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  1. "Bystanders, Victims, and Perpetrators" "A descriptive analysis of individual choices and moral responsibility in the case of an informal network of Protestants trying to rescue Jews in the surroundings of Antwerp and Louvain between 1942 and 1945"

    Consists of one manuscript, 79 pages, entitled "Bystanders, Victims, and Perpetrators: A descriptive analysis of individual choices and moral responsibility in the case of an informal network of Protestants trying to rescue Jews in the surroundings of Antwerp and Louvain between 1942 and 1945," by Jan Maes, who wrote the paper as part of a masters degree in religious sciences at the Catholic University of Louvain. In the manuscript, Maes uses original testimony and interviews with rescuers and those who were rescued, and focuses on Julia Schuyten Sluys, a rescuer, Sylvieke Reichman, a child...

  2. "Cabinet of the Jewish Culture of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences" from the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (Fond 190)

    Consists of archive of the Jewish folk culture collected by the Cabinet of the Jewish Culture of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The collection includes Jewish folk songs, proverbs, aphorisms, fairy tales, musical scores and other folk materials collected by the Cabinet of Jewish Culture and its predecessors institutions (e.g. Institute of Jewish Proletarian Culture). Includes also correspondence of Moisey Beregovsky, head of the folklore section and his staff members, with collectors and performers of Jewish folklore, notes from the ethnographic expeditions to collect Jewish folklore un...

  3. "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...

  4. "Charlotte's memoirs, Oct. 8, 1991"

    Consists of a memoir entitled "Charlotte's Memoirs," written by Charlotte Arpadi Baum in 1991. In the memoir, Charlotte describes her experiences as a child and as an adolescent in Berlin, Germany, as an inhabitant of the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia, in the concentration camps of Rīga-Kaiserwald and Stutthof, on a death march, of liberation in Poland, and her emigration to the United States. Please note: This material is available on microfiche as RG-02.121.

  5. "Charlotte's memoirs, Oct. 8, 1991"

    Consists of a memoir entitled "Charlotte's Memoirs," written by Charlotte Arpadi Baum in 1991. In the memoir, Charlotte describes her experiences as a child and as an adolescent in Berlin, Germany, as an inhabitant of the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia, in the concentration camps of Rīga-Kaiserwald and Stutthof, on a death march, of liberation in Poland, and her emigration to the United States. Please note: This material is available on microfiche as RG-02.121.

  6. "Children of Night"

    Testimony. Typescript, 21 pages, titled "Children of Night," by Susan Seiler Vigorito, dated 1989. Recounts her experiences as a child at Auschwitz, where she and her twin sister were subjects of medical experimentation by Josef Mengele.

  7. "Children of the Holocaust"

    The writer's account of the suffering of children she witnessed as a concentration camp inmate. She does not indicate the name of the camp, but another version of the memoir makes clear that it was Riga-Kaiserwald.

  8. "Choices in a Choiceless World"

    Testimony, four pages, typescript, titled "Choices in a Choiceless World," by Meier Stellel, of Brooklyn, NY. Description of his experiences in Budapest, return to his hometown in 1944, confinement in ghetto ("Desh"), deportation to Auschwitz, and forced labor in salt mine at Hochendorf.

  9. "Claim 201171"

    Contains a manuscript written by Dalia Bogler Frieder regarding her experiences attempting to get reparations for her wartime experiences.

  10. "Clandestinely: 1943-1945"

    Consists of one memoir, 6 pages, entitled "Clandestinely: 1943-1945," by Peter Cullman, originally of Berlin, Germany. In the memoir, he describes the difficulties in his parents' marriage, as his mother, Betty Simonstein, was Jewish and father, Albert Cullmann, was Christian. Though Betty tried to convert to Christianity, she was still subject to antisemitic persecution. In 1942, she obtained a forged working pass, and, posing as an Aryan, she was able to evacuate Berlin with her children in 1943 to the town of Domnau. In the fall of 1944, they were forced to flee multiple times to escape ...

  11. "Crying is forbidden here" Rachela Olewski testimony

    Consists of a copy of the testimony and experiences of Rachela Zelmanowicz Olewski, originally of Be̜dzin, Poland, entitled "Crying is forbidden here." Born in 1921, Rachela was deported to Auschwitz from the Be̜dzin ghetto in 1943. In Auschwitz, she was a member of the women's orchestra as a mandolin player, and was liberated from Bergen-Belsen in 1945. Rachela immigrated to Israel where she lived until her death in 1987.

  12. "Crystal Night in the Heart of a Jewish Child"

    Consists of a lecture delivered by Dr. Shmuel Kneller at the Holocaust Studies Centre in Haifa upon the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, November 9, 2008. In the lecture, entitled "Crystal Night in the Heart of a Jewish Child," Dr. Kneller describes his memories of Hitler coming to power, of pre-war antisemitism, and of his experiences in Berlin during Kristallnacht. The lecture, originally given in Hebrew, was translated in English.

  13. "Czechoslovak Calvary"

    Consists of a photocopy of an album of newspaper clippings collected and prepared by William P. Zachar. Mr. Zachar was living in Philadelphia in 1938 and collected clippings from local papers regarding the buildup to and invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938. Mr. Zachar titled his album "Czechoslovak Calvary."

  14. "Da Fossoli a Mauthausen" translation

    Consists of the English translation of one manuscript, 121 pages, entitled "Da Fossoli a Mauthausen," originally by Don Sante Bartolai (Msgr. Samuel Bartolai), an American-born Roman Catholic priest and survivor of the Mauthausen concentration camp. In the memoir, Father Bartolai recalls his arrest and imprisonment in the Modena, Italy, prison in March 1944, his transfer to the Fossoli di Carpi concentration camp, and his experiences in Mauthausen and Ebensee from June 1944 until liberation.

  15. "Dachau Concentration Camp: A Memoir"

    “Dachau Concentration Camp: A Memoir” is 29 page memoir written by Felix Klein, originally of Vienna, Austria. From 1938-1939, Klein was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp and Buchenwald concentration camp. Afterwards, he spent a year in England before immigrating to the United States in 1940. The memoir, found in Klein's personal papers after his death in 1994, describes his experiences in Dachau in the summer and fall of 1938.

  16. "Dancing through the minefields"

    Consists of a copy of "Dancing through the minefields," a typescript memoir by Fred Schiller and Janice Blumberg. The memoir describes Schiller's early life in Yugoslavia, his career as a jazz musician, his flight from Yugoslavia after the establishment of the Nazi-Ustashi (Ustaša) government, his experiences as a refugee on various Yugoslav islands in the Adriatic Sea, his service with the United States Army, and his immigration to the United States in 1948.

  17. "Das Gesetz und die Wissenschaft in Deutschland, 1941-1945"

    Consists of speech, 14 pages, written and delivered by Dr. Rudolf Vrba in Frankfurt, Germany upon the 40th anniversary of the Auschwitz trial. The speech, with the English title of "Law and Science in Germany, 1941-1945," discusses the Nazi pseudo-science of eugenics and how the practice of defining race by blood was done legally, even though it is impossible to racially distinguish blood. He also discusses his beliefs regarding the importance of the study of the Holocaust, especially in Germany.

  18. "Das Heldentum der Besatzung des Krematorium, 1.10.1944, Der Aufstandt im Sonderkommando Auschwitz-Birkenau"

    The collection consists of testimony form Stanislaw Gwizdka regarding the revolt of the crematoria work crew in Auschwitz-Birkenau on October 1, 1944.

  19. "Das Krematorium in Dachau"

    Consists of a copy of "Das Krematorium in Dachau," an eyewitness report given by Willy Furlan-Horst shortly after the liberation of Dachau. The report describes the interior of the crematoria, the gas chambers, the procedures for torture and execution of prisoners, the duties of the Kommandos, and the facilities for housing the SS attack dogs.

  20. "Das Krematorium in Dachau"

    Consists of one original document, 2 pages, entitled "Das Krematorium in Dachau," a typed eyewitness report given by Willy Furlan-Horst shortly after the liberation of Dachau. The report describes the interior of the crematoria, the gas chambers, the procedures for torture and execution of prisoners, the duties of the crematoria Kommandos, and the facilities for housing the SS attack dogs.