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Displaying items 17,701 to 17,720 of 33,375
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Language of Description: English

  1. A memoir

    Testimony, typescript (photocopy), 28 pages. Author discusses origins in Greiz (Thuringia), escape in 1940 for Yugoslavia but ends up in Italy instead, until arrested, sent to Fossoli, and then Auschwitz.

  2. Faina Kozovskaya papers

    Testimony, two documents, one handwritten, 4 pages, one typescript, 21 pages. Former is an account of what happened to the donor's younger sister, Lena Kozovskaia, who was killed at the age of 10 in 1941 in Minsk. The other is a description of the donor's experiences in occupied Minsk.

  3. Jerome Gitelson memoir

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 6 pages, describing Oskar Glick, a Jew from Austria who came to Lithuania, where the author (Jerome Gitelson) met him in Vilnius. Notes activities of Glick that helped save numerous Jews.

  4. Giorgio Perlasca collection

    Contains statements and narrative reports written by Giorgio Perlasca relating to the persecution, deportations, and killing of Jews in Hungary circa 1944-1945, and script of documentary film about Perlasca entitled "Eroe Per Caso."

  5. "A Fateful Meeting"

    Contains a memoir entitled "A fateful meeting" relating to discovering a pre-war family friend from Hungary during a visit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

  6. A memoir relating to experiences in Sokoly

    Testimony, approximately 50 pages, photocopy of typescript, from Esther Wondolowicz Goldman, of Norfolk, VA, written in 1994. Describes life in Poland during Holocaust.

  7. Herschkowitz family papers

    The Herschkowitz family papers contain primarily Holocaust-era documents related to Bezales Herschkowitz, a furrier in Paris who was imprisoned by the Nazis at Dachau, and his family. The documents relate mostly to his internment, and include political deportee cards, certificates, and repatriation cards. Also included are Bezales’ military documents, medical diagnosis, and documents concerning compensation and pension. A brief memoir written by Bezales’ daughter, Brenda, details more fully their family’s story. The Herschkowitz family papers contain records primarily relating Bezales Hersc...

  8. Lea Evron collection

    Consists of a baptismal certificate for Sophia Balitzer, originally issued in 1935 and reissued in 1947; a marriage certificate, dated 1936 at the parish of Sw. Magdaleny in Grodno; a 1945 identity card with photograph issued to Regina Balitzer, originally of Radom; and a postcard sent from Z. Baltizer in the Tarnow ghetto to his sister, M. Adout, in Lausanne, Switzerland, dated 1942. The baptismal and marriage certificate were forged in attempts to aid the Balitzer family of Radom to survive the Holocaust. Includes a memoir dated 1994, written by Lea Balitzer Evron, the daughter of Regina ...

  9. A memoir relating to experiences in Auschwitz

    Testimony, typescript, 3 pages. Brief account of Hungarian Holocaust survivor.

  10. Memoir of the Libau (Latvia) ghetto and escape from a death march from Stutthof.

    Contains memoir relating the history of the Libau (Latvia) ghetto and to the escape during a death march from Stutthof.

  11. A memoir relating to experiences as a refugee in China

    Testimony, typescript, 3 pages, about family's immigration to China from Austria.

  12. Report on the documentary film "Die Welt im Film" at the International Film Festival, Cannes

    Photocopy of typescript report, recording audience reaction to the showing of a documentary about the Nuremberg Trials at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946.

  13. Anna Baumgart and Thea Rostock papers

    Testimony, 4 pages, handwritten, by Anna Lipnowska (Baumgart), describing her experiences in Warsaw Ghetto, along with two post-war letters of reference for Dr. Nachman Boim (one from UNRRA camp, one from hospital in California where he was resident in 1950).

  14. A memoir relating to experiences in Auschwitz, Łódź, Poznań, Dachau, and Muhldorf ghettos

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 4 pages, describes childhood in Saarland, Kristallnacht, emigration of siblings, training at school in Berlin, deportation to Łódź ghetto, and then to Auschwitz and Dachau, and liberation.

  15. A memoir relating to experiences as a hidden child in France

    Testimony, typescript, 2 pages, written 1994. Describes experiences of the author's family, Polish emigres in Paris, during the German occupation, including their arrest and internment of parents at Drancy, their subsequent deportation to Auschwitz, and Kranowski's own survival in OSE orphanages and with family members.

  16. Lotte Rosenbaum Herz memoir

    Testimony, typescript, 3 pages, circa 1990s, written by Lotte Rosenbaum Herz, describing the arrival of Erich Rosenbaum's family in the United States in 1938.

  17. A memoir relating to experiences in the Minsk ghetto and as a hidden child

    Testimony, handwritten, 8 pages, Russian, with typed English translation. About experiences in occupied Minsk.

  18. Ruth Oppenheim memoirs

    The Ruth Oppenheim memoirs contains a two memoirs. One entitled "The Sewing Kit," relating to experiences in Nazi Germany prior her family's immigration to the United States in 1940, and an article entitled "Kristallnacht: How It Was," which recalls her experience during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938.

  19. A letter to my son

    Testimony, 27 pages, photocopy of typescript, written by Paula Cables, titled "Letter to My Son." Describes childhood and youth in Lithuania (near Kaunas/Kovno), occupation by Soviets and then Germans, life in Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto, deportation to Stutthof.

  20. "Paths of Fate, Auschwitz-Birkenau, No. B-1968"

    Contains a memoir entitled "Paths of Fate, Auschwitz-Birkenau, No. B-1968," relating to experiences in Białystok, Majdanek, Blizin, Auschwitz, and Ohrdruf.