Box JHC Holocaust Archives Box 2

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Memoir of Sara Novak, a friend of Freilich, detailing her experience as a Jew in Lithuania after the Nazi occupation in 1941, including her imprisonment in the Kovno ghetto and the Stuthoff concentration camp.

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Digital images on CD and DVD of pre-war photographs of Freilich and her family in Czechoslavakia. Also included are digital images of correspondence.

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DVD recording of the Abeles family's 60th anniversary picnic held in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1998.

Scope and Contents Includes photocopies of Schiller's French Sauf-Conduit document (used in place of a passport) with his American visa, photocopies of lists of Aspet children and people on transport #17, and photocopies of photos of Schiller with five other Aspet children and the exterior of the Aspet school. Also includes a photocopy of a memorandum from Donald A. Lowrie, an American representative of the YMCA, to Tracy Strong, General Secretary of the World's Committee of the YMCA, regarding "present...

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Five letters from Schillers' parents and aunt, all written in German, discussing their life in Gurs and advice for Schiller after his rescue.

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Translations of personal correspondence in folder 2.

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Facsimiles of personal correspondence in folder 2.

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Correspondence in English and German with and between other Aspet children, as well as to Alice Resche Synnesvedt.

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Excerpt from the manuscript "From Tyssedale to the War in Southern France" by Alice Resch Synnestvedt, detailing her experience with Gurs and the children she rescued and placed in Aspet; also includes photocopies of the notes she used to write the manuscript.

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Chabad Academy 1998 yearbook, which includes newspaper articles about the academy's butterfly project which honored the 1.2 million children victims of the Holocaust and was spearheaded by Schiller's wife, Eleanor, a teacher at the academy.