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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 163 Collections and/or Records:

Loeb Family Photographs, circa 1940-1959

 File
Identifier: B407.01.0001.0008
Abstract

File contains twenty six (26) photographs from circa 1940 to 1959. Photographs include: family portraits of Ernest, Dorothy, Larry, and Ron, pictures of Larry and Ron as children, wedding pictures of Dorothy Katz Loeb, a propeller plane at Cuyahoga County Airport in Ohio, a photograph of Ernest Loeb from his time in the US Army in WWII, Ron Loeb as a baby, a picture of Emil Loeb in a small metal frame, as well as several unidentified people.

Dates: circa 1940-1959
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B407, Loeb Family Collection / Documents, Letters, Newsclippings, and Photographs / Box 1

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

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

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
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B333, Lowenstein Family Papers and Art / Lowenstein Family Holocaust Exhibit Booklet and DVDs / Box 1 / Lowenstein Family Holocaust Exhibit Booklet and DVDs

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 / Lowenstein Family Papers and Art

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

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
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B333, Lowenstein Family Papers and Art / Post War Berlin and Social Democratic Party / Box 1 / Post War Berlin and Social Democratic Party

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
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B333, Lowenstein Family Papers and Art / Post War Berlin and Social Democratic Party / Box 1 / Post War Berlin and Social Democratic Party

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
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B111, Beck Archives Biographical Materials Collection / Series 8, P-R / Box 8

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
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B398, Deborah Howard's Holocaust Portraits and Papers / Original Artwork

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