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Displaying items 16,641 to 16,660 of 33,375
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Language of Description: English

  1. Joseph Lewi memoir

    Contains information on Mr. Lewi's experiences in labor camps during the Holocaust. In Hungry, he worked in different labor camps, was sent to and liberated from Mauthausen. Includes details about other members of his family.

  2. Henry Kinast memoir

    Consists of one typed document, one page, regarding the Holocaust experiences of Henry Kinast. When Henry was 12, he went to work in a munitions factory in Skarzysko, Poland. In 1944, he was transferred to Czestochowa, and in January 1945, he was transferred to Buchenwald, where he was liberated. Henry was reunited with his father and brother, and they lived in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp for three years. The document is very brief.

  3. A memoir

    Contains information on pre-Holocaust Yugoslavia; Holocaust related experiences while hiding in Vienna; post-war life in Zagreb, and in America, in which the donor was told she was Jewish, not Catholic.

  4. The stories of the families Bach and Herz (Wolf - Mayer)

    Contains a personal testimony and a detailed family history of the Bach and Herz families.

  5. Donya Raykh memoir

    Testimony: Typescript, one page, recounting author's experience in unnamed village, and then deportation to Shargorod, Transnistria.

  6. Khana Shafir memoir

    Testimony: photocopy of manuscript, seven pages, describing author's experiences in Ukraine (Mogilev-Podolsky) during the Holocaust.

  7. Rosalie Klein memoir

    Testimony: Typescript, two pages, recounting family's deportation from Berlin, and time in Krakow and Płaszów.

  8. Olga Shtutman memoir

    Testimony: Photocopy of manuscript, 7 pages, from Olga Shtutman, describing what happened to her family in Moldova during Holocaust.

  9. Ruth Lebram Knopp collection

    Contains a memoir and a postcard from Theresienstadt (Terezín).

  10. A memoir

    Testimony: Typescript 2 pages, recounting family's emigration from Hildesheim, Germany, after start of anti-Jewish persecution.

  11. Sia Hertsberg papers

    Contains certificate from Stutthof, a memoir, and a photocopy of family photographs.

  12. Henry Laskau memoir

    Contains a photocopy of a typescript testimony, two pages, describing the experiences of the donor and his family, from an unnamed German city, through his emigration, his brother's journey on the MS St. Louis, and his parents' deaths at Theresienstadt.

  13. A memoir

    Testimony: Manuscript, three pages, describing a woman's experiences, first in an unnamed ghetto in Poland, then in Tarnopol, and then--posing as a non-Jewish Polish laborer, in Elbing and later in the Harz Mountains.

  14. Report of Joseph Weinstock

    Testimony: typescript, 2 pages, giving brief description of Weinstock's experiences: from Wiewiorka, Poland; interned in Pustinia ghetto, labor camp at Rzeszow, and then Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald, and loss of entire family.

  15. Walter Furman papers

    The Walter Furman papers comprised documents and photographs collected by Walter while serving overseas with the United States armed forces. Included in the collection is a five-page mimeograph copy of a report prepared by for Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) by the United States Group Control Council dated 16 April 1945 summarizing the conditions at Buchenwald, and two black-and-white photographs of atrocities at Dachau.

  16. The Oscar and Miriam Lifshutz papers

    A letter and news article relating to the fates of some members of the donor's family during the Holocaust.

  17. Larry Kowalsky papers

    Contains a VHS video cassette of donor's return to Lithuania in July 1989, a written testimony, photocopies of printouts from Museum of the Diaspora (Tel Aviv) and Yad Vashem (Jerusalem), and a extract from a book in Lithuanian titled "Nenusigrezk nuo saves."

  18. Sara Frimer memoir

    Contains a testimony entitled "I Defeated Hitler and Mengele," printed, 33 pages, dated 1995.

  19. Postcard

    Postcard in Hungarian which states that prisoners are well and getting food.

  20. Bernard and Doris Doctor papers

    Consists of directives issued by various offices of the Nazis restricting and forbidding Jews to be a part of German life, and directives deporting Jews from Tubingen, etc. The collection also consists of a postcard from Gurs; a letter for assistance and a photocopy of a headstone with members of the donor's family inscribed on it.