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Language of Description: English

  1. David Kirsh collection

    Contains documents relating to donor's membership in the Belgian resistance and the Comite de Defense des Juifs de Charleroi.

  2. August Schultheis memoir

    Letter, one page, from August Schultheis of Vincennes, IN, addressed to USHMM in 1995, accompanying photos and explaining his own role as U.S. soldier in liberation of Landsberg camp.

  3. Max Liebster papers

    Photocopied documents, including post-war ID identifying Liebster as former prisoner at concentration camp, family photo, list of Jews from Reichenbach and their fates.

  4. Andrew Theodore collection

    Testimony, 1 page, handwritten, about Andrew Theodore's role in U.S. Army as a liberator of Buchenwald. Includes three specimens of Buchenwald scrip.

  5. Memoir

    Testimony, 18 pages, typescript, titled "My Experience in Nazi Times," written as letter to family in 1989. Describes childhood in Darmstadt during 1930s, persecutions of Jews, and family's immigration to U.S. (Los Angeles).

  6. Moritz Weisberg collection

    Contains a memoir and poems relating to experiences in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Gusen.

  7. Memoir

    Testimony, 17 pages, "A Holocaust Survivor's Story," by Marion Landau (1989). Describes German invasion and occupation of Bedzin, Poland, transfer to forced labor camp at Gleiwitz, and later, to Dachau.

  8. Photographs relating to the deportation and emigration of Jews

    Contains three photographs. One shows suitcases in a Holocaust museum exhibit, focusing on one for Hanna Minska, a child. Label on edge of photo is from Mrs. Rubin Minsky of Anaheim, CA, so is likely photo of her suitcase during time of deportation to camps (credited to L.A. Times). Other two photos are of Carole Kahan and Sara Zilberstein.

  9. Jane Smith Bernhardt collection

    Contains a typescript letter dated December 14, 1999, with handwritten annotations, as well as a videocasette entitled "Love Elly."

  10. Holocaust stories "A tribute to our parents."

    Testimony, 70 pages, photocopy of typescript, titled "Holocaust Stories: A Tribute to our Parents," assembled by Roseanne, Ed, and Phyllis Lion. Describes parents' childhood (in Baden and Bavaria, respectively), rising anti-Jewish persecution, Kristallnacht, internment in camps in France, etc. SEE 1995.A.0937

  11. Shanghai echo

    Bound issues of eleven volumes of the newspaper "Shanghai Echo," from 1945-1949.

  12. Perel Faust memoir

    Testimony, 30 pages, photocopy of typescript, on cover notes that it was written by Perel Faust (nee Reiner). Account of German occupation of town in Poland, translated from Hebrew.

  13. Ruth Sien memoir

    Testimony, 14 pages, typescript, from Ruth Sien (born Rachele Faust), of Cranbury, NJ, originally from a village near Rzeszow, Poland. Describes German occupation of Poland, hiding in farms and forests, posing as a Gentile, and survival through war, liberation, pogroms, immigration to U.S.

  14. A memoir

    Testimony, 7 pages, photocopy of typescript in German, along with English summary, relating to experiences of Martin Starke during war. Starke's own account was written in 1947. Describes Starke's arrest in Hamburg, imprisonment at Fuhlsbuettel, deportation to Auschwitz, time there as forced laborer, death march to Gleiwitz, then train to Mauthausen and other locations before end of war.

  15. Postcard and documents relating to experiences in Auschwitz and Buchenwald

    One postcard, original, sent to Marian Tasiemski when he was a prisoner at Buchenwald, from his father, July 1944. Photocopied documents from State Museum at Auschwitz about records of Tasiemski's imprisonment there.

  16. Roza Goikhberg papers

    Testimony, 6 pages, photocopy of typescript, from Goikhberg, written in 1992-1993, recounting experiences during German occupation in Mogilev-Podolsky district near Vinnitsa, Ukraine. Includes family photos.

  17. Mark Monka papers

    Identification documents (2) for Mojzes Maka (Mark Monka) of Bendsburg (Bedzin). One is general ID issued after occupation by Germans, and the other identifies Maka as being resident of Jewish quarter and assigned to work at a clothing factory. Also is a small square card, used as ID by Maka at the factory.

  18. A speech relating to experiences at Föhrenwald displaced person camp

    A speech titled "Liberation and the Jewish Displaced Persons Centers in Germany" and given at Temple Israel, Great Neck, NY, on 28 April 1995 providing a historical account by former director of Foehrenwald DP camp.

  19. Charles Corn collection

    Contains the Holocaust related publications in English, French, and German, a published portrait of Adolf Hitler, and two blank Fire Brigade Commendation certificates dated April 20, 1937 , signed by Heinrich Himmler.

  20. Michael Kolanik papers

    The Michael Kolanik papers document Kolanik's unsuccessful efforts to receive compensation or recognition from the German, Polish, and American governments for the time his father, Michael Kolanik, Sr., spent in Nazi labor camps in Germany during World War II.