Memoir of Amalia Boe-Fishman, produced as part of the Writing Lives project (2016–2017) with the recording, transcribing and editing assistance of Mihailo Simeon Zekic, Emily Clint and Long Li.

Memoir of Louise Sorensen-Stein, produced as part of the Writing Lives project (2017–2018) with the recording, transcribing and editing assistance of Morgan Szakacs, Ann Thomas and Gwyn Day.

"Rhodea Shandler gives a Jewish woman's view of life in Holland before and after the Nazis invaded in May 1940. Once family members and friends began to disappear into the camps, Shandler and her husband went into hiding on a farm in the countryside. Becoming pregnant, Shandler gave birth and cared for her infant in primitive conditions until, for the safety of all concerned, she was forced to place ...

"This book is about certain events in WW II, written by the daughter of a Dutch couple who served in the underground, fighting against the Nazi regime in occupied Holland. The author has written the story of her parents whose underground engagement consisted of resisting the German Wehrmacht in every possible way: Too by hiding Jews, handing out illegal ID cards, and sabotaging trains and canal boats ...

"The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland during World War II, who hides from the Nazis in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author’s grandparents. Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: a young Jewish girl named Lientje had been taken in during ...

Group photograph of nurses in uniform, including Amalia’s mother, Johanna.

Item is a letter from Johanna van Kreveld de Leeuw, mother of Amalia Boe-Fishman, to Amalia’s foster family about the health and care of her daughter while she hides with them in their home.

When the Frank family and others are found and arrested during the Second World War, Miep Gies hides young Anne's papers from the Nazis and later is instrumental in having her beloved friend's diary published.

Mouschi the cat relates the experiences of Anne Frank and seven other people who hid from Nazis in a secret annex over a factory in Amsterdam during the Holocaust. Includes facts about the Holocaust and about Anne Frank.

"This film depicts the story of central-European Jewry during the Holocaust era, as experienced by two sisters: Franny Rozelaar and Betty Meir ( née Ichenh ä user), born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Following the Nazi rise to power in 1933, and with the growing anti-Jewish measures in Nazi Germany, Fanny, born in 1919, was ejected from her school. The family left Germany, settling in Amsterdam, Netherlands. ...

"In Germany and occupied Austria, people with disabilities were the first to fall victim to National Socialist mass murder, propagated under the euphemistic term of 'euthanasia.' For racist and economic reasons they were deemed unfit to live. The means and methods used in these crimes were applied later during the Holocaust—perpetrators of these first murders became experts in the death camps of the ...

" Robbing the Jews reveals the mechanisms by which the Nazis and their allies confiscated Jewish property, demonstrating the close relationship between robbery and the Holocaust. The spoliation evolved in intensifying steps. The Anschluss and Kristallnacht in 1938 reveal a dynamic tension between pressure from below and state-directed measures. In Western Europe the economic persecution of the Jews ...

"The aim of this symposium [ Confiscation of Jewish Property in Europe, 1933–1945: New Sources and Perspectives , held March 22, 2001] was to develop a more in-depth understanding of the mechanisms and effects of the confiscation of Jewish property throughout Nazi-dominated Europe... These papers highlight a number of key aspects of the confiscation process. They focus on the seizure of private property ...

This book was given to Amalia Boe-Fishman in 1946 on the occasion of her 7th birthday by her foster parents (Vader & Moeder Spiekhout). Amalia returned to her parents and two brothers in June 1945, so this gift was given to her one year after her return home. The book includes an inscription to Amalia from "Vader en Moeder Spiekhout."

"This is the remarkable story of a tiny Torah, the heroism of three men, and the faith of an entire people. The Torah, smuggled into the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by a Dutch rabbi, is given to a 13-year-old boy during a secret Bar Mitzvah in the camp's barracks. Knowing he would not survive, the rabbi entrusts the Torah to the boy for safekeeping, asking only that he tell its story. The boy ...

"The real-life puzzle of what happened to the generation of Jewish children who survived the Holocaust in hiding, Edgar Award-winning mystery novelist R. D. Rosen tells this silent, forgotten generation's story through the lives of three girls hidden in three different countries — among the less than 10 percent of Jewish children in Europe to survive World War II — who went on to lead remarkable lives ...

Anne Frank: A Legacy for Our Time offers a video presentation in two parts: The Story of Anne Frank and The Lesson of Anne Frank . The first part recounts the events in the life of Anne Frank, describing how Jews and other groups were treated by the Nazis. The second part explains why it is important to reject and fight all forms of discrimination.

Describes the experiences of Jews in Germany and other European countries during the twelve years of the Third Reich when more than six million of their number were systematically destroyed.

Item is a photographic print depicting Sarah Rozenberg-Warm looking at an item on display in the Amsterdam Museum.

"This publication lists the names of 4,500 Jewish communities which were destroyed in the Holocaust. They are recorded according to the geographical boundaries of 1938, before the territorial changes which were caused by the expansion of Nazi Germany. Included in this book are the names of the settlements in which the number of Jews exceeded several dozen, and in which there were Jewish communal services ...