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  1. "Life Story of a Holocaust Survivor from Shaulen, Lithuania who Lived his Life to Help Others"

    Consists of one memoir, 16 pages, titled "Life Story of a Holocaust Survivor from Shaulen, Lithuania who Lived his Life to Help Others," by Harry Demby, originally of Shaulen (Schaulen; Šiaulai), Lithuania. In the memoir, Mr. Demby describes his life in the Kaukaz (Kaukazas) and Traku St. (Trakai) sections of the ghetto in Šiaulai, his deportation to Stutthof in 1944, his liberation from Dachau, his displaced persons experiences and his post-war life. The memoir includes copies of photographs.

  2. "Life versus the Holocaust"

    Consists of a copy of "Life versus Holocaust," a survivor testimony by Dr. Bernard S. Cytryn concerning his experiences of persecution and loss during the Holocaust. The testimony contains information about Cytryn's relatives who were killed during the Holocaust; his family in the United States; his life in Kielce, Poland, before the Holocaust; his deportation to Auschwitz; and his observations on the role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust.

  3. "Limited Registration Plan" (LRP)

  4. "Living Surgical History, or Sisyphus at the Water Fountain"

    Consists of two chapters of a memoir entitled "Living Surgical History, or Sisyphus at the Water Fountain" by Dr. Henry Gans, originally of Zevenaar, the Netherlands. In these chapters, Dr. Gans describes his memories of his schooling in Arnhem under the German occupation of the Netherlands, learning his father was selected for deportation to Westerbork, and the decision for his family to go into hiding. Dr. Gans, a teenager at the time, spent thirty months in hiding with his brother at a farm in Angelo, a small village in the Netherlands. The family was reunited after the Allied liberation...

  5. "LOL* After 67 Years"

    Consists of one bound memoir entitled "LOL* After 67 Years" written in 2012 by Peter R. Span, who was born in 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, In the memoir, he describes the bombing of Belgrade which ended the attempts of his parents, Ignac Rosenfeld and Elisabeth Span, to emigrate with their sons to Mexico. After the bombing, the family moved to Subotica and in 1942 and again in 1944, Ignac was sent to a forced labor battalion. In the summer of 1944, Elisabeth and her sons (including Peter) were deported to the Ulrichskirchen labor camp in Austria, where they remained until liberation in Apr...

  6. "Lost and Waiting to be Found"

    Consists of one memoir, 59 pages, entitled “Lost and Waiting to be Found,” written by Jackie (Jacky) Young (born Jona Spiegel), originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, Jackie, who was born in December 1941 in Vienna, Austria, but was raised by adoptive parents in England, describes slowly learning about his own past, which his parents had kept from him despite his own faint memories and hints mentioned by relatives. In the memoir, Jackie describes his visit to Theresienstadt, where he was deported as an infant; to Maly Trostinec, where his mother, Elsa Spiegel, was deported and perish...

  7. "Maccabi" sports association, Tighina branch

    • Societatea "Makkabi" din Tighina
    • Тигинская организация "Маккаби"
    • Tiginskaya organizatsiya "Makkabi"

    List of officials of the organization; annual report and charter of the organization; information about the activities of the organization; minutes of meetings of the organization; minutes of general meetings of the organization

  8. "Marian"

    Consists of a videocassette and DVD, each containing a documentary entitled "Marian." The documentary, 46 minutes long, juxtaposes an exhibition of Marian Kołodziej's post-war artwork with an oral history interview about his experiences. Mr. Kołodziej was a Catholic prisoner in Auschwitz from 1940-1944, and was liberated from Ebensee. By depicting their faces, his artwork focuses on the demoralization of the victims and prisoners in the camps.

  9. "Marianna Tkaczyk" identification card

    The "Kennkarte" was issued to "Marianna Tkaczyk" in Warsaw, Poland, by "Der Stadthauptmann Polizei Direktor" in the Generalgouvernement on May 8, 1943. Anna Danzinger, alias "Marianna Tkaczyk," purchased the birth certificates of two Gentile sisters which enabled her and her sister to obtain identification cards ("Kennkarten"). The sisters survived by living and working as Gentiles in Warsaw, Poland, during the Holocaust.

  10. "Massenmord" airdropped leaflet

    Double-sided leaflet dropped over Germany in late 1942 following the December 17, 1942 declaration by the United Kingdom and United States stating explicitly that the German authorities were engaging in mass murder of the European Jews. The leaflet describes the deportations and mass murder already underway, and promises postwar punishment for those responsible.

  11. "Mathias Barz: 30.8.1895 Düsseldorf - 19.10.1982 Margarten"

    Consists of a copy of the book "Mathias Barz: 30.8.1895 Düsseldorf-19.10.1982 Margarten" by Günter Goebbels. The book contains biographical information on Barz, his family history, his experiences as an artist during the Holocaust, and information concerning his art exhibitions. Newspaper articles concerning the artist are intermingled with the text of the book.

  12. "Max Adler: From Germany to America, 1926-1939"

    Consists of one memoir, 6 pages, entitled "Max Adler: From Germany to America 1926-1939," by Max Adler. In the memoir, Mr. Adler describes the history of his family and the Jewish community in his hometown of Bad Mergentheim, Germany. He describes antisemitism in the 1930s, his memories of Kristallnacht, and leaving on a Kindertransport to the Netherlands in January 1939. Mr. Adler's parents were able to immigrate to the United States in May 1939, and he joined them there in February 1940.

  13. "Meditation on the Holocaust: The Unfinished Notes of a Survivor"

    Consists of one typed memoir entitled "Meditation on the Holocaust: The Unfinished Notes of a Survivor," by Michael Etkind, originally of Łódź, Poland. In the memoir, he describes the members of his immediate family, life in the Łódź ghetto, the death of his mother from typhus in 1941, the experiences of a friend named Oyzer Walfisz, his separation from his sister, Henka, and his deportation to a forced labor camp in Czestochowa in 1944. After several months, he was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp and describes his memories of his fellow prisoners. As the American army ...

  14. "Megilat Haman"

    Typescript draft of a play, 16 pages, titled "Megilat Haman," written on the occasion of Purim, mid-1940s, and attributed to a member of the Jewish Brigade. Play makes comparisons between Haman and contemporary Nazi leaders (Hitler, Goering, Goebbels). Undated, approximately mid-1940s.

  15. "Memoires de Guerre: 13 Mai 1941--Aout 1945"

    Consists of one memoir, 107 pages, entitled "Memoires de Guerre: 13 Mai 1941--Aout 1945," by Paul Szigeti. He describes his arrest in France in 1941, his wartime imprisonment in Germany, and his liberation in April 1945. Also contains a German translation of the same.

  16. "Memoirs of Ludwig Bauer, PhD"

    Consists of one memoir, 113 pages, entitled "Memoirs of Ludwig Bauer, PhD", written by Ludwig Bauer, originally of Forchheim, Germany. Dr. Bauer, born in 1926, relates the history of the Jewish community in Forchheim, focusing on his memories of Kristallnacht in Forchheim and the Kristallnacht bombing of the Forchheim synagogue. Includes an article written by Sabine Ponater regarding the Jews of Forchheim, Dr. Bauer's impressions of Forchheim after a 1987 visit and a copy of an emailed interview between Dr. Bauer and a history class from the Ehrenbürg Gymnasium in Forchheim.

  17. "Memoirs of my childhood from the Holocaust"

    Consists of one memoir, 11 pages, entitled "Memoirs of my childhood from the Holocaust", by Moshe Brem, origially of Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland. In 1939, Moshe's father was conscripted into the Polish Army. Moshe, his mother, and his extended family remained in Piotrkow, which became a ghetto, and managed to escape deportation by offering tailoring services to the Germans and by bribing both the Germans and non-Jews in Piotrkow to help the family. In the fall of 1944, however, Moshe and his mother were deported to Ravensbrück. Only a small child, Moshe spent his days hiding while his moth...

  18. "Memoirs of my Life"

    Consists of a photocopy of one typed memoir, 65 pages, entitled "Memoirs of my Life" by Louis Suskin. In the memoir, Suskin describes his childhood in Belgium and the Netherlands, his apprenticeship in the diamond trade in Antwerp, his marriage to Sonia Schwerner and his family's escape from Belgium to southern France in 1940 and their immigration to Cuba, experiences in Cuba during the war years, their life in New York following the war, Suskin's return to Belgium to adopt his niece, Raymonde, the growth of the Suskins two children, the family's immigration to Israel and return to New York...

  19. "Memoirs of Violet Dattner"

    Consists of a transcript of the dictated memoir of Violet Dattner, originally of Transylvania. She studied in Paris in the 1930s and met and married her husband, Willy, in Belgium in 1938. They lived in Antwerp until May 1940 when they escaped into France. They were temporarily arrested in 1940, attempted to escape through Spain, but were turned back to Belgium. In 1940, they were able to escape to Havana, Cuba. She also describes her experiences trying to help other family emigrate and in the post-war years, to obtain restitution and information regarding family who perished, as well as he...

  20. "Memories and Regrets"

    Consists of one memoir, 27 pages, entitled "Memories and Regrets" by Haim Teicher, 27 pages, in Hebrew. The memoir, written in Tel Aviv on June 28, 1992, describes Mr. Teicher's Holocaust experiences, including witnessing the liquidation of the Stanislavov ghetto, the murder of his family in the Dolina ghetto, and his escape into Romania with the assistance of the driver of the local SS official.