<p>Franziska Willer née Manasse (1903-1999) came from an assimilated Jewish family in which her father was not observant and mother had converted to Protestantism. Her father, Paul Manasse, was a distinguished Professor of medicine in Strassburg. </p><p>Franziska and her four siblings had all been christened and confirmed into the Protestant Church but were not religious. She married Johannes David ...

In 1939, fashion became an economic and symbolic sphere of great importance in France. Invasive textile legislation, rationing and threats from German and American couturiers were pushing the design and trade of Parisian style to its limits. It is widely accepted that French fashion was severely curtailed as a result, isolated from former foreign clients and deposed of its crown as global queen of ...

The papers in this collection are evidence of the literary and artistic talents of Peter Kien, a young Czech Jewish artist and writer and inmate of Theresienstadt who was later murdered at Auschwitz.<br /><div><br /></div><div>The collection was begun in the mid 1980s on the initiative of Käthe Fischel, a cousin of Peter Kien, and consists of a number of separate deposits from different sources all ...

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Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. MLS, and MS, prisoners as verdict against Hans Frank is read. Frank is guilty under counts three and four [screen goes black for a few seconds]. There is a dispute with Himmler mentioned about the type of legal system in Germany. Shots of defendants as French Justice speaks about Wilhelm Frick (in French). Frick is guilty under ...

Jerzy Sieraczek (Jerome Sears) (b. 1936) was born in Warsaw, Poland to Henryk Sieraczek (1903-1982) and Leokadia Eizenberg. After the German invasion of Warsaw and the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto Henryk worked in the textile factory. In 1941 Leokadia was captured in a raid and taken to a concentration camp. In 1942, Henryk arranged for Jerzy to escape from the ghetto and live with the Bonczak’s ...

The collection related to the life of Abrasza Feldman during the time of the Holocaust and includes certificates, letters, photographs, and medical reports.

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

Werner Goldsmith was born in Erfurt, Germany, on Nov. 13, 1928. Werner's father, a textile salesman, died in 1938, and Werner and his mother moved to Berlin, Germany. Werner's mother placed him in the Auerbach orphanage for safety while she lived with another Jewish woman in West Berlin. Werner's mother arranged for him to be placed on a transport to France, and she, as a widow, was able to travel ...

The papers consist of documents and letters relating the experiences of Marc Ratner after World War II. Includes a letter of recommendation for Marc Ratner from the Provisional Engineering team in Ebensee, Austria; a certificate from the Cham Jewish transient camp for Gustava, Marijan, and Alicia Ratner; a transit visa for Venezuela from the Central Committee for Liberated Jews for Alicja [donor's ...

<div>Heinz Ludwig Süssmann was born into a Jewish family in Breslau (Wrocław) on 24 October 1911 son of Alexander Süssmann, who had apparently died while Heinz was still young, and Rosalie Süssmann née Landsberger. After attending &nbsp;Realgymnasium in Breslau he later completed a business studies apprenticeship at a textile firm in the city where he learnt all aspects of the business specialising ...

The collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs depicting the Szarfharc family in Lodz, Poland. The photographs depict Dawid Szarfharc, his wife, Tola, and their daughter Rojza Szarfharc, Ewa Szarfharc, Roza, Celina, and Dorota Szarfharc, and Felek Tobiasz.

Nacha Frankel (later Nacha Krieger, 1919-1999) was born in Łódź, Poland. Her father was in the textiles business, and she had 9 brothers and sisters, including her brother Shlomo Frankel (later Shlomo Frank; 1902-1966). During the war, she was in the Łódź ghetto until it was liquidated in June 1944. She was then sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. When Auschwitz was liquidated in January 1945, she ...

Collection of the Niederlandische Aktiengesellschaft für Abwicklung von Unternehmungen, NAGU in the Netherlands, 1941-1944&#x0D; &#x0D; The Niederlandische Aktiengesellschaft für Abwicklung von Unternehmungen, NAGU was established by the Germans as a company for the handling of Jewish businesses, in accordance with the law in the Netherlands; the NAGU was, in actual fact, a body that served as a middleman ...

"Gorgeous War argues that the Nazis used the swastika as part of a visually sophisticated propaganda program that was not only modernist but also the forerunner of contemporary brand identity. When the United States military tried to answer Nazi displays of graphic power, it failed. In the end the best graphic response to the Nazis was produced by the Walt Disney Company. Using numerous examples of ...

Collection of Besonderen Verwendung, the Gewerbliche Wirtschaft Department for Special Cases for the Administration of Industry in the Netherlands, 1941-1945&#x0D; &#x0D; The Gewerbliche Wirtschaft - GeWi department, under the administration of Schmidt, was subordinate on one hand to the Rüstungsinspektion, the military body responsible for the handling of matters of industry in the Netherlands, and ...

<p>This collection contains the papers of Johannes Kohl, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who emigrated to the UK via Holland in 1939.</p><p>Personal papers including his membership card of the Austrian Centre in London; an information guide for Jewish refugees in England and press cutting from the Kleine Volkszeitung (5 May 1938) regarding the execution of a Jewish criminal in Paris.<br /></p>

The John Bogdan papers consist of identification documents, passports, and about biographical documents about the life and career of John Bogdan (born Iancu Berman), originally of Bucharest, Romania. The collection includes certificates documenting Bogdan’s work as a Jewish forced laborer for the Romanian National Railway during the regime of Ion Antonescu from 1941-1944, his post-war career working ...

The collection consists of photographs documenting Stella Yollin's (born Salutka Lewinski) family in Łódź, Poland.

INTs, the family sits on a couch, drinking coffee. Lion sculpture, female tour-guide. The mates hold hands around a large tree (dark). They visit historic places, gardens, churches in Kolín. Scenic views of a river. Church. Cute kittens. Downed trees. 01:02:19 An elderly man (Solomon) stands in the road, possibly in Czechoslovakia near the family factory in Jihlava. 01:02:23 Outside a hotel or resort ...

Walter Hausner (April 24, 1914-February 5, 2003) was a member of the Austrian amateur film society in Vienna. His father, Ferdinand (1883-1957) owned a firm for fabrics and fashion articles with factories in Vienna and Jihlava, Czechoslovakia with business partner Siegfried Furst. Walter’s mother, Wilhelmina Bloch, died from cancer in 1937. Walter and Ferdinand managed to leave Vienna together just ...

Correspondence, identification and citizenship documents, school report cards, letters of reference, photographs, and other items, that primarily document the lives of Irma Rothstern and her son Heinz, of Hamburg, Germany, during the 1910s to 1930s, and then following their forced emigration due to Nazi persecution, in Shanghai, China from 1939 to 1955. Included is a document about the citizenship ...

Bestandsbeschreibung 4. Mai 1902 in Barmen-Wuppertal geboren 1919 Mitglied der Freien Sozialistischen Jugend, dann des KJVD, und des Deutschen Bekleidungsarbeiter-Verbandes ab 1919 verschiedene gewerkschaftliche Funktionen im Betrieb, u. a. als Vertreter der Jugend im Betriebsrat eines Konfektionsbetriebes 1920 Mitglied der IAH und der RHD 1922 Mitglied der KPD 1927 Mitglied des RFMB und der RGO 1928-1930 ...

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Elisabeth Bates (born Isabela Wolfowicz), originally of Gąbin, Poland. Documents include a false identification document used by Elisabeth to live under the name of Elzbieta Rybiecka in Warsaw, Poland, dated 21 April 1939; and an identification card belonging to Elisabeth’s grandfather, Icek Majer, circa 1939. Photographs consist of a photograph ...