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Displaying items 17,741 to 17,760 of 33,375
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Language of Description: English

  1. Simon Herskovitz memoir

    Testimony, typescript, 3 pages, circa 1990s. Describes childhood in Slovakia, Hungarian occupation of region in 1940, deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, deportation to Kaufering and then march to Allach and liberation. Postwar immigration to Palestine/Israel.

  2. Abraham Kolender memoir

    Testimony, typescript, two pages. Recounts experiences of Kolander, in his native Poland, life in pre-war period, German occupation, wartime exile in Soviet Union (Ural Mountains), experience as DP at Landshut, immigration to U.S.

  3. A memoir relating to experiences in Palemonas and Stutthof

    Testimony, 3 pages, typescript, about author's experiences in German occupied Lithuania, in unnamed town/ghetto as laborer, deportation to Stutthof.

  4. A memoir

    Testimony, 3 pages, handwritten, about experiences in Brno, Czechoslovakia, escape to Poland after annexation, and then Soviet Union after start of war, at which point Soviets deported him and brother to Gulag camps (Kolyma, Magadan) until Germans invade SU, then are released and fight alongside Red Army in a Czech battalion.

  5. A memoir relating to experiences in Terezin and Prague

    Testimony, typescript, two pages, circa 1990s. Discusses childhood in Vienna, the Anschluss, work as a forced laborer in Saxony (near Dresden), evacuation to Theresienstadt after bombing of Dresden, and the end of the war.

  6. A memoir relating to experiences in Poland during the Holocaust

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript. Writes of family's life in Krakow, German occupation, hiding in Nowy Targ.

  7. Oscar Lichtenstern memoir

    Testimony, typescript, titled "My Struggle for Survival" by Oscar Lichtenstern. Appears to have originally been written in another language (German or Dutch) shortly after the war, and the present version translated by his granddaughter, Ruth Lichtenstern Fishman, in 1992. Detailed account of occupation of Netherlands, life in ghetto, deportation first to Westerbork, then Theresienstadt.

  8. A memoir

    Testimony, typescript, 7 pages, written in 1995. Describes childhood in Hamburg, Kristallnacht and his subsequent arrest and internment at Sachsenhausen, emigration to England and then to the United States.

  9. John Franklin memoir

    John Franklin's thirteen page memoir, "A Family History," documents his Frankenthal and Frankenthaler relatives from Schwanfeld and Untereisenheim Germany, his family's move to Holland following Kristallnacht, their relocation to the Amsterdam ghetto, and deportation to Westerbork It relates his and his father's survival in Bergen-Belsen, his father's death aboard an evacuation train, his reunion with his mother and grandmother in the Netherlands, and his immigration to the United States. The memoir also documents his mother's survival in Auschwitz, his grandmother's rescue by the Van Hooff...

  10. Memoir of a slave laborer in Hungary and Ukraine and a prisoner in Mauthausen and Gunskirchen.

    Testimony, typescript, 4 pages, describing life in Mezotur, Hungary, implementation of anti-Jewish laws there, work in labor-regiment with Hungarian forces in Soviet Union (Voronezh), return to Hungary and work on forced labor battalions, deportation to Mauthausen toward end of the war, and liberation.

  11. Paulina Barak-Birenbaum memoir

    Testimony, photocopy of handwritten, 74 pages, Russian, plus English typescript summary, 3 pages. Concerning author's experiences in Khmelnitsky province of Ukraine during German occupation.

  12. Doris Perlhefter Rauch memoir

    Contains of one notarized typed memoir, in German, 3 pages, written by Doris Perlhefter Rauch, originally of Bruenn, Czechoslovakia. In the memoir, she describes her deportation to Theresienstadt in 1941 and from there, to Raasiku, Estonia, in 1942, where her mother was immediately shot and Doris was assigned forced labor doing farm work. In January 1943, she was sent to Tallin for forced labor at the Reval shipyard, where she worked until the summer of 1944, when she was taken by boat to Stutthof and after a few months, to Hamburg. In the final days of the war, she was sent to Bergen-Belse...

  13. Emily Kessler memoir

    Consists of one typed memoir, in English, written by Emily Kessler in 1993. In 1941, her husband was killed near Strye in Drohobycz, and Emily, her mother and infant son were evacuated to Khmelnik. She describes forced labor in Khmelnik, moving into the ghetto, and escaping a mass shooting with the assistance of local fascists. She and her son were imprisoned and sent back into the ghetto for forced labor. She went into hiding with the help of a non-Jewish friend, Katya Surovova (who was later named a Righteous Among the Nations) and crossed the border into Romania. She and her son survived...

  14. A memoir relating to experiences in Budapest, Buchenwald, and Altenburg

    Testimony, 4 pages, typewritten, regarding experiences in Satu Mare, Budapest, Buchenwald, and as forced laborer in Altenburg (Thuringia).

  15. A memoir

    Testimony, handwritten, 4 pages, experiences in Łódź ghetto and Bergen Belsen.

  16. Israel Berkenwald memoir

    Consists of a 5 page handwritten memoir by Israel Berkenwald, formerly of Łódź, Poland, concerning his experiences during the Holocaust and the fates of his loved ones.

  17. Frederick Bergmann memoir

    Testimony, typescript, two pages, undated, written by Frederick Bergmann, recording childhood in Fuerth, education, emigration in summer 1939, internment as enemy alien, first in England, and then in Canada for duration of war, enlistment in Canadian Army toward end of war and deployment with occupation troops in Germany.

  18. Eva Bergmann memoir

    Testimony, photocopy of manuscript, four pages, relating to experiences in Germany prior to emigrating to the United States.

  19. A memoir relating to experiences in Ukraine during the Holocaust

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 7 pages, written by Fay Nobel (nee Fay Grinblatt) in 1989. Describes German occupation of her hometown in eastern Poland (present day Ukraine), persecution by Ukrainian forces, transfer to ghetto (both village and ghetto unnamed), conditions there, survival, and liberation.

  20. A memoir relating to experiences in Warssawa, Shavel, Kraków, Stutthof, and Landsberg

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 14 pages, written by Binder, of Johannesburg, South Africa, describing her experiences during Holocaust.