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  1. Sydney Goodman papers

    The Sydney Goodman papers include a diary, correspondence, subject files, and photographs relating to Sydney’s experiences as a Jewish American soldier who was captured as a POW during the Battle of the Bulge and sent to Stalag IX B and Berga an der Elster as a forced laborer. Sydney began his diary shortly before he was captured in 1944 and continued writing until liberation in 1945. He wrote on the back of 36 family photographs about his experiences as a POW at Stalga IXB and Berga and kept a list of those who died. Correspondence includes telegrams and letters from the War Department to ...

  2. Sydney Schwimmer collection

    Contains material documenting the Holocaust experiences of Sydney Schwimmer. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. Sydonia and Zbigniew Kelhoffer family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: armbands, badges, and a wooden box, correspondence, documents, glass and film negatives, and photographs relating to the experiences of Sydonia and Zbigniew Kelhoffer and their families before the Holocaust in Boryslaw, Poland (now Boryslav, Ukraine), and during the Holocaust in the Boryslaw ghetto and Beskiden labor camp, including years when they lived in hiding.

  4. Sydorova Iaruha village administration in Velykopysarivskyi district

    • Сидоровояружська сільська управа с. Сидорова Яруга Великописарівського району
    • Sydorovoiaruzhska silska uprava s. Sydorova Iaruha Velykopysarivskoho raionu

    Collection includes orders of the head of Velyka Pysarivka police about registration of the Jewish families (file 1, p. 65), making lists of the Jewish population (file 1, p. 129), marking Jewish IDs with the letter "Ж" or “ I ” (file 1, p. 365); announcement about introducing labor duty for the Jews in the front rear line (file 3, p. 13); list of the Jewish authors prohibited by the occupation authorities (file 3, p. 261).

  5. Sygn. 511, County Starosty in Końskie Sygn. 511, Starostwo Powiatowe Koneckie

    Situation reports of the Starosty containing information on, inter alia, the state of public safety, public assemblies, legal and illegal political organizations.

  6. Sylvain Paul Zucker. Collection

    This collection contains : a red Nazi armband with swastika as worn by members of the NSDAP ; a Nazi insignia depicting a sword on a swastika surrounded by a laurel wreath, worn by athletes of the Reich ; a Nazi insignia depicting an eagle above a swastika ; an allied military identifification card issued to Sylvain Paul Zucker, a Jewish soldier from Belgium who joined the Brigade Piron in England ; a military driver’s licence issued to Jewish allied soldier Sylvain Paul Zucker.

  7. Sylvan Katz papers about John Henry Weidner

    Contains correspondence, memoirs, and newspaper clippings about John Henry Weidner's efforts to assist and rescue Dutch Jews during World War II.

  8. Sylvia and Abram Kolski collection

    The Sylvia and Abram Kolski photographs document Sylvia and Abram Kolski and their families in Poland before and during the Holocaust and in France and the United States after World War II. Photographs depict Sylvia and Abram Kolski; Sylvia’s parents parents, brothers, and cousins; Frymet’s brother Abram Borenstein, her sister Laia Karpman, and their families; the individuals who hid with Sylvia and her father in a bunker in Krushev during the Holocaust; the Polish woman Bronislawa Witosinska who hid them; the Pogorzelski family who hid Abram Kolski following the Treblinka uprising; and two...

  9. Sylvia B. and Frances G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia B., who was born in 1928, and her sister Frances G., who was born in 1924, in Velikii? Bereznyi? in the Carpathian region of Czechoslovakia. They speak of their happy prewar life in a town with a large Jewish population; economic difficulties and anti-Jewish legislation under Hungarian occupation; the German occupation in 1944; and the round-up and deportation of Jews three weeks later. They describe conditions in the Ungva?r (Uz?h?horod) ghetto, where they spent several weeks before being sent to Auschwitz. At Auschwitz they were separated from other family me...

  10. Sylvia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia B., who was born in Lwo?w, Poland (presently L?viv, Ukraine) in 1925. She recalls moving with her family to Magerov; German occupation for two weeks; Soviet occupation; reporting for compulsory forced labor for the Soviets on June 22, 1941; German bombardment; being driven eastward by Soviet troops (she never saw her parents again), then train transport from Ternopil?; escaping from the train in Kharkiv with two friends; having to retreat with Soviets as the Germans advanced; forced labor; escaping in 1944; walking for hundreds of miles; arriving in Kiev in the...

  11. Sylvia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia B., who was born in Velykyi? Bereznyi?, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine), in 1928. Mrs. B. speaks of her early family life; her Orthodox upbringing; and the absence of prewar Czech antisemitism. She recalls the effects of the Hungarian occupation in 1939, including anti-Jewish regulations and a Jewish census in 1942; and continued Czech benevolence under Hungarian rule. She recounts the German occupation, during which she had to hide; the rumor-filled environment of Passover in 1944; the round-up of the town's Jews in a synagogue; and her deportation with her...

  12. Sylvia Bassman collection

    The collection consists of an artifact, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Sylvia Bassman before, during, and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  13. Sylvia F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia F., who was born, an only child, in Krako?w, Poland, in 1909. During the last quarter of the testimony she is joined by her husband, Jacob, who details the circumstances under which they met and notes the camps in which he was interned: Lemberg (Lv?ov,) Borislav, Krako?w (P?aszo?w,) Vielichka, Mauthausen, and Linz. [His wartime experiences are more fully recounted in Holocaust videotape testimony T-120.] Mrs. F. describes her marriage at the age of nineteen; the arrest and murder of her first husband; her life in the ghetto and her work in the commissary in Kra...

  14. Sylvia Holtzman Gavurin collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, correspondence, and transcripts concerning the experiences of Sylvia Holtzman Gavurin (donor's great aunt), who served as a stenographer and court reporter for the US Army during the Dachau War Crimes Trials following WWII.

  15. Sylvia J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia J., who was born Brooklyn, New York. She recalls joining the United States Army in March 1943; being set to Europe after the war; stationing at Frankfurt in August 1945; obtaining a job with UNRRA; working at Landsberg displaced persons camp orgainizing food distribution; trying to understand the survivors' struggles to restore their lives; a Purim and Passover celebration; minimal interaction with Germans; resigning from UNRRA in November 1946; and returning to the United States.

  16. Sylvia K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia K., who was born in Smorgon?, Belarus (then Poland) and raised in Oshmyany. She recalls teaching kindergarten in Vilna; returning to Oshmyany; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; the mass murder of Jewish men and boys, including her husband; ghettoization; her mother's deportation; transfer in 1943 with her sister, aunt and their children to several labor camps, then to Palemonas; a round-up of all children, including her daughter; transfer to the Kovno ghetto, then Stutthof; forced labor at several camps; sharing her clothes with her sister; and libera...

  17. Sylvia L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia L., who was born in 1933, an only child in an orthodox family. She recounts living in Czernowitz, Romania; attending kindergarten; one year of Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; forced transfer to Murafa; her father hiding during a round-up of men for forced labor; Soviet liberation; returning home; finding their house had been ransacked; her father's draft into the Soviet military; attending school; emigration with her parents to Israel in 1950; marriage in 1952; and emigration to the United States in 1956. Ms. L. discusses hardships and suffer...

  18. Sylvia M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia M., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in approximately 1926, one of three sisters. She recounts attending a Jewish school; increasing antisemitism in the late 1930s; Soviet occupation in 1939; attending free public high school; brief Lithuanian independence; an antisemitic riot; Soviet reoccupation in 1940; German invasion in 1941; her father's forced labor; learning her uncle had been killed with many others; ghettoization in September 1941; her older sister smuggling food; transfer to Keilis due to her older sister's privileged posi...

  19. Sylvia Malcmacher papers

    Consists of several pages of typed testimony written by Sylvia Malcmacher about her wartime experiences, including her life in the Vilnius ghetto, in the Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Muhldorf concentration camps, and at the Feldafing displaced persons camp. Includes a copy of the Vilna hymn, a copy of her post-war identity card which includes a photograph of Sylvia wearing her camp jacket, and a copy of a photograph of the memorial erected in Ponary.

  20. Sylvia Neulander collection

    The Sylvia Neulander collection consists of a letter written by Sylvia Neulander, who worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) after the war in the US Zone of Germany; addressed to Sylvia's sister Alice in 1946. In the letter, Sylvia describes accompanying a group of orphaned children from Marseille to Eretz Israel (Palestine) in April 1946, and visiting other children who previously had gone to Kibbutz Buchenwald. The collection also includes a photograph of Sylvia in uniform.