• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501660
• English
• 1940-1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a copy of a booklet entitled "19 Wasted Months: diary and notes of my internment" by Kurt Lewinski. The booklet, which is a typed English translation of the original German, describes Lewinski's experiences in an internment camp for enemy aliens in England; life on the HMT Dunera ship, which transported him to Australia in 1940; and life in the Hay, New South Wales and in the Tatura internment camps. The text is written in the form of daily diary entries, and includes two epilogues written in 1942 and 1945 which reveal that Mr. Lewinski joined the Australian military.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501691
• English
• 1945-1997
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one typed portion of a memoir, 37 pages, entitled "80574" written by Simha Naor, born Stella Silberstein, 1899-1994, originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, which was written based on the diary she began immediately after liberation, Simha describes her arrest in southern France in 1943, her deportation to Drancy and almost immediately thereafter, to Auschwitz. She describes the process of arriving at Auschwitz, the architecture of the barracks, and life with fellow prisoners. The memoir, which is incomplete, contains a preface by Tisa von der Schulenburg. The original Ger...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn515293
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a memoir, 12 pages, describing the liberation experiences of Peter Gannon, a member of the British Armed Forces that liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He also describes a chance reunion with a survivor of Bergen-Belsen in Sweden in 1982. Mr. Gannon had given the woman chocolate on the day of liberation.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518969
• English
• 2006
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of one manuscript, 56 pages, entitled "A Brief History of the Moller Family During the Nazi Era, 1933-1945, and Beyond," written in 2006 by brothers Ruben H. Moller and Levi W. Moller. The manuscript details their childhood in Bochum, Germany, the death of their father August Moller in 1935, their and experiences on Kristallnacht. It also details their Holocaust experiences including their deportation to the Riga ghetto in December 1941, their transfer to Kaiserwald concentration camp in 1943, and subsequent transfers to Dünawerke, a work camp in Panevėžys, Lithuania...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn37018
• English
• 1990-2008
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one document, 6 pages, entitled "A Christmas Memoir," by Anne L. Knox, which describes her memories of life in a German concentration camp in Belgium (possibly Mecheln/Mechelen) in the winter of 1943. In the testimony, she describes the strange celebration of Christmas in the camp. Also includes eight photographs of Mechelen taken in 1990 on the site of the memorial at the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance (located at the Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen).

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500760
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a memoir entitled "A fateful meeting" relating to discovering a pre-war family friend from Hungary during a visit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503794
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains information about Fred Benjamin's life in Germany and his emigration to India. Also contains Benjamin's thoughts on religion and social issues.

1. Robert Winkler collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503640
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a memoir written circa 1992, with information about Robert Winkler's childhood; family experiences and national events in Hungary during the war years; the German occupation of 1944; Winkler's forced labor in Hungary; escape and capture; forced service with a Gestapo unit; re-escape and "passing" with false identification as a Hungarian gentile; service as a "gentile" in the Hungarian army; liberation by the Red Army. Also included is a postscript with information about the subsequent fate of some of the people mentioned in the memoir.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn50056
• English
• 2012
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 181 pages, entitled "A Life of Rebellion," by Hans Apel, as told to Stefan G. Meyer. In the memoir, which was written based on extensive audio interviews with Mr. Apel (originally Appelbaum), Mr. Apel describes his childhood, antisemitism in Konitz, life in the German army in World War I, and the rise of Nazi influence in his brewery firm in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s. In 1935, he and his family emigrated to the Netherlands, to England in 1936, and to the United States in 1937. During World War II, he taught German language and history to army officers ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524395
• English
• 2010
• folder 1 , 1 CD-ROM,
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one manuscript, in print and on CD-ROM, entitled "A Long Road Home: The Life and Times of Grisha Sklovsky, 1915-1995", written by John Nicholson in 2007. Mr. Sklovksy was born in Siberia, but following the Russian Revolution, his family moved to Berlin, where he attended school. In 1934, Mr. Sklovsky moved to France and studied at the University of Lyon. In October 1939, he joined the Czech Brigade and spent the war fighting with the British Army, while his mother, Chaja Sklovsky, was deported from Drancy in 1942 and perished in the Holocaust. In 1947, Mr. Sklovsky immigrated to...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn39418
• English
• 1944-2008
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 150 pages, entitled "A Man is Stronger than Iron: My Years Under the Nazis in Ukraine," 150 pages, by Moishe (Michael) Woszczyna, originally of Stepan, Poland. In his memoir, Mr. Woszczyna describes the German invasion of his town in 1941, anti-Jewish measures imposed by the Germans and Ukrainians, parachutists dropping on his town, the arrival of partisans, and life in the Stepan ghetto. He also describes witnessing the massacre in the ghetto, which he survived by hiding under an oven, and after it was over, he escaped the ghetto and joined the partisans in the Kore...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519049
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 54 pages, entitled "A Memoir", by Richard Mayer, originally of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. The memoir, which was edited by Mr. Mayer's grandson, Ron Gery, describes the experiences of Richard and Hella Weiskopf Mayer who escaped, with their young daughter, Astrid Miriam Mayer (later Miriam Gery), from Yugoslavia to Palestine during the Holocaust. Mr. Mayer describes his memories of the German invasion of Yugoslavia, the confiscation of goods and property, and the difficulty both in traveling and in leaving the country. The Mayers eventually managed to escape Yugoslavia and...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn41373
• English
• 1990
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Memoir by Ben-Zion Schuster, originally of Jezierzany, Poland (Ozeri︠a︡ny, Ukraine), entitled "A Rejected Stone: My Life." The memoir is a printed draft from November 1990, and translated from the Yiddish by Professor Robert Moses Shapiro. The memoir describes Ben-Zion’s prewar family life in a shtetl, his studies at a yeshiva in Łuck, Poland (Lutsk, Ukraine), his wartime experience under Soviet and Germany occupation, the fates of his family members, his postwar experiences in displaced persons camps, and his immigration to the United States. 279 pages.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518429
• English
• 2006
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 2006, entitled "A Story of Misery, Miracles, and Love: In the words of Beatrice Sarkany," by Beatrice Sarkany, originally of Sibiu, Transylvania. In her memoir, Mrs. Sarkany describes her memories of the Hungarian occupation, of the Nagyvarad ghetto, and of her deportation to Auschwitz. After a number of months in Auschwitz, she was transferred to the Gorlitz camp in Germany, where she was liberated by the Russian Army in May 1945. Includes copies of photographs.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn46311
• English
• 1994
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 65 pages, entitled "A Story: The Life of Johan and Gertrude Verloop, as written from memory, 1919-1946," which was written by Johan Verloop in 1994. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in the Netherlands, learning of the threat of Nazism, and being accepted into officer's training school in 1939. He describes the German invasion of the Netherlands and his decision to go to university, as well as describing life under the German occupation. He joined the underground resistance movement with his future wife Gertrude (Mam) and helped to hide a young Jewish boy. He...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn41860
• English
• 2010
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one typed testimony, 14 pages, entitled "A Survivor's Connections: Yesterday into Today" by Judith Sherman, a survivor of the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück. In the testimony, she describes the various elements of daily life that remind her of her Holocaust experiences and includes poetry that she has written about her memories.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn523490
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 11 pages, entitled "A Time to Remember", by Anja Legerstee, born Chana Deborah Kuperman, originally of Lublin, Poland. She recalls pre-war Jewish life in Lublin, the 1939 German invasion, life in the Lublin ghetto and her deportation to Majdanek. After she managed to escape from Majdanek and go to Warsaw, she posed as a Christian until the end of the war. She is the only survivor from her family.

1. Margot Lawson collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503598
• English
• 1988
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a photocopy of a typescript memoir entitled "A true story," by Margot E. Lawson. The memoir describes Lawson's experiences in a German prison during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519134
• English
• 1998
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 79 pages, entitled "Against the Odds," written in 1998 by Greta Grossman Lake, originally of Mikulov (Nikolsburg), Czechoslovakia. She describes her childhood in Mikulov, her family life, her memories of World War I, and her marriage in 1932 to George Lakenbacher. Despite difficulty, the couple, who were converted Catholics, along with Greta's brother Joe and his family, were able to immigrate to France in 1938. In 1942, after the first waves of arrests in the Langeac area, George escaped to Spain, but was arrested across the border and interned at the Miranda del Eb...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516417
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, undated, entitled, "Alberto Cernogoraz; 1914-1946: Holocaust Survivor," by Genoveffa Cernogoraz Cook. Mrs. Cook writes about her childhood in pre-war and wartime Italy and her memories of her brother, Alberto, who was arrested in 1943 as a member of the Italian Underground and was presumed dead. After the war, however, the family learned that he had been imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. Though he recovered from his illnesses, Alberto Cernogoraz was murdered in 1946.