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Displaying items 17,641 to 17,660 of 33,375
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Language of Description: English

  1. Also Balaj memoir

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 10 pages, written 1994, relating to experiences in Bucharest (Romania), Sarata (USSR), and Baldovinesti (USSR).

  2. A memoir relating to experiences as a Soviet Prisoner of War at Hammerstein

    Testimony, handwritten, three pages, about life in Minsk region of Belarus, German invasion, service in Red Army, capture as POW in 1944, life in Hammerstein camp and as forced laborer in Ulm, and liberation.

  3. A memoir relating to experiences in Ukraine and Romania

    Testimony, 6 pages, photocopy of manuscript, written using USHMM form from Survivor's Registry. Describes life in occupied Odessa.

  4. Vladimir Perekalsky memoir

    Memoir, two pages, containing information about Vladimir Perekalsky's experiences in the ghetto in Kamenetz-Podolsk and in the Lantzendorf and Mauthausen concentration camps.

  5. Memoir

    Testimony, photocopy of manuscript, 11 pages, in Russian (with one page English summary included by donor). Covers experiences between 1941-1944 in occupied Odessa, includling Slobodka ghetto.

  6. Yakov Shvartsman memoir

    Testimony, typescript, one page with handwritten annotations. Describes Shvartsman's experiences in Odessa, the Ahmechetska concentration camp, and Domanevka during occupation.

  7. A memoir relating to experiences in the Domaniovka ghetto

    Testimony, typescript (copy), 2 pages, about author's experiences growing up in Odessa, arrest and transfer to Domianovka camp

  8. A memoir relating to a survivor's experiences at Pechora concentration camp

    Contains a memoir relating to a survivor's experiences at the Pechora concentration camp

  9. A memoir relating to experiences in Ukraine

    Testimony, handwritten, 15 pages, Russian, describing experiences in Moldova and Ukraine in ghettos, during occupation.

  10. Erica Spindel collection

    Testimony, handwritten, 3 pages, of Erica Spindel, describing birth in Vienna, being sent to Switzerland as child, father's arrest and internment in Dachau and Buchenwald, and family's subsequent trip to Shanghai. Also contains photocopies of three postcards sent by father from Buchenwald and Dachau.

  11. Memoirs relating to experiences in Dzhuzim

    Testimony, two manuscripts, each 3 pages, describing experiences of Nyusya and Jakov Furman, in Ukraine (near Vinnitsa) during German occupation.

  12. Alexander Entin memoir

    Testimony, three pages, manuscript, recounting experiences in Lugansk, Ukraine, and Kiev, after German invasion, including murder of his family, mobilization in Red Army, capture, passing himself as Muslim rather than Jew, work as forced agricultural laborer. Written in 1993.

  13. Volf Ashkinadze memoir

    Testimony, manuscript, six pages, undated (circa 1990s), by Wolf Ashkinadze, in which he describes his experiences in the Mogilyov-Podolsky ghetto and the Pechora concentration camp

  14. A memoir relating to experiences in Przemysl, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald

    Testimony, 1 page, typescript. Description of experiences in Dobromil, Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

  15. Memoir

    Testimony, typescript, three pages, unsigned/undated, describing events in Zvenigorodka and Bershad during German occupation (July 1941 - March 1944).

  16. Maria Ungar Haas memoir

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, one page, titled "My Story" by Maria Ungar Haas. Briefly describes live in Slovakia, Hungarian and then German occupation, arrest and deportation to Auschwitz, and later Stutthof, then liberation, life as DP, and immigration to U.S.

  17. Dona Ashkinadze memoir

    Testimony, manuscript, two pages, undated (circa 1990s), by Dona Ashkinadze, in which she describes the Mogilyov-Podolsky ghetto and Pechora concentration camp.

  18. Valentina Svoyatytsky memoir

    Testimony, handwritten, seven pages, likely dictated to a native English speaker and signed by Svoyatytsky, dated 1994. Describes experiences in Minsk during the German occupation.

  19. My story

    Testimony, handwritten, 5 pages, by Mikhail Teslyar, of Boca Raton, FL, describing his experiences in his hometown of Bar, near Vinnitsa, Ukraine, during German occupation.

  20. A memoir relating to experiences in the Glusk ghetto and as a partisan in Byelorussia

    Testimony, handwritten, 2 pages, circa 1990s. Describes experiences in village of Glusk (in Poland or Belarus).