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  1. Susan P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan P., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1938. She recounts her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1940; his return a few months later; his conscription in May 1942 (she never saw him again); German occupation in March 1944; her mother obtaining Catholic baptismal papers for them in October; their move to a Swedish safe house; bringing food to her grandmother in the ghetto, posing as non-Jews; her mother bribing a Hungarian policeman with her wedding ring during a round-up; hiding, beginning in November, in a factory, then an apartment; lib...

  2. Susan Q. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan Q., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands to a prominent Sephardic, rabbinic family with a long Dutch history. She recalls a large extended family; German invasion; learning dressmaking, then nursing; working with her sisters at a Jewish mental hospital; her parents' deportation to Westerbork in 1942; their release when a friend provided false papers for them; hiding during round-ups; her older sister's deportation to Auschwitz (she did not return); being forced to assist at the castrations of Jewish men married to non-Jews; receiving notice for deportation; he...

  3. Susan S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan S., who was born in Krummau, Czechoslovakia in 1934 to a Jewish mother and German-Catholic father. Mrs. S. recounts her father's affluent family; being doted upon as the first grandchild; German annexation; fleeing to Budweis in September 1938; being joined by her maternal grandparents and uncle; attending Catholic school; the impact of curfews and wearing a star on her mother; her grandparents' and uncle's deportation in April 1942 (she never saw them again); her father leaving for forced labor in August 1944 due to his marriage to a Jew; her mother's deportati...

  4. Susan S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan S., who was born in Zalishchyky, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1923, one of three children. She recounts attending public school; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; attending business school in another town; German invasion; returning home; hiding with her family during a mass killing; deportation to the Tolstoye ghetto in September 1942; forced labor in the fields; meeting her future husband, Paul S.; escaping a mass shooting with Paul S., in which her parents and nine-year-old sister were killed; hiding with Paul S., his brother, and others; Ukrainian ...

  5. Susan Szarfare Greenstein photographs

    Contains two black-and-white photographs of Susan Szarfare Greenstein's mother in the Landsberg Displaced Persons camp.

  6. Susan T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan T., who was born in Budapest, Hungary. She describes early edicts against Jews; continuous efforts to obtain American visas for her family; her husband's deportation to a labor camp near the Czech border in 1942, then to one in Russia in 1944; and life in the "open ghetto" in Budapest. She relates the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944; anti-Jewish legislation and increased deportations under Eichmann's supervision; restrictive conditions in German-occupied Budapest; the forced march to a brick factory outside Budapest; and the negotiation of the group's...

  7. Susan Toth collection

    Consists of a copyprint and a copy of a document regarding the Bor forced labor camp in Serbia. Includes a photograph of a group of men and a list dated 1944 of thirteen men who were in a forced labor commando at Bor. The copy of the list was notarized in Timisoara, Romania, in 1944.

  8. Susan W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan W., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1925 and grew up in Ungvar (presently Uz?h?horod, Ukraine). She recalls Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish laws; German occupation in the spring of 1944; ghettoization in a brick factory; transport in May to Auschwitz; separation from her parents; her sister's selection in October; transport to Velbert; forced labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Terezi?n; and liberation by Soviet troops in May 1945. Mrs. W. recounts returning to Uz?h?horod; learning no family members had survived; living in Prague; flashbacks an...

  9. Susan Wallace Family Papers

    Documents relating to Goldschmidt and Ungar families, including family trees dating back to 1397 (c 1820 - 1909); Documents relating to Portheim family, with printed material relating to Leopold von Portheim's carrer (N.d); Documents relating to the Wallach family; Article on Wertheimber family (1788 - ); Document relating toWallace family history, with legal documents on Elizabeth and Leopold Portheim; Memoirs by Vica Henrion (1949); Printed documents on the Herz family (1863); Material on the Noether family (N.d.); Documents relating to von Portheim Familys properties in Prague.

  10. Susan Warsinger papers

    The Susan Warsinger (Hilsenrath) papers comprise documents and photographs related to Susan Warsinger’s Holocaust experiences as a Jewish child from Bad Kreuznach, Germany who took refuge in France from 1939 until she immigrated to the United States in 1941. Much of the collection pertains to Susan’s life while living in the OSE home Chateau les Morelles in Broût-Vernet, France, which she describes in a diary and through a series of correspondence to her parents and little brother in the United States. Also comprised is correspondence with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and American Frien...

  11. Susan Weiss collection

    These collections contain materials related to the family of Susan Weiss during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  12. Susana A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susana A., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1930. She tells of emigrating to Paris with her parents when she was six months old; the births of three brothers; cordial relations with non-Jews; her father's enlistment when war began; his discharge; his arrest in 1940 (they never saw him again); leaving school to help at home after her fourth brother's birth; occasional letters from her father; her mother bringing the children to an agency when she could no longer feed them; their return home in June 1942; her mother bringing them to a Catholic organization; living in a...

  13. Susanne Berglind collection

    Six works of art created by artist Susanne Berglind (donor's mother) illustrating her experiences during the Holocaust. Susanne Zimmerman was born in Miskolic, Hungary and was interned in the ghetto there. Susanne was deported to a series of concentration camps with her sister and mother, including Auschwitz, Plaszow and Bergen Belsen. Her mother died at liberation in Bergen-Belsen. The six works of art, which are watercolor on tissue or pastel on paper, document these experiences. Susanne was taken to Sweden after liberation on June 28, 1945 on the Kastleholm, where she recuperated.

  14. Susanne J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susanne J., who was born in Rajka, Hungary in 1927, one of three children. She recalls an affluent childhood; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending Catholic school, then gymnasium, in Gyo?r; being summoned home in spring 1944; forced removal with her family to Moson, then Gyo?r; their deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); her sister's assignment elsewhere; transfer to Lippstadt six weeks later; slave labor in a factory; evacuation; being surrounded by United States troops in Kaunitz; living in German homes ther...

  15. Susanne P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzanne P., who was born in Oppeln, Germany (presently Opole, Poland). She recalls street fights between Nazis and communists; being shunned by former non-Jewish friends; attending a Jewish boarding school in Breslau; mass destruction on Kristallnacht; returning home; destruction of her father's business; their non-Jewish landlord protecting their home; emigrating to Stockholm with her younger sister, hoping their parents could follow; living in several foster homes (her sister remained with one elderly woman); receiving letters from their parents prior to 1943; worki...

  16. Susanne Rappaport Ripton collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Susanne Rappaport Ripton and her family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. Susi Podgurski collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Susi Podgurski and her family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  18. Susi R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susi R., who was born in Germany in 1929 and grew up in Eisenach. She recalls implementation of anti-Jewish restrictions; her parents' close friendship with a non-Jewish woman; Kristallnacht; their friend smuggling her father to Brussels; living with her mother in Cologne, then Aachen; reuniting with her father in Brussels in January 1939; fleeing to Paris after the German invasion; her father's incarceration in Le Vernet (the last time she heard of him); and returning to Belgium. She recounts her mother arranging for her to live in a convent in Louvain in the summer ...

  19. Susi Traumann Lewinsky collection

    The collection consists of children’s illustrated books, documents, photographs, a prayerbook, news articles and periodicals relating to Susi Traumann Lewisnsky.

  20. Susie and Margarete Wiesner collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase, cigarette case with pin, doll, cloth pouch and coins and currency used, carried by Susie Marie Wiesner Metzger and her mother Margarete Wiesner who survived the Holocaust; 3 videocassette tapes.