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Displaying items 17,961 to 17,980 of 33,375
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Language of Description: English

  1. ID card from Deutsche Ortskommandatur Mogilev

    Consists of one identity card issued by the Deutsches Ortskommandatur Mogilev.

  2. A memoir relating to pre-war experiences in Germany and the United States

    Testimony, 5 pages, handwritten, by Rennert (1994), originally from Mannheim, Germany. Describes persecution in Germany, immigration to the United States, joining the Army and fighting in the Italian campaign and in southern France, where he was captured by Germans and survived remainder of war as POW and forced laborer.

  3. Personal history

    Consists of a handwritten memoir, 2 pages, written by Lilly Aron Weiss, originally of Balassagyarmat, Hungary. In the memoir, she describes her experiences in Hungary in 1944, her deportation to Auschwitz, being separated from her family, and life in Auschwitz. In the fall of 1944, she was transferred to the Ashesleben airplane factory and from there, to Theresienstadt, where she was liberated.

  4. Wolf Hochman memoir

    Testimony, 1 page, handwritten, recalling author's experiences as child of British father and German mother in Leipzig, internment in camp on Bodensee for several years, reuniting with father, and family's emigration to England.

  5. Bassia Wharton memoir

    Testimony, three pages, typescript, similar description to that of husband (David Wharton; see 1995.A.1150), of life in Kaunas, invasion, ghetto of Slabodka.

  6. Memoir

    Testimony, circa 40 pages, typescript, concerning author's experiences in Gleiwitz, Buchenwald, Auschwitz.

  7. Bertold J. Vilner memoir

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript. Relates experiences in and around Minsk during German occupation, including Minsk ghetto.

  8. Leya Tsvayner papers

    Information compiled circa 1989-1994, describing the occupation of Dubossar, Moldova, from 1941 onward, with list of names of families from there. Compiled by a memorial committee seeking to document events in that town, led by G. Kiseleva and A. Moskaleva.

  9. Asya and Zakhar Mikhelman memoir

    Testimonies, four pages, handwritten, relating to experiences of Asya and Zakhar Mikhelman. Asya was from Brailov, Zakhar from Tiraspol, and both describe experiences during occupation of Moldova.

  10. David Wharton memoir

    Testimony, one page, typescript. Brief description of experiences in Kaunas, in ghetto of Slabodke, then Stutthof, then liberation. Met and married his wife, Bassia (see 1995.A.1151), in Slabodke.

  11. Leon Bitner papers

    Testimony, 1 page, typewritten, along with photocopies of list of family members, and of photographs of Bitner. Brief description of life in Warsaw Ghetto and of period when he was hidden outside ghetto.

  12. Sally Pitluk memoir

    Testimony, four pages, handwritten. From Plonsk, Poland, describes life there, German invasion, creation of ghetto, and deportation to Auschwitz.

  13. A memoir

    Testimony, 1 page, photocopied from standard museum questionnaire form, plus five separate pages of handwritten text.

  14. A Memoir relating to experiences in Poland and Germany during the Holocaust

    Testimony, 4 pages, handwritten, relating experiences of donor, originally of Kalisz, Poland, in pre-war times, German occupation, and her own time as forced laborer at Neusalz (sub-camp of Gross Rosen) and Flossenbürg.

  15. Gerson Zycband memoir

    Testimony, 150 pages, typescript, about experiences in Włodawa, Poland, during German occupation.

  16. Photocopy of Die Zivilverwaltung in den besetzten Ostgebieten

    Photocopy of report produced by the office of the Reich Minister fuer die besetzten Ostgebiete, consisting of Part II of "Die Zivilverwaltung in den besetzten Ostgebiete: Reichskommissariat Ukraine."

  17. Emma N. Brixey collection

    Consists of a newspaper article from the Joplin Globe written about the donor, black and white photographs, seemingly of Dachau, and a handwritten memoir.

  18. Ana Jinno memoir "Stories of Survival"

    Personal narrative authored by Ana Jinno (née Anna Klein, previously Anna Kalina), originally of Košice (Slovakia), and titled “Stories of Survival.” The narrative describes persecution in Slovakia, her father Ferdiand Klein’s deportation to Žilina concentration camp, his release from the camp, the family going into hiding, Ferdinand’s experiences with partisans, and post-war immigration to La Paz, Bolivia, Montevideo, Uruguay, and Petah Tikva, Israel.

  19. Documents containing information relating to Raoul Wallenberg

    Correspondence (photocopy) between James McCarger of Washington, DC and the Raoul Wallenberg Association in Beer-Sheva Israel, 1993. Correspondence was occasioned by an alumni note about McCarger in the Stanford University alumni magazine, which occasioned Ann Witztum, also a Stanford grad, to contact McCarger to ask about his activities with the U.S. Embassy in Budapest during the 1940s relative to Wallenberg.

  20. A memoir relating to experiences in Hungary and the U.S

    Testimony, 6 pages, typescript, of Marika (Marianne) Spizz, born in Hungary in 1947 to survivor parents. Describes her experience as child of survivors in U.S. (Bellmore, NY).