Holocaust survivors
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Bio/Hist: Here are entered works on persons who survived the Holocaust of 1939-1945, with emphasis on their lives since 1945. Works on persons who died during the Holocaust of 1939-1945 are entered under Holocaust victims. Works consisting of personal accounts of the Jewish Holocaust are entered under Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
Found in 162 Collections and/or Records:
Lotte Grünfeld Heimann: Holocaust Story in 100 Years of Songs, Undated
Item
Identifier: B452.01.0001.0005
Abstract
Holocaust survivor Lotte Grünfeld Heimann sings songs from her childhood in Yiddish, Hebrew, and German. Songs in Yiddish:
1. "Dos iz a sud derbay" (Perlmutter, Schorr; from the operetta "Kay un shpay"; NY, 1920s)
2. "Tsvelf shlogt dokh shoyn der zeyger" (folksong)
3. "Di zelner" AKA "Oyf di grine felder" (adapted from a WWI Ukrainian folksong)
4. "Bay mir bistu sheyn" (Secunda, Jacobs)
5. "Zug...
Dates:
Undated
Lotte Heimann Holocaust Story, 1984
Item
Identifier: B452.01.0001.0008
Abstract
Oral history interview with Lotte Grünfeld Heimann. Lotte, born September 3, 1918 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her happy childhood in prewar Germany; her parents Leo (Eliezar) and Erna (Esther) who had emigrated from Tarnow, Poland in 1913 and were tailors; how her aspirations to become a gymnast and compete in the 1936 Olympics were dashed as Hitler came to power; her work as an apprentice at Hermann Tietz department store; meeting Betty Abraham (Wagowski) who introduced her to a cousin,...
Dates:
1984
Lowenstein Family Holocaust Exhibit Booklet, 2009
Item
Identifier: B333.07.0001.0007.00001
Abstract
Bound booklet written by Henry Lowenstein to accompany an exhibit featuring the Loewenstein documents at the Denver Public Library. The booklet explains the documents in the Lowenstein Family Holocaust Papers and tells his family's story during World War II especially relating to the Holocaust.
Dates:
2009
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
Margot Grünfeld Shafran: Escape from Nazi Germany Survival in the Shanghai Ghetto, 2015-09
Item
Identifier: B452.01.0001.0004
Abstract
Oral history interview with Margot Grünfeld Shafran. Margot, born on January 10, 1924 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her early years as a treasured only child; growing up with an extended Jewish family in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s; her father Reuben Grünfeld, a Polish citizen who in October 1939 was seized and deported to the Polish border where he languished for nine months until his wife, Lotte Secher Grünfeld, arranged for three sets of papers and...
Dates:
2015-09
Maria Loewenstein's Temporary Identification Papers, 1946 February 11
Item
Identifier: B333.05.0001.0005.00006
Abstract
Maria Loewenstein's temporary identification papers issued after World War II by the Polizeipräsident in Berlin. The front cover says Temporary ID in German and the number, Nr. L. 0011106. The back cover has not been filled out. The rest of this page, the section for children under the age of fifteen, is blank. Left side interior of the card contains information about Maria Loewenstein: name, occupation, birth date and place, nationality, and fingerprint. Right side interior has a...
Dates:
1946 February 11
Maria Lowenstein's Exemption from Clearance Work, 1945 May 19
Item
Identifier: B333.05.0001.0005.00008
Abstract
Document from the Mayor of Berlin-Schöneberg certifying that Maria does not have to participate in the "clearance work" or "clearing rubble" because of her "hours as a business helper" in an office, possibly a medical office. At this point Berlin was badly damaged by the war.
Dates:
1945 May 19
Martin Ritzewoller (Rikewoller), 1938-1960
File
Identifier: B111.08.0008.0010
Abstract
Rikewoller was born in 1907 in Germany. He escaped Nazi Germany around 1938. In 1957 he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in Denver.
Dates:
1938-1960
Maurice Blik, 2005
Item — Object B398.01.00017: Series B398.01 [Barcode: U186023282516]
Identifier: B398.01.00017
Abstract
Framed drawing of Maurice Blik by artist Deborah Howard. Drawing is in black and white, he wears a white t-shirt. Maurice Blik is looking towards the viewer.
Dates:
2005
Max Loewenstein's Temporary Identification Papers, 1946 February 12
Item
Identifier: B333.05.0001.0005.00003
Abstract
Dr. Max Loewenstein's temporary identification papers issued after World War II by the Polizeipräsident in Berlin. The front cover says Temporary ID in German and the number, Nr. L. 0011104. The back cover has handwritten in the "Official Changes" section that Max had a previous identity card and this information is signed, dated, and stamped by the Chief of Police. The rest of this page, the section for children under the age of fifteen, is blank. Left side interior of the card contains...
Dates:
1946 February 12