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Language of Description: English

  1. Flight and submersion Flucht und "Untertauchen"

    Contains a compilation, in German with English translation by Justin J. Mueller, of reports, correspondence and a questionnaire relating to the flight and life in hiding of Martin Bier's mother, Ellen Bier-Feitler, from March 1944 to May 1945. Included are an uncompleted memoir by Ellen Bier-Feitler, a Swiss Justice and Police Department questionnaire dated March 18, 1944, and a letter and reports, circa 1983-1993, by family members written at the request of Martin Bier.

  2. The Jewish Community of Wadowice (Poland)

    Contains photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, report and similar information, in Polish, Hebrew, and English, compiled by Dr. Cecilia Berkowitz on behalf of a union of Jews born in and around Wadowice (Poland), relating to the history of the Wadowice Jewish Community and commemorative activities on behalf of Holocaust victims from that area.

  3. Certification of Iosif Gavi's partisan activities

    Contains original and photocopy of a temporary certificate, in Russian, and a photocopy of a permanent certificate, in Russian and Belorussian, stating that Iosif Semionovich Gavi participated in partisan activities in Belorussia during the Great Patriotic War from May 1943 to July 1944.

  4. Elijahu Yones collection

    Contains a German-language version of his memoir titled "Am rande des Grabes" which was published, in Hebrew, in Israel in 1960 and an English-language copy of his Hebrew University doctoral thesis, "Jews in Lvov During World War Two and the Holocaust, 1939-1944," submitted in September 1993.

  5. Selected records of the World Jewish Congress New York Office. Series D. Sub-series 3: Location Service

    Contains location lists of survivors, known dead, and inmates of concentration and refugee camps. [Note: These records are reproduced along with the rest of Series D in RG-67.011M.]

  6. The stories of our lives Chaim Szyja and Dwojrele Neuman

    Contains Chaim Yehoshua Neuman's 93-page handwritten memoir, in Yiddish, in which he describes his life in pre-war Poland; the increasing persecution of Jews which followed the German invasion of Poland in September 1939; his experiences in the Sosnoftza and Srodula ghettos; his work in a tailor shop and a clothing factory; his deportation to Birkenau concentration camp, circa August 1943; his transfer to Auschwitz concentration camp a few weeks later, where he worked in the tailor's shop; his transfer by train to Buchenwald concentration camp during January 1945; his transfer to Rehmsdorf ...

  7. Oral history interview with Frances Goldman Nightingale

  8. Max and Shari Bronner papers

    The Max and Shari Bronner papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and immigration files documenting Max Bronner’s successful efforts to bring Shari Bronner to the United States from Nuremberg via France and his unsuccessful efforts to bring his parents to the United States from Nuremberg via Palestine, Mexico, Cuba, or the Dominican Republic and to bring relatives Frieda Eichenbronner, Maximillian Schaefer, and Simon and Gertrude Einhorn to the United States. Biographical materials include Max Bronner’s birth certificate, driver’s license, French identification document, G...

  9. Eyewitness account of the Buchenwald concentration camp Weimar, Germany

    A letter from John M. Boykin to Blanch Starke, dated April 20, 1945, describing his experiences at Buchenwald concentration camp.

  10. Scheiner family papers

    The Scheiner family papers consists of a German passport issued to David Scheiner, Bertha Scheiner Freud’s brother, on September 8, 1938; a German passport issued to Helene Scheiner, Bertha Freud’s sister-in-law, on May 6, 1940; a German certificate issued by S. Katz & Co. in Vienna, Austria stating that Berta (Bertha) Scheiner has been dismissed as part of the Aryanization of the company, June 30, 1938; a letter in German from the Oesterreichische Creditanstalt-Wiener Bankverein stating that the bearer Berta Scheiner is allowed to take RM 30 to England and that no other privileges have...

  11. Siemion family papers

    Contains photocopies of letters and telegrams written primarily by Paul Siemion's mother, Czarna "Sala" Philipson Siemion, in Warsaw and Otwock (Poland) to her husband, Yeshajahu "Schaja" Siemion, and her son, Paul, in London and Leeds (England). Photocopies of a few letters from Paul's grandparents and other family members, a telegram, two newspaper clippings, and family photographs are also included. A "Preamble" by Paul Siemion describes how his family, then living in Berlin (Germany) where his father was chairman of the Polish Bund, became separated shortly after World War II broke out:...

  12. Pamieci mej matki

    Contains a photocopy of Lotka Goldberg's typewritten memoir written in memory of her mother and describing life in the Rzeszowa, Poland, ghetto; the liquidation of the ghetto on September 3, 1943; deportation to Szebni work camp; her escape from the camp, her recapture and transfer to Płaszów concentration camp; a death march to Auschwitz; and her transfer to Bergen-Belsen where she was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945.

  13. Theodore Kessler collection

    Collection includes black and white photographs of donor's family prior to the war; copies of correspondence regarding donor's internment in Buchenwald and Berga/Elster; and a two part videorecording of the donor.

  14. Sally Woelkers collection

    Collection contains correspondence regarding the dismissal of Jonas Ekstein in 1938, and his letter inquiring for employment in the United States.

  15. Telegram ordering the confiscation of the films "Desparados" and "You Were Never Lovelier,"

    Telegram, dated May 14, 1944, from the Reichssicherheitshauptamt Amt VI to the head of the Sicherheitspolizei and SD in France, SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Hensel, stating that the head of the Film Department wants to know if the films "Desparados" and "You Were Never Lovelier" have been confiscated.

  16. Denkmal das Konzentrations-Auenlager Heppenheim

    Contains an unpublished report, 105 pages, on the Heppenheim concentration camp, compiled by a group of German high school students at the Starkenburgergymnasium, Heppenheim.

  17. Emlékfoszlányok Hazateres -- Az ut

    Consists of a typewritten manuscript, 36 pages, entitled "Emlékfoszlányok" ("Fragments of memories") containing two short stories, "Hazateres" ("Returning home"), in which she describes her journey home from Miskolc, Hungary, where she was attending college, to Munkacs, Hungary in 1944, and "Az ut" ("The journey"), in which she describes her three-day journey in 1944 in a cattle car from Munkacs to Auschwitz concentration camp.

  18. Emily Myriam Saul collection

    Consists of a photocopied registration form issued to Emily Myriam Saul (Emilia Kounio Saltiel) while in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943 after her arrest in Saloniki, Greece.

  19. "Charlotte's memoirs, Oct. 8, 1991"

    Consists of a memoir entitled "Charlotte's Memoirs," written by Charlotte Arpadi Baum in 1991. In the memoir, Charlotte describes her experiences as a child and as an adolescent in Berlin, Germany, as an inhabitant of the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia, in the concentration camps of Rīga-Kaiserwald and Stutthof, on a death march, of liberation in Poland, and her emigration to the United States. Please note: This material is available on microfiche as RG-02.121.