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Language of Description: English

  1. “Old Guard” of the Nazi Party in 1939

    “Old Guard” of the Nazi Party in 1939. Police festival. Winter Relief. SS-Standarte Germania gives public concert. Day of Commemoration of Heroes. Carnival in 1939. May Day celebrations in 1935

  2. "Once upon four decades, 1939-1979"

    Consists of a copy of "Once upon four decades, 1939-1979" written by Margaret Collin. The volume contains testimonies of several Holocaust survivors seeking restitution from the German government. The various testimonies describe the experiences of the survivors in concentration camps, escape from the Nazis, life in hiding, episodes of suicide, and great mental anguish suffered since the end of the Holocaust. Also included are recollections of Margaret Collin about her own escape from Germany and the loss of her family. Intermingled in the text are several photocopies of Holocaust-related d...

  3. "One Day This Will be a Film"

    Consists of one memoir, approximately 60 pages, entitled "One Day This Will be a Film: Childhood Memories of a Girl from the Lvov Ghetto," by Nava Ruda (originally Sheindel-Charlotte (Lunia) Kohn). Nava and her parents survived with the help of her childhood nanny, Jula Jurek, a Polish woman. This memoir is an English language translation of the the original Hebrew.

  4. "One in 6,000,000" One Woman's Story of Survival

    Consists of one memoir, 36 pages, entitled, "One in 6,000,000: One Woman's Story of Survival," by Hilde Geisen. In the memoir, she describes her childhood in Cologne; her memories of Nazi persecutions; her failed attempt at immigration to the United States; the deportation of her parents; life in Theresienstadt; post-war life in Deggendorf; and immigration to the United States in 1947. Includes a copy of her identity card and a 2002 portrait.

  5. "One Million Dollar Campaign," broadside ("Yeshiva Reshith Chochma Shearith Hapletah," New York)

    One broadside, titled "One Million Dollar Campaign," related to the fundraising efforts for the Yeshiva "Reshith Chochma Shearith Hapletah," under the leadership of Rabbi Solomon Leib Halberstam (the Klausenburger Rabbi), with the purpose of establishing a Torah institute for Jewish refugees from Europe, in Brooklyn, New York, 1947. In addition to a new year's greeting, the broadside contains a letter in English and Yiddish encouraging the reader to donate to this project, with reproductions of various newspaper articles about it on the verso of the broadside.

  6. "Only a Goat Walks Backwards: The Life of Fanny Eichenblat"

    Consists of one memoir, 101 pages, entitled "Only a Goat Walks Backwards: The Life of Fanny Eichenblat,",as told to Dr. Alan David Kaye and Dr. Brian Horowitz. Fania Eichenblat was born in a town near Lublin, Poland, in 1938. In the memoir, she reflects upon her life as a Holocaust survivor and how her father arranged for the family to hide in a dirt hole under a stable for 2 1/2 years. In the spring of 1944, her brother and father were killed while trying to find food and the family was forced to leave their hiding place to find a new one in a hay barn. They were liberated by the Soviet Ar...

  7. "Our Great Escape": Alexander Silbiger memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 39 pages, entitled "Our Great Escape: The Story of a Dutch Family's Flight from Persecution," by Alexander Silbiger, originally of The Hague, The Netherlands. He describes his family's attempts to escape the Nazi regime in 1942, by traveling through Belgium and France before finally leaving Europe. The family first went to Jamaica and then spent the rest of the war in Curacao.

  8. "Our Story"

    Consists of one story, 3 pages, entitled "Our Story," by Ruth and Paul Keller. They tell of their initial meeting as children in Germany in 1934 and their chance encounter in New York in 1942 after their respective emigrations to the United States to escape Nazi persecution. The Kellers presented their story at a 2005 Yom Hashoah commemoration.

  9. "Outpost" "Placówka"

    Contains copies of Placówka, a weekly newspaper for “the Polish village” published clandestinely in Warsaw in 1940. Topics include discussions of the war in general including war news in other theaters and U.S. efforts to build a war machine larger than Germany’s; the need for Polish farmers to retain their land at all costs; the efforts of the occupiers to substitute German and Soviet culture for Polish culture; Soviet deportations of Poles; a speech by the Pope; and plans for the postwar period (assuming the defeat of Germany), specifically that Poland should use German lands to solve agr...

  10. "Parcours"

    Consists of one typed memoir, approximately 30 pages, entitled "Parcours," written in November 2012 by Pierre Saragoussi. In the memoir, Mr. Saragoussi describes his family's pre-war lives in Paris. During the war, he and his sister were cared for by the Caron, Guyollot, and Namias families, who hid the children as Catholics in Appoigny, France, during the war.

  11. "Paths of Fate, Auschwitz-Birkenau, No. B-1968"

    Contains a memoir entitled "Paths of Fate, Auschwitz-Birkenau, No. B-1968," relating to experiences in Białystok, Majdanek, Blizin, Auschwitz, and Ohrdruf.

  12. "Piles of Pine Needles"

    Consists of one memoir, 127 pages, entitled "Piles of Pine Needles" written in 2005 by Abraham Shavit (born Strikovsky), originally of Skępe, Poland. In his memoir, Mr. Shavit describes his deportation to the Szczechowo ghetto, life in hiding on a farm near Osowo, and post-war life in the Feldafing displaced persons camps. Mr. Shavit also describes his immigration to Uruguay and from there, to Israel. The memoir, which was translated into English by Mr. Shavit's son.

  13. "Pilgrimage to Jeleniewo" collection

    Consists of one videocassette, entitled "Pilgrimage to Jeleniewo," which shows the restoration and re-consecration ceremony for the pre-war Jewish cemetery in Jeleniewo, Poland. The cemetery had been desecrated during the Holocaust and was forgotten by the citizens of Jeleniewo. Also includes one booklet entitled, "Żydzi Jeleniewa," which describes the restoration of the cemetery and shows the headstones found in the cemetery.

  14. "Plungyan" memoir

    Consists of a memoir, 60 pages, written by Jacob Josef Bunka, entitled "Plungyan." In this memoir, Mr. Bunka describes the history of Jewish life in Plungyan, Lithuania (also known as Plunge), and his experiences in Plungyan in the early years of the war, evacuation to Russia, and return to Plungyan after the war. He includes the names of Jews who perished, of Lithuanian collaborators, and of Righteous Gentiles. The memoir has been translated into English by Stephen Geller Katz and edited by Rabbi Beyamin Herson. The collection includes a photocopy of the original memoir in Yiddish.

  15. "Po'alei Zion," Jewish Social Democratic Labor Party Żydowska Socjaldemokratyczna Partia Robotnicza "Poalej Syjon" (Sygn. 1213)

    Records from the Jewish Social Democratic Labor Party „Poalej Syjon” including program proclamations, a proclamation on the occasion of Labor Day (1th of May), and others documents.

  16. "Poppy Remembering 1939-1945"

    Consists of one memoir, entitled "Poppy Remembering 1939-1945," about the experiences of Sol Roth, written, transcribed, and edited by their daughter, Marion Amsellem. Mr. Roth's memoir describes his experiences in the Polish army, life in the Łódź ghetto, arrest as a thief (for which he was innocent), and deportation to various labor camps. In 1942, he was deported from the Polomones camp to Riga and various camps nearby, and in 1944, was deported from Riga to Stutthof before being liberated by the Russians in early 1945. He lost his wife and son in the Holocaust.

  17. "Positive Experiences Within a Severely Traumatic Framework as Perceived and Narrated by Holocaust Concentration Camp Survivors"

    Consists of one doctoral dissertation, entitled "Positive Experiences Within a Severely Traumatic Framework as Perceived and Narrated by Holocaust Concentration Camp Survivors," by Dr. Anthony Bellen for his PhD in Criminology at Bar-Ilan University in September 2004.

  18. "Progress" Haladás [Newspapers]

    Radical weekly newspaper edited and published by Béla Zsolt, after WWII. The Haladás was a newspaper of the Magyar Radikális Párt, MRP (Hungarian Radical Party).

  19. "Refugees and Rescuers in Fascist and Post War Italy (1933-1946)"

    Consists of one manuscript, 94 pages, entitled "Refugees and Rescuers in Fascist and Post War Italy (1933-1946)" by Donato Grosser, based on the recollections and documents of his father, Bernardo (Berl) Grosser. In the manuscript, Donato Grosser describes the experience of Italian Jews and Jewish refugees in Italy in the 1930s, including information about the 1938 emigration of his father, Bernardo Grosser, who was from Kamionki Wielkie, but emigrated by way of France. In Italy, Grosser became one of the secretaries of the Genoa office of DELASEM (the Delegazione per l'Assistenz agli Emigr...

  20. "Reise zum Planeten der Nazis: Langenstein-Zwieberge 1944-1945"

    Consists of one manuscript, 118 pages, in German, entitled "Reise zum Planeten der Nazis: Langenstein-Zwieberge 1944-1945" by Alberto Berti, an Italian partisan. In the memoir, he describes his experiences in the Langenstein-Zwieberg concentration camp. The final chapter, entitled "Dreitausend auf dem Todesmarch," has been translated into English. The translation is included with the text.