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Displaying items 18,001 to 18,020 of 33,375
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Language of Description: English

  1. Moe and Phillis Leftin papers

    Testimony (one page) with accompanying International Tracing Service forms, with explanatory letter, relating to Holocaust experiences of Moe Leftin (1918-1993, born Turek, Poland, died Denver, CO). Includes photo of Leftin (circa 1990).

  2. From hell to home

    Testimony, 143 pages, photocopy of typescript, titled "From Hell to Home: Memoirs of One Who Survived," by Matityahu Goldberg, written in 1986 and translated (from Hebrew?) by Carl and Nechama Alpert. Recounts life in pre-war Lithuania, Soviet and German occupation, Dachau, time in DP camps, immigration to Israel.

  3. "Tatters of childhood"

    Testimony, 206 pages, typescript, titled "Tatters of Childhood," about experiences of author in pre-war Czechoslovakia, occupation, and Theresienstadt.

  4. Berry Nachmias memoir

    Testimony, 4 pages, photocopy of handwritten, in form of letter to USHMM in 1995, describing experience of author, president of Jewish Union Survivors of Greece, describing feelings at opening of USHMM, view of Holocaust in Greece, and own family's experiences there.

  5. Claire Uricchio collection

    Photograph, of corpses, location not identified.

  6. Ralph Walsh letter regarding Bergen-Belsen

    Consists of a photocopy of a letter, 9 pages, written by Ralph Walsh to Winnie, Fred, and Donald Walsh, dated June 28, 1945. In the letter, Mr. Walsh describes what he witnessed on a tour of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which had been liberated several weeks before his visit.

  7. Collection relating to antisemitism and other Holocaust subjects

    Contains a bound photo album from the SS-Border Police school at Pretzsch (Elbe), located southeast of Wittenberg, depicting activities and facilities at the school; enclosed typed note, from Col. Julian Raymond (CIC) states that it was presented to Himmler with a dedication in December 1939. Also includes item is a book (paperback), "Völker, Völkergruppen, und Volksstämme auf dem ehemaligen Gebiet der UdSSR," compiled by the Reichsführer SS, Rasseamt und Institut für Grenz- und Auslandsstudien," 1942; collectible stamps from Third Reich; identification passes for refugees (former camp inma...

  8. Holocaust in Croatia Stradanja Zidova u Hrvatskoj Holocaust

    Contains files and name lists of Yugoslavian Jews persecuted and murdered during World War II. The dossier on each victim includes details of each person’s life and place of death.

  9. Lori Butler-Scheiwe memoir

    Testimony, seven pages, typescript, in form of letter to Walter Reich of USHMM asking that her family be included in museum's registry of victims and survivors. Provides detailed listing of experiences of various family members in Moldova during Holocaust.

  10. Selected records from the State Archives of L’viv Oblast

    Contains files relating to the activities of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle in Galicia; the Ukrainian police in L’viv city and region; the Kreishauptmann Lemberg-Land; Feldgendarmarie in Rawa Ruska; Feldkommandantur 603 Lemberg; Gouverneur Distrikt Galizien; Polizeidirektion Lemberg; Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD Lemberg; SS- und Polizeiführer Lemberg; Kreishauptmann Stryj; Stadtverwaltung und Krieshauptmann Drohobycz; and other police, judicial, and administrative units of the occupying forces and their local collaborators.

  11. Salomon Schmidt diary

    Consists of copies of an original diary written by Salomon Schmidt, who survived the war in hiding in Markuszowa, Poland. Mr. Schmidt was a member of the Judenrat in Frysztak, Poland. Includes English language translations of portions of the original diary, which is deposited at Yad Vashem.

  12. Hermine and Horst Schmidt collection

    Testimony, 5 pages, typescript, in German, of experiences of Hermine Schmidt (Koschmieder), a Jehovah's Witness originally of Danzig, imprisoned at Stutthof, who at end of war was able to escape to Denmark by boat. Photocopy of same text in Danish as it appeared in a publication in 1945, and other copied materials including photographs.

  13. Jan and Irena Otrebski collection

    Contains a memoir, Mauthausen concentration camp publication, and video tape of oral history relating to fate of Jehovah's witnesses.

  14. Photographs

    Contains information about the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust who were mainly former citizens of Latvia and Lithuania.

  15. Jack Marchick papers

    The Jack Marchick collection comprises letters and photographs collected by Jack during and after his deployment with the United States Army in Europe. The letters are written between 1945 and 1948 by Raymond Weinstein, a former prisoner of the camp Jack Marchick liberated, and discuss the economic and political situation in post-war France. Raymond writes of his struggles to obtain and keep work; his family; his health; and his progress in gaining back his weight after years of malnutrition. Among the 26 photographs are images of a concentration camp, likely Buchenwald, immediately after l...

  16. Donald J. De Lotell papers

    Correspondence (2 V-mail letters from Donald de Lotell to his wife, describing impressions of liberated camp in April 1945), and clippings from 1980s and 1990s describing de Lotell's wartime experiences.

  17. Henry W. Propp collection

    Contains two translations of Michal David Shapobersky's foreword to a book by his brother, Mordechai Slapobersky. The 1994 translation is entitled "Mordechai's Collected Writings" and the1997 translation is entitled "Mordechai's Shroud." Also included is an essay entitled "The Propp Ancestral Shtetl in Lithuania," the author of which is not given.

  18. Abram Kapica collection

    Testimony, 8 pages, photocopy of typescript titled "Young Boy Speaks with Death: The Story of Abraham Kapitza…" Describes German invasion of his unnamed hometown in Poland.

  19. Rev. Stanley Dabrowski papers

    The Reverend Stanley Dabrowski collection contains documents concerning Reverend Stanley Dabrowski, a Polish Catholic priest who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1939 and detained at Dachau until he was liberated in 1945. This collection consists of original documents concerning Reverend Dabrowski’s life and biographical background from pre and post-war Europe and materials he collected regarding the Holocaust and Dachau once he arrived in the United States. Among his original documents is a Polish passport, identification cards, his ship passage ticket to the United States, and correspondenc...

  20. Moses and Miriyam Goldshmidt collection

    Testimony, circa 60 pages, typescript, titled "From the Abyss to Freedom: The Story of a Survivor of the Death Camps, 1939-1945," by Moshe Goldschmidt, composed in Hebrew. Describes pre-war life in Bialystok, invasion and occupation by Soviets, then Germans; life in Bialystok ghetto, then a succession of camps (Belzec, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Gusen). Accompanying account of Miriam Goldschmidt (95 pages, handwritten, in notebook) is also in Hebrew. Miriam describes family's life in eastern Slovakia, then Hungary, followed by German occupation, deportation to camps including Stutthof. Also a c...