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  1. A memoir relating to experiences in the Krizhopol ghetto

    Testimony, handwritten, 3 pages, describing experiences of family in their home village, near Vinnitsa, and in ghetto in Chechelnik.

  2. A memoir relating to experiences in the Minsk ghetto and as a hidden child

    Testimony, handwritten, 8 pages, Russian, with typed English translation. About experiences in occupied Minsk.

  3. A memoir relating to experiences in the Minsk ghetto and as a partisan

    Testimony, one page, typescript, circa 1990s. Describes family and life in Minsk, German invasion and internment in ghetto in Minsk, escape from ghetto in September 1943 and joining partisans.

  4. A memoir relating to experiences in the Olgokol ghetto

    Testimony, typescript, 2 pages, written 1994, concerning experiences of author in town near Vinnitsa during German occupation. Written on a form sent to USHMM Survivor's Registry.

  5. A memoir relating to experiences in the Olgopol ghetto

    Testimony, handwritten (3 pages) and typed (2 pages), describing life in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, and then German occupation.

  6. A memoir relating to experiences in Ukraine

    Testimony, handwritten, 15 pages, Russian, describing experiences in Moldova and Ukraine in ghettos, during occupation.

  7. A memoir relating to experiences in Ukraine

    Testimony, 2 pages, handwritten, Russian, describing experiences of Serafima Podolskaya in Domanevka. English summary enclosed.

  8. A memoir relating to experiences in Ukraine and Romania

    Testimony, 6 pages, photocopy of manuscript, written using USHMM form from Survivor's Registry. Describes life in occupied Odessa.

  9. A memoir relating to experiences in Ukraine during the Holocaust

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 7 pages, written by Fay Nobel (nee Fay Grinblatt) in 1989. Describes German occupation of her hometown in eastern Poland (present day Ukraine), persecution by Ukrainian forces, transfer to ghetto (both village and ghetto unnamed), conditions there, survival, and liberation.

  10. A memoir relating to experiences in Uzgorod

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, about Ernst Bohm's wife, Lily, originally from Uzhgorod, and her life in hiding during war.

  11. A memoir relating to experiences in Vienna and France

    Testimony, 11 pages, handwritten, about experiences of Arthur Kern (born Oswald Kernberg), originally of Vienna. Describes Anschluss, separation from parents when he was sent on a kindertransport to France in 1939, occupation of France, time in orphanages administered by O.S.E., fate of parents (tried to get out, eventually deported to camps and killed), transport to U.S. in 1941, life in New York.

  12. A memoir relating to experiences in Warsaw and as a hidden child

    Testimony, typescript, 56 pages, titled "My Story," describing childhood in Warsaw, German invasion and occupation, life in the ghetto, escape from the ghetto, and living in hiding in villages near Warsaw for duration of war.

  13. A memoir relating to experiences in Warssawa, Shavel, Kraków, Stutthof, and Landsberg

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 14 pages, written by Binder, of Johannesburg, South Africa, describing her experiences during Holocaust.

  14. A memoir relating to experiences in Zba̧szyń and emigration to England to the United States

    Four pages of typescript testimony about the experience of a Polish family living in Minden, Germany before World War II, growing antisemitism during 1930s, training in vocational program and apprentice on farm in Oldenburg, and their arrest and deportation during the Polenaktion of 1938 to the camp in Zbąszyń. After efforts of friends from a German farm, he was able to immigrate to England in 1939, but his parents and siblings never made it out of Poland and perished.

  15. A memoir relating to experiences to Pechora and Mogilyov-Podolski ghettos

    Testimony, handwritten, 10 pages, regarding experiences in village near Mogilev-Podolsky, in Pechora camp, and Mogilev-Podolsky ghetto.

  16. A memoir relating to Jews in Pechora

    Testimony, handwritten, six pages, about author's experiences in Tulchin (Vinnitsa district), Ukraine, during German occupation.

  17. A memoir relating to pre-war experiences in Germany and the United States

    Testimony, 5 pages, handwritten, by Rennert (1994), originally from Mannheim, Germany. Describes persecution in Germany, immigration to the United States, joining the Army and fighting in the Italian campaign and in southern France, where he was captured by Germans and survived remainder of war as POW and forced laborer.

  18. A memoir relating to survivors of Nazi massacres in Ukraine

    Testimony, typescript, 8 pages, plus one photograph. Describes family and childhood in Krakow, and life in ghetto there under German occupation.

  19. A memoir relating to the experiences of the Sass family in Poland during the Holocaust

    Testimony, handwritten, 6 pages, in outline form, about experiences of donor's family in eastern Poland under Soviet and German occupation. Describes surviving a Nazi "Aktion" by hiding in attic then fleeing to the forest to live with partisans through duration of occupation.

  20. A memoir relating to the liberation of Dachau

    Photocopy of letter and map. Letter (less then one page) is from Sherwin Northcutt to Curtis Whiteway, sharing his memories of liberation of Dachau.