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Displaying items 1,481 to 1,500 of 55,814
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  1. A memoir

    Testimony, typescript (photocopy) 2 pages, titled "Supplement," about the town of Vinkovtsky (author's hometown) and events that happened there during German occupation.

  2. A memoir

    Testimony, 10 pages, handwritten in Yiddish, with English translation/summary. Describes experiences of donor's family in German occupied Poland, deportation to Auschwitz, work as forced laborer in Hindenburg, Germany (Silesia), deportation to Bergen Belsen.

  3. A memoir

    Testimony, 3 pages, handwritten, about experiences in Brno, Czechoslovakia, escape to Poland after annexation, and then Soviet Union after start of war, at which point Soviets deported him and brother to Gulag camps (Kolyma, Magadan) until Germans invade SU, then are released and fight alongside Red Army in a Czech battalion.

  4. A memoir

    Testimony, typescript, 7 pages, written in 1995. Describes childhood in Hamburg, Kristallnacht and his subsequent arrest and internment at Sachsenhausen, emigration to England and then to the United States.

  5. A memoir

    Testimony, handwritten, 4 pages, experiences in Łódź ghetto and Bergen Belsen.

  6. A memoir

    Contains a memoir relating to the donor's father's experiences in Thessalonike (Greece), Auschwitz (Poland), and Dora (Germany).

  7. A memoir

    Contains photocopied and printed material including excerpts from the "Drohichin book" (Sefer Drohitshin), about experience of Jews in Drohyczyn, Poland during Holocaust.

  8. A memoir

    Testimony, 7 pages, typescript, titled "An Account of the Holocaust," by Sam Seif (Shlomo Zaif). Account of author's family during German invasion of Poland (they lived in Kalisz), transport to ghetto at Rzeszow, then at Płaszów camp, then as forced laborer in or near Czestochowa. Account appears to have been written by one of Seif's children.

  9. A memoir

    Testimony, 1 page, typescript, brief outline (Romanian survivor).

  10. A memoir

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, brief outline (Romanian survivor).

  11. A memoir

    Testimony, 7 pages, photocopy of typescript in German, along with English summary, relating to experiences of Martin Starke during war. Starke's own account was written in 1947. Describes Starke's arrest in Hamburg, imprisonment at Fuhlsbuettel, deportation to Auschwitz, time there as forced laborer, death march to Gleiwitz, then train to Mauthausen and other locations before end of war.

  12. A memoir

    Testimony, 30 pages, photocopy of typescript, plus photocopies of maps and photographs. Titled "To: Our Descendants" from Natalia and Daniel Hochman. Discusses childhood in eastern Poland (now Ukraine), in Sambor and Boryslaw, life in the Boryslaw ghetto, where the Hochmans first met, and life in hiding prior to liberation by Soviet troops in 1944.

  13. A memoir

    Testimony, 6 pages, typescript. Describes family's experience in Łódź ghetto, and his own journey (as six year old) with his mother to Ravensbrück in closing stages of war.

  14. A memoir

    Testimony, 1 page, photocopied from standard museum questionnaire form, plus five separate pages of handwritten text.

  15. A memoir

    Letter and copies of extracted pages from a publication relating to the 71st Infantry Division's liberation of Gunskirchen.

  16. A memoir

    Contains information on pre-Holocaust Yugoslavia; Holocaust related experiences while hiding in Vienna; post-war life in Zagreb, and in America, in which the donor was told she was Jewish, not Catholic.

  17. A memoir

    Testimony: Typescript 2 pages, recounting family's emigration from Hildesheim, Germany, after start of anti-Jewish persecution.

  18. A memoir

    Testimony: Manuscript, three pages, describing a woman's experiences, first in an unnamed ghetto in Poland, then in Tarnopol, and then--posing as a non-Jewish Polish laborer, in Elbing and later in the Harz Mountains.

  19. A memoir

    Contains a photocopy of a typescript testimony, in Polish.

  20. A memoir and deportation list

    Testimony, 2 pages, photocopied typescript, titled "As my father told me," with quotes from author's father, who was at Auschwitz. Enclosed is copy of Hungarian names list.