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  1. "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 ...

  2. Dr. Frank Stinchfield collection

    Consists of 39 photographs from the collection of Dr. Frank E. Stinchfield, a physician and Colonel in the United States Army Medical Corps. The photographs were taken a few days after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945, and depict surviving prisoners, camp architecture, and piles of corpses. Also includes several photographs of the Ohrdruf concentration camp after liberation.

  3. Joseph Winkler memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 660 pages, untitled, by Joseph Winkler, originally born in Sambor, Galicia, in 1903. The memoir was dictated in August 1974 and transcribed. In his memoir, Mr. Winkler describes his childhood, life under Russian occupation during World War I, and seeing his town become Polish territory. He got a job at a petroleum refinery in Drohobycz in 1927, received his doctorate in chemistry, and met and married Eugenia (Genia) Weidenfeld, with whom he had a daughter, Lili. He describes the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and life under the Russian occupation. After the German...

  5. Regina Vogel Berk photograph

    Consists of one photograph, taken in 1935 in Cernauti, Romania. The photograph shows two girls posing with a bicycle and a soccer ball; on the left is Regina Vogel.

  6. Schwarzhaupt family collection

    Consists of correspondence regarding the Holocaust experiences of the family of Albert and Hella Reinhold Schwarzhaupt. Consists of pre-war postcards, the 1921 marriage certificate of Albert and Hella, and the birth certificate of their fourth child, Ruth Schwarzhaupt. In 1935, Albert and Hella managed to secure passage to the United States for their two oldest children, Rosi and Hanni. In February 1939, the two youngest children, Max and Ruth, sponsored by a Swiss Jewish Relief Agency, entered Switzerland, where they remained during the war, joining their siblings in the United States afte...

  7. "Late Embrace"

    Consists of one DVD, entitled "Late Embrace," (28 minutes), a documentary produced by Yehudit Shenhar and Alisa Eshed in Jerusalem in December 2006. The documentary is the story of Ester Roter, who was a hidden child and the only survivor of her family. After the war, Ester immigrated to Palestine and, conflicted about her feelings towards them, did not keep in contact with the Kormarniccy family who hid her. In 2004, she returned to Głubczyce and reunited with the family; the documentary also shows members of the Kormarniccy family visiting Ester in Israel, including the ceremony at Yad Va...

  8. Shoshana Benes photographs

    Consists of nine photographs from the collection of Shoshana Marin Benes (originally Rajsla Meryn), originally of Bedzin, Poland. The photographs depict life before the Holocaust, life in the Bedzin ghetto, and include two studio portraits of Rajsla Meryn wearing the Magen David. Also includes photographs of teenagers taken in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp.

  9. Linkuva photographs

    Consists of eight photographs of pre-war Jewish life in Linkuva, Lithuania. Includes photographs of homes, the marketplace, the post office, and a horse-drawn wagon.

  10. Sia Hertsberg photographs

    Consists of 22 photographs of the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Sia Izrailewitsch Hertsberg, originally of Riga, Latvia. Includes photographs of Sia as a child with her parents and younger sister, Margo, photographs of pre-war life in Riga, photographs of Jewish women convalescing at a hospital in Koloma after their liberation from Stutthof, and photographs of Sia Hertsberg's post-war life and family.

  11. Marcel Burtin testimony

    Consists of one CD-ROM containing the testimony of Marcel Burtin (born Szloma Burstyn) that was recorded in 2001, transcribed from the original French by Mr. Burtin's daughter, Joelle Leseuer, in 2008, and translated into English by Sally Case in 2008. In his testimony, Mr. Burtin, who was born in Dzierzby, Poland, describes his family's immigration to France when he was a child, and the first years of the war. In 1942, he went into hiding in the countryside near Paris before escaping to the south of France, where he lived on false identity papers. Mr. Burtin was arrested as a member of the...

  12. Fred Haber Signal Corps collection

    Consists of 8x10 black and white Signal Corps photographs taken during and immediately after World War II. Includes photographs of Allied conferences (including Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam, and Quebec), journalists visiting the concentration camps in April 1945, the capitulations of both Japan and Germany, the Nuremberg trials, Landsberg prison, members of the Signal Corps, USO shows, atrocities in the Pacific theater, the death of Benito Mussolini, Franklin Roosevelt's funeral procession, and the 1945 victory parade in Washington DC, as well as many other candid and posed photographs. The photo...

  13. Rozia Topor memoir

    The Rozia Topor memoir contains an eight page memoir written by Rozia Topor describing her experiences in several ghettos and labor camps of Poland, while caring for her younger siblings.

  14. Salaspils concentration camp collection

    Consists of information about the Salaspils concentration camp in Latvia. Includes documents written by Margers Vestermanis, a museum director; a summary of testimony by prisoner Joseph Gertner; and copies of photographs and artwork.

  15. John and Sophie Lambert collection

    Consists of photographs and documents from the lives of Hans and Sofie Schneider Lemberger (John and Sophie Lambert), who immigrated from Vienna to the United States in December 1939. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs, diplomas, birth and marriage certificates, report cards, "Reisepasses," and letters regarding attempts to help family immigrate and regarding the fate of family members.

  16. "I was a Child During the War"

    Consists of one DVD entitled, "I was a Child During the War," which tells the story of Bertrand and Ariane Rosenau, originally of Paris, France. Includes their experiences in Paris after the German occupation, the deportation of their father, and their lives in wartime Paris living under false Aryan identities.

  17. Frank Meissner family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and a prayer book relating to the experiences of Franz Meissner and his family in Czechoslovakia before and during the Holocaust, and of Franz's experiences after escaping to Denmark, then Sweden, and Great Britain, where he joined the Royal Air Force, for the duration of World War II.

  18. Selected records from various archives of Romania concerning Roma

    This collection documents deportations of 25,000 Roma to Transnistria in 1942: contains lists of Roma to be deported; police reports concerning alleged criminal activities; petitions of deportees for repatriation; “Romanianization” of Romas’ property; requests from local officials for clarification of deportation orders; internal correspondence concerning the effect of deportations on the remaining population; decisions regarding Roma refugees from Northern (Hungarian) Transylvania; and other topics such as typhus outbreaks, “vagabondism,” “concubinism,” and mixed marriages.

  19. Hungary Werfen ("Gold") Train and other selected U.S. documents related to Hungary

    Contains documents from various U.S. government agencies about the “Gold Train” or “Werfen Train,” which members of the Arrow Cross Party and officials of the Hungarian National Bank packed with looted Jewish valuables (mostly from Miskilc, Pecs, and Gyor) and sent across the border into Austria in March 1945. (This was not the only such train.) Although some items were pilfered en route, the U.S. Armed Forces captured most and stored them in a warehouse in Austria. U.S. personnel and agencies pilfered (or “borrowed” without returning) further property, and the remainder has been the subjec...

  20. Selected documents related to Hungary from the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA)

    This collection focuses on US government documents as represented in NARA holdings, which were related to activities of the US Armed Forces and the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) in the Hungarian and Austrian areas just before the end of the war and after the end of the war. It includes documents concerning the work of American OSS operative Martin Himmler, who supervised a series of interrogations of a group of Hungarians detained by US forces in Austria after the war, but it does not include the protocols of the interrogations themselves; these protocols were not found at NARA. It als...