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  1. Solomon G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon G., who was born in Nowogrodek, Poland, near the Russian border, in 1920. He describes family and community life before the war; life under Russian occupation; the establishment of German rule and the ensuing anti-Jewish legislation; round-ups and mass killings of Jews, including most of his family; and his confinement to a ghetto in his city. Mr. G. recalls the liquidation of the ghetto, during which most of the inhabitants were deported, and those remaining, including himself and his sister, were interned in two concentration camps established in the city. H...

  2. Solomon Goldman collection

    Consists of post-war photographs showing Jewish DPs celebrating the declaration of the state of Israel, a photograph of Solomon Goldman [donor] speaking to a group of men, Innsbruck university certificates for Szlama Goldman, IRO immunization records for Schlama and Sonia Goldman, and a letter of recommendation for Slama Goldman from the Innsbruck American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. The collection also contained Solomon Goldman's doctoral dissertation, "Education Among Jewish Displaced Persons; The Sheerit Hapletah in Germany, 1945-1950", which was transferred to the USHMM Library...

  3. Solomon H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon H., who was born in Wielun?, Poland in 1913. He recounts the deaths of his father and brother; a sister and brother emigrating to France; marriage in 1938; German invasion; fleeing; being shot; transfer to Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, then ?o?dz?; reunion with his wife; returning home; ghettoization; having his wife smuggled to the Cze?stochowa ghetto when she became pregnant (their son did not survive long); escaping to join her during the ghetto's liquidation; assignment to HASAG-Pelzery; a privileged position as a foreman; arrival of Jews from ?o?dz?; communicatin...

  4. Solomon Klug photograph collection

    The collection consists of four individual and family portraits of Solomon Klug's family. Included are Solomon, Hershel (brother), Nathan (brother), Jacob (father), Gittel (mother), Paula (sister), and Chaskel Klug (brother). Hershel and Nathan Klug were killed during World War II.

  5. Solomon L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon L., who was born in 1913 and drafted into the United States Army. He recalls training with the 65th Infantry Division in the United States; serving with the 45th Infantry Division in Europe; liberating Dachau on April 29, 1945; emaciated, dazed prisoners; corpses all over; shock, disbelief and anger; the United States troops shooting the German soldiers; speaking with Jewish prisoners in Yiddish; giving the prisoners their food, inadvertently causing their deaths; leaving four hours later; smelling the "odor of death" all the way to Munich; liberating escaped ...

  6. Solomon L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon L., who was born in Arnhem, Netherlands in 1924. He recalls German invasion in May 1940; anti-Jewish measures; expulsion from public school; attending a Jewish school; his father's arrest in October 1941 (he never saw him again); his older brother hiding with a Dutch physician to avoid deportation; he and his mother joining his brother in hiding in September 1942; having to move to the attic of the doctor's housekeeper's home; constant fear of discovery; and liberation by Canadian troops in April 1945. Mr. L. describes learning of his father's death in Mauthau...

  7. Solomon Littman collection

    Photocopied documents from the National Archives UK, consisting of the records from the record group TS 26/903, titled "Treasury Solicitor and HM Procurator General: War Crimes Papers. World War II, 1939-194. U.N.W.C.C. Lists of War Criminals. Concentration Camps. Miscellaneous Papers." Most of the material consists of transcripts of depositions filed in cases prosecuted by the British against alleged war criminals, along with supporting documentation, such as lists of personnel at various concentration camps, compiled May - November 1945. Also includes one report from the U.N. War Crimes C...

  8. Solomon M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon M., who was born in Je?drzejo?w, Poland in 1916. He recalls the family farm; attending Polish school and cheder; serving in the Polish army from 1937 onward; German invasion; three months as a prisoner of war; returning home; finding the town ghettoized; volunteering for forced labor in his father's place; six months of railroad work at Se?dziszo?w; transfer to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; eighteen months in werke C; clandestinely receiving food from non-Jewish workers; transfer to Cze?stochowa in late 1943, then to Buchenwald in mid-1944; clearing corpses from the ba...

  9. Solomon Manischewitz photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs taken in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Most of the photographs depict the students and staff of the Henrieta Szold Hebrew School in Zeilsheim where Solomon Manischewitz taught and the Zeilsheim High School. The collection also includes images of festivities held at Zeilsheim on May 15, 1948, when Israel was proclaimed an independent state.

  10. Solomon Meyer papers

    Contains one letter with envelope written by Solomon Meyer to his wife from Germany, twelve black and white photographs from Buchenwald taken by Solomon, and a copy of a Buchenwald concentration camp report (Headquarters 1270th Engineer Combat Battalion).

  11. Solomon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon R., who was born in Komarov, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1920. He recalls moving to ?o?dz? when he was seven; working from age twelve onward; German invasion; attempting to reach Warsaw; capture by Germans; train transport to Germany, then back to Poland two weeks later; forced labor in Krako?w; being released; returning to ?o?dz?; ghettoization; frequent shootings; difficulty obtaining food; volunteering for forced labor in Germany so his family would receive compensation; working in Frankfurt an-der-Oder from December 1940 onward; transfer to a factory nea...

  12. Solomon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon R., who was born in Jerusalem in 1908. He describes traveling to Ulm in 1946, representing the Joint; working with displaced persons, Allied forces, HIAS, and UNRRA; providing food, religious services and supplies, schools, and recreational activities to displaced persons in camps and in the area; cigarette rations functioning as currency; diverse political and religious groups; relations with local Germans, non-Jewish eastern European refugees, and Allied personnel; and the efforts of army chaplains to raise morale.

  13. Solomon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1923. He recounts attending Hebrew and public school; joyful religious observances; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; fleeing 300 miles east with his father; returning when the Germans overtook them; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; the ghetto's liquidation in 1943; transfer to P?aszo?w; working in a factory next to Oskar Schindler's; punishment for fasting on Yom Kippur; Schindler saving a Jew from execution; visiting his mother and sister in P?aszo?w; his parents' deportation (he never saw them again); pub...

  14. Solomon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon S., who was born in Charsznica, Poland in 1926. He describes the town, his family and education; fleeing to a farm during the German invasion; increasingly harsh conditions; a mass shooting in September 1942; transport to P?asow with his father and cousin; frequent killings; their escape to the Krako?w ghetto, then Charsznica; and his father (whom he never saw again) sending him to a labor collection to escape transport. Mr. S. recalls moving between P?asow and the ghetto; surviving several times due to help from friends and a Jewish kapo; transfer to Mauthaus...

  15. Solomon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon S., who was born in Zago?ro?w, Poland in 1917. He recalls antisemitic harassment, particularly at Easter; the deaths of his parents; living with a sibling in Siedlce; one brother's emigration to the United States; rabbinic training in Warsaw; serving in the Polish military starting in April 1938; retreating to Deblin and Kovel?; disbanding of his unit; returning to Siedlce; anti-Jewish regulations; smuggling himself to Vilnius; Soviet occupation; living in S?iauliai; obtaining a visa for Japan; traveling to Vladivostok, then Ko?be-shi; involuntary transfer to ...

  16. Solomon Surowitz collection

    Consists of one brown placard dated 11 April 1947, Dachau, presented to Mr. Solomon Surowitz, a prosecutor at the Buchenwald trial from New York, NY; states that the group will always remember the dead of Buchenwald. Collection also contains one bound copy of "An information booklet on the Buchenwald concentration camp case: the United States of America v. Josias Prince zu Waldeck et al. : to be heard at Camp Dachau, Germany, 11 April 1947" (published in Dachau, Germany; 47 pages with signatures of participants in the back).

  17. Solomon Zynstein papers

    Consists of photographs, scrapbook pages, loose documents, and newspaper clippings mainly related to Solomon Zynstein's life and work in the Bamberg displaced persons camp, particularly his work directing Yiddish Theater in Bamberg. Includes photographs, programs, and newsclippings about performances, as well as documents related to Zynstein's work as a journalist, including brief notes on the International Military Tribunal (the Nuremberg trials).

  18. SOLOMON, Michel

    Manuscripts. Published essays and articles. Poems. Correspondence. Documentation and research for books. Magazines. Clippings. Cassettes of interviews.

  19. Soltz family photographs

    Contains pre-war photographs of Eishyshok [Eišiškės, Eisiskes; Lithuania].

  20. Soltz family photographs

    Contains two family portraits from Eishyshok [Eišiškės, Eisiskes; Lithuania], of Baila Leibnitz and Fanushka Soltz.