1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3714471
• English, Hebrew
• Original 2 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

"16 Days in Hiding": Report by an unknown author regarding his experiences in hiding in Grodno Liquidation of the Grodno Ghetto under the command of Kurt Wiese and Erich Schott, the Gestapo men, February-12 March 1943; life in hiding including a detailed description of the hiding place; collaboration of the Polish and Belorussian police with the Germans in discovering hiding places of Jews; capture of the Jews in hiding; escape of the author; the author's transfer to Bialystok.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504338
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Describes Cecile Kaufer’s (Paris, France, b. circa 1932) childhood in Paris, France; the German occupation of France and the consequent fates of her family including their stay in the Vélodrome d'hiver in Paris and their hiding in Normandy; the liberation of France and their immigration to and life in the United States.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502752
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a copy of "Hell and Rebirth: My Experiences during the Time of Persecution," by Dr. Edith Kramer. The memoir describes Kramer's experiences as a Jewish physician forced to care for women in various camps near Poznań, Poland. Also included is information on the inferior medical conditions in the camps, inferior sanitation, the treatment of women, and Kramer's post-liberation acquaintance with Hermann Hesse (Nobel Prize winner) and his wife, Ninon Hesse.

1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3714572
• English, Hebrew
• Typewritten copy מקור וקסרוקס 26 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

"In Hiding": Testimony of Y. L-n The life led by approximately 50 Jews in hiding in the Bialystok (?) Ghetto including the crying of children, the coughing of the elderly and the fear of discovery of the hiding place. Memoirs of Rabbi Halperin from Orla regarding Orla in the Bielsk Podlaski area; a written comment by Mordechai Tenenbaum: "Taken out of Bialystok, February 1943".

1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3714447
• English, Hebrew
• Handwritten copy Original 12 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

"Irony of Fate", "I Do Not Like" and "A Feeling of Spring": Poems/Songs written by M. Turek in hiding places and forests in the Tiktin area "Irony of Fate": Legal restraints on criminals in the past as opposed to control by criminals and their current murderous acts; forfeiting the lives of lawyers and physicians including their hiding in hiding places in fear for their lives; "I Do Not Like": the author's resignation to his anticipated fate; the author must not be pessimistic, but rather he should rejoice that life is short; Composition of other poems/songs by the author including "A Feeli...

1. Oral history interviews of the Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn532681
• English
• 1 digital file, MPEG-4
• Updated 1 year ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503747
• English
• 1967
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of an excerpt from the book by Sophia Binkiene, which is comprised of testimony by Dr. F. Gurviciene concerning the rescue of her daughter during the Holocaust by Dr. Ona Landsbergiene, the mother of the future democratically elected president of Lithuania, Vytautas Landsbergis.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503483
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Includes of "The story of Dr. Josef Jaksy" by Amira Trattner. The speech includes testimony by several of Jaksy's acquaintances including Mario Cuomo, Governor of New York. The testimonies describe Jaksy's activities as a Righteous Gentile in Czechoslovakia where he was responsible for the rescue and successful escape of many Jews and political deviants. Also included is an invitation to a reception given in Jaksy's honor at the Consulate General of Israel in NewYork.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503498
• English
• 1991
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a copy of "True friends" by Klaus Driessen. The manuscript describes how the writer's mother, Mati Driessen, a German costume designer, rescued her friend and business partner, Lilli Wolff, a German Jew, from Nazi persecution.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504290
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The newspaper article, "A dramatic story of Jewish wondering, brother and sisters meet in Argentina after 46 years of separation," from the 28 November 1959, Buenos Aires issue of "Die Presse", describes the war-time experiences of Charles Zacepitzky's children whose surviving family members were able to meet in Buenos Aires in 1959. The article also relates how some members of this Polish Jewish family: hid and tried to survive in the forests; joined the partisans; suffered in ghettos; and were killed by Nazis or antisemitic Poles. The newspaper article also includes a photograph of the su...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504243
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Zvi Baumrin's memoir describes: Baumrin's childhood in Poland; his escape from an Aktion during which his father and some other relatives were killed; his mother's and brother's experiences inside a ghetto and their death; his work in an unnamed concentration camp; his transport in a cattle car and his subsequent escape; his hiding until the end of the war in the L'vov ghetto and in the house of a gentile friend of his father's; and his emigration to Israel.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504254
• English
• 1988
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The memoir describes Simon Sterling and his wife's experiences in Nazi-occupied Poland; the Brody ghetto; his separation from his wife, Sophie, and his deportation to a concentration camp; his escape; Simon and Sophie's reunion; hiding in a forest; Simon's bout with typhus; their liberation by the Soviet military; Simon's work in a brewery; their escape to the American Zone of Occupation in Germany; the displaced persons camp at Föhrenwald, Germany; and their immigration to the United States.

1. Greenbaum family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn736874
• English
• 1921
• overall: Height: 9.055 inches (23 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Children's book, Alef beys, entrusted to Esther Greenbaum by her friend. The Yiddish language book was written by Eliezer Steinbarg and published by Ḳulṭur, Ṭshernovits in 1921. The book is part of a collection documenting the experiences of Henry Greenbaum, his family, and his wife, Esther Stern, in Gąbin, Poland, Romania, and France, before, during, and after the Holocaust. Henry, who was the eldest of four Greenbaum children, moved to France for medical school, where he met Esther, a fellow medical student from Romania. Henry’s parents, Jakob and Hena, along with his brother, Stas (St...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn82135
• English
• box folder 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Alexander Gleis papers consist primarily of Gleis' firsthand accounts of his experiences surviving the Stanisławów ghetto, hiding in an underground shelter at the home of a Polish Catholic named Staszek Jackowski, being liberated, and moving to Israel. The papers also include retellings of the Jackowski story by Ruth Gruber and in clippings, biographical materials documenting Gleis and his wife, maps of Stanisławów, photographs of Gleis and his family before and after the war, and two letters to Gleis from the Bayerisches Landesentschädigungsamt.

1. Greenbaum family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn736875
• English
• 1921
• overall: Height: 9.055 inches (23 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Children's book, ʼAlfon, entrusted to Esther Greenbaum by her friend. The Hebrew language grammar book was written by ʼEliʻezer Shṭeynberg and published in Romania in 1921. The book is part of a collection documenting the experiences of Henry Greenbaum, his family, and his wife, Esther Stern, in Gąbin, Poland, Romania, and France, before, during, and after the Holocaust. Henry, who was the eldest of four Greenbaum children, moved to France for medical school, where he met Esther, a fellow medical student from Romania. Henry’s parents, Jakob and Hena, along with his brother, Stas (Stan), si...

1. Alfred H. Elbau collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn507332
• English
• folders 3 , 4 microfiche,
• Updated 1 year ago

Includes originals and copies of Holocaust-related pieces written by Alfred Elbau. Among them are a speech transcript titled "Berlin's Jews - past and present," an autobiography by Elbau describing his life in Berlin, Germany, before the Holocaust and his family's emigration to the United States, and a translation of the diary of Erich Frey. The Frey diary describes the life of a Jewish family in Berlin at the beginning of the Holocaust and their experiences of persecution. The bulk dates of the diary are 1939-1942.

1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5247313
• English, Hebrew
• xerox 13 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Andre Weingarten, born in Nancy, France, 1913; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Membership in La Sixieme (the Sixth) of the EIF (French Jewish Scouts); membership in Joseph Bass' Reseau Andre (Service Andre); rescue of Jews in the Marseilles area; providing forged documents and finding hiding places; arrested with his wife at the time of the liberation when his neighbors inform on him; transfer to the Presentines prison in Marseilles with his wife; death in prison following severe torture; 14 September 1944. In the file: - Photograph of A...

1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5265742
• English, Hebrew
• xerox 5 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Armand Gelmann, 1921; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in the Gers region including EIF (French Jewish Scouts) membership; life in the Lot et Garonne region including EIF membership; life in the Tarn et Garonne district including EIF membership; La Sixieme (the Sixth) membership; activities as contact person for Dr. Sigismond Hirsch; activities initiating contacts and finding hiding places for Jews; arrest by the Gestapo after he is informed on; deportation to Auschwitz on Transport 58, 31 July 1943; nominated for the Medaille de la ...

1. Jacob Barosin collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn50732
• English
• overall: Height: 10.875 inches (27.623 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

1. Jacob Barosin collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn50745
• English
• overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.625 inches (37.148 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...