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Displaying items 17,681 to 17,700 of 33,375
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Language of Description: English

  1. Trudi Birger photographs

    Contains three photographs of Trudi Birger and family; two are pre-war, one is from 1993. Includes captions on the verso.

  2. Auf einen fremden planeten das lager BIIb in Auschwitz-Birkenau

    Testimony, 10 pages, typescript in German, with corresponding English translation, about author's experiences in "family camp" B II b at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

  3. Richard Schiff collection

    Contains a "Wehrpass" of a German soldier named Fritz Meininger (born, Goettingen, 1913).

  4. Letter to Phil Scholder

    Photocopy of letter from Max Scholder to Phil Scholder, December 1941, thanking him for offers to help him.

  5. An article relating to Polish Jewish children and Janusz Korczak

    Essay (photocopy of typescript), about Janusz Korczak, titled "Children--Orphans-Their Guardians--Janusz Korczak." Circa 1980s-1990s, written by S. Robe in Melbourne, Australia in 1994. Consists mostly of quotes, translated from a Polish book title "Dzieci mowia" (Warsaw, 1993).

  6. Max Edelman papers

    Testimony, typescript, four pages, titled "Liberation Day of a Blind Survivor" by Edelman, written in 1995. Recounts experiences in camps (Flossenbürg), how he was blinded after a severe beating by a guard in 1944, and protected by other prisoners who masked his blindness so he wouldn't be killed. Also contains two copyprint photos of Flossenbürg, as well as a separate copied publication, "Guide to the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp" by Peter Heigl, 29 pages.

  7. Genya Gimelshteyn collection

    Testimony, 1 page, typewritten (on USHMM testimony form), circa 1995. Describes experience as in Bershad, Ukraine.

  8. A memoir relating to experiences in Russia, and other countries

    Testimony, typescript, 199 pages, titled "A Russian Chronicle, Michael L. Zlatovski, 1881-1951." Inscribed "For Rae and Jack, fondly, Helen." On verso of title page is "Copyright, 1976, Helen Zlatovski-Tenenbaum." Memoir describes life in pre-Revolutionary Russia, the early years of the Soviet Union, and immigration to the United States.

  9. Publications relating to the Holocaust experiences

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 6 pages with timeline, about Leo Grunwald (Lee Garvin) and his family, originally of Berlin. Also contains photocopies from publications about various teachers who accompanied their pupils to death camps, including Martin Gerson and Clara Grunwald.

  10. A memoir relating to experiences in Auschwitz, and the US after 1947

    Testimony, circa 70 pages, typescript. Most appears to be about Novak's life in U.S. after war, not about what her family experienced during it.

  11. Manon Marliac collection

    Identification documents, faded color photographs, photocopies of documents, and news clipping from the Washington Post, about story of Roger Marliac and family, in France during WWII.

  12. Photographs relating to the atrocity scenes at Ohrdruf, Buchenwald, and Dachau concentration camps

    Photographs (6), post-liberation scenes from camps.

  13. Ilse Loewenberg papers

    The Ilse Loewenberg papers primarily contain identification papers, imprisonment documents, correspondence, and clippings related to Ilse Loewenberg’s experiences as a member of an underground resistance group and her imprisonment in Berlin, Germany from 1943-1945. Included are a photograph and identification card for her husband Gerhard Grün, government documents related to Ilse’s imprisonment in Berlin, a list of the names of those who helped her hide in Berlin, post-war correspondence, and clippings related to Elisabeth Bornstein receiving the Medal of the Righteous for helping hide Ilse...

  14. Eugene Zinn memoir

    Testimony, typescript (photocopy), 31 pages, with three copied pages of song text and list of family members who were killed, and description of Auschwitz. Author describes childhood and family in Slovak village of Huncovce, later German occupation, deportation to Auschwitz and experiences there.

  15. A memoir relating to experiences in Łódź, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald

    Contains a testimony, typescript, 4 pages, likely created for restitution case in 1956, when author (Weintraub) lived in Norfolk, VA. Composed under oath and notarized, account describes Weintraub's experiences in Łódź ghetto during occupation.

  16. "The Story of Esther Salamanovich Fortgang 1938-1948"

    Consists of one memoir, 13 pages, entitled "The Story of Esther Salamanovich Fortgang 1938-1948," by Esther Fortgang, originally of Praszka, Poland. In the memoir, written circa 1990, the author describes her experiences in Praszka after the outbreak of war, forced labor in a small camp for women in Grünberg, forced labor in an ammunition factory in Neusaltz, the arrival of Hungarian women from Auschwitz, a forced march to Flossenbürg, her liberation in Bergen-Belsen, and recovery in Sweden.

  17. A memoir relating to survivors of Nazi massacres in Ukraine

    Testimony, typescript, 8 pages, plus one photograph. Describes family and childhood in Krakow, and life in ghetto there under German occupation.

  18. A memoir relating to experiences in Sosnowiec and Peterswaldau

    Testimony, handwritten, 4 pages, in Polish with partial English translation. Experience of author, from Czestochowa, Poland, and what she experienced in that town, Sosnowiec, and Gross Rosen, among other places and labor camps during the war.

  19. A memoir relating to experiences in Minsk and Bergen-Belsen

    Testimony, handwritten, 6 pages (with typed English translation), circa 1990s. Describes experiences in Minsk ghetto.

  20. Esther Fox memoir

    Testimony, handwritten, 10 pages, circa 1990s, recalling family and childhood in Łódź, study of medicine and training as a doctor, and her work as a physician in the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, Guben, and Bergen Belsen.