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Barnwell family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0110
Abstract This collection consists of correspondence of Reverend William H. W. Barnwell, his wife Catherine Osborn Barnwell, their children and other Barnwell family relations. Topics include social life in Beaufort and Charleston, South Carolina, varying religions and their differences, historiography of South Carolina, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Charleston, religious instruction of slaves, missionary work in China, South Carolina College (1840- 1860), Rev. James Henley Thornwell, the capture of...
Dates: 1823-1960s; Majority of material found within 1823-1882

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

Minnie Tewel Baum papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-045
Abstract

The collection consists of letters, telegrams, and other papers relating to Minnie Tewel Baum's unsuccessful efforts to aid her cousin, Malie Landsmann, and her family, in escaping Nazi Germany. Included is a photograph of Malie Landsmann, her husband, Chaim, and their daughters, Ida and Peppi.

Dates: 1938-1941

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

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

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

Fund and Kerner families papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-052
Abstract

The collection consists of photographs, postcards, clippings, memoirs, and other papers relating to the Fund and Kerner families, whose members immigrated to the United States from Poland and Czechoslovakia after World War II.

Dates: 1929-1997

Rudolf Herz papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-050
Abstract

The collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, interviews on videocassette and DVD, photographs, and other papers of Rudolf "Rudy" Herz, a native of Stommeln, Germany, who survived incarceration in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and other concentration camps during World War II. After immigrating to the United States in 1946, he served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.

Dates: 1944-2011

Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim congregation records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1047
Collection Overview The records are arranged into 13 series: Board of Trustee Minutes (1838-1995) document all aspects of congregational life: hiring and firing staff, fundraising, building, etc. with some data re members, their infractions, marriages, deaths, etc. Financial records (1800-1999) document members, fines, income, salaries, pew assignments, various projects, estates, religious school finances, etc. Trustee and Rabbi Records and Correspondence (1855- 1991, bulk 1930s-1970s) including a few...
Dates: 1798-2002; Majority of material found within 20th century

Levi and D'Ancona families papers

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Identifier: Mss 1159
Abstract

Collection includes assorted family records relating to the Levi and D'Ancona families as well as a small amount of materials relating to the Gruenwald/Greenwald family. Also included are the papers of Wendell Mitchell Levi Sr. and his son Dr. Wendell M. Levi Jr.

Dates: 1753-2016; Majority of material found within 1900-2016

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clippings (information artifacts) 12
correspondence 12
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 11
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities 10
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black-and-white negatives 8
photocopies 8
digital images 5
postcards 5
videocassettes 5
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black-and-white slides 4
photographs 4
typescripts 4
color photographs 3
Antisemitism 2
Berlin (Germany) 2
England 2
Holocaust survivors 2
Holocaust survivors -- Germany 2
Judaism -- Customs and practices 2
Poland 2
Zionism 2
articles 2
daguerreotypes (photographs) 2
identity cards 2
letters (correspondence) 2
medals 2
memoirs 2
notes (documents) 2
passports 2
photograph albums 2
prayer books 2
printed ephemera 2
publications (documents) 2
report cards 2
sermons 2
Africa, North 1
Antisemitism -- Czechoslovakia 1
Arab-Israeli conflict 1
Australia 1
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Authors, American 1
Beaufort (S.C.) -- Social life and customs 1
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Czechoslovakia 1
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Emigration and immigration -- Czechoslovakia 1
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Europe, Central 1
Europe, Eastern 1
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Fantasy fiction, American 1
Fasts and feasts -- Judaism 1
Gardelegen (Germany) 1
Gardelegen Massacre, Gardelegen, Germany, 1945 1
Germans -- Canada -- Evacuation and relocation, 1939-1943 1
Germans -- Great Britain -- Evacuation and relocation, 1940-1945 1
Historiography -- South Carolina 1
Holešov (Czech Republic) 1
Holocaust survivors -- Austria 1
Holocaust survivors -- Austria -- Vienna 1
Holocaust survivors -- Czechoslovakia 1
Holocaust survivors -- Poland 1
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives 1
Jewish art 1
Jewish authors 1
Jewish cemeteries 1
Jewish clothing and dress 1
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Genealogy 1
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Sumter 1
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Sumter -- Social life and customs 1
Jewish ghettos 1
Jewish historians 1
Jewish journalists 1
Jewish neighborhoods 1
Jewish refugees -- Dominican Republic -- Sosúa 1
Jewish refugees -- England 1
Jewish refugees -- United States 1
Jewish religious education -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Jewish sects -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Jewish soldiers 1
Jewish women 1
Jews -- Charities 1
Jews -- Education 1
Jews -- History 1
Jews -- Intellectual life 1
Jews -- Israel 1
Jews -- Migrations 1
Jews -- Music 1
Jews -- Persecutions -- Czechoslovakia 1
Jews -- Social life and customs 1
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Language
English 17
Hebrew 6
Czech 5
French 5
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 2
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Rosenthall, Irene O. 2
Rosenthall, William A. 2
United States. Army 2
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Barnwell family 1
Barnwell, Catherine Osborn, 1809-1886 1
Barnwell, William Hazzard, 1806-1863 1
Bauer, Felix, 1914-2006 1
Bauer, Martha Mondschein, 1915-2011 1
Baum, Minnie Tewel, 1898-1985 1
Benbassat family 1
Benbassat, Dan 1
Benbassat, Jacques, 1929-2010 1
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) 1
Chaminade, Cécile, 1857-1944 1
Charpentier, Gustave, 1860-1956 1
Chase, Leah 1
Coming Street Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Conan (Fictitious character) 1
D'Ancona family 1
Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897 1
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 1
Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918 1
Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934 1
Engel, Joe, 1927- 1
Feuerstein family 1
Feuerstein, Adela 1
Freilich, Max, 1924- 1
Fund family 1
Fund, Claire 1
Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 1
Hebrew Union College 1
Hellman, Ann Meddin 1
Hellman, Irene 1
Herz, Rudolf, 1925-2011 1
Jordan, Robert, 1948-2007 1
Jordan, Robert, 1948-2007. (Title of work: Wheel of time.) 1
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.) Brotherhood 1
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.). Sisterhood 1
Kerner family 1
Landsmann, Malie 1
Levi, Kathryn Weinberg 1
Levi, Wendell Mitchell, 1891-1976 1
Levi, Wendell Mitchell, 1927-2015 1
Levy family 1
Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912 1
McDougal, Harriet 1
Meltzer, Charles Henry, 1853-1936 1
Meltzer, Harold 1
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847 1
Michalowski, Jakub 1
O'Neal, Reagan, 1948-2007 1
O'Reilly, Jackson, 1948-2007 1
Palmetto Pigeon Plant 1
Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924 1
Reformed Society of Israelites (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Rigney, James Oliver, Jr., 1948-2007 1
Robertson, Vida 1
Rosenthal, Jakob 1
Schwartz, Robert, 1916-2008 1
Shearith Israel Congregation (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Somers, Renata 1
South Carolina College 1
St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Stafford, Ethel Jorgensen, 1923- 1
Syré-Herz, Ursula 1
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) 1
Thornwell, James Henley, 1812-1862 1
Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno, 1876-1948 1
Wolfsohn, Siegmund, 1919-2000 1
Wolfson, Janet 1
World Union for Progressive Judaism 1
Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp) 1
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