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Aiken Jewish community collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1042
Collection Overview Mostly photocopied material chronicling the history of the Jewish community in Aiken, South Carolina, including the Adath (Adas) Yeshurun Synagogue. The scrapbooks are divided into six sections, which are arranged in original order. The Adath Yeshurun Synagogue section contains newspaper articles (1980s-1990s) re. history of synagogue, 70th anniversary program (1991), color photograph (1995) of board members, copies of real estate documents (1923-1925) for original acquisition of property,...
Dates: 1923-1995; Majority of material found within 1980s-1990s

Edna Ginsberg Banov papers

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Identifier: Mss 1039
Collection Overview Entire collection is photocopies of Edna Banov's unpublished manuscripts and other writings; originals remain with donor. Includes poems, short stories, letters, memoirs, notes, book reviews, eulogies, tributes and a compilation of Banov's short stories and letters titled, "Potpourri, Some of This, Some of That." (Many works in "Potpourri" have draft versions in the collection.) Most writings are annotated and several have critique notes included (from an unnamed editor.) Banov's memoirs...
Dates: 1960s-1990s

Martha Mondschein Bauer papers

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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

Berlijn family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-053
Abstract

The collection consists of a photograph album, memoir, and other papers relating to the Berlijn family, including Nico Berlijn and his parents, Johanna Spielmann and Abraham "Bram" Berlijn, Dutch Jews who survived World War II in hiding in the Netherlands. Also includes a Star of David badge issued to Johanna Spielmann Berlijn.

Dates: circa 1942-2005

Harry Blas and Erika Stockfleth Blas papers

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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

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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

Cohen, Emanuel, Moses, and Seixas family papers

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Identifier: Mss 1124
Abstract Photographs, correspondence, diaries and memoirs, genealogical materials, land records and certificates, and printed materials relating to the Cohen, Emanuel, Moses, and Seixas families. The families are related through the marriages of Eleanor H. Cohen to Benjamin Seixas in 1865, Mary Eleanor Seixas to Maurice Emanuel in 1888, and Charlotte Virginia Emanuel to Henry P. Moses in 1912. Of particular note is a diary belonging to Eleanor H. Cohen that documents the arrival of Union General...
Dates: 1806-2005; Majority of material found within 1865-1934

Charles Alfred DeSaussure memoirs (typescript copies)

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Identifier: Mss 0034-020
Collection Overview Typescript copies of Charles Alfred DeSaussure's memoirs of plantation life (1850-1870) and life in the Confederate Army. The first manuscript describes special events and experiences primarily at Woodstock Plantation (Beaufort District, S.C.), the distribution of food and goods to slaves, the activities of slaves, names and descriptions of slaves and their work, religious life, Gullah language and people, and DeSaussure's education and recreational activities (swimming, boating, and...
Dates: approximately 1931

Mickey Dorsey papers

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Identifier: Mss 1065-046
Abstract

The collection consists of letters, photographs, negatives, and other papers of Mickey Dorsey, an American soldier with the 71st Infantry Division, who participated in the liberation of Gunskirchen Lager, a German concentration camp in Austria. Photographs and negatives taken by Joe Daurer, the photographer for Dorsey's unit, show victims and survivors in the camp.

Dates: 1944-1946, 1999

Anita Abeles Freilich papers

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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

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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 2
Abell family 1
Adath Yeshurun Synagogue (Aiken, S.C.) 1
Ahlem (Concentration camp) 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
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Angress, Werner T. 1
Banov family 1
Banov, Edna Ginsberg, 1908-2002 1
Banov, Milton, 1908-1991 1
Bauer, Felix, 1914-2006 1
Bauer, Martha Mondschein, 1915-2011 1
Baumgarten, Doris 1
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) 1
Berlijn family 1
Berlijn, Abraham 1
Berlijn, Johanna Spielmann, 1913-1993 1
Berlijn, Nico, 1948- 1
Berlijn, Susan Addlestone 1
Blas, Erika 1
Blas, Harry, 1924-2003 1
Boroughs, Zig 1
Cohen family 1
Cohen, Eleanor H., 1839-1874 1
College of Charleston 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Beaufort Light Artillery 1
Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 8th. Company C 1
Csato, Ferike 1
Dachau (Concentration camp) 1
Daurer, Joe, 1909-1998 1
DeSaussure, Charles Alfred, 1846- 1
Dorsey, Mickey, 1925- 1
Efron family 1
Emanuel family 1
Freilich, Anita Abeles, 1930- 1
Grabin, David, 1919-2004 1
Greene, Regina Kawer, 1920-1990 1
Greene, Samuel, 1914-2013 1
Gunskirchen (Concentration camp) 1
Gurs (Concentration camp) 1
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America 1
Jakobs, Edith 1
Jameson, John 1
Johnson, Skip, 1939- 1
Kaufering (Concentration camp) 1
Klasner, Samuel, 1917-2001 1
Kornfeld family 1
Kornfeld, Thomas 1
Mahon, Octavia 1
Moses family 1
Phillips family 1
Phillips, Eugenia Levy 1
Phillips, P. (Philip), 1807-1884 1
Phillips, Philip Lee, 1857-1924 1
Phillips, W. Hallett (William Hallett), 1853-1897 1
Pinck, Esther Surasky, 1891-1990 1
Polier family 1
Porcher, Frederick A. (Frederick Adolphus), 1809-1888 1
Prevost, Katherine Goldstein, 1924- 1
Rosenthal, Albert 1
Rubin, Rose Rudnick, 1917-2003 1
Rudnick family 1
Rudnick, Herbert, 1920-1999 1
Schiller, Hugo, 1931- 1
Seixas family 1
Sieradzki, Benjamin, 1927-2011 1
Sons of Israel Cemetery (Aiken, S.C.) 1
Stern, Abraham, 1929- 1
Surasky family 1
Synnestvedt, Alice Resch, 1908- 1
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) 1
Tott, Vernon W. 1
Tropp, Mina Surasky, 1897-1990 1
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 71st 1
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 84th 1
United States. Army. Parachute Infantry Regiment, 508th 1
Wolfe family 1
Yale University 1
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