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1. Gertrude Heller Fischbach collection
2000.481.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2000.481.1
Date:
creation: 1938-1944
…The Gertrude Heller Fischbach collection consists of six photographs relating to the family of Gertrude Fischbach (née Heller). Pictured in the…
2. Morgenthau family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.255.1
Date:
inclusive: 1860-2005
bulk: 1930-1950
… Cleveland, Ohio. The United States declared war on Germany and Japan in December 1941. Morgenthau joined the United States Army. In 1943, he graduated from…
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 … correspondence, documents, photographs, and research notes related to the Morgenthau family. The collection includes material related to the Ottoman Empire and…
3. Bella and Benjamin Herson papers
1999.106.27 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1999.106.27
Date:
inclusive: circa 1907-2006
…The Bella and Benjamin Herson papers consist of correspondence, a memoir, photographs, printed materials, prisoner of war materials, a plaque, an…
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 … Benjamin Herson papers consist of correspondence, a memoir, photographs, printed materials, prisoner of war materials, and reference materials documenting…
4. Sirkis family papers
2012.322.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2012.322.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1937-1947
… community and local police. Frida and Theodor returned to Moldova after the war, and Frida wrote a letter to the chief of the NKVD demanding justice for her…
5. Bela Gondos family papers
1989.202. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1989.202.3
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1995
… Montreux and lived in a resort hotel. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. Bela, Anna, and Judit learned that most of their family had…
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 … authorization signed by Dr. Polgar in Bergen-Belsen allowing Bela Gondos to receive wood for shoe soles. Photographs depict the Gondos family, their friends, and…
6. Ruth Salm Perlman collection
2014.314.1 BookEnclosure Folder 1 Image 80
Document | Accession Number: 2014.314.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2009
bulk: 1942-1954
… during the war; and a post-war book with photographs, compiled by Aage Davidsen, and describing their wartime experiences. Also includes pre-war family…
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 … document from the Danish Red Cross, attesting to her arrest and interment during the war; and a post-war book with photographs, compiled by Aage Davidsen…
7. Betty Cohen papers
1995.A.0514.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0514.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1977
… war, Betty married Rudi Cohen (1918-1995), another Dutch Jewish survivor, and immigrated to the United States in 1956. She and her siblings arranged for…
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 … narrative Betty wrote for Yad Vashem describing her rescuers, Tieme and Alie Beuving and Johannes (Joep) and Agnes Garben; photographs of herself, her parents…
8. Ellen Kaidanow papers
2017.525. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 2017.525.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-circa 1998
…, Ukraine). Photographs include pre-war depictions of the Lewiatin family; post war images of Ellen with her paternal uncle’s family in Germany, including in…
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 … (present day Dubno, Ukraine). Photographs include pre-war depictions of the Lewiatin family; post war images of Ellen with her paternal uncle’s family in…
9. Strauss family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.565.1
Date:
inclusive: 1792-2003
bulk: 1844-1966
…. He had three brothers, Bruno (b. 1887), Ernst (b.1889), and Julius (b. 1890). Siegfried served in World War I and operated a leather importer and…
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 … documents the wartime and post-war experiences of the Strauss family as they fled Nazi persecution in Marburg, Germany to Amsterdam, the Netherlands; their…
10. Luba Tryszynska-Frederick papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.615.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2005
…, Yudel, and one sister, Lea. She married Hershel Gerceg in 1939 and they had one son, Isaac. Prior to the war, they lived in a village near Kamenets…
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 …. Included in the collection is biographical material, correspondence, writings and clippings about Luba’s story, photographs, and material related to the 50…
11. Lyszka family papers
2015.489.1 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.489.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1974
… fiancée Uncle Alexandre, who also had false identities, in St. Pardoux. Paris was liberated on August 25, 1944, and the war ended in May 1945. Renee…
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 … papers and photographs documenting Renée Lyszka’s (later Renée Lisse Sachs) childhood in France, where she hid in Saint Pardoux with her aunt Renée…
12. Efrem Ostrowsky family papers
1995.A.0306.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0306.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1946
…Efrem Ostrowsky (1919-2009) was the son of artist Samuel and Anna (née Israelson) Ostrowsky. He was a trained artist in sculpture. During World War…
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 …: The collection primarily consists of wartime photographs taken by Efrem Ostrowsky and others as well as liberation photographs taken at the Dachau…
13. Manfred Haber family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.392.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1963
bulk: 1938-1946
… deported from Mechelen to Auschwitz on 15 August 1942 where she perished. After the war, Manfred earned a degree in electrical engineering. He married Joy…
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 …. After the war, Manfred earned a degree in electrical engineering. He married Joy Perlow and they had two sons: Robert and Theodore. Scope and content of…
14. Judith Cromwell papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.616.1
Date:
inclusive: 1875-1990
bulk: 1914-1950
… Irma. There are numerous photographs and a modern photograph album depicting John’s experiences as a doctor during World War I, including images of…
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 … Charlotte’s post-war immigration to the United States in 1950. The bulk of the collection consists of biographical material, correspondence, and photographs…
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15. Abraham and Mina Winiger papers
1998.34.3 Image 1 Folder 6 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1998.34.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1934-1971
…The Abraham and Mina Winiger papers consist of identification papers, correspondence, and photographs documenting Abraham and Mina Winiger’s families…
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 … consist of identification papers, correspondence, and photographs documenting Abraham and Mina Winiger’s families before the Holocaust in Nadwórna, Poland…
16. Wanda Zofia Ciecierska papers
2003.385.1 Box 1 Folder 23 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2003.385.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1968
… Ciecierski and Weber relatives after the war. Photographic materials include two photographs albums documenting Stanislaw and Wanda Zofia Ciecierski in Poland…
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 … series primarily consists of postcards exchanged among Ciecierski and Weber relatives after the war. Photographic materials include two photographs albums…
17. Walter Saunders papers
1995.A.0383 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0383
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1944
bulk: 1938-1944
… letters, naturalization certificate, and an Austrian citizenship certificate. The photographs include portraits of Paul and Klara while at Auschwitz, a…
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 … Auschwitz. Included in the papers are correspondence with Walter’s parents, photographs, reference letters and naturalization papers. Languages: German…
18. Blumenthal family papers
1993.104.11 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 1993.104.11
Date:
inclusive: 1901-circa 1993
bulk: 1901-1956
… Argentina with his wife and two sons prior to World War II. Sophie Blumenthal suffered from a thyroid condition and was murdered during her time in a hospital…
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 … photographs documenting the Blumenthal family from Hüttengesäß; Albert, Alice, and Ellen Blumenthal’s immigration to the United States before World War II…
19. Chaim Posner papers
2017.402.6 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.402.6
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1975
… documents for Chaim and Regina Posner, and announcements for lectures by Posner. The collection further includes an undated photograph of a Hanukkah…
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 … undated photograph of a Hanukkah celebration, a 1940s report titled “Der Weg Nach Palaestina” about the difficulties of Jewish emigration to Palestine…
20. Richard Weilheimer papers
2007.336.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2007.336.1
Date:
inclusive: 1908-1998
… released in part for his service in the German Army during WWI. After the British and French declared war on Germany, Allied bombers frequently targeted…
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 …, correspondence, a watercolor booklet hand-made in Gurs, and photographic materials documenting the Weilheimer, Wetzler, and Stern families from Ludwigshafen and…