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Deborah Howard's Holocaust Portraits and Papers
Collection
Identifier: B398
Abstract
Deborah Howard is an Associate Professor and Head of Painting Program at the University of Denver. After a discussion on racial stereotypes and aging in a Figure Painting course Howard was teaching, she began to develop her Portraits of Child Holocaust Survivors project and settled on drawing as the media for the project. Howard has drawn and painted twenty-five people who escaped, hid or survived concentration camps during the Jewish Holocaust of WWII. Four portraits from the project are...
Dates:
1949-2019
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Giselle Heimann Ratain Family Holocaust Videos
Collection
Identifier: B452
Abstract
This collection details the Grünfeld Heimann family Holocaust stories. Kurt Heimann and Lotte Grünfeld Heimann married in 1938 and took a train with family to Shanghai in 1940 to escape Nazi violence. They survived in the Shanghai Ghetto alongside thousands of other European Jewish refugees until they were able to relocate in 1948. Kurt, Lotte, and their young son relocated to the United States and settled in Denver, Colorado where their second child, Giselle, was born, and where they...
Dates:
1984-2021
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Loeb Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: B407
Abstract
Collection contains family documents and material objects related to the Loeb Family. Many of these items relate directly to the Holocaust and WWII. Important items include German passports and IDs, documents relating firsthand accounts of WWII and the Holocaust, photographs from before, during, and after the war, including photographs of Ernest Loeb as a US soldier in Germany, Ernest Loeb's Bronze Star Medal, scrapbooks, early German school report cards, and Jewish books of scripture.
Dates:
1827-1987
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Lowenstein Family Papers and Art
Collection
Identifier: B333
Abstract
Ernst Heinrich Loewenstein [Henry Lowenstein] was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925 to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. To escape Nazi brutality, he was sent on the Kindertransport to England in 1939. His parents, Dr. Max and Maria Loewenstein, and his half-sister, Karin Steinberg, remained in Berlin during World War II. Shortly after the war the family emigrated to the United States to avoid persecution. Materials in this collection include legal documents and correspondence,...
Dates:
1848-2014; Majority of material found within 1939-1948
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Rosen And Sladek Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: B292
Abstract
Russian Jewish immigrants Samuel Castille and Zelda Goldberg Rosen settled on Denver's west side and raised 13 children. Their daughter Clara Rosen married Joseph Rosen and they had four children including Selma Rosen who married Osi Sladek. Joseph Rosen began selling newspapers in Denver at the age of seven, starting out as a helper for his future brothers-in-law Max and Al Rosen. Hyman Rosen was born in Denver in 1916, the third youngest of the 13 children of Samuel and Zelda Rosen. He...
Dates:
1960-2015
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
Susan Brody Family Legacies Holocaust Videos
Collection
Identifier: B453
Abstract
This collection contains one DVD produced by Susan Brody and her company, Family Legacies Videos, for the 30th Annual Governor's Holocaust Remembrance Program on May 3, 2011. Further accruals to this collection are expected.
Dates:
Broadcast: May 3, 2011
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
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