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Displaying items 17,841 to 17,860 of 33,375
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Language of Description: English

  1. Yelena Shvartsman memoir and news article

    Testimony, eight pages, handwritten in Russian (with English summary), describing Shvartsman's experiences during German occupation of her hometown of Minsk, as well as copy of news clipping from "Minkskaya Pravda" by E. Joffe, about Maly Trostinets.

  2. A memoir entitled "The Survivors of Buchenwald" relating to Nicholas Burliuk's experiences with survivors on a Hospital Ship

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, five pages, by Nicholas Burliuk. Recounts Burliuk's experiences as a U.S. Army medic at the liberation of Buchenwald.

  3. "From Jaslo - Through Hell - to Freedom"

    Testimony, typescript (photocopy), 36 pages, by Edward Blonder, written in 1981. Describes childhood in Jaslo, Poland; German invasion and occupation; creation of ghetto in Jaslo and eventual destruction of that ghetto and transfer to Przemyśl ghetto, then Auschwitz and various labor camps (including Ebensee); liberation and immigration to the United States.

  4. A postcard from Dachau 3K

    Postcard (1), written by Matt Dachinger to Anny Dachinger, of Vienna, written from Dachau during Matt's imprisonment there, January 1939.

  5. A memoir relating to experiences in Kosice, Bor, Auschwitz, Warsaw, Dachau, and Muehldorf

    Testimony, on questionnaire form then 4 pages from legal pad as supplemental narrative, describing pre-war life in Uzhgorod, time as forced laborer at Auschwitz and elsewhere, and immediate postwar period as DP in Czechoslovakia.

  6. A memoir relating to experiences in Łódź, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Neustadt

    Consists of a typed copy of one memoir, in English, written by Flora Herzberger in Rodewisch, Germany, in June 1945. In the memoir, Mrs. Herzberger describes the family's deportation from Germany into Poland to the Łódź ghetto in 1941, her husband's death in the ghetto, the deportation of the children of Łódź, and her deportation to Auschwitz with her son and daughter. She describes life in Auschwitz and being sent, with her daughter, to forced laber at the Sackisch subcamp of Gross-Rosen in an airplane factory. She thanks the American military and all who have been so kind to her after...

  7. Why is Lola alive

    Testimony, typescript, 9 pages, titled "Why is Lola Alive?" by Zygmunt Przybylowski, translated from Polish by Jack Taczanowski. The testimony gives Przybylowski's account of the German invasion and occupation of Lvov, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine) and his efforts as a non-Jewish Polish man named “Ted” to assist Jews in the area.

  8. A postcard from Berlin to Westerbork

    Postcard (1) sent from family in Berlin to Alfred Casperius at Westerbork camp,

  9. A memoir relating to experiences in Łódź, Auschwitz, Braunschweig, and Woebbelin

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 18 pages, about the donor's life in Poland prior to and during occupation, time at Auschwitz, as forced laborer in Braunschweig, and as a displaced person after the war.

  10. A memoir relating to experiences in Satoraljaujhely and Auschwitz

    Testimony, handwritten, 6 pages, describing author's experiences in in Hungarian village (unnamed) where her family lived, impact of antisemitic laws, movement to ghetto of Sátoraljaújhely, deportation to Auschwitz, and as forced laborer in Magdeburg until liberation.

  11. A memoir

    Testimony, 1 page, typescript, brief outline (Romanian survivor).

  12. A memoir

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, brief outline (Romanian survivor).

  13. Abraham and Rachela Melezin collection

    Typescript text in Hebrew, from 1940s.

  14. Documents relating to the Holocaust story of Feygl (Fela) Infeld (Glaser)

    Testimony, 10 pages, typescript, about experiences of donor at Stutthof camp in 1945. Also contains news clipping about the same, from newspaper "Jewish Standard," 28 April 1995.

  15. A memoir relating to Charles G. Ipjian and the Turkish persecution of the Armenians

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, unpaginated (circa 100 pages), about life of Charles Ipjian, an Armenian immigrant from Turkey, who came to Chicago in the 1920s.

  16. William A. Grab Jr. collection

    The William A. Grab Jr. collection is comprised of papers pertaining to Thaddaus Zalewski and Paul Flohr, both prisoners held by the Nazis during the Holocaust and collected by William A. Grab, a veteran of the United States Army. The Thaddaus Zalewski papers include four letters written by Thaddaus during his incarceration in Dachau between 1943 and 1944. The letters were sent to a family member living in East Prussia. The material pertaining to Paul Flohr includes various identification papers and membership cards. Included among them are membership cards for the Social Democratic Party a...

  17. "Julius Feldman's Voice From Behind the Wall"

    Testimony, approximately 46 pages, photocopy of typescript, titled "Julius Feldman's Voice from Behind the Wall," translated and with comments by Joseph Soski. Feldman (1923-1942) was in the camp at Płaszów, and his memoirs were kept by his family, who loaned them to Soski for this translation in 1993. Was subsequently published in 2002 as "The Krakow Diary of Julius Feldman."

  18. Jura Soyfer collection

    Consists of programs, text, sheet music, plays, and LPs related to the work of Austrian musician and songwriter Jura Soyfer. Includes the sheet music and translation of a song entitled "Dachau Lied," by Jura Soyfer. Soyfer, an anti-fascist and playwright, was arrested in 1937 and briefly released beefore being arrested trying to cross the Austrian border to Switzerland. He was transported to Dachau and later to Buchenwald, where he died of typhus in February 1939.

  19. Photographs of Dachau

    Photocopy of name list, compiled by Poles after war, of victims of Brest ghetto. Although list is in Polish, photocopied cover sheet is from a Russian archive (unidentified).

  20. Hana Gruna collection

    Contains a list of Czechoslovakian Jewish women who were inmates of Sackisch labor camp and a memoir of experiences relating to Sackisch.