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[News Clip: Local Poles]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
December 13, 1982, 6:00 p.m.
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Marzena Ksiazkiewicz
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Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Marzena Kasiazkiewicz, a immigrant to the Dallas area from Kraków, Poland. Kasiazkiewicz discusses first coming to the United States, caring for her mother, her parents, growing up in communist Poland, deciding to stay in the US, adjusting to the American workplace, moving to Texas, her partner and children, the effect of 9/11 on immigrants, learning English, working in eye-care, and John Paul II.
Date:
December 6, 2012
Creator:
McKee, David & Kasiazkiewicz, Marzena
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William P. Schiff, January 12, 1990
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Interview with William Schiff, a Holocaust survivor from Kraków, Poland. Schiff discusses his family, antisemitism before the war, the invasion of Poland, being put into forced labor by the Germans and Poles, the ghetto and survival there, getting married, experiences in internment at Kraków-Płaszów, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald concentration camps, liberation, returning to Kraków and finding his wife, and life afterwards.
Date:
January 12, 1990
Creator:
Rosen, Keith & Schiff, William P.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News in foreign wars]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
November 18, 1970, 6:30 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from I.H. to Cecile Kempner, April 8, 1945]
Letter to Cecile from her father discussing international relations and politics.
Date:
April 8, 1945
Creator:
Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. to Cecile Kempner, December 21, 1947]
Letter to Cecile from her father about Congress, government, and a Christmas card from 1938.
Date:
December 21, 1947
Creator:
Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. to Cecile Kempner, June 3, 1945]
Letter to Cecile from her father about work and remaining issues in Syria, Lebanon, Persia, Egypt, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.
Date:
June 3, 1945
Creator:
Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. to Cecile Kempner, March 25, 1945]
Letter to Cecile from her father about anticipation of the end of the war, and Germany's lack of economic and military resources.
Date:
March 25, 1945
Creator:
Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. to Cecile Kempner, February 4, 1945]
Letter to Cecile from her father about her contributions to his business and the war. He shares that he believes that Germany is "doomed economically". Again, he brings up the Jones-Wallace issue. International relation between Russia, Britain, and the US are also discussed.
Date:
February 4, 1945
Creator:
Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I.H. to Cecile Kempner, 1951]
Letter to Cecile from her father about potential war, world hunger, economics of foreign countries, and personal matters.
Date:
1951
Creator:
Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Memories of Nelly Levy Berg: Her Life in Germany and her First Ten Years in America, 1910-1948
Biographical narrative about Nelly Levy Berg and her family, detailing her early life in Germany (now part of Poland) and subsequent immigration to Houston, Texas. It also discusses World War II and the effects of the Holocaust on her extended family. The author (Berg's daughter) also describes a modern-day trip to Eastern Europe to revisit the locations.
Date:
1995
Creator:
Wulfe, Lorraine
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of letter from Mary Austin Holley to Stephen F. Austin, June 8, 1832]
Copy of transcript for a letter from Mary Austin Holley to Stephen F. Austin, in which Mary relays a few world events, asks Stephen to "be firm against slavery," and discusses her own desires to move to Texas.
Date:
June 8, 1832
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Thos. L. James, July 9, 1949]
Letter from D. W. Kempner to Thos. L. James discussing the family's history with hiring displaced families from Europe.
Date:
July 9, 1949
Creator:
Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rediscovery of the Elements: The Noble Gases--Rayleigh and Ramsay
Article describing the discovery of argon, helium, and other inert gases by Lord Rayleigh, Sir William Ramsay, and other collaborators. Ramsay also characterized the noble gases and classified them within the structure of the Periodic Table of Elements.
Date:
Autumn 2012
Creator:
Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Dr. Marceli Dobrzynski, December 13, 1955]
Letter from I. H. Kempner to Marceli Dobrzynski informing him that he is sending him a photocopy of the signed telegram Kempner had received from Dobrzynski. He also assures him that he is "entering instructions to Pekao Trading Company" to duplicate an earlier request. The receipt from that earlier request is attached.
Date:
December 13, 1955
Creator:
Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Telegram from Kempner to Marek Dobrzynski, May 19, 1956]
Telegram sent by Kempner to Marek Dobrzynski informing him that the order has been completed.
Date:
May 19, 1956, 9:00 a.m.
Creator:
H. Kempner (Firm)
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to I. Alan Ulert, June 3, 1948]
Letter from I. H. Kempner to I. Alan Ulert providing Dr. Dobrzynski's address and letting him know that the questions about Adam Kurland would probably be more effective coming from Ulert instead of Kempner.
Date:
June 3, 1948
Creator:
Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Marceli and Andrezej Dobrzynski to H. Kempner, November 13, 1955]
Letter from Marceli and Andrezej Dobrzynski to the H. Kempner firm informing them that they have not received an answer to their letter of August 4th. They ask them to "reply in the usual manner through Pekao".
Date:
November 13, 1955
Creator:
Dobrzynski, Marceli & Dobrzynski, Andrezej
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Dan Oppenheimer, August 22, 1945]
Letter from D. W. Kempner to Dan Oppenheimer discussing about the details for the clothes and other packages that should be sent.
Date:
August 22, 1945
Creator:
Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Pola Bekker, October 12, 1996
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Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Pola Bekker, a Holocaust survivor from Warsaw. Bekker discusses her family, the Jewish District in Warsaw, life in the city before the war, antisemitism in Warsaw, the invasion of Poland and bombing of the city, fleeing to Russia, life in Orsk, moving to Voroshilovgrad, returning to Poland at the end of the war, and moving to Israel.
Date:
October 12, 1996
Creator:
Anson, Jennifer & Bekker, Pola
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Laura Miller, October 30, 2014
Interview with Laura Miller, a consultant for the Texas Clean Energy project. The interview includes discussion of her youth, education, and career as a journalist and mayor of Dallas, Texas.
Date:
October 30, 2014
Creator:
Carter, Chase & Miller, Laura
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
From Journalist to Dallas Mayor to Clean Energy Consultant
This article is a short biography of Laura Miller, a consultant for the Texas Clean Energy project, based on an oral history discussing her education and career.
Date:
October 30, 2014
Creator:
Carter, Chase; Limon, Elvia & Laljer, Jessie
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from William Males to Mr. I. H. Kempner, April 14, 1952]
Letter from William Males to Mr. I. H. Kempner discussing regarding immigration of persons in Poland.
Date:
April 14, 1952
Creator:
Males, William
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Walter Poppe, November 6, 2018
Edited transcript of an interview with Walter Poppe, discussing immigration from Germany to Kerrville as a child, his time in the Navy, and his family. Copies of photos and documents are included at the end of the transcript.
Date:
November 6, 2018
Creator:
Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Poppe, Walter Eric
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History