The collection consists of a Girl Scout pin and sash, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Hendel and Weissman families in Yugoslavia before the Holocaust and as refugees in Croatia, Italy, and Fort Ontario, New York during and after the Holocaust.

Recipe book written in Theresienstadt concentration camp by Frederick and Fannie Schläfrig [donor's grandparents] who were deported from Austria and liberated in Theresienstadt. Photographs surrounding WWII and identification card for their daughter Marie [donor's mother] who fled to the UK. Letter from David Boder at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago to Mary Frotten in Windsor, Ontario; ...

Testimony, 20 pages, typescript, written by Jerry Tepperman, of Thornhill, Ontario, Canada, in which he researches and reconstructs the experiences of his father, Leib Tepperman, who died when Jerry was 16 and never spoke about his Holocaust experiences. The elder Tepperman survived the Łódź ghetto, but the documentation compiled by his son focuses on his time at Dachau and Kaufering in 1944-1945. ...

Silvio Finci describes his family's experiences in Yugoslavia, specifically, the family's running away from a small village near Sarajevo to the city of Mostar; how they survived during the Nazi occupation; their escape to Italy; and how they immigrated to Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York and rebuilt their lives in the United States after 1941.

The Henny Haas papers consist of a passport and travel pass for stateless persons issued in Italy to Henny Haas and her parents, Oscar and Mania Notowicz; a permit to stay in Italy issued to Oscar Notowicz; an exiles identification card issued to Oscar Notowicz by the Allied Military Govt.; and a permanent identification card issued by the U.S. War Relocation Authority to Oscar Notowicz as a resident ...

Henry Weingluck was born in Zawiercie, Poland, in 1903. He was an artist (painter), often depicted Jewish themes; pupil of Max Lieberman; exhibited in Paris with Kandinsky and Chagall; exhibited in Art Gallery of Ontario and Jewish Museum, Berlin. Lived in France 1933-1942; imprisoned in eight concentration camps 1942-1945; later settled in Canada. He died in Toronto in 1987.

The interviews document the stories of some of the 982 Holocaust survivors, from 18 countries, whom were interned at the Fort Ontario Army Camp in Oswego, NY for 18 months from August 1944 to December 1946.

Ilse M. Thompson was born in Berlin, Germany, ca. 1924. She received sponsorship from the Society of Friends and was able to leave Germany on one of several childrens' transports before the Holocaust began. She arrived in England in Apr 1939. Thompson presently resides in Maple, Ontario, Canada.

The Steffi Steinberg Winters papers consist of newspaper clippings related to Jewish refugees at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York; compositions written by Steffi Steinberg (later Winters) during her time at Oswego High School; and two photographs of Jewish refugees at Oswego High School. The poem included in the collection was composed by Steffi Steinberg on the occasion of the resignation of Fort ...

Consists of materials related to the wartime experiences of the Flatau family, who escaped from Germany to Italy in 1940 living first in the Ferramonte camp and then in Rome, Italy. In 1944, they came to the United States as part of a refugee group living at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York. Includes a 1941 certificate of good citizenship, baptismal certificates and identity cards for Dr. Ernest Flatau ...

Copyright Holder: Mr. Ernst Breuer

Gisela Nathan: correspondence

Describes the experiences of ten Holocaust survivors who settled in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Includes accounts of survivors who: survived Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen, the Warsaw Ghetto, Płaszów, Buchenwald, Terezin (a.k.a. Theresienstadt) Hungarian labor battalions, work camps in Silesia, and Aktionen; worked in factories where V-2 rockets and/or German ordnance was assembled; passed as ...

Collection of documents, photographs, and correspondence relating to Dorrit Wasservogel Wellerson (donor’s late wife), born in Vienna, Austria in 1923, and her parents Marcel and Klara Wasservogel. The Wasservogel family left Austria on August 20, 1939 for India. On September 1, 1939 the war broke out and they were trapped in Naples, Italy not being able to proceed. They later moved to Rome, but in ...

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 ...

The collection primarily documents the immigration experiences of the Deutscher family as they fled Vienna, Austria after its annexation by Germany in 1938. Biographical materials include birth, marriage, and death certificates; identification papers; and a small amount of restitution papers. The immigration papers include Efraim and Beile Deutscher’s documentation from Italy, and Erwin and Henia Deutscher’s ...