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  1. Kurt Hach collection

    Consists of one folder of handwritten (via fax) memories of the wartime experiences of Mr. Kurt Hach, originally of a small coastal town near Hamburg, Germany. Mr. Hach describes the story of the ships populated by prisoners, which were bombed in the harbor of Lübeck in May 1945, as it was told to him by a German naval officer who had been present. He also describes his wartime memories, including smuggling food and the aftermath of Allied air raids; as well as learning in the 1980s that his mother was Jewish.

  3. Elfriede Posner Greifinger collection

    Consists of the German language memoir, written in 1983, of Elfriede Posner Greifinger, originally of Dziedzice, Poland, along with an English translation of the same completed by Mrs. Greifinger's daughter, Edith Millman. In the memoir, Mrs. Greifinger describes the outbreak of war in Warsaw, life in the Warsaw ghetto, the family's escape from the ghetto and life posing as Aryans and in hiding. The memoir, which was never finished, concludes as the family is being blackmailed about their secret. Also includes copies of photographs of Elfriede Greifinger, her sister, Erna Koch, and brother-...

  4. "The Jews of Denmark"

    Consists of sixteen pages of post-war handwritten text entitled "The Jews of Denmark." The text, which was discovered in a book entitled "Physical and mental stress and consequential development of atherosclerosis within the Jewish population of Denmark" within the USHMM Library, is signed "R. Edelmann," possibly historian Rafael Edelmann.

  5. Goebbels and "Der Angriff"

    A very brief shot of a printing press switches to the masthead of "Der Angriff" [The Attack] with a close up on the line "published by Dr. Goebbels". A sequence of shots of Goebbels: getting out of his car, speaking, working at his desk. The screen splits with the words (partially cut off on screen): Der Angriff ___gt Unsere [ver?]teidigung [Der Angriff is our defence?). Goebbels is shown speaking on the other side of the screen.

  6. Edgar R. Hoffman photograph collection

    Consists of four photographs depicting scenes associated with the discovery of the Gardelegen Massacre by U.S. forces in April 1945. The photographs belonged to Edgar R. Hoffmann, a Technician Fifth Grade who served with the 464th Ordnance Evacuation Company. Hoffmann was in service in Europe between May 1944 and November 1945. Original inscriptions are included on the reverse of three of the four photographs.

  7. Therese Wertheim diary

    The collection consists of a photocopy of a journal, written in German, by Therese (Tesi) Wertheim, originally of Stuttgart, Germany. The journal was written immediately post-war and describes Tesi's experiences between May 10, 1940, when the Germans invaded Enschede in the Netherlands, and April 3, 1945, when the town was liberated by the Canadians. In her journal she describes the arrest of her son, Martin, who was killed at Mauthausen in October 1941, anti-Jewish legislation, life in in the underground in Enschede, and the aerial attacks on the city. The collection also includes an Engli...

  8. The Bartered Bride "Prodaná Nevěsta,"

    Consists of one pre-war operatic score, published in Czech in 1927, of "Prodaná Nevěsta," [The Bartered Bride] by Bedřich Smetana. The score was used by Alexander (Max) Singer during a production of the opera in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto and includes handwritten annotations by Raphael Schächter. The score was rebound after the war.

  9. "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...

  11. "Chapters of Remembrance: The Memoirs of Michal Lubliner, Volume I, 1905-1945"

    Consists of one memoir entitled "Chapters of Remembrance: The Memoirs of Michal Lubliner, Volume I, 1905-1945," translated from the original Yiddish into English by Dr. Jacob (Coby) Lubliner, the author's son. In the memoir, Mr. Lubliner describes his childhood in Maleniec, Poland, religious figures he knew, Hasidic life, and the outbreak of World War I. The family escaped to Piotrków to join family, and after the war, he moved to Berlin to attend university. He married in Łódź in 1933 and had a son, Yaakov (Jacob or Coby) in 1935. He describes the German invasion in 1939 and, instead of mo...

  12. Leon Matsas memoirs

    Consists of the unfinished handwritten memoirs of Leon Matsas, entitled "Survival I," "Survival II," and Survival III." The memoirs are originally written in Greek and have been translated by Mr. Matsas' daughter, Ninetta Matsa Feldman. In the memoirs, Mr. Matsas, a banker, describes pre-war antisemitism and the fear of a German invasion. In 1940, he transferred with his family from Preveza to Agrinion, and after the war began, to Ioannina (Janina or Yanina). He describes life in the Greek Army, into which he was drafted to fight against the Italians in Albania; as well as the Army's retrea...

  13. Esther Cohen Matsa memoir

    Consists of the memoir, untitled, of Esther Cohen Matsa, originally of Delvino, Albania. In the memoir, originally written in Greek and translated by Ninetta Matsa Feldman (the author's daughter), the author describes her childhood, the family's life in Ioannina (Yannina or Janina) in Greece and in Delvino, her experience at a boarding school in Corfu, work in her father's fabric store, her marriage to Leon Matsas and the births of their two children. The family moved to Agrinio, Greece, and the author leaves out much discussion of the early days of the war, when her husband was drafted in ...

  14. "A Family Portrait: A Jewish Family of Yannina, Greece before World War II"

    Consists of one folder containing an essay, entitled "A Family Portrait: A Jewish Family of Yannina, Greece before World War II" by Ninetta Matsa Feldman, based on an oral history interview with her paternal aunt, Rebecca Matsa Gani, which was conducted in August 1999. This essay, which includes family photographs, describes the members of the Matsas family and life in pre-war Yannina, and Jewish life in the town. Rebecca Gani moved to Egypt, and she, her brother Leon (father of Ninetta), and her brother Michael were the only members of the immediate family to survive the Holocaust.

  15. Hitler speaks in Vienna

    At Heldengedenkplatz. Jubilant crowd swarms the square. Hitler speaking at anniversary of Austrian annexation. Border gate going up. Wehrmacht going down country road, at the border near Kufstein(?).

  16. "Journey to Survival"

    Consists of one memoir, entitled "Journey to Survival," by Ninetta Matsa Feldman, originally of Arta, Greece. In the memoir, she recalls watching her father leave briefly for the Greek Army; and wartime life in Agrinio, Greece. In the fall of 1943, her family went into hiding in the small mountain town of Psilovrahos, where they remained for a year, at one point hiding in a cave from a German raid. After the war ended in Greece and the family returned to Agrinio, they learned that the Jews of Ioannina were deported on March 25, 1944, and that only a handful of their family living in Greece ...

  17. "Waves, A Memoir, 1929-1950"

    Consists of one memoir, 82 pages, entitled "Waves, A Memoir, 1929-1950," by Dr. Julius J. Menn, originally of Langfuhr, near Danzig (Gdansk), Poland. Dr. Menn describes his childhood, his family's immigration to Palestine in 1935, their journey back to Poland in 1938 (as his mother did not adjust well to Palestine), first to visit family in Vilna, and then to settle in Warsaw. He recalls Polish antisemitism, the invasion of Poland, and fleeing east, first to Molodechno, and then to Vilna. In 1940, the family was able to travel from Odessa to Tel Aviv, and remained in Palestine during the Ho...

  18. Gaston Kahn collection

    The collection consists of a rubber hand stamp, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Gaston Kahn, his wife Jeanne, and children Danny-Claude and Marcel-Francis during the Holocaust in Paris, Gap, and Marseille, France, when Gaston worked with the Comite d'Assistance Aux Refugies and the Union Generale Des Israelites De France, and after the Holocaust in Paris.

  19. Zoltan Weinberger collection

    Consists of one newspaper article, in several pieces, from the Denver Post, dated January 30, 1952. The article, entitled, "Dachau Survivor 'Home' at Last" discusses the Holocaust experiences of Mr. Zoltan Weinberger, a survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau. Mr. Weinberger, who joined the US Army after he immigrated to the United States, was hospitalized for frostbite in his feet while serving in Denver, CO. He was prone to frostbite due to his Holocaust experiences.

  20. Kasimir Knapczyk Auschwitz letter, 1941

    Consists of one letter, written by Polish prisoner Kasimir Knapczyk on February 9, 1941, while he was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp. In the letter, written on camp stationery, he thanks his family for their letter and asks for more news. Mr. Knapcyzk, who had prisoner number 709, perished in Auschwitz on August 8, 1941.