Format • | Manuscript Collection | [X] |
Subject • | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| • | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
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| • | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. |
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| • | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives |
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| • | Jews -- Germany |
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| • | Jews, Polish -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | War crime trials. |
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| • | Altenkirchen (Germany: Landkreis) |
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| • | American Friends Service Committee |
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| • | Antisemitism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Art therapists -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Ethnic relations. |
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| • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. |
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| • | Concentration camps in literature |
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| • | Demjanjuk, John -- Trials, litigation, etc. |
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| • | Feuer, Sol, 1919-2007 |
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| • | Friedman family |
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| • | Friedman, Arnold, 1927-2008 |
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| • | Graffiti -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Hanauer, Ruth |
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| • | Hate groups -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Personal narratives. |
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| • | Holocaust survivors' writings |
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| • | Holocaust victims -- Ukraine -- Sambir (Sambirsʹkyĭ raĭon) |
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| • | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Literary collections |
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| • | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland |
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| • | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Study and teaching |
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| • | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature |
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| • | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Jewish Community Center of Cleveland |
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| • | Jewish children -- Germany |
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| • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. |
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| • | Jews--Germany--Emigration and immigration--20th century |
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| • | Kaminska, Ida |
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| • | Kindertransports (Rescue operations) |
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| • | Klaper family. |
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| • | Klot family |
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| • | Kol Israel Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| • | Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Ohio. |
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| • | Myers family |
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| • | Myers, Hal Hanauer, 1930- |
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| • | Neo-Nazism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Passports -- Ukraine -- Sambir (Sambirsʹkyĭ raĭon) |
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| • | Racism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Refugee children -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| • | Refugees, Jewish -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| • | Schiff family. |
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 1 | Title: | Herman Herskovic Family Papers and Photographs
| | | Creator: | Herskovic, Herman Family | | | Dates: | 1911-1985 | | | Abstract: | Herman Herskovic (1921-1983), a Jewish immigrant to Cleveland in 1947, was an owner of a local furniture store, a realtor, and Jewish community leader. He was born in 1921 in Czechoslovakia. Herskovic joined the Czech brigade of the British Army and fought during the invasion of Europe. Herman Herskovic came to Cleveland, Ohio in 1947 and joined his cousin, Gilbert Rosewater, and brother, Martin Herskovic . Herman married Naomi Minster (1924-2017) in 1963 and both were very active in the Jewish community. The collection consists of scrapbooks (including photographs, clippings, correspondence, awards, and other documents), a dentistry license, a diploma, photographs, and a yearbook. | | | Call #: | MS 5421 | | | Extent: | 3.01 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | Subjects: | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 2 | Title: | Ayduth Lachayim = Witness to Life : Holocaust Survivors in the Cleveland Jewish Community Records
| | | Creator: | Holocaust Education and Commemoration Committee | | | Dates: | 1981 | | | Abstract: | Ayduth Lachayim (Witness to Life) is a manuscript documenting the experiences of 178 Holocaust survivors who resided in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1981. The project was coordinated by the Holocaust Education and Commemoration Committee. A copy of the manuscript was presented to the archives of the Yad Vashem Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, Israel, by a delegation of more than 100 survivors from Cleveland, during the World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in June, 1981. The collection consists of the original transcript, a handwritten draft, drafts of the introduction, correspondence from Yad Vashem acknowledging the receipt of a copy of the manuscript, and a statement by Jacob Henenberg to the Jewish Community Federation concerning the World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors. | | | Call #: | MS 3928 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 3 | Title: | Arnold Friedman Papers
| | | Creator: | Friedman, Arnold | | | Dates: | 1972-2006 | | | Abstract: | Arnold Friedman (1927-2008) was a Holocaust survivor born in Irsava, Czechoslovakia. He immigrated to the United States in 1948 and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. He owned and operated Arnold's Scrap Metals for over forty years on the east side of Cleveland. He and his wife Betty had three children, Sharon, Doreen, and Jeff. In 1972 he published Death Was Our Destiny, an account of his time in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Dornhau, Seifenwasser, and Flossenburg. He spoke often of his experiences to school, church, and youth groups. The collection consists of articles, biographical statements, a book jacket, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. | | | Call #: | MS 5166 | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Friedman family | Friedman, Arnold, 1927-2008 | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Study and teaching | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 4 | Title: | Leon Weisberg Papers
| | | Creator: | Weisberg, Leon | | | Dates: | 2006-2015 | | | Abstract: | Leon Weisberg was born to a Jewish family in Jedrzejow, Poland, in 1929, and lived in Sedziszow with his six siblings until the German army invaded Poland in 1939. For the next several years, Weisberg and his family were subjected to the constant horrors of the camps and ghettos of Poland, with Weisberg himself being sent from Sedziszow to Skarzysko-Kamienna to Buchenwald and, finally, to Theresienstadt, where he was liberated by the Russian army in 1945. After the war, Weisberg and his surviving relatives slowly began to immigrate outward and Weisberg immigrated to Cleveland in 1951, working in various businesses as an electrician until his retirement. The collection consists of correspondence, a narrative, notes, photographs, a questionnaire, summaries, and transcripts created as part of Weisberg's oral history interview and the research conducted by the Western Reserve Historical Society on his family's experiences during World War II. | | | Call #: | MS 5363 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews, Polish -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 6 | Title: | Joseph Lowe Family Papers
| | | Creator: | Lowe, Joseph Family | | | Dates: | 1940 | | | Abstract: | Joseph Lowe, a longtime resident of Shaker Heights, Ohio, was born to Branya (Dun, Dinn) and Isaac Low in Sambor, Poland, in 1924. Lowe's mother's family lived in Lorain, Ohio, and arranged for Lowe to come to the United States in early 1939. Lowe left behind his parents and four siblings. He served in the United States Navy during World War II, married, and began a career as a hairdresser in Shaker Heights. In 1957 he received his father's Soviet passport from Zdzislaw Sulak, a former classmate from Sambor who was imprisoned with Isaac Low during the war. Joseph Lowe's immediate family members were killed by the Germans in the killing center of Belzec and the village of Radlowice (Ralivka) in 1943. The Joseph Lowe Family Papers consist of a newspaper clipping, a passport, and a translation of the passport. | | | Call #: | MS 5392 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Holocaust victims -- Ukraine -- Sambir (Sambirsʹkyĭ raĭon) | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Passports -- Ukraine -- Sambir (Sambirsʹkyĭ raĭon)
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 7 | Title: | Kol Israel Foundation Records
| | | Creator: | Kol Israel Foundation | | | Dates: | 1973-2001 | | | Abstract: | The Kol Israel Foundation is an organization of Holocaust survivors resident in Cleveland. It was founded in 1959 to represent area Holocaust survivors while helping secure special education, guidance, vocational training, social and economic adjustment for immigrants settling in Greater Cleveland. A Second Generation group sponsors educational workshops while the foundation sponsors annual Holocaust commemoration events at different synagogues throughout the city. This collection consists of agendas, meeting minutes, bank statements, booklets, correspondence, learning packet, letterhead, lists, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, programs, reports, applications, thank you letters, autographs, certificates, notices, itinerary, mission statements, news releases, photographs, raffle tickets, tables, and scrapbooks. | | | Call #: | MS 5404 | | | Extent: | 3 linear feet (three containers) | | | Subjects: | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | World War, 1939-1945. | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Personal narratives. | War crime trials.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 8 | Title: | Kol Israel Foundation Records, Series II
| | | Creator: | Gift of Kol Israel Foundation, 2017 | | | Dates: | 1891-2016 | | | Abstract: | The Kol Israel Foundation is an organization of Holocaust survivors resident in Cleveland. It was founded in 1959 to represent area Holocaust survivors while helping secure special education, guidance, vocational training, and social and economic adjustment for immigrants settling in Greater Cleveland. Beginning in 1978, a Second Generation group sponsored educational workshops while the foundation sponsored annual Holocaust commemoration events at different synagogues throughout the city. However, Second Generation Kol Israel no longer exists. The Kol Israel Foundation Records, Series II collection consists of an authorization, badges and pins, bibliographies, books, booklets, CDs, a cassette tape, certificates, a chronological table, cloth yellow stars, coins from the Third Reich period, correspondence, curriculum guides, drawings, DVDs, employee records, an essay, financial records, floor plans, an identity card, information sheets, invitations, letters, lists, maps, meeting minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, an outline, pamphlets, photographs, poems, a poster, press releases, programs, recognitions, reels, reports, rosters, schedules, speech texts, and VHS tapes. | | | Call #: | MS 5464 | | | Extent: | 2.5 linear feet (4 boxes, including one oversize container) | | | Subjects: | Kol Israel Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | World War, 1939-1945 | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 10 | Title: | Lottie and W. Louis Cohn Family Papers
| | | Creator: | Debbie Bonhard | | | Dates: | 1921-2006 | | | Abstract: | Lottie Cohn and W. Louis Cohn were Holocaust survivors born in Germany who met and married in Cleveland after the war. The collection includes materials related to their postwar visits to Germany and mission trips to Israel. The collection consists of articles, books, booklets, a cassette, a VHS recording, a cookbook, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, a photo album, programs, scrapbooks, and travel diaries that are primarily in German, with some English. | | | Call #: | MS 5502 | | | Extent: | 1.8 linear feet (three containers) | | | Subjects: | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Jews -- Germany | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Altenkirchen (Germany: Landkreis) | Jews--Germany--Emigration and immigration--20th century
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 11 | Title: | Sol Feuer Papers
| | | Creator: | Feuer, Sol | | | Dates: | 1944-2005 | | | Abstract: | Sol Feuer (1919-2007) was a Holocaust survivor and Cleveland, Ohio-area Yiddish writer and actor. Feuer, was born in Sighet Maramures, Romania, as Shlomo Zalmen ben Anshel Feuerwerker. While serving in the Romanian army during World War II, he was taken captive by the Nazis and transported first to a labor camp, and then to Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps, where he worked as a shoemaker. Feuer arrived in Dachau only days before liberation by the American army in 1945. There, after the liberation, he met German artist Otto Fuchs, who sketched Feuer in his prison uniform. Feuer resided in Germany until he was able to come to the United States in 1949. Once in the Cleveland area, he became owner and operator of a Willowick shoe store. Feuer wrote extensively in both Yiddish and English, and his writings can now be found in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage. He often wrote for the Kol Israel Foundation, a group established by local survivors to which he belonged, and local magazines. Many of his works reflect his experiences during World War II and his life as a Holocaust survivor. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Feuer also sang and acted in local Jewish theatre, often appearing in Yiddish-language productions. The collection consists of articles, correspondence, drafts, newspaper clippings, notes, theatre programs, scripts, a memoir, and a sketch. | | | Call #: | MS 5139 | | | Extent: | 0.21 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | Subjects: | Feuer, Sol, 1919-2007 | Kaminska, Ida | Jewish Community Center of Cleveland | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Holocaust survivors' writings | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Literary collections | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature | Concentration camps in literature | Theater, Yiddish
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 12 | Title: | Morton E. Karp Collection
| | | Creator: | Karp, Morton E. | | | Dates: | 1978-1980 | | | Abstract: | Morton Karp (d. 1991) was a scrap dealer and Commander of the Cuyahoga County Council of Jewish War Veterans, Cleveland Post #l4. Karp and his wife Mina collected news articles dealing with antisemitism, the Holocaust, the John Demjanjuk trial, Nazism, and neo-Nazi and other "white power" groups in the Cleveland, Ohio area. The collection consists of programs, correspondence, and newspaper clippings, with six blurred photos of Nazi graffiti, Cleveland, Ohio, 1978, and two photos of United White People's Party, Cleveland, Ohio, 1978. The articles are drawn from various local papers and magazines, including the Cleveland Jewish News and the Plain Dealer. The collection is of value to individuals studying antisemitism, neo-Nazi and Klan activities, prosecution of Nazi war criminals, and Holocaust commemoration in the northeast Ohio area. | | | Call #: | MS 4956 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Antisemitism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Ethnic relations. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. | Demjanjuk, John -- Trials, litigation, etc. | Graffiti -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Hate groups -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Ohio. | Neo-Nazism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Racism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | United White People's Party -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | War crime trials. | War criminals -- United States. | White supremacy movements -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 13 | Title: | Hal Hanauer Myers Papers
| | | Creator: | Myers, Hal Hanauer | | | Dates: | 1938-2005 | | | Abstract: | Born Hans Hanauer to a Jewish family in Karlsruhe, Germany, Hal Hanauer Meyers was one of the children at the French concentration camp Camp de Gurs who were rescued by Quakers in January 1941. He and his brother, Dieter, eventually were placed with Cleveland, Ohio, philanthropists David and Inez Myers. Hans stayed in Cleveland, attended Case Institute of Technology, and eventually changed his name to Hal Hanauer Myers. The collection consists of speeches, correspondence and envelopes, calendars, school notebooks, various identification cards, scrapbook pages, news clippings, photographs, and books. Of particular interest are his Nazi identification card, brief autobiographical speech given at Congregation Shaarey Tikvah, wartime correspondence with his sister and family, some of which is in German, and notebooks used in the Quaker (American Friends Service Committee) refugee camp to learn English and French. | | | Call #: | MS 4986 | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | Subjects: | Myers, Hal Hanauer, 1930- | Myers family | Hanauer, Ruth | American Friends Service Committee | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Jews -- Germany | Refugees, Jewish -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Refugee children -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Kindertransports (Rescue operations) | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue | World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Germany | World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians | Jewish children -- Germany
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