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  1. A Short Biography

    Contains a biography about Joseph Lebovic's Holocaust experiences.

  3. A short film about the Kessler family dogs

    Lizzy-Film Produktion. Mitglied des Klubs der Kinoamateure Oesterreichs. “Unser Hundeparadies” “Sultan, ein Bernhardiner, 3 Monate Alt” “Waldi, ein bissiger Dackel Eva---Mitze” “Hansi, sein herrl, zwei statisten” “Ort Grinzing” “Freunde” Hans Otto Kessler (Hansi) plays with two dogs. The dogs tug on what appears to be a fabric scrap. “Eva stoert den Frieden” The dogs chase a cat and play in the sun. “Drei Monate spaeter” The dogs play in the snow. “Zeit-Vertrib” A woman (possibly the camera operator and Hansi's mother, Alice) entertains the dogs with a stick and they continue to play in the...

  4. A speech relating to experiences at Föhrenwald displaced person camp

    A speech titled "Liberation and the Jewish Displaced Persons Centers in Germany" and given at Temple Israel, Great Neck, NY, on 28 April 1995 providing a historical account by former director of Foehrenwald DP camp.

  5. A Statement to the Peace Conference

    Opposes the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. Presented to the Paris Peace Conference by a group of Jewish Americans, March 4, 1919. Statement handed to President Wilson on behalf of the signers by Congressman Julius Kahn on March 4, l9l9 for transmission to the Peace Conference in Paris. The statement was prepared by Rev. Dr. Henry Berkowitz, Mr. Max Senior, and Professor Morris Jastrow.

  6. A statistical analysis of Soviet atrocity charges

    Russian atrocity charges for particular localities are analyzed and compared with a summary atrocity charge issued by the Soviet State Extraordinary Commission. The statistical validity of the atrocity charge is discussed.

  7. A survivor of Cariera de Piatra: a memoir

    Discusses life in Czernowitz prior to the war; transport to Transnistria (Ukraine); a year stay in Lager at Cariera de Piatra; ghetto in Tulchin for one year; escaping into the forest to the Yampol ghetto; liberation.

  8. A survivor's story Simon Sterling

    The memoir describes Simon Sterling and his wife's experiences in Nazi-occupied Poland; the Brody ghetto; his separation from his wife, Sophie, and his deportation to a concentration camp; his escape; Simon and Sophie's reunion; hiding in a forest; Simon's bout with typhus; their liberation by the Soviet military; Simon's work in a brewery; their escape to the American Zone of Occupation in Germany; the displaced persons camp at Föhrenwald, Germany; and their immigration to the United States.

  9. A tapestry of treasure

    Contains a memoir about Ellen Summer's experiences living in the United States with her mother, a survivor of the Holocaust.

  10. A Testament of the Survivors, A Memorial to the Dead The Collection of Gross-Breesen Letters and Related Material

    Contains a series of transcribed testimonies, diaries, and newsletters in German and English which were collected by Herbert Cohn and relate to the experiences of Jewish youth who lived on the Gross-Breesen training farm. The documents, gathered into a book in 2000, was dedicated to Dr. Curt Bondy, director of Gross-Breesen.

  11. A Time To Remember

  12. A translated poem

    Contains an untitled poem written circa 1941-1942.

  13. A Void in My Heart The Memoirs of Regina Godinger Hoffman A Jewish Holocaust Survivor (1927-)

    Contains a memoir about Regina Godinger Hoffman's move from Cleveland, Ohio, to Sinovoir Szinervarlja?, Hungary, her life in the Chust ghetto in Poland, Regina's experiences in Auschwitz, and her later return to Cleveland, Ohio, after the Holocaust.

  14. A void in my heart the memoirs of Regina Godinger Hoffman, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, (1927- )

    The memoir describes Regina Hoffman's (b. 1927) deportation from Czechoslovakia to Poland, the deaths of family members, her psychological trauma, internment in the ghetto in Khust, Ukraine, life in Auschwitz and her transfer to camps in Nuremberg, Germany, and Holešov (Holeshovitz), Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), liberation, and immigration to the United States in 1948.

  15. A wish for a prayer A memoir

    Holocaust experiences in Hungary: forced labor camp; interrogation.

  16. A witness of accusation: Transnistria, 1941-1944

    Copy of a memoir in Russian describing the suffering of Jews inflicted by the Romanians and Germans in 1941-1944.

  17. A wonder Rabbi in limbo First they burned books

    Typescript (photocopied), 59 pages, containing translated text of a play, originally written in German, by Leo Kohut. Second typescript, 136 pages, titled "First They Burned Books," appears to be a memoir by Kohut of his experiences in wartime Slovakia.

  19. A Zsidó Világkongresszus Magyarországi Képviselete iratai

    • Documents of the Hungarian Representation of the World Jewish Congress

    The collection includes miscellaneous materials of the Hungarian Representation of the World Jewish Congress. It contains activity and financial reports for the years 1946 to 1949, materials from the Statistical Department as well as the correspondence of the Hungarian Representation of the World Jewish Congress. The materials of the Statistical Department provide data on the demographic situation, family status, educational structure, mother tongue, generational structure and institutional network of Hungarian Jewish survivors alongside information on the aid provided to them. It also incl...

  20. A zsidók zár alá vett műtárgyainak számbavételére és megőrzésére kinevezett kormánybiztos iratai

    • Papers of the Government Commissioner to Review and Preserve the Locked Up Art Objects of Jews

    In early June of 1944, when the mass deportations of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau were already under way, the Hungarian government decided that the expropriated wealth of Hungarian Jews ought to be controlled and handled by special agencies. The two most important new offices created for this purpose were the Zsidók Anyagi és Vagyonjogi Ügyeinek Megoldására Kinevezett Kormánybiztos Hivatala (The Government Commissioner’s Office for Solving the Material and Financial Affairs of the Jews) and a similar, though more specialized agency called the Zsidók Zár Alá Vett Műtárgyainak Számbav...