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Language of Description: English

  1. "I remember Germany..."

    Describes Armin Kern's (b. 1923) childhood in Böchingen and Landau in der Pfalz, Germany; the Nazi seizure of power in Germany and the growth of antisemitism; Kristallnacht and the arrest of Kern's father and his internment in Dachau; Kern and his parents' immigration to the United States in 1939; and the Holocaust-related fates of members of the Kern's family.

  2. Memories

    Transcript of speech delivered in April 1991 at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. In the speech, Richard T. Lockhart describes his experiences as an American prisoner-of-war at Stalag IXB, Bad Orb, Germany in 1944, and the fate of the camp's American Jewish prisoners of war who were separated from the American Gentile prisoners of war.

  3. Robert Lieberman letter

    The letter, written on May 19, 1945, describes Robert Lieberman's encounter with a newly-liberated inmate of Buchenwald. Robert was a Jewish soldier serving with the United States Army with the 104th Infantry Division.

  4. Two lbs. of sugar

    Historical fiction narrative describing the experiences of William Eisen (Wolf Ajzowicz) including the public humiliation of Polish Jews by Germans; death of family members; his internment in a ghetto and many concentration camps including Skarżysko-Kamienna, Rakow, the Miechow ghetto, Krakow-Płaszów, and Buchenwald; a death march; his reunion with his sister and a cousin; the displaced persons camps of Judenburg, Austria, and Landsberg am Lech, Germany; and his immigration to the United States. Note: this work of fiction contains some inaccuracies (i.e. gas chambers are said to have been ...

  5. The family of Ferdinand Sternfels (Stanfield) (1825-1897)

    Sternfels (a.k.a. Stanfield) Family history describes how some members of the family emigrated from Germany to the United States and relates the experiences of some family members during the Holocaust.

  6. Memories of Anna Tempelsman

    Describes Anna Lichtmann’s (née Tempelsman, b. 1921) childhood in Zólkiew, Poland (Z︠H︡ovkva, Ukraine); separation from her family and her experiences in Soviet-occupied Poland; her father's and brother's escape to Argentina; a reunion with her mother; hiding from Aktionen; her deportation to Germany to work for a German couple; death of family members; and her liberation and immigration to Argentina in 1946.

  7. Testimony World War II, 1941-1945

    Describes Marcel Lubash’s (b. 1922 in Rzeszow, Poland) experiences in the Lwów ghetto and Janowska concentration camp; death of his parents; activities he undertook for the Polish Underground Army; internment in Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen, and Sachsenhausen; a death march; his liberation and immigration to Israel in 1949; and his testimony at a trial in Chicago of an SS guard, named Kulle, at Gross-Rosen.

  8. We kept our heads personal memories of being Jewish in Nazi Germany and making a new home in England

    Describes the Dodo Liebmann’s (b. 1906 in Berlin, Germany) life in Germany; her membership in the Communist Party and role in smuggling and disseminating underground literature; her and her husband's immigration to England in 1937; her classification as a war-time alien and internment on the Isle of Man; World War II's end and the Dodo's naturalization as a British citizen; her work in physics; and her compensation from Germany.

  9. From Bialystok to Brooklyn

    Describes Sara Lew's childhood in Poland; her internment in the ghetto in Bialystok, Poland, and many concentration camps including Majdanek, Blizyn, Auschwitz, and Krakow (Kratzau); the death of family members; and her post-Holocaust experiences as a displaced person in Europe and after her immigration to the United States in 1950. It also includes poems and vignettes in English and Hebrew about Auschwitz, her parents and their values, liberation, and people Sara knew.

  10. Under the Nazi regime, 1933-1938

    Describes author's observations of the first five years of Nazi rule and its effect on German Jews: the Nazi anti-Jewish boycott; author's distribution of anti-Nazi handbills; the Nazi concept of Rassenschande and the Nuremberg Laws; the exclusion of Jews from the professions; the silence of Christian churches; antisemitism during the 1936 Berlin Olympics; author's emigration to Italy; Kristallnacht; and the death of members of the author's family.

  11. Personal Recollections of the Holocaust as Told to George Cohen

    Memoir by an unknown Holocaust survivor from Tarnów, Poland, describes: the establishment of the Tarnów Ghetto; Aktionen/executions of Tarnów's Jews; death of the unknown survivor's family; and his deportation to Płaszów.

  12. My life story hiding in Budapest as Christian

    Describes Magda Lipner's childhood in Czechoslovakia; the confiscation of her father's business; her use of a false identification document; her escape to Budapest, Hungary, and her work in a munitions factory; the death of family members; and her liberation from forced labor, reunion with a sister, and immigration to Chile and then to the United States in 1959.

  13. SS personnel records from Auschwitz concentration camp

    Contains personnel files of SS personnel assigned to Auschwitz concentration camp from 1941 to 1944; Sturmbann-, Standort-, and Kommandantur-Befehle (orders) issued at Auschwitz from 1941 to 1944; and a Zugangsliste for Jews entering Auschwitz from 12 March 1942 to 30 November 1943, Personnel files contain biographical and military service information for SS personnel. The Zugangsliste contains date of birth, place of origin, and occupation information for the persons listed.

  14. Records of the Landgericht Posen (Sygn.75)

    Contains instructions, guidelines, and special rules to be enforced in Warthegau; indictments drawn up by the prosecutor's Sondergericht in Posen; verdicts issued by the Sondergericht in Posen; indictments issued by the Sondergericht Posen; an alphabetical index of accused persons from the Songdergericht Posen for 1941 through 1942 and 1943 through 1944; and miscellaneous cases concerning protective custody and dissolution of marriage, In all cases in this collection, Germans or Volksdeutsche accuse Poles of crimes against them. In some cases defendants are accused of not wanting to give up...

  15. Fanny Frank death and burial certificates

    Contains photocopies of Fanny Frank's death certificate which describes the particulars of her death in Ravensbrück. The burial certificate contains the date of and location of Frank's internment.

  16. Hedy Epstein papers

    Contains photocopies of correspondence (letters, postcards, telegrams, Red Cross messages, and envelopes) - exchanges between Hedy Epstein (Hedwig Wachenheimer), her parents, Hugo and Ella Wachenheimer, and other members of their family from 1939 to 1942 containing information on the well-being of family members in Les Milles, Gurs, and Rivesaltes concentration camps in France; various documents collected by Hedy Epstein during her employment with the Office of Chief of Counsel during the International Military Tribunal and subsequent trials in Nuremberg, Germany; and two letters from Minis...

  17. Henry Holland collection

    Contains United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) child welfare reports, 1946 Jan.-1946 June, relating to psychological evaluations of children and youths at Föhrenwald displaced persons camp. Also includes a 1988 memoir by Henry Holland entitled "Second Chance." The memoir contains information about Holland's childhood in Kusnica (Kushnitsa, Ukraine) and Bergszasz in Hungary; his experience in a Hungarian labor battalion during World War II; his escape from the labor battalion and return to Hungary after the war; his witness to Jewish ghettos while working in Hungar...

  18. Napló közel 50 év utan Diary nearly 50 years later

    Contains a memoir in Hungarian, with an English translation, in two parts. Part I is entitled "Napló közel 50 év utan" ("Diary nearly 50 years later") and Part II is entitled "Megmenekülés" ("Narrow escape"). Describes the author's experiences as a teenager in an unnamed Hungarian town following the German invasion in 1944; her deportation to "Lager C" of Auschwitz concentration camp; her memories of selections by Josef Mengele and brutal actions by Irma Grese; her unsuccessful efforts to find her sisters in "Lager B;" her transfer to an ammunition factory in Guben, Germany (now Poland...

  19. Charles Rosenbloom Dachau collection

    Contains photocopies of camp prisoners' newsletters, proceedings and minutes of meetings, communiques, memoranda, correspondence, reports, and a scrapbook relating to Charles Rosenbloom's work with United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Team 115 at Dachau concentration camp shortly after World War II and his involvement with the International Prisoners' Committee in Dachau.

  20. Jews fight for Israel; UN; dancing; raising flag

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 21, No. 144, Part 1. Release date, 05/18/1948. According to UN Motion Picture Release: "Jews Defend New Zion State." In Palestine, first pictures of the battle for Haifa, which the Jews won after 2-day siege, highlight the dramatic turn of events in the Holy Land. Jews fight Arab attackers closing in on five sides. Arab refugees, CUs; corpses. Flag of new Jewish state. In Lake Success, U.S. recognition of Israel is announced to United Nations delegates, still dead-locked over plans for truce. In Washington, boy unfurls flag of new Jewish state. Israeli dancing. Unre...