Miriam Seidman Blaukopf nee Blasenstein collection, 1914-1978.
Collection Number: 6916
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Miriam Seidman Blaukopf nee Blasenstein collection, 1914-1978.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
6916
Abstract:
Correspondence, photographs, tape recordings and other material regarding Polish holocaust
survivors.
Creator:
no primary creator
Blaukopf, Miriam Seidman.
Blaukopf, Leo.
Peterson, Nina.
Sachs, Murray.
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Miriam Seidman Blaukopf survived four years in hiding from the Nazis in German-occupied
Poland. Her granddaughter, Nina Peterson, interviewed her and compiled other information
about her.
Reparations and other personal correspondence, Leo and Miriam Blaukopf, 1957-1968.
Original correspondence, notes, and translations, including letters from family and
friends, 1937-62, letters from Isaac Miller to Miriam, 1914-1930; notes and maps by
Nina Peterson; letters from Miriam to America, 1945-46 (3 letters translated by Nina
Peterson); translations of selected notes and communications by Murray Sachs and Nina
Peterson. Passports, identification paper, and immigration papers for Leo Blaukopf,
Miriam Blaukopf, and Nina Peterson; newspaper articles from German and Austrian papers
(and "California Farmer" article on Adolph Miller, 1954). Three unpublished manuscripts
written by Miriam Seidman Blaukopf include biography beginning with Krystallnacht
in 1938 when she was still in Vienna, continuing with her return to Poland and ending
with her liberation and trek to relocation authorities in Rome in 1945; earlier years
- childhood and marriage; and brief summary manuscript. Manuscript "Ferramonti di
Tarsi," by Nina Wekeler, typewritten in German, 1941, about the internment camp in
Italy where Leo Blaukopf was sent. Also, photographs; tape recordings of interviews
with Miriam by Nina Peterson, with CD copies.
Copyright retained by donor and her heirs and assigns.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Miriam Seidman Blaukopf nee Blasenstein collection, #6916. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Blaukopf family.
Seidman family.
Blasenstein family.
Ferramonti (Concentration camp)
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration.
Concentration camps -- Italy -- Calabria.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Holocaust survivors.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Biographical information, family tree, timeline, reel-to-reel tape/CD guide
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Leo and Miriam Blaukopf correspondence and reparations
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1954 - 1965 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Leo and Miriam Blaukopf correspondence and reparations
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1966 - 1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Miriam Blaukopf pensions
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1965 - 1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Miriam Blaukopf correspondence
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1957 - 1968 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Kurt and Hilde Blaukopf correspondence
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1945 - 1962 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes 4 photographs
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence from friends and family
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1937 - 1962 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence from Isaac(IJ) Miller to Miriam Blaukopf
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1914 - 1930 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes 1 photograph, one translation by Murray Sachs
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Necha (Nina) Peterson, notes and maps
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence from Miriam Blaukopf to America
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1945 - 1946 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes translations of three letters by Necha(Nina) Peterson
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence, notes and translations
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n.d. |
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Scope and Contents
Translations of selected notes and correspondence by Murray Sachs and Necha(Nina)
Peterson
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Leo Blaukopf passports, identification transit papers, birth record
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1887 - 1951 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Newspaper articles, booklet
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1907 - 1959 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes picture of Buczacz, Poland community members, Einstein Memorial article,
booklet with photographs of Bergen-Belsen camp and memorial for unknown Jewish martyrs,
articles from Zeitspiegel Austrian Weekly, Jung Osterreich, Aufbau and California Farmer
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Immigration papers, marriage certificate
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1936 - 1978 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes copy of passport for Necha(Nina) Peterson, marriage certificate and naturalization
papers for Leo Blaukopf and Miriam Seitman
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Manuscripts, handwritten in Yiddish by Miriam Blaukopf
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n.d. |
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Scope and Contents
Manuscript A - begins with Krystallnacht in 1938 when Miriam Blaukopf was still living
in Vienna. It continues with her return to Poland and ends with her liberation and
trek through several countries to relocation authorities in Rome in 1945. Manuscript
B - childhood and marriage. Manuscript C - brief summary of the first two manuscripts.
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Ferramonti[di Tarsi] by Nina Wekeler
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1941 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Photographs
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1906 - 1946 |
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Scope and Contents
Some originals, some photocopies. Includes master list and approximate dates.
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| Box 1 | tr-9915 |
Reel-to-reel tape - Necha(Nina) Peterson interviews with Mariam Blaukopf in Yiddish.
Interview 1 - childhood Kolanki, Interview 12 - Bindergasse, 18-20 years.
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | tr-9916 |
Reel-to-reel tape - Necha(Nina) Peterson interviews with Mariam Blaukopf in Yiddish.
Interview 2 - Horodenka, marriage, family, Kotikovka, pre-WWI. Interview 11 - Tlusty,
Bindergasse, Horodenka.
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | tr-9917 |
Reel-to-reel tape - Necha(Nina) Peterson interviews with Mariam Blaukopf in Yiddish.
Interview 3 - WWI, Vienna, school. Interview 10 - German translation, Avrom hospital,
Beile, Horodenka, Kommandante, 1939 - 1940, Gestapo, December 4, 1940.
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | tr-9918 |
Reel-to-reel tape - Necha(Nina) Peterson interviews with Mariam Blaukopf in Yiddish.
Interview 4 - Vienna, Anschloss, 18 years Wohlmutstrasse, 28 years Adoplh comes to
Horodenka. Interview 9 - German translation, Horodenka, Beile.
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | tr-9919 |
Reel-to-reel tape - Necha(Nina) Peterson interviews with Mariam Blaukopf in Yiddish.
Interview 5 - Return to Poland from Vienna, Berlin, Beuten, Katowicz, Tandelmarktgasse,
Austria, Horodenka, November 1938. Interview 8 - German Translation, Nazi invasion
of Horodenka 1939.
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | tr-9920 |
Reel-to-reel tape - Necha(Nina) Peterson interviews with Mariam Blaukopf in Yiddish.
Interview 6 - Vienna 1938, Bindergasse, Horodenka. Interview 7 - Vienna, German translation.
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | tr-9921 |
Reel-to-reel tape - Necha(Nina) Peterson interviews with Mariam Blaukopf in Yiddish.
Interview 13 - Father in hospital, Horodenka, Kolanki, Dr. Karpf. Interview 14 - Kolanki,
end of story, America.
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | tr-9922 |
Reel-to-reel tape - Necha(Nina) Peterson interviews with Mariam Blaukopf in Yiddish.
Interview 15 - Tluste, Czortkov, back to Horodenka, Dniester river, Feige's children,
Bucharest. Interview 16 - Horodenka, Chernovitz, Bucharest,Hungary, Mamarocz-Szigeth,
Graz.
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | CD-2012 |
CD of tape interviews 1,2,3,4,5.
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | CD-2013 |
CD of tape interviews 6, 13 15.
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | CD-2014 |
CD of tape interviews 7,8,9,10,11.
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | CD-2015 |
CD of tape interviews 12, 14,16.
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | CD-2016 |
CD of three tape interviews - 4,6,12. Filtered by a recording technician.
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n.d. |