• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn721903
• English
• folders 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the prewar and wartime experiences of Isy Leuwenkroon (1920-2006) and his wife Lilly Lieba Brenig Leuwenkroon (b. 1926) in Belgium and France through twenty prewar family photographs, Isy and Lilly's wedding certificate, correspondence, and other documents such as permits and apartment leases. Additionally included is the couple's memoir titled "Jews Rescuing Jews During WWII: Isy and Lilly Leuwenkroon", which was written for the Library's memoir project.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47040
• English
• 1944-1956
• 169 microfilm reels, 16 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of written recollections, protocols of the Magyarországi Zsidók Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottsága, DEGOB (National Committee Taking Care of Hungarian Jewish Deportees), an index to the DEGOB protocols, documents of the Central Council of the Hungarian Jews, records related to the registration of the Jewish communities, documents of the countryside ghettos, Holocaust-related name lists, lists of victims, prisoner registry cards, casualty cards, documents related to labor service, deportation of Hungarian Jews, rescue, resistance, inventories of the confiscated...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn96071
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of documents, correspondence, copy prints and photographs relating to the Levi and Frank families in Germany and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust, including their immigration to the United States, correspondence with and attempts to assist family who remained in Germany, and receipt of restitution.

1. Levisson family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn737005
• English
• 1907-1989
• folders 7
• Updated 1 year ago

The papers consist of primarily Dutch and English language correspondence, identity papers, and government and family documents relating to the experiences of the Levisson family, particularly Benno M. Levisson, while living in the Netherlands, a portion of the time in hiding, and Curaçao between 1939 and 1945. The materials also include some photographs, family trees, short personal statements, and receipts. There are also some articles and newspaper clippings, from the same period, and later in the century. Many of the letters between family members include small sketches in a style simil...

1. Lustig and Levy family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn633515
• English
• boxes oversize boxes oversize folders 10 25 6
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the prewar, wartime, and postwar lives of the Levy family of Cologne, Germany, and the Lustig family of Leipzig, Germany including Fritz Levy’s World War I experiences as a prisoner of war in Omsk, Fritz and Käte Levy’s immigration to London in 1933, the forced sale of his family business in Germany, and restitution claims. The collection includes extensive family correspondence, photographs, family history, financial documents, poems, diaries, and personal narratives. Biographical material consists of family books, family trees, grades, birth and death certificates...

1. Levy family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn621592
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of letters, postcards, and photographs regarding the Levy family of Breisach, Germany. Includes letters written by the donor's grandparents from the Rivesaltes and Gurs camps, addressed to the donor's mother in England, as well as Red Cross letters. Includes photographs of Levy family, who were deported from Breisach and most of whom perished in Auschwitz.

1. Lewin and Levi family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn560146
• English
• folders 6
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains documents, correspondence, and photographs illustrating the experiences of Simon and Violet Lewin and their daughter Marion as well as Violet's son, Rolf, who all fled Berlin, Germany in late December 1938 for the United States.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516005
• English
• 1931-1957
• folder oversize box 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The papers consist of documents, identification cards, and photographs relating to the Lewin family and their experiences in Luxembourg during the Holocaust.

1. Libbey Sansanowicz collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501574
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection contains family correspondence from Kovno 1939-1940, in Yiddish. Papers relating to father: naturalization papers, selective service, and related materials.

1. Libbey Sansanowicz collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501535
• English
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Correspondence and official papers regarding immigration. Correspondence in handwritten and typescript Yiddish. Fourteen bound journals in handwritten Yiddish. Six booklets containing handwritten lectures in Yiddish. Handwritten music scores and correspondence in Yiddish. Correspondence, letters, and official documents in handwritten and typescript Yiddish and few in English. Published Yiddish newspaper.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn76972
• English
• 1924-1947
• folders oversize box 2 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains correspondence from the Liberman family in Lublin, addressed to their daughter Stefania Liberman Tencer (donor’s mother) in Lvov and later in Rovno, dated 1940-1941; from Rozka Zafsztajn and from Mrs. K. Tencer in Radom (donor’s paternal grandmother); postcard from Kazimierz Tencer (donor’s father) during his service in the Polish Army to his wife in Rovno, c. 1944; certificate regarding Stefania Tencer’s employment in Rovno in 1944 and her CV, in Russian; letters from cousins in Tel Aviv, c. 1947, in Polish; from Mr. Borensztajn c. 1947, in Yiddish; and letters from Elek in Torun ...

1. Kathryn Lichtenberg and Walt E. Lichtenberg collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn96187
• English
• box oversize folders book enclosures 1 2 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The Lichtenberg and Stein families papers include biographical material, correspondence, subject files, and photographs relating to the Lichtenberg and Stein families pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences in Germany and the United States. Lichtenberg family papers include biographical material for Hermann Lichtenberg and Alfred Lichtenberg, wartime and post-war correspondence between family members, school records for Hermann, and immigration records for Alfred, Hermann and Kathe, Hermann’s sister, as well as family photographs. Stein family papers include biographical material for Sie...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn609636
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of documents, photographs, and notebooks documenting the experiences of Holocaust survivor Lidia Gelband. Collection includes her student notebooks and portfolio from UNRRA University in Munich, post-war identification papers and cards, medical diploma, documents and reports from the International Refugee Organization in Munich, and photographs of Dr. Lidia Gelband Eichenholz giving a talk at Carleton College.

1. Liebermensch family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn548900
• English
• folders oversize box 2 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains photographs, documents, and letters regarding the family of Samuel and Gisela (Schiff) Liebermensch of Mannheim, Germany. Includes photographs of a synagogue in Mannheim before and after Kristallnacht; a photograph of Samuel Liebermensch in the Gurs concentration camp in France; an address book given to Gisela Liebermensch containing messages from people who sought help in the U.S. for their emigration; and other documents related to immigration efforts.

1. Liebschütz and Rozsa family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn526957
• English
• boxes oversize boxes oversize folders 4 5 4
• Updated 1 year ago

The Liebschütz and Rozsa families papers consist of correspondence, biographical material, professional material, photographs, and diaries as well as restitution, education, and immigration material relating to the families of Elise (Lisa) Rozsa, originally of Brno, Czechoslovakia, and her husband, Imre Rozsa, originally of Hungary, both of whom fled Europe during the Holocaust and lived in exile in Iraq, Palestine, Uganda, and Kenya. The collection also includes the memoir of Lisa Rozsa’s mother, Selma Liebschütz, describing her family’s experiences during the Holocaust, including imprison...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501046
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one letter written by Lili Kovacs Abraham to the Claims Conference in February 1993. In the letter, Mrs. Abraham describes the invasion and occupation of Czechoslovakia and her deportation from Remetske Hamre, Czechoslovakia, to the Uzhorod ghetto in 1944. She was deported to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944 and describes life in the camp until she was sent for forced labor in Altenburg, Germany. She was liberated by the American military while on a death march near Waltenburg, Germany, in April 1945.

1. Lili Scharf Deutsch collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn38902
• English
• 1937-1946
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of materials including Red Cross letters, correspondence, written between members of the Scharf family, primarily written by the donor after her liberation from Bergen Belsen to her family in Palestine; dated 1937-1946.

1. Lilienthal and Fraenkel families collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn535820
• English
• 1938-1946
• folders 6
• Updated 1 year ago

The Lilienthal and Fraenkel families papers consists of correspondence from Eugen Lilienthal, originally of Berlin, sent following the end of World War II, from Theresienstadt following his liberation from that concentration camp, and from the Deggendorf displaced persons camp, during the period when he was trying to establish contact with the families of his two daughters, who were living in New York. The collection also contains correspondence and documents sent to one of the daughters, Margot Fraenkel, from various officials and aid organizations as she sought to help her father immigrat...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501102
• English
• 1960-1963
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Lillian Levy papers consists primarily of articles and correspondence written by Levy from the period of 1960-1963, as she worked as she served as the Bureau Chief for the National Jewish Post and Opinion. The majority of the articles she wrote during this time cover the topic of ex-Nazi medical doctors who performed experiments on Jewish prisoners during World War II. These doctors were able to escape trial and continued to practice medicine in Germany. Levy’s correspondence from this time is mostly to publications requesting to run her articles, but also included is a letter to First ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn548888
• English
• 1944-1948
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Lily Wysinski collection consists of photographs, letters, greeting cards, and other materials concerning the experiences of Fajwel and Lena Szmerkowicz, parents of Lily Wysinski. Also included is a booklet titled "Likwidacja Getta Wilenskiego" (Liquation of the Vilnius Ghetto).