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Renata Somers collection of Holocaust photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-044
Abstract

The collection consists of copy negatives, contact sheets, and digital images of the destruction of the synagogue in Holešov, Czechoslovakia, in 1941, by the Nazis. Also included are images of photographs, postcards, and letters relating to Renata Somers's grandfather, Jakub Michalowski, cantor of the Holešov Jewish community, who was killed at Auschwitz in 1944.

Dates: 1941
Found in: Special Collections

Francine Ajzensztark Taylor papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-010
Abstract

Photographs and false identification papers of Francine Ajzensztark Taylor, a Polish-born Jew raised in France before World War II. Photographs depict her and her family members in pre-war England and Poland, as well as in France before, during, and after the war. Also includes four videocassette programs, including two detailed interviews with Taylor in which she discusses her life in France before, during, and after the war.

Dates: 1913-1998
Found in: Special Collections

Guta Blas Weintraub papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-019
Abstract Images and newspaper clippings of Guta Blas Weintraub, a Jewish resident of Łódź, Poland, who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to the United States after World War II, settling in Charleston, South Carolina. Pre-war images show members of the Blas and Weintraub families in Łódź and Bodzentyn, Poland. Wartime images show Leon Weintraub in a work camp in Starachowice, Poland, and Guta Blas in Sweden after her rescue. Post-war images show the Weintraubs in the Bergen-Belsen displaced...
Dates: circa 1922-2008
Found in: Special Collections

Tola Wilner Widawski photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-020
Abstract

Slides, negatives, and digital images of Tola Wilner Widawski, a Jew from Łódź, Poland, who survived the Holocaust. Pre-and post-World War II images show Wilner with friends and family, including her husband, Michislaw Widawski, and their children. Also included are images of the Polish exit permits the family used to leave Poland for Israel in 1957.

Dates: 1905-1957
Found in: Special Collections

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black-and-white negatives 11
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photo CDs 2
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Canada 1
Charleston (S.C.) 1
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Forced labor -- Poland -- Starachowice 1
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 1
Germans -- Canada -- Evacuation and relocation, 1939-1943 1
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Jewish refugees -- Dominican Republic -- Sosúa 1
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Kindertransports (Rescue operations) -- Great Britain 1
Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945 1
Sosúa (Dominican Republic) 1
Starachowice (Poland) 1
Svinare (Czech Republic) 1
Vienna (Austria) 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Canada 1
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- France 1
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Zakroczym (Poland) 1
Zeilsheim (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) 1
black-and-white photographs 1
color slides 1
contact sheets 1
genealogies (histories) 1
identity cards 1
interviews 1
rosters 1
speeches (documents) 1
Ślesin (Konin, Poland) 1
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