• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502721
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 6 months ago

The collection consists of testimony form Stanislaw Gwizdka regarding the revolt of the crematoria work crew in Auschwitz-Birkenau on October 1, 1944.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502752
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 6 months 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. Jan Rozanski collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503649
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 6 months ago

Contains information about Jan Rozanski's experiences during childhood in Poland; the German invasion and occupation of Poland; anti-Jewish measures; life in the ghetto and concentration camp; and liberation by Soviet troops.

1. Bernard Nissenbaum collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502874
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 6 months ago

The testimony describes Bernard Nissenbaum's deportation from France and his imprisonment in several concentration and labor camps during the Holocaust. The testimony includes detailed descriptions of conditions in the Trzebinia camp, the status and treatment of wealthy Jews as compared with other inmates, the division of various nationalities of prisoners in the Birkenau camp, the situation of the "Muselmänner" in various camps, the relationships between Kapos and inmates, and conditions in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, prior to the uprising. Bernard wrote the testimony around 1945-1946, ...

1. Nathan Gutman collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504119
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 6 months ago

The memoir, "The execution of capo Beim," describes Nathan Gutman's experiences during the Nazi occupation of Poland; his internment in Krakow-Płaszów; and his relationship with a kapo in that camp before the Nazis put the kapo to death.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502745
• English
• 1939-1945
• folder 1
• Updated 6 months ago

Contains information about Alois Moser's experiences as a Jehovah's Witness during the Holocaust. Moser describes his persecution as a Jehovah's Witness, his imprisonment in several camps including Mauthausen, and the various types of camp inmate markings (triangles and badges) that he encountered in the camps. Also included is a timeline that traces Moser's travels as a prisoner from April 1939 through May 1945.

1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/156
• English, Hebrew
• pages 1 Newspaper clippings Original
• Updated 9 years ago

Article from the "Davar" newspaper regarding the criminal trial of Lucian Kozminski, the former head Kapo in the Gross-Rosen camp in Germany held in the United States, 27 March 1983 Kozminski was found guilty of acts of fraud against Holocaust survivors and sentenced to imprisonment.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn51101
• English
• 1945-1948
• box 1 2 negatives,
• Updated 6 months ago

The collection contains documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to Asriel and Mascha Berkmann’s experiences in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and in Munich, Germany after the war. Included are identification documents; immigration papers; documents regarding Asriel’s involvement with the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria and the Jewish Committee Munich; correspondence; an affidavit signed by 30 prisoners at Dachau concentration camp stating that Asriel was also there and worked to help his fellow prisoners; a document stating that no paperwork exists rega...

1. Edward Lawrence Associates castings collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn14223
• English
• overall: Height: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) | Width: 257.000 inches (652.78 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)
• Updated 6 months ago

Casting of the archway over the main gate to Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz I) in German-occupied Poland. Auschwitz I was established in April 1940, in an abandoned Polish army barracks and was continuously expanded by forced labor. The motto on the arch came from the title of a 19th-century novel by Lorenz Diefenbach, first deployed as propaganda during the German economic and unemployment crisis of the 1920s and 1930s. Under the Nazi regime, it was also displayed in several other concentration camps around Europe, and suggested that the purpose of the camps was to reform inmates,...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn4378
• English
• overall: Height: 25.000 inches (63.5 cm) | Width: 255.000 inches (647.7 cm) | Depth: 57.000 inches (144.78 cm)
• Updated 6 months ago

Granite blocks quarried from the site of Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria in the ‘Anschluss’, and in April established the Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke (GmbH-DESt, German Earth and Stone Works Inc.) to exploit the labor of concentration camp prisoners. In August, a concentration camp was established three miles from the town of Mauthausen, near the Wiener Graben stone quarry. Built by prisoners detailed from Dachau concentration camp in Germany, it originally functioned as a forced-labor camp, and later became a transfer point to subcamps and ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502756
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 6 months ago

Consists of a copy of "Death March: April 14, 1945-April 24, 1945," written by Benno Fischer in June 1945. The testimony describes Fischer's experiences as a prisoner of Flossenbürg, his forced labor in an airplane factory, and his participation in a death march through Bavaria.

1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731378
• English, Hebrew
• 1941-1955
• Typewritten
• Updated 5 years ago

Diary written by Djura Rajs, born in Petrovgrad, Yugoslavia, 1930, in Petrovgrad camp, and memoirs written by his brother, Jovan Rajs, born in Petrovgrad, Yugoslavia, 1933, regarding his experiences in Petrovgrad camp, in hiding in Belgrade, in Austria and in Bergen-Belsen 1. Part of a diary written by Djura Rajs in Petrovgrad camp, 1941; 2. Diary written by Jovan Rajs in Bergen-Belsen, 1944-1945; 3. Memoirs written by Jovan Rajs regarding his experiences in Petrovgrad camp, in hiding in Belgrade, in Austria and in Bergen-Belsen.

1. World War II

• Data Archiving and Networked Services
• urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-3bu-sya
• Dutch
• 2010
• Updated 9 years ago

De geïnterviewde werd geboren op 28 augustus 1926 en groeide op in Schiedam. In deze plaats heeft hij gezien hoe de joodse overburen werden weggehaald. Hij vertelt voornamelijk over de periode in Duitsland waar hij sinds december 1944 werkzaam was vanwege de Arbeitseinsatz. Gedurende zijn werkzaamheden in de buurt van Müchen kwam hij in aanraking met joodse dwangarbeiders uit Dachau. Hij heeft gezien hoe erg deze mensen er aan toe waren en vertelt welk werk ze moesten doen. Hij beschrijft tevens het moment waarop joodse gevangenen gedwongen werden een medegevangene dood te schoppen. Verder ...

1. World War II

• Data Archiving and Networked Services
• urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-e15-59t
• Dutch
• 2005
• Updated 9 years ago

De geïnterviewde woonde in Amsterdam in een wijk waar veel Joden woonden. Zijn vader had een fabriek waar matses werden gemaakt. Hij vertelt levendig over verschillende arrestaties en razzia’s waarvan hij getuige was en noemt enkele schrijnende voorbeelden waarbij onder meer onwetendheid , gehoorzaamheid en angst als factoren voor het gedrag van de Joden worden aangedragen. Onderduik komt eveneens aan de orde in dit interview. Hij gaat tot slot in op de eigen avonturen die hij als kind tijdens de oorlog beleefde. The interviewee lived in an area of Amsterdam were many Jews lived. His father...

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

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3714350
• English, Hebrew
• Original 2 pages/frames
• Updated 5 years ago

Joint testimony of Leime Plishko, born in Wysokie Mazowiecki, Poland, and Abram Sokol, born in Wysokie Mazowiecki, Poland, regarding the Sonderkommando Uprising in Auschwitz Decision of the Sonderkommando workers in Auschwitz to resist under the command of Zalmen Gradowski from Suwalki; betrayal of the resistance; execution of the Sonderkommando Kapo by Otto Mohl and Musfeld; outbreak of the uprising by the Sonderkommando workers in Birkenau, Sukkot (02 October) 1944; burning of Crematorium Number 4 by the Sonderkommando workers; murder of the Sonderkommando workers; killing of a German by ...

1. World War II

• Data Archiving and Networked Services
• urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-nvy6-x1
• Dutch
• 2014
• Updated 2 years ago

Jaccques Furth *7-7-1910 komt uit een diamantbewerkersgezin uit Antwerpen, dat naar Amsterdam trok. Hij trouwt in 1939, gaat wonen in de Transvaalbuurt en in februari 1941 wordt zoon Dave geboren. Jacques wordt alleen, zonder vrouw en kind, van huis gehaald, op de tweede verjaardag van zijn zoon. Hij verblijft in kamp Vught en maakt hier als lid van de Ordedienst de vertrekkende Kindertransporten mee. Omdat hij met eigen ogen ziet hoe slecht de kinderen het hebben, stuurt hij illegaal briefjes aan zijn vrouw Fietje met de opdracht: laat ons kind onderduiken. Dit doet zij. Zelf komt ze in We...

1. World War II

• Data Archiving and Networked Services
• urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-462y-sh
• Dutch
• 2014
• Updated 2 years ago

Jules Schelvis wordt geboren op 7 januari 1921 in Amsterdam. Hij trouwt op 20-jarige leeftijd met Rachel Borzykowski, dochter van Pools-Joodse immigranten. Samen met Rachel en haar ouders, zus, broer en zwager worden ze eind mei 1943 bij een grote razzia van huis gehaald en naar Westerbork gestuurd. Hiervandaan naar Sobibor, een totaal onbekende bestemming. Nog altijd denken ze naar een werkkamp te gaan. De mannen worden van de vrouwen gescheiden, zo snel dat Jules geen afscheid kan nemen. Het lukt hem om bij een groep geselecteerde jonge mannen te komen. Dit zal zijn redding betekenen. Dez...

1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731382
• English, Hebrew
• Handwritten, original 187 pages/frames
• Updated 5 years ago

Memoirs of Harri Berlin, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, in Stutthof, Dautmergen and Kivioli camps and more "Chapters of Memoirs": "Parting" (pages 10-28): Life in the Vilna Ghetto; separation between men and women during the ghetto liquidation "Aktion", 1943; being separated from his wife; concentration together with the other Jewish males on the street under guard; public hanging of two men and one woman before being deported to the camps; "Stutthof" (pages 29-43): Deportation to Stutthof; camp life; beatings and abuse on arrival at the camp; t...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504403
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 6 months ago

Contains a memoir in Hungarian, with an English translation, in two parts. Part I is entitled "Napló közel 50 év utan" ("Diary nearly 50 years later") and Part II is entitled "Megmenekülés" ("Narrow escape"). Describes the author's experiences as a teenager in an unnamed Hungarian town following the German invasion in 1944; her deportation to "Lager C" of Auschwitz concentration camp; her memories of selections by Josef Mengele and brutal actions by Irma Grese; her unsuccessful efforts to find her sisters in "Lager B;" her transfer to an ammunition factory in Guben, Germany (now Poland...

1. University of Michigan, Dearborn oral history collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn513793
• English
• 2 sound cassettes, analog
• Updated 6 months ago