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Displaying items 18,021 to 18,040 of 33,375
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Language of Description: English

  1. Papers of Harry S. Rowe

    Testimony, news clippings, text of speech, photocopied documents. Relate to Harry Rowe, and a speech he gave at the newly reopened Neue Synagogue in Berlin in 1995, a news account of his visit, the text of a speech he gave there at his bar mitzvah in 1937, and his testimony of his wartime experiences, as well as photos of him and his wife visiting the synagogue in 1995.

  2. Memoir

    Testimony, 10 pages with 7 page supplement, photocopy of handwritten account, in Russian, titled "Vospominaniya" ("Memoir"). Brief English translation is also included. Originally from Kharkiv, describes enrollment in Red Army, being stationed near Lithuania and German attack in June 1941, time as POW and imprisonment at Neuengamme.

  3. Memoir relating to family's experiences during the Holocaust

    Testimony, 4 page, handwritten. Brief description of family history, childhood in Breslau, attempts to emigrate, eventually did so to China.

  4. Memoir relating to experiences in hiding in the Netherlands

    Testimony, 10 pages, typescript, in form of interview questions and answers, from interview conducted with Theresia Rodrigues Pereira in Syosset, NY, 1994, about her experiences in occupied Netherlands during the war, and as a Sephardic Jew in hiding there.

  5. Memoir relating to experiences in labor camps

    Testimony, 1 page, typescript. About experiences in Transylvania (Satu Mare), time in forced labor camp in Hungary.

  6. Memoir

    Testimony, 4 pages, handwritten, in Russian, with 1 page typed English summary translation. Brief description of Shtofenmakher's experiences in village near Odessa during occupation.

  7. Memoir relating to experiences in Poland, Germany, and the United States

    Testimony, 9 pages, typescript, by Morris Kirsch, of Kalamazoo, MI, writing about his childhood and experiences in Rachova, Poland, and brief description of Łódź ghetto, Skarzysk labor camp, Buchenwald and Dachau.

  8. Hanetzotz (The Spark)

    Bound periodical from late 1945, apparently from United Zionist Movement among Jewish survivors in Germany.

  9. The papers of Ernst Kluge

    Consists of identification, immigration, and reparations paperwork belonging to Holocaust survivor Ernst Kluge, originally of Bolkenhain, Germany.

  10. Memoir relating to experiences in Poland and the USSR

    Testimony, 54 pages, typescript, titled "Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor," by Feldman. Describes childhood in Stoczek, Poland (SE of Warsaw), invasion in 1939, flight to Soviet Union (after time in Bialystok), time as laborer in Magnitogorsk, Arkhangelsk, and in Uzbekistan, post war life as DP, immigration to Israel then to U.S.

  11. "Choices in a Choiceless World"

    Testimony, four pages, typescript, titled "Choices in a Choiceless World," by Meier Stellel, of Brooklyn, NY. Description of his experiences in Budapest, return to his hometown in 1944, confinement in ghetto ("Desh"), deportation to Auschwitz, and forced labor in salt mine at Hochendorf.

  12. The papers of Harry Frank

    Testimony, consisting of photocopies of handwritten and typescript memoirs that Hellmut (Harry) Frank wrote for high school English courses in U.S. in 1946, as well as photographs, German passport, photos from U.S. Army after WWII, including destruction in what may be Frank's hometown of Krefeld.

  13. Berman and Donner papers

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, written in 1944 by a "Mr. Donner" describing his experiences at Jasenovac. Also enclosed is letter to USHMM from Berman, who met Donner and his family when he was in the U.S. Army in Taranto, Italy, and the Donners were refugees there. Includes photos of Donner family taken in Taranto by Berman, 1945.

  14. The Morris & Sonia Stern papers

    Photocopies of pre-war family photographs, and news clipping from Tucson, AZ about participation of Sterns in a Holocaust commemoration event there in 1992.

  15. Mary M. Salm and Salm family papers

    Photocopied material from Mary M. Salm papers in archive at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Also photo of Uri Salm, following immigration to Brazil.

  16. Marti Vidor Nitrini and family papers

    Testimony, in form of 4 page summary of interview with Marti Vidor Nitrini, 1995. Also contains recent (1990s) newspaper clippings about Nitrini, and family photographs. Places covered in Nitrini's testimony include Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz.

  17. Jerry Tepperman collection

    Testimony, 20 pages, typescript, written by Jerry Tepperman, of Thornhill, Ontario, Canada, in which he researches and reconstructs the experiences of his father, Leib Tepperman, who died when Jerry was 16 and never spoke about his Holocaust experiences. The elder Tepperman survived the Łódź ghetto, but the documentation compiled by his son focuses on his time at Dachau and Kaufering in 1944-1945.

  18. Michael and Mila Baran papers

    Documents (from UNRRA, IRO, HIAS, and the Joint) relating to DP experiences of Michal (Mischa) Baran, in Berlin and later at Foehrenwald DP camp, 1945-46. Relates to immunization, identification and immigration. Contains one publication from Foehrenwald, "Bamidbar," 1947.

  19. Initiative on Genocide and Human Rights program

    Photocopied planning documents from American Sociological Association task force on genocide and human rights, including notes for planning meeting in 1993, and memoranda from various participants, ranging from well-known sociologists like Earl Babbie and Charles Tilly, to representatives of USHMM.

  20. Yesa Gudzij collection

    Letter of May 1939, from Moshe Zaks in village in Lithuania, to son and family in U.S., in Yiddish. Includes envelope letter was sent in, and two photographs.