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201. Playing outdoors in early summer 1938
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Film | Accession Number: 2020.177 | RG Number: RG-60.7090 | Film ID: 4458
Film Title:
24.6.38. -- Antonie Eckstein-Bloch -- home movies
Date:
Event: 1938 June 24
Duration:
00:04:13
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… years of war Toni and the children stayed in Veverska Bityska, where they survived.…
202. Ruth and Kurt Elias papers
2004.621. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 2004.621.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-1947
… stomach swelling from hunger. A prisoner-doctor convinced Ruth to inject a lethal dose of morphine into the suffering baby, who had no chance of surviving…
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 … prisoner-doctor convinced Ruth to inject a lethal dose of morphine into the suffering baby, who had no chance of surviving. On October 8, 1944, Ruth was…
203. Gutter family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.339.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1959
…, 1943, they were deported to Auschwitz and were murdered upon arrival. Grete Gutter Knoblich survived Theresienstadt. Jean Gutter immigrated to Palestine…
204. Jewish quarter of Nasielsk
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Film | Accession Number: 2009.31.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4826 | Film ID: 2870
Film Title:
Our Trip To Holland, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, France and England 1938 -- David Kurtz -- home movies
Date:
Event: 1938 August 04
Duration:
00:01:18
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… until he escaped in the spring of 1941. He survived the war posing as an orphaned farmhand, using false papers provided by Helena Jagodzinska, the Polish…
205. Irena Bloch papers
2001.300.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2001.300.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1969
… Zolkiew. In spite of their “good Aryan looks” they were murdered during their journey by the local population. Rachela survived the “November Aktion” by…
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 … 2001. Most of the papers survived with her in hiding. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
206. Wolf and Zofia Paszko Białystok photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2019.609.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1956
… worked in Kant as a truck driver. He met and married fellow refugee Zofia Właźnik in 1941. They survived the duration of the war in Kant. The couple had…
207. St. Stephen's Day in Budapest
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Film | Accession Number: 2010.81.3 | RG Number: RG-60.1383 | Film ID: 2945
Film Title:
Untitled -- George Veres -- home movies
Date:
Event: 1938-1943?
Duration:
00:00:42
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…The Veres family (excluding Kati's father Bela Krausz) survived the Holocaust by living in hiding. Peter (b. October 23, 1938), the oldest son of…
208. Verdoner family at the beach in Zandvoort
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Film | Accession Number: 2002.182.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3371 | Film ID: 2492
Film Title:
Zomer 1938. In de tuin. In Zandvoort. In de tuin met de hondjes -- Gerrit Verdoner -- home movies
Date:
Event: Summer 1938
Production: 1938
Duration:
00:04:51
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… place the children in hiding. Their foresight enabled the children to survive and save these family films. Hilde entered Westerbork on December 18, 1942…
209. Five Cities
Film | Accession Number: 2000.621.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2663 | Film ID: 2317
Film Title:
Jewish Life in Vilna
Date:
Event: 1938-1939
Production: 1939
Duration:
00:11:01
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…, about Łódź, is lost. The other five-on Bialystok, Cracow, Lwow, Vilna, and Warsaw-have survived and are now called "Five Cities." These low-budget 35…
210. Brown textured suitcase used by a young German Jewish woman
2005.415.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.415.3
Date:
use: 1938 September
… Mannheim. On September 17, 1938, Anne sailed from Hamburg to New York on board the Ms St Louis. She was the only member of her family to survive the…
211. Pisker, Fischer, and Altstädter families papers
2014.411.1 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2014.411.1
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1987
bulk: 1935-1948
… liberated by Yugoslav Partisans in 1943. After the camp was liberated, Elvira and Boris survived with the partisans in forests until the end of the war…
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 …, Hugo and Pavle, and one sister, Ella (Ella Novac). All of Alfred’s siblings survived the Holocaust. Elvira and Alfred married in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now…
212. Michael V. Roth photographs
1997.A.0446 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0446
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1955
…, Michael Roth was one of only 170 prisoners who survived the march and arrived at the Flossenbürg concentration camp on April 17, 1945. On week later, on…
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 … Fifteen Hundred that began the march survived the ten day ordeal. That is why today when things go wrong and I am disillusioned and discouraged with any…
213. Henry Alter papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.248
Date:
inclusive: 1840-1998
bulk: 1939-1955
… in the censorship offices. His brother survived World War II in Australia, and his mother survived in Vienna. They both later immigrated to the United…
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 … offices. His brother survived World War II in Australia, and his mother survived in Vienna. They both later immigrated to the United States. Scope and…
214. Eva Mándlová Roubíčková papers
1996.A.0383 Book Enclosure 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0383
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… transported, but Eva remained at Theresienstadt until liberation. After the war, Eva returned to Prague and learned that she was the only surviving member of…
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 … remained at Theresienstadt until liberation. After the war, Eva returned to Prague and learned that she was the only surviving member of her family. Richard…
215. Lewis Shabasson collection
1999.88 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.88
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-approximately 1948
… ghetto sensing that they were the only two who stood any chance of surviving. Their escape was unsuccessful, and Lewek was taken to the Wolanów labor camp…
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 … only two who stood any chance of surviving. Their escape was unsuccessful, and Lewek was taken to the Wolanów labor camp where he worked on an airfield…
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  • File 6: Najman family: Germany 1945-1946
    • Pages: 1
  • File 11: Szabason family: Poland Circa 1930-Circa 1938
    • Pages: 1
216. Cohen-Paraira family at leisure
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Film | Accession Number: 2012.251.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1372 | Film ID: 2942, 2943
Film Title:
Hertenkamp / London -- David Cohen-Paraira -- home movies
Date:
Event: Spring 1938
Duration:
00:00:55
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Ellis Cohen Paraira is a Dutch Jew who survived in hiding from 1942 until the end of the war. She and her boyfriend wrote to each other in a diary…
217. Verdoner family at the beach
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Film | Accession Number: 2002.182.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3372 | Film ID: 2492
Film Title:
Zomer 1938. In de tuin. In Zandvoort. In de tuin met de hondjes -- Gerrit Verdoner -- home movies
Date:
Event: Summer 1938
Production: 1938
Duration:
00:04:56
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… place the children in hiding. Their foresight enabled the children to survive and save these family films. Hilde entered Westerbork on December 18, 1942…
218. Gilt-plated demitasse spoon embossed with the MS St Louis
1992.22.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.22.1
Date:
use: after 1925-before 1940
… the United Kingdom, 288, survived; nearly half of those admitted to Belgium, France, and the Netherlands, 278, survived; the rest perished.…
219. Max Schmeidler papers
2004.88.2 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2004.88.2
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1963
… survived polio and encephalitis in 1943 and lived in the Hongkew ghetto. He immigrated to the United States in 1947, and his parents, who survived the…
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 … was awarded a Police Distinguished Conduct Medal. He survived polio and encephalitis in 1943 and lived in the Hongkew ghetto. He immigrated to the…
220. Gerald Kaiser photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.471.1
Date:
creation: 1935-1948
… Kaiser (Hirschler), Gerald's mother, survived. After liberation in 1945, she found Gerald at the Kowalik family's house. Mother and son went to Germany…