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  1. Simon Drucker memoir

    The Simon Drucker memoir consist of a single typed page relating Drucker’s arrest during the Velodrome d’Hiver roundup; his internment, escape, and re-internment in nearly a dozen prisons and concentration camps in France, Poland, and Germany; liberation; fighting in the first Arab-Israeli war; and beginning his life again in Paris.

  2. Simon F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon F., who was born in Paris, France in 1926. He recounts his parents were Polish immigrants; living in the Jewish area (Marais); German invasion; traveling south hoping to assist the French military; returning to Paris after France was divided; imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions; round-ups; his father leaving for unoccupied France; smuggling the remainder of the family to join his father in Avignon; joining the Resistance; obtaining false papers for the entire family; one sister being hidden in a convent; other family, including his parents, hiding with non-Je...

  3. Simon F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon F., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1935. He recounts his family's affluence; his father's emigration to the United States immediately before the war; attending a Jewish school; being warned by non-Jews there would be a raid on the school and all the students leaving; wearing the yellow star; frequent round-ups; his paternal grandparents living with them; his grandfather's death; obtaining identity papers from South America; deportation with his mother, sister, and grandmother to Westerbork; transfer in winter 1942 to Bergen-Belsen; finding a prayer bo...

  4. Simon F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon F., who was born in Ti?a?chiv, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1920, the eleventh of sixteen children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; apprenticeship as a knitter; Hungarian occupation; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1939; working in a sweater factory in Budapest beginning in 1939; evading draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion for eighteen months; slave labor in a parachute factory in 1943; marriage in August 1944; deportation to Ko?szeg in November; encountering a brother; slave labor digging ditches; receiving extra food...

  5. Simon Frydman collection

    Consists of a photograph taken in Otwock, Poland, in 1941 of Rifka Regina Frydman, Simon's younger sister who perished in the Holocaust; and a photograph taken in Świebodzice, Poland, of two Jewish men (on the left: Mr. Mogielnicki who survived the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and on the right: his brother-in-law who was killed by Poles in 1945).

  6. Simon Fuks collection

    Contains legal documents, letters, newspaper articles, and a memoir describing the experiences of Simon Fuks, a rabbi of Agen, France. Fuks' memoir, "Souvenir de Guerre," concerns the German occupation of France; his service in the French military and the collapse of the French forces; his capture and subsequent release by the Germans; how he and other rabbis resisted the Nazis and gave assistance to those Jews that they could during May 1941 to May 1943; activities undertaken by the Union gééale des Israéites de France; conditions inside the camps of Drancy and Rivesaltes; and his escap...

  7. Simon G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1923, one of six children. He recounts his family's move to Paris; German invasion; arrest and incarceration in Drancy in October 1941; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau via Compiègne in March 1942; receiving refreshments en route from the Red Cross; slave labor constructing roads; transfer to a position supervising the kitchens, a privileged position; sharing extra food with friends; recovering from typhus with assistance from friends; transfer to a disciplinary Kommando; assistance from kapos in avoiding selection and bei...

  8. Simon Gelbart collection

    The collection consists of shoemaking tools relating to the experiences of Simon Gelbart in Poland before the war and in Poland and the Soviet Union, including forced labor service with the Soviet Army, during World War II.

  9. Simon Goldman photographs

    The Simon Goldman photographs include 17 photographs of Simon Goldmand and his friends at the Bindermichl Displaced Persons camp in Austria. The collection also inclues a floppy disc.

  10. Simon Goldsmith photographs

    Collection of photographs documenting the experiences of Simon Goldsmith during the time period surrounding the Holocaust; includes images documenting his life in Lithuania before the war and his post-war experiences with the Red Army and while living in the displaced persons camps.

  11. Simon H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon H., who was born in Salonika, Greece in 1910. He describes the prewar Jewish community; his widowed mother's efforts to support five children; his Jewish and secular education; leaving school in 1920 to support himself as a barber's assistant, then a barber; being drafted and discharged; his marriage; and the birth of his two daughters. Mr. H. relates the historical background of the German invasion of Greece; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization and deportation; "volunteering" in Lancut in order to save his family (they perished); working as a barber; his relati...

  12. Simon Herskovitz memoir

    Testimony, typescript, 3 pages, circa 1990s. Describes childhood in Slovakia, Hungarian occupation of region in 1940, deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, deportation to Kaufering and then march to Allach and liberation. Postwar immigration to Palestine/Israel.

  13. Simon Heymans. Collection

    This collection contains : a photo of Simon Heymans, two letters sent by Simon Heymans while imprisoned at Saint-Gilles, Brussels, to his wife and daughter in Tilburg, including lists of goods he wanted to receive and information on the procedure to visit him ; a postcard sent by Simon Heymans while detained at the Dossin barracks to his wife, misses Heymans-Bollekamp, and their daughter.

  14. Simon Jeruchim collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, drawings, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Simon Jeruchim and his family in France during and after World War II, when he lived as a hidden child in Normandy and then in foster homes near Paris.

  15. Simon Klein letters

    Typed, transcribed, and translated letters (dated 23 January 1945 and 12 March 1946) describe: German occupation of Hungary; author's property which was confiscated; author's deportation to and experiences in Auschwitz; the deaths of members of the author's family; author's transport to Gross-Rosen; and his liberation by the Soviet military. The original letters in Hungarian are not included.

  16. Simon Krakinovsky scrapbook

    Contains a bound scrapbook, compiled by Simon Krakinovsky, a former inmate of the Dachau concentration camp. Includes photographs of the camp with captions, newspaper articles, and a prisoner badge.

  17. Simon Langner papers

    The Simon Langner papers contain primarily immigration and legal documents related to Simon Langner, a Holocaust survivor. Included are a World ORT machinist’s trade certificate, an identity card, an affidavit and testimony for Simon, and a court ruling for reparations. Also included are a copy of his brother’s Abram Langner’s birth certificate, and a photograph of Simon.

  18. Simon M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon M., who was born in Ziegenhals, Germany (now G?ucho?azy, Poland) in 1905. He recalls his impoverished childhood in a large family; his father's military service in World War I; completing eight grade; working as a peddler; marriage in 1928; his first son's birth in 1930; living in Breslau when Hitler came to power; serving as a liaison to the Gestapo; helping Jews emigrate; Kristallnacht; arrest and deportation to Buchenwald; release with assistance from an SS officer; receiving help from Jews in Leipzig; returning to Breslau; traveling to Shanghai via Italy in ...

  19. Simon Makon collection

    Consists of one audiocassette containing Yiddish folk songs, sung by Simon Makon, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto. Also includes a copy of Mr. Makon's memoirs, "Life in the Ghetto: The 'Resettlement' to the Crematoriums," translated by Donna Gallers. The memoirs appear to have been written in verse. A list of the songs is provided. Also includes a copy of the original Yiddish version of Mr. Makon's memoir.

  20. Simon Makon sings Yiddish folk songs

    Yiddish folk songs, sung by Simon Makon, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto.