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  1. Documents relating to August Rosenberg and his family during the Holocaust

    Testimony, 4 pages, typescript, from Walter Rosley (born Walter Rosenberg) of Manchester, VT, describing experiences of his family, originally of Frankfurt/Main, during Holocaust, including time in occupied Netherlands and Westerbork. Includes typed notes of his brother, August Rosenberg, and typescript translation of letter from family member in 1945, describing experiences during war.

  2. Friedel Guttman memoir

    Testimony, three pages, typescript, describing experiences of author as a Kindertransport child who was sent to Scotland, later worked on a "Hachshara" in Britain, moved to London to get training in child care, and eventually immigrated to U.S.

  3. A memoir and news clippings relating to experiences in Hungary, Auschwitz, and Czechoslovakia

    Testimony, 3 pages, typescript, plus photocopies of newspaper stories from 1990s that told story of Elizabeth Kishazi. All tell of her pre-war life in Hungary, forced labor, deportation to Auschwitz.

  4. Wanda Ewa Rut papers

    Testimony, 5 pages, containing recollections of Wanda Rut and Aleksandr Schwarz, plus programs and news clippings about an art exhibition that Rut organized in Miami in 1990, titled "Jewish Themes in Polish Art."

  5. Andrew Rosenbaum and family papers

    Testimony, 5 pages, handwritten, titled "The History of the Landau and Weinberger family," by Hana Rosenbaum.

  6. A memoir relating to experiences during the Holocaust

    Testimony, 4 pages, typescript, plus one photocopy of news article, some written by Liza Alpert, some by others, about experiences of Leon and Liza Alpert, and their respective experiences, in pre-war Poland, in camps (Dachau, Stutthof), and as DPs.

  7. Lillian Levy papers

    The Lillian Levy papers consists primarily of articles and correspondence written by Levy from the period of 1960-1963, as she worked as she served as the Bureau Chief for the National Jewish Post and Opinion. The majority of the articles she wrote during this time cover the topic of ex-Nazi medical doctors who performed experiments on Jewish prisoners during World War II. These doctors were able to escape trial and continued to practice medicine in Germany. Levy’s correspondence from this time is mostly to publications requesting to run her articles, but also included is a letter to First ...

  8. Affidavit of interrogation of Rudolf Hoess

    Affidavit by Rudolf Hoess, the Commandant of Auschwitz from 1940-1943, taken at Nuremberg in April 1946. Includes mimeograph version and photocopies of versions in German and Russian.

  9. Kenneth L. Gerke photographs

    Photographs, copies of post-liberation photos of camps.

  10. Memoirs relating to Raoul Wallenberg

    Photocopy of letter sent by donor's grandmother, Eleanor Halpern, after she had been deported from Budapest to a labor camp in Ukraine, 1944, along with English translation of same and explanatory note from donor.

  11. Materials relating to Jehovah’s Witnesses in Auschwitz

    This collection is comprised of photocopied documents and copy print photographs detailing the fates of Jehovah’s Witness from the villages of Wisła and Ustroń, in Cieszyn County, Poland during the Holocaust. Materials include name lists of men and women from Wisła and Ustroń who were interned and murdered at KZ Auschwitz and their corresponding death records as copied from the Nazi death log (sterbebuch). Other name lists include children from Wisła sent to Łódź as part of the German youth camp (Jugenverwahrlager Litzmannstadt). Associated with the name lists is a series of copy prints of ...

  12. Manuscript and commentaries relating to the fate of the Gubic family and to the Slovak Holocaust

    Testimonies, consisting of photocopied typescript texts (varied), with list of texts in first folder. Most seem to do with time Otto Gubic spent as partisan during occupation of Czechoslovakia, and his role in Slovak National Uprising (SNP).

  13. The only last survivor

    Testimony, over 500 pages, typescript, of Abraham Foxman, originally of Halicz, Poland.

  14. Enoch Tencher memoir

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, written in answer to a questionnaire. Describes experiences in Krosno, Poland, pre-war antisemitism, life in Krosno ghetto during occupation, various labor camps (Auschwitz, Mauthausen), liberation, and the Landsberg DP camp.

  15. Memoir

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, sent to Claims Conference in response to request for information. About Guralnik's experiences in Rovno, Ukraine during the occupation.

  16. Memoir relating to experiences during the Holocaust

    Testimony, typescript, 2 pages. Written by a native of Berlin who immigrated to South Africa. Describes immigration and efforts to get other family members out of Germany.

  17. A memoir relating to experiences in Kraków, Płaszów, and Auschwitz

    Consists of one memoir, 1 page, in English, by Ernest Abraham, who lived in Łódź and Krakow before the war. In the testimony, he writes about the deportation of his parents and sister to Belzec, his own forced labor in Płaszów, where he worked in a shoe factory, his deportatation to Starachowice, to Buna-Monowitz, and his eventual liberation from Buchenwald. Mr. Abraham also briefly describes his post-war family life.

  19. Memoir

    Testimony, 2 pages, handwritten, written as a letter to U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum asking to be added to the Survivors Registry. Briefly describes experience in Hungary under the Horthy regime, deportation to Auschwitz, time as forced laborer there, in Krakow, and at Bergen Belsen, and post-liberation life in Germany and immigration to U.S

  20. Main Military Rabbinate of the Polish Army

    Contains photocopies of documents from Main Military Rabbinate of the Polish Army files concerning organizational regulations, orders, and personal data on rabbis and cantors. Included are a list of secret papers in the Centrale Archiwum Wojskowe; names of military personnel; and documents relating to promotions, hospitals on the front, transfers, soldiers' working and hygienic conditions, and disciplinary actions against individual soliders.