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  1. Yocheved Flumenker collection

    Collection of photos of Yocheved Flumenker [donor], her husband and friends, primarily from the displaced persons camps in Stuttgart and Bad Reichenhall. Included are photos of donor’s wedding to Zvi Flumenker, photos from pre-war Lublin, and a photo from the Lublin ghetto, where the donor briefly lived before escaping with her father to live with peasants in the surrounding area. Also includes one identification card and one graduation certificate.

  2. Yocheveta and James Malla collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Yocheveta and James Malla. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. Yoel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yoel S., who was born in Rus, Romania in 1928, one of four children. He recounts attending a public school, cheder, then a Jewish school in Cluj in 1938; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including his school closing; his mother's death; attending carpentry school; returning home; his father's remarriage; deportation with his family to the Dej ghetto, then Auschwitz; separation from his father and younger brother; assignment with his twin brother to the twins barracks; a prisoner smuggling him to the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); transfer two weeks later ...

  4. Yolana L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yolana L., who was born in Holubyne, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1927, a twin, and one of nine children. She recounts her father's death when she was about two; cordial relations with non-Jews; learning Yiddish in Svali︠a︡va; two sisters emigrating to Belgium; living with a sister in Svali︠a︡va; Hungarian occupation in spring 1944; deportation to the Munkács ghetto weeks later, then to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her sister; a brief encounter with her twin and another sister; assignment to Canada Kommando; throwing food and clothing that she had smu...

  5. Yolanda Engel collection

    Contains photographs documenting the experiences of the Helen and Ezra Lebovics and their children Yolanda and Harry [born in Verece, Hungary] and Bela [born in Budapest]. Ezra performed forced labor and when Bela only was 2, Helen was deported in 1944 to Bergen-Belsen Concentration camp. The children were reunited with Ezra in January 1945 and in 1946, Helen, who had survived, came back to Budapest where the family tried to rebuild their lives.

  6. Yolanda Friedmann Gold Holocaust memoirs

    Contains of a copy of a typewritten memoir, two pages, written by Yolanda Friedmann Gold, originally of Jibou, Transylvania. The memoir describes life in the gehtto in Simleul-Silvania, then in Goldfill, Estonia. In Estonia, she was forced to work in a pine forest and then was briefly sent to Danzig and Stutthof before being sent to a munitions factory near Hamburg. She was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, and returned to Transylvania until 1964. Also includes a handwritten memoir, 2 pages, in Hungarian, about her family's Holocaust experiences.

  7. Yom ha-Shoʾah commemoration speech

    Speech written and delivered by Isaac Schweitzer [donor], 14 April 1996.

  8. Yom Hashoah commemoration programs

    Consists of programs for the Yom Hashoah commemorations sponsored by the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington in 1984, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2009. The programs include poetry, statistical information about the Holocaust, song lyrics, and readings.

  9. Yom HaShoah Commemorative Ceremony collection

    Printed program (5 copies), from event held at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, 30 April, 1995.

  10. Yona and Foa family memoirs

    Two unpublished memoirs, related to the Holocaust experiences of the Yona and Foa families, of Turin Italy: “A Memoir of an Immigrant who Escaped the Holocaust in 1940,” by Eva Yona Deykin, 53 pages, typescript; and“Memoires of David Yona,” by David Yona, typescript, 223 pages. The memoir by Eva Yona Deykin relates the history of the families of both of her parents, David Yona and Anna Foa, their life in Turin after their marriage in 1932, the arrest of Anna Foa's brother, Vittorio Foa, for his anti-fascist activities in 1935, and his betrayal by the writer Pettigrilli (Dino Segre), who had...

  11. Yona Wygocka Dickmann collection

    The collection consists of a comb and pocket knife relating to the experiences of Yona Wygocka as a prisoner in a salve labor camp in Germany during the Holocaust.

  12. Yonia Fain drawing

  13. Yoram (Joram) Bar papers

    Contains one memoir written by Jacques Bar entitled, "Many Like Me," describing the Russian campaign 1941 along with handwritten notes, and the Polish military archives response to Yoram Bar's query regarding antisemitism in the Polish army.

  14. Yoram Shaaf photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of Mendel Finkelsztajntaken in 1946; a photograph of Mendel Finkelsztajn and his wife, Malka Sztajnberg, taken in Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland, on September 18, 1938, before their marriage; and a photograph of Malka Finkelsztajn and his son, Jurek Finkelsztajn on February 25, 1946, in Wrocław, Poland.

  15. Yorgan L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yorgan L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. He recounts his father serving in World War I; attending Jewish school; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father losing his job; deportation of friends who were Polish citizens; Kristallnacht; participating in Habonim; collecting money for the Jewish National Fund; agricultural training on a kibbutz in Rüdnitz; moving to Paderborn; forced labor; learning his parents had been deported in December 1942; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in March 1943; transfer to Monowitz; slave labor; transfer to the hospital in Auschwit...

  16. Yosef B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yosef B., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1920, one of three brothers. He recounts his family's assimilated lifestyle; his father hiring a rabbi to tutor him for his bar mitzvah; studying graphic design at art school; German invasion in 1939; his mother paying a non-Jew to hide him and his brothers; ghettoization; working as a graphic artist for the Judenrat and German police, making signs in Gothic calligraphy; helping produce false papers; his thirteen-year-old brother's death; deportation to Płaszów; doing lettering for Kommandant Amon Goeth; receiving extra fo...

  17. Yosef D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yosef D., who was born in Vel'ký Meder, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1923, one of four children. He recounts his father's service as a Hungarian officer; attending local public school, then gymnasium in Bratislava; Hungarian occupation; one sister's emigration to Palestine in 1939; studying at a technical school in Vitkovice; returning home; working for an uncle in Pápa until his business was forced to close; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; returning home; obtaining work in a factory in Budapest through Hashomer; his non-Jewish landlord warning him of a...

  18. Yosef F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yosef F., who was born in Iași, Romania in 1921, the older of two brothers. He recounts his elaborate bar mitzvah; cordial relations with non-Jews; summer vacations in Bukovina; visiting an uncle in Bucharest; antisemitism in the late 1930s; completing lyceum in 1940; teaching Latin; forced labor for the Romanian military; round-up with his family to the police station in 1941; his mother's release; deportation in crowded trains to Tîrgu Frumos; being beaten by a police officer; continuing to Stamora Română; jumping from the train en route to obtain water; sharing...

  19. Yosef P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yosef P., who was born in Kletsk, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1923. He recalls attending a Tarbut school, then a Jewish gymnasium in Baranavichy; his family's Zionist leanings; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation in 1939; transfer to a Soviet school; German invasion; forced labor; a round-up in October 1941; his aunt including his family with her working group; thousands of others being shot in a mass killing; ghettoization; policeman surrounding the ghetto in July 1942; setting fire to houses, then escaping with others to a forest; learning his mot...

  20. Yosef S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yosef S., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1921, one of four children. He recounts attending public school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair and a sports group; German invasion; one brother's escape to Lʹviv; a non-Jew smuggling him and his father to Warsaw to meet this brother and escape to the Soviet Union; his father's return to Łódź; attemptinig to enter the Soviet zone with his brother via Siedlce; capture by the Soviets; being sent back to Warsaw; returning to the Łódź ghetto; working as a carpenter, sabotaging furniture he built for the Germans; building ...