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Box JHC Holocaust Archives Box 6

 Container

Contains 16 Results:

Notes, 2007, 2009, undated

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 6, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Notes describe materials Popowski provided in 2007. Also includes 2009 notes from Popowski's daughter, Martha Berlin, identifying family members in several photographs.

Dates: 2007, 2009, undated

Certificates and other papers, 1830-1911, 1941, 1961

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 6, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Includes birth certificates, marriage certificates, religious honors, and national militia registration for members of the Paerl family, Nathans's maternal relatives. Other items include her mother's false Dutch identification papers and Vera Nathans's Dutch passport.

Dates: 1830-1911, 1941, 1961

Photographs, circa 1938-1985

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 6, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Pre-war photographs show Nathans's maternal grandparents, Mietje Hymans and Barend Lion Paerl, in Amsterdam, Holland. Post-war photographs show Nathans and family in Holland; Nico Visjager, who was hidden with Nathans during the war; and her husband, Sandy Semel, and children in the United States.

Dates: circa 1938-1985

Negatives, 1918-1996

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 6, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Negatives of Nathans, her parents, grandparents, sister, husband, children, and nurses who hid her during the war. Also includes negatives of her mother's false Dutch identification papers, Vera Nathans's Dutch passport, and pages from the photo album given to Sandy Semel by nurse Corrie Blaauw.

Dates: 1918-1996

Slides, 1918-1996

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 6, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Slides of material in folder 3.

Dates: 1918-1996

Photocopies, 1830-1996

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 6, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of materials in folders 1-3.

Dates: 1830-1996