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2001. A postcard sent by Jonas and Anka Leah Tenenbaum in the Warsaw ghetto to Anka's sister and daughter in Chicago.
in Chicago. The Polish text reads: "To my dear sister, brother-in-law and daughter. We are healthy ... Esther Sonheim (born Estera Tenenbaum) is the daughter of Anka Leah (Manczyk) and Jonas Tenenbaum
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2002. A postcard sent by Jonas and Anka Leah Tenenbaum in the Warsaw ghetto to Anka's sister and daughter in Chicago.
in Chicago. The Polish text reads: "To my dear sister, brother-in-law and daughter. We are healthy ... Esther Sonheim (born Estera Tenenbaum) is the daughter of Anka Leah (Manczyk) and Jonas Tenenbaum
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2003. Flight and Rescue
American ones, provided critical help. The refugees faced an uncertain future and worried endlessly about ... ,000 Polish Jewish refugees. Enduring the hardships of travel and restrictive immigration laws, they ... and south. Poorly equipped Polish troops were no match for the modernized German army and air force ... other Polish citizens fled eastward. But any hopes of escaping the violence of war and terror of
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2004. Group portrait of the students and teachers of the Jewish Volksschule (elementary school) in Utena.
Group portrait of the students and teachers of the Jewish Volksschule (elementary school) in Utena ... Libbey Sansanowicz (born Haviva Kaplan) is the only child of Eliezer and Chaya Gar Kaplan. She was ... Libbey Sansanowicz (born Haviva Kaplan) is the only child of Eliezer and Chaya Gar Kaplan. She was born
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2005. The engaged couple, Eliezer and Chaya Gar, eat at the Gar home in Kron.
The engaged couple, Eliezer and Chaya Gar, eat at the Gar home in Kron. Pictured from left to ... Libbey Sansanowicz (born Haviva Kaplan) is the only child of Eliezer and Chaya Gar Kaplan. She was ... Libbey Sansanowicz (born Haviva Kaplan) is the only child of Eliezer and Chaya Gar Kaplan. She was born
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2006. Exterior view of the ORT supply and transport building in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp.
persons. He served as a member of the board of directors of the American ORT Federation and the World ORT ... Exterior view of the ORT supply and transport building in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp ... David Rosenstein, the donor's father, was born in New York on July 18, 1895, and graduated from
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2007. Chinese and Jewish female employees work behind the counter of the Ponvey Department store in Tientsin.
United States in 1937, and studied economics at New York University. He was drafted into the American ... sang opera and studied medicine. Samuel did not complete his degree, but instead immigrated to the
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2008. Exterior view of the store and home of the Lifschitz family.
Exterior view of the store and home of the Lifschitz family. They family sold textiles on the ... ground floor and lived on the top floor. ... where her father wove and sold textiles. At the start of World War II, Avraham David was drafted into
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2009. The Blue Devil Newspaper [Newspaper]
The collection consists of signs, an armband, documents, and newspapers relating to the experiences ... of Dr. J. Benjamin and Rose Kaplan Yasinow in the United States and Alexander Wurtz in the United ... Army. On January 22, 1944, Alexander was drafted into the United States Army and entered active service ... on February 12. He joined the 351st Infantry Regiment and fought in the Italian campaign until the
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2010. Group portrait of four of the children cared for by Yehoshua and Hennie Birnbaum both in Westerbork and Bussum.
the orphans on a farm. Other Dutch survivors had informed American units about the group, and after ... twelve weeks, a convoy of American army trucks came to bring them to Leipzig. The family and orphans
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2011. Group portrait of the staff and some youth from the Ambloy children's home.
do with the child survivors, American army chaplains, Rabbi Herschel Schacter and Rabbi Robert Marcus ... Group portrait of the staff and some youth from the Ambloy children's home. Among those pictured ... Jacques Ribons (born Jakob Rybsztajn) is the son of Peretz Rybsztajn (b. 1905) and Bella (Bajal, b
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2012. Polish Army parade in Warsaw
In the 1930s, the American filmmaker Julien Bryan chronicled life in Poland and Nazi Germany. When ... Poland - the Country and the People ... Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled ... lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former Soviet Union. Between 1935 and
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2013. Postwar destruction in Warsaw
In the 1930s, the American filmmaker Julien Bryan chronicled life in Poland and Nazi Germany. When ... Poland - the Country and the People ... Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled ... lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former Soviet Union. Between 1935 and
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2014. Zinc refinery in operation in Katowice
In the 1930s, the American filmmaker Julien Bryan chronicled life in Poland and Nazi Germany. When ... Poland - the Country and the People ... Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled ... lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former Soviet Union. Between 1935 and
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2015. Krakow Jewish quarter
In the 1930s, the American filmmaker Julien Bryan chronicled life in Poland and Nazi Germany. When ... Poland - the Country and the People ... Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled ... lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former Soviet Union. Between 1935 and
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2016. Young people gather outside on the property of the Beuving family, the rescuers of the donor and her sister.
her sister. Tiema and Alie Beuving are on the left. The building in the background was a butcher ... Betty Cohen (born Betty Straus) is the daughter of Benjamin Straus and Hedwig Levita Straus. She
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2017. Past Conferences and Workshops
readings of the systemic violence of American plantation slavery. Complicity and Collaboration ... Prosecution to Historiography: American, Jewish, and German Perspectives on the US War Crimes Trials in ... . American Religious Organizations and Responses to the Holocaust in the United States: Reichskristallnacht ... and rescue, as well as current research on immigration in the American context. Panels addressed
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2018. Jewish Aid and Rescue
to Palestine. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the ... During the Holocaust, countless Jewish organizations and individuals ... Britain between 1933 and 1945. In Great Britain, an umbrella group known as the Movement for the Care of ... Children organized the travel and shelter of over 10,000 central European Jewish refugee children between
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2019. Portrait of the Loeffler family. From left to right are Marie Loeffler, her grandaughters Mitzi and Susanna, and Ignatz Loeffler.
easier time than many in obtaining an American visa, and immigrated to the United States in 1936 before ... William Loeffler is the son of Stephan (b. 1882) and Cvetlerova Loeffler. Stephan came from a ... very William Loeffler is the son of Stephan (b. 1882) and Cvetlerova Loeffler. Stephan came from a ... Loeffler and an additional six children from his second wife, Marie Loeffler. Stephan began work at the
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2020. Presentation by Sigmund Boraks and Martin Wasserman
Oral history interviews of the NAVO and NASA Stennis Space Center collection ... Oral history interviews from the Naval Oceanographic Office and the National Aeronautics and Space ... parents and sister were shipped off to the Treblinka death camp; his experience at Blizyn labor camp from ... Army advanced; the forced march to Oraniensburg, Sachsenhausen, and Kaufering until his arrival at
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2021. View of a bridge spanning a canal in Nuremberg. The houses and bridge are bedecked with Nazi flags and banners.
Julien Bryan (1899-1974) was a documentary filmmaker who filmed and photographed the everyday life ... a Julien Bryan (1899-1974) was a documentary filmmaker who filmed and photographed the everyday life
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2022. Portrait of Marysia Slepian and her two children, Pauline and Rita, in the Wasseralfingen displaced persons' camp.
Rita Sloan (born Rita Slepian) is the daughter of Natan Slepian and Marysia (nee Tomkiewicz ... ). Natan Rita Sloan (born Rita Slepian) is the daughter of Natan Slepian and Marysia (nee Tomkiewicz
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2023. A Polish mother and daughter flee the besieged city of Warsaw with bedding and other essential household items.
Julien Bryan (1899-1974) was a documentary filmmaker who filmed and photographed the everyday life ... a Julien Bryan (1899-1974) was a documentary filmmaker who filmed and photographed the everyday life
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2024. Portrait of Edith and Ilse Simon on the deck of the MS St.
Portrait of Edith and Ilse Simon on the deck of the MS St. Louis. ... reached Havana on May 27 all but 28 of the Jewish refugees were denied entry. The American Jewish Joint ... France and the Netherlands died at the hands of the Nazis, but the majority survived the war.
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2025. Ilse Karliner and Fritz Buff pose on the deck of the MS St.
Ilse Karliner and Fritz Buff pose on the deck of the MS St. Louis. ... reached Havana on May 27 all but 28 of the Jewish refugees were denied entry. The American Jewish Joint ... France and the Netherlands died at the hands of the Nazis, but the majority survived the war.