Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 189 Collections and/or Records:
Ernest Loeb Alternate Birth Certificate, 17 January, 1939
Item
Identifier: B407.01.0001.0010.00008
Abstract
Document is an alternate birth certificate issued by the Darmstadt government. The document is titled "Geburtsurfunde", meaning birth certificate, although it was issued 15 years after he was born. The document lists Ernest Loeb's full name, birthday, father's name, mother's name, and the date (17 January 1939). It has a paper stamp that says "Stadt Darmstadt" (meaning "Darmstadt city"), "Gebuehr" (meaning "fee"), and a value of 0.60 Reichmarks. This physical stamp is stamped over in ink...
Dates:
17 January, 1939
Escape to the Tatras, 2022
Item
Identifier: B292.01.0001.00001
Abstract
Memoir "Escape to the Tatras: A Boy, a War, and a Life Interrupted" by Oscar Sladek with Corinne Joy Brown. The memoir is through the eyes of a nine year boy, who was separated from his parents and began a journey to find safety from the Holocaust.
Dates:
2022
Family Trees and Biographical Information, 1933-1994
File
Identifier: B444.01.0001.0001
Abstract
Contains family trees, correspondence, and biographical information.
Dates:
1933-1994
Former Jews of Munster, June 1991
File
Identifier: B444.02.0002.0005
Abstract
Group photograph of former Jews of Munster, Germany in the Munster town hall, including Victor and Ernest Stone. The individuals in the photograph are identified.
Dates:
June 1991
Genealogical Resources and Maps
Collection
Identifier: B395
Abstract
Contains the Shtetl Atlas which is a compilation of four sets of maps. One is a map of Poland published in 1929 which includes parts of Lithuania and Byelorussia and index of Polish towns and villages. The second is a series of maps of Byelorussia and the Ukraine, published in Astria-Hungary in the mid-nineteenth century. The third and fourth sets of maps of maps are also of Byelorussia and the Ukraine, published by the Soviet Union in the 1980s. The other publication is "Drucker's List,"...
Dates:
1941-1994
George and Alexander Tscherny: Escape from Nazi Germany, 2021
Item
Identifier: B452.01.0001.0006
Abstract
In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, in December 1938, two young Jewish boys, ages 12 and 14, boarded a train out of Berlin for Holland, to escape the escalating brutality against Jews in Germany. Arriving in Nijmegen, Holland without documents or family, George and Alexander Tscherny were placed with a family by the Dutch Committee for Jewish Refugees, waiting to be granted asylum from the Queen and then dispatched to a refugee camp.When Germany invaded...
Dates:
2021
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
Guldman Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: B156
Abstract
Collection contains correspondence from Germany of Ludwig Beckhart, the Feldner family, the Kasper Family, the Neubauer family, the Rosenbaum family, the Salomon family, the Schiff family, the Spier family, the Stark family, the Wolff family, and the Zacharias family. The families were trying to get assistance to get out of Germany from the estate of Leopold H. Guldman, who was a wealthy businessman in Denver, his widow Bertha Guldman, and their son-in-law Jacob L. Wolff. Wolff and his...
Dates:
1937-1953
Heinrich Loewenstein and Ingrid Lind, 1939 May 1
Item
Identifier: B333.01.01.00011
Abstract
Heinrich Loewenstein [Henry Lowenstein] and Ingrid Lind, his cousin, pose together on a sidewalk in Berlin, Germany on May 1, 1939, May Day. May 1 was declared National Labour Day and adopted by the Nazi's as one of their holidays. On May 1, 1939, Hitler and other Nazi Party leaders gave speeches at Berlin's Olympic Stadium and Nazi flags were hung around Berlin. A few days after this photograph was taken Ingrid fled to Denmark. A few weeks after this photograph was taken Heinrich left...
Dates:
1939 May 1
Heinrich Loewenstein and Karin Steinberg, 1939 May 1
Item
Identifier: B333.01.01.00012
Abstract
Heinrich Loewenstein [Henry Lowenstein] and Karin Steinberg pose together on a sidewalk in Berlin, Germany on May 1, 1939, May Day. May 1 was declared National Labour Day and adopted by the Nazi's as one of their holidays. On May 1, 1939, Hitler and other Nazi Party leaders gave speeches at Berlin's Olympic Stadium and Nazi flags were hung around Berlin. A few weeks after this photograph was taken Heinrich left Germany on the Kindertransport.
Dates:
1939 May 1