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Digital Versatile Disc (DVD)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Erna Witsches Schmidmayer: A Holocaust Story from Kindertransport to Pioneer in Israel, 2016-09-16

 Item
Identifier: B452.01.0001.0003
Abstract

Oral history interview with Erna Witsches Schmidmayer.

 Erna, born in Odessa, Ukraine, discusses her childhood in Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland); escaping Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport to London, England in 1939; and her immigration to Palestine in 1946.

Dates: 2016-09-16
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B452, Giselle Heimann Ratain Family Holocaust Videos / Oral Histories / Box 1

From Haven to Home Exhibit, 2007-2008

 File
Identifier: B230.02.0007.0023
Abstract

File folder contains correspondence, flyers, and a DVD with photos taken at the "From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America" exhibit on display at DPL. Exhibit was installed and on display at both the Anderson Academic Commons at the University of Denver and the Denver Public Library.

Dates: 2007-2008
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B230, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Records / Programs and Events / Box 7

George and Alexander Tscherny: Escape from Nazi Germany, 2021

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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
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B452, Giselle Heimann Ratain Family Holocaust Videos / Oral Histories / Box 1

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 / Giselle Heimann Ratain Family Holocaust Videos

Lillian Hoffman Event , 2013-2015

 File
Identifier: B230.02.0007.0013
Abstract

File folder contains materials relevant to the special event and exhibit about the CCCSJ and Lillian Butler Hoffman. Materials include (3) DVDs of the event at different universities, correspondence, photos of Lillian Hoffman, and an RMJHS piece entitled "From Denver to Moscow: The Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry".

Dates: 2013-2015
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B230, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Records / Programs and Events / Box 7

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
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B452, Giselle Heimann Ratain Family Holocaust Videos / Oral Histories / Box 1

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
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B452, Giselle Heimann Ratain Family Holocaust Videos / Oral Histories / Box 1

Nicholas Winton, The Power of Good, 2006

 Item
Identifier: B230.03.0023.00020
Abstract

Video details the life and rescue mission of Nicholas Winton in 1938. Video includes additional information about some of the Jewish children he saved from Nazi violence. Includes a teachers' guide with extra archival materials and discussion questions.

Dates: 2006
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B230, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Records / Publications / Box 23 (DVDs)

Oral Histories, 1984-2021

 Series
Identifier: B452.01
Abstract

This series contains Oral history interviews with members of the Grünfeld/Heimann family who discuss their escape from Nazi Germany and experiences as refugees.

Dates: 1984-2021
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B452, Giselle Heimann Ratain Family Holocaust Videos

Oral Histories, 2011

 Series
Identifier: B453.01
Abstract

Series contains oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors.

Dates: 2011
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B453, Susan Brody Family Legacies Holocaust Videos

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