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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. "Ein Amerikaner" : Harry L. Ettlinger memoir

    Contains one memoir, 127 pages, entitled "Ein Amerikaner: Anecdotes from the Life of Harry Ettlinger," written by Harry L. Ettlinger, originally of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2002. In his memoir, Mr. Ettlinger describes his childhood in Germany, his family's immigration to the United States in 1938, his experiences as a soldier in World War II, and his post-war life. Includes copies of family photographs.

  2. "Ein neuer Fluchtversuch"

    "Ein neuer Fluchtversuch" is a 25 pages memoir about Max Sternbach's incarceration in Bordeaux, and transport to Bruxelles and Paris.

  3. "Eleven Days in the Concentration-Camp Buchenwald"

    Contains a five page typescript text titled "Eleven Days in the Concentration-Camp Buchenwald" by Rabbi Dr. G. Wilde. The text recounts Wilde's arrest at his home in Magdeburg on the morning of 10 November 1938, his transfer to a cell in the local jail, and his transport to Buchenwald the following day. He describes conditions in the camp, the torture of other prisoners, the conditions surrounding his release, and attempts to prevent the shaving of his beard upon release. He concludes his account by describing how he and his wife were able to immigrate to England due to the efforst of the c...

  4. "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibition

    The 1937 exhibit of ENTARTETE KUNST at the Archeological Institute in Munich, not far from the House of German Art, with paintings of modern artwork declared by the Nazis to be "degenerate" on the gallery walls. Museum visitors in the exhibit, walking, viewing the art on display. SS officer in FG. A quote taken from George Grosz and mockingly displayed on the Dada wall: "Nehmen Sie Dada ernst! Es lohnt sich." [Take Dada seriously! It's worth it.] EXT, visitors exiting building. Large sign on the building's facade: Ausstellung: "Entartete Kunst" / Eintritt frei [Exhibition: Degenerate Art / ...

  5. "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibition; BDM; farming; Reichsarbeitsdienst

    INT "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibit, "Nehmen Sie Dada ernst" in Munich. 00:20:47 BDM girls place flag in ground, write letters. Landscape with ploughed fields, oxen and cart, between Nuremberg and Leipzig. Road between Nuremberg and Dresden with BDM girls, marching and singing with banner. CUs faces, braids, white blouses. While resting at roadside, two girls perform a singing act, flirtatious, very animated. Others seated, write in diaries, then march on. Ages range from 8 to 12, most in braids or bobbed hair. BDM girls eating, with group leader, CU BDM flag, reading magazine, r...

  6. "Entartete Kunst" [Degenerate Art] exhibit in Paris with commentary

    Sign advertising "Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme" in Paris. Interior of exhibit featuring a naked female mannequin in a museum display. Shrill, harsh music over scenes of the exhibit and the narrator's critical comments about the exhibit on surrealist art.

  7. "Equality" Egyenlőség [Newspapers]

    A Jewish weekly newspaper issued in Budapest, Hungary, 1882-1938.

  8. "Eric Hoffman: For My Family, For My Children, For My Grandchildren"

    Consists of one typed memoir, circa 40 pages plus photographs, photocopied, and written in the spring of 1996 by Eric Hoffman, entitled "Eric Hoffman: For My Family, For My Children, For My Grandchildren." The memoir details Hoffman's life growing up in Münster, Germany; his move to Antwerp, Belgium; his voyage to Palestine in 1939; his wartime service in the British Royal Army Service Corps and his post-war life. The memoir also includes several personal photographs with, 'The Windmuller Family Chronicle,' which details the fate of 120 members of Eric's close and extended family, as well a...

  9. "Escape from Hitler's clutches"

    The diary, "Escape from Hitler's clutches," (dated 06 September 1939 - 08 May 1945), describes Theodore Diesenhouse's experiences in Nazi-occupied Poland.

  10. "Escape from Treblinka"

    Consists of one videocassette, approximately 10 minutes, entitled "Escape from Treblinka." The video relates the Holocaust experiences of Edward Weinstein, originally of Losice, Poland. Mr. Weinstein was deported to Treblinka in August 1942 and escaped on September 9, 1942. He spent the remainder of the war in hiding in the Polish countryside until the area was liberated in July 1944. The video uses photographs and home movies of a 1993 trip to Poland, to tell Mr. Weinstein's story.

  11. "Europa Europa" by Shlomo Perel; translated by Bryan Mark Rigg

    Contains a translation, 117 pages, of Shlomo (Solomon) Perel's book "I am Solomon Perel," or "Europa, Europa."

  12. "Euxin: A Brave Voyage to Freedom" memoir

    Memoir tells the story of Lilly Shalit (nee Roth, ex-Abramovici) who tried to escape Romania in 1942 on the sailing boat "Euxin" with her husband, sister, and brother-in-law. The journey took them six months, as they travelled through the Black Sea and the Bosphorus towards Palestine. Turkish authorities would not let them land in Izmir, and they spent two months on the ship in the Bay of Izmir before the British consulate obtained visas for them to Cyprus. Although they wished to go to Palestine, they accepted the visas and spent Sep. 1942-April 1944 in Cyprus, until they were allowed to l...

  13. "Events in the ghetto: a memoir"

    This handwritten and transcribed oral testimony completed in 1947 at the Warsaw Archive contains information on the Zalkind Family; Germany's invasion of Vilna in 1941; killing of the grandmother, father and uncle of Aron Einat [donor]; life in Vilna Ghetto and concentration camp with donor's mother and brother; liquidation of the camp; hiding during a children's action; being sent to Łódź where donor survived the Holocaust, etc.

  14. "Family Reunion"

    Consists of a copy of "Family reunion," written by Joseph H. Wachtel. The testimony describes a reunion of several members of the Josef Wachtel family at the Transnistria concentration camp in the Mogilev Podolski area of Ukraine. Other topics discussed are resistance, disease in the Transnistria camp, and mass burials.

  15. "Family Saga" memoir

    Memoir, 150 pages, "Family Saga" detailing the life of Joseph Ripp, from his birth in Bochum, Germany, childhood in Nazi Germany, escape to the United States, experiences in the United States Army, and adult life through 2000.

  16. "Fifth Infantry Division Diamond Dust" newspaper

    Consists of the May 25, 1945, issue of the United States Army's Fifth Infantry Division newspaper "Diamond Dust." The issue includes the articles "5th Unearths Another SS Brutality" and the reprint of a letter written by survivor Gerda Weisman (now Gerda Weissmann Klein).

  17. "Fifty Years After Liberation, 1945-1995, The Story of One Survivor"

    Testimony, eight pages, typescript, with copies of photographs. Titled "Fifty Years After Liberation, 1945-1995, The Story of One Survivor," by Jack Fleischer, about experiences at Bergen Belsen. Originally from town near Kielce, and discusses experiences after invasion of Poland, time at Skarzysko camp, and later camps.

  18. "Fight for thirteen"

    Contains a seven-page memoir entitled "Fight for thirteen," with information about the acts of Stefania Burzminski (born Stefania Podgorska) to hide and care for thirteen Jews in the attic of her parents' home.

  19. "Fighting for Survival" memoir

    Consists of a memoir, 218 pages, describing the Holocaust experiences of Erwin Kampelmacher from 1938-1945. The memoir describes his emigration to Holland from Vienna after the Anschluss and his experiences hiding with various Dutch families as a non-Jew and working in various occupations in wartime Holland. The memoir began as a diary, with the pages concerning 1938 written as the events occurred, but the description of the years following 1938 were written fifty years after the war.

  20. "Fighting the Nazis"

    Consists of a photocopy of testimony, 4 pages, entitled "Fighting the Nazis" by Simone Wormser Greenberg, originally of Besançon, France. In the testimony, she describes her family's escape into Vichy, France, her work as a member of the French underground, and the liberation of her town by the American Army.