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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. "Mom's story, dad remembers"

    Consists of a videocassette entitled "Mom's story, dad remembers," by Victor Friedmann. On the video, Mr. Friedmann tells the story of his parents, Otto and Lenka Friedmann, and their experiences during the Holocaust, including their successful attempts to evade the Nazis by escaping from Zagreb to Split, Yugoslavia (Lenka's hometown), then to Italy, and finally to the United States. The video also includes family photographs.

  2. "Multiply by Six Million - Portraits and Stories of Holocaust Survivors"

    Multiply by Six Million - Portraits and Stories of Holocaust Survivors, formerly entitled "Legacy: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors" was a project began by Evvy Eisen in 1992, which sought to photograph Holocaust survivors and accompany their portraits with a biography of their life during the Holocaust. The portraits are taken in black and white silver gelatin prints. While most of the portraits are 11"x14", some of the later portraits are 8"x11." The biographies are generally several pages long, and tell the stories of each individual’s story through the Holocaust. The United States Holoc...

  3. "Music of the Holocaust" web exhibition

    Songs included in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's web exhibition, "Music of the Holocaust" https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/music/. Music was heard in many ghettos, concentration camps, and partisan outposts of Nazi-controlled Europe. While popular songs dating from before the war remained attractive as escapist fare, the ghetto, camp, and partisan settings also gave rise to a repertoire of new works. These included topical songs inspired by the latest gossip and news, and songs of personal expression that often concerned the loss of family and home. Classical music—instrument...

  4. "Mutti"

    Consists of two DVD-ROMs entitled "Mutti," produced by Ralph Harpuder. "Mutti" tells the life story of Gerda Lewin Harpuder Stummer, born in Berlin, Germany in 1905, through the use of documents, family photographs, and home movies set to music. Mrs. Stummer escaped Nazi Germany through Shanghai before making her way to the United States and settling in California.

  5. "My Account: The Honest Truth"

    Consists of one memoir, 65 pages, entitled "My Account: The Honest Truth" by Magda Klein Dorman, originally of Kecskemét, Hungary. She describes persecution after the German invasion of Hungary and the memory of her father being taken for forced labor in April 1944. After a brief attempt to be assigned labor outside the city, Magda was forced to return to Kecskemét, where she was interned in the ghetto and then at the brick factory outside of town. She was deported to Auschwitz in June 1944, where her mother was killed upon arrival. She describes life in Auschwitz, being quarantined with sc...

  6. "My camp diary"

    An English translation of Rosa Mayer-Murr's German language diary, "Meine Campzeit, 1940-1944," 29 pages. Author describes her experiences in Gurs and other concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  7. "My Encounter with Eichmann"

    Consists of a memoir,16 pages, entitled "My Encounter with Eichmann" by Stephen Shields, a member of the 71st Infantry Division of the United States Army. In the memoir, Mr. Shields describes his memory of a conversation he had with a German prisoner of war, whom he believes to have been Adolf Eichmann, and his memories of the liberation of the Gunskirchen concentration camp. The memoir also contains information about Eichmann's role in Budapest and the heroism of Raoul Wallenberg.

  8. "My Escape and Survival during the Nazi Occupation of Yugoslavia"

    Consists of memoir, 48 pages, entitled "My Escape and Survival during the Nazi Occupation of Yugoslavia," by Henrietta Mayer-Juhn. In the memoir, she describes her experiences during the years 1939-1942 regarding her family's escape from Yugoslavia, including her memories of her husband's arrest, deportation and of learning of his death in the Jasenovac concentration camp in 1942. She and her daughter, Brankica, went into hiding, escaping the deportations through which she lost the rest of her family.

  9. "My escape Into prison and other memories of a stolen youth, 1939 -1948"

    Contains a memoir entitled "My escape Into prison and other memories of a stolen youth, 1939 -1948" relating to experiences in Poland as a Jewish partisan and in the USSR as a political prisoner, also includes an article relating to the persecution of Jews in Slovakia.

  10. "My European Childhood"

    Consists of one memoir, 92 pages, entitled "My European Childhood," by Adam Zygmunt Szumer, originally of Nieglowice, Poland. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in Nieglowice and Jaslo, where his parents worked for a small oil refinery. At the time of the German invasion of Poland, the family temporarily relocated to Stanislawow in eastern Poland, before moving to Drohobycz in late 1939. In 1942, Adam acquired Aryan papers and temporarily went into hiding with two Polish Catholic sisters, but was returned to his parents after a traveling mishap. He describes the Drohobycz ghetto and ...

  11. "My Experiences as a Prisoner of War, December 1944 to June 1945"

    Consists of one copy of a typed manuscript, 33 pages, entitled "My Experiences as a Prisoner of War December 1944 to June 1945" by C. Robert Hartt, written in 1945. In the memoir, Mr. Hartt describes being wounded and captured at the Battle of the Bulge and being sent on a long march, arriving at Stalag IV-B on January 7, 1945. He describes life in the camp, being taken on a work detail in Zittau, and the importance of Red Cross packages. In May 1945, the soldiers were sent on a march to American lines, but were fired upon and separated; Hartt found a Czech town where he was cared for and w...

  12. "My experiences in concentration camps"

    Describes Stanley Kania’s (Okocim, Poland, 07 May 1920 - ) arrest for anti-Nazi activities and interrogation by the Gestapo; his transport to and experiences in various Nazi concentration camps including Auschwitz, Gusen, Wiener Neudorf, and Mauthausen; and his liberation.

  13. "My Father Henry's Route to America: Trenches, Harlem Hell Fighters, POW, AWOL, Stowaway and Illegal Immigrant"

    "My Father Henry's Route to America: Trenches, Harlem Hell Fighters, POW, AWOL, Stowaway and Illegal Immigrant" by Dr. Rudolph (Rudy Keimowitz) is a 19 page manuscript. The manuscript includes information about Henry Keimowitz's childhood in Hungary, time in the Hungarian Army during World War I, capture and imprisonment by the Harlem Hellfighters during the Battle of Verdun, experience as a POW in France, and his illegal immigration to the United States as a stowaway around 1922. He married and started a family in the United States, and, during World War II, was investigated as an enemy al...

  14. "My Grandma, Frau Masha"

    Consists of one DVD containing an interview by Yonatan Weinstein with his grandmother, Frau Masha (Masha Porozowski Klementinowski Weinstein) regarding her Holocaust experiences.

  15. "My Heroine Aunt"

    Includes a two-page biography of Margarete Elkan describing her acts of heroism during the Holocaust. The essay, "My heroine aunt," describes the work of Margarete Elkan as well as the stories of Bertha Bennigsohn and Elise Katz. Both the brief biography and the essay describe the experiences of German Jews before and after the Holocaust.

  16. "My Holocaust Memoirs"

    Consists of one memoir, 16 pages, entitled "My Holocaust Memoirs," by Nathan Ben-Brith (Bundheim), originally of Hamburg, Germany (born Leonhard Nathan Bundheim). He describes his experiences under the pre-war Nazi regime, his family's escape to Belgium after Kristallnacht, his arrest and imprisonment in St. Cyprien and Gurs, his release from Gurs in 1941, his deportation to Drancy in 1942 and experiences in the Ottmuth labor camp, and in the Blechhammer, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald concentration camps. Shortly before the liberation of Buchenwald, he was forced to accompany fleeing SS perso...

  17. "My Impressions of Belsen Concentration Camp"

    Consists of document, seven pages, entitled "My Impressions of Belsen Concentration Camp," by Robert M. Rutan. Mr. Rutan visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on May 2, 1945, shortly after liberation of the camp, while traveling toward the Baltic Sea with the 7th Armored Division. He describes the experience of a visitor to the camp and what he witnessed there.

  18. "My Life Before and After Jan. 30, 1933"

    The collection includes two copies, one in German and one in English, of a memoir by Leo Waldbott titled "My Life Before and After January 30, 1933," in which Leo describes his own life and life in Speyer, Germany. Leo provides a brief history, with examples, of antisemitism in the region and describes the community's efforts to establish a Jewish home for the elderly, which burned down due to arson during Kristallnacht on November 10, 1938. He also describes his struggles with and eventual immigration to the United States in 1939.

  19. "My life before, during and after the Holocaust"

    Consists of a typewritten memoir, two pages, of Solomon Wieder, originally of Dolha, Hungary, describing his survival of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps; his post-liberation medical treatment in Sweden; and his life in the United States to which he immigrated in 1947; and photocopies of three newspaper clippings about the donor.

  20. "My Life in Germany, before and after January 30th, 1933"

    Consists of one typed memoir, 75 pages, entitled "My Life in Germany, before and after January 30th, 1933", by Erna Prehn Albersheim, who was born in the United States and lived in Frankfurt, Germany until January 27, 1939. The memoir, which is dated March 13, 1940, describes life in Germany during and after World War I, post-war inflation, Hitler's rise to power, the April 1933 boycott, the rise of antisemitism and anti-Jewish legislation and how these affected her life and late husband's business. She and her daughter managed to immigrate to the United States in early 1939.