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Language of Description: English

  1. Geza Kornis memoir

    The 11-page memoir relates Geza Kornis' experiences in the Romanian work camp "Wapniarka," and in the ghetto in Olgopol, Ukraine. Mr. Kornis was a communist and includes information about the power of the (communist) inmate leadership within the camp and describes a hunger strike undertaken by the inmates.

  2. "From Darkness to Light" memoir

    Memoir, 13 pages, relates the experiences of Barbara (Borka) Klima nee Rozsa, who hid from the Nazis in Slovakia, in many different houses and situations, while also trying to protect her young daughter Eva, who was hidden in a Christian orphanage. The memoir also details their immediate post-war experiences and emigration to the United States in 1949.

  3. "When God Looked Down and Wept" Alex Sharf oral testimony

  4. Selected records of the Slovak Armed Forces during World War II

    Contains selected documents relating to labor projects for Jews and Romanies; correspondence and press clippings relating to Alexander Mach, Jozef Tiso, Tuka, the Slovak National Uprising, war crimes trials, and cooperation between the Slovak and German armies; announcements, government ordinances regarding Jews and Romanies including files on Jewish property, partisans, anti-partisan activities, and various Jewish labor camps (Liptovský Svätý Peter, Novǎky, and Topol̕čany).

  5. Staged (comic) sequence in a central Polish village

    Man in a furry bear costume, feigning an attack on a young peasant girl walking along the road, repeated from earlier in this reel.

  6. Selected records related to forced labor camps in Slovakia during World War II

    Contains lists of names of internees in Slovak forced labor camps during World War II, approximately 3000 names, mainly of Jewish doctors, medical staff, and other Jewish intelligentsia from the Trnava region in Slovakia.

  7. William Bank collection

    Consists of one small laminated copy of the US Army discharge papers of William Bank, liberation photographs described as Dachau and Buchenwald, and miscellaneous photographs taken by United States Army soldiers crossing Germany in the spring of 1945.

  8. Rachel Fradkin Holocaust testimony

    Consists of testimony regarding the Holocaust experiences of Rachel Fradkin. The testimony is used in an undergraduate paper for JST 373 at SUNY Albany entitled "The Jews in France During World War II," by Arlene Fradkin.

  9. "My Survival" memoir

    Memoir, 7 pages, relates the story of Traute Hirschmann, born in Breslau, Germany, in 1927. She was sent to various labor camps from 1942-1945 and survived along with both her parents, though they were separated during the war years. She emigrated to the United States in 1948.

  10. "Janina's Story" memoir

    An autobiographical memoir by Janina Spinner Mehlberg, edited by Dr. Arthur Layton Funk; the memoir includes photocopies of photographs of Janina Mehlberg and her husband Henry. The testimony describes the experiences of Mehlberg and her husband as refugees in hiding in Lublin, Poland, during the Holocaust and their involvement with an underground movement to assist the prisoners of Majdanek.

  11. Paul Sauber memoir

    Manuscript relates to the Holocaust experiences of Paul Sauber. Mr. Sauber was born in Cluj, Transylvania (Romania), and survived Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Dachau. The memoir (15 p.) is interspersed with Mr. Sauber's handwritten comments and newspaper clippings related to the Holocaust and centers on his anger toward Germans.

  12. The Strength to Die

    Memoir (133 p.), written by Fayvel Zygelboim, describes the Holocaust experiences of Samuel Artur Zygelboim. The memoir includes a table of contents in English.

  13. Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp photograph

    One photograph of a large group of newly liberated Jews at the Landsberg displaced persons camp taken in June 1945.

  14. Solomon Goldman collection

    Consists of post-war photographs showing Jewish DPs celebrating the declaration of the state of Israel, a photograph of Solomon Goldman [donor] speaking to a group of men, Innsbruck university certificates for Szlama Goldman, IRO immunization records for Schlama and Sonia Goldman, and a letter of recommendation for Slama Goldman from the Innsbruck American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. The collection also contained Solomon Goldman's doctoral dissertation, "Education Among Jewish Displaced Persons; The Sheerit Hapletah in Germany, 1945-1950", which was transferred to the USHMM Library...

  15. Harry Reis collection

    Consists of correspondence from Hans Reis' parents, who were prisoners in the Gurs concentration camp in France from 1940-1942 to their son and to various other family members. Mr. Reis was part of a Kindertransport to England in 1939, but his parents, who remained in Konigshofen, were deported to Gurs in 1940 and then on to Auschwitz in 1942, where they perished.

  16. Richard Scott Washington photograph collection

    The collection consists of 18 photographs taken or obtained by Richard Scott Washington, formerly Corporal, C Company, 42nd Tank Battalion, 11th Armored Division. The images were taken during World War II and depict Buchenwald concentration camp post-liberation as well as other sites of slave labor and refugees formerly under Nazi occupation.

  17. Izac Holcman papers

    The Izac Holcman papers document Izac Holcman’s military career and biographical background. Documents pertaining to his military career include his Armed Forces passport and a translation of the contents within. These materials described Izac’s various assignments, posts, and ranks within the military. Also included are two testimonies, one in lieu of oath because he could not obtain a birth certificate from Warsaw and the other a statement regarding the disappearance of his wife and son. Also included is Izac’s declaration of the intent to obtain American citizenship and a handwritten tim...

  18. Andrzej Szelubski photograph collection

    Consists of eight group portraits photographs depicting Polish prisoners of war, Jewish and non-Jewish, imprisoned in Stalag IV A in Elsterhorst, Germany, which were taken between 1940-1941.

  19. Hana Kovanic photographs

    The 67 photographs depict the Kohn family, the maternal relatives of Hanna Kovanic, who were from Velká nad Velickou in Moravia, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). Most of the relatives depicted in the photographs perished in Auschwitz in 1943 and 1944.

  20. Tova Goldszer photograph collection

    The collection primarily documents the pre-war lives of the Goldszer, Josefzohn, and Sztajner families. The photographs include depictions of Jadzia Josefzohn and Adek Brodza on their wedding day in Warsaw, Poland on 20 February 1938; David Sztajner; Tova's maternal grandmother; Feiga and Yakov Tzvi Goldszer; and Tova Goldszer at an internment camp in Cyprus in 1947.