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  1. Mayer B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mayer B., who was born in approximately 1921 and lived in Krako?w, Poland. He describes attending public school; pervasive antisemitism; active participation in Akiva; German invasion; his family selling their belongings to get food; forced labor; ghettoization; transfer to a labor camp at the airport (his parents and brothers remained in the ghetto); transfer to Schindler's factory; transfer to P?aszo?w, then Mauthausen, in 1944; slave labor in a quarry; transfer a month later to Linz III-Kleinmu?nchen; working in a tank factory; happiness at Allied bombings; working...

  2. Ludwig H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ludwig H., who was born in Gru?nberg, Germany in 1902. He describes moving to Breslau, then Dortmund where he spent his youth and young adulthood; anti-Semitic incidents prior to the war; arrest in 1933 by three Nazis; imprisonment with his dog; the return of his dog by the S.A. to Mr. H.'s mother; his own release after eight days with a document certifying his imprisonment; and escape with his brother to Paris, where he was allowed to remain because of the document which proved he was a victim of religious persecution. He recalls working for a banker; his marriage in...

  3. Sara K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara K., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1923, one of six children. She recounts completing public school at age fifteen; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; German invasion; hiding briefly with non-Jews, then an uncle in Zawiercie; her father's death; one brother's deportation; working in a clothing factory; round-up of her mother and one younger sibling (she never saw them again); her brother hiding from the Jewish police; brief incarceration in his place; separation from two siblings (she never saw them again); hiding in a bunker with her younger brother, aunt, a...

  4. Marek A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marek A., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1926. He recounts moving to Kalisz, where his sister was born, then to Warsaw; attending Jewish schools; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; attending a clandestine school; pervasive starvation; assignment to a German uniform factory; his family and friends building a bunker; hiding there during the ghetto uprising; surrendering when the building was burned; deportation to Majdanek; separation from his mother and sister (he never saw them again); transfer with his father to Budzyn?; slave labor in an ai...

  5. Chaim F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim F., who was born in Trochenbrod, Poland (presently Sofii?vka, Ukraine) in 1909, one of six children. He recounts his father's emigration to Argentina and subsequent death; his mother supporting them; receiving money twice a year from his mother's two brothers in the United States; working with his uncle, then on his own from age seventeen; marriage at twenty; the births of five children; draft into the Polish military in 1931; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; mass killings by Ukrainians, including his mother, sisters, and their children; ...

  6. Rachel B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel B., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1928. She recalls living in a Jewish section; anti-Semitic incidents; learning respect and honesty from her father; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing to northern France with her family; realizing the danger was equal there and returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions including expulsion from school two weeks before her graduation; her older sister's deportation; viewing a round-up of Jews on their street when small children were smashed against buildings, resulting in her mother's decision to place her children in hidi...

  7. Leon and Molly N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon N., who was born in M?awa, Poland in 1910 and his wife, Molly N., who was born in M?awa in 1923. Mr. N. tells of prewar life; German occupation; ghettoization in 1941; starvation; food smuggling; mass killings and public hangings; deportation to Auschwitz in 1942 with his first wife and four children; wanting to kill himself "on the wires" knowing his family had been murdered; work as a shoemaker for over three years one-quarter mile from the gas chambers; evacuation in 1945 to several camps ending at Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; meeting General P...

  8. Alfred W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred W., who was born in Fu?rth, Germany in 1908. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; their strong German identity; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending Henry Kissinger's bar mitzvah; joining the family manufacturing business; serving on the town council; resigning after the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933; helping Jews emigrate; observing the synagogues burning on Kristallnacht and arrest by a former colleague; incarceration overnight in Nuremberg; helping a rabbi climb into the train, thus saving his life; internment in Dachau; assistance from...

  9. Edith C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith C., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928, one of two children. She recounts her family's poverty; their orthodoxy; moving to Genoa in 1937; initiation of anti-Jewish "racial" laws after the German-Italian alliance; traveling to Nice illegally via Ventimiglia; obtaining political asylum in April 1939; assistance from a refugee committee; attending school; her father's incarceration as an enemy alien after the outbreak of war; German invasion; his release; his and her brother's incarceration in Gurs, then Rivesaltes; her brother's escape; hiding him on a nearby...

  10. Sylvia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia B., who was born in Lwo?w, Poland (presently L?viv, Ukraine) in 1925. She recalls moving with her family to Magerov; German occupation for two weeks; Soviet occupation; reporting for compulsory forced labor for the Soviets on June 22, 1941; German bombardment; being driven eastward by Soviet troops (she never saw her parents again), then train transport from Ternopil?; escaping from the train in Kharkiv with two friends; having to retreat with Soviets as the Germans advanced; forced labor; escaping in 1944; walking for hundreds of miles; arriving in Kiev in the...

  11. Pola M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pola M., who was raised in S?iauliai, Lithuania. She recalls the rich, cultural Jewish life; attending Hebrew school; Soviet occupation; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; learning of mass killings; her father's arrest and deportation (they never saw him again); ghettoization; forced labor at airfields, then in the Radvilis?kis and Baciunai labor camps; feelings of helplessness after a public hanging in June 1943, which the Jewish Council tried to prevent but had to carry out; transformation of the ghetto into a concentration camp in September; the "children's act...

  12. Tomáš L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tomáš L., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1942. He recounts his mother's family history in Nové Zámky; his parents' marriage in Budapest in 1940 or 1941; his father's deportation in 1942 or 1943 (he has never learned what happened to him); hospitalization for an ear infection in spring 1944; his mother's visits; her disappearance; bombing of the hospital; surviving in a shelter with a nurse and a few other children; meager rations; his aunt finding him in August 1945; living with his mother's brother and his wife in Nové Zámky beginning in 1947; conversatio...

  13. Sabetai B. and Yvette L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvette L., who was born in 1935 in Thessalonike?, Greece and her brother, Sabetai B., who was born there in 1931. They recall their father's export business; his arrest and release after German invasion; a Polish refugee who warned them about Jewish killings in concentration camps; only their mother giving him credence; ghettoization; the family's escape in March 1943 with assistance from a non-Jew; traveling to Lamia, then Katerine?; being taken in by strangers; returning to the ghetto five days later; leaving to live with a non-Jew (he obtained false papers for them...

  14. Selma Kahn Papers

    The collection consists mainly of unpublished manuscripts of autobiographical novels, short stories and poetry by Selma Kahn in various versions. Unfortunately, many of her manuscripts are undated, so that it is not always possible to clarify when a text was written. Her novels are largely autobiographical and focus on subjects including the First World War, the rise of national socialism in rural Germany, the Holocaust, refugee experience and the experience of return to Germany. The collection also contains a small number of documents and photos relating to Selma Kahn's personal and family...

  15. Raymond Berr Collection

    Papers relating to Miss Winnifred Child, governess, and the family of Raymond Berr, French-Jewish. In shared box. Photographs (N.d./1946); Handwritten letters addressed to Miss Child (N.d./1946); Official correspondence (1940).

  16. John Eversley Family Papers

    Family papers of David Eversley (1921 - 1995) Memorabilia, photographs, newspaperclippings and maps of Frankfurt (c 1932 - 1957); Printed leaflets relating to Frankfurt (1922 - 1950); Various personal correspondence addressed to Otto and Adele Eberstadt (1949 - 1969); Various printed material relating to Jewish heritage (1966 - 1991); Newspaperclippings relating to Fernanda Eberstadt (1991 - 1992); Various documents and correspondence relating to Twelve Force (1991 - 1997); Printed material relating to David Irving (1989 - 1990); Various personal and official corrsepondence by David Eversle...

  17. Gerda Sainer Collection

    The Sainer Papers are an accumulation of family papers from Gerda Sainer's mother and her uncle Eric Federmann in the US. The collection includes documents on family history which were created and collected by Gerda's father Paul and uncle Erich (later Eric) for the Federmann side and her mother (Eve, later Liebert) for the Kroner side. The oldest documents in the collection date from the early 1800s and confirm the official adoption of the surnames Federmann and Kroner. The collection also includes wartime correspondence, from Paul Federmann in Berlin and his brother Eric in the US and it ...

  18. Hermann and Tina Mandel Papers

    The collection provides an insight into the experiences of the Jewish Mandel family in Vienna after 1938. Apart from official documentation, such as school reports, recommendations from previous employers, birth- and marriage certificates, the collection also contains personal letters from 1938 through to 1959.The letters demonstrate how the Mandel family struggled to escape from persecution, particularly after Hermann Mandel had been arrested in early February 1939. Tina Mandel and her son emigrated to Britain, where she received letters from Hermann Mandel, via a relative in Switzerland, ...

  19. Ilse Eton papers

    A large part of the collection relates to restitution claims made by Helene Ursell, Leo Einhorn and Ilse Eton herself. Helene Ursell was represented in Germany by a former family friend and lawyer, the previous mayor of Attendorn. Her claim was for the loss of property, including furnishings, paintings, silverware etc. and the legacy of her parents. She also brought a case for her pension claims as the widow of Siegfried Ursell Leo Einhorn started his claim in 1955 and he went through the United Restitution Office (URO) who represented his claim, mainly compensation for his imprisonment and...

  20. Waclaw Piotrowski Letter

    1 handwritten, original letter from Auschwitz (1942) to the sender's mother Maria in Poznan.