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  4. David Schwarz

    Il fondo personale contiente gli originali delle lettere ricevute dalla famiglia di Hersch Wolf Schwarz di Czortkow dal 1939 al 1943 con abbinato testo del traduttore. Tra le carte si conserva la copertina del libro di Iride Tradati Schwarz dal titolo "Meghillat irida. Lettera ai nipoti. Una famiglia ebraica nella bufera (1939-1945) note di vita vissuta in Polonia e in Italia". Ad ogni documento scritto in diverse lingue - yddish, russo, polacco, tedesco e ucraino - è allegata la traduzione manoscritta e dattiloscritta per la comprensione del testo. I documenti raccolti da Iride Schwarz col...

  7. SPANIER, Family

    Photos and family documents pre- and post-Nazi regime. Information concerning founding of German-Jewish refugee congregation - Hartford, Connecticut. Letter signed in 1947 by Eleanor Roosevelt asking for funds for war orphans. Personal history of Spanier family written by Albert Spanier prior to his death in November of 1996. German-language newspaper published on May 12, 1939, in Paris listing Spanier members as non-citizens of Germany - "ausburgerrungsliste." Material on internment camps for German Jews in Canada 1941-1944 (Montreal Standard clipping), photocopies from Netherlands embassy...

  8. ROSENGARTEN, Aaron = Bergen Belsen DP Camp

    Digital copies in tiff format of 8 images showing the Bergen Belsen DP camp after World War II, including at least two survivors who later came to Canada. Detailed description, according to the numbers on the tiff files: 1) Picture of people standing at 1946 Belsen monument - the woman closest to monument at right is Esther Rosengarten, man in suit at left of monumnent is Alex Rosengarten, parents of donor Aaron Rosengarten; 2) Photo of 2 couples showing Esther and Alex on right; 4) In DP camp, indoors with German nursemaids and two babies - Alex is standing in back; 6) Transit Camp B (Berg...

  11. Gerzon, familie

    Het archief bevat documentatie en correspondentie over de tocht van E.J. (Eduard Jules) Gerzon, diens latere echtgenote C. (Claire) Polak en diens vader J.E. (Jules Eduard) Gerzon. Daarnaast zijn brieven aanwezig van broer A.J. (Arthur Jules) Gerzon en correspondentie van moeder M.R. (Annetje) van Buuren met Claire Polak.

  13. Arrigo Minerbi

    Il fondo raccoglie le lettere e le cartoline originali scritte negli anni '40 dallo scultore Arrigo Minerbi e dall'ingegnere Diego Nunes - Vais a Marta Pagnoni (1), donna di servizio in casa Minerbi-Ravenna relative all'arresto e alla deportazione della famiglia residente nel palazzo di via Garibaldi 94 a Ferrara. L'ultima unità archivistica è un fascicolo di soli fotoritratti protetti da una cornice.A corredo del fondo, per una più chiara comprensione delle carte, è conservato un fascicolo con la pubblicazione "Se la buona Marta è ancora in casa Ravenna" contenente le trascrizioni delle le...

  14. Giorgio Nissim

    La documentazione, esigua e frammentaria, conservata nel fondo è organizzata in quattro fascicoli contenenti carte di diversa natura e riguardanti il carteggio tra Paula Langnas e Israel Meyer rinchiusi in campi di internamento diversi (cfr. b. 1, fasc. 1), le copie dello scritto "Memorie di un ebreo toscano 1938-1948" e da un fascicolo di fotografie. Tra le carte raccolte si segnala principalmente il fascicolo "DELASEM - Azione speciale bambini" (cfr. b.1, fasc. 2) come testimonianza del ruolo di primo piano rivestito da Giorgio Nissim nella DELASEM di Pisa; l'unità archivistica contiene l...

  15. Betsy S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betsy S., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1928. She recounts that her parents were Polish immigrants; German invasion in May 1940; her father continuing his business until 1942; meeting her future husband who was involved in the Resistance; going into hiding with her family; their arrest in June 1944; incarceration in Malines; deportation to Birkenau; separation from her father and brother (they did not survive); the trauma of not recognizing her mother after they were shaved; singing French songs while marching to Auschwitz; separation from her mother (she did n...

  16. Marion P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marion P., a Christian rescuer who was born in Amsterdam in 1920. She discusses the situation of the Jewish community in Holland before the war; German occupation in 1940; and the anti-Jewish propaganda and legalized persecution that gradually followed. Mrs. P. tells of witnessing a round-up of Jewish children, which prompted her to become more active in the rescue of Jews and relates how, working through an unofficial network rather than a formal branch of the underground, she effected the rescue of Jewish children and adults. She notes problems arising from the clos...

  17. Julius O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julius O., who was born in Schwarzenborn, Germany in 1923. He recalls hostility toward Jews after 1933; attending public school until 1937; a carpentry apprenticeship in Kassel; repairing roads in Schwarzenborn after Kristallnacht; attending a Jewish trade school in Frankfurt; and factory work from 1940 to October 1941 in Frankfurt. He describes joining his family in Kassel when they received notice of deportation in November 1941; their transport to Ri?ga; his transfer to Salaspils; brutal beatings and killings of prisoners; work as a carpenter; repairing SS officers...

  18. Sibylle H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sibylle H., a non-Jew, who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. She recalls living in a wealthy area with Jewish families; moving to Wannsee at age eleven; her family's anti-Hitler sentiments; her father's death in 1933; her only Jewish classmate's emigration to England; attending the 1936 Olympics; her mother's death; working as a hospital nurse; and dismay when her friend (her guardian's daughter) was pleased by the Kristallnacht destruction. Mrs. H. recounts a former mental hospital where the patients disappeared; rumors of their suspicious deaths; marriage in 1941...

  19. Musya V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Musya V., who was born in Brat?s?lav, Ukraine in 1927. She recalls finishing seventh grade; German invasion; Romanians organizing local police; the murder of Jewish hostages and others at the Bug River; ghettoization; forced labor; arrival of Jews from Bukovina and Bessarabia; shootings of many during transfer to Pechora; transfer to a camp in Brat?s?lav; escaping with aid from a Russian girl; the girl's father hiding her (he helped many Jews); her parents hiding nearby; being caught while visiting them; their incarceration in Pechora; and liberation by Soviet troops....

  20. Aaron S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aaron S., who was born in De?blin, Poland in 1921. He recalls his family's relative affluence; attending public school and cheder; pervasive antisemitism; German invasion; fleeing with his family to Ryki, then a village; returning to De?blin; ghettoization; forced labor at the airport; moving into the adjacent work camp with his brother; deportation of two uncles and an aunt (he never saw them again); the arrival of Slovak Jews; arranging for his parents and sister to join him; his father's death from a beating in November 1942; the role of prisoners in running the ca...