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Language of Description: English

  1. "Honor... whatever the price: a memoir"

    Discusses Holocaust experiences while living in the Netherlands. Father arrested for political reasons; mother involved in underground movements.

  2. "How do you like America"

    Contains a memoir about Martin O. Stern's life in Essen, Germany, and their escape to the United States after the Nazis rise to power.

  3. "Hungarian Minority" Magyar Kisebbség [Newspapers]

    Magyar Kisebbség [Hungarian Minority], a journal published during the interwar period in Southern Transylvania expressing positions of the Hungarian elite towards the Jewish community in Transylvania .

  4. "I Lived in Rome During the Nazi Persecution of Roman Jews, My Story"

    Testimony: Typescript, 7 pages, titled "I Lived in Rome During the Nazi Persecution of Roman Jews, My Story."

  5. "I Recall"

    Contains a memoir, 40 pages, about Kayla Gitla Skop's Holocaust experiences.

  6. "I Remained Living"

    Consists of one memoir, 162 pages, entitled "I Remained Living" by Usher (Asher) Celinski, originally of Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland, in 1964. Includes information about his experiences in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Buchenwald, and Sliebin and the deaths of his family in Treblinka.

  7. "I remember Germany..."

    Describes Armin Kern's (b. 1923) childhood in Böchingen and Landau in der Pfalz, Germany; the Nazi seizure of power in Germany and the growth of antisemitism; Kristallnacht and the arrest of Kern's father and his internment in Dachau; Kern and his parents' immigration to the United States in 1939; and the Holocaust-related fates of members of the Kern's family.

  8. "I Remember" memoir

    Contains one memoir, 21 pages, detailing the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Helga Stein. As the only child of an Aryan father (who passed away when she was three) and a Jewish mother, she details her experiences in Berlin as a child under the Nazi regime. After her family and friends were arrested and deported, Mrs. Stein, then a young adult, hid in a bombed out apartment building in Berlin for the entirety of the war. She immigrated to the United States in 1953.

  9. "I saw Buchenwald"

    Consists of a copy of "I saw Buchenwald" by Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jack La Pietra. The testimony describes the inhumane conditions and places of torture and death seen by La Pietra as he was taken through the camp by one of the Buchenwald survivors shortly after liberation. It was written in 1979 and and epilogue was added in 1985.

  10. "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.

  11. "I was in Oswiecim"

    Consists of a photocopy of one typed memoir, 13 pages, entitled "I was in Oświęcim," by Erna Low. In the memoir, written as she was traveling to the United States after the war, Mrs. Low describes her arrest and deportation in 1944, first to Drancy and then to Auschwitz with her husband and daughter. All three survived the initial selection. Mrs. Low describes living and working conditions, her memory of music in the camp, and her memories of the hanging of Roza Robota and the other women who smuggled powder for the attempted Sonderkommando uprising. She describes the death march to Raven...

  12. "I'm An American" NBC radio broadcasts

    I’M AN AMERICAN premiered in 1940 on the eve of WWII. The NBC radio broadcast was spearheaded by the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the U.S. Department of Labor to foster a “deeper consciousness of the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship and more tolerance for fellow american of all birthplaces”. The weekly program featured distinguished foreign-born citizens discussing their naturalization process, the meaning of “democracy” and reminding all Americans of the value/privilege of U.S. citizenship. Sound recordings of I’M AN AMERICAN are available from the NBC Radio Coll...

  13. "Iasii Mei"

    One memoir, 57 pages, entitled "Iasii Mei," by Dr. Iosif Finkelstein. In the memoir, Dr. Finkelstein describes the events occuring in Iasi, Romania, in June and July 1941, including his own memories of his experiences at that time.

  14. "If Not for Him..."

    Consists of one memoir entitled "If Not For Him..." written by Jakob Yovel (Volovelski, now Yaakov Yovel), originally of Pruzhani, Poland (now Belarus). The memoir, originally written in Hebrew in 1945-1946, when Mr. Yovel was a teenager, documents the friendship between Mr. Yovel and Kalman Grossman, their deportation, and their experiences together in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, and Melk concentration camps. Includes photographs of the original Hebrew text as well as an English language translation of the same.

  15. "Images from Auschwitz-Birkenau"

    Consists of a portfolio of artwork entitled "Images from Auschwitz-Birkenau: By John Wiernicki, Polish Resistance Fighter and Prisoner Number 150302." Mr. Wiernicki, who is not Jewish, was imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau from September 1943 - December 1944, and in Ohrdruf from December 1944 until the liberation of the camp. The collection contains an introduction explaining Mr. Wiernicki's experiences and 20 watercolor and ink drawings of events he witnessed, both at Auschwitz and in Ohrdruf. Also includes a CD-ROM containing scanned copies of the images.

  16. "In His Hand"

    Consists of one typed memoir, 13 pages, entitled "In His Hand" by Josephine Guarnieri, as told to Lisa Hnath. In the memoir, Mrs. Guarnieri describes her childhood in Settefrati Frosinone, Italy and her memories of being unable to join her father and brother in the United States because of the outbreak of war. She also describes the Allied bombings and going hiding to escape from the bombing and the German occupying troops. She credits God for her family's survival.

  17. "In Memory of a Great Man"

    Consists of one memoir, translated from the original French into Spanish and English, entitled "In Memory of a Great Man," written by Dr. Boleslaw Ratniewski. Dr Ratniewski, originally of Poland, received a medical degree in France in 1930. He was mobilized into the Polish Army after the German invasion in 1939. In 1941, he was captured by the German Army, escaped from a POW camp, and joined the resistance. Dr. Rainiewski joined the Russian army in 1943, and was transferred to the Polish army in 1944. After the war, he resumed work in a hospital in Poland until his immigration to Mexico in ...

  18. "In the Light of the Memories: The Story of Willy and Orah Bogler"

    Consists of an English-language translation of the Hebrew manuscript "In the Light of the Memories: The Story of Willy and Orah Bogler", originally written and edited by Vered Shakhaf-Golan in 2007. The manuscript describes the history of the Bogler family, originally of Cieszyn, Poland, focusing on Willy and Orah Bogler, who spent the Holocaust in Russia and later immigrated to Israel. The book was translated (save for the last two chapters) by Dalia Frieder, the niece of the Boglers, in 2008. The Hebrew book is available both in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library, and a c...

  19. "Incurably insane"

    A Nazi educational film (propaganda) [Aufklaerungsfilm] produced by the Rassenpolitische Amt [Office of Racial Policy] regarding "unheilbare Geistkranke" [the "incurably insane"]. Part 1: Nurses and people coming out of door, various, to camera (similar to opening scene of "Dasein ohne Leben"; uses same scenes). Food serving, eating. Title: "Kuenstlich ernaehrt." "Many must be fed artificially...only a few can do useful work." Men outside sweeping with straw. "Erbliche Fallsucht!" "Schizophrene!" "Idioten" - kept alive. "Besondere Schutzkleidung" [protective clothing]. "Erblich Taubstumm" [...

  20. "Incurably insane"

    Located in an institution for the incurably insane. Shows the "insane" who must be restrained and artificially fed, unaware of their surroundings, incapable of useful work. 'The sins of the fathers are visited on their children. Innocent themselves, broken in body and spirit, a burden to themselves and others!' Individuals with bizarre, typically disturbed movements are shown. Three children tied to their beds 'for the duration of their lives.' 01:05:12 Title in large letters: "Soll es so weitergehen?" [Should it continue this way?] 01:05:40 "Nein! Nein! Niemals!" [No! No! Never!] Three fur...