Consists of one memoir, 207 pages, entitled "Memory: The Story of an Obsession" by Gaston Schmir, written in 1992. The memoir, which includes extensive footnotes, family stories, and family tree information, contains information about Mr. Schmir's experiences as a child in wartime France. He and his sister Louise hid in various situations in Angoulême, Montbron, Breve, Grenoble, and Thônes, France. ...

In most cases, copyright to the manuscript material in the collection is held by the Science History Institute. This includes all manuscript material created by Georg and Max Bredig, but not necessarily the incoming correspondence retained by these individuals. Copyright for any specific item should be determined on an individual basis as the collection contains an assortment of material still under ...

Alfred Bader was born April 28, 1924, in Vienna Austria. His father's family was of Czech Jewish descent, while his mother was a Catholic Hungarian aristocrat. Escaping Nazi persecution, he fled from Austria to England at age 14 in 1938 via the Kindertransport. He arrived in Canada as an interned refugee during WWII. Denied admission at McGill University, Alfred Bader went on to attend Queen's University ...

Consists of selected records from the institutional archive of Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG, commonly known as IG Farben, a German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate. Records pertain to slave labor at the IG Farben complex at Auschwitz, as well as forced labor throughout the IG Farben complex (such as the arms production and the mining industry such as the Riebek'sche Montanwerke ...

1. Auflage. x, 731 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm

Copyright Holder: Ms. Manuela Paul

Records of the Central Board of Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit (IDO): correspondence, lists of employees of the Institute, financial books and others; records of IDO branches in L’viv and Warsaw; records of various IDO sections: Prehistory, History, Art History, Law and Administration, Touring and Descriptive Geography, Anthropology, Ethnography and Race, Farms and Statistics, Forestry, Chemistry; ...

Copyright Holder: Professor Fabian Gerson

Primo Levi was born on July 31, 1919 in Turin, Italy, son of Cesare Levi and Ester Luzzati Levi. His sister Anna Maria was born in 1921. As a child, Levi had a basic Jewish religious education, and was Bar Mitzvahed at age 13. He became passionate about chemistry at age 14, focusing his high school studies on science. In October 1937, he enrolled as a chemistry student at the University of Turin, graduating ...

Consists of one memoir, 660 pages, untitled, by Joseph Winkler, originally born in Sambor, Galicia, in 1903. The memoir was dictated in August 1974 and transcribed. In his memoir, Mr. Winkler describes his childhood, life under Russian occupation during World War I, and seeing his town become Polish territory. He got a job at a petroleum refinery in Drohobycz in 1927, received his doctorate in chemistry, ...

The Margaret Klein Goetz family correspondence consists primarily of letters, telegrams, and postcards to Margaret Klein from her parents and sister in Heidelberg and then Gurs, Les Milles, Nexon, and Masseube. The correspondence documents the family’s efforts to immigrate to the United States, money and parcels received by the family members in the camps through Quaker and Swiss relief agencies and ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-44). 56 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Frederick (Jerzy) Bitter was born on April 4, 1941, in Lvov, Poland [Lviv, Ukraine)]. His mother, Cecylia, a vocational school administrator, was born on July 31, 1912, in Przemyśl, Poland. His father, Marek Bitter, an electrician, was born on April 4, 1941. Though Jewish, the family was not religious, and adhered to Communist and Socialist ideals. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Cecylia ...

[1.] Background and migration: Anti-intellectualism and the cultural decapitation of Germany under the Nazis / Alan Beyerchen -- The movement of people in a time of crisis / Herbert A. Strauss -- American refugee policy in historical perspective / Roger Daniels -- "Wanted by the Gestapo: saved by America" -Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee / Cynthia Jaffee McCabe -- [2.] The muses in America: ...

Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war correspondence sent to and from Julius Sommer of Frankfurt, Germany, as well as Sommer's own wartime reflections of his own experiences. Includes letters written to his son Richard in the United States and son Alfred in London, his reflections on the British consular officer, Smallbones, who assisted Jews in Frankfurt in the wake of Kristallnacht, including ...

Peter Ofner was born in 1923 in Berlin, Germany, to Curt (Kurt) and Betzi (nee Leon) Ofner. Curt was a veteran of the German Army in World War and worked as a high school teacher at one of Berlin's oldest municipal schools. In 1935, he was forced to resign and took a position of Holdheim high school, established for Jewish students. On Kristallnacht, Curt was arrested and spent a month in Sachsenhausen. ...

The collection consists of four photographs taken by the Red Cross at Bergen-Belsen at the time of liberation, one photograph of a memorial at Bergen Belsen, and one photograph of Dr. Erich Cohn testifying at the trial of Dr. Fischer.

Pair of black, leather mid-calf boots worn by Alice (Ala) Brand while she was a prisoner at several concentration camps from December 1944 until April 1945. The boots were purchased for Alice by her husband, Samuel, who was working with a special science unit at Płaszów labor camp in German-occupied Poland. Samuel was escorted to and from work by two guards, and he was able to bribe them into taking ...

The Pető family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, a personal narrative, photographs, property records, a newspaper, and a ticket documenting Judith Pető Leiber and her family, her early career in handbag design, her uncle’s experiences as a refugee in Nice, her family’s survival in Budapest, the confiscation or loss of her relatives’ property, and efforts to recuperate it. Biographical ...

Willem Wouthuijsen was born in Amsterdam on 16 April 1888 and became a diamond cutter. In 1912 he married Ester Ricardo, born in Amsterdam on 8 August 1887. The couple had three children : Louis David, born on 9 December 1913 in Amsterdam (passed away on 11 July 1916), Siegfried Adolf, born on 17 August 1916 in Amsterdam, and Elisabeth, born on 13 April 1918 in Amsterdam. In 1931 the family migrated ...

<p>The Strauss and Sterzelbach families came from Weiden, Bavaria, where Immanuel Strauss, grandfather of the depositor, was teacher, rabbi and shochet of the Jewish community. He was &nbsp;a teacher at the small Jewish school in Weiden for many years.</p><p>Kossy Strauss, the second of six children of Immanuel strauss, attended high school in Karlsruhe and then studied chemistry and metallurgy in ...

<div>Kurt Wilhelm Weinberg was born on 23 July 1924. He grew up in the small town of Werther near Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. His father, Julius Weinberg (1887-1965), owned a tobacco factory, which Kurt's great-grandfather founded in 1877. The factory was based at Haus Werther "dem Schloss," where the Weinberg family used to live as well. The business was very successful and had 300 ...

The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Ernst Bürgin from the historian Dr. Florian Schmaltz in March 2007. Ernst Bürgin was born in Wyhlen on July 31, 1885. After attending school in Basel, he studied chemistry and electrochemistry there and in Berlin. In 1911, he earned his doctorate. Subsequently and only interrupted by his deployment in World War I, he worked as a chemist for various ...

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