• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519572
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains Jacob Kurz's memoirs, in Hebrew, entitled "The Last of the Angels - Memories and Reflections." "The Rose Love: Memoires of Jacob Kurz" is an excerpt from the "Last of the Angels" which describes the writer's experiences in Liberose, a sub-camp of Sachsenhausen.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn507316
• English
• folder 1 25 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a photocopy of a typescript memoir, which describes how Miriam Mordecai and her family, Greek Jews, survived the Holocaust. She gives credit to gentiles in Greece who helped save members of her family. Also included is information about World War II in Italy and Albania and the deportation of several of Mordecai's relatives to Auschwitz.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502538
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Miriam Winer's memoir describes her experiences in Bialystok and Treblinka, and her move to Bolivia after the Holocaust.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502055
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a memoir about Ajzk Grinberg's experiences during the Holocaust.

1. Michael Kishel collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503627
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains information about the German seizure of Kałuszyn, Poland; the establishment of the Kałuszyn Judenrat in November 1939 by Mayor Bumiszcz Plywaczewsky; confiscation of Jewish property in Kałuszyn; general mistreatment of the Jews of Kałuszyn; the special work of Mojsze Kisielnicki as a member of the Kałuszyn Judenrat; disease in the ghetto; and deportation of Kałuszyn Jews to Warsaw; Also included are the names of several Kałuszyn Judenrat officials.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn50758
• English
• 1945-1947
• folders 3
• Updated 1 year ago

Memoir, typescript, 732 pages, written in 1945-1947 by Mojżesz "Mietek" Pachter (donor’s paternal uncle) during his recuperation in a tuberculosis sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland. In the memoir, Mietek described the Pachter family life in the Warsaw ghetto; forced labor by his older brother Wilek Wolf and himself and smuggling of food for the parents: Pinchas and Rywka and their youngest brother Sewek Jeshayahu. The parents and Sewek were deported to Treblinka in January 1943; Wilek and Mietek survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and in May 1943 they were deported to Treblinka, from there t...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501690
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains correspondence, a memoir, and newspaper articles with information regarding survival in Bergen-Belsen's women's camp including a description of starvation. Newspaper articles discuss Bastotzky's Holocaust related experiences. A letter fromTom Lantos, dated March 14, 1994. A list of family names and their fates, dated August 22, 1991. A written, unsigned statement regarding the usage of skin to make lamp-shades, baby's body fat to make soap, and mattresses from hair of gassed victims. Copy of UNRRA certificate. Copy of letter from American GI to the Jewish Welfare Board who met Bast...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn708717
• English
• 1920-1951
• boxes oversize folders book enclosures 2 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Monique Joseph (born Helga Kaufmann), originally of Cologne, Germany, her parents Caroline and Sallly Kaufmann, as well as her Husband Theophile Joseph and his family. Included are identification papers, false-identity documents, an autograph album, immigration papers, correspondence, memoirs, and photographs. Biographical material related to Monique includes address books, an autograph album, identification papers including a French passport; false-identity documents under the name of Monique Colin; post-war documents regarding her ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518266
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 20 pages, in English, written by Chaya Konig Adler, originally of Lubaczow, Poland. In the memoir, she describes her family's experiences in Lubaczow and Zlotchov in the early years of the war, her experiences posing as a Polish girl in Warsaw and the constant threat of being discovered. After the war ended, she reunited with her surviving siblings and married Mordechai Adler. Also includes a copy of a diary and calendar (a luach) written by Mordechai Adler regarding his wartime experiences.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500978
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a memoir and poems relating to experiences in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Gusen.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn538334
• English
• 1912-1966
• box folders 1 24
• Updated 1 year ago

The Morris and Lucy Breitbart papers contain documents and photographs concerning Morris Breitbart of Szczakowa, Poland and his wife, Lucy Gliklich of Nisko, Poland, whom he married at the Rosenheim displaced persons camp after World War II in 1949. Included in the collection is a diary written by Morris while he was in hiding in Poland from 1943 until 1944, postwar documents regarding his credentials as a dentist, immigration to the United States, and restitution claims against the German government. Photographs in this collection depict the Gliklich family before the war in Nisko, Poland,...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501850
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains Danielle Alix Morris's personal memoir and a photocopy of her mother's arrestrecord. Danielle Alix Morris's memoir describes her move closer to the Swiss border after Germany annexed Alsace and hiding in the countryside of France. This collection also includes excerpts from her mother's memoir which describe Gestapo interrogation, experiences in Drancy, deportations to Auschwitz, and her father's escape to Switzerland.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501211
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Testimony, 27 pages and photos, typescript, titled "Morris Krakowsky Memoir," dated 1995. Describes experiences in his hometown of Łódź prior to and during occupation, and at Skarżysko labor camp, then Buchenwald, and at Landsberg DP camp after liberation.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501151
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Testimony, circa 60 pages, typescript, titled "From the Abyss to Freedom: The Story of a Survivor of the Death Camps, 1939-1945," by Moshe Goldschmidt, composed in Hebrew. Describes pre-war life in Bialystok, invasion and occupation by Soviets, then Germans; life in Bialystok ghetto, then a succession of camps (Belzec, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Gusen). Accompanying account of Miriam Goldschmidt (95 pages, handwritten, in notebook) is also in Hebrew. Miriam describes family's life in eastern Slovakia, then Hungary, followed by German occupation, deportation to camps including Stutthof. Also a c...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502277
• English
• 1914-1999
• boxes 2
• Updated 1 year ago

The Mosheim and Marx families papers measure 1.0 linear foot and date from 1914‐1952, 1988, 1994, and 1999. The collection contains biographical materials, correspondence files and translations, Inge Moss’s early life story, photographs, clippings, and research files documenting Herbert and Inge Moss’ immigrations to the United States, the unsuccessful immigration efforts of the families they left behind in Munich and Vlotho, Germany, and efforts to find out what happened to them. Biographical materials document the education and immigration of Inge Marx and Herbert Mosheim. Materials inclu...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn510562
• English
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of the memoir of Elka Moshenberg, who spent much of her life in Israel and wrote her memoir to memorialize her family members who perished during the Holocaust. She lists those who were killed by the Nazis, and laments that she did not insist that they join her in Israel. Also includes a videocassette and CD-ROM documenting a trip to Turka in 2003, visiting many of the places mentioned in the memoir, as well as four videocassettes depicting a 2000 trip with the donor's cousin, Aba Moshenberg. The family videotaped Mr. Moshenberg's visits to the Gross-Rosen, Gradice, Faulbrick, and ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501801
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a handwritten memoir describing the author's life in a labor camp near Letichev, Ukraine cutting trees and building bridges and roads; his escape from the labor camp on November 25,1942 to the Luchinets, Ukraine ghetto; his transfer in May 1943 to Tulchin labor camp; and his escape from that labor camp and return to Luchinets three months later where he hid in a Ukrainian family's house until the end of the occupation in March 1944. After the war, he remained in Ukraine until March 29, 1985 when he emigrated to the United States.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500014
• English
• 1938-1941
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a memoir about Marianne Muller Vitez's Holocaust experiences; two identification cards issued to Marianne Vitez's parents, Hans Israel Muller and Alice Leven, in Morocco; Alice Muller's German passport; John Muller's German passport; a Carte d'identité d'étranger de la République française au Maroc for Marianne Sarah Muller; a list of clothes and household goods Alice Muller submitted to the Nazis before leaving occupied Belgium; and a Certificat d'identité des refugies provenant d'allemagne for Hans Muller, issued by the Belgium government.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501520
• English
• folder 1 1 videocassette,
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a photocopy of handwritten testimony in Yiddish by Musia Gershenman, who, along with several other Jews from the Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania) ghetto, was rescued by Antonina and Jonas Paulavicius. Included with the testimony is an English translation provided by the USHMM. The collection also includes a videocassette of the ceremony at Yad Vashem recognizing Antonina Paulavicius as a "Righteous Among the Nations."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn507315
• English
• folders 3
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a photocopy of "Mutti" by Ilse M. Thompson. The memoir is an English-language translation of a German-language diary that Ilse Thompson kept from 1940 to 1946, while living as a German-Jewish refugee in the United Kingdom. Included are Thompson's reactions to news about her mother, who had remained in Germany, and to Holocaust events.