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  1. "My short story of time in Mauthausen"

    Consists of one memoir, 15 pages, entitled "My short story of time in Mauthausen," by Waldemar Bialous, originally of Warsaw, Poland. In the memoir, Mr. Bialous relates his memories of his transfer from Auschwitz to Mauthausen and of his life within the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he worked in the kitchen until his liberation. Also includes correspondence from Mr. Bialous to Mr. Charles Torluccio, an American liberator of Mauthausen. The two men reunited at the 50th anniversary of the liberation in 1995.

  2. "My Sisters, My Brothers"

    Testimony, 444 pages, typescript, titled "My Sisters, My Brothers," by Seren Bernstein (Tuvel), with Louise Loots Thornton, of Aptos, CA, in 1980. Thornton, after learning of Bernstein's experiences through her son, started interviewing her and wrote this manuscript as a novelized form of memoir based on those interviews. Includes detailed descriptions of Bernstein's childhood in a village in Transylvania, forced labor in Budapest, death march, and deportation to Ravensbrück. The manuscript was subsequently published as "The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival," by Sara Tuvel Bernstein (Putnam...

  3. "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 ...

  4. "My Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 42 pages, entitled "My Story," written in 2005 by Eva Biro Slott, originally of Szentes, Hungary. She describes her childhood in Hungary, the deaths of her parents in 1931, and living with various relatives. In 1944, she was living in Budapest and writes about the German invasion of Hungary. She was sent to forced labor but was soon released, returned to Budapest, and described life in wartime Budapest. After the war ended, she made her way to the American zone of Germany, reconnected with her brother, who had immigrated to the United States previously and was a memb...

  5. "My Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 55 pages, entitled "My Story," by Sol Graf (also known as Zoltan Grof or Shlomo Graf), originally of Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary. He describes pre-war life, the invasion of Hungary, being sent to the Moson ghetto and from there to the ghetto in Gyor. At the beginning of June, he was deported to Auschwitz and describes the selection process and being placed in the children's barrack in the so-called "Gypsy camp." He was transferred to Auschwitz I and later to the Sachsenhausen, Lieberose, and Mauthausen concentration camps. He was liberated from Gunskirchen in May 1945 a...

  6. "My Story--the Holocaust"

    Contains of a memoir, 13 pages, entitled "My Story--The Holocaust" by Marcia Krause, originally of Łódź, Poland. In the memoir, Mrs. Krause recounts her memories of her childhood in Łódź, internment in the Łódź ghetto, and deportation to Auschwitz. From Auschwitz, Marcia, with her sole surviving family member, her sister Helen, was deported to a concentration camp near Hamburg. From Hamburg, the sisters were deported to Bergen-Belsen, where they were liberated. Also includes several articles by and about Marcia Krause and a photograph of Mrs. Krause at an unknown Holocaust memorial.

  7. "My Survival" memoir

    Memoir, 7 pages, relates the story of Traute Hirschmann, born in Breslau, Germany, in 1927. She was sent to various labor camps from 1942-1945 and survived along with both her parents, though they were separated during the war years. She emigrated to the United States in 1948.

  8. "My Uncle"

    Consists of one manuscript, 11 pages, entitled "My Uncle" by Yisrael Rudi Lichtner, written in 2011. In the manuscript,Yisrael describes his childhood in Rome, Italy, and the experience of meeting his uncle David, who spent the war as a Hungarian Jewish prisoner in a Siberian prisoner of war camp. He describes David's experiences searching for any family members who survived the war, finding Yisrael's family, getting married and then being separated from them when the Iron Curtain fell over Hungary. David and his wife were able to reunite with them in 1958 and then immigrated to Israel. Yis...

  9. "My War Years"

    Consists of one memoir, 13 pages, written by Cass Lewart, originally of Łódź, Poland. Mr. Lewart describes his family and life before the war, his memories of the German invasion, during which the family briefly fled to Warsaw before returning to Łódź. After witnessing the German occupation of Łódź, Mr. Lewart's father decided to move the family back to Warsaw, and managed to obtain false Aryan papers for them. The family lived outside the ghetto until they were denounced in the fall of 1942, and briefly imprisoned. Mr. Lewart and his mother were released and established a new false i...

  10. "My Yellow Star"

    Consists of one memoir, written by Dov Gury (Bernard Gurovici), originally of Paris, entitled "My Yellow Star." This collection consists of two copies of the memoir, one in French and one in Hebrew. In the memoir, Mr. Gury describes his Holocaust experiences in Paris, his experiences crossing the demarcation line and the frontier to Switzerland, and his post-war immigration to Israel.

  11. "Naki's Story"

    Consists of one typed story, 8 pages, written by Jack Samarias in the voice of his aunt, Naki (Esther) Touron-Fais, and describing her Holocaust experiences. In the story, "Naki" describes the wartime bombing of her hometown of Larissa, Greece; the family's decision to leave Larissa for Vizitsa, Greece, where they felt they would be safer; her visit to Larissa in March 1944, where she was arrested and taken to an internment camp outside of Larissa. She and a friend, Julie, lied about being Christians and convinced the German guards to release them as long as they could provide proof. Julie ...

  12. "Nazi Crimes in Poland in the Years 1939-1945" map

    Consists of a copy of a map entitled "Zbrodnie Hitlerowskie na Ziemiach Polski w Latach 1939-45" ("Nazi Crimes in Poland in the Years 1939-1945) created by the Pań́stwowe Przedsiȩbiorstwo Wydawnictw Kartograficzynch in 1968. The map, which was copied from the collection of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is a map of Poland depicting hundreds of concentration camps and showing the size of their prisoner populations.

  13. "Nazzi War Criminals on Trial, November 1945 - October 1946, Court of History, the last Fashist defense line"

    Consists of a scrapbook compiled by Avraham Tory, which contains caricature sketches (with captions) of the defendants at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. According to Tory, the sketches were drawn by "a famous Russian cartoonist."

  14. "Needle in a Haystack"

    Contains Paula Agauas's written memoir, 30 pages, pertaining to her childhood in Poland, hiding with a Polish Catholic family during the Holocaust, and moving to Detroit, Michigan in 1949.

  15. "Neve Diventeremo"

    Consists of one DVD produced by the Italian band "7grani," featuring Mauro, Flavio, and Fabrizio Settegrani. The DVD, entitled "Neve Diventeremo," directed by Luca Tossani, includes an oral history interview with former partisan and Buchenwald survivor Rado Zuccon, as well as a video of the band performing a tribute song, which was shot partially on the grounds of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

  16. "Non Omnis Moriar"

    Consists of one memoir, two copies (in English and Spanish), of "Non Omnis Moriar," by Irene Birnbaum, originally of Warsaw, Poland. In her memoir, she describes her life in the Warsaw ghetto, including her memories of the deportations of friends and loved ones, and how she resisted deportation while living in the ghetto. She escaped the Warsaw ghetto in February 1943, and hid, first in Warsaw and then as a Polish Catholic worker in the countryside.

  17. "Nur die toten durften bleiben"

    Martina Baudis' memoir describes why she felt the Nazis wanted to exterminate Jews and the result of Nazi racial policies.

  18. "Of Ships and Men: From Toledo to Leghorn and then to Tunis"

    Consists of one manuscript, 104 pages, entitled "Of Ships and Men: From Toledo to Leghorn and then to Tunis," with a copy in French, by Giacomo Nunez, originally of Tunis. In the manuscript, Mr. Nunez describes the history of the Jewish community in Italy, Spain, and Tunis throughout history, focusing specifically on the experiences of the Nunez family. He also describes his own childhood in Tunis and memories of World War II as a Jewish boy in North Africa, including his memories of bombings and forced labor.

  19. "Of Tortoises and other Jews"

    Testimony, printed booklet, 24 pages, titled "Of Tortoises and Other Jews," compiled by Hannah Yakin and dedicated to Jan van Hulst, about wartime experiences in the Netherlands.

  20. "Old Glory is Their Flag Now"

    Copy print: black and white image of children standing outside in front of Grant’s Tomb in New York with American flag raised on flagpole in background; pasted on verso are captions in English and Yiddish, stamped “Photo by Al Puhn”; Caption titled “Old Glory is their flag now” identifying the children as “…survivors of Nazi concentration camps from the nearby Reception Shelter of United Service for New Americans at the Hotel Marseilles…”