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Displaying items 17,301 to 17,320 of 33,375
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Language of Description: English

  1. Lore L. Waller memoir

    Testimony. Typescript, 241 pages, of Lore Waller's autobiography, entitled "View From a Distance."

  2. Letter relating to the Holocaust in Bratslava

    Letter, typescript, addressed to Radu Ioanid of USHMM, from David Wasserman of Yonkers, NY, describing his visit to the museum in August 1993, and his wish to add information about the camp of Bratslav, in Transnistria, and what he witnessed there.

  3. Testimony relating to the persecution of Jews and Jehovah's witnesses in the Netherlands

    Testimony. Typescript, 7 pages, account of Rachel Sacksioni Levee, born Jewish in the Netherlands, and a convert to Jehovah's Witnesses. Describes her experiences as a prisoner in various camps during WWII.

  4. Lawrence B. Wayne collection

    Testimony. Photocopy of typescript, 26 pages, titled "My Dream? By Louis Weintraub, as told to Technical Sgt. A.W. Schenk," 27 pages. Account of Weintraub, from his hometown of Łódź, to imprisonment at Auschwitz, Oranienburg (Sachsenhausen), and Buchenwald, and of liberation by Americans, including Schenk. Includes two photos of Larry Wayne.

  5. Letter relating to an American soldier's experiences at Buchenwald and Dachau

    Letter, one leaf (two pages), dated 5 June 1945, with envelope, addressed to Major A.F. (Abe) Wechsler in New York, from "Jack" (return address is illegible due to water damage on envelope), a U.S. soldier stationed in Europe, who describes Paris at V-E Day, and two trips he made to Germany in the month afterwards, including one to visit Buchenwald and one to visit Dachau.

  6. Henry and Gertrude Wegner papers

    Photocopied materials about Theresienstadt from 1990s.

  7. Testimony relating to the atrocities discovered by the U.S. Army at Gardelegen

    Testimony. Typescript letter, 3 pages, written by Alex Weiss after visiting the USHMM in 1993, about his experiences as a soldier who encountered the Gardelegen massacre.

  8. Weissman family papers

    Photocopies of letters sent to Jack Weissman, of New York, from his mother and sister in Poland (Zdynia, Lwow), 1940.

  9. List of persons accused or suspected of crimes against humanity and KZ Sachsenhausen documents. (Includes photographs.)

    Booklets: One, "Preliminary List of Persons Accused or Suspected of Crimes Against Humanity," issued by Nehemiah Robinson and the World Jewish Congress in 1961. Other item, titled "KZ Sachsenhausen," is a 156-page booklet compiled by Zentralstelle of Nordrhein-Westfalen in 1961, containing a list with photographs of individuals identified as having worked on prison staff at Sachsenhausen, to help in investigation and capture of remaining war criminals from there, circa 1962.

  10. "And It Was No Lie"

    Testimony. Typescript, 78 pages, titled "And It Was No Lie," by Ruth Weiss, describing her experiences from childhood in a village in Sudetenland, moving to Prague after that area was annexed by Germany, occupation of Czechoslovakia, deportation to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, life in DP camps after war, return to Prague, and the immigration to Israel.

  11. Teresa Wieselberg memoir

    Testimony, handwritten, Polish with English (volunteer) translation, by Teresa Wieselberg, Israel, 1992, in which she looks back on experiences in Lwow (Lviv) during German occupation.

  12. Ricke Papanek testimony

    Testimony. Photocopy of manuscript in German, with a 62 page translation into English, with a postscript. The original manuscript was titled "Aufzeichnungen ueber mein Leben im Kamp durch 2 Jahre, fuer meine Kinder," and was written by Viennese-born Ricke Papanek, who was deported to Theresienstadt in 1943. The manuscript was written in diary form about author's time in Theresienstadt, looking back on life in the Netherlands and events of deportation, to liberation and return to Holland. English translation contains a note by the translator, her niece Erna Winter, who provides a brief bio o...

  13. Episodes of my childhood

    Testimony. Typescript, 36 pages, titled "Episodes That I Remember Out of my Childhood," by Rebekha Perel, reminiscing about her experiences as a child in the Netherlands during the occupation, during imprisonment with her mother, and her subsequent release.

  14. Oral history interview with Howard Wisla

  15. Rafael Fischer papers

    Original letters/diaries from Braslav (1941?), as well as later transcript of a Russian document (1944, transcript in 1990s), and document in Yiddish, unidentified, with background info on Braslav from Museum of Jewish Diaspora (1980s). Context needs to be determined.

  16. Donald E. Wolpe collection

    Testimony. Thirteen (13) pages, with additional copied documents, titled "Masha: Why Me? An Unlikely True Story," by Donald Wolpe, about the experiences of Masha Wolpe, and her family (originally of Kaunas, Lithuania).

  17. Pages from a notebook and return from the gate of death relating to conditions at Melk

    Testimony. Two photocopied documents. First is photocopy of a manuscript, 4 pages; the other is one typescript page (photocopy), both have accompanying note, presumably from donor, explaining that contents of both are from former prisoners at camp in Melk, Austria. Describes beating and mistreatment of prisoner at Melk, the other describes transfer of prisoner from Melk to Mauthausen.

  18. Ruth Kantor collection

    The Ruth Kantor collection consists of pre-war photographs of family members of Joseph and Ruth Kantor in Poland, as well as a photograph of the Kantors, circa 1980s-1990s. The collection also includes two postcards sent from the Birkenau concentration camp, 1943. One postcard appears to be addressed from Ruth’s mother to Ruth Kantor.

  19. Records relating to Jews in Ukraine during World War II

    Photocopied documents, all related to Archbishop Andrei Szeptycki (Sheptytsky) of the Ukrainian Catholic church, and his role and activities during the occupation of Ukraine.

  20. Klion family papers

    Envelopes, and in a few cases postcards, sent from Polish POWs in German prison camps (Oflag II-C, Oflag VII-A) to recipients in New York, 1941-1942.