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  1. Salomon and Fried Hess: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Salomon and Frieda Hess who emigrated to South Africa in 1939 whilst their disabled son Alfred Hess stayed behind at a psychiatric hospital until he was deported in 1942.Personal papers Including correspondence with the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich's Association of Jews in Germany) regarding legal guardianship and payment of maintenance costs for Alfred Hess as well as the management of their financial assets in preparations for emigration. Also included are papers relating to a restitution claim by Salomon and Frieda Hess.

  2. Salomon and Jenny Blum collection

    Documents, photographs, purse and ring illustrating the experiences of Salomon Blum and Jadzia Chaba who married during the war in and around Poland and Germany, and in Bergen Belsen and Malmo, Sweden post-war, and their daughter Nata who was born following the war.

  3. Salomon Berenholc papers

    The Salomon Berenholc papers concern Salomon Berenholc, a young French Jew who was arrested with his family after fleeing France and illegally crossing the border into Spain in 1942. After a brief internment in a Spanish prison, the family was released and ultimately immigrated to the United States in 1943 by way of Lisbon, Portugal. These papers are comprised of a diary Salomon kept during his efforts to flee France between 1942 and 1943 and documents from the post-war era regarding his and his brother, Victor’s education. The diary details their journey and the conditions of Salomon's cel...

  4. Salomon Buchenholz. Collection

    This collection contains: four post-war photos of the site of the Organisation Todt labour camp Dannes ; nine drawings of life at the Organisation Todt labour camp Dannes created by Salomon Buchenholz ; a document from 1946 regarding Salomon Buchenholz changing his surname to Buquenne ; a newspaper clipping published in Le Soir regarding the Organisation Todt labour camps Dannes and Camiers

  5. Salomon family collection

    Photographs illustrating pre-war and post-war life of Alexander Salomon, born in Satu-Mare, Romania and his wife Amalia (nee Rosenbaum) born in Tiszaferegy Haza, in what is today Czech Republic, and their children Michael, Morris and Elizabeth born between 1939-1941 in Satu-Mare, Romania. The family remained in Satu-Mare in hiding during the Holocaust and lived in Bindermichl and Ebelsberg displaced persons camps in Linz, Austria after the war. Materials also include oral and written testimonies that discuss the experiences of the Salomon family and their family friend Livia Szabo.

  6. Salomon family papers

    The Salomon family papers consists of correspondence and emigration and immigration files documenting Hermann, Edith, and Brigitte Salomon’s unsuccessful efforts to immigrate to the United States from Berlin. The collection also includes correspondence from Marianne Adler, Hermann and Edith’s daughter, and Elsbeth Stern, Hermann’s sister, documenting their efforts to bring their family to the Unites States. Salomon family correspondence includes wartime letters among Hermann, Edith, and Brigitte Salomon to Marianne Adler and Elsbeth Stern about Hermann, Edith, and Brigitte’s efforts to immi...

  7. Salomon Garfinkel collection

    Contains letters and photographs concerning a family in Poland who wrote to their brother Solomon (Sam) Garfinkel in the United States. Letters dated 1940s.

  8. Salomon Goldschlager. Collection

    This collection contains pictures of Salomon and Menachem Goldschlager, Liliane Mandelbaum and Josef Hermann Hurtig.

  9. Salomon K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salomon K., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1926, one of four children. He recounts a happy childhood; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Birkenau; an older man compelling him to separate from his family; pointless slave labor moving stones; volunteering as a machinist; a privileged position as a mason; a French-Jewish prisoner helping him; remaining with him throughout his experience, to which he attributes his survival; seeing two of his sisters from a distance; transfer three months later to Warsaw; clearing rubble; improved foo...

  10. Salomon M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salomon M., who was born in Kozienice, Poland in 1925. He describes his very observant religious life; arrival of the Germans in 1939; anti-Jewish laws and forced labor; formation of the ghetto in 1940; volunteering for deportation in place of his sick brother; digging bunkers near Radom; a selection and mass killing from which he narrowly escaped; transfer to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; the horrendous conditions and his struggle to survive; transfer in 1944 to Cze?stochowa; transfer to Buchenwald; the refusal of his transport to enter the showers for fear it was a gas chamb...

  11. Salomon Pfeffer papers

    The Salomon Pfeffer papers consists of a Military Government Residence Certificate for Salomon Pfeffer, dated August 7, 1945; an image of Salomon Pfeffer taken in fromt of the Landsberg hospital in 1949; and 1 roll of negatives of an unidentified concentration camp taken by Salomon Pfeffer.

  12. Salomon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salomon R., who was born in Bodrogkeresztu?r, Hungary in 1913, one of nine children. He recalls his family's comfortable, orthodox life; attending yeshiva in Miskolc; working in his father's lumber business; his father's decision to join his fellow Jews in the Sa?toralja?ujhely ghetto despite his exemption as a decorated veteran; joining his family after he and his brother failed to find a hiding place; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with two brothers (he never saw his father again); their transfer to Schotterwerk; with his brother, becoming adjutant to the Komma...

  13. Salomon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salomon R., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1925, one of three children of Polish émigrés. He recounts his father's death in 1933; attending public school and weekly Yiddish lessons; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; increasing antisemitism by right-wing extremists; housing German-Jewish refugees; German invasion in May 1940; registering as Jews when required to do so; recruitment by his brother-in-law to the Resistance at age fifteen; obtaining false papers; assignments delivering underground newspapers and smuggling people to northern France via Kortrijk (C...

  14. Salomon Rubenstein collection

    Memoir, essays, and poem in Yiddish by Salomon Rubinstein.

  15. Salomon Schmidt diary

    Consists of copies of an original diary written by Salomon Schmidt, who survived the war in hiding in Markuszowa, Poland. Mr. Schmidt was a member of the Judenrat in Frysztak, Poland. Includes English language translations of portions of the original diary, which is deposited at Yad Vashem.

  16. Salomon Slowes collection

    The collection consists of military insignia, sketches, correspondence, documents, pamphlets, photographs, and photographic negatives relating to the experiences of Dr. Salomon Slowes, a veteran of the Polish Army of the East and the Second Polish Corps, British Army, before, during, and after World War II.

  17. Salomon Strauss-Marko collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: a dog tag, a nightstick, a pair of brass knuckles, and a bootjack, correspondence, documents, a manuscript, and photographs relating to Salomon Strauss-Marko, originally from Warek, Poland, during the Holocaust when he lived under a false identity as a Ukrainian while imprisoned in a prisoner of war camp in Germany and in concentration/labor camps in Austria.

  18. Salomon W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salomon W., who was born in Pu?tusk, Poland in 1930. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; the deaths of younger siblings; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw with his family; trying to return to Pu?tusk; learning en route that all Jews had been expelled to the Soviet zone; staying with a cousin in Ciechano?w; German book burnings; smuggling themselves to Bia?ystok in the Soviet zone; attending Yiddish school; deportation to a refugee camp near Arkhangel?sk; attending school while his parents worked; moving briefly to Novosibirsk in mid-1941; living in Shymkent and Lenger...

  19. Salomon Windmuller collection

    The Salomon Windmuller papers document Windmuller’s life in Germany, internment in France, and immigration to the United States and consist of a school certificate, World War I commendation, Reichsbund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten membership card, American immigration quota number, tax office clearance certificate, internment camp release certificate, transit pass, request for leave from the Gurs concentration camp, and an identification card renewal receipt as well as photocopies of a safe passage certificate, of a letter from the American Consulate in Marseille, and of a telegram confirming th...

  20. Salomon-de Winter family papers

    The papers consist of documents, photographs, transcripts, newspapers, and a booklet concerning the experiences of the Salomon and de Winter families during the Holocaust. Included in the papers are post-World War II photographs of the Salomon family, a false identification card issued to Curt Salomon under the alias "Hendrik Piersma," and a false identification card issued to a family friend, Eva de Friese, under the alias "Johanna Huften." Also in the papers are photographs of the de Winter family before and after World War II, a document issued to Judik de-Winter after her liberation fro...