• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519016
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 114 pages, entitled "An Absence of Closure," by Gustav (Gus) Schonfeld, originally of Munkacevo, Czechoslovakia. He describes his childhood in Munkacevo (Munkacs), his family lineage, and the takeover of Munkacevo, first by the Hungarians in 1939 and later by the Germans in 1944. After the German invasion, Gus's father, Dr. Alexander Schonfeld, a physician, was assigned to the village of Barkaszo, so the family moved, but were deported to Auschwitz shortly thereafter. After a few weeks in Auschwitz, Gus, his father, and some of the male members of his familiy were se...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn42226
• English
• 2006
• folder 1 1 CD,
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a CD containing a memoir entitled "An Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times" by Michael Cann, written in Amherst, MA in 2006, as well as a paper copy of the memoir. Mr. Cann describes his family's history in Berlin, his memory of National Socialism in his school, and his family's immigration to the Netherlands in 1937, and his immigration to the United States in March 1939. He also includes information about life in wartime New York and New Jersey and his family's attempts to rescue additional family members from Europe. After the war, Mr. Cann joined the military and participate...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn507327
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a copy of "An unpublished chapter in the history of the deportation of foreign Jews from France in 1942" written by Roswell McClelland, a representative of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), in 1942 or 1943. The "Unpublished chapter..." is McClelland's personal account of the round-up of foreign Jews in France during 1942 under the direction of the Germans, including a deportation from the Les Milles camp in August 1942. Included in the piece are descriptions of various French concentration camps, the treatment of Jewish children, the division of age groups for depor...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500206
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Testimony. Typescript, 78 pages, titled "And It Was No Lie," by Ruth Weiss, describing her experiences from childhood in a village in Sudetenland, moving to Prague after that area was annexed by Germany, occupation of Czechoslovakia, deportation to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, life in DP camps after war, return to Prague, and the immigration to Israel.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519154
• English
• 2007
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one typed testimony, four pages, entitled "Andzia," written by Hania Stromberg in 2007. In the testimony, Mrs. Stromberg relates the story of Andzia (last name unknown), who was the Roman Catholic nanny for the Rom family, of Warsaw, Poland. By World War II, the children were grown, and all but the youngest, Tadek and Dorota, were safe in the United States. Tadek and his family perished in the Holocaust. Dorota spent much of the war in the Warsaw ghetto and Andzia sneaked food to her, nursed her when she became ill, and ultimately helped her escape the ghetto before it was liqui...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn35193
• English
• 2008
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir entitled “Angel on my Shoulder” by Miriam Schlezinger, born in Poruba, but later moved to Poroskov, Slovakia. During the war, Mrs. Schlezinger first lived with a Gentile family in Uzhorod, and then with a family in Nirethose, Hungary, before moving into a ghetto in occupied Poland, which was liquidated in 1944. She and her sisters were deported to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944, where her sister Hannah later perished. Miriam and her sister Surah were sent on a death march in January 1945 to Buchenwald and from there, were put on a train to Bergen-Belsen, where they w...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn515353
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a memoir, 68 pages, entitled "Around the World in Ten Years," written by Dr. Frank J. Parnes. Dr. Parnes describes his experiences escaping Vienna and working as a physician in internment camps in Belgium and France. Upon his return to Belgium, he made and sold cigarettes but was arrested and deported to the Malines concentration camp, where he worked as a physician until his liberation in 1944. He emigrated to the United States and lived in New York City until his death in 1996.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514473
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Memoir, 13 pages, relates the Holocaust experiences of Joseph Sungolowsky, who escaped from Belgium to France with his family after the Nazi invasion in 1940. The son of a rabbi, Joseph and his family went into hiding in Nice, France, with the help of the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE).

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn95169
• English
• 2008
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, approximately 60 pages, entitled "As I Recall," written in 2009 by Albert Erlebacher, originally of Karlsruhe, Germany. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in Germany, deportation in 1940 to Gurs, transfer to Rivesaltes, and being removed from the camps by the OSE. He describes life in the Villa Mariana and Chateau de Chabannes OSE homes, crossing the Swiss border on foot, and his life in Switzerland. Also includes information on his post-war emigration to the United States and later educational, personal, and professional experiences.

1. Izaak Reifer collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514454
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a memoir, eight pages, regarding the Holocaust and familial remembrances of Izaak Reifer of Chrzanów, Poland.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502451
• English
• folders 3
• Updated 1 year ago

Testimony, typescript (249 pp.) of Heinz Umrath, titled "Aufs Neue Beginnen," about childhood, wartime years, and emigration from Germany. One section has credit ("typed and produced by") the Archive of Social Democracy at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Bonn, Germany.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn46955
• English
• 2010
• folder 1 1 CD,
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a CD containing one manuscript, 219 pages, entitled "August Cohn--Anti-Fascist: His Life under Nazi Tyranny and American Repression," by Howard Cohn. In the manuscript, Mr. Cohn describes his the experiences of his father, August Cohn, who born in Fulda, Germany, and arrested as a Communist in April 1933. After being beaten and publicly humiliated in Oberkaufungen, he was tried and imprisoned in the Kassel and Hameln prisons before entering the concentration camp system in 1935, where he was imprisoned both as a Jew and a Communist in the Esterwegen, Sachsenhausen, Dachau, and B...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn526529
• English
• 2001
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one typed manuscript, 65 pages with photographs, entitled "Autobiographies of Hyman and Molly Lader," which was put together by the Laders' children in 2001. The manuscript, based on oral and written testimonies of the Laders, is split into two parts. Hyman Lader (born Chaim Lajdor) describes his childhood and family life in Łódź; the immigration of the rest of his family to the United States; working as a professional musician; his escape to the Soviet Union, where he married; his experiences in the Red Army; and post-war immigration with his family to Israel, Canada, and event...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517402
• English
• 2004
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 64 pages, entitled "Autobiography and Memoirs of Zeida Harry Barr," written by Mr. Harry Barr, originally of Maków-Mazowiecki, Poland. Mr. Barr describes his childhood and family in Maków-Mazowiecki, his immigration to Australia in 1939, his wartime and post-war life in Australia, and his work with the Jewish community. Collection includes 3 copies of the memoir.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500342
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one manuscript, 105 pages, entitled "Bearing Witness: The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, April 11-12-13, 1983" by Thomas (Tom) Teicholz. In the manuscript, Mr. Teicholz described the conference in detail, as well as the Holocaust experiences of his parents and those he met at the conference.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518190
• English
• 2004
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 40 pages, entitled "Before the Storm," written in 2004 by Alexander Cohen, originally of Budapest, Hungary. In the memoir, Mr. Cohen describes the anti-Jewish measures in Budapest before 1944 and the chaos of life in Budapest in 1944. He describes his experiences in a Hungarian forced labor battalion and the deaths of members of his family and those of his wife, Magda, whom he married after liberation.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn37697
• English
• 1996
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 32 pages, entitled "Bergemolo: Before and Thereafter; The Way it Was" by Ernst Breuer. In the memoir, which begins in 1942, Mr. Breuer describes his work in the French and Italian undergrounds, his experiences in several French internment camps, and hiding with his sister and friends in Italy. He went to the United States as part of a group of refugees who were housed at Fort Ontario, and describes his post-war life.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn35969
• English
• 2007
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, 212 pages, entitled "Beshert: It was Meant to Be", written in 1975 by Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc and translated into English in 2007 by her daughter, Suzanna Eibuszyc. Part one of the memoir is entitled "At the Mercy of Our Luck" and covers April 1917-November 1939, when the family lived in Warsaw, and the second part of the memoir is entitled "The Troubles I've Seen" and covers November 1939-March 1946, when the family was forced to flee to southwestern Russia and Uzbekistan. Ms. Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc and her sister and brother, who were also unmarried, spent the war ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519147
• English
• 1943-1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a copy of a memoir, in German, 13 pages, entitled "Betrachtungen aus einem Konzentratzionslager Sueditaliens-unpolitisch geshen," by Martin Kanter, originally of Breslau, Germany. In the memoir, for which there is also an English language translation, Mr. Kanter describes his fellow inmates and the atmosphere within an unspecified internment camp (most likely Cosenza) in Southern Italy.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn37418
• English
• 1985
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one memoir, in English, entitled "Beyond the River," by Hanna Meller-Faust. The memoir was published in Hebrew as "Me-'ever la-nahar: pirke zikhronot mi-Transnistriyah" in 1985. Hanna prepared this translation, which describes her experiences during the Holocaust in Transnistria.