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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. "Max Adler: From Germany to America, 1926-1939"

    Consists of one memoir, 6 pages, entitled "Max Adler: From Germany to America 1926-1939," by Max Adler. In the memoir, Mr. Adler describes the history of his family and the Jewish community in his hometown of Bad Mergentheim, Germany. He describes antisemitism in the 1930s, his memories of Kristallnacht, and leaving on a Kindertransport to the Netherlands in January 1939. Mr. Adler's parents were able to immigrate to the United States in May 1939, and he joined them there in February 1940.

  2. "Meditation on the Holocaust: The Unfinished Notes of a Survivor"

    Consists of one typed memoir entitled "Meditation on the Holocaust: The Unfinished Notes of a Survivor," by Michael Etkind, originally of Łódź, Poland. In the memoir, he describes the members of his immediate family, life in the Łódź ghetto, the death of his mother from typhus in 1941, the experiences of a friend named Oyzer Walfisz, his separation from his sister, Henka, and his deportation to a forced labor camp in Czestochowa in 1944. After several months, he was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp and describes his memories of his fellow prisoners. As the American army ...

  3. "Megilat Haman"

    Typescript draft of a play, 16 pages, titled "Megilat Haman," written on the occasion of Purim, mid-1940s, and attributed to a member of the Jewish Brigade. Play makes comparisons between Haman and contemporary Nazi leaders (Hitler, Goering, Goebbels). Undated, approximately mid-1940s.

  4. "Memoires de Guerre: 13 Mai 1941--Aout 1945"

    Consists of one memoir, 107 pages, entitled "Memoires de Guerre: 13 Mai 1941--Aout 1945," by Paul Szigeti. He describes his arrest in France in 1941, his wartime imprisonment in Germany, and his liberation in April 1945. Also contains a German translation of the same.

  5. "Memoirs of Ludwig Bauer, PhD"

    Consists of one memoir, 113 pages, entitled "Memoirs of Ludwig Bauer, PhD", written by Ludwig Bauer, originally of Forchheim, Germany. Dr. Bauer, born in 1926, relates the history of the Jewish community in Forchheim, focusing on his memories of Kristallnacht in Forchheim and the Kristallnacht bombing of the Forchheim synagogue. Includes an article written by Sabine Ponater regarding the Jews of Forchheim, Dr. Bauer's impressions of Forchheim after a 1987 visit and a copy of an emailed interview between Dr. Bauer and a history class from the Ehrenbürg Gymnasium in Forchheim.

  6. "Memoirs of my childhood from the Holocaust"

    Consists of one memoir, 11 pages, entitled "Memoirs of my childhood from the Holocaust", by Moshe Brem, origially of Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland. In 1939, Moshe's father was conscripted into the Polish Army. Moshe, his mother, and his extended family remained in Piotrkow, which became a ghetto, and managed to escape deportation by offering tailoring services to the Germans and by bribing both the Germans and non-Jews in Piotrkow to help the family. In the fall of 1944, however, Moshe and his mother were deported to Ravensbrück. Only a small child, Moshe spent his days hiding while his moth...

  7. "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...

  8. "Memoirs of Violet Dattner"

    Consists of a transcript of the dictated memoir of Violet Dattner, originally of Transylvania. She studied in Paris in the 1930s and met and married her husband, Willy, in Belgium in 1938. They lived in Antwerp until May 1940 when they escaped into France. They were temporarily arrested in 1940, attempted to escape through Spain, but were turned back to Belgium. In 1940, they were able to escape to Havana, Cuba. She also describes her experiences trying to help other family emigrate and in the post-war years, to obtain restitution and information regarding family who perished, as well as he...

  9. "Memories and Regrets"

    Consists of one memoir, 27 pages, entitled "Memories and Regrets" by Haim Teicher, 27 pages, in Hebrew. The memoir, written in Tel Aviv on June 28, 1992, describes Mr. Teicher's Holocaust experiences, including witnessing the liquidation of the Stanislavov ghetto, the murder of his family in the Dolina ghetto, and his escape into Romania with the assistance of the driver of the local SS official.

  10. "Memories from my childhood, 1930-1944"

    Consists of one memoir, "Memories from my Childhood, 1930-1944" written by Vered-Roos Lazar relating the family history and childhood experiences of her father, Israel (Laszlo) Lazar, originally of Oradea, Romania. Includes copies of photographs, documents, and family trees. Contains an appendix, entitled "Extended Family Tree for the Australian Part of the Braun/Grünstein Family," which contains copies of photographs and narration regarding the family's World War II and post-war experiences. Also includes photographs and photocopies of registry forms for the children of the family who per...

  11. "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.

  12. "Memories of an Interrupted Youth" : Rachel Friedensohn memoir

    Contains one memoir, 30 pages, entitled "Memories of an Interrupted Youth," by Rachel Feitsma Friedensohn, originally of Antwerp, Belgium. Her family escaped to France before the German invasion, lived in Toulouse and Boulogne-sur-Gesse before receiving their exit visas in November 1942. Rachel and her mother left for Madrid, where they were reunited with her father, who had been imprisoned in the Vernet concentration camp in France. The family spent the remainder of the war in Jamaica and Cuba.

  13. "Memories of World War II and the Holocaust"

    Consists of one memoir, "Memories of World War II and the Holocaust" by Ralph W. Tews, a member of the 113th Cavalry Mechanized Reconnaissance, a unit of the Iowa National Guard. He describes his training, his experiences on D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, and the liberation of Buchenwald. Also includes a collection of short anecdotes and stories he remembers about his wartime experiences.

  14. "Memories"

    Consists of one manuscript, 95 pages, entitled "Memories," by Simon Juan Lichtig, originally born Szymon (Szymek) Lichtig, of Tarnów, Poland. He describes his childhood in Tarnów, his escape to Lwów using false papers, hiding as a Polish Catholic in Kiev, Soviet Union, and in Saarbrúcken, Germany, and his experiences as a translator for the United States Army.

  15. "Memories": Ester Grintal memoir

    In “Memories,” a memoir written by Ester Grintal, she describes her childhood in Poland, her experiences in labor and concentration camps, and her postwar immigration to Israel.

  16. "Message to the Six Million" poem

    Consists of a letter containing a poem entitled "Message to the six million" written by Viola Sutliff.

  17. "Minerwa" Metal Factory in Częstochowa Zakłady Wyrobów Metalowych "Minerwa" w Częstochowie (Sygn.192/9)

    Contains records relating to opening balance of the "Minerwa" Metal factory in Częstochowa for Jan. 29, 1945. Included are records about the factory equipment, as well as records concerning the trial to regain the property by the heirs of the former owners.

  18. "Minsk - Im lager der deutschen Juden"

    Photocopy of a published article by Karl Loewenstein, titled "Minsk--Im Lager der deutschen Juden," 16 pages, which originally appeared in "Die Mahnung: Organ des Bundes der Verfolgten des Naziregimes Berlin, e.V.," Vol. 4, No. 1, 1 January 1957. The article describes Loewenstein's experiences, from the point in which he was arrested by the Gestapo in Berlin in 1941, through his deportation to Minsk and what he experienced and witnessed there until his transfer to Theresienstadt the following year. He describes living conditions in the camp to which deportees from Berlin were assigned, the ...

  19. "Miriam's Way: Real Life Story of Miriam Kenigsberg Poster"

    Testimony, typescript, approximately 120 pages, titled "Miriam's Way: Real Life Story of Miriam Kenigsberg Poster," about experiences of her family in Vilnius; told in a novelized form.

  20. "Mit dem Führer" photograph album

    Consists of a photograph album with an embossed leather cover "Mit dem/Führer/unterwegs" containing 230 black and white images of Hitler, including his entries into Austria, Italy and Poland. The photographer is purportedly Heinrich Hoffman, and there are hand-lettered captions in German; dated circa 1936-1944. The album was recovered by paratrooper Carl J. Walkup in Berchtesgaden, Germany and was purchased by the donor at auction in 1977.