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  1. Hugh J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hugh J., who was born in Leicester, England in 1916. He relates being a pacifist; assignment to agricultural work as a conscientious objector; volunteering for relief work with the Friends Service Committee; assignment to a team of twelve in continental Europe; driving a truck; being sent to Bergen-Belsen shortly after its liberation; shock at seeing corpses everywhere and the debilitated state of some prisoners; first bringing the children to a nearby hospital camp, then the other prisoners, the healthiest first since they had the best chance of surviving; driving hi...

  2. Rose B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose B., who was born in Da?ma?cus?eni, Romania in 1928, one of seven children. She recounts her family's affluence and their orthodoxy; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including her expulsion from school; deportation to the Dej ghetto, then Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her family (they were killed except for one brother); hospitalization; a nurse helping her; slave labor in the kitchen; encountering her brother; transfer to Kaufering in September; disposing of dead bodies during an epidemic; transfer to Dachau; liberation by United States troops...

  3. Betty L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betty L., who was born in Kozovo, Galicia (presently Ukrainian S.S.R.) in 1910. She describes her orthodox family life; German occupation; collaboration with the Nazis by some local Ukrainians; ghettoization; her mother's death; deportation of her two young children and mother-in-law (she never saw them again); hiding with her husband and other relatives; aid received from Poles and Ukrainians; working for Germans using false papers; and the murders of her father and sister. Mrs. L. tells of liberation by Soviet troops in April 1945; her son's birth in the Landsberg d...

  4. Leon J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon J., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1917. He recalls serving in the Polish army; German invasion; capture; forced labor as a POW; return to Poland in April 1940; ghettoization; obtaining a privileged position; deportation with his mother to Auschwitz in August 1944 (his two brothers remained behind); transfer to Braunschweig days later; slave labor in a car factory; train transport to Ravensbru?ck in February 1945, then to Ludwigslust in April; liberation by United States troops on May 2; living in a displaced persons camp; learning his brothers had survived; m...

  5. Mari F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mari F., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1932. She recalls a comfortable childhood; few changes after Hungary's alliance with Germany following the outbreak of war; her parents' indecision regarding emigration; Nazi occupation in 1944; expulsion from school in April; her father's arrest and release; her mother's arrest and death from exhaustion; her father's reluctance to remain in their home marked by the yellow star; their move to a safe house; being placed by her father in a Jewish orphanage; escaping when the police came; locating her family with help from no...

  6. Genia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Genia S., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1927, one of seven children. She recalls moving to Bielsko-Bia?a; German invasion; a round-up of men including her father; his return three months later; anti-Jewish restrictions including confiscation of their business; her family's move to Sosnowiec to join relatives; serving in her older sister's place for forced labor (her sister was ill); deportation with other girls to a camp; slave labor in a textile factory; starvation, lack of sleep, and arduous labor; her older sister's arrival two years later; assisting each ot...

  7. Sonia M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia M., who was born in Dolginovo, Poland, near Vilna. Mrs. M. describes working in a labor camp near her town after the war's outbreak; the slaughter of one thousand people in her town in 1942; and a second massacre, in which her mother was killed. She recalls life in the town's ghetto; her and her father's escape; and their joining partisans hiding in the woods. She recounts scouting enemy movements for the partisans; liberation in 1944 by the Russians; and her return home, where she found only one surviving sibling of four. Mrs. M. relates her psychosomatic respo...

  8. Robert S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert S., who was born in Vilna in 1935. He discusses family life before the war; the Russian occupation in 1939; and his father's refusal to accept Soviet citizenship, for which the family was exiled to Siberia. He relates the journey to Siberia and his family's internment in an exclusively Jewish camp within the Gulag system. He tells of his transfer to Kotlas, then Arkhangel?sk and of his family's flight from there to a small village near Kirov where they stayed until the liberation. Returning to Poland after the war, they were taken to a displaced persons camp in...

  9. Fred E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred E., who was born in Uz?h?horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1927, the oldest of four children. He recalls Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; German occupation; ghettoization with his family; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his mother and sisters; his father volunteering as a metal worker (he was afraid to do so); transfer to Janina coal mines; slave labor; becoming numb; friendships with other Hungarians; a death march and train transport to Flossenbu?rg; liberation from a train; hospitalization in Nuremberg; transport to Prague; ...

  10. Clara R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Clara R., who who born in Mostiska, Ukraine (Austro-Hungarian Monarchy when she was born, later Poland) in 1904. She recalls the family's move to Sudetenland; return to Mostiska in 1918; marriage in 1933; the births of two sons; German invasion in 1939 followed by Soviet occupation; German occupation in June 1941; learning of the impending evacuation of Jews; and hiding with her family and others in a hole under the barn floor of a Catholic family for twenty-two months during which they fasted on Yom Kippur and read newspapers for war news. Mrs. R. describes liberatio...

  11. Persecution of the Jews in Poland: reports and statements

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection consists of material gathered in Vilnius, Lithuania, by a group of refugee Polish-Jewish writers and journalists, who formed a committee to collect evidence on the conditions of Jews in Poland under German occupation. For a more detailed description of the background, objectives and methodology of this project see a copy letter dated Vilnius, 20 March 1940, from MW Beckelman (?) to an unidentified organisation based in New York, asking it for funds and explaining the nature ...

  12. Paul Hollander: personal papers

    This collection of copy papers contains material which documents the activities of Paul Hollander, a German Jewish refugee in France who joined the French Foreign Legion at the beginning of World War II and was subsequently sent to a forced labour camp in North Africa. Of particular interest in this collection are reports on conditions in the labour camps of Colomb Behar, Kenadsa (Algeria) and Bour-Arfa (French Morocco) (963/11) and the prison camp of Hadjerat m'Guil (963/7)At 963/19 is a copy letter from Dr. C. F. J. Bergmann regarding the possibility of compensation payments from the Fren...

  13. Siegfried Kessler: Correspondence

    This collection of mostly original correspondence between Siegfried Kessler, a Czech Jewish exile in London, and various organisations and individuals, sheds light on the conditions of Czech Jews in Czechoslovakia in the early years of the war and the processes involved in getting them out.According to an incomplete curriculum vitae at -/20

  14. A. M. Priestley: copy transcript correspondence

    This collection of copy correspondence documents the experiences of a German Jewish refugee, Frederick Sittner, whilst held in Dixon's Interment Camp, Paignton, Devon. These surviving transcripts are a fraction of a much larger collection. In addition a subsequent deposit from the same source (Accession No. NB 281 ) comprises a letter with further background material on Friedrich Sittner and his relationship with Mrs Priestley [The letter also mentions that the original correspondence was deposited at the Imperial War Museum in 1994]; a copy extract from Sittner's 'instructions' re the disp...

  15. Ernst and Vera Velden: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Ernst and Vera Velden who emigrated separately as Jewish refugees to England in 1939 and later got married.Included are emigration papers such as birth certificates, school certificates, Heimatschein; and application and certificates of naturalisation. Also includes a photograph; correspondence from family and friends relating to news about the lives of relatives, support for Jewish relief funds, Ernst's search for employment and application for an American visa; and papers relating to war compensation claims for both Ernst and Vera Velden.

  16. Leonard Lawrence: copy personal papers and diary

    This collection contains copies of personal papers and a diary of the Jewish teenager Leonard Lawrence (formerly Leopold Weil) who came to England on a Kindertransport in 1939. Includes summary of diary contents in English.Personal papers including his diary, 1939-1943 documenting his efforts to educate himself and make a living, his social life particularly his involvement with the 'Young Austrian' group and his perception of political events; as well as copy personal papers including his last school certificate from 1938, military service papers, certificate of naturalisation, marriage ce...

  17. Vera Coppard-Leibovic collection

    This collection contains photocopies of Vera Coppard-Leibovic's (née Ilse Rosendorff) identity cards, a former Jewish Kindertransportee from Berlin whose parents decided to send her to England in 1939 to avoid her being exposed to Nazi persecution.Copy identity cards including a 'Judenkarte' (German ID card for Jews) and identity card for young people under the care of the Inter-Aid Committee for Children admitted to travel to the UK.

  18. Aron Adolf Neiss collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Aron Adolf Neiss and his family, former Jewish refugees from Vienna. The Neiss family originally came from Poland but had moved to Vienna by the 1920s. Aron and his son emigrated to England in July 1939.Personal papers including birth and marriage certificates, certificates of family origin ('Heimatschein'), Herbert Neiss' tax clearance certificate, passports, Aron Neiss' certificate of naturalisation and power of attorney relating to his restitution claim. Also included are personal correspondence, papers relating to the sale of the family ho...

  19. Thea Wessley: family correspondence

    This collection contains correspondence received by Thea Wessley in England from her family and friends in Austria. Thea Wessley, a Jewish girl from Vienna, was sent to England in 1939 in order to escape Nazi persecution. Her parents, Siegfried and Fanny Deuches, were separated and perished in concentration camps in the Holocaust. Includes English summary.Correspondence sent by her parents as well as her grandfather Hermann Zwicker, and other relations and friends. The correspondence documents the life of an Austrian refugee girl in England, the worries of her parents about her health, educ...

  20. "Into the No Man's Land"

    Consists of one memoir, 133 pages, entitled "Into the No Man's Land," by Irene Miller, originally of Warsaw, Poland. In the memoir, she recalls her Holocaust experiences when, as a child, she and her family escaped from Warsaw and were told that they would be taken over the border into the Soviet Union. In reality, their possessions were stolen and they were abandoned in no man's land on the border with other Jews who were unable to enter the Soviet Union. Irene, her father Srulik Miller, and sister Halina were able to escape into the Soviet Union, but her mother, Bella Miller, had to pose ...