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  1. Refugee children

    This story contains the last minute of an 11 minute documentary piece. Children listening to radio (staged), narration in English. Scenes from Julien Bryan's "Siege of Warsaw". Malnourished children, Russian children.

  3. Oral history interview with Maryla Orgel Korn Toddling Through Europe: Maryla Orgel Korn

    1. Oral history interviews of the Holocaust Eyewitness Project collection

  4. Selected Records from the Departmental Archives of the Alpes-Maritimes. 1933-1972

    Contains records directly linked to the war: internments for administrative or “political” reasons; purges; surveillance of political parties; freemasons (“Sociétés Secrètes) and the press; food distribution and rationing; non-Jewish laborers requisitioned to work in Germany (“STO”); military affairs; prisoners; refugees; supervision of real estate transactions; sequestered property; affairs related to German or Italian occupation; war damages; veterans’ affairs; judicial matters and lawsuits; as well as the Armistice Commission. Also contains material indirectly related to the war: public ...

  7. "A Rejected Stone: My Life"

    Memoir by Ben-Zion Schuster, originally of Jezierzany, Poland (Ozeri︠a︡ny, Ukraine), entitled "A Rejected Stone: My Life." The memoir is a printed draft from November 1990, and translated from the Yiddish by Professor Robert Moses Shapiro. The memoir describes Ben-Zion’s prewar family life in a shtetl, his studies at a yeshiva in Łuck, Poland (Lutsk, Ukraine), his wartime experience under Soviet and Germany occupation, the fates of his family members, his postwar experiences in displaced persons camps, and his immigration to the United States. 279 pages.

  9. Ursula Nelson collection

    Photographs (two albums, two loose photographs) and certificate from the Deutscher Makkabikreise, 1938, both related to Ursula Kantorowicz (later Nelson), documenting her childhood in Germany and young-adult years as an emigre in England. Photograph albums include images of Nelson's parents and relatives in Germany, childhood friends, her life in Britain after emigration, including her friends and work, and her first husband, Leslie Smith.

  12. Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Committee for the Jews in Occupied Europe regarding the situation of the Jews in the occupied countries of Europe, November 1944

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • הועד ליהודי אירופה הכבושה שעל יד הסוכנות היהודית לארץ ישראל ביולטין, נובמבר (ב) 1944

    Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Committee for the Jews in Occupied Europe regarding the situation of the Jews in the occupied countries of Europe, November 1944 Situation of the Jews in Romania until October 1944; the final battle in the Bialystok Ghetto; testimony of a survivor regarding the situation of the Jews in the Lodz Ghetto, December 1943; testimony of a female survivor from Krakow who escaped to Eretz Israel via Romania and Hungary, July 1944, regarding forced labor in German workshops in Bochnia until August 1943; testi...

  13. Personal documentation belonging to members of the Heiberg family from Vienna, in the La Guette children's institution in Paris and the Jewish community in Shanghai

    1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

    Personal documentation belonging to members of the Heiberg family from Vienna, in the La Guette children's institution in Paris and the Jewish community in Shanghai - Personal documentation belonging to the Heiberg family from Vienna including personal correspondence of the daughter who was sent to the La Guette children's institution in Paris (founded on the initiative of Baroness Rothschild in order to rescue Jewish children from Germany and Austria after Kristallnacht); - Memoirs of children from the institution regarding Kristallnacht, among them the testimony of a child who experienced...

  14. Certificate belonging to Boris Segal confirming the untimely termination of his studies in the fifth grade at the Almetyevo School, due to his return to Latvia, 07 May 1945

    1. O.32 - Documentation regarding the Jews of the Soviet Union from the Holocaust period

    Certificate belonging to Boris Segal confirming the untimely termination of his studies in the fifth grade at the Almetyevo School, due to his return to Latvia, 07 May 1945 Comments by the person submitting the material: Boris Segal was born in Daugavpils, 31 March 1933; 8 years old at the outbreak of the war; escape with his parents to Preili following air-raids on the strategic railroad station in Daugavpils; life in Daugavpils, until 27 June 1941; increasing fequency of air-raids on Latvia and escape of the family to the East; life on the road for approximately 300 kms, riding on horses ...

  15. Testimony of L. Unger, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and in Skarzysko, Buchenwald, Schlieben and Theresienstadt camps

    1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957
    • אוטוביוגרפיה - איבערלעבונג אין היטלערקריג

    Testimony of L. Unger, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and in Skarzysko, Buchenwald, Schlieben and Theresienstadt camps Hasidic family; his father was a merchant; completion of high school studies in Lodz; work in the family business representing the "Asher Cohen" company in Lodz; Outbreak of the war; escape of his father with his sister and two brothers to Warsaw, to their father Mordechai Mendel Unger; the witness remains with his mother in Lodz; establishment of the Lodz Ghetto; death of his mother in ghetto due to starvation, 1942; death of his...

  16. Testimony of Tereza Elefant, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Soviet Union, as a Czechoslovakian soldier in Buzuluk and as a nurse

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Tereza Elefant, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Soviet Union, as a Czechoslovakian soldier in Buzuluk and as a nurse Born in Nitra. Expelled from the medical faculty at Bratislava University due to her Jewish origin, 1939; witness' husband Vilem Artstein, leaves for Poland; witness joins him in the Soviet Union, 1941; work as a teacher; Jewish Communist refugees in Ivanovo are placed under NKVD supervision; life in Ivanovo; military service in a Czechoslovakian Army battalion in Buzuluk along with other Jewish women, 1942; military training...

  17. Testimony of Malvina (Friedmannova) Fantova, born in Cejkov, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in Poland, the Soviet Union and as soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Malvina (Friedmannova) Fantova, born in Cejkov, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in Poland, the Soviet Union and as soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army Born in Czechoslovakia. Hungarian occupation of Carpathian Ruthenia; dramatic evacuation from Carpathian Ruthenia, 1939; unsuccessful attempt to escape to Great Britain; handed over to the Germans at the Dutch border; interrogation by the Gestapo; expulsion to Poland; life in a refugee center in Katowice, 1939; air flights to Rowne during the war between Germany and Poland; role of the Communists in classifying and deci...

  18. Testimony of Karel Hahn, born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Nisko, Lwow, Soviet forced labor camps, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk and in combat in Sokolovo, Kiev, Dukla, Ostrava and Prague

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Karel Hahn, born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Nisko, Lwow, Soviet forced labor camps, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk and in combat in Sokolovo, Kiev, Dukla, Ostrava and Prague Deportation to Nisko, escape to Soviet occupied territory, 1939; situation of Jewish refugees in Lwow, 1940; deportations to Soviet labor camps; life in Soviet labor camps, 1940-1941; Soviet amnesty, 1941; enlistment in the Czechoslovakian Army by released Jewish inmates; Jewish soldiers comprise 75% of the Czechoslovakian battalion in Buzuluk, 1942...

  19. Testimony of Moshe Moric Hofman, born in Liberec, Czechoslovakia, 1910, regarding his escape to the Soviet Union via Poland and his experiences in Soviet forced labor camps, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk and in combat in Sokolovo and Dukla

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Moshe Moric Hofman, born in Liberec, Czechoslovakia, 1910, regarding his escape to the Soviet Union via Poland and his experiences in Soviet forced labor camps, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk and in combat in Sokolovo and Dukla Situation in Prague; situation of the Czechoslovakian Army, 1939; crossing of Ruthenian borders illegally, 1939; arrests and deportations of refugees within the Soviet Union, 1940; conditions in Soviet labor camps, 1941-1942; efforts to join the Czechoslovakian Army, 1942; enlistment in the Czechoslovakian Army by inmates in POW camps at Kr...

  20. Testimony of Rudolf Kohn, born in the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939, his experiences in Atlit and Sarafand, combat in Tobruk, in England, and Dunkirk

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Rudolf Kohn, born in the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939, his experiences in Atlit and Sarafand, combat in Tobruk, in England, and Dunkirk Born in the Sudetenland. Jewish refugees from the Sudetenland, 1938; transports to Eretz Israel from Prague and Bratislava organized by Zionist and Beitar movements, 1939; detention in the Sarafand camp and the Atlit camp, 1940; mobilization of Czechoslovakian Jews in Palestine, 1942; training for anti-aircraft defense; fighting at Tobruk, 1943; activities of Jewish army chaplain, Dr. Rezek; Czech...