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  1. "A Rejected Stone: My Life"

    Memoir by Ben-Zion Schuster, originally of Jezierzany, Poland (Ozeri︠a︡ny, Ukraine), entitled "A Rejected Stone: My Life." The memoir is a printed draft from November 1990, and translated from the Yiddish by Professor Robert Moses Shapiro. The memoir describes Ben-Zion’s prewar family life in a shtetl, his studies at a yeshiva in Łuck, Poland (Lutsk, Ukraine), his wartime experience under Soviet and Germany occupation, the fates of his family members, his postwar experiences in displaced persons camps, and his immigration to the United States. 279 pages.

  3. "A Visit by Eisenhower"

    Consists of a four-page typescript, written by Eli Rock, entitled "A Visit by Eisenhower." The subject is the writer's observations of a visit by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gen. George S. Patton Jr. to the Feldafing displaced persons camp in Jul. 1945.

  4. "An unpublished chapter in the history of the deportation of foreign Jews from France in 1942"

    Consists of a copy of "An unpublished chapter in the history of the deportation of foreign Jews from France in 1942" written by Roswell McClelland, a representative of the American Friends Service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 The "Unpublished chapter..."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...

  5. "Asama Maru" photograph

    1. Malowist family collection

    Contains a group portrait of the passengers of the "Asama Maru," which sailed from Yokahama, Japan to San Francisco, California, arriving on March 6, 1941. Many of the passengers, including Irene Malowist (now Irene Malowist Rothenberg) [donor] and her parents, were European refugees.

  6. "Ash Camp" photograph album

    The Ash Camp photograph album is a leather bound photograph album, black with embossed horses, which includes 326 mounted and labeled photographs. The photograph album's owner is unknown but includes photographs of the Gabe family, the Saul family, the Jake family, and the Elais family. In addition to candid family photographs, there are also photographs of life in Shanghai, the "Ash Camp," likely a camp for Jewish refugees in Shanghai in 1945, and the distribution of food delivered by parachutes by “Yanks.”

  7. "Asmara Exile"

    1. Holocaust era antisemitic publication collection

    Consists of one handwritten newspaper, two pages, for the March 3, 1946 edition of the "Asmara Exile," a newspaper written by internees in the Asmara detention camp in Eritrea. The newspaper includes articles about Israel, including security and political matters.

  8. "Autobiographies of Hyman and Molly Lader"

    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...

  9. "Bergemolo: Before and Thereafter; The Way it Was"

    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.

  10. "Bikur Cholim" Jewish Society for Visitation and Support of the Ill, Graz "Bikur Cholim" Jüdischer Krankenbesuchs-und Unterstützungsverein, Graz (Fond 710)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    This collection contains office records of the Bikur Cholim: regulations, correspondence, appeals to the Jews of Graz for membership, name lists of members and donors, records of aid to children, and financial accounts. Also included are copies of newspapers “Die Stimme Der Jude” for 1937, and personal papers of the society director E. Grunschlag: personal correspondence with his wife and son. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  11. "Cabinet of the Jewish Culture of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences" from the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (Fond 190)

    Consists of archive of the Jewish folk culture collected by the Cabinet of the Jewish Culture of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The collection includes Jewish folk songs, proverbs, aphorisms, fairy tales, musical scores and other folk materials collected by the Cabinet of Jewish Culture and its predecessors institutions (e.g. Institute of Jewish Proletarian Culture). Includes also correspondence of Moisey Beregovsky, head of the folklore section and his staff members, with collectors and performers of Jewish folklore, notes from the ethnographic expeditions to collect Jewish folklore un...

  12. "Dachau Concentration Camp: A Memoir"

    “Dachau Concentration Camp: A Memoir” is 29 page memoir written by Felix Klein, originally of Vienna, Austria. From 1938-1939, Klein was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp and Buchenwald concentration camp. Afterwards, he spent a year in England before immigrating to the United States in 1940. The memoir, found in Klein's personal papers after his death in 1994, describes his experiences in Dachau in the summer and fall of 1938.

  13. "Dancing through the minefields"

    Consists of a copy of "Dancing through the minefields," a typescript memoir by Fred Schiller and Janice Blumberg. The memoir describes Schiller's early life in Yugoslavia, his career as a jazz musician, his flight from Yugoslavia after the establishment of the Nazi-Ustashi (Ustaša) government, his experiences as a refugee on various Yugoslav islands in the Adriatic Sea, his service with the United States Army, and his immigration to the United States in 1948.

  14. "Destruction of Radzilow": Overview written by Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Jews of Radzilow

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    "Destruction of Radzilow": Overview written by Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Jews of Radzilow Occupation of Radzilow by the German Army, 23 June 1941; attitude of the Poles towards the German Army; handing over of Soviet Army soldiers who did not have time to escape [by the Poles] to the Germans; names of Polish collaborators; abuse and murder of Jews by Poles; robbery of property; desecration of religious objects including the burning of Torah scrolls; attitude of the Poles towards the Jews; incitement of the Poles against the Jews; establishment of a local Polish authority in Ra...

  15. "Enemy Aliens": The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940-1943

    1. Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds
    2. Exhibition records

    Sub-series consists of promotional materials, guest book, media coverage, exhibition catalogue, imaging licensing and permission documentation and other records to do with the "Enemy Aliens": The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940-1943 exhibition, which ran from June 12, 2012 to October 11, 2013.

  16. "Every Day a Gift: The Holocaust Memoir of Leah Goltzman as told to Janis Haswell"

    1. Leah Goltzman collection

    "Every Day a Gift: The Holocaust Memoir of Leah Goltzman as told to Janis Haswell" is a bound transcript of the oral history interview Janis Haswell conducted with Leah Goltzman in 2010. The bound transcript includes photocopies of Goltzman's family photographs.

  18. "Going back to Vialas: Retracing my Family History. The Baby Must Not Cry"

    Consists of one memoir by Dr. Anny Bloch-Raymond entitled "Going back to Vialas: Retracing my Family History. The Baby Must Not Cry." In her memoir, she details her search for her own family's history and the history of Vialas, France, a predominantly Protestant village in southern France (in the departement of Lozère), whose inhabitants sheltered Jews during World War II. She describes her family's evacuation from northern France to Nîmes and life there between 1940-1944, when the family was sheltered in Vialas, and where she was born in 1944. Dr. Bloch also interviews children who were hi...

  19. "Good-bye Mr. Ghoya" pamphler

    Consists of one pamphlet entitled "Good-bye Mr. Ghoya," published in Shanghai in September 1945. The pamphlet was a denunciation of Sgt. Kano Ghoya, the Japanese ex-vice chief of the Stateless Refugees' Affairs Bureau in Shanghai, and includes seven cartoons by F. Melchoir.

  20. "Hell and rebirth: my experiences during the time of persecution"

    Consists of a copy of "Hell and Rebirth: My Experiences during the Time of Persecution," by Dr. Edith Kramer. The memoir describes Kramer's experiences as a Jewish physician forced to care for women in various camps near Poznań, Poland. Also included is information on the inferior medical conditions in the camps, inferior sanitation, the treatment of women, and Kramer's post-liberation acquaintance with Hermann Hesse (Nobel Prize winner) and his wife, Ninon Hesse.