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Dientje Krant Kalisky Adkins photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-017
Abstract

Pre- and post-World War II photographs of Dientje Krant Kalisky Adkins, a Dutch Jew born in 1938 in Bussum, Netherlands, who, as a child, was hidden during World War II. Photographs show Krant and her family and friends in the Netherlands, including her grandparents, parents, and other family members.

Dates: 1938-2000

Martha Mondschein Bauer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-007
Abstract

Correspondence, photographs, and memoirs of Martha Mondschein Bauer, a Jewish nurse who escaped Germany by becoming a volunteer nurse in England and the Dominican Republic. Included is correspondence regarding her brother and her husband's parents, photographs of Mondschein's and Bauer's family members, and her husband Felix Bauer's memoir.

Dates: 1940-2001

Jacques Benbassat papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-002
Abstract

The collection consists of a photograph album, memoir, passports, and other papers of Jacques Benbassat, a native of Austria who immigrated to the United States in 1949. Materials mostly relate to the Feuerstein family, including identification cards used by Adela Feuerstein, his maternal grandmother, and photographs of Feuerstein family members traveling in Austria and Poland before 1938, when they fled Austria in fear of Nazi persecution.

Dates: 1906-1942, 1998

Harry Blas and Erika Stockfleth Blas papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-029
Abstract

The collection consists mainly of copy negatives, slides, and digital images of pre-World War II photographs of the families of Harry Blas, born in Łódź, Poland, and Erika Stockfleth Blas, born in Grevesmühlen, Germany. Also included is a short memoir by Harry Blas detailing his experiences in the Łódź ghetto and Auschwitz concentration camp, and a handwritten genealogy of the Stockfleth family by Erika Blas.

Dates: circa 1910-circa 1980

Zig Boroughs papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-040
Abstract The collection consists of correspondence, memoirs, and other papers of Zig Boroughs, an American soldier who served with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II. Two memoirs are included: one written by Edith Jakobs, a Jewish native of Germany who was liberated by members of Boroughs's unit while in hiding in the Netherlands; the other by Werner "Tom" Angress, also a Jewish native of Germany, who enlisted in the U.S. Army and served as an interrogator with Boroughs's...
Dates: 1984-2008

Joe Engel papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-011
Abstract

Photographs, correspondence, and other papers of Joe Engel, a Polish Jew imprisoned at Auschwitz from 1942 until 1945. Photographs depict Engel and other family members in pre-war Poland, as well as in Zeilsheim, a post-war German displaced persons camp. Other photographs show Engel and family members in Charleston, South Carolina, and Natanya, Israel.

Dates: 1938-2006

Anita Abeles Freilich papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-005
Abstract

Images, correspondence, and other papers of Anita Abeles Freilich and the Abeles family, a Jewish family that fled Czechoslovakia shortly before the Nazi invasion in 1939. Included is a memoir from Sara Novak, a friend of the Abeleses and a Lithuanian Holocaust survivor, and a DVD recording of the Abeles family's 60th anniversary picnic in 1998. Materials document the Abeles family prior to their escape from Czechoslovakia and their attempts to seek restitution.

Dates: 1929-2008

Max Freilich papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-004
Abstract

Images, correspondence, and newspaper clippings of Max Freilich, a German Kindertransport refugee interned in England and Canada. Materials relate to the Freilich family's persecution in Nazi Germany, Freilich's rescue by the Kindertransport, subsequent internment in English and Canadian internment camps, and service in the Canadian army. The collection also includes images of Freilich and family members.

Dates: 1925-2005

Albert Gosschalk papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-009
Abstract

Photographs, silver objects, and other papers of Albert Gosschalk, a Jewish resistance fighter during World War II from the Netherlands. Materials relate to the families of Gosschalk and his wife, Theodora "Doris" van Blankenstein Gosschalk and their lives before, during, and after World War II.

Dates: 1835-2008

David Grabin papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-008
Abstract

Images, memoir, and newspaper clippings of David Grabin, a Holocaust survivor imprisoned at several camps during World War II. Images include negatives, slides, photocopies, and digital images of family photographs Grabin carried throughout the war. Grabin's memoir details his experience as he was separated from his family and moved from camp to camp, ending at Theresienstadt.

Dates: 1930-1999

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photocopies 19
black-and-white negatives 16
digital images 14
black-and-white slides 13
memoirs 11
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clippings (information artifacts) 9
correspondence 9
Holocaust survivors -- Poland 7
videocassettes 7
Holocaust survivors 6
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives 6
Photographs 5
facsimiles (reproductions) 5
DVDs 4
Holocaust survivors -- Germany 4
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany 4
black-and-white photographs 4
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Poland 3
color slides 3
identity cards 3
passports 3
photograph albums 3
photographs 3
Łódź (Poland) 3
Bussum (Netherlands) 2
England 2
Hidden children (Holocaust) -- Netherlands 2
Holocaust survivors -- Austria -- Vienna 2
Holocaust survivors -- Netherlands 2
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- France 2
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Netherlands 2
Jewish ghettos -- Poland -- History 2
Vienna (Austria) 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- Poland 2
birth certificates 2
color photographs 2
photo CDs 2
typescripts 2
Amsterdam (Netherlands) 1
Antisemitism -- Czechoslovakia 1
Aspet (France) 1
Austria 1
Beverwijk (Netherlands) 1
Bochnia (Poland) 1
Bodzentyn (Poland) 1
Budapest (Hungary) 1
Będzin (Poland) 1
Canada 1
Charleston (S.C.) 1
Charleston County (S.C.) 1
Forced labor -- Poland -- Starachowice 1
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 1
Germans -- Canada -- Evacuation and relocation, 1939-1943 1
Germans -- Great Britain -- Evacuation and relocation, 1940-1945 1
Grevesmühlen (Germany) 1
Gurs (France) 1
Hidden children (Holocaust) 1
Hidden children (Holocaust) -- France 1
Holešov (Czech Republic) 1
Holocaust survivors -- Austria 1
Holocaust survivors -- Czechoslovakia 1
Holocaust survivors -- France 1
Holocaust survivors -- Poland -- Łódź 1
Holocaust survivors -- Romania 1
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Anniversaries, etc. 1
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Personal narratives 1
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Personal narratives 1
Jewish refugees -- Dominican Republic -- Sosúa 1
Jewish refugees -- England 1
Jewish refugees -- United States 1
Jews -- Persecutions -- Czechoslovakia 1
Kaufering (Germany) 1
Kindertransports (Rescue operations) 1
Kindertransports (Rescue operations) -- Great Britain 1
Netherlands 1
Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 1
Poland 1
Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945 1
Scarsdale (N.Y.) 1
Sosúa (Dominican Republic) 1
Starachowice (Poland) 1
Stommeln (Pulheim, Germany) 1
Svinare (Czech Republic) 1
Sławatycze (Poland) 1
Transylvania (Romania) 1
United States -- Emigration and immigration 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Canada 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany -- Dachau 1
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Latvia 1
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Norwegian 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Czechoslovakia 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Netherlands 1
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Language
English 22
German 12
Czech 5
Polish 4
Dutch; Flemish 3
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Names
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 5
Dachau (Concentration camp) 2
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) 2
Abell family 1
Adkins, Diny K., 1938- 1
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American Friends Service Committee 1
Angress, Werner T. 1
Bauer, Felix, 1914-2006 1
Bauer, Martha Mondschein, 1915-2011 1
Benbassat family 1
Benbassat, Dan 1
Benbassat, Jacques, 1929-2010 1
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) 1
Bernstein, Frieda Gosschalk 1
Birkenau (Concentration camp) 1
Blas family 1
Blas, Erika 1
Blas, Harry, 1924-2003 1
Boroughs, Zig 1
Csato, Ferike 1
Engel, Joe, 1927- 1
Feuerstein family 1
Feuerstein, Adela 1
Freilich, Anita Abeles, 1930- 1
Freilich, Max, 1924- 1
Goldsmith, Florence 1
Goldsmith, Hilda 1
Gosschalk, Albert, 1920-1991 1
Gosschalk, Theodora van Blankenstein, 1922-2001 1
Grabin, David, 1919-2004 1
Greene, Regina Kawer, 1920-1990 1
Greene, Samuel, 1914-2013 1
Gurs (Concentration camp) 1
Herz, Rudolf, 1925-2011 1
Jakobs, Edith 1
Kaufering (Concentration camp) 1
Klasner, Samuel, 1917-2001 1
Kolender, Pincus, 1926-2008 1
Kolender, Renee Fox, 1922-1999 1
Kornfeld family 1
Kornfeld, Thomas 1
Lombardi-Nash, Michael A. 1
Michalowski, Jakub 1
Opper, Evelyn Widawski 1
Paerl family 1
Pintus family 1
Pintus, Lise 1
Popowski, Paula Kornblum, 1923- 1
Prayzer, Mike, 1922-1995 1
Prevost, Katherine Goldstein, 1924- 1
Reavis, Josine Gosschalk 1
Rosenthal, Albert 1
Rubin, Bernice Prayzer 1
Schiller, Hugo, 1931- 1
Semel, Vera Nathans, 1943- 1
Somers, Renata 1
Synnestvedt, Alice Resch, 1908- 1
Syré-Herz, Ursula 1
Taylor, Francine Ajzensztark, 1928- 1
United States. Army. Parachute Infantry Regiment, 508th 1
Weintraub family 1
Weintraub, Guta Blas, 1924-2008 1
Widawski family 1
Widawski, Michislaw, 1920- 1
Widawski, Tola Wilner, 1920- 1
Wine, Blanche Weintraub 1
Wolfsohn, Siegmund, 1919-2000 1
Wolfson, Janet 1
Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp) 1
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