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871. Selected records of the World ORT Archive (WOA), London
Document | Accession Number: 2018.468.1 | RG Number: RG-59.084
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1983
… for survival. ORT was most active in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania. In Warsaw, the German authorities only allowed…
872. Blau family papers
2005.517.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2005.517.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1954
…, first Prague and then Theresienstadt, to search for her family. She found them in Theresienstadt where they all had survived. The family was sent to the…
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 … survived. The family was sent to the Deggendorf displaced persons camp in Germany to await immigration to the United States. In 1946, Gertrude was sent to…
873. Philips dynamo hand generator flashlight used by a Dutch Jewish family in prison camps
2008.200.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.200.2
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1940
use: 1942-1944
… to survive. His brother, Maurits, and his wife, Stella, had been deported to Bergen Belsen concentration camp where they died in 1945. The family was…
874. Litke family papers
2015.547.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.547.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1981
bulk: 1945-1981
… 1945, days away from liberation. Her brother Moses died in a forced labor camp. Her sister, Rae, survived the war and immigrated to the United States.…
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 … concentration camp in 1945, days away from liberation. Her brother Moses died in a forced labor camp. Her sister, Rae, survived the war and immigrated to the…
875. Childsize violin and case of a young Jewish Lithuanian boy killed in the Ponary massacre
2006.88.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.88.2 a-b
Date:
received: 1936-1943
use: before 1943 September
… deported to the Jewish ghetto in Vilna. His father was soon sent to Klooga concentration camp; he did not survive. When Vilna was liquidated in September…
876. Handmade book illustrating the alphabet created by an Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1994.53.4
Date:
emigration: 1940 March
Artwork Title:
Alphabet Book
…, Irene learned that only a few distant relatives and her cousins from Hamburg had survived. Her mother and brother had been forced from their home. She…
877. Alexander Bachnár papers, Bratislava component collection
Document | Accession Number: 2020.201.1 | RG Number: RG-57.030
Date:
inclusive: 1939-2008
… were the only members of their large family to survive the Holocaust. After the war, he worked as a journalist and editor for Bojovník, the Pravda…
878. Dr. Willy Katz papers
1990.88.11 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 1990.88.11
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1988
bulk: 1902-1950
…, refused to divorce her Jewish husband. Helmut went to England around 1936, survived the war there, and changed his name to Henry Keith. Elsa Brann is…
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 … sister‐in‐law but had to give it up in 1939 when she, a non‐Jew, refused to divorce her Jewish husband. Helmut went to England around 1936, survived the…
879. Simcha Dimant papers
1993.34.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.34.13
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1945
… survivors. He met Ita Rozenczwajg (1918-2010). She had survived by living under an assumed identity as a non-Jewish Polish person and was sent to Germany as a…
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 … established on a farm by sixteen camp survivors. He met Ita Rozenczwajg (1918-2010). She had survived by living under an assumed identity as a non-Jewish Polish…
880. Handmade illustrated children's book created by an Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1994.53.8
Date:
emigration: 1940 March
Artwork Title:
Fur Unsere Kleinen!
Alternate Title:
For Our Small Ones!
…, Irene learned that only a few distant relatives and her cousins from Hamburg had survived. Her mother and brother had been forced from their home. She…