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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. Helen and Harry Berger collection

    Collection contains scrip and documents related to Helen Berger (nee Blum) and Harry Berger (aka Chaim David Berger); includes Helen's wartime documents under the name Helen Borciszewska. It also contains a cigarette case taken from the home of an SS soldier and family that Helen Blum worked as a nanny for.

  2. Helen and Joseph Matlow family collection

    The collection consists of a blanket, cooking pot, shirt, long underwear, and photograph relating to the experiences of Helen and Joseph Matlow and their family before and during the Holocaust in Poland, and afterwards in the Eggenfelden displaced persons camp in Germany.

  3. Helen and William Luksenburg collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket relating to the experiences of Welek (William) Luksenburg during the Holocaust when he was imprisoned in several concentration camps and two photographs relating to the experiences of Welek Luksenburg and of Hilde (Helen) Chilewicz in prewar Poland.

  4. Helen and Willie Abraham photograph collection

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Helen Abraham (born Hencia Wagner) of Dąbrowica Mała, Leżajsk, Poland in the Ainring displaced persons camp and Willie Abraham of Vel'ky Rakovec, Czechoslovakia (present day Velykyi Rakovets, Zakarpat'ska Oblast, Ukraine) in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp. Included are photographs of Helen at Ainring and the munitions factory in Menden, Germany where she worked under a false identity; a letter written to Helen from her brother David Wagner in 1943 while he was in hiding before he was discovered and murdered by the Gestapo; photogr...

  5. Helen B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen B., who was born in ?uko?w, Poland in 1928, one of five children. She recounts her family's affluence; attending public school; summering in the country in 1939; German invasion; fleeing to Wo?lka Domaszewska; returning home; brief Soviet occupation; Germans returning and plundering their store; her father's arrest and release; housing refugees in their home; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the star; Germans searching for her father and beating her mother in 1942; round-ups and random killings; ghettoization; hiding with a Pole, who turned them over ...

  6. Helen B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen B., who was born in in 1923 in Łódź, Poland, one of four sisters. She recalls her family's affluence and modernity; their enthusiasm for opera and dancing; German invasion; deportation with her family to Dębica; moving to Radom; living with an aunt; all of them contracting typhus; ghettoization; forced labor outside the ghetto; her mother's deportation; hiding when her work group was deported; smuggling herself back to the ghetto; marriage; deportation with her family to Majdanek in January 1944; transfer with two sisters to Płaszów in March; a prisoner doct...

  7. Helen C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen C., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1923. She recalls her close-knit family; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; hiding with her family during round-ups; her father's death from starvation; forced labor at a munitions factory; marriage at age seventeen; assistance from David Gertler, a Jewish ghetto official; being caught in a round-up; escaping from the truck with her husband; refusing privileges to avoid separation from her mother and siblings; their deportation to Auschwitz in September 1944; separation from her mother, brother, and ...

  8. Helen C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen C., who was born in Lypcha, Ukraine (then the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) in approximately 1917, one of five siblings. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; working on their farm; becoming a seamstress; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; moving to Budapest in 1942; working as a housekeeper; incarceration in a brick factory; deportation to Ravensbru?ck; slave labor; being subjected to painful medical experiments; sharing food with a fellow prisoner; transfer to Rechlin after one year; praying to herself; escaping from a death march; liberation ...

  9. Helen D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen W., who was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1929. She recounts her parents' divorce when she was about two; living with her paternal grandparents in Proste?jov, Czechoslovakia; her father's weekly visits; a close relationship with her non-Jewish governess; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; celebrating Easter and Christmas as "national" holidays; attending synagogue; a close relationship with her uncle; her father moving funds out of Austria after the Anschluss and obtaining documents for the United States for himself and her; her grandparents...

  10. Helen D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen D., who was born in a town near Khust, Czechoslovakia in 1920. She recounts attending public school; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; transfer to Mel?nytsya-Podil?s?ka; forced labor cleaning streets; working as a dressmaker; deportation of her mother and five sisters to Auschwitz (none returned); remaining with her father, brother, and another sister; transfer to Bors?a; capture of her brother and father (she never saw them again); escaping with her sister from the ghetto in September 1943; hiding in a forest, then briefly with a Po...

  11. Helen Dore collection

    Photographic print: black and white image of Germans serving in Reserve Police Battalion 101 publicly humiliate a Jewish man by forcing him to pose in a prayer shawl in a crouching position with his hands up; dated 1942; Lukow, Poland. Photographic postcard: black and white image of German police and SS officers cutting the sidelocks of the son of a local rabbi. The father and son were reportedly hanged along with eight others soon after; inscription on verso; image dated 1939 – 1940; Sieradz, Poland

  12. Helen Drazen papers

    The papers consist of a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Hella Sichel [donor] in Frankfurt am Main, Germany; a classroom photograph of German schoolchildren including Hella Sichel; an American alien registration certificate of identification issued to Friederike Elbau [donor's grandmother]; a vaccination certificate ("Impfschein") issued to Hella Sichel om Frankfurt am Main, and a photocopy of an American affidavit of support entered by Max Hirsch on behalf of Freidel Elbau [donor's grandmother].

  13. Helen E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen E., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1925, one of three children. She recounts attending a Jewish public school; participating in Gordonyah; her father's death; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; working as a tutor; a notice to report for forced labor in January 1942; hiding with an aunt, then a non-Jewish neighbor; arrest; transport to Neusalz; slave labor in a factory; a six week death march in January 1945; briefly escaping with two fellow prisoners in Karlovy Vary; train transport to Flossenbürg, then a week later to Bergen-Belsen; starvation, l...

  14. Helen Enisman collection

    The Helen Enisman photograph collection consists of photographs of the Eisman family in Łódź, Poland. The photographs include Gita and Jacob Terkeltaub (Helen’s grandparents); Chana Enisman (Helen’s grandmother); Jacob Enisman; and Helen’s aunt, uncle, father, and grandmother, and at her grandfather’s grave in Łódź, Poland.

  15. Helen F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen F., who was born in Uz?h?horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1926. She recalls the warmth of her family's observances of Jewish holidays; her father's role as the cantor; cordial relations with non-Jews; sharing their home with relatives who had fled Germany; German occupation in spring 1944; ghettoization for four weeks; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents upon arrival; brutal camp guards; starvation; lack of facilities for personal hygiene; frequent selections; receiving extra food from a female guard; suicides; a death march in Dece...

  16. Helen F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen F., who was born in approximately 1930 in Cra?ciunes?ti, Romania, an only child. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; a happy childhood; attending theater in Sighet; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's trip to Kos?ice in 1944 (she never saw him again); transfer to a ghetto in April; deportation to Auschwitz in May; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); crying all the time; losing her belief in God; smuggling herself to her cousins' block; transfer a month later with four friends to a camp in Germany; slave labor in a muni...

  17. Helen F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen F., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1926, one of eleven children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions and harassment; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her parents and younger siblings (she never saw them again); remaining with her sisters; transfer to a farm; slave labor with two sisters digging anti-tank trenches; another sister working for a German soldier and sharing extra food with them; a death march; escaping with her sisters and two o...

  18. Helen F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen F., who was born in Ko?o, Poland in 1923. She recalls her happy childhood; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw in December 1939; returning to Ko?o; returning to Warsaw after learning her family was there; her sister's departure for the Soviet zone in May 1940; ghettoization; trying to maintain some normalcy; starvation and typhus; traveling with false papers to Lublin to visit her grandfather; her mother's killing during a round-up in August 1942; escaping from the Umschlagplatz with assistance from her cousin; hiding in a factory cellar for almost a year; her ma...

  19. Helen Fagin collection

    Manuscript drafts of writings, correspondence, photographs, audio recordings, and related materials, concerning the activities of Holocaust survivor and educator Helen Fagin. Includes manuscript drafts of Fagin's memoirs, "My European Journey, 1939-1946" and "My American Journey, 1946-2008," a manuscript draft of "Hell Translated: A Survivor's Approach to Teaching the Holocaust as a Moral Lesson;" a manuscript draft of her translation (from Polish) of interviews published in the book "Dzieci Żydowskie oskarżają" ("The Children Accuse"); a copy of typed testimonies about Fagin's work as an e...

  20. Helen Fagin collection

    The collection consists of five issues of the Yiddish language periodical "From the Last Extermination: Journal for the History of the Jewish People during the Nazi Regime."