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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. "My Life in Siberia" memoir

    One memoir, entitled "My Life in Siberia," by Jean Steinberg; contains poetry and prose relating to the donor's life in pre-war Poland and forced migration to Siberia. Memoir is bound, 124 pages, with a cover illustration.

  2. "My Life Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 7 pages, entitled "My Life Story," by Tsilya Bryson, originally of Minsk, Soviet Union. She describes her childhood, experiences in the Minsk ghetto, escape from the ghetto in August 1943, and life with Jewish partisans until they were liberated by the Soviet Army in 1944.

  3. "My Life Story": Joseph Fischer memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 174 pages, written in 1986, entitled "My Life Story," by Joseph Fischer, originally of Bicsad, Transylvania. Mr. Fischer recalls his experiences growing up in Bicsad, his family's deportation to the Satu-Mare ghetto and their May 1944 deportation to Auschwitz. Mr. Fischer was the only member of his family selected to work and was given the number A-3338. He describes his experiences at the Buna factory, where he worked until being evacuated from Auschwitz on January 17, 1945. From there, he was sent on a forced march to Gleiwitz, then was put on a train to Dora-Mitte...

  4. "My Life": Dr. Asher Miller memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 46 pages, entitled "My Life," by Dr. Asher Miller, originally of Koszyce, Slovakia. Dr. Miller graduated from medical school in Bratislava, and worked as a doctor in a government hospital until 1944, when he went into hiding in Bully, Slovakia. He was captured in January 1945 and taken to Lichtenrade, Germany, before being transferred to Sachsenhausen. In 1949, he and his family emigrated to Israel.

  5. "My Life--Memoirs by Sophie Weiss"

    Consists of one memoir, 19 pages, written by Sophie Ritterband Lewartowicz Weiss, originally of Łódź, Poland. Mrs. Weiss describes her family, childhood, and marriage to Zygmunt Lewartowicz. When the Germans invaded Poland, Mrs. Weiss (then Mrs. Lewartowicz) and her family briefly fled to Warsaw before returning to Łódź. In Decemeber 1939, after witnessing the German occupation of Łódź, the family returned to Warsaw and went into hiding as Catholics. The family lived as Aryans outside the ghetto until they were denounced in the fall of 1942, and briefly imprisoned. Mrs. Weiss and her ...

  6. "My Life-Story": Ruth Marks memoir

    Consists of memoir, 66 pages, entitled "My Life-Story," by Ruth Marks (Roma Glowinski). Originally from Kalisz, Poland, Ruth spent the war in hiding as Vislava (Viesha) Serafinska in Pruszków, Poland. Her parents and sister were deported from the Sandomierz ghetto in 1942 and perished in Belzec. Ruth Marks emigrated to Israel in 1947.

  7. "My Life: 1920-1943"

    Consists of the one manuscript, entitled "My Life: 1920-1943," by Margot Pogorzelski Hodge, originally of Freystadt, Germany. The eldest of five children, she describes her life in Freystadt, her memories of Nazi persecution, dropping out of school to work to support her family after her father's death in 1933, and her immigration to England in 1939 to work as a nurse.

  8. "My Memoir, 1914-2004"

    Consists of one memoir entitled "My Memoir, 1914-2004," 75 pages, by Maurice Eis, originally of Frankfurt, Germany. Maurice describes his memories of childhood in Frankfurt, his arrest on Kristallnacht and brief imprisonment in Dachau, and his immigration, first to Shanghai and then on to the United States. In the United States, Maurice was drafted into the American Army and participated in the D-Day invasion of Europe and the Battle of the Bulge. The memoir includes copies of photographs and documents related to his life.

  9. "My Memories from the War"

    Consists of one memoir written in May 1996, 4 pages, entitled "My Memories from the War," by Claire Holand, originally of Pabianice, Poland. In her memoir, Mrs. Holand, the only survivor of her immediate family, writes about her experiences in pre-war Poland, her deportation to Auschwitz and life in a forced labor factory in Neukolln, Germany, where she worked between 1942 and liberation in April 1945.

  10. "My Mother's Diary"

    Consists of a copy of a typed English translation of the diary of Ella Pick, originally of Vienna, which she began in 1920 to document the life of her son, Rudi (Rudolph) Pick, who later edited the diary. In the diary, Ella describes Rudi's health and schooling throughout his childhood, addressing him directly after Rudi managed to escape to England. At the end of the diary, she tells him that his parents are soon to depart and writes of how proud they are their son. Also includes a conclusion in which Rudolph writes of his own wartime history and of finding out of his parents' deportation ...

  11. "My Mother's Words"

    Consists of a memoir, entitled "My Mother's Words," about the experiences of Eva Roth, written, transcribed, and edited by her daughter, Marion Amsellem. In Mrs. Roth's memoir, she describes wartime life after her escape from Poland to Russia with her husband, who died in Samarkand during the war. She was remarried to Sol Roth in a displaced persons camp and they immigrated to the United States and reunited with some of Sol's siblings, who had been able to immigrate prior to the war.

  12. "My Perplexing Past"

    Consists of one memoir, 76 pages, entitled "My Perplexing Past," by Edward Bendik (Eduard Beinhacker), who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1932. He describes his childhood in Malacky and his memories of the German occupation of Malacky. He transcribes his mother's recollections of their escape from Czechoslovakia through Hungary to Italy, and their ocean passage to the United States, arriving on December 24, 1939. He describes growing up in the Stuyvesant neighborhood of New York City, the family's naturalization, college and military experiences, marriage, children, law school, a...

  13. "My Private War"

    Testimony: Typescript (26 pages) of a rough draft of author's experiences, titled "My Private War," in which he describes experiences of breaking out of Lwow and living underground in German-occupied Ukraine in 1942-1943.

  14. "My short story of time in Mauthausen"

    Consists of one memoir, 15 pages, entitled "My short story of time in Mauthausen," by Waldemar Bialous, originally of Warsaw, Poland. In the memoir, Mr. Bialous relates his memories of his transfer from Auschwitz to Mauthausen and of his life within the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he worked in the kitchen until his liberation. Also includes correspondence from Mr. Bialous to Mr. Charles Torluccio, an American liberator of Mauthausen. The two men reunited at the 50th anniversary of the liberation in 1995.

  15. "My Sisters, My Brothers"

    Testimony, 444 pages, typescript, titled "My Sisters, My Brothers," by Seren Bernstein (Tuvel), with Louise Loots Thornton, of Aptos, CA, in 1980. Thornton, after learning of Bernstein's experiences through her son, started interviewing her and wrote this manuscript as a novelized form of memoir based on those interviews. Includes detailed descriptions of Bernstein's childhood in a village in Transylvania, forced labor in Budapest, death march, and deportation to Ravensbrück. The manuscript was subsequently published as "The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival," by Sara Tuvel Bernstein (Putnam...

  16. "My Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 98 pages, entitled "My Story," by Margaret Elias Lawrence, who was born in Munich, Germany, in 1917. She was raised in Königsberg, Germany, where her father, Leo Elias, owned a small store. She recalls her childhood, the increasing antisemitism after 1933, Kristallnacht, and her immigration to England in February 1939, to work as household help. She married fellow refugee Hans George Lewinneck (Harold George Lawrence) in January 1940, and in February 1945, Margaret gave birth to a son, Peter. In 1948, the family immigrated to Argentina, and then to the United States ...

  17. "My Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 42 pages, entitled "My Story," written in 2005 by Eva Biro Slott, originally of Szentes, Hungary. She describes her childhood in Hungary, the deaths of her parents in 1931, and living with various relatives. In 1944, she was living in Budapest and writes about the German invasion of Hungary. She was sent to forced labor but was soon released, returned to Budapest, and described life in wartime Budapest. After the war ended, she made her way to the American zone of Germany, reconnected with her brother, who had immigrated to the United States previously and was a memb...

  18. "My Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 55 pages, entitled "My Story," by Sol Graf (also known as Zoltan Grof or Shlomo Graf), originally of Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary. He describes pre-war life, the invasion of Hungary, being sent to the Moson ghetto and from there to the ghetto in Gyor. At the beginning of June, he was deported to Auschwitz and describes the selection process and being placed in the children's barrack in the so-called "Gypsy camp." He was transferred to Auschwitz I and later to the Sachsenhausen, Lieberose, and Mauthausen concentration camps. He was liberated from Gunskirchen in May 1945 a...

  19. "My Story--the Holocaust"

    Contains of a memoir, 13 pages, entitled "My Story--The Holocaust" by Marcia Krause, originally of Łódź, Poland. In the memoir, Mrs. Krause recounts her memories of her childhood in Łódź, internment in the Łódź ghetto, and deportation to Auschwitz. From Auschwitz, Marcia, with her sole surviving family member, her sister Helen, was deported to a concentration camp near Hamburg. From Hamburg, the sisters were deported to Bergen-Belsen, where they were liberated. Also includes several articles by and about Marcia Krause and a photograph of Mrs. Krause at an unknown Holocaust memorial.

  20. "My Survival" memoir

    Memoir, 7 pages, relates the story of Traute Hirschmann, born in Breslau, Germany, in 1927. She was sent to various labor camps from 1942-1945 and survived along with both her parents, though they were separated during the war years. She emigrated to the United States in 1948.