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The collection includes biographical material, restitution files, and photographs primarily documenting Jacob and Rita Litman’s experiences at the displaced persons camp at Bayerisch Gmain, Germany, from 1946 to 1949, their immigration to the United States, and efforts to obtain restitutions as well as extensive post-war correspondence from Tadeusz Jankiewicz, who helped Jacob escape, and other Poles ...

P.24 - Dov Levin Collection - Partisan and Holocaust researcher
 
 Dov Levin was born in Kaunas, Lithuania on 27 January 1925. His parents were Zvi Hirsh Levin and Bluma (Vigoder) Levin. Dov Levin died in Jerusalem on 03 December 2016. He received a Zionist education, and was fluent in Slavic languages, Lithuanian, English and Hebrew.
 
 Levin studied at the "Schwab" Hebrew high ...

The first days of September 1939, Warsaw, Poland under siege: MCU of German soldiers who are prisoners of the Poles, talking, smoking, cutting one cuts another's hair. It is believed that the soldier who is seated in the shot is a German Jewish soldier, according to Julien Bryan's accounts of this footage. This is NOT a confirmed fact. VS of destruction; people climbing over rubble, looking for their ...

1 Reichsmark coupon issued at Buchenwald concentration camp acquired by Rudolph Cohen when he served in the US Army from 1943-1946. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] ...

The Schiffer family visits Mohács, Erzsébet’s hometown on the Danube, in summer 1932. (00:16) Adults and children in bathing suits. They swim in a wooden structure moored to the shore of the Danube. János and his mother, Erzsébet Schiffer. (01:29) János and his cousins play in Klári and János Molnar’s yard with a toy stroller and ball. (01:53) Nurse-maid (brief). The children play outdoors. (02:42) ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00122 at Kazerne Dossin

Ellis and her brother Abraham pose in front of blooming tree, probably in Scheveningen in 1938. Deer grazing at a park in the Hague. David with Ellis and Marian Viskoop, a family friend later killed at Sobibor. 01:10:33 A pier close to the family home on Maastrichtsestraat in Scheveningen, "SCH" on the boats. 01:10:37 Good shots of David, Abraham, and Ellis walking hand-in-hand in town. Clock and illegible ...

Yaakov Yovel (born Jakob Volovelski) is the son of to Israel Baruch Volovelski (b. 1884, Drahichyn) and Tzippora Faygel Abramovitch (b. 1886. Pruzhany). He was born in Pruzhany, Poland on December 10, 1924 and had five older siblings: Genya (b. 1909), Sheinche (b. 1911), Sara (b. 1913), Moshe (b. 1915) and Eliyahu (b. 1917). When Jakob was young, the family moved to Zelva where his father operated ...

Abba Kovner lived in disguise in a convent at the beginning of the German occupation in 1941. He was a central figure in the Zionist youth resistance movement in Vilna. He commanded an underground partisan resistance group throughout the war. He describes the way the Germans avoided panic among the Jews. Kovner maintains a poetic approach to Lanzmann's questions throughout the interview. This interview ...

Shmuel Rahamin Mizrahi was born in 1920, in the Macedonian region of Yugoslavia. His parents were Rahamin and Rena, and Shmuel had four brothers and sisters. As a young man, Shmuel was active with the communist party and Hashomer Hatzair, a Zionist youth movement that taught Jews skills such as farming and other types of work that would be useful when Jews resettled Israel. On April 6, 1941, Germany ...