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  1. Wanderer in Hell: Erno Lazarovits's account

    In his memoir Erno (Erno) Lazarovits describes his experiences in the Holocaust. He was drafted into the Budapest labor battalion in May 1944. The forced laborers were herded towards the western border of the country (Gánt, Bodajk, Mór, Fertoʺrákos, Szombathely), and later transferred by the Hungarian gendarmes to the German Todt organization, which took them to Deutsch-Schützen, Austria. Subsequently they had to go on foot to Mauthausen, and finally they were liberated in Gunskirchen, Austria on May 4, 1945. Using flash-back technique Lazarovits remembers his childhood in Szilágysomly...

  2. Destruction in Magdeburg

    General views of destruction in Magdeburg. MS man walks bicycle past rubbled facade of buildings, pan left across street to more damaged building frames. MS of smashed streetcars. MCU tilt up damaged building frame, deep blue sky. LS through rubble strewn passage, large steel cylindrical structure in BG. 01:07:03 The Brabag "Gasometer" in Magdeburg. 01:07:14 LS down cleared street, darker exposure, man on bike comes toward camera, pan of more rubble. 01:07:31 back to brighter exposure, more of same with water pump in FG, can see buildings or homes in BG that are intact, chimneys standing. 0...

  3. Grünaü family papers

    The Grünaü family papers consists of passports, marraige certificates, and birth certificates pertaining to the Grünaü family in Germany during World War II, issued November 1938-September 1940.

  4. Records of the Youth Zionist Organization "Ahva" (Fond 342)

    The collection contains the following types of documents: bylaws, programs, appeals, minutes of the meetings of the Board; correspondence with Zionist organizations in Poland and worldwide; documents related to the activities of the branches of the organization throughout the region (arranged alphabetically by locality); financial activities of the organization; and membership information, including various lists of members, representatives to the meetings, and questionnaires.

  5. Fern/Gartenberg family photographs

    Consists of 40 pre-war photographs of the children and grandchildren of Mordechai Fern and Hinda Gartenberg. Seven of their eight children perished during the Holocaust. The surviving daughter, Frania Gartenberg, survived with her husband, Adolph Sperling and son Joseph. Also includes one letter written from Adolph Sperling to Frania Gartenberg in 1916, while he was fighting in World War I.

  6. Selected records of the Amerikadeutsche Kameradschaft (NS 41)

    Contains records created by and concerning the Amerikadeutsche Kameradschaft, a German-American friendship society designed to aid reverse immigration back to Germany and aid in German propaganda efforts.

  7. Students in the Jewish Autonomous Region

    Scenes from Rusanov, in the Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). Students sit at drafting tables in a classroom. Another classroom where a teacher demonstrates a small telescope (?) for students. Close-up of students in the class and the teacher at a chalkboard. A class of students out of doors, learning how to survey the land. The intertitles indicate that these students come from all parts of the world, including New York and Vilna.

  8. Halina Jaworski-Klon collection

    The collection consists of two documents of Karol Gecman (later Karol Jaworski) in Kuybyshev, USSR (now Samara, Russia). The first is a 1943 Russian translation of Karol's diploma from a Jewish Gymnasium in Lubin, Poland in May 1933. The second is a 1946 repatriation document allowing Karol to return to Poland.

  9. Esther Friedmann papers

    Collection consisting of 71 photographs, two letters, one document, one page from a prayer book, one scrapbook that is empty, and one piece of scrip relating to Esther Friedmann's experiences living in Berlin, Germany as a Jew, through the Second World War and working during that time for the Krankenhaus der Jueduschen Gemeinde or the Hospital of the Jewish community. Included in the collection are photographs of Esther in medical uniform working in, persumably, the Jewish hospital in Berlin and correspondence from family deported to Łódź, Poland in 1939.

  10. Oral history interview with Julia Pirotte

  11. "Dachau Concentration Camp: A Memoir"

    “Dachau Concentration Camp: A Memoir” is 29 page memoir written by Felix Klein, originally of Vienna, Austria. From 1938-1939, Klein was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp and Buchenwald concentration camp. Afterwards, he spent a year in England before immigrating to the United States in 1940. The memoir, found in Klein's personal papers after his death in 1994, describes his experiences in Dachau in the summer and fall of 1938.

  12. Dachau war crimes trials photographs

    Consists of 40 photographs taken at the American Military Tribunal in Dachau in November and December 1945 (also known as the Dachau war crimes trials). The photographs are from the first trial, the United States vs. Martin Gottfried Weiss et. al., in which forty defendants were charged in crimes related to the operation of the Dachau concentration camp. Weiss was the commandant of Dachau from 1942-1943.

  13. Elie Cohen memoir

    Consists of one memoir by Elie Cohen, originally of Thessaloniki, Greece. In the memoir, Mr. Cohen describes his experiences in the ghetto in Greece and his memories of Birkenau, where he was given the number 114222.

  14. Else Pollak Chandler collection

    Consists of the official response to a Red Cross inquiry into the fate of Jakob, Regine, and Edith Pollak, originally of Vienna, Austria. The inquiry was made by Jakob and Regine's daughter, Else, who was able to emigrate to England before the war. The response states that the remaining members of the family perished in the Holocaust. Also includes correspondence sent and received by Else Chandler after her immigration to England, documents regarding her immigration, and documents regarding her pre-war schooling.

  15. Harold Pearson liberation photographs

    Consists of 46 photographs, some duplicates, taken by Harold Pearson, a member of the United States Army. The photographs are possibly of the Belsen concentration camp after liberation.

  16. "Ted Arie Doron's Autobiography"

    Consists of one memoir, 16 pages, entitled "Ted Arie Doron's Autobiography, written in 2004 by Ted Arie Doron (born Tibor Weisz), originally of Budapest, Hungary. In the memoir, Mr. Doron describes life in Budapest before 1944, his experiences as a young child in the Budapest ghetto, including the deportation and death of his father in Bergen-Belsen, life in post-war Communist Hungary. He later emigrated, first to Israel, then to Canada, and finally to the United States.

  17. "A Time to Remember"

    Consists of one memoir, 11 pages, entitled "A Time to Remember", by Anja Legerstee, born Chana Deborah Kuperman, originally of Lublin, Poland. She recalls pre-war Jewish life in Lublin, the 1939 German invasion, life in the Lublin ghetto and her deportation to Majdanek. After she managed to escape from Majdanek and go to Warsaw, she posed as a Christian until the end of the war. She is the only survivor from her family.

  18. "Report on the Jewish Refugee Community in Shanghai"

    Consists of one report, 23 pages, entitled, "Report on the Jewish Refugee Community in Shanghai", written by William Schurtman for a Sociology class in 1954. Mr. Schurtman, a refugee who lived in Shanghai from 1938-1947, describes the political, social, and history of the Shanghai Jewish community as well as some of his own experiences.

  19. Barbara Lindenbaum Brotman collection

    Consists of documents and four photographs related to the Lindenbaum family, originally of Siedlec, Poland. Includes photographs of Dora Lindenbaum, who passed away in the Siedlac ghetto, of Genia Lindenbaum, who disappeared with her husband and child from Mezrich, Poland, of Adolf Lindenbaum, who disappeared with his wife from Lublin, Poland, and of Victor Lindenbaum and Hersh Grynberg. Also includes wartime and pre-war correspondence and documents from the family.

  20. Erich Steinheim collection

    Consists of one document, bound in a black album entitled "Theresienstadt." The document, dated June 9, 1945 and issued by the "Mitteilungen der jüdischen Selbstverwaltung Theresienstadt," thanks Mr. Steinheim for his hard work in the Copy and Lithograph department and relays his co-workers' good wishes for the future, especially in light of their terrible experiences.