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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

A-5053 Frances and Sam Fried Holocaust Education Fund, 1966-2013

 File
Identifier: MSS-0129_education
Scope and Contents This is a three-volume set of information about the Holocaust Education Fund created by Sam and Frances Fried for the purpose of providing education courses at the college and university level, with the aim of fostering understanding, compassion, and mutual respect toward the end of preventing mass atrocities like the Holocaust and other acts of genocide throughout the world. The Fund has financed courses at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of...
Dates: 1966-2013

A-5053 Frances and Sam Fried Holocaust Education Fund [Book 1], 1966-2006, 3/8/2018

 File — Box 1
Identifier: MSS-0129_education_1
Scope and Contents The first volume covers the period circa 1966-2006 and contains information on the Frances and Sam Fried Holocaust and Genocide Education Fund, including printouts from the Fund website, correspondence, meeting agendas, meeting minutes, news clippings, press releases, legal documents, speech transcripts, strategic planning documents, financial reports, fundraising forms and fliers, reports, event programs, course syllabi, student papers on the lessons of the Holocaust, thank you notes from...
Dates: 1966-2006; Digitized: 3/8/2018

A-5053 Frances and Sam Fried Holocaust Education Fund Book 2, 2006-2009, 11/19/2018

 File — Box 2
Identifier: MSS-0129_education_2
Scope and Contents The second volume covers the period circa 2006-2009 and contains course materials, syllabi, student assignments, poems about the Holocaust written by students, thank you notes from students, news articles, correspondence, financial records, meeting minutes, fundraising brochures, photographs, and reports. Most of the documents are original and a few are reproductions.Included are records of the National Holocaust Endowment Fund, the Heartland Holocaust Educational Fund, and...
Dates: 2006-2009; Digitized: 11/19/2018

A-5053 Frances and Sam Fried Holocaust Education Fund Book 3, 2009-2013, 4/10/2018

 File — Box 4
Identifier: MSS-0129_education_3
Scope and Contents The third volume covers the period circa 2010-2013 and contains news articles, press releases, event programs, speech transcripts, meeting minutes, correspondence, organizational records, financial records, photographs, student papers about the Holocaust, a teacher's guide to the Holocaust, and other educational materials. Most of the documents are original and a few are reproductions.Included are organizational records of the Heartland Holocaust Educational Fund and the Sam and...
Dates: 2009-2013; Digitized: 4/10/2018

A-5053 Government Documents, Proclamations and Awards, 1938-2013, 2/23/2018

 File — Box 1
Identifier: MSS-0129_government
Scope and Contents This volume covers the period from 1938 to 2013 and contains government documents, correspondence, proclamations, reports, newsletters, event programs, speech transcripts, photographs, and certificates. Most of the documents are original and a few are reproductions.The first document in this volume is an October 28, 1938, telegram from Leipzig to the Secretary of State regarding the forced exodus of Polish Jews from Germany, followed by further telegrams regarding the...
Dates: 1938-2013; Digitized: 2/23/2018

A-5053 Jewish Motorcyclists Alliance (JAMA) (2006) and Ride to Remember (2008), 2007-2008, 11/19/2018

 File — Box 1
Identifier: MSS-0129_jma
Scope and Contents This volume covers the period from 2006 to 2008 and contains information related to the Jewish Motorcyclists Alliance (JMA) and the 2008 Ride to Remember. The Ride to Remember was a charity fundraising event to benefit the Heartland Holocaust Educational Fund. The event took place on Friday, May 23, 2008, wherein approximately 100 Jewish motorcyclists from all over the United States and Canada rode from Omaha to Lincoln. Once they arrived in Lincoln, they attended a ceremony at the Nebraska...
Dates: 2007-2008; Digitized: 11/19/2018

A-5053 Nebraska Holocaust Memorial Dedicated April 15, 2007, 1979-2013, 4/26/2018

 File — Box 5
Identifier: MSS-0129_memorial
Scope and Contents This volume covers the period from 1979 to 2013 (predominantly from 2003 to 2009) and contains material related to the Nebraska Holocaust Memorial at Wyuka Cemetery in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Memorial was dedicated on April 15, 2007. In 2009, a restricted endowment fund, the Sam and Frances Fried Nebraska Holocaust Memorial Endowment Fund (later renamed to the Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust Memorial Maintenance Fund), was established to maintain the memorial.The volume contains...
Dates: 1979-2013; Digitized: 4/26/2018

A-5053 Sam Fried Holocaust Index, 2013, 1925-2013

 File
Scope and Contents Sam Fried created an index to his personal archives. He originally created this as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with two tabs of content, one sorted by date and the other by book. Both indexes have three columns: date of the item, description of item, and book containing that item. There are 637 items described by Fried in the index.Fried printed the contents of this spreadsheet and bound them as the eleventh volume of the physical set in 2013. UNO Libraries Archives &...
Dates: 2013; Record Keeping: 1925-2013

A-5053 Sam Fried Holocaust Index by Book, 2013, 1925-2013, 12/4/2018

 File
Identifier: MSS-0129_index-book
Scope and Contents

This PDF was saved from the Book tab of Sam Fried's Excel spreadsheet index to his collection. This is the same content as the second portion of the printed notebook.

Dates: 2013; Record Keeping: 1925-2013; Digitized: 12/4/2018

A-5053 Sam Fried Holocaust Index by Date, 2013, 1925-2013, 12/4/2018

 File
Identifier: MSS-0129_index-date
Scope and Contents

This PDF was saved from the Date tab of Sam Fried's Excel spreadsheet index to his collection. This is the same content as the first portion of the printed notebook.

Dates: 2013; Record Keeping: 1925-2013; Digitized: 12/4/2018

A-5053 Sam Fried Holocaust Index [Volume], 2013, 1925-2013, 12/4/2018

 File — Box 6
Identifier: MSS-0129_index
Scope and Contents This volume contains a printout of Sam Fried's own index spreadsheet, printed and compiled into book form by Fried in 2013. The first section of the index is sorted by date, with items from different notebooks interfiled. The second section of the index is sorted by book, non-chronological except insofar as items were chronological within each individual notebook.Sam Fried's Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, from which this notebook was printed, is also available upon request. The...
Dates: 2013; Record Keeping: 1925-2013; Digitized: 12/4/2018

A-5053 Sam Fried Holocaust Survivor, 1925-2013, 5/10/2018

 File — Box 1
Identifier: MSS-0129_survivor
Scope and Contents This volume contains Sam Fried's autobiography, told with photographs, letters, passports, maps, travel documents, citizenship documents, news articles, patent documents, writings about Fried, and writing by Fried. The scrapbook includes a mix of original documents and reproductions. Several early documents are in Czech. The majority of the documents are in English.The first part of this volume covers his childhood in Mukacevo, Czechosolovakia (present day Mukacheve, Ukraine);...
Dates: 1925-2013; Digitized: 5/10/2018

A-5053 Sam Fried Society of Survivors, Inc. (7/11/79), 1967-2013

 File
Identifier: MSS-0129_society
Scope and Contents This is a two-volume set of information about the Society of Survivors, which was founded by Sam and Magda Fried in 1978 and legally incorporated on July 11, 1979. At first, the Society numbered about 60 members, all Holocaust survivors living in Omaha, Nebraska. Sam Fried was elected the first Chair of the organization. Within a year, the organization had grown to about 100 members from Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, and Sioux City, Iowa. The organization spoke out against Holocaust deniers,...
Dates: 1967-2013

A-5053 Sam Fried Society of Survivors, Inc. (7/11/79) Book 1, 1967-1979, 11/27/2018

 File — Box 2
Identifier: MSS-0129_society_1
Scope and Contents The first volume covers the period from 1967 to 1979 (predominantly from 1978 to 1979) and contains articles, meeting minutes, news clippings, correspondence, memoranda, fact sheets, event programs, photographs, and other organizational records of the Society of Survivors. Most of the documents are original and a few are reproductions.Much of the documentation relates to the Holocaust Survivors/Liberators Dinner on April 7, 1979, to honor American Veterans who helped liberate the...
Dates: 1967-1979; Digitized: 11/27/2018

A-5053 Sam Fried Society of Survivors, Inc. (7/11/79) Book 2, 1979-2013, 11/30/2018

 File — Box 2
Identifier: MSS-0129_society_2
Scope and Contents The second volume covers the period from 1979 to 2013 and contains news clippings, correspondence, event programs, newsletters, meeting agendas, photographs, and other organizational records of the Society of Survivors. Some of the documents are original and some are reproductions.The first half of the volume relates to the Holocaust Survivors/Liberators Dinner on April 7, 1979, including copies of thank you notes sent to participants, lists of veterans who attended or were...
Dates: Deaccession: 1979-2013; Digitized: 11/30/2018

A-5854 Magda Chunovic Fried, Feb 14, 1929 To Nov 4, 1985, 1929-1985, 4/17/2018

 File — Box 3
Identifier: MSS-0129_magda
Scope and Contents This volume contains biographical information about Magda Chunovic Fried (February 14, 1929-November 4, 1985), including photographs, letters, a dinner menu, identity documents, passports, travel documents, citizenship documents, news articles, cards, and other documents. Most of the documents are original and a few are reproductions.This volume begins with a police document from Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1945, verifying her identity, then continues with passports documenting her...
Dates: 1929-1985; Digitized: 4/17/2018

American Indian Oral History and Omaha Folklore Project Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0018
Scope and Contents The American Indian Oral History and Omaha Folklore Project Oral History Collection contains oral history interviews of Native Americans in Omaha, Nebraska as well as interviews collected as part of a program called the Oral History Collection of the Omaha Folklore Project. The interviews cover the cultures and personal histories of interviewees in the U.S. as well as leaving Europe in the first half of the 20th Century. Topics of discussion include life in Omaha, World War I, the Great...
Dates: circa 1970-1980

Concentration Camp Survivor Postcard, 1948

 Item — Box 3, Folder: 2018-020
Scope and Contents

The postcard image is of a starved, Jewish, male concentration camp survivor wearing the striped uniform of prisoners being held up by a young, healthy, and muscular Jewish man in front of a low-slung brick structure. On the reverse side the postcard contains a block of 4 Minhelet Ha'am Theodor Herzl stamps with Tel Aviv 'Doar' overprint tied by purple Tel Aviv cancels and addressed to Palestine.

Dates: 1948

Liberation of Dachau One-Year Anniversary Postcard, 1946

 Item — Box 3, Folder: 2019-018
Scope and Contents

This Polish postcard marks the one year anniversary of the liberation of Dachau. The postcard includes an image of a nude person holding their arms up in celebration in front of a large “P” sign with “Przetrwaliśmy!” (translation: we survived!) at the bottom of the image and “Dachau \ 29.4.1945 – 29.4.1946” at the top. The reverse side is blank.

Dates: 1946

Omaha Folklore Project: Interview with Lottie Kubicki, Interview Date: 1977 April 30, Date Digitized: 1/23/2017

 File
Identifier: MSS0018_au046
Scope and Contents

The oral history interview of Lottie Kubicki about her experiences in Czechoslovakia and Germany in the 1930s-1950s was conducted by UNO student Connie Miller on April 30, 1977. Kubicki was taken from her home in Czechoslovakia and sent to Germany in 1945 at the end of World War II because her family was German. From there, she discussed finding her family again in East Germany, moving to West Germany, and eventually immigrating to the United States.

Dates: Interview Date: 1977 April 30; Date Digitized: 1/23/2017

Omaha Folklore Project: Interview with Ruth Klass, Interview Date: 1977 May 3, Date Digitized: 2/10/2017

 File
Identifier: MSS0018_au045
Scope and Contents

The oral history interview of Ruth Klass regarding Jewish life in Nazi Germany was conducted by UNO student Rod Sadorsky on May 3, 1977. Klass shared information about her family background in Germany, her Jewish heritage, her experiences when she moved to the U.S., the impact the Holocaust had on her life, and her place in her community. Klass and her husband were able to flee Europe before being imprisoned in a concentration camp.

Dates: Interview Date: 1977 May 3; Date Digitized: 2/10/2017

Omaha Folklore Project: Interview with Stanley Fidler, Interview Date: 1977 April 12, Date Digitized: 2/2/2017

 File
Identifier: MSS0018_au007
Scope and Contents UNO student Andrew Fidler interviewed his father Stanley Fidler on April 12, 1977 about his life before, during, and after World War II. Stanley Fidler was a Polish citizen who was removed to a forced labor camp where he worked in two different coal mines and then later was sent to a concentration camp at the end of WWII. Fidler spoke about his life in Poland before the war, how he was imprisoned in the camps, his eventual freedom, and immigration to the United States. The Fidlers settled in...
Dates: Interview Date: 1977 April 12; Date Digitized: 2/2/2017

Sam and Magda Fried Videos, circa 1980-1985

 File
Identifier: 2019-086
Scope and Contents The collection also includes copies of six video recordings of Magda and Sam Fried sharing their experiences as survivors of the Holocaust. In "Rising City” Magda Fried shares her experiences as a survivor in a 30-minute video, which was probably a home movie. The recording "Magda and Sam Fried – Holocaust Survivors" is Magda and Sam Fried being interviewed by Cookie Hoberman for a television program in Omaha, Nebraska. These and other recordings appear to have been copied from DVDs and were...
Dates: circa 1980-1985

Sam Fried Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-0129
Scope and Contents These eleven volumes were compiled by Holocaust survivor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Sam Fried in 2013. Through thousands of pages of documents including letters, speeches, photographs, and other material, Fried shared the story of his life with his wife and fellow Holocaust survivor Magda Fried, and philanthropist and wife Frances Fried. The books as titled by Fried are: A-5053 Sam Fried Holocaust Survivor; A-5854 Magda Chunovic Fried, Feb 14, 1929 To Nov 4, 1985; A-5053 Sam Fried...
Dates: 1925-2013; Digitized: 2018

Stefan Jagielski Letter, 10.8.1941

 Item — Box 3, Folder: 2018-018
Scope and Contents

Letter sent from a concentration camp from Stefan Jagielski on Auschwitz-issued stationary. Also, a previous owner partially cut around the preprinted camp rules block, but it remains partially connected. The letter is dated 10.8.1941, handwritten in German, and addressed to an unidentified woman and acknowledges receipt of a letter and money from her. Jagielski assures the recipient that he is healthy, and asks her to write with news about (his? her?) father and brother.

Dates: 10.8.1941