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  2. "Janina's Story" memoir

    An autobiographical memoir by Janina Spinner Mehlberg, edited by Dr. Arthur Layton Funk; the memoir includes photocopies of photographs of Janina Mehlberg and her husband Henry. The testimony describes the experiences of Mehlberg and her husband as refugees in hiding in Lublin, Poland, during the Holocaust and their involvement with an underground movement to assist the prisoners of Majdanek.

  3. "L'histoire de Bernard et Bronka: La famille Friedman de Chrzanów"

    A biography and family history of the mother and uncle of Eliane Ungar, Bronka (Brandla) Friedman (1925-2002) and Bernard (Berek) Friedman (1927-2015), both originally of Chrzanów, Poland. Included is a description of the history of the Jewish community of Chrzanów, the extended members of the Friedman family there and abroad, the history of the German occupation of Chrzanów and subsequent persecution and deportation of the Jews there. Also described are the wartime experiences of Bernard and Bronka as forced laborers in a number of sub-camps of Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, Flossenbürg, Buche...

  4. "L'histoire de Hersz Jedlinski et sa famille de Czenstochowa" [sic]

    Printed biography, 80 pages, compiled by Eliane and Claude Ungar, recounting the history of Hersz Jedlinski (1918-1992), the father of Eliane Ungar, and his family in Częstochowa, Poland, prior to and during the Holocaust. Included is a genealogy of the Jedlinski family, including relatives living in Israel, and a description of the history of Jews in Czestochowa prior to the war, and the events there following the German occupation and the formation of the ghetto. Jedlinski's own experiences are detailed, including his time as a forced laborer at a HASAG camp in Częstochowa and at other ...

  5. "Letter of Resignation of James G. McDonald"

    Consists of one booklet, 33 pages, entitled "Letter of Resignation of James G. McDonald," published in London in 1935. The booklet contains a copy of McDonald's letter of resignation as League of Nations high commissioner for refugees coming from Germany, as well as an annex containing an analysis of German Non-Aryan policy resulting in the refugee problem. This booklet was autographed by McDonald on June 14, 1945.

  6. "Memoirs of my Life"

    Consists of a photocopy of one typed memoir, 65 pages, entitled "Memoirs of my Life" by Louis Suskin. In the memoir, Suskin describes his childhood in Belgium and the Netherlands, his apprenticeship in the diamond trade in Antwerp, his marriage to Sonia Schwerner and his family's escape from Belgium to southern France in 1940 and their immigration to Cuba, experiences in Cuba during the war years, their life in New York following the war, Suskin's return to Belgium to adopt his niece, Raymonde, the growth of the Suskins two children, the family's immigration to Israel and return to New York...

  7. "Memories of a Vanished World"

    Contains information about Joseph Soski's childhood in Busko and Krakow, Poland; German occupation of Krakow; increasing restrictions of Jews; donor's escape to the Soviet-occupied zone of Poland; life in the Czestochowa ghetto; forced labor; deportation to Buchenwald, then to Dora-Mittelbau; evacuation from Dora-Mittelbau; liberation; displaced persons camp; emigration to the United States; and a new life in the United States.

  8. "Mijn oorlogsarchief" - Salomon-Vieyra family. Collection

    The collection is divided into six folders. KD_00104_0001 : This file contains documents from 1940 regarding the Salomon family flight to France, including the diary of father Hyman Salomon as a soldier during the Battle of Belgium and a give way allowing members of the Salomon family to cross the border into France. KD_00104_0002 : This file contains documents from 1940-1944 regarding the anti-Jewish measures in Belgium and the hiding and deportation of Salomon family members, including documents regarding the family business, family trees, letters from Salomon and Blits family members in ...

  9. "My Memoir, 1914-2004"

    Consists of one memoir entitled "My Memoir, 1914-2004," 75 pages, by Maurice Eis, originally of Frankfurt, Germany. Maurice describes his memories of childhood in Frankfurt, his arrest on Kristallnacht and brief imprisonment in Dachau, and his immigration, first to Shanghai and then on to the United States. In the United States, Maurice was drafted into the American Army and participated in the D-Day invasion of Europe and the Battle of the Bulge. The memoir includes copies of photographs and documents related to his life.

  10. "Once upon four decades, 1939-1979"

    Consists of a copy of "Once upon four decades, 1939-1979" written by Margaret Collin. The volume contains testimonies of several Holocaust survivors seeking restitution from the German government. The various testimonies describe the experiences of the survivors in concentration camps, escape from the Nazis, life in hiding, episodes of suicide, and great mental anguish suffered since the end of the Holocaust. Also included are recollections of Margaret Collin about her own escape from Germany and the loss of her family. Intermingled in the text are several photocopies of Holocaust-related d...

  11. "One Million Dollar Campaign," broadside ("Yeshiva Reshith Chochma Shearith Hapletah," New York)

    One broadside, titled "One Million Dollar Campaign," related to the fundraising efforts for the Yeshiva "Reshith Chochma Shearith Hapletah," under the leadership of Rabbi Solomon Leib Halberstam (the Klausenburger Rabbi), with the purpose of establishing a Torah institute for Jewish refugees from Europe, in Brooklyn, New York, 1947. In addition to a new year's greeting, the broadside contains a letter in English and Yiddish encouraging the reader to donate to this project, with reproductions of various newspaper articles about it on the verso of the broadside.

  12. "Recollections of one participant in the evacuation of the Jewish community from the British colony of Cyprus in 1941"

    1. Frederick R. Wohl collection

    Consists of a copy of "Recollections of one of participant in the evacuation of the Jewish community from the British colony on Cyprus in 1941" by Frederick Wohl. The memoir concerns the experiences of Frederick Wohl and his family during the evacuation of Jews from Cyprus and their travels to Israel and southern Africa. The accession also includes a list of names and addresses of those Jews evacuated from Cyprus to Tel Aviv, Palestine, in June 1941.

  13. "Refugees and Rescuers in Fascist and Post War Italy (1933-1946)"

    Consists of one manuscript, 94 pages, entitled "Refugees and Rescuers in Fascist and Post War Italy (1933-1946)" by Donato Grosser, based on the recollections and documents of his father, Bernardo (Berl) Grosser. In the manuscript, Donato Grosser describes the experience of Italian Jews and Jewish refugees in Italy in the 1930s, including information about the 1938 emigration of his father, Bernardo Grosser, who was from Kamionki Wielkie, but emigrated by way of France. In Italy, Grosser became one of the secretaries of the Genoa office of DELASEM (the Delegazione per l'Assistenz agli Emigr...

  15. "Some Victims of the Nazi Terror"

    Consists of one magazine entitled "Some Victims of the Nazi Terror," which contains photographs and propaganda information about the Kitchener camp in Richborough, England. The magazine describes the daily lives of the mostly Jewish refugees living in the Kitchener camp. The magazine was created by the Kitchener Camp Committee. In a special camp, Kitchener, in Richborough, Kent, England, some 5,000 people who needed immediate shelter were housed during an eighteen - month period from the end of Jan. 1939. These 5,000 refugees had been released from concentration camps, or their internment h...

  16. "Süssholz Siblings: The War"

    Consists of one memoir, 50 pages, entitled "Süssholz Siblings: The War" by Friedl Süssholz-Wolfstein, originally of Trier, Germany. She describes her childhood, her father and brother's deportation from Germany as stateless persons in 1938, and her own escape as a child into Belgium, where her family was slowly reunited. After various attempts to escape after the outbreak of war, Friedl and her brothers were arrested in France, and Friedl was deported to Auschwitz, where she worked sorting victim belongings in the "Canada" section of the camp. After Auschwitz was evacuated, Friedl was sent ...

  17. "Tehran Children" report

    1. Holocaust era antisemitic publication collection

    Consists of a printed report, February 1943, on the condition of orphans who came from Russia and were living in a refugee camp in Tehran, Iran. Also two handwritten letters written by HeChalutz members in Aden, Yemen, in 1944 and a news report from the HeChalutz sent from Tehran to the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem in 1946.

  18. "The Holocaust Survival of the Katz family, 1941-1944"

    "The Holocaust Survival of the Katz family, 1941-1944" is a 23 page memoir written by Ruth Katz Leiser. The memoir recalls the Holocaust experiences of the Katz family of Godulin, near Maišiagala, Poland.

  19. "The Life of Alexander Perlberger before, during, and after the Second World War"

    1. Mina Perlberger collection

    Consists of the typescript memoir entitled "The Life of Alexander Perlberger, Shortly Before and Shortly After the Second World War" written by his widow, Mina Perlberger. The memoir describes the life of Mr. Perlberger from adolescence until his death. She includes information about Perlberger's imprisonment in concentration camps in Poland, his experiences during Kristallnacht, his enlistment in the Red Army, and his emigration to the United States.

  20. "The Silent Story of Those Children"

    Consists of a memoir entitled "The Silent Story of Those Children" by Rosette Kleinmann Lissek, who was born in Paris in 1940 and survived the war in hiding in various places. Rosette's father was interned in a number of French internment camps, while Rosette, her mother, and her younger sister Jeanine (born 1942) hid in France and Belgium with the help of OSE. After the war, the family immigrated briefly to Israel, then back to Europe before leaving for Bolivia, and ultimately, to Argentina in 1951. Also includes copies of family photographs and documents. Copies of the memoir exist in Eng...