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<div>Gabriel/ Gustave Gross and his wife Ernestine Gross (nee Hornbein, b. 1882) had three children, Maximilian (1907), Viktor (1908) and Rudolfine/ Rudolfa (1911). They were born in Andrychow in Austria-Hungary (nowadays Poland). It is not clear what happened to the family during and after the First World War but Max became a Czechoslovak citizen in 1934. His mother obtained Czechoslovak citizenship ...

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Contatins a death certificate issued on November 2, 1942 stating that Rosa Goldmann, transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp on October 7, 1942 with transport "Ae/677," perished in Thereisenstadt on November 2, 1942. On the reverse is a note written in English to "American Censor" stating that the writer has been in concentration camp and this is the first time they can write. It is unsigned, ...

Charlotte Helena Cohen (Lotte Salus) was born on January 31, 1920, in Weseke, Germany. Her father, Willie, was a tailor. Her mother, Elsa, was his second wife. Willie was liberal in his religious beliefs, but Elsa was from an Orthodox background. Lotte had eight siblings, she was the fourth youngest: Herman, who was in the US, Ruth, Frieda, Erma, Leo, born 1925, Hermann, Julien, and Adiet. In 1922, ...

Gina Rappaport (later Leitersdorf, 1921-2012) was living with her family in Kraków, Poland, when Germany invaded in September 1939. Gina and her family continued living in Kraków for some time under Nazi occupation before fleeing to Tarnów, Poland, where they continued to live under German occupation in the Tarnów ghetto, suffering under the Nazi actions which took place in the summer of 1941. Gina ...

Memoirs of a Jew, born as Henriette Dwinger (1918-2006) in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands; chs. 3-6 (pp. 53-127) relate her experiences in the Holocaust. Shandler was in Amsterdam when the country was occupied by the Germans in May 1940. She gave birth to a daughter that year, shortly before her German Jewish boyfriend was deported and killed. In 1942 she married Ernst Bollegraaf; her parents, as well ...

Independence from colonial rule did not usher in the halcyon days many North Africans had hoped for, as the new governments in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria soon came to rely on repression to reinforce and maintain power. In response to widespread human rights abuses, individuals across the Maghrib began to form groups in the late 1970s to challenge the political practices and structures in the region, ...

Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Piroska Schwartzova [donor] born in 1924 Negrovo, Czechoslovakia (present day Ukraine) and moved to Belgium in July 1938, but was unable to return to Negrovo; materials include identification cards for Piroska in Belgium and later, Southern France, where she was forced to flee in an effort to escape Nazism. Also included are postcards and ...

The fonds contains material from just two months of activity of the office, but it contains valuable data concerning the start of the Nazi occupation of the Vsetín area, inter alia Reports of the District Office in Valašské Meziříčí, lists of municipalities, Jews, Germans and associations (1939).