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  1. Yvonne B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvonne B., a Catholic, who was born in Pipaix, Belgium in 1918. She recounts attending public school; completing advanced degrees in nursing school in Tournai; mobilization as a nurse; assignment to a military hospital in Nieuwpoort; evacuation to Avilley, Nantes, then a village in France; caring for a friend's five young daughters; transfer to Rochefort; working as a head nurse; returning to Belgium two months later; working at a hospital; hiding resistance members; the Red Cross and a local nobleman arranging for them to hide Jewish children; helping transport twent...

  2. Yvonne Kohen Bourla correspondence

    Contains a letter sent by Yvonne Kohen Bourla (donor’s grandmother) in Istanbul to her cousin Estherina Scaloni in Salonika, Greece, dated April 9, 1942; Estherina’s reply on verso dated June 10, 1942. The letter is written on Vatican Embassy paper, which Yvonne Bourla was able to use courtesy of Julia Foskolo, a Catholic woman who was taking care of Yvonne's daughters.

  3. Yvonne P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvonne P., a non-Jew, who was born in Havré, Belgium in 1912. She recounts her father becoming an invalid in World War I; completing teacher training in 1930; her father's death in 1933; marriage in 1935; moving to Antwerp in 1938; participating with her husband in anti-fascist activities; his military draft; German invasion on May 10, 1940; fleeing to Havré; her husband's return; participating in the Resistance; hiding using false papers; visiting her husband in Tertre; his arrest in December 1941 and execution in February 1942; hiding with a friend, then with an a...

  4. Yvonne R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvonne R., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in approximately 1929, the oldest of four children. She recounts living in the Baron de Hirsch neighborhood; German invasion; ghettoization; deaths from starvation; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her family (she never saw her mother or siblings again); slave labor in a textile factory; liquidation of the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); transfer to Canada Kommando; sorting clothing of murdered Jews; trading "stolen" clothing for food; hiding a friend selected for death; assistance from a Polish, non-Jewi...

  5. Yvonne Rothschild Redgis and Gertrude Fraenkel (Fränkel) family collection

    The collection consists of pins, an audiotape, documents, memoirs, and photographs relating to the experiences of Yvonne Rothschild Klug and her family before and during the Holocaust in France, until she was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, and after the Holocaust when she emigrated to the United States as well as correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Gertrude Fraenkel and her family before and during the Holocaust in France and Poland and her postwar emigration to the United States. Collection also includes a portrait of Yvonne Redgis (Rothschi...

  6. Yvonne S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvonne S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1929 to a single mother. She remembers a close relationship with her grandparents; membership in the girls' Nazi youth group, Bund Deutsher Mädel; harassment of Jews in school; her family's friendship with a Jewish neighbor (they were deported when she was not home and their apartment sealed, then reassigned to Germans); her mother verbally declaring her an Aryan at school; working as a housekeeper, then with her mother at a Siemens factory in Marienfelde; secretly assisting French and Soviet prisoner of war forced labore...

  7. Yvonne S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvonne S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1927. She recalls her family's move to Paris in 1933; a comfortable life in Neuilly; attending Catholic school; her parents' divorce; moving to Holland with her mother and sister in 1938 to join her grandparents and other relatives; a brief stay in Paris; return to Amsterdam; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures including compulsory wearing of the yellow star and expulsion from school; attending Jewish school; disappearances of schoolmates; her grandparents' arrest and deportation (she never saw them again); going into hi...

  8. Z. Grinberg speech

    Contains a translated transcript of a speech given by Z. Grinberg at the "Concert in St. Ottilien" on May 27, 1945. Grinberg was the "head doctor of the hospital for political ex-prisoners in Germany at the liberation."

  9. Zachar T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zachar T., who was born in Russia in 1912 and raised in Kiev. He recounts working in a factory; marriage to a non-Jew; few people knowing he was Jewish; their daughter's birth; German invasion in 1941; observing Germans shooting Jews and prisoners of war; being forced to move; displaying an icon and an image of Hitler in their new home to dispel suspicion; exchanging the property of a cousin for food in nearby villages; betrayal by a friend; arrest; frequent torture; transfer to Syrets concentration camp in February 1943; slave labor outside the camp; clandestine comm...

  10. Zachariasz family photographs

    The collection consists of four photographs of Judit Popinski (born Judyta Zachariasz) and her family while in the Łódź ghetto, Poland.

  11. Zachary A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zachary A., who was born in Volkovysk, Poland (now Belarus) in 1918. He recalls growing up in Warsaw; his family's affluence; their non-orthodox holiday observances; attending university in Danzig in 1938; antisemitic harassment; outbreak of war; fleeing to Lemberg (L'viv) in the Soviet zone; visiting his parents and sister in Slonim; attending school; ghettoization with his family in Slonim in 1942; mass shooting when the ghetto was liquidated in June; his father's German acquaintance saving him and his father (his mother and sister were murdered); hiding with a woma...

  12. Zachary Gruzin collection

    The collection consists of a photographic postcard and a photograph of Zachary, Edward, and Charles Gruzin and their mother, Dora Gruzin in Kovno, Lithuania, a pass issued to Zachary Gruzin authorizing him to return to Lithuania from Landsberg, Germany, and a cloth prisoner identification badge embroidered with 13268.

  13. Zahava S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zahava S. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-301), Mrs. S. recounts her father's struggle to support the family after anti-Jewish restrictions resulted in confiscation of his business; a public hanging in the Kos?ice ghetto; slave labor in Markkleeberg with her sister; her sister sharing extra food received from a civilian worker; escaping from a death march with her sister and two others; liberation by Soviet troops; staying near Dresden; identifying a former Hungarian soldier who had beaten her; revoking her accusation after ...

  14. Zahava S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zahava S., who was born in Abau?jsza?nto?, Hungary in 1929. She relates her family's strong Hungarian identity; friendly relations with non-Jews; the impact of anti-Jewish laws; her father's draft into a Hungarian labor battalion; and the difficulty of believing stories of atrocities coming from Poland. Mrs. S. recalls deportation to the Kos?ice ghetto; childish concern for her cat; deportation to Auschwitz; separation with her sister from the rest of their family; incarceration in Block 26 of Birkenau which had housed typhus victims and was used to see how many would...

  15. Zahava Stessel collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Zahava Stessel during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  16. Zaiband family collection

    Oral history interview with Morris Zaiband. Oral history interview with Ruth Finder Zaiband and Morris Zaiband.

  17. Zaifman family photograph

    Framed portrait of the Zaifman family from Łódź, Poland. Sigmond Zaifman is standing in the rear to the right of his sister. Inscriped on verso of the frame: "Zaifman family from Łódź, Poland/Victims of the Holocaust's 'ethnic cleansing'/Ziggy Zaifman, right rear, survived."

  18. Zajaczkowska family collection

    Collection of photographs and documents, with photographs depicting Basia Rubinstein Zajaczkowska (donor's mother) in Solberga, Sweden where she was recuperating after surviving the Kielce ghetto, Pionki forced labor camp and Ravensbrück concentration camp. Documents include two telegrams, one of them regarding the house in Kielce, sent to the New Palestine DP camp in Austria and the other sent to Sweden notifying Basia that her brother, Leon Zajaczkowski, in a Polish Army camp, and that her husband is in Italy. It also includes pre and post war photographs, vaccination cards, baggage claim...

  19. Zajonc family collection

    THe collection consists of a suitcase from Hinda Zajonc (Hilda Kreuzer in the United States), photos of liberation of Dachau and Dachau postcard in red photo holder, and copies of documents related to Zelda Zajonc (Sophie Morris in the United States).

  20. Zalc family collection

    Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of the Zalc family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.