Holocaust survivors

Subject

Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Scope Note: 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 311 Collections and/or Records:

Holocaust/Warsaw Uprising, 1933 - 1992

File — Box 3

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists primarily of material related to the founding and growth of congregation Tikvoh Chadoshoh. A small amount of more personal material is also included. Bodenheimer's autobiography From Bad Nauheim to Bloomfield: My Journey of Faith details his life in both Germany and the United States.

Dates: 1933 - 1992

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Hans S. Bodenheimer / Series III: H-Z

Homar, Abraham

File

Identifier: 7297

Scope and Contents

Jewish Ledger photocopy of newspaper clipping featuring Abraham Homar's account his POW experience and of Gestapo plans to execute POW's during WWII. Original copy in J.W.V/ miscellanious.

Dates: 1937-2008

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Holocaust collection / Survivors / Connecticut Survivors

Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love, 2021

Item — Item DS 134.7 .F73

Identifier: DS 134.7 .F73

Abstract "Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a wedding in Connecticut. In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods-through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids-until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war they trekked across the Alps...

Dates: 2021

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford printed materials collection

Israel, Bea_2011, Oral History, August 15, 2011

File — Box 41, Box: 1101

Identifier: 0014 001 0011101

Dates: August 15, 2011

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Oral History Collection / SERIES 1: Interview recordings and transcripts / 2011

Israel, Beatrice Theisebach, 1997-09-05

File

Identifier: 7296

Scope and Contents

Jewish Ledger newspaper clipping by Dorine Leogrande (9/5/1997) featuring story of West Hartford, CT Holocaust survivor Beatrice Israel and her participation in a memorial commemoration in Linden, Germany.

Dates: 1997-09-05

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Holocaust collection / Survivors / Connecticut Survivors

Jacobs, Fred and Regina

Digital Record

Identifier: jacobs, fred & regina_2007

Dates: undated

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford

Jacobs, Fred and Regina, 1998-02-06

File

Identifier: 7295

Scope and Contents

Two Jewish Ledger newspaper clippings by Dorine Leogrande (02/06/1998) about thier life during the Holocaust and after. They owned a dry-cleaning business, Dan-Dee Cleaners in West Hartford, CT.

Dates: 1998-02-06

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Holocaust collection / Survivors / Connecticut Survivors

Jacobs, Fred and Regina, 1952 - 2012

File — Folder 3

Scope and Contents

This file contains information on Fred and Regina Jacobs's experience in the Holocaust, including surviving Auschwitz. In addition, the articles discuss their dry cleaning business of 34 years.

This interview discusses Fred and Regina Jacobs and their experience coming to Hartford after surviving the Holocaust.

Dates: 1952 - 2012