pre-Nazi Germany

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This collection consists of multiple photographs depicting rural Jewish peasant life in Poland and Russia, c. 1929. Photos are original, w/ negatives.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: M7, Holocaust collection (1937-2008; 3 c.f.) is an artifical collection created by the JHSGH. It consists of personal testimonies, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and photographs. Most of the material focuses on the experiences of survivors and witnesses who settled in the Greater Hartford area. Some material is related to national and international Holocaust studies and commemorations. The most significant portion of the collection consists of audio and videotaped interviews of local...

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Hasidic rabbis with father, Yechiel Shapiro

Shapiro family

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Story of Ruth's life in Germany before World War II, notes about her time during the Holocaust and liberation, stories of her move to the U.S. All told from the memory of her daughter Vivian

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Photo image of Judisches Gemeindeblatt newsleaf concerning end of Danzig synagogue

1981 American anti-semites

Nazis marching in Danzig, Germany (w/ copy)

Pidyon Ha-ben Plate, brass-engraved

Storefront in Danzig depicting German anti-semitism

Precious Legacy Smithsonian exhibit_sorting through possessions 1943

photocopy of book cover "From the Family Album, 1990" (located in oversize II)

Scope and Contents This interview documents Margaret Kahn's experience of the Holocaust, as well as her understanding of herself as a result of the hardships of her childhood. Until Hitler rose to power, she states that she had a secure middle class upbringing in a home that did not keep kosher. Once she was forced to attend Jewish parochial schools once Jews were banned from German schools, this became an issue since it meant she had to watch what she brought for lunch. She made a friend there that helped...