1. Frederick R. Wohl collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501141
• English
• 1939-1947
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a memoir entitled "Recollections of one participant in the evacuation of the Jewish community from the British colony of Cyprus in 1941," and letters and documents pertaining to Friedrich now Frederick Richard Wohl's experiences as a participant in the evacuation of the Jewish community from the British colony of Cyprus in 1941.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500547
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Testimony, typescript, 28 pages, describing experiences during German occupation of Hungary, the ghetto in an unnamed hometown, and deportation to Auschwitz.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501803
• English
• 1995
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a handwritten memoir, two pages, describing the author's deportation in June 1944 to "Lager C" in Auschwitz concentration camp; her transfer to an ammunition factory in Hunsfeld labor camp; the death march to Gross Rosen concentration camp in January 1945; her transfer to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945; and her postwar life in Sweden and the United States.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47565
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 4 pages, entitled "Some of my personal memories of the dark years of the Holocaust" written by Frieda Greenspan in May 1981. In the memoir, she describes her experiences at Płaszów concentration camp, her transfer to Auschwitz, switching identities with another prisoner to be able to stay in Auschwitz with her younger sister, escaping from a forced march after the evacuation from Auschwitz, and her experiences in hiding with her sister and friend. They were liberated by the Red Army in Poland in February 1944.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517617
• English
• 1965-1994
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of photographs, documents, and a transcript related to the Holocaust experiences of Frieda (Fryda) Szpigner Aharonson, originally of Stanislawów, Poland. Her family perished in Treblinka, but Frieda was saved by Aleksandra Gawrych, who hid her in her house in Stanislawów, and a nun, Marjanna Reszko, the mother superior of a convent in Ignacow. Includes copies of family photographs as well as a photograph of Mother Superior Reszko and a photograph of a memorial to Mrs. Gawrych's husband, Jan Gawrych, who was executed in 1943. Also includes the translation (in Hebrew) of an oral hi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501097
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Testimony, three pages, typescript, describing experiences of author as a Kindertransport child who was sent to Scotland, later worked on a "Hachshara" in Britain, moved to London to get training in child care, and eventually immigrated to U.S.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504145
• English
• folders 5
• Updated 1 year ago

Wolfgang Furrer's memoir describes his experiences as a political prisoner in Dachau and Sachsenhausen. Additionally, the text includes a photocopy of an UNRRA document verifying Furrer's status as a former inmate of concentration camps and a 1953 affidavit by Gottlob Wandel relating the reason for Furrer's arrest.

1. Fritz and Ilse Silten collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519057
• English
• 1943-1945
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains an unpublished manuscript in German by Fritz Joseph and another unpublished manuscript in German by Hoffman entitled "To Auschwitz December 1943" with accompanying translation by Gabriele Silten. Also includes copies of family documents and notes written by Ruth Gabriele Silten [donor].

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504263
• English
• 1945
• folder 1 8 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Fritz Buchholz's report (dated 19 Jun. 1945) describes the following in Auschwitz-Birkenau: sadistic camp guards; torture of inmates; the deaths of Jewish prisoners in gas chambers; confiscation and stockpiling of the arrivals' property; and the destruction of the camp's crematorium by the Nazi guards before the camp was overrun by the Soviet military.

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL617
• English
• 1933-1939
• 1 MF Reel
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection consists of a 288 page manuscript diary and a 71 page personal account, both of which provide valuable evidence for the persecution of German Jewry in the Third Reich.

1. Fritzi Klein Natko collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn609635
• English
• 1937-1945
• folders 10
• Updated 1 year ago

The Fritzi Klein Natko papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and an autograph book owned by Fritzi Klein, who immigrated to the United States as a child in June 1939 as part of the "50 children" group organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. Biographical materials include birth, marriage, residency, and naturalization certificates and identification papers. Correspondence includes letters and postcards exchanged among Fritzi in the United States, her brother in England, and their parents in Austria. Photographs depict Fritzi and Herbert Klein, their parents, ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502768
• English
• 1987-1988
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a copy of a survivor testimony entitled "From 'Jerusalayim d'Lita' and back (Wilno, 'Jerusalem of Lithuania')" written by William Z. Good. The testimony describes Good's experience as a child in Niemenczyn, Soviet Union; persecution by Poles; his narrow escape from an execution in Ponary; hiding in the forest and in the homes of Poles during the Holocaust; and his return to Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Niemenczyn after 43 years. Also included are several photocopies of Gdud family photographs through the years and an article from a Russian-language newspaper in Vilnius...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501670
• English
• 1997
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a 28 page memoir by Saul M. Bergman. Written in 1997, this memoir relates the author's experiences as an adolescent during the German invasion of his native Belgium, and his subsequent escape with his father to southern France, their eventual arrest and imprisonment at Récébédou and later Casseneuil, his father's deportation from Casseneuil to Drancy and eventually to Auschwitz, and the author's escape to Switzerland, where he was reunited with his mother and sister in Geneva in 1942.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504368
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Describes Sara Lew's childhood in Poland; her internment in the ghetto in Bialystok, Poland, and many concentration camps including Majdanek, Blizyn, Auschwitz, and Krakow (Kratzau); the death of family members; and her post-Holocaust experiences as a displaced person in Europe and after her immigration to the United States in 1950. It also includes poems and vignettes in English and Hebrew about Auschwitz, her parents and their values, liberation, and people Sara knew.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501122
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Testimony, 143 pages, photocopy of typescript, titled "From Hell to Home: Memoirs of One Who Survived," by Matityahu Goldberg, written in 1986 and translated (from Hebrew?) by Carl and Nechama Alpert. Recounts life in pre-war Lithuania, Soviet and German occupation, Dachau, time in DP camps, immigration to Israel.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502008
• English
• 1991
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a memoir, 26 pages, about Miriam Eliasberg's early life in Munich, move to Vienna, Austria, with her family in 1933, summers of 1935-1936 in a small village in the Alps called Obertressen, leaving Austria in 1938 for Zurich, London, and her journey to New York on the SS Britanic.

1. Leopold Lowy collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500230
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Documents relating to Erna and Mark Fuchs and Leopold Lowy, and memoir relating to Leopold Lowy.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn617429
• English
• 1881-1985
• folders 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Arthur Jacob Fuld (Artur Jakob Fuld), originally of Gießen, Germany, including his immigration to the United States via Cuba in 1941, his United States Army service as a sergeant with the 970th Counter Intelligence Corps, and his marriage to Ursula Gertrud Erftemeier in 1949. Included are identification papers, army records, birth certificates, historical family documents, post-war archival research and correspondence regarding the Fuld family, Ursula’s naturalization certificate, a postwar personal statement ("Lebenlauf"), and one m...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516782
• English
• 2005
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 9 pages, describing the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Gabriele (now Gabrielle) Kahn, originally of Mannheim, Germany. Gabriele's family was prominent in Germany, but fled the country in 1933, moving first to Paris, and then to the Netherlands. There, the family lived in Amsterdam, Amstelveen, and Blaricum, including a period of time in hiding, before escaping to the United States in 1941 by using Dr. Richard Kahn's (Gabriele's father) professional connections. Includes memories of Gabriele's psychological reactions to her pre-war, wartime, and post-wa...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn33879
• English
• 1880-1968
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Gabryela Bromberg collection consists of seven pre-war family photographs of the Bromberg family in Lublin, Poland and Berlin, Germany, and the testimony of Regina Jabłońska who hid Gabryela Bromberg from October 1942 until their liberation in July 1944.