burial. Houses are visible in the background. The victims died while on one of several evacuation ...

Ilse Schoenholz's seven page narrative describes her childhood in Bochum, Germany, antisemitism in her apartment building and at school, how the police and neighbors refused to help when her family's store was vandalized during Kristallnacht, and the forced liquidation of the store and the confiscation of her mother's jewelry and silver. She recounts her journey to England on a Kindertransport and ...

Regine alias Regina Beer was born on 5 November 1920 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During the First World War her parents, the Belgian Jewish couple Henri Beer and Clara Josephine Pinkhof, had fled to the Dutch capital with their daughter Clarisse and son Sally Maurice. When Regine was 11 months old, the Beer family returned to Antwerp. There they experienced the beginning of the occupation in May ...