Copyright Holder: Ms. Bonnie Cruz

Collectie Ravenstein met Herpen, Demen en Langel, Dieden, Huisseling en Neerloon, 1625-2004 > Vereniging Coöperatieve Boterij Concordia te Dieden, 1909-1917 > Notulen van de algemene en bestuursvergaderingen van de Vereniging, 1909-1917

Copyright Holder: Mr. Edward Strong

This collection includes records and frontline images of Richard Dannemann's service, family life in the interbellum years; of Ulrich's adolescence and intellectual life in the German-Jewish emigré community in Brazil and matters pertaining to his orchestra string career and restitution proceedings after the war. 

80 percent of homosexuals sent to the notorious Nazi concentration camp died there - some finding love among the horror or saving the lives of others first. That's worth remembering this Holocaust Memorial Day.

Documents relating to the imprisonment of Ernst Tritsch in Dachau in 1938 following Kristallnacht.

Dawid Sierakowiak (1924-1943) was born on July 25, 1924 in Łódź, Poland to Majlech Sierakowiak (?-1942?), a cabinetmaker, and Sura Sierakowiak (?-1942?). He had one sister, Nadzia (?-1944). Dawid was a student in a private Jewish Gymnasium in Łódź, where he was on a scholarship. In 1939 they were forced into the Łódź ghetto. In August 1943 Dawid died in the Łódź ghetto of tuberculosis. His ...

Walter Rosenberger was a judge in the Berlin civil court from 1 October 1929 to 1 April 1933, when, along with other ‘non-aryan' judges he was relieved of his duties. He died in May 1980. His wife died in June 1987.

The Kibel and Pollaczek families collection consist of correspondence, identification documents, and immigration documents related to the Kibel family, originally of Vienna, Austria and the Pollaczek family, originally of Berlin, Germany. The correspondence is between Robert and Therese Kibel and their sons, Otto, Fritz, and Walter Kibel, who had escaped Austria in 1938. The correspondence begins in ...

Renate Collins was born in Czechoslovakia (b. 7 July 1933) to Hilde and Otto Heinz Kress[ova]. In 1939 Renate was sent by her mother to foster parents in Wales, the Copelstons. Hilde hoped to leave Czechoslovakia and reunite with her daughter, but was ultimately transported to Theresienstadt where she died. Otto Heinz Kress also died during the Holocaust, as did much of Renate’s immediate family. After ...

The collection consists of eight xerographic, typescript pages from the International Tracing Service, sent to Max Frank, of Riverdale, New York, following a request he had made in 1993 for information about his family members. Includes information about his sister, Marta Mayer (née Frank, 1908-1942), who was killed at Auschwitz; Frank's brother-in-law, Hermann Mayer (1897-1942), who like his wife ...

Collectie Ravenstein met Herpen, Demen en Langel, Dieden, Huisseling en Neerloon, 1625-2004 > Katholieke Bond "Voor het Gezin" afdeling Ravenstein, 1939 - 1953 > , 1951

Collectie Ravenstein met Herpen, Demen en Langel, Dieden, Huisseling en Neerloon, 1625-2004 > Katholieke Bond "Voor het Gezin" afdeling Ravenstein, 1939 - 1953 > , 1949

Collectie Ravenstein met Herpen, Demen en Langel, Dieden, Huisseling en Neerloon, 1625-2004 > Katholieke Bond "Voor het Gezin" afdeling Ravenstein, 1939 - 1953 > , 1941

Collectie Ravenstein met Herpen, Demen en Langel, Dieden, Huisseling en Neerloon, 1625-2004 > Katholieke Bond "Voor het Gezin" afdeling Ravenstein, 1939 - 1953 > , 1948

Collectie Ravenstein met Herpen, Demen en Langel, Dieden, Huisseling en Neerloon, 1625-2004 > Katholieke Bond "Voor het Gezin" afdeling Ravenstein, 1939 - 1953 > , 1952

Collectie Ravenstein met Herpen, Demen en Langel, Dieden, Huisseling en Neerloon, 1625-2004 > Katholieke Bond "Voor het Gezin" afdeling Ravenstein, 1939 - 1953 > , 1942

Brown leather dress shoes crafted by Noel Galicki in Sedan Kaserne displaced persons camp in Ulm, Germany, between 1946 and 1949. Noel was taught and certified as a shoemaker in the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT) vocational training program at the camp. Noel, 27, was a soldier in the Polish Army during the German invasion on September 1, 1939. Seventeen days later, the Soviet ...

Includes registers of names of the following Moers residents (p. 474-509): KPD and SPD members arrested 1933-1945, other persons persecuted by the Nazis, those who died under Nazi persecution, Jews who died in the Holocaust, bombing victims, and Nazis. 538 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

This collection of personal papers includes copy birth certificates, police registration documents, Jewish passport, British naturalisation certificate and restitution papers

Solly Border (born Solly Oisie, 1931-2013) was born on 13 March 1931 in Bucharest, Romania to Yancu and Feiga Border. He had sister, Ella. Solly and his family survived Nazi persecution in Romania during World War II. He studied chemical engineering at the Polytechnic University in Iași, Romania and graduated in 1957. He and his wife Rose and son Lee immigrated to the United States in 1971. Solly worked ...

Collectie Ravenstein met Herpen, Demen en Langel, Dieden, Huisseling en Neerloon, 1625-2004 > Katholieke Bond "Voor het Gezin" afdeling Ravenstein, 1939 - 1953 > , 1953

John Glazer (1914 -1985) was born Hans Gerson Glaser in Katscher, Silesia, the son of Louis Glaser (1864-1923) and his second wife, Olga Grunthal (1879 -1918). By the age of 9 both of his parents had died. After his father’s death, he moved to Berlin with his stepmother, and then moved to Breslau (Wroclaw) for High School (Heilige Geist Gymnasium). He began engineering studies, but they were disrupted ...

1937 trip to Gombin, Poland (123 km northwest of Warsaw) filmed by Sam Rafel at the request of Nathan Zolna Solomon, who had emigrated from Gombin to Newark NJ and provided Sam Rafel with the camera. The first shot is a grainy, dark interior shot of a crowd of people. This might be the crowd that assembled for Sam Rafel's 1937 visit. He wrote, "the affair took place in the Firemen's Hall, in the presence ...