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  1. My struggle for survival 1940/45

    Oscar Lichtenstern's journal explains his experiences after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Although it describes his stay in the transit camp of Westerbork, most of the entries relate to his internment in Terezin (a.k.a. Theresienstadt) and the hardships he experienced there.

  2. Victor Adler Some notes about my life, with Adler-Stöessler family genealogy and history

    "Some notes about my life" describes the experiences of Victor Adler and members of his family after the German occupation of the Sudetenland; in particular, it relates how Adler escaped Czechoslovakia; fled to Hungary and then to Palestine; enlisted in the Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade under British command; fought in the European theater during World War II; and emigrated to and rebuilt his life in the United States; Adler's parents were sent to Terezin and subsequently transported to and killed at Auschwitz; and how Adler's brother and cousins escaped Czechoslovakia and served in the All...

  3. Confirmation of Masya Ayzikovich's war-time experiences by Polya Leibovna Skazinetskaya and Enya Elevna Nashpits

    The Russian document and its English translation provide official confirmation of the internment of Masya Ayzikovich and her mother in a German concentration camp and their escape from that camp.

  4. Charlotte's memoirs, Oct. 8, 1991 Berlin, Rīga, Stutthof

    Consists of a memoir entitled "Charlotte's Memoirs," written by Charlotte Arpadi Baum in 1991. In the memoir, Charlotte describes her experiences as a child and as an adolescent in Berlin, Germany, as an inhabitant of the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia, in the concentration camps of Rīga-Kaiserwald and Stutthof, on a death march, of liberation in Poland, and her emigration to the United States.

  5. Bäecher family Remembrances

    This memoir, written by cousins Paul Bäecher and Ivan Backer, consists primarily of transcribed oral histories, describes his life and the lives of other family members from Czechoslovakia, of which some fled and immigrated to the United States, while others were caught, interned in Terezin (a.k.a. Theresienstadt), and suffered on Nazi death marches. The memoir also contains genealogical charts relating to the Bäecher family.

  6. Frieden, Wenn sich die zwei letzten Menschen gegenseitig erschlagen haben

    Wolfgang Furrer's memoir describes his experiences as a political prisoner in Dachau and Sachsenhausen. Additionally, the text includes a photocopy of an UNRRA document verifying Furrer's status as a former inmate of concentration camps and a 1953 affidavit by Gottlob Wandel relating the reason for Furrer's arrest.

  7. Stalin, Hitler, and Abraham Briansky

    Abraham Briansky's memoir describes how he: was deported from the Soviet Union because of a letter that he wrote and sent to Joseph Stalin; spent two years in Palestine; emigrated to France; fought in the French army during the German invasion; fled to southern France following the French capitulation; was captured by German soldiers after he tried to recover some property in Vichy France; and escaped and emigrated to the United States via Portugal. The photocopied letters relate to Briansky's attempts to get his memoir published.

  8. Ich gedenke Albert Cohen, Hedwig Cohen

    Günter Schmitz's memorialization and Lore E. Cohn's translation describing the Holocaust-related experiences and deaths of Cohn's parents, Albert and Hedwig Cohen.

  9. And where was god?

    The manuscript describes Alfred Dube's experiences in Prague, the Łódź ghetto, as a prisoner of both Buchenwald and a subcamp of Dora-Mittelbau (Nordhausen), and his liberation in Bergen-Belsen.

  10. Return to life

    De Unikel's memoir "Return to Life," written in 1985, describes her life in Szecseny before the Nazi occupation of Hungary, her experiences in Auschwitz and in a camp in Kraków, Poland, and her liberation.

  11. "The Shadow of My Youth"

    The English translation, from the Yiddish, of Pessia Zislin-Antikol-Galwen's memoir, describes her life in Krāslava, Latvia, before the German occupation, her family's internment in the ghetto in Daugavpils, Latvia, Aktionen that occurred in the ghetto, how she met her first husband, their life together, her pregnancy, and her eventual liberation. Pessia later imigrated to Israel in 1958.

  12. The beginning of the end

    The work entitled, "The beginning of the end," contains three memoirs written by Lilly Gassner and Chaviva Guttmann: "The beginning of the end"; "The great forgivness: life's martyr"; and "The twins." The brief memoirs appear to be written by twin sisters who survived Auschwitz-Birkenau and relate their experiences in Birkenau with Dr. Josef Mengele.

  13. Bertl a story of a unique Holocaust survival

    Describes the experiences of Bertha Geminder Brotfeld (Bertl Glotzer Geminder Brotfeld, b. 1912) and her two children, George and Robert Geminder, before the Nazi occupation of Poland; during an Aktion at a cemetery; their stay in the ghetto in Stanislawów, Poland (now Ivano-Frankivsḱ, Ukraine); their experiences during the Warsaw Uprising; their eventual liberation; and their travel to the American Zone in Germany. Bertha later immigrated to the United States.

  14. Memoirs (1940-1980)

    Written in 1980, the text describes how Maria Epstein lived in Lʹviv, Poland (now Ukraine), during the Soviet occupation; was an inhabitant with her husband in the ghetto in Minsk, Belarus; gave birth to and cared for an infant daughter; was liberated from the Germans; escaped from the Soviet Union and fled to Poland; and emigrated with her family to Canada in 1968.

  15. From the Lida ghetto to the Bielski partisans

    Written in 1984, the text describes Liza Ettinger's life in Lida, Poland (now Belarus), before the outbreak of World War II; the Soviet occupation of Poland; the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union; the death of her husband at Paneriai (Ponary), Lithuania; her internment in the ghettos in Vilnius and Lida, Lithuania; surviving a "selektion;" joining the partisans; and the end of the war.

  16. Escape from Yugoslavia

    Silvio Finci describes his family's experiences in Yugoslavia, specifically, the family's running away from a small village near Sarajevo to the city of Mostar; how they survived during the Nazi occupation; their escape to Italy; and how they immigrated to Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York and rebuilt their lives in the United States after 1941.

  17. Jadwiga Rokwish letter relating to the Jews of Klimontów, Poland

    Contains a letter in Polish and an English translation of the letter. The letter describe the fates and treatment of Paulette Buchbinder's mother-in-law and the Jews of Klimontów during the German occupation of Poland.

  18. In through the gate out through the chimney

    An eyewitness account by Abner Zehm and William Birch of the U.S. Army Medical Corps describing post-liberation Buchenwald. Contains information about medical experiments on prisoners; starvation; and crematoria.

  19. Cause and effect

    The work is both a history of Kenneth Colvin's (b. 1924) family in the United States before and after the Holocaust and a war-time memoir, much of which describes his experiences as a U.S. soldier and his participation in the liberation of Ebensee and his postwar life.

  20. Vyacheslav Tamarkin papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Vi︠a︡cheslav Lvovitch Tamarkin, originally from the Soviet Union, and includes a Russian certificate, dated 14 September 1993, attesting to the fact that Tamarkin was an inmate of Nazi concentration camps; his memoir, "In the Burrow," describing his experiences in Lyadi ghetto and an unnamed concentration camp, the killing of Jews, his escape from the camp, and his activities in the partisans from March 1943 and June 1944; a map detailing the locations of the partisan group with whom Tamarkin was affiliated; poems that he wrote about his partisan ...