Box JHC Holocaust Archives Box 2

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Included are copies of Freilich's parents' Czechoslovakian passports and field notes from discussions with Freilich. Also included is a handwritten statement from Freilich about the Holocaust.

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Included is correspondence in Czech related to Walter Abeles's attempts to obtain restitution for his lost Czechoslovakian property as well as an inventory of goods he sold prior to leaving Czechoslovakia. Also included is a postcard in German from Freilich's grandmother, Kamila Stadler, who later died in Theresienstadt.

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Memoir of Sara Novak, a friend of Freilich, detailing her experience as a Jew in Lithuania after the Nazi occupation in 1941, including her imprisonment in the Kovno ghetto and the Stuthoff concentration camp.

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Digital images on CD and DVD of pre-war photographs of Freilich and her family in Czechoslavakia. Also included are digital images of correspondence.

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DVD recording of the Abeles family's 60th anniversary picnic held in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1998.

Scope and Contents Includes photocopies of Schiller's French Sauf-Conduit document (used in place of a passport) with his American visa, photocopies of lists of Aspet children and people on transport #17, and photocopies of photos of Schiller with five other Aspet children and the exterior of the Aspet school. Also includes a photocopy of a memorandum from Donald A. Lowrie, an American representative of the YMCA, to Tracy Strong, General Secretary of the World's Committee of the YMCA, regarding "present...

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Five letters from Schillers' parents and aunt, all written in German, discussing their life in Gurs and advice for Schiller after his rescue.

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Translations of personal correspondence in folder 2.

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Facsimiles of personal correspondence in folder 2.

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Correspondence in English and German with and between other Aspet children, as well as to Alice Resche Synnesvedt.