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  1. Grete M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Grete M., who was born in Aurich, Germany in 1922. She recalls her orthodox, close-knit family; cordial relations with non-Jews; changes in 1938; attending nursing school at the Jewish hospital in Berlin; two siblings emigrating to England; her parents' deportation (they perished); hiding with a German family in 1942, then with their relatives in Upper Silesia; fearing exposure, returning to Berlin via Gross Strehlitz (Strzelec) to Beuthen (Bytom); arrest; transfer to Auschwitz; useless forced labor; assistance from a guard because she spoke German; seeing a cousin (s...

  2. Grete Sacki (Mayer): Personal papers

  3. Grete Salus: Poems

    This collection of typescript poems was written by Grete Salus during the period of her incarceration in the camps of Terezin, Auschwitz and Oederan.

  4. Grigoriĭ D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Grigoriĭ D., who was born in Sunai, Belarus in 1922. He recalls living in a rural area; cordial relations with non-Jews; completing high school in Grozovo; attending the Polytechnic in Minsk; his father's arrest in 1938 as a spy because he had siblings in western nations (he was executed); his sister's medical practice in Lenino; German invasion in June 1941 while he was in Slutsk; joining his mother, sister, and brother in Lenino; obtaining a Soviet machine gun; giving it to partisans; solidarity in the ghetto; escaping with his brother with assistance from non-Jews...

  5. Grigorijus Kanovičius

    The fonds of the activities and writings of the famous Jewish writer Grigorijus Kanovičius, who, age twelve, was able to escape to the East in the first days of the Second World war and thereby survived the Holocaust. In 1945 he returned to Vilnius; he graduated from Vilnius University and in 1959 published his first novel. His novels and short stories depict life in the shtetls before the war and how life changed later, and how the Jewish communities were destroyed. The files of this personal fonds consist of drafts, fragments of novels, correspondence, personal photos, photos from events ...

  6. Grigoriy Getselevich memoir

    Testimony, one page, handwritten, brief account of life under German occupation in Ukraine (near Vinnitsa).

  7. Grigory Flom memoir

    Testimony, typescript, 2 pages, written circa 1990s, giving brief overview of Grigory Flom's activities during WWII, including his service in Red Army, capture by Germans and experiences as POW in Malinovka, Volchansk, Belaya Kalita, and other locations, until liberation in July 1943.

  8. Grigory Kotlyarski photograph collection

    The photographs depict Grigory Kotlyarski and his older brother, Chaim Misha, as children and during their military service in the Soviet Army.

  9. Grodno Oblast Archive records

    Consists of microfilmed documents relating to the activities of various German occupation agencies in and near Grodno (Hrodna) during World War II. Records include proceedings of criminal investigations; examples of anti-Jewish propaganda; census name lists for Grodno and the vicinity; the use of forced labor; and documents with information on the destruction of synagogues, the treatment of Soviet prisoners of war, ghettos in Belorussia and Poland, partisan activities, resistance actions, transports of Jews from Grodno to concentration camps, arrests of Roma and Sinti, racial policies, and ...

  10. Grodno Survivors Association collection

    The collection consists of artifacts discovered after the end of World War II on the site of the destroyed synagogue in Grodno, Poland, now Hrodna, Belarus.

  11. Gross and Herskovitz Families collection

    Group of black and white photographs and one handwritten book of poems with beige cloth covers with painted designs of flowers, entitled "Minden elmulik egyszer?" Also includes photographs relating to the Gross and Herskovitz families from the Holocaust era in Czechoslovakia, and a booklet of poems written by Serina Gross (donor's wife).

  12. Gross and Lichtman Papers

    The Gross and Lichtman Papers include World War II Food Ration Books issued to the family of Emerick Gross and a letter to Emerick and Violette Gross from their nephew Leon Lichtman, who served in the 120th Evacuation Unit after the liberation of Buchenwald.

  13. Gross family documents

    This collection of family papers documents the experiences of an assimilated German Jewish family some of whom managed to escape to safety and others who perished in the Holocaust. It consists of original correspondence between members of the family and friends before, during and after the war. Also included are personal papers such as certificates and photographs.

  14. Gross Rosen documents

    Contains six documents that include a Dachau lettersheet assuring parents of their child's good health, a postcard from Theresienstadt with a stamped admonishment that writing must be in German, three different Holocaust memorial covers, a Gross Rosen letter sheet, two censorship stamps postmarked on address-leaf and stamped with swastika, "Gross Rosen" with assurance of good health and request for letters and packages.

  15. Gross-Limonik family

    This collection contains: a written testimony drafted by Rosette Gross-Becker entitled "Tu n'as pas souffert (You did not suffer)" on the history of the Gross-Limonik family in Belgium before, during and after the Holocaust; one audio-visual testimony of Rosette Gross-Becker and one audio-visual testimony of Denise Gross-Feibusch and Monique Gross-Banne, in which they address the life of their family before the war, the anti-Jewish decrees in Belgium, the deportation of their father Baruch alias Bernard Gross to northern France as a slave labourer for organization Todt, the hiding of their ...

  16. Grossbard family: Correspondence

    This collection comprises correspondence from the friends and family of Siegfried Grossbard, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who eventually became resident in Great Britain. Much of the material was used by Michael Gordon, the depositor and son of Siegfried, in his history of his father's experience of the Nazi years Plaything of Destiny [Wiener Library OSP 497]. The latter provides a full history of the family and a commentary on the correspondence. Not all of the correspondence referred to in Plaything of Destiny is held within this collection. In particular there are no letters from the G...

  17. Grossdeutschland 1938

    Cover of brown textured paper with interior pages bound together by string; printed on front cover is circular image of two men holding Nazi flag standing on platform with eagle insigna and text in German above and below image; adhered to lower left corner on front cover is green square stamp of Adolf Hitler with ink impression of Nazi emblem stamped in black below.

  18. Grosz family photograph collection

    Photographs illustrating the experiences of Erno Grosz [Ernest Gross] donor’s father, before, during and after the Holocaust. Erno and his brother, Jeno, survived, essentially together, were deported from Beregszász, Hungary [present-day Berehove, Ukraine] to Auschwitz; Wüstegiersdorf, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen; Flossenbürg and Natzweiler concentration camps. The images depict a pre-war photograph of Devorah Grosz, their mother, immediate post-war image of Erno wearing his concentration camp uniform and post war images in the displaced persons camp Föhrenwald, where Erno and Jeno lived unti...

  19. Groszman family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Groszman family of Vámosmikola, Hungary, including wartime life in Budapest, Hungary; post-war immigrations to Vienna, Austria and Buenos Aires, Argentina. It also documents the experiences of Gabriel’s Groszman’s wife Ruth Heda and her family, primarily of Trnava, Slovakia, including their immigrations to England and Argentina. The collection consists of biographical materials, immigration paperwork, and photographs. Biographical material includes identification papers; birth, marriage and death certificates; education papers of...

  20. Group of PM and New York Times newspapers

    Group of PM newspapers with illustrations by Arthur Szyk. The PM newspapers include the following: March 16, 1944, March 31, 1944 and August 12, 1945. Also, New York Times newspapers from July 20, 1941, January 12, 1942 and December 7, 1942.