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  1. "With Only a Toothbrush"

    "With Only a Toothbrush" is a 12 page manuscript written by Jacky Erwteman in 2004. In the manuscript, Erwteman describes her family background, the family efforts to flee Amsterdam when the Germans invaded and the Dutch Royal Family fled, and their escape by boat to England, where they found employment. Includes information about Erwteman's aunt and uncle, who traveled to the United States and to Curacao, eventually working for the newly established World Bank. After the war, the family discovered that those family members who were unable to escape had been killed in Auschwitz.

  2. Marburg family collection

    The Marburg family collection consists of letters and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Lily Marburg, originally of Vienna, Austria. The family correspondence from Vienna, Luxembourg and the Bayogne detention camp relates to the attempts of various family members to escape and emigrate from Austria.

  3. Irving Schaffer manuscript

    Consists of three notebooks, handwritten by Irving Schaffer, circa March 1986, in which he wrote his memoir, which was published in 1991 as "Don't Give Up: Be Strong and We Will Meet Again." In the memoir, which is rough draft form, Mr. Schaffer describes his childhood in Kolochave, his deportation to Auschwitz in April 1944, his forced labor cleaning the site of the Warsaw ghetto, a forced march to Dachau and then sent to Landsberg. He was liberated by the American Army, describes life in the Feldafing displaced persons camp, and his emigration to the United States in 1947.

  4. Walter Rockler collection

    Consists of a bound manuscript of clippings, transcripts, and articles related to the life of Walter J. Rockler, who was a prosecutor at Nuremberg. Includes information and articles related to his experiences in the Pacific during World War II, his work at Nuremberg, and his later critiques of American foreign policy and of the prosecution of war crimes. Also includes the transcript of an oral history which Jeffrey Burt conducted with Walter Rockler in December 2001.

  5. "The Holocaust's Second Victims"

    Consists of a typed testimony, in English, entitled "The Holocaust's Second Victims" by Paul Keller. In the testimony, which was written for a Holocaust commemoration, Mr. Keller describes the effects of the Nuremberg Laws and on antisemitic persecution on his education and life as a child in Germany. He describes the culture shock he experienced as a German-Jewish refugee when his family immigrated to the United States in 1937.

  6. "Das Krematorium in Dachau"

    Consists of one original document, 2 pages, entitled "Das Krematorium in Dachau," a typed eyewitness report given by Willy Furlan-Horst shortly after the liberation of Dachau. The report describes the interior of the crematoria, the gas chambers, the procedures for torture and execution of prisoners, the duties of the crematoria Kommandos, and the facilities for housing the SS attack dogs.

  7. Kibel and Pollaczek families collection

    The Kibel and Pollaczek families collection consist of correspondence, identification documents, and immigration documents related to the Kibel family, originally of Vienna, Austria and the Pollaczek family, originally of Berlin, Germany. The correspondence is between Robert and Therese Kibel and their sons, Otto, Fritz, and Walter Kibel, who had escaped Austria in 1938. The correspondence begins in 1938 and ends in 1941 when Robert and Therese Kibel were deported from Vienna to the Opole ghetto. The collection also includes immigration documents related to Fritz Kibel. The collection also ...

  8. Ernest Lowe collection

    The Ernest Lowe collection consists of documents and photographs related to the wartime experiences of Ernest Lowe (born Ernst Loewy/Löwy), who was born in Volenice, Czechoslovakia and raised in Vienna, Austria. Includes pre-war school documentation and report cards, documents related to his 1939 immigration to the United States, and family photographs of Ernest Lowe, his wife Valerie, and the extended Loewy family. Also includes oral history transcripts of interview with Valerie Ernei Lowe, who spent the war in hiding in Slovakia, and with Marianne (Mimi) Lowe Cahn, Ernest's sister, who im...

  9. Oral history interview with James Kennedy

  10. "Surviving the Holocaust"

    Consists of one memoir, 30 pages, entitled "Surviving the Holocaust" by Dr. Ilse Leeser, originally of Cologne, Germany. In the memoir, she describes her memories of Kristallnacht, the arrest of her father and uncles, and being sent, with her sister, to live with family friends in the Netherlands in 1939. Her parents later joined them and she describes the occupation of the Netherlands and going into hiding with the Verhoevens family in Utrecht. Her sister joined an underground organization while her parents were deported and killed at Sobibor before they could go into hiding. She describes...

  11. Luba Saj-Cholhan collection

    Consists of articles, photocopies, and certificates related to the Holocaust experiences of Luba Saj-Cholhan, who was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 2009. Originally of Ternopol, in the Ukraine, Ms. Saj-Cholhan both hid her friend Mina Berkowitz and helped her escape to Austria under a false identity. Includes the program, her remarks, photographs, and the certificate from the recognition ceremony, as well as newspaper articles reporting on the ceremony and on her story.

  12. Naum Roshal memoirs

    The Naum Roshal memoirs include a printed and bound copy of Book 1 of Naum Roshal’s memoirs, “My Memories,” covering the years 1926-1945 and describing Roshal’s childhood, the family’s 1941 evacuation from Kapcevičy, Ukraine to Ufa, Bashkir ASSR, and his experiences as a Jewish soldier in the Red Army from 1943-1945. The collection also includes a digital copy of Book 1 of Roshal’s memoirs along with digital copies of Book 2 and Book 3 describing Roshal’s experiences during the periods 1945-1959 and 1959-1999, including his immigration to the United States. The memoirs also include reproduc...

  13. W.H. Kessel letters

    Consists of color photocopies of two letters, dated April 1940 and March 1941, which were sent from Frejda Brojdo, of Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania, to W.H. (William) Kessel of Lousiville, Kentucky. In the letters, the author, who was an aunt of either Mr. or Mrs. Kessel and wrote in Yiddish, thank the Kessels for sending money and ask for help to secure a visa to emigrate to the United States. Also includes copies of four photographs of family in pre-war Lithuania. English translations of the letters are included.

  14. Geneva Office of the Zionist Organization and of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (L22)

    Contains various records from the Geneva Office of the Zionist Organization and of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, including correspondence of the World Zionist Organization offices; the Jewish Agency offices in London; newspaper offices in different countries; the Jewish National Fund and the Keren Hayesod in different countries; and correspondence with Jewish and Zionist organizations and with the League of Nations. Also among the records are correspondence regarding the transfer of funds from various countries; immigration to Israel; the Zionist Congress; reports about the persecution o...

  15. Palestine Office of the Jewish Agency, Trieste (L48)

    Contains records of the Palestine Office of the Jewish Agency, Trieste, and a branch of the Jewish Agency’s Aliyah department. The Palestine Office was involved in distributing Aliyah certificates, financial matters, transferring immigrants’ luggage and property to Israel and documenting information regarding Jewish property from Italy which was stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War. The collection also contains correspondence with other Jewish Agency offices in Italy and various name lists of immigrants, hospitalization records before immigration, correspondence and agreements wi...

  16. Association of Immigrants from Poland, Tel Aviv (J20)

    Contains records of the Association of Immigrants from Poland that was active in Israel, 1942-1961. Includes meeting protocols, various name lists, questionnaires, and newspaper clippings relating to assistance to Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors by giving out loans, finding work, and reuniting families after the war. In addition, the organization created name lists of Holocaust survivors still remaining in Europe, and of those who immigrated to Palestine/Israel.

  17. Avraham Polack collection

    The Avraham Polack papers contain letters relating to the Polack family in Haifa, Israel, and in particular Avraham Polack’s imprisonment with other Irgun and Lehi members in several British detention camps in Africa from 1944-1947. The letters provide detailed descriptions of his daily life within the camps and reflect Polack’s concern for his family. Other letters relate to Avraham’s continuing education while imprisoned as well as notifications and receipts for packages and educational materials that were sent to Avraham Polack during his imprisonment. The papers also contain the corresp...

  18. "All Paths Lead to Rome"

    Consists of one handwritten poem, three pages, entitled "All Paths Lead to Rome" by Yitzchak Yitzchak, which was the pseudonym of Yitzchak Ben Shaul, who wrote this poem in Bari, Italy, in late 1944. The poem was written for the Jewish Brigade troupe of music and entertainment in Italy.

  19. Manfred Greiffenhagen lyrics

    Consists of typescript texts of seven poems and song lyrics written by Manfred Greiffenhagen while he was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, plus one text attributed to Leo Strauss. The typed texts are entitled "Marsch der Kadermaedel," "Die Juden on Bergen-Belsen," "Transport," "Die Ochsen," "Ich singe tief..," "Es War Einmal," and "Kasernenlied." Also includes a poem entitled "Als ob-," which was written by Leo Strauss. Some of the lyrics list that music has been written by Martin Roman.

  20. German and Austrian Immigrants Association collection (Hitachduth Olej Germania)

    Consists of printed proclamations, notices, invitations and book printed on behalf of the German and Austrian Immigrants Association, based in Tel Aviv, between 1935-1938. Also includes a booklet, entitled "Missive to Immigrants from Western Europe," which was printed in German and Hebrew in 1938.