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Displaying items 17,721 to 17,740 of 33,375
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Language of Description: English

  1. Memoir relating to experiences in Odessa and Domanevka

    Testimony, 3 pages, typescript (English) plus another version, handwritten (Russian).

  2. A memoir

    Testimony, typescript (photocopy) 2 pages, titled "Supplement," about the town of Vinkovtsky (author's hometown) and events that happened there during German occupation.

  3. A memoir relating to experiences in Germany and USSR during the Holocaust

    Testimony, 6 pages, handwritten, about experiences of two sisters, from Neustrelitz (Mecklenburg) Germany, whose family went to the Soviet Union in the late 1930s on a "prisoner exchange," and after arrival in Armenia, were arrested and sent to Siberia.

  4. A memoir Relating to experiences in Polonnoye

    Testimony, 3 pages, typescript. Describes invasion of Soviet Union in 1941, when author was as Kamenets-Podolsk region of Ukraine, working in a hospital, and life under occupation in town of Polonnoye.

  5. Memoir of experiences in Germany, Kibbutz Bamidbar (Yugoslavia), and emigration to Palestine.

    Contains a memoir relating to experiences in Germany, relocation to Kibbutz Bamidbar (Yugoslavia) in 1934, and emigration to Palestine in 1936.

  6. Henryk Leman memoir

    Testimony, typescript, four pages. Describes the experiences of two brothers, their life in occupied Warsaw and fighting with Polish underground, capture and imprisonment in Germany, liberation and work with Allies in occupied Germany, immigration to the United States.

  7. A memoir relating to the experiences of the Sass family in Poland during the Holocaust

    Testimony, handwritten, 6 pages, in outline form, about experiences of donor's family in eastern Poland under Soviet and German occupation. Describes surviving a Nazi "Aktion" by hiding in attic then fleeing to the forest to live with partisans through duration of occupation.

  8. A memoir relating to experiences in the Olgokol ghetto

    Testimony, typescript, 2 pages, written 1994, concerning experiences of author in town near Vinnitsa during German occupation. Written on a form sent to USHMM Survivor's Registry.

  9. A memoir relating to experiences in Sharkowszczyna and Glubokoye ghettos and as a partisan

    Contains a testimony, 4 pages, typescript, concerning Zorach Serkin's experience in occupied Belarus, including Szarkowszczyna ghetto

  10. Memoir of a hidden child in Belgium

    Testimony, 3 pages, handwritten by Jacques (Izak) Segal, originally of Poland but who immigrated to Belgium with his family as a child, and describes life in hiding during the occupation.

  11. A memoir relating to experiences in the Olgopol ghetto

    Testimony, handwritten (3 pages) and typed (2 pages), describing life in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, and then German occupation.

  12. A memoir relating to experiences in Łódź, Małogość, Skarżysko Kamienna, and Czeştochowa

    Testimony, typescript, 5 pages. Describers author's childhood in Chlewice, Poland, German invasion and occupation, forced labor in Malagosc, concentration camp in Skarżysko, and then forced labor in Czestochowa, before liberation.

  13. Manfred Katz memoir

    Testimony, typescript, four pages, describing Katz's experience in a village near Kassel, deportation to Riga in 1941, the Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps, liberation, migration to US Zone of Germany, and eventual unification with family of sister and immigration to US.

  14. Alexander Zemanek papers

    Contains a photocopy of a typescript letter, dated 1945, from someone in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany, to the donor's aunt in May 1945.

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

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript. Author was native of Vienna whose family lived in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, during the occupation, which she describes, including her life as a hidden child.

  16. A memoir

    Testimony, 10 pages, handwritten in Yiddish, with English translation/summary. Describes experiences of donor's family in German occupied Poland, deportation to Auschwitz, work as forced laborer in Hindenburg, Germany (Silesia), deportation to Bergen Belsen.

  17. Tamara Freitag memoir

    Testimony, 3 pages, typewritten, by Tamara Freitag, of Bronx, NY, written in 1994. Describes German occupation of her hometown in Poland, her time as forced laborer in Starachowice, then Auschwitz, death march to Ravensbrueck, liberation.

  18. A memoir relating to experiences in Czechoslovakia and the USSR

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript. Description of childhood and youth in Ostrava (Czech), German occupation, flight to Lwow, and then Buczacz, and then deportation by Soviets to Siberia.

  19. A memoir relating to experiences in Uzgorod

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, about Ernst Bohm's wife, Lily, originally from Uzhgorod, and her life in hiding during war.

  20. Born twice

    Testimony, typescript (photocopy), unpaginated (about 30 pages), author describes experiences in suburb of Bratislava, deportation to Auschwitz.